This one isn’t a faux pas. Atlas Shrugged was fea­tured as the ques­tion to the $200 answer in this evening’s “Lit­er­ary Titles” cat­e­gory (Jeop­ardy Round). It was the first answer of the game. I don’t think the Jeop­ardy! peo­ple like hav­ing clips from the show up on the YouTube, so I can’t post a video. The clue was cute. Alex gave a spo­ken clue (“1957 novel about a strong female exec­u­tive”) while a video clip ran. The clip depicted a mem­ber of the “Clue Crew” with a giant inflat­able globe on his shoul­ders, which he set down and “shrugged” in an exag­ger­ated fash­ion. The other clues in the cat­e­gory [ . . . ]

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A con­tes­tant relates a story from when he was a mes­sen­ger. Upon mak­ing a deliv­ery to the exer­cise guru, the mes­sen­ger could not regain his pen from Richard Sim­mons until he had made a promise to exer­cise. The present day con­tes­tant is a husky man, with notice­able paunch. Alex responds: You lied! If he keeps this up, I’ll make this a reg­u­lar fea­ture. PS: Remem­ber to avoid dan­gling your participles!