It starts out poorly enough, with the column of Canadian Cities the last remaining set of clues on the Jeopardy! board, clearly a tower of fearsome trivia. It gets worse from there, as the militarily outfitted Randy loses eight grand on the category by seemingly rattling off every Canadian city name he could think of at random.
For shame, contestants. Poor showing indeed. Moose Javians… Winnipeg? No wonder Canadian Alex Trebek was so affected.
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry that he couldn’t even match the cities to the right provinces.
Perhaps if Trebek had pronounced “Javians” properly, Randy might have stood a chance. At least he tried. Dan and Victoria just stood there as if to say, “You mean we have to do this category after all?”
Honestly though, when on earth did Edmonton more itself to Ontario? I was sure it was still a few hours North of Calgary earlier this year.
I guess I shouldn’t say too much though, I’d probably suck just as much at trivia based on American cities.
Wait a minute. Are you saying Canada is a real place? I thought it was just a made-up location used in movies when they didn’t want to use a real place, like phone numbers that start with “555” or North Dakota.
That category would be where my 25 years of reading The Hockey News religiously would come in extremely helpful.
What is Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, home of the Raiders, Alex?
The only one of these I got was Moose Jaw, becasue “Moose Javian” is a standard (if somewhat obscure) English adjective derivation.
I can’t actually say whether I’d have gotten the Stratford one, because I read the article before watching the video, but I might not have. And I blurted out Vancouver unthinkingly instead of Victoria, even though I know almost none of the capitals are also the biggest cities. Other than that, I wouldn’t have done half bad, because I was unsure enough about Stratford I wouldn’t have buzzed in.
Frankly, Dan and Victoria had the right idea. If you don’t know, don’t guess.
Was this a specifically Canadian Jeopardy? Otherwise, I can’t really fault them as an Australian.
To be fair, Randy was so far behind Dan that he didn’t have a choice but try to make guesses and hope he got lucky. Going into Final Jeopardy that far behind, he would have had almost no chance of winning even if Dan botched the question.
So, at the end of the video, I was trying to pull up the play bar to back it up but instead it took me to this video:
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader Clip
I don’t even know where to start on how much is wrong in that clip.
The really astonishing thing is that they didn’t know where the summer olympics were held. Just as likely, they don’t even know what a velodrome is.
Being ignorant of things outside one’s borders is bad enough, but some take pride it instead of being embarrassed as most people are.