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Michele Bachmann Jeopardy! Curse Continues

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Makes perfect sense considering how toxic she was in her own contest.

Every contestant who has correctly answered clues about Minnesota’s controversial Congresswoman failed to win their match including the latest in the Teen Tournament on Friday

For the fourth time since launching her 2012 presidential campaign, Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s name came up as part of the clue on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

And on each of these four occasions, the contestant to ring in and provide the correct answer (that is, question) demonstrating their Bachmann knowledge failed to win the match.

On Friday – during the third quarterfinal game of the annual Teen Tournament – the $2,000 clue in a ‘Double Jeopardy’ category called, “113th Congress,” read:

“Rep. Michele Bachmann says she formed this caucus to get Congress back to obeying the Constitution.”

Seventeen year old high school senior Olivia Hummer from Covina, California rang in and correctly asked, “What is the Tea Party?”

Quickie- Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) beats IBM’s Watson in ‘Jeopardy!’

The frackin’ computer has a weird advantage on the buzzer, other than that it’s pretty beatable.

U.S. Rep. Rush Holt — an actual rocket scientists, as his supporters like to tout on bumper stickers — tonight topped the IBM supercomputer Watson in a round of Jeopardy! down in Washington.

Holt — who was a five-time Jeopardy! winner more than 30 years ago and joked midday that Watson was “just a little Atari” when he made his game-show splash – tweeted almost an hour ago about the experience: “I played a full round against @IBMWatson tonight and was proud to hold my own: the final tally was Holt $8,600, Watson $6,200.”

Holt was joined in the game by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, who tweeted that he didn’t mind losing to a nuclear physicist and computer that famously defeated some of the TV game show’s top champs: “I seriously CANNOT believe that @rushholt beat @ibmwatson,” he wrote. Also playing: Reps. Bill Cassidy, Nan Hayworth and Jared Polis.

Videos- Chris Matthews on Celebrity Jeopardy


This was a nice little distraction. Doesn’t hurt when you have someone like David to look at either.