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| A Cantonese question made it on Jeopardy! |
A local instructor in Cantonese at the University of British Columbia is grinning from ear to ear tonight after seeing a question he helped develop be read on tonight's segment of Jeopardy!
For $1,000 the question was: "As the word for this number sounds like it means "certainly death", Cantonese speakers have a collective case of tetrakaidekaphobia."
The first contestant said, "What is 13?"
Nope, but that is the meaning of tetrakaidekaphobia...
The next one said, "What is 4?"
Also incorrect, but on the right track.
The final contestant said, "What is 52?"
No...
"What is 14"....
The backstory is that two years ago a writer from the game show had the question and reached out to the university department to confirm the accuracy of it. The instructor revised it and now it's a question that will be remembered for stumping all the contestants!
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