Jeopardy asks about economists:
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Are mental health breaks supposed to be that depressing?
Four out of four baby! (Plus I doubled my money on the Double Jeopardy question.)
Sign me up.
Same here, but I would have been one for four (Scotch economist==A. Smith) had it not been for the informative (and entertaining!) writings of our host lo these past few years. Thank you to Megan for helping me to theoretically ace what, for me, will remain a hypothetical Jeopardy! experience. Start writing more about potpourri and I'll be ready to fly to CA for an audition. As it is, my answers (er, questions) always miss the mark: "Uh, what is cinnamon?"
"Oh... no..."
I loved the blank looks across the board
Wow, their performance on that category was truly dismal.
I also got four for four, plus the money doubling!
I'm concerned, however, that the administration will denounce Jeopardy as "not a real quiz show" because of the ideological imbalance in economists selected. I'd place Smith, Friedman, and Laffer on the "right" and Bentham on the left.
I guess if the correct response to the $1000 clue is "Who is Paul Krugman?", they might be okay.
I guessed wrongly on the question about Adam Smith because I, comically enough, panicked and thought him too obvious an answer, but the only other Scottish thinker that I could recall in the moment was David Hume. I guessed the others quite easily; with perhaps the exception of the question about Arthur Laffer, I thought that the questions were insultingly easy.
Economics truly is the dismal Jeopardy category...
Most high school economic classes neglect any aspect of the profession's history.
While most college intro economic classes do cover basic history (enough to answer the above questions), only business majors take intro economic courses. I'm guessing business majors don't usually end up on Jeopardy.
Still pitiful though.
... only business majors take intro economic courses.
My BA is in Astronomy and I was not the only science/engineering major in my Econ 101 in college. We used Samuelson's Economics as the text.
Doh! Did not realize Smith was a Scot....
Learned of Laffer early in my Economics curriculum - his infamous (and sadly misinterpreted) curve had just become the rage. Friedman was a no-brainer for anybody of, ummm, a certain age. I ams curious as to the question for the $2k answer would have been.