http://www.jeopardy.com/announcement_20050728NCState.php

anyone else see this?

7/28/2005 10:16:49 PM

at first you think we are special
then you notice they will also be at nccu and the streets of souhtpoint

[Edited on July 28, 2005 at 10:18 PM. Reason : l]

7/28/2005 10:18:02 PM

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"RBC Center at North Carolina State University"

not quite

7/28/2005 10:18:25 PM

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"“The Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville area is a great college-oriented community including many of the country’s finest educational institutions"

unc is in fayetteville

7/28/2005 10:19:52 PM

Yeah, those were just brain bus locations, guth

7/28/2005 10:24:15 PM

oh nice
still was surprised with the fayetteville thing

7/28/2005 10:25:58 PM

A couple years ago, I would have considered trying out. College has caused my trivial knowledge to stagnate.

7/28/2005 10:35:42 PM

Sweet! I'm going to win!

7/28/2005 10:46:19 PM

some of the college questions are way easy

7/28/2005 10:47:59 PM

this is what its doing in here

what is "getting hot" alex

7/28/2005 10:48:58 PM

don't you mean hur?

7/28/2005 10:50:00 PM

lolers

[Edited on July 28, 2005 at 10:50 PM. Reason : to ^^]

7/28/2005 10:50:39 PM

$10 to the first person to get on there and say "Your mother's a whore, Trebek!"

7/28/2005 10:54:18 PM

ticket APPLICATIONS??? wtf!!!

7/28/2005 10:56:04 PM

shit i'll try out, why not

7/28/2005 10:59:03 PM

"We regret to inform you that you will not be receiving a ticket. Your sense of humor is not on a level of high enough intelligence to understand the jokes that Alex will be making about college. Thank you for your application...ummm...WORD OUT! (?)"

7/28/2005 11:01:26 PM

too bad you can't be a grad student.

7/28/2005 11:08:14 PM

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"A couple years ago, I would have considered trying out. College has caused my trivial knowledge to stagnate."

Indeed. In high school, I would have dominated college jeopardy. Nowadays, I don't remember all that trivia shit.

[Edited on July 28, 2005 at 11:33 PM. Reason : and do they seem to have more pop culture, now?]

7/28/2005 11:32:58 PM

I used to watch the news all the time and pick up on a lot of dumb trivia. Now that I'm not forced to get up at 7:00 everyday, I am really lapsing.

7/28/2005 11:36:48 PM

i'm guessing that the last College Jeopardy contest NCSU had was David Honea, back in the late-80's, early-90's - he ended up runner up.
He was also an All-ACC and All-American XC runner at State, and was named as one of 13 NCSU runners for the "ACC 50th Anniversay XC team" - http://gopack.collegesports.com/sports/m-xc/spec-rel/073002aab.html

Also, you might remember, he was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 1999, on the 4th show ever. He was the one who answered a question about the great lakes correctly but they told him it was wrong, and he had to come back a couple weeks later for another show and ended up with $125k (but didn't even throw us a party with it )
http://www.gettingit.com/article/715
http://abc.go.com/primetime/millionaire/showhighlights/players/125k_winners.html

7/29/2005 2:14:40 AM

^he went to my high school. my calc teacher was raving about him when he was on millionaire

7/29/2005 2:25:41 AM

^^so how does a quiz show stay credible when they don't even know the correct answers to their own questions??

7/29/2005 2:32:25 AM

^^ yeah, i beleive he went to Enka HS?
^ i dunno - how credible was "Millionaire" anyways? I don't think they ever had the illusion they were taking on Jeopardy as far as coming the de-facto standard quiz show. Most of the people on Millionaire were just "normal people". you'll notice that for the most part, Millionaire tested random trivia, while Jeopardy (who does their fair share of random trivia, for sure) is much more academic.

they (the show, that is), kind of played it off as a big joke anyways - http://www.gettingit.com/article/715

[Edited on July 29, 2005 at 3:21 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2005 3:20:15 AM

i heard the jeopardy people were out to see the rbc and really liked the outside of the murphy center at carter finley. I think they are going to try and make the stage similar, could be cool.

7/29/2005 9:40:46 AM

^^yeah, Enka

7/29/2005 11:37:54 AM

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"Also, you might remember, he was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 1999, on the 4th show ever"

Wow.. that's cool that he went to england to do it

7/29/2005 11:47:35 AM