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In article <20240518231248.0000285c@example.com>,
 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2024 16:19:09 -0700
> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 17 May 2024 22:32:11 -0400, Rhino
> > <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >Sounds about right. Just watch winners on the new show trying to
> > >pretend that they are as intelligent as Ken Jennings or whoever just
> > >because they know celebrity culture but be unable to tell you what
> > >century WWII was fought in....  
> > 
> > Ha ha ha - I've had people tell me I should try out for Jeopardy (I
> > did extremely well in the old Reach For the Top high school show more
> > years ago than I care to admit) and DID take the online Jeopardy
> > screening test - I gather I answered nearly all questions right but
> > fell back on the US history questions though got a fair number of
> > those right as well but not enough to get the second screening.
> > 
> > At least I didn't make any egregious blunders like naming William
> > Jennings Bryan as Woodrow Wilson's running mate! (which was one of the
> > options on the multiple choice test). I happened to get that one right
> > mostly by eliminating 2 of the 4 choices and  correctly on the
> > last two options. Somebody named Marshall who I'd never heard of who
> > was NOT the Supreme Court justice by that name...
> 
> Three or four years ago, I saw a  video where a woman did man-in-the-
> street type questions of university students in Pennsylvania. She was a
> Holocaust educator and asked them very basic questions about WWII. The
> answers she got were gut-wrenchingly appalling. Here's some examples:
> 
> Q: When was World War II?
> A. (Long pause). I'm not sure. I want to say three centuries ago....
> 
> Q: Who was Hitler?
> A. Uhhh. The President of Amsterdam?
> 
> Q:. Who was Winston Churchill?
> A. Uhhh. An American general? [That's the only one they got partially
> right since Churchill's mother was American and he had briefly served
> as a brigadier general in WW I after falling on his sword over the
> Gallipoli fiasco. But of course they missed the key fact that he was the
> British Prime Minister for most of the war.]
> 
> Q: Can you name any of the concentration camps created by the Nazis?
> A: No.
> 
> There were a bunch more, all of which were just as poorly answered. 
> 
> None of this, by the way, is meant to disparage Americans in
> particular. I've heard similar things about Brits and Canadians. 
> 
> I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when David Menzies of Rebel News
> walked around the Ryerson campus in Toronto and asked female students
> there to sign a petition to repeal women's suffrage. Lots of students
> signed happily, apparently under the illusion that the petition wanted
> to end women's SUFFERING, as opposed to taking away their right to
> vote. They didn't realize that the words had very different meanings.
> 
> NONE of the people I've mentioned in this post could ever hope to
> qualify for Jeopardy and you can take that to the bank!

Can I get "Morons Unqualified to be on This Show" for $400, please, Alex?