Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Seriously?

Jeopardy! is going to let her get away with "Tennessee University" for "University of Tennessee"?

Apparently they are.

I guess she's lucking out, in that there is no "Tennessee University" - TSU, ETSU, MTSU, yes.

But they're getting soft, aren't they?

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At 9:48 PM, March 01, 2011 Anonymous Kathie had this to say...

I suspected you'd mention that one ;-))))

 
At 10:50 PM, March 01, 2011 Blogger Mark had this to say...

I don't consider myself a hardass, but I agree with you - there isn't a Tennessee University. Besides, it seems to me that UT is well enough known that it should be familiar to most reasonably well-educated people, even if they aren't football fans.

It also seems to me that many, if not most, state universities whose names begin with the state have "State" as part of the name - Georgia State, Ohio State, Mississippi State, Cal State, and, yes, Tennessee State University.

 
At 3:56 PM, March 02, 2011 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

My real cavil here is that this is the show that just a few minutes later penalized a contestant for pronouncing "silicon" with a long O. They're hard core. How did they let that slip by?

 

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