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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

It doesn't actually look like the Parthenon...

Category: Awards
Clue: For 2012 the front of these showed Nike stepping out of the Parthenon and the reverse, the Thames.

This was a Final Jeopardy?

Yeah, they all got it. As they should have.

(I'd never have guessed "the Thames" is what that was...)

Labels: jeopardy, sports

4 Comments:

At 10:52 AM, March 28, 2013 Kathie had this to say...: Final Jeopardy, seriously??? That was so easy it should've been a top-row clue.
At 8:08 PM, March 28, 2013 Kathie had this to say...: Carnival cruise lines was hardly more difficult :-(
At 1:55 PM, March 30, 2013 Kathie had this to say...: Did you happen to catch WaPo TV writer Lisa de Moraes' online chat yesterday? Midway through there were a number of ruminations on who might succeed Alex Trebek someday:
http://live.washingtonpost.com/lisa-de-moraes-130329.html
Who'd be your top picks?
At 11:11 PM, April 01, 2013 The Ridger, FCD had this to say...: I don't usually read that but I took a look. Are those people suggesting Tom Bergeron serious? Or Craig Ferguson, for that matter. There's a reason Alex is hosting that show while Pat Sajak does Wheel - the shows are different. Jeopardy! is at least pretending to be intellectual and serious.

Of the names they floated, Jennings or Anderson Cooper.

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After all, you don't hand over all your children the first time the flying monkeys bang on your door...

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

It doesn't actually look like the Parthenon...

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