It seems that the people on Jeopardy! aren't all-seeing and all-knowing. Well, I guess that kind of screws up the religion I was trying to start up around Alex Trebek.
Thanks a lot for screwing up the Cult of Trebek, guys. Now I'll have to find another false idol to worship.
There we were, cheering on the contestants during Final Jeopardy (the category was "Oscar-Winning Films"), when this question came up:
“The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are ‘Ten-Hut! Be seated.’”
Because those are the opening lines for Patton, but the winner of Best Picture in 1970 was Midnight Cowboy.
That movie's opening lines were: "Tonight we'll discuss a subject most of us seem to consider either bad taste or frivolous or funny."
The "um, actually" of the internet had been frothing at the mouth for a chance to correct the Jeopardy! people for 45 years, and you better believe they jumped at this chance.
They have been on the air for almost 45 years, so they were bound to make a mistake at some point.
Kind of weird that it came in the age of Google, though...
