Are you smarter than a college jeopardy contestant?
This was the final jeopardy question on one of the college jeopardy championships quarterfinal shows tonight . None of the contestants knew the correct answer
The category was recent biographies
According to a recent biography, during his reign he hated slavery and may have had bipolar disorder.
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None of the three college whiz kids knew the answer which I thought was relatively easy. Do you know it?
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I would have thought a super smart college student would have known this but maybe they don't study history.
I was watching while riding my exercise bike, I knew some of answers but not Final Jeopardy
I’m actually reading that particular biography right now so I’d have had no excuse to miss it.
I haven't seen the book but I did know the answer.
Don't know for sure but, "Who was King George III?"
I think you are right.
I don't watch the show....so I don't know, nor do I care
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln... The biographies over the years have painted over what was called at the time his "Melancholia" which today would be diagnosed situationally as severe depression... But he also had a fiery temper, in which he would lash out at his enemies, all in private of course in public he would use his sardonic wit and debate skills to destroy his debate opponents...
Categorically, from digging up old remembrances and testimonies from those that knew him, he would be diagnosed as such a personality, well controlled though...
Funny thing is, it was one of his strengths, made him think about the human condition and how he could deal with the pressing issues before him... But today? no one would ever let him near the presidency....
Being diagnosed as bi-polar would have him disgraced as a public figure...
The question said "reign" which presidents do not...
True, it would also fit King George the third.... So you just might be right...
We'll see if anyone else wants to try and then I will give the answer before I sign off for the night
The answer was King George III of England who was king when America declared independence. I would have thought real smart college juniors and seniors would have known or deduced that. One guessed Robert E Lee and the other said Andrew Jackson
At first I was thinking Lincoln but the question said "reign" so I knew it had to be a king....thus George III
But I'm not claiming I'm smarter than a college student. I've been watching it off and on but the questions aren't that much of a challenge and there seems to be quite a few pop culture questions. I prefer "Adult Jeopardy"