This. Is. Jeopardy!

Welcome to this special edition of Jeopardy, designed specifically to test the evolution proficiency of our favorite balloon man.

The rules:

- Balloon Guy will be the only contestant so please do not post your own answers before he does.

- Responses must be in the form of a question.

- We are going to play Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy, but Balloon Guy must have a positive score to enter Final Jeopardy.

- There are two Daily Doubles in this round.

- I, Alex Trebek, will decide the correctness of BG's responses, and if there is any dispute, will consult with the judges panel. (also me)

Here are the categories.

Basics----- Terminology-----Genetics ---- Human Evolution-----Potpourri

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Score
Balloon Guy: 0

You know, I don't think this is the real Alex Trebek at all.

Saber! It's a sword that starts with a bloody S!

Ooooooo... Sounds Fun!

Come on BG!!!

i'll take jap anus relations for 200, alex

Wow I am a huge fan Alex..really excited to be here. I am looking to answer these with the evolutionist perspective in mind, so as such I will only answer based on the answers I think you idiots would think was true...no matter how wrong you guys are!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!11

AND I will not google anything etc, which I am sure will be very apperant after the first answer, but I didn't want anyone to think I would cheat. Luckily for you guys I answer to a higher authority and not to the current trends in society, which would allow me to cheat 'as long as no one gets hurt'.

But I will start with Human evolution for $150 Alex


Okay $200.

What is an example of a dumb joke that Mercury would make because he doesn't post for other people's enjoyment?

Good thing this isn't FCP Jeopardy.

(I was just pointing out that the real Alex Trebek probably wouldn't misspell his own name.)

Human Evolution for $200.

The (approximate) percentage of DNA humans share with chimpanzees.

What is 95%?

That's close enough. The traditional answer is 98.5%, but there have been some challenges to that number, so you are in the ballbark.

Balloon Guy: 200

The board is yours.

the answer is nobody knows at this point, and it would require a more technically specific phrasing of the question to have any real meaning.

there are actually some decent studies out there now. but I doubt Alex was looking for a technical response, he probably just wanted to get at the gist that a large proportion of dna is similar between chimps and humans.

Thanks Alex!

lol

Let's go Human Evolution for 400 Alex

Human Evolution: 400

The oldest of Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, Homo Neanderthalensis.

an easy one everyone should know without googling

He didn't last very long...

I thought it would take crow at least 4 or 5 questions before he had to share with us all his superior knowledge and expertise about everything.

It took the first question.

and the second he isn't even waiting for my answer to let us know he knows.

He reminds me of that little on Little House on the Praire who's dad owned the general store. The ugly one with pigtails who always looked down on the other children, not realizing that she was the biggest douche in the town.

Well I remember the neandrethal because it turned out to be a fake but it was already in the picture of man evolving so they just called that section neanderthal to save printing cost...

I think Erectus was pretty late, but I don't really remember it's place.

Habilis seems to me to be earlier just since I haven't heard of it.


What is Homo Habilis alex?

somewhere along the line i broke your sarcasm detector apparently.

it's a hard question i wouldn't expect anyone to know the answer to off the top of their heads. i didn't.


edit: looking back i see i missed the word "of" in the question and read it as "what is the oldest known of each of those". sorry lol.

Correct!

(and ha, you said homo!)

Balloon Guy: 600

Select again.

I said homo and Alex in the same sentance too...

Pot Pour eya

for 200 Alex

Potpourri 200

This was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on for his famous voyage.

Tip of my tounge Alex..but I couldn't think of it. Going to pass and go Pot Pour Eya for 400

Looked it up. Yea, I wasn't going to get that.

I was thinking like SS Wrong Conclusions.....

Balloon Guy: 400

Potpourri 400

This 19th century monk described the principles of heredity based on his experiments with garden peas.

WHOAAOOAOOAAAA there Alex....


Clearly in Jeopardy if you don't buzz in and try to answer, you don't lose points....

I think I want a judge's ruling here. Could you aks him to rule on this please?????

Well that's a very good point you raise, unfortunately since you are the only contestant there's not really going to be a difference between a wrong answer and a non-answer. They both mean you don't know. Nevertheless, we are going to consult with the judges.....

ONE TIME

Ah, Im sorry. (pronounced soar-ee). The judges have ruled that you will lose points for every response which is not the correct question.

Potpourri 400

This 19th century monk described the principles of heredity based on his experiments with garden peas.

Dang it..did you ask nice at least? Or snarky like you are on TV?



Who is Brother Eugene?

No, that's incorrect. The correct response, Who was Gregor Mendel?

The balloon man drops back to zero.

Balloon Guy: 0

Basics----- Terminology-----Genetics ---- Human Evolution-----Potpourri

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Score
Balloon Guy: 0

Alex, I think there's a huge difference between a wrong answer and not knowing.

E.g., This is a good household cleaner mix.

What is ammonia and bleach? vs.
I don't know.

Is VB one of the judges? Because I would've thought that he would clearly say there is a difference between thinking you're right about something, but being wrong and admitting you don't know the answer. Like, a huge difference.

Maybe you should have three scoring categories: points earned, points lost, points passed.

If you need some sort of spreadsheet to track this, I know a guy.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/73362/saturday-night-live-jeopardy

He has to be penalized for not knowing, that is the whole point of this exercise. If he can just choose not to answer whenever he doesn't know, then we'll never get the satisfaction of seeing him drop so far into the red that he can't dig himself out. Plus, it's more fun when he's forced to guess and we get to see just how far off he is.

I hate that I agree with this

I thought Mendel was the Nazi guy....oh..that makes sense...never mind

Let's go with Pot Pou eya until it's done, save that step of me having to ask..so finish Pot Pour eya and then I'll pick a different catagory

Potpourri: 600

This best describes the shape of the DNA molecule.

Ridiculous.

These questions are stupid. No one knows this stuff. I actually mean just the opposite... except for my first sentence... that's still true, you twisty ladder double helix motherfuckers.

BRVHEART DONT GIVE THE ANSWERS AWAY!

There will a range of difficulty, I'm sure. Gotta throw him a couple bones before slamming him with the hard ones.

Every single question has been impossible.... er... I mean, a bone.


Next question:

Who invented Eli Whitney?

WHAT IS THE COTTON GIN!?

Then don't read it? BG asked for it, someone decided to do it and now you are giving away answers. God is unhappy with you.

What is $1340?

What is a pair of twisting ladder shapes rotating around themselves?

Or a Helix..which is my favorite cigar btw The 6x52 torpedo shape...good smoke at a fair price. Plus I actually won the 'Write a slogan' contest they gave. They were offering a year's supply of Helix cigars to the best slogan....
I wrote this:
In the box of Blue
We present to you
A smoke so fine
It will blow your mind.

I won the contest..and asked them to ship me all the cigars at once since I had access to a large walk in humidor at a friend's business. They sent me 11 boxes. Which is a weird number, eleven boxes. Also it is not a year's supply, they lasted 6 months.

Anyway, that was a couple years ago, and they never did use that slogan I wrote. Which is too bad, because I wrote it as a joke because Fine and Mind don't even rhyme lolololol ...........the FOOLS!

lol