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> Even a $2000 American Football question has a lot more hints than 'who won the Superbowl in 1979' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33u2eeVqXo https://www.you
by sdrothrock 9y ago
> Even a $2000 American Football question has a lot more hints than 'who won the Superbowl in 1979'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33u2eeVqXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33u2eeVqXo
If you watch this clip which I linked in another comment, this is a clear football category. I consider myself a casual watcher (enough to know about scoring, downs, players in a game, etc.) but even the $200 question stymied me, not to mention all of the other ones...
- pvg 9y agoNone of these questions are of the type 'who won the Superbowl in 1979', even when the category is straight up football. I couldn't answer the $200 question either - I don't watch football at all but I've heard of 'option play' so it can't be that esoteric. And the question tells you exactly what is! The GP was saying they ask things like who won the Superbowl a particular year or are about obscure Dostoyevsky characters. I don't think they do. They do ask question that easily stump people who know next to nothing about football. I'm sure they also ask questions that people who don't know who wrote 'Crime & Punishment' can't answer. But neither of these things are evidence they casually ask deep arcana about football or literature.
- mamon 9y agoAt least with literature you can reasonably expect that each participant had it as high school topic, so some knowledge about literature was forced down on them. With football it's more binary: you either are interested in it, or not, in which case your knowledge is zero.