Thursday, February 08, 2007

Commercial Conversation

"Okay. The Final Jeopardy category is Scientists. What do you think the answer is going to be?"

"I don't know, let's wait for the question."

"Oh come on, it's so predictible. Scientists. On the teenager version. There are a couple of obvious answers. I bet it's the peanut guy. George Washington Carver."

"Alright. Sir Isaac Newton."

"Newton? Seriously? I think it could also be Marie Curie. That's another really obvious one."

"Yeah."

"So I'd bet $10,000. Definitely. Psh, scientists."

I cannot get over what happened next:

On the front lines during WWI, she drove ambulances that she had helped equip with x-ray machines

(By the way, you can see all the questions ever asked on Jeopardy! here.)

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