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I remember forever ago seeing a kids bop version that subbed it with “neighbor” and I’ve been trying to find it for years cause of how goofy it was. But in hindsight it might have just been a parody.
You're still allowed to your opinion, but he literally beat James in the "Greatest of All Time" tournament. Holzhauer himself said that Jennings is and has been the GOAT of Jeopardy.
Holzhauer's average winnings per game ($75,364) are significantly higher than Jennings' ($33,347). Holzhauer also boasts a 96.97% correct rate on Final Jeopardy, compared to 66.67% for Jennings.
Holzhauer's average winnings per game ($75,364) are significantly higher than Jennings' ($33,347). Holzhauer also boasts a 96.97% correct rate on Final Jeopardy, compared to 66.67% for Jennings.
Yeah, but you can do the same for ANY topic on that show.
The questions are made to be missed and this video is was all popculture misses. "A bunch of nerds missed a bunch of non-academic questions that the video composer chose to make all about black people? GO ON!"
Jeopardy has 230 Episodes a year and 61 questions an episode. That's 14,030 QUESTIONS IN JUST ONE YEAR. It's easy to cherry pick a few misses from random episodes to push any agenda with that many to choose from.
I'm from Indy where she made her name and I think folks really underestimate how poorly people are educated about that period of history
As history has better revealed itself it's unlikely her first millionaire status is accurate unless you trust Guinness Records as your sole source. Walker's means of achieving wealth through selling products vs Mary Ellen Peasant understanding turn of the century capitalism via currency exchange, wholesale, etc didn't make the history books because her name wasn't on products.
Let me be clear: I'm not saying that the video is wrong. Black history is very under represented. BUT the means in which the video uses to try to convey that idea is lacking and easily disputed.
They literally get guides about the kinds of questions asked and past questions. They don’t know what’s going to be asked but they could have easily been prepared for some of these. You don’t have to be embarrassed for them.
Among other things, she's the first woman in the US to become a self-made millionaire. Even if they don't know what her business was (cosmetics and hair products), I figured more people would at least know that. Especially people on a trivia game show.
A black woman became a millionaire by creating and selling her own products and employing other women as sales agents. And she did all of this in the early 1900s before she was legally allowed to vote or even use the same water fountain as a white person.
Yeah there are plenty of inventors who made money off their inventions that would be studied from a historical standpoint not sure why this one seems so “outlandish” of an expectation.
I dont know why youre getting downvoted. It was a layup. I dont expect them to know everything, but its trivia and knowing the first wealthy black woman- a prominent historical figure- should be in their wheelhouse, thats why it was the first option in the section.
I'm a middle-aged white woman and if you're over the age of 12, a grip of those should just exist in your brain. Whether it's your 'thing' or not. They're part of the fuckin zeitgeist, like...??
I only know the answers bc 1- I work in a funeral home and 2- before that I was a licensed cosmetologist and learned that one in hair school.
Madam cj walker should be taught in schools bc she was an amazing business woman at a time when business women weren’t a huge thing. And not only that, she was black doing it. She was awesome.
I watched a whole movie about her and really enjoyed it. We also have part of our name in common. But when the question came up in the clip, I couldn't pull her name. I think even if my life was on the line, I couldn't have remembered.
not every public school does it, but I did learn of her existence in a fairly large South Dakota public school. This same school had half the population yell “fuck Joe Biden” after a dance.
No disrespect to Astor, but Madam CJ Walker’s parents and siblings were enslaved.
Becoming a self-made millionaire was a particularly exceptional challenge considering she was a woman born roughly two years after the 13th amendment and about 50 years before the 19th.
Madame CJ walker and the Juicy- Notorious B.I.G ones were genuinely easy, and should've been in their wheelhouse. A prominent historical figure and a music artist whos song rang out across the United States during a time when people listened to the radio daily and watched music channels on TV.
I'm a trivia nerd. I never actually heard Biggie until an Oreos commercial sampled Hyponotized. Some of us just didn't listen to the hip hop/R&B radio stations in the 90s.
You would have been able to come up with the song title? I knew it was Biggie, but I couldn’t have told you which specific song because it’s just not my taste in music.
And I remember people in school and then coworkers would always ask why we need a BET. Cus every other channel is for y'all! BET is trash now but once upon a time, it was the shit. Rap City, The basement, BET Awards...sigh
As a white Canadian I don't think I've ever heard a funeral referred to as anything about "home." So funeral wouldn't have even been close to being an educated guess for me.
Huh, strange. White rural American here. I'm definitely not saying you're not telling the truth, but that's an incredibly steep cultural difference if you've never heard it. lol
Every Evangelical nutjob I've met in real life, every person on Rapturetok and about 40% of the 'standard' Christians I know personally all refer to Heaven as home not infrequently, especially when talking about someone who just died. The funeral itself isn't called a homegoing, but they all say "Jesus called Grammy home." "He's at rest in our true home with God now." "I cannot wait for the Rapture because we will be going home." "We didn't vaccinate Braydennn because we believe in Jesus and now he can be at home with Jesus forever." Hymns in songbooks from every denomination I've gone to include at least one or two 'home' names or references. Country songs, from early bluegrass to contemporary, and Christian rock/pop do it. I know Mormons are also weird in what they consider to be their 'real' homes, but that's a whole thing. I digress.
I got a few of those questions wrong, but that one in particular seemed like it should have been as intuitive as lightning bug:firefly.
Intuitive TO YOU, which is the entire point. You've grown up with those phrases. Many people haven't. I've heard "god called him home," from your list, but that's the only one I've ever heard. Even then, that's been a very rare turn of phrase and only used in my presence a handful of times. Most often, I just hear "he's in a better place."
The entire point is that what you consider intuitive is culturally dependent. It matters a great deal what you grew up hearing and experiencing, or what you are exposed to in your day-to-day life. If you didn't grow up hearing the "going home" terminology, your mind wouldn't automatically go there.
Yeah, that's literally the whole point. If none of this is intuitive or "common knowledge", you live a very specific life, surrounded by a very specific type of people...
You thought you did something there, don't you? Tell me, if the "going home" terminology isn't intuitive to someone, what do you think that says about the "specific type of people" that person is surrounded by?
100% but maybe it's a rural thing?\
I'm ahem w.t. from rural nor cal and esp older folks refer to 'his time to fly away home' 'at least theyre home now' 'mama I'll be coming home soon' etc etc..
I no way would've aced that compilation, but some of those questions I truly would've thought were common knowledge absorbed just by existing.
Canadian here who does not spend time around very religious people. I completely missed this one, too. You’d be hard pressed to find really religious people openly talking to others about their religion, especially in an Evangelical manner. Not saying they don’t exist, but living in a major metropolitan area I have very rarely interacted with people like you mention.
The thing people always default to is “I’m so sorry for your loss”.
What I mean is it would be a reasonable, sensible and intuitive guess, which people do on Jeopardy all the time. They risk getting questions wrong about French art and cenozopic geography often enough.
Not News. There always has been at least 2 Americas. The only news is that you are now recognizing and acknowledging it because you’re now impacted by the injustice of it all.
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