Dieters Jeopardy

I really like to watch Jeopardy on TV.  I love Alex Trebek’s nerdish seriousness while trying to be cool.  I love to scream out the answers at the TV and I love contestants who play all over the board looking for the daily double.  I think it is good strategy to keep the other players from getting too comfortable with a category, especially if it is one that is tricky, like Before & After where the answers are a combination of two things with a common word in the middle.  An example would be “Italian covering your window without seeing on a dangerous road.”  The answer would be “Venetian Blind Curve.”

Lately there have been a number of special groups competing in Jeopardy.  There is the teen tournament, the kids’ tournament, the teacher’s week, celebrity Jeopardy and the Jeopardy all-time champions.  I could knock any kid out in the kid tournament, teens gets a little tougher because they tend to have a category or two that are geared to the youth, like Hit Songs of 2012.  Often those categories backfire on the teens because they tend to be a highly nerdy group that were smart enough to pass the entrance test and know very little pop culture.

Since I don’t qualify for any of those current special interest groups, that is as long as they don’t consider my Mah Jongg teaching as qualifying me as a teacher, then I only have the general pool as an option.  I was thinking that if I were to increase my chances for Ken Jennings like success on Jeopardy I would need to qualify for the Dieters Tournament.

I think that in America there is a very large population of dieters.  In fact I think it clearly could rival the number of teachers in the US and certainly is a larger group than currents teens who are willing to go on Jeopardy.  The categories could be things like; Food with Low Glycemic Indexes, How Many Calories Does That Burn, Sugar Substitutes and Fat Camouflaging Clothes.

One side benefit of a Jeopardy episode based on dieters questions is that it could be considered a public service to educate the growing fatter American TV watcher what good diet tips might be.  Not all current heavy weights know that Greek yogurt is a healthier option than sour cream on a baked potato.  So I’m not so self-serving to suggest this special Jeopardy, one where I might have a fighting chance.  Consider this a service to the nation.