This Is JEOPARDY!

Have you watched Jeopardy recently? When I was younger Jeopardy always stood out because it was not the typical game show with all the lights and sequins and flashy products. It was kind of boring. It was really intellectual. It seemed like something for brainiacs. In my house, it usually came on right after the evening news, so if no one thought about changing the channel, we all ended up watching it. Well, I have not watched the show in a long time, but I came home to my sister watching it the other day. It had some of its usual categories, poetry and geography and so on, but then there was the category of Blogs and Bloggers. When did Blogs become the intellectual category that is at a level high enough to be on Jeopardy? When did Jeopardy become so “in the know”? I continued to watch and another category popped up that was based around popular song lyrics. These included things from Lady Ga-Ga and the Beastie Boys. Has Jeopardy really changed away from the boring intellectual or am I just older and now understand more?

I thought it was incredibly interesting to see how this kind of technology and media has changed and been influenced by the newer media. I guess I did not realize how important the blogging world had become that it would be included on Jeopardy. The whole category included specific excerpts from Blogs and the contestants had to name who wrote them or what Blog they were from. Or a Blog name was given and they had to name the Blogger. It kind of shocked me that people would know all these things. What was also interesting was that there were three of us watching this and none of us knew any of the blogs that were brought up, we were all clueless. It just goes to show that I guess Jeopardy is hip in its own special way.