[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jan 21 2004, 05:48 AM\'][quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Jan 20 2004, 10:01 PM\'] Celebrities cannot bluff on SS questions. They must give their best guess. [/quote]
In most cases, this is true. But I recall Erik Estrada in the late 1970s and Wayne Brady a few years ago not only giving a wrong answer during the Secret Square question but getting off on it after the contestant blew it.[/quote]
In his interview with Peter Barsocchini, co-author of The Jeopardy! Book, Art Fleming mentioned an occasion on the Marshall version when he was the Secret Square worth over $11,000. He admitted to the interviewer that he didn't know much about the subject of the question, but that he took a guess, and made it appear that he was certain. The contestant bought Art's bluff; fortunately, Art had picked the correct answer.
Esoteric Eric... Two posts on a weekday; I'll be running late for work now...