I am a Jeopardy nut. I try to never miss an episode, much to the occasional annoyance of my family.
Naturally, I’m always stoked when there’s a baseball question. At the risk of sounding judgmental, I rarely expect the brainy contestants to have sports trivia as part of their knowledge base. And when there’s an entire category about the game? Bliss. And I’m not the only one involved in media to take notice.
Last night had the potential for a double shot, with one category titles “Hard-Throwing Pitchers” and another “Strikeout.” The former turned out to be appropriate, but the latter was a disappointing play on words.
The folks who run j-archive.com do an amazing job of keeping track of every question and answer (and by whom) of every game, dating back to the 1980s. Click here, scroll down, and hover over the dollar amount of the question, you get not only the answer, but whom responded correctly and incorrectly. Very cool.
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Ron, thanks so much for the tip about the "Jeopardy!" archive – I went back to 1988 and found the show on which I appeared that year, which was taped the same day the Mets lost Game 2 to the Dodgers in the NLCS after David Cone had mouthed off to the beat writers about how the Mets were going to spank LA. Which of course, they didn't – the Dodgers went on to beat them in the playoffs and then the Oakland As in the World Series. My 1988 appearance was actually the third time I'd been on "Jeopardy!" – I was also on the original show, twice, back in 1972 when Art Fleming was the host – but this time I went down in flames against an attorney who was going for his fifth and final win. He had the timing of the buzzer down to a science, so he even wound up beating me on several questions in the, yes, you guessed it, "Baseball" category. Still, a fun memory. I wound up selling the Tappan electric range I won to a family who later sued me because they ruined the range by trying to plug it into the wrong voltage outlet. They claimed I had scammed them, so they sued me in small claims court – but I prevailed. And the complimentary cases of Rice-a-Roni and Bon Ami scouring powder that came with being on the show kept me in food and cleaning supplies for a year! So even though I lost, I won on "Jeopardy!" after all 🙂 http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4298. Thanks for the memories!
That’s very cool, Perry. Is there any video of that floating around?
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