This is Jeopardy!

I didn’t remember that the 5th grader thing was a show. But it seems kinda Wheel level compared to Jeopardy.
 
HecticArt said:
I didn’t remember that the 5th grader thing was a show.
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That was kind of critical to get my joke. It was hosted by Foxworthy, and to be honest, the 5th graders were pretty smart, but the adults were egregiously dumb. And the rules of the show allowed for the adults to pass the responsibility of answering the questions to the kids. So, in short, another stupid game show.
 
scotchandcigar said:
That was kind of critical to get my joke. It was hosted by Foxworthy, and to be honest, the 5th graders were pretty smart, but the adults were egregiously dumb. And the rules of the show allowed for the adults to pass the responsibility of answering the questions to the kids. So, in short, another stupid game show.
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But it was the only one that made no pretense on how dumb the contestants were (Wheel of Fortune for example pretends the idiots they have at the wheel are not as dumb as bricks). At the end they had to say "I am not smarter than a 5th grader".
 
scotchandcigar said:
That was kind of critical to get my joke. It was hosted by Foxworthy, and to be honest, the 5th graders were pretty smart, but the adults were egregiously dumb. And the rules of the show allowed for the adults to pass the responsibility of answering the questions to the kids. So, in short, another stupid game show.
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I was still amused. Your joke hit a broader audience than you had intended.
Or maybe I'm operating at a 5th grade level. :dunno1
 
Aaron said:
Ridiculous question/answer on today's episode:

Which Great Lake supplies Niagara Falls: (or something along those lines)

First contestant answers with Lake Superior. WTF

Answer:
Lake Erie
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I just kept saying Erie, which came from some part of my brain that thought it to be correct, even though I didn't know it for a fact.
 
I can see people not knowing which way the Great Lakes flow, so either Erie or Ontario wouldn't be a bad guess. Just that Superior is way off by Wisconsin.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I saw a headline about him miscalculating his bet.
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I had to do the calculations to see what went into that.
Basically the first place person is going to bet enough to win by $1 if the second place person goes all in and bets everything they got, and gets it right.
So the second place person pretty much knows what the first place person is going to bet.
The second place person then bets enough that if the first place person misses the Final answer, then they'll just bet enough to win.
 
Aaron said:
I can see people not knowing which way the Great Lakes flow, so either Erie or Ontario wouldn't be a bad guess. Just that Superior is way off by Wisconsin.
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Niagra Falls is in Ontario (the Canadian side). To those that are not ardent students of geography, once could get fooled by the fact that Lake Superior is also adjacent to Ontario. As a matter of fact, Ontario is adjacent to every Great Lake except Lake Michigan. Also, no other Canadian province borders a great lake.
 
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@Aaron is just special. I get the above for spoilers using same code he uses.
 
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