Power wins on Jeopardy

I've grumped enough about Jeopardy's tournaments and stunts. Sour old me is not a fan of any of them except the tournament of champions, which has become an event on the game show calendar.

But my grumpiness shouldn't stop congratulations for the winners on this week's "Power Players" stunt. So let's list the powerful types who questioned the answers better than their peers:

Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary
David Faber, CNBC anchor
Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday host
Chuck Todd, NBC White House correspondent
Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor

The Internet's favorite loser seems to be Chris Matthews, bombastic MSNBC commentator. He flopped with a splat on Monday's show, and his political opponents gleefully recalled how Matthews often ridiculed Sarah Palin as a possible Jeopardy contestant. What goes around...

At least the stunt got some attention from news and politics sites which usually take no notice of supposedly un-classy game shows. Even TVNewser offered breathless day-by-day coverage of the winners and losers.

NOTE: this is the 1,000th entry on the blog. Kind of hard to believe that I've found enough game show stuff to blather about for a thousand posts. Not to mention hundreds of faux tweets. Thanks to everybody who's stopped by this site over the years.