The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71854   Message #1232839
Posted By: Bill D
24-Jul-04 - 01:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Boycott Jeopardy!
Subject: RE: BS: Boycott Jeopardy!
I simply never did like the Jeopardy format of requiring a 'question' format, no I don't follow it regularly, but the idea of getting a guy with a photographic memory was shown to be flawed way back when Theodore Nadler was on "The 64,000 Question" back in the 50s...it rewards his DNA sequence and will only end when they accidently find a fact he hasn't memorized. (They only got rid of Teddy Nadler when he named the wrong KEY of some classical music composition....he hadn't even been required to name the key. Otherwise, he might have gone on for years!)

I used to like something called "THe Who, What or Where" game many years ago...simple format, REAL questions about a variety of categories, but no gimmicks that would keep it going.