Just because you’re brainy enough to get on Jeopardy! doesn’t mean you know everything. It’s not uncommon to watch contestants who know obscure world capitols and physics terms eat pavement when it comes to pop culture trivia everyone but them knows. Friday brought another example, in which three smarties proved they may know a lot but they don’t know The Golden Girls.
Excuse me WHAT @Jeopardy #Jeopardy #goldengirls #bettywhite pic.twitter.com/3EGLTPijfZ
— JenniferLynne (@pinningjenny) May 5, 2023
The category was “Everything’s Coming Up Rose,” and the $400 answer was an easy one: “In 1986 she won an Emmy Award for playing Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.” The question, as most people know, is “Who is Betty White?”
Alas, that’s not the question any of the three contestants went with. One went with Rue McClanahan. Another guessed Bea Arthur. The third said nothing, not even Estelle Getty. Host Mayim Bialik very politely informed them it was the beloved Betty White.
The blunder gave many social media chuckleheads the opportunity to gloat about their superior intelligence, at least when it comes to beloved television that used to air on Saturday nights, right before Amen.
Everyone in my house screaming Betty White at the TV. What is wrong with these people? #Jeopardy
— Rebecca Hall (@beckasue75) May 5, 2023
I’m chilled to my core that no one on jeopardy tonight knew that betty white played rose in golden girls
— danita (@danitasteinberg) May 6, 2023
They missed Betty White?! #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/Gqy1UaFH4R
— Tired of this shit (@tiredtinNYC) May 5, 2023
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I can’t believe I’m watching jeopardy and not a single one of the 3 contestants knew that Betty White played Rose Nylund on golden girls…I’m 22, that show came out well before my time and even I knew that cause I’ve watched the whole show and Betty is an icon!!
— Janelle (Haunted Stan) NOLA N1 (@foreverhaunted7) May 5, 2023
It’s been a year-and-a-half since we lost Betty White, who was mere weeks shy of her 100th birthday. Perhaps the Jeopardy! contestants who couldn’t even guess her name should take a break from book-learnin’ and watch some Golden Girls, and maybe even some of her classic old school game show appearances.
(Via The Daily Beast)
