The machine

One of the things we do at work in the morning is the Jeopardy calendar. It runs like the Jeopardy TV show. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday are normal Jeopardy. Thursday, Friday, Saturday are double jeopardy and Sundays are final Jeopardy. We keep track of the scores each month and see who is the winner.

I have a buddy working in New York City these days who calls in every week or so to catch up on Jeopardy. There are days when he annoys me to no end because of the amount of worthless information in his brain! Here's the actual conversation with him today:

Final Jeopardy - "World Leaders"
I'll wager it all
"In 1973, he led a military junta that overthrew Salvador Allende, and then governed Chile for the next sixteen years"
"Oh! Pinochet" he says, without so much as a pause

Poe-Pourri - $400 "One of the title objects in this Poe story had a 'terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet of more)'"
"Pendulum"

Poe-Pourri - $1200 "This ominous bird perched on a bust of Pallas Athena 'just above my chamber door'"
"Raven," he said smugly. Now on these he usually interrupts me but he actually allowed me to ask the whole question

Poe-Pourri - $2000 "This detective appears in 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'"
Ahh, I think, this is taking a while...maybe he won't get the $2000 question. "I'm going to have to go with Dupin," he says. Which, of course, is the right answer.

Okay, Final Jeopardy is "Films of the 1950s" and none of the rest of us think you will get this right.
"All right, then I'll wager everything"
"This film featuring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier was the first major film to use rock and roll music on the soundtrack"
"How can I not get this right? 'Blackboard Jungle' was a famous movie!"

I comfort myself knowing my brain isn't filled with all that worthless information! But I just wish I could get some of the Final Jeopardys right!