ROFL: Smart kids fail to ID Reagan Pic on Jeopardy

[RamboLiberal]

Damn You, Trebek!
A hard night on kids' Jeopardy when the prodigies were asked to identify the president shaking hands in the picture. It wasn't even a hard president like Taft or Fillmore. Not knowing Reagan? Really?! It looks like the GOP lost out on this batch.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/kids-fail-to-id-reagan-on-jeopardy

Tweety showed clip as well on last night's Hardball. Hope for the coming generation! :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I thought it was hilarious! I saw it happen. Woot!

Wouldn't it be great if the next generation had no memory of Reagan other than as having learned about him in school to know what not to do?

[malaise]

22. So did I and I was screaming with laughter

http://jeopardy.com/minisites/kidsweek10/index.php
Bravo kids :yourock:

[blondeatlast]

2. what a lovely day brightener! I missed it last night, I so wished I

could have seen it; I love those kids.

[LisaM]

3. Ugh

Watching those kids is like watching trained monkeys.

[phantom power]

4. Now you see, this is why they fought to hard to get St. Reagan on money :-)

I'd laugh even harder, except not remembering history, repeating, etc

[athenasatanjesus]

5. IMO all 3 kids just won nt

[LisaM]

6. Why, because they're dumb?

I'm sorry, but they should be able to ID Reagan's picture. Truman and Eishenhower were before my time, but I knew what they looked like when I was that age.

[Taitertots]

24. Get off your high horse

Why don't we pick trivia until you get a question wrong? Because it is obvious you are dumb because you miss one trivia question.

[asdjrocky]

7. Yes, made me laugh out loud.

[kenny blankenship]

8. We need an answer

He's the one on the right, Alex. NO WAIT I mean he's the one on the left! Uh hang on, he's the one on the right...unless that's him on the left.

[Sebastian Doyle]

15. No no no

The guy on the left was a different pResident. :rofl:

[Lost4words]

9. how could they not know the republican GOD was a movie star?

the old fool had Alzheimer's, he told war stories that were nothing but movie plots for christ sakes, there was no there there!

[DefenseLawyer]

10. The courthouse, the airport, the expressway and your school are named after him.

Who is Reagan?

That settles it, now we can't be content with simply naming everything after Reagan, we must line the streets with huge Chairman Mao style posters of St. Ronnie too, lest something as horrible as this ever happen again.

[itsrobert]

11. Every first born male or female must be mandated to be name Reagan

It's been decided.

[tblue37]

26. I know a conservative young woman who named her son Reagan to

honor the president she idolized.

Ewww! (I hope the kid turns out to be a socialist!)

[theothersnippywshrub]

12. Morning in America. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

13. A Gotcha! Question

How Katie Couric . . . .

[newtothegame]

14. Sad that not recognizing the past President from barely 2 decades ago gives us HOPE. nt

[ecstatic]

23. They might know of him, but knowing his face is a different story

Though I know the faces of the most famous presidents, I don't know the faces of many presidents who were in office before I was born. It's not like that's drilled into us in school or something!!

[Scurrilous]

16. Ingrates.

Forgetting the man who put nutritious ketchup in their school lunches.

[MiniMe]

17. I'm sure they couldn't recongnize him because he wasn't President when

they were alive. It seems like recent history to us, but it isn't to a child.

[eShirl]

18. a No Child Left Behind success story

[blondeatlast]

20. +1. nt

[SoCalDem]

19. Possible reason

Maybe these smart kids grew up in homes where Reagan was not idolized, and if they go to a specialized school, history may not be a focus of their particular study (at this time), or perhaps they are not yet studying "recent" American History. Schools tend to start at the beginning, and work their way forward, so 1980 is very recent in historical times. If there is a political bent to a school, it might be different, but the fact that they did not know, kind of lays waste to the meme of "lib'rul schoolin'for the youn'uns"

[MilesColtrane]

21. I firmly believe in, know thine enemy.

Kids need to know who he was and what he did to this country.

Just as long as we keep his goddamned name off of buildings and his wrinkled mug off our currency.

[jimlup]

25. I their defense he was shaking hands with a Chinese leader

Which Nixon is famous for. I think that makes it hard for them.

[MadBadger]

27. Yea, they thought it was JFK or Nixon....Its Okay, Blitzer would have guessed Washington

[Toucano]

29. +1

ROFL

[mdmc]

28. 1

[NHLrocks]

30. well they dont teach you things about repukes at the fancy liberal school!

[Octafish]

31. This old newshound had no trouble...

...identifying GOP ass to smooch.



Wasn't worth a damn at Jeopardy, though.