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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Watch: ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant’s Response Goes Viral for Comparing
Liberals to Pansies
by Kipp Jones27 Oct 2015Los Angeles, CA0
A contestant participating in last Friday’s Jeopardy! was stumped by host
Alex Trebek’s final question, but her wrong answer ended up becoming an
instant classic.
NPR producer Becky Sullivan was in second place on the show, after the third
place contestant was forced to exit before the Final Jeopardy round. The
remaining two contestant were then asked to identify the name of a flower by
its picture and by its name also being “a disparaging term for people on
the political left.”
Sullivan didn’t know the answer, which was was “bleeding heart,” so she
wrote “pansy” instead.
The response drew laughter from the show’s studio audience, and Trebek
chuckled, “Yep, you found a way to insult liberals in this country.”
Trebek added, “You lost all your money.”
The answer cost Sullivan $6,000, but she later revealed she still walked
away with $2,000 as the runner-up.
“I have to admit I had no idea that bleeding hearts were flowers. But you
only get one chance to be on Jeopardy! — and I didn’t want to get all the
way to Final Jeopardy and not even come up with a guess,” Sullivan wrote
Monday. “So I wrote down the name of the only flower I could think of that
could also be used as a “disparaging term”: a pansy — as in a wimp or a
coward.” |
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