Tuesday, December 21, 2010

NOT humming the Jeopardy theme song

We all know Jeopardy. I mean we've all at least heard of it. Surprise of surprises, french-speakers have their own. Because I live in a tiny town, we only get 4 channels (and now that a trees has fallen basically on the house, we don't get anything). One of those is "Euronews". The other three are the three national Belgian channels in French. So we get Belgian news, sports, plenty of movies (often American dubbed in French) and some series. I have to admit that I've become a semi-regular follower of the French soap opera that plays 5 nights a week, Plus Belle La Vie (literally "the life more beautiful"). And occassionally I'm around to see their Jeopardy: Tout Le Monde Veut Prendre Sa Place ("Everybody wants to take his place"). I even occassionally know the answers - American trivia pops up a lot more often, I'm sure, than French trivia pops up on Jeopardy..