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What Is Jeopardy!'?
Franz Lidz
May 01, 1989
TELEVISION FOR $1,000: THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST GAME SHOW
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May 01, 1989

What Is Jeopardy!'?

TELEVISION FOR $1,000: THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST GAME SHOW

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"Is that a question or an answer?" she snapped.

Just as I got up to leave, Floyd shuffled in. His head was down, his shoes scraped the floor.

"How did it go?" I inquired.

"Terrible," he drawled in a sleepy singsong, "just terrible."

"But you knew most of the answers!"

"Most of the answers? I knew all the answers. I pressed the buzzer before anyone else. But they told me I wasn't loud enough. They said I wasn't lively. It just isn't fair. I spent months preparing, and I lose on personality."

I shook my head at the injustice of it.

"It's like Dylan says," he said. "The answer is blowin' in the wind."

I waited a moment before asking, "Could you rephrase that in the form of a question?"

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