Stupid Schwab
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Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 23:31 on 20 September 2005
Kris tivos Stump the Schwab, a game show wherein contestants test their sports knowledge by answering trivia questions competitively against Howard Schwab, who worked for years as a sports researcher and accumulated vast amounts of sports trivia knowledge.
When I last watched Stump the Scwab, the way it worked was the show host would ask a question, "Name the last 19 men ranked #1 in the ATP rankings," and the answers would display in a list. The contestants would provide an answer in a round-robin fashion, dropping out when they couldn't provide a new, correct answer, until only one contestant (or Schwab) was left. Each correct answer yielded a point, highest points goes to the next round.
The correct answers would disappear from the list, so you could see at a quick glance the correct answers remaining.
Well, they changed it.
Now, instead of displaying all the answers, they display them one at a time as they are correctly guessed by the contestants.
Terribly annoying.
I can no longer hear the question, then cry out, "Wait! Wait! Pause it! Let me see... Safin, Roddick, Federer, Courier, Wilander, Sampras, Kafelnikov, Hewitt, McEnroe, Muster, Moya, Edberg, Agassi!, Becker, Sampras, Rios ... crap! Um, Lendl?" as Kris stares at me in amazement.
This works effectively when the questions are baseball related and Kris says, "daaaa-aaaamn..."
Not realizing, of course, that I've watched the episode already and memorized the answers.
Doesn't have the same effect without the "Wait! Wait! Pause it!"
Stupid Schwab.
Kris tivos Stump the Schwab, a game show wherein contestants test their sports knowledge by answering trivia questions competitively against Howard Schwab, who worked for years as a sports researcher and accumulated vast amounts of sports trivia knowledge.
When I last watched Stump the Scwab, the way it worked was the show host would ask a question, "Name the last 19 men ranked #1 in the ATP rankings," and the answers would display in a list. The contestants would provide an answer in a round-robin fashion, dropping out when they couldn't provide a new, correct answer, until only one contestant (or Schwab) was left. Each correct answer yielded a point, highest points goes to the next round.
The correct answers would disappear from the list, so you could see at a quick glance the correct answers remaining.
Well, they changed it.
Now, instead of displaying all the answers, they display them one at a time as they are correctly guessed by the contestants.
Terribly annoying.
I can no longer hear the question, then cry out, "Wait! Wait! Pause it! Let me see... Safin, Roddick, Federer, Courier, Wilander, Sampras, Kafelnikov, Hewitt, McEnroe, Muster, Moya, Edberg, Agassi!, Becker, Sampras, Rios ... crap! Um, Lendl?" as Kris stares at me in amazement.
This works effectively when the questions are baseball related and Kris says, "daaaa-aaaamn..."
Not realizing, of course, that I've watched the episode already and memorized the answers.
Doesn't have the same effect without the "Wait! Wait! Pause it!"
Stupid Schwab.