Elizabeth Warren Is Now a Jeopardy! Category [View all]

[Playinghardball]

The nexus between the TV game show Jeopardy! and prominent Washington figures involved in financial regulation continued this week, with contestants testing their knowledge of facts about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.).

Contestants on Tuesday night’s show were confronted with a category entitled “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.” It was the second time this year that one of the creators of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Ms. Warren led in its early days, has made Jeopardy-related news.

The CFPB’s director, Richard Cordray, is a five-time Jeopardy champion who tried — but failed — earlier this year to recreate his winning ways.

While the five Warren-related questions posed by host Alex Trebek would not stump many Beltway insiders, not all contestants fared well. Here’s a recap:

1) In 2012, Elizabeth Warren was elected a senator from this state.
Answer: What is Massachusetts?
Mr. Trebek: You got it.

2) Mrs. Warren is on the Senate committee known as HELP: Health, Education, Labor and these retirement benefits.
Answer: (incorrect) What is Social Security?
Answer: (correct) What are pensions?
Mr. Trebek: P stands for pensions, correct.

3) Elizabeth chaired the Congressional oversight panel for this program, whose 4-letter abbreviation sounds like a canvas cover.
Answer: What is TARP?


More here: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/02/elizabeth-warren-is-now-a-jeopardy-category/