Celebrity Jeopardy is on every day this week at 7PM on Channel 2 in Baltimore. This isn't any old Celebrity Jeopardy. This is inside-the-beltway jeopardy, featuring a number of well known reporters and political types including Al Franken, Bob Woodward, Christine Todd Whitman, and Tucker Carlson. For some fairly entertaining commentary on the shows, see this Washington Post article. Tomorrow's lineup includes Ari Fleischer, Tim Russert, and Ashleigh Banfield. I expect Fleischer to win convincingly so go ahead and watch it and see for yourself.

I was able to catch most of today's episode, and boy, were Kweisi Mfume and Maria Bartiromo stupid. Both stayed in the red for most of the show, despite the fact that the questions were really easy. (I actually think Jeopardy is normally pretty hard.) Example:

"Tennesee Williams was born in this Mississippi town, named after the discoverer of America."

Anderson Cooper won the game by a large margin, despite giving the WORST answer on a difficult final jeopoardy question, which no one got right. Here it is:

"Element 79 on the periodic table, all of this metal ever mined in the world would only fill a cube 50 feet across."

The answer is at the end of this post. Maria thought it was platinum. Kweisi thought it was plutonium. And as for Anderson Cooper, what did he put?

"Coltan".

That's right, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper thinks that there is an element on the periodic table called "Coltan".

*The correct answer is gold, surprisingly. I actually got it right because I happened to see its atomic number the other day.