[Notice all Wheel of Fortune contestants have a lovely wife and two or three terrific children. That's a requirement, it appears. I'm waiting for the day a contestant says he has a fat ugly lazy wife and five holy terrors preparing to spend their lives in prison, and that he's considering divorce and abandoning his children.]
Jack Heller's post is about Charles Lane's post being indicative of Washington Post's and of Democrats' in general anti-intellectualism. Heller makes some good points but we don't need Lane writing about Jeopardy! to know that.
I'm not certain it's valid. Denver is liberal, I'm surrounded by liberals, and apart from politics they're all very smart. In fact, a long time ago at a party of artistic types, singers, dancers, musicians, mostly, Jeopardy! was on in the t.v. room. People were playing piano and singing show tunes. All of them knew all of the words to all of the songs in Fiddler on the Roof. When they got to the "tradition" part they all hammed it up. I happened to pass through the room at the moment one young man was giving the questions to Jeopardy! answers. Surprisingly, he swept all the categories. "Did you see this before? Is this a rerun, like Groundhog Day?"
He laughed and said, "No."
I said, "Dude, you swept."
He laughed again and repeated, "Swept." He thought that was funny. Because he did sweep.
And without that you might mistake him for another dopey musician. But you'd be wrong.
Holzhauer, though, is a w-h-o-o-o-l-e 'nuther level.
Here is Holzhaure in a game of a different format. (chosen for its length)
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