Politics in Jeopardy
I called my mother in Florida because I remembered she got Jeopardy a half hour later than the New York broadcast. I wanted to confirm if I heard the question correctly.
As she held out the phone I heard Trebek say, “A Marxist stage before communism which is characterized by government control over the economy…. I thought it meant friendliness.”
And no one even attempted to answer.
In the background I hear my mother mutter, “what is socialism?” (She struggles with “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”). Then Alex says, “Ooohhh, what is socialism? We were going for socialism. Pointdexter, you still have control of the board, pick a category.”