Kareem’s massive ‘Jeopardy!’ blunder

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By Jonathan Tully | Funny, Game Shows | October 19, 2009

First of all, thankfully, celebrities who take part in this year’s Jeopardy! “Celebrity Invitational” are not as dumb as Saturday Night Live used to claim they were.

Secondly, on Thursday’s show, former UCLA and L.A. Lakers superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was rather astute in several categories. This should come as a shock to no one who has followed the big man’s life — Kareem’s a pretty bright guy. Few people know more about jazz than him.

However…

Kareem was spoon-fed an answer that played off his role as a pilot in the classic comedy Airplane! And he completely flubbed it:

(Thanks to Warming Glow for the link.)

3 Responses to “Kareem’s massive ‘Jeopardy!’ blunder”

Pjay says:

October 19, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Poor guy. Easy mistake to make.

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JEOP Player says:

October 19, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Easy mistake to make w/o the pressure. Ask most people their “surname” and they’ll have no idea. Kareem and Michael McKean (sp) were both very impressive. Soledad…not so much.

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john says:

October 20, 2009 at 9:40 am

This was stupid. The question was so obscure to the normal person that the flub was like, “eh, who cares.” Certainly not worth its own you tube clip.

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