Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Things I'm pretty confident of

That years ago CNBC resident genius Maria Bartiromo was intimately familiar with the drinking-age restriction of her home state.

After that, nothing apparently.

Clearly a well-qualified business journalist for CNBC though:

In March, 2006, Bartiromo appeared as a contestant[1] on the game show Celebrity Jeopardy!. She was matched against CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and Kweisi Mfume, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. After two rounds Bartiromo finished with $0, having only attempted to answer two questions in the Double Jeopardy round, and answering only one correctly. Because her balance of $0 following the Double Jeopardy round would have made her ineligible for the Final Jeopardy round, Maria was 'gifted' $1,000 in order to keep playing. Maria answered the Final Jeopardy question incorrectly, and finished the game with $300 of the $1,000 she had been 'gifted'. Her charity was awarded $10,000, as per custom.

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