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Leonard drops the mic on Jeopardy!

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JackReacher, Feb 13, 2013.

  1. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Grantland's Jay Kang had a great comment on the white dude:


     
  2. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Don't think he got lucky, but he just played the percentages. Would have looked like an idiot if he lost, but I doubt anyone would remember it for long.
     
  3. SalukiNC

    SalukiNC Member

    Not as cool without the afro
     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I wonder if he was watching the other contestants and knew the only guy who could catch him was struggling?
     
  5. Uncle.Ruckus

    Uncle.Ruckus Guest

    1. Jay Kang is a douchebag. So is anyone with the middle name Caspian.

    2. Way to pick on an awkward teen. Like I said: Douchebag.
     
  6. Not sure he was really playing the percentages. The other kid either gets it right or he gets it wrong. Maybe I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt in assuming he just miscalculated because if he did that knowing full well he could lose, it's not ballsy, it's stupid.
     
  7. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    When did they change that rule? I guess it's to keep someone from running away with it on day one and making day two rather meaningless. Still, with the point values nowadays, seems like no first-day lead would be safe.

    Also, how freaking easy are the Teen Jeopardy questions? Twelve Angry Men? On a Daily Double? I'm sure they weren't that easy when I was that age.
     
  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Here is some video from it:


    If you watched it with the sound off, it's almost a parody. The kid in the middle stepped out of central casting as a miniaturized version of Greg Marmalard's roommate at the Omega Theta Pi house. ... and Leonard looks like Chris Rock doing Nat X.

    I have no idea if he miscalculated, or what was going through his head, but the only thing better would have been, "I don't know the answer Alex, but shut the fuck up and pay me."
     
  9. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    I think it would still be ballsy. And if the other kid gets it right and bets $6500 or less he still loses if I'm reading the numbers right. So the kid played the percentages, and possibly realized the kid was struggling as well.
     
  10. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    It's not like it was an impossible category, either. I'd think military history questions would be among the most correctly answered for a bunch of teen boys like that. I would have gotten it when I was a teen. Granted, I was a history buff, but I also wasn't in the Teen Jeopardy finals.

    My point is, it seems ridiculous to count on someone getting THAT category wrong, so I lean toward "got lucky" rather than "astute observation." If the category was "Early Secretaries of the Interior" I'd feel differently.
     
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