30-01-2003 05:38									#1
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Nebraskans!

quote: Each time "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek reads a clue that mentions Nebraska -- and it's fairly often -- he teases some staffers after the show. "Come on. There are only so many questions you can ask about Nebraska," said Trebek, laughing during a telephone interview from his office in Culver City, California. Clues about the sparsely populated farm state frequently pop up, sometimes stumping those contestants who haven't boned up on Cornhusker trivia. Why Nebraska? Because four of the show's top producers and writers are from the state. "They keep trying to slip in Nebraska clues that nobody else knows anything about," Trebek said, "like: 'Where did Henry Fonda and Marlon Brando's mother go to school?"' Alex, what is Omaha Central High School? That's the school executive producer Harry Friedman and senior producer Gary Johnson attended in the 1960s. Johnson also is the head writer -- and mostly to blame for all the Nebraska clues. Also from the state: associate segment producer Stewart Hoke and longtime writer Steve Tamerius.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/...s.ap/index.html

I can't say I'm suprised; Nebraskans are the world's smartest people...

	30-01-2003 05:55									#2
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Everyone knows the show's popularity hinges on the two tympani strikes at the end of the music that they play while the contestants are writing their final answers. That's the money moment.

	30-01-2003 05:57									#3
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About the only thing I know about Nebraska is that it's the only state to retain the electric chair as its sole means of executing the condemned.

Capital Lincoln.

That, and it's the title of an early 1980's Bruce Springsteen album.

And wasn't President Ford from Omaha?

	30-01-2003 05:59									#4
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I love the kids jeopardys.....i can honestly say i sweep every category

	30-01-2003 06:02									#5
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The kids jeapordy is the only one I do good at

I can do so-so on the college jeapordy. A little better with the high school students.

	30-01-2003 06:04									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten I can't say I'm suprised; Nebraskans are the world's smartest people...

Indeed, it's a widely known fact that people from Nebraska are very intelligent. Much more intelligent than others from the U.S.

	30-01-2003 06:05									#7
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quote: About the only thing I know about Nebraska is that it's the only state to retain the electric chair as its sole means of executing the condemned.

True. The governor (Mike Johanns) tried to change to lethal injection this year, but the special session was held up by an anti-death penalty senator (Ernie Chambers) and the change was never made. I'm sure you'll see a question about this on Jeopardy soon, so remember the names...

quote: And wasn't President Ford from Omaha?

He was born there, but was raised elsewhere.

	30-01-2003 06:18									#8
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Nebraska bored me to tears when I was there. The highlight of the drive through the state was Carhenge, near Alliance.

Maybe the Eastern part is more interesting as it actually has people and a city?

	30-01-2003 06:20									#9
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are there any mountains there? I dislike states with no mountains . I just imagine that state is a completely flat state filled with corn.

	30-01-2003 06:21									#10
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quote: Maybe the Eastern part is more interesting as it actually has people and a city?

Duh. Western Nebraska and Eastern Nebraska are like completely different states.

Not that Eastern Nebraska is particularly interesting either. Omaha's nice, but that's about it.

	30-01-2003 06:43									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident are there any mountains there? I dislike states with no mountains . I just imagine that state is a completely flat state filled with corn.

A detailed map of Nebraska...

	30-01-2003 06:45									#12
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My God, that's the most depressing thing I've seen in ages.

	30-01-2003 08:12									#13
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quote: About the only thing I know about Nebraska is that it's the only state to retain the electric chair as its sole means of executing the condemned.

The only thing I know about Nebraska is that Henry Fonda and Marlon Brando's mother went to school there.

	30-01-2003 08:23									#14
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How brilliant of you? came up with that on your own eh?

	30-01-2003 08:27									#15
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Is Nebraska really so sad as to brag about having producers for JEOPARDY being from that state?

	30-01-2003 08:29									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Is Nebraska really so sad as to brag about having producers for JEOPARDY being from that state?

They can brag about taking jobs away from HP's "Headquarters of the Americas"

	30-01-2003 08:29									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch Nebraska bored me to tears when I was there

ditto

quote: I just imagine that state is a completely flat state filled with corn.

It is.

	30-01-2003 08:52									#18
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I'm actually glad that most of you think Nebraska is horribly boring.

That way it keeps all of you city bastards from moving in.

I've seen the world, and there is no place like Nebraska.

Nothing even close.

	30-01-2003 08:53									#19
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Yes there is. It's right beside you and it's called "Iowa".

	30-01-2003 08:59									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Frogger Yes there is. It's right beside you and it's called "Iowa".

You are just bitter 'cause you live on the frozen tundra.

	30-01-2003 09:02									#22
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Nebraska public schools don't cover geography very well, do they?

	30-01-2003 09:02									#23
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You're just bitter because my girlfriend doesn't have a "special relationship" with the nearest cornfield.

	30-01-2003 09:07									#24
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I don't have a girlfriend actually, I have a wife who I found in another country... Not that Nebraska women are that bad, they just don't hold a candle to German women.

And you can't tell me that if you really live in Canada, you can't look out your window right now and see some Caribou eating your mother's garden of permafrost.

	30-01-2003 09:08									#25
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Actually, what I see is a city of 4 million...

	30-01-2003 09:10									#26
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AHHHH Toronto, the only civilized point in an endless ocean of snow and moose and more snow.

	30-01-2003 09:11									#27
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Dig deeper!

	30-01-2003 09:11									#28
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And what of Montreal?

A city of 3 million. Twice as big as your entire state.

	30-01-2003 09:13									#29
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Who wants 3 million Quasi-Frenchmen who want independence anyway?

I prefer that less people live here anyway. Who wants urbanization when you can have wide open spaces?

	30-01-2003 09:15									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Flatlander Fox I prefer that less people live here anyway. Who wants urbanization when you can have wide open spaces?

So what you're saying is a perfect compromise is a city like Calgary then.