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Apple featured in a Jeopardy! category
I’ll take “Apple of my Eye” for $200, Alex.
In a sign of Apple’s growing place in pop culture, Apple was featured on the US game show Jeopardy. An entire Jeopardy! category named “Apple of my Eye” was dedicated to the company in the episode aired on December 13. The items featured were the following (paraphrased):
-An Asian feline that shares a name with the latest Mac OS X version: What is Tiger?
-The type of computers the iBook and PowerBook are: What are laptops?
-This man has a salary of $1: Who is Steve Jobs?
-This product shares its name with a place where aircraft take flight: What is Airport?
-A “speedy” product that works on the Mac or PC: What is QuickTime?
It’s interesting to note that the iPod is nowhere to be found. I guess given all the press coverage about the iPod it would be too obvious?
Did anyone else see it?
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thinkback
Yeah, I saw it… it’s good to see something refreshing on Jeopardy from time to time. When I saw the category I was like; hmmm… maybe they’ll ask an Apple Computer question, not thinking that it would be a whole category of Apple Computer questions.
Who cares that you don’t have a TV ?
No one got Quicktime or Airport. The the guy said “Jobes” instead of Jobs =-O
-The type of computers the iBook and PowerBook are: What are laptops?
That answer is technically incorrect.
Apple does not sell “laptops”. They say, notebooks or portables.
The PowerPC processors are quite hot, and can over heat when the portables are used on uneven soft surfaces like laps, as they dont get the required ventalation.
I use my powerbook in my lap all the time and it’s peachy.
Why quicktime for the answer and not itunes???
The contestants must not be Mac users if they didn’t get the Airport question. I can see how the Quicktime question _might_ stump someone who is Mac savy.
Although Jobs may have a
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salary
of $1/year, he’s so vested in Apple that he’s making himself a very very wealthy man. I always sort of laugh when I hear that because he tries to make it seem that he’s not making money and only doing what he does because of his passion… What a load of crap!“
Because iTunes isn’t “speedy” ... “speedy” = Quick
Is no one else disgusted by the incrediblily overt product placement. Doesn’t Apple have enough advertisements we all see. This is the destruction of individualism. Thanks Apple.
I got my first Mac in 1988. I have five PowerBooks, two iMacs, four desktop Macs, three Newtons, and an Apple II. I was an Apple employee. I worked at an Apple-authorized retailer. I regularly out-genius the Apple Genius. I have “converted” most of my friends and family.
And in a million years, I would never have gotten the last one right.
I wonder how that one guy (name escapes me) with the winning streak would have fared.
| Dec. 14, 2005 | |
| Liam | 9:46 am |
His name was ken jennings. I wondered that too. I never would have gotten the last one either. I wonder if they would have accepted “notebooks” as an answer.
9mmCensor,
I am sorry but you are incorrect on that point. There are two catagories of computers: Desktops and Laptops. Laptops has the labels of Notebook and portable used to describe them, quite inaccurately mind you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop
Also, any technician training will provide this proof.
I actually TiVo’d that episode.
-An Asian feline that shares a name with the latest Mac OS X version: What is Tiger?
No contestant rang in to question this answer.
-The type of computers the iBook and PowerBook are: What are laptops?
The champion answered “what are laptops?” to which Alex said “Yes, laptops or notebooks” and gave him $400.
The contestants then changed categories, and the remaining three “answers” were left until the end of the round and were the last three before the commercial.
-This man has a salary of $1: Who is Steve Jobs?
The contestant answered “Jobes,” to which Alex corrected him, saying “Yes, Steve Jobs” and gave the contestant his $600. (I can only assume that he got it right because of “Job” from the bible, pronounced “Jobe").
-This product shares its name with a place where aircraft take flight: What is Airport?
No contestant rang in to question this answer.
-A “speedy� product that works on the Mac or PC: What is QuickTime?
The middle contestant rang in and got this correct by asking “What is Quicktime?” for $1000.
guess what. i don’t watch tv, i don’t even have one. however, tonight i made a visit at a someone who is given away cats (i am trying to adopt one). she had the tv on and while we were talking cats, i heard the quicktime question in the bg.
My grandparents now have a cat, whenever I am about to do something difficult to do with a cat in my lap she wants to sit on my lap. She was watching the cursor on the screen earlier.
| Dec. 19, 2005 | |
| 1:13 pm |
So who here thinks Quicktime is speedy on any platform?
1.
guess what. i don’t watch tv, i don’t even have one. however, tonight i made a visit at a someone who is given away cats (i am trying to adopt one). she had the tv on and while we were talking cats, i heard the quicktime question in the bg.