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The Irish Sun
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Jeopardy! contestant makes ITV show history after scooping huge jackpot – and one of daytime TV's biggest ever wins
A JEOPARDY! contestant has made history after scooping one of the daytime show's biggest ever wins. The hit game show was rebooted last year by ITV bosses, launching with an impressive 2.5 million viewers. 3 A Jeopardy! contestant has achieved the show's biggest ever win Credit: ITV 3 Stephen Fry congratulated Ben Jones after he walked away with a cool £64,530 Credit: ITV 3 Ben became the show's 10-day reigning champion following his win Credit: ITV Jeopardy! challenges contestants to showcase their general knowledge, always phrasing their responses in the form of a question. Players compete to stay in the game and accumulate winnings as they progress, with During today's episode, viewers watched as hotel receptionist Ben Jones continued the game, competing against Jonathan and Rosemary. From Caerphilly, Ben was already a nine-day reigning champion before his major win. more on jeopardy! In the final round, host Stephen asked a question based on the category Classic 80s Films. He said: "Matthew Broderick starred in the title role of the 1980s comedy film 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', directed by this man." Ben, 23, correctly answered: "Who is John Hughes?" His impressive knowledge saw him walk away with a jackpot prize of £64,530 - the largest win for all Jeopardy! series and one of the biggest wins on daytime TV. Most read in News TV Stephen congratulated Ben as he brought the curtain down on the last episode of the series. Robin Thede slammed for 'dumb' outfit in Jeopardy! Celebrity finale as fans point out podium 'rule' He told viewers: "We say goodbye to you because it is the end of the series. That's an amazing thought. "It's been a wonderful one, we've had two tremendous champions, but none greater than this [Ben] young man who will become a hero of the valleys I've no doubt." Jeopardy! is highly successful in the US and first aired in the UK on Channel 4 in 1983 before it moved over to ITV in 1990. It then aired on Sky Max in 1995 before coming to an end. Biggest game show wins £1,000,000: Judith Keppel, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - 20th November 2000 £1,000,000: Charlie and Helen, Limitless Win - 13th January 2024 £704,900: Mary Swain, The Vault - 16th August 2003 £500,000: Christine Stalker, Red or Black - 15th September 2012 £482,500: Robert Swarbrick, Duel - 8th March 2008 £300,000: Dom and Lauren Knight, The Million Pound Drop Live - 4th October 2012
CNN
03-04-2025
- Business
- CNN
Why is Trump rewriting US economic history? Anyone?
President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in museums, to spare the country any 'national shame' for its stained past. On the other hand, he is actively rewriting economic history to convince Americans that everything they've been taught is wrong and that his jarring new tariff policy won't be the largest tax hike in American history, as some economists and fellow Republicans argue. The accepted version of history, which you might, or might not, recall from Ben Stein's history teacher in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' is that Congress raised tariffs with the Smoot-Hawley tariff act in 1930 in an effort to 'alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.' 'Did it work?' Stein asked the class. 'Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work and the United States, sank deeper into the Great Depression.' Trump took the opposite view Wednesday, telling Americans that if only Congress had stuck to tariffs, the Great Depression 'would have been a much different story.' That Trump should need to goose up the facts to re-educate the population maybe shouldn't be surprising from the leader of a movement built on a backward-looking promise to make the country 'great again.' 'We have a 20th century president in a 21st century economy who wants to take us back to the 19th century,' wrote Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth economics professor, on X. Irwin is the author of multiple books, including 'Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy.' We talked last year, when he gave me a crash course in US tariff history that bore almost no resemblance to what Trump told Americans on Wednesday. Here's a look at how Trump described history, with some added context. 'From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.' Trump Trump didn't say what he meant by 'proportionately the wealthiest,' but by any standard definition of the word wealth, he's not on solid ground. By the numbers, the US today is an extremely wealth country, as former Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, explained on Fox Business as he trashed Trump's tariff plan. 'For all this discussion about how badly we've been abused and ripped off and how terrible it's been, well, we're the world's biggest economy with four percent of the world's population,' Toomey said. 'We have 25 percent of the world's economic output. We are the biggest agricultural exporter in the world. We – our manufacturing, domestic manufacturing is at an all-time high. We're doing it with fewer workers, mostly because automation has allowed us to do it much more productively.' Americans are wealthy in terms of a standard of living. Most people today have indoor toilets, air conditioning, access to modern grocery stores, vaccines and carry a super computer around in their pocket. Back then, pretty much nobody had any of those things. There was no Medicare of Social Security, so older people were left to fend for themselves at a level modern Americans would not understand. 'In the 1880s, they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn't know what to do with it. Isn't that a nice problem to have?' Trump It's not clear what commission Trump is referring to. A tariff commission in 1883 under President Chester A. Arthur recommended lowering tariffs, but was ignored by Congress. The Constitution puts Congress in charge of tariffs, but lawmakers have, over the years, handed much of this authority to the president. Surpluses of the 1880s probably had more to do with the government being much smaller. Things like Medicare and Social Security, the biggest drain on US tax dollars today, did not exist and the US military, the largest recipient of discretionary funding, was a fraction of what it is today. Trump has also lionized President William McKinley, who before he was president pushed for the McKinley Tariff, by which Congress raised tariffs in the 1890s. Voters perceived the tariff as benefiting the wealthy and Republicans subsequently lost the House in one of the biggest power swings in US history. The Stanford professor emeritus Richard White told me in a Q&A about the Gilded Age that there are structural differences between the country in the 19th Century and the country today that make these comparisons extremely difficult to make. 'One of the things McKinley was trying to do, and the Republicans were trying to do, was to raise the tariff in order to reduce the federal deficit by making the tariffs so high, it would take down tax revenue because they really were worried about the deflation that was coming with the Gold Standard,' White said. 'Now we're in a very different situation, because now we have great deficits and the idea that the tariff is going to bring in revenue is really not something that's going to happen,' White added. In the 1880s, the US was rapidly industrializing and many other countries, which are industrializing today, were not yet on that path. 'Then in 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government.' Trump The reasons for the income tax are pretty simple. Congress tried to establish an income tax earlier in a bill where it tried to lower tariffs, according to the National Archives. But the Supreme Court struck the income tax down. Earlier in US history, an income tax had been temporarily enacted to pay for the Civil War. Enacting a Constitutional Amendment requires the assent of three quarters of states, so this was the will of the majority at the time. Trump frequently says foreign countries pay tariffs. It's not true. US importers pay them, but really US consumers and businesses end up footing the bill. 'Then in 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy. It would have been a much different story.' Trump He must be referring here to the aforementioned Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed not long after the 1929 stock market crash, according to the National Archives, which notes that historians debate what role the Smoot-Hawley tariff, or already in-place tariffs played in causing or deepening the Great Depression.
CNN
03-04-2025
- Business
- CNN
Why is Trump rewriting US economic history? Anyone?
President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in museums, to spare the country any 'national shame' for its stained past. On the other hand, he is actively rewriting economic history to convince Americans that everything they've been taught is wrong and that his jarring new tariff policy won't be the largest tax hike in American history, as some economists and fellow Republicans argue. The accepted version of history, which you might, or might not, recall from Ben Stein's history teacher in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' is that Congress raised tariffs with the Smoot-Hawley tariff act in 1930 in an effort to 'alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.' 'Did it work?' Stein asked the class. 'Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work and the United States, sank deeper into the Great Depression.' Trump took the opposite view Wednesday, telling Americans that if only Congress had stuck to tariffs, the Great Depression 'would have been a much different story.' That Trump should need to goose up the facts to re-educate the population maybe shouldn't be surprising from the leader of a movement built on a backward-looking promise to make the country 'great again.' 'We have a 20th century president in a 21st century economy who wants to take us back to the 19th century,' wrote Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth economics professor, on X. Irwin is the author of multiple books, including 'Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy.' We talked last year, when he gave me a crash course in US tariff history that bore almost no resemblance to what Trump told Americans on Wednesday. Here's a look at how Trump described history, with some added context. 'From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.' Trump Trump didn't say what he meant by 'proportionately the wealthiest,' but by any standard definition of the word wealth, he's not on solid ground. By the numbers, the US today is an extremely wealth country, as former Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, explained on Fox Business as he trashed Trump's tariff plan. 'For all this discussion about how badly we've been abused and ripped off and how terrible it's been, well, we're the world's biggest economy with four percent of the world's population,' Toomey said. 'We have 25 percent of the world's economic output. We are the biggest agricultural exporter in the world. We – our manufacturing, domestic manufacturing is at an all-time high. We're doing it with fewer workers, mostly because automation has allowed us to do it much more productively.' Americans are wealthy in terms of a standard of living. Most people today have indoor toilets, air conditioning, access to modern grocery stores, vaccines and carry a super computer around in their pocket. Back then, pretty much nobody had any of those things. There was no Medicare of Social Security, so older people were left to fend for themselves at a level modern Americans would not understand. 'In the 1880s, they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn't know what to do with it. Isn't that a nice problem to have?' Trump It's not clear what commission Trump is referring to. A tariff commission in 1883 under President Chester A. Arthur recommended lowering tariffs, but was ignored by Congress. The Constitution puts Congress in charge of tariffs, but lawmakers have, over the years, handed much of this authority to the president. Surpluses of the 1880s probably had more to do with the government being much smaller. Things like Medicare and Social Security, the biggest drain on US tax dollars today, did not exist and the US military, the largest recipient of discretionary funding, was a fraction of what it is today. Trump has also lionized President William McKinley, who before he was president pushed for the McKinley Tariff, by which Congress raised tariffs in the 1890s. Voters perceived the tariff as benefiting the wealthy and Republicans subsequently lost the House in one of the biggest power swings in US history. The Stanford professor emeritus Richard White told me in a Q&A about the Gilded Age that there are structural differences between the country in the 19th Century and the country today that make these comparisons extremely difficult to make. 'One of the things McKinley was trying to do, and the Republicans were trying to do, was to raise the tariff in order to reduce the federal deficit by making the tariffs so high, it would take down tax revenue because they really were worried about the deflation that was coming with the Gold Standard,' White said. 'Now we're in a very different situation, because now we have great deficits and the idea that the tariff is going to bring in revenue is really not something that's going to happen,' White added. In the 1880s, the US was rapidly industrializing and many other countries, which are industrializing today, were not yet on that path. 'Then in 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government.' Trump The reasons for the income tax are pretty simple. Congress tried to establish an income tax earlier in a bill where it tried to lower tariffs, according to the National Archives. But the Supreme Court struck the income tax down. Earlier in US history, an income tax had been temporarily enacted to pay for the Civil War. Enacting a Constitutional Amendment requires the assent of three quarters of states, so this was the will of the majority at the time. Trump frequently says foreign countries pay tariffs. It's not true. US importers pay them, but really US consumers and businesses end up footing the bill. 'Then in 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy. It would have been a much different story.' Trump He must be referring here to the aforementioned Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed not long after the 1929 stock market crash, according to the National Archives, which notes that historians debate what role the Smoot-Hawley tariff, or already in-place tariffs played in causing or deepening the Great Depression.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Her great-grandfather was behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. She thinks Trump's tariffs are 'terrible.'
Carey Stewart Cezar, a retired nurse who lives in Baltimore, watched with dismay Wednesday as President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on imports. Cezar voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in last year's presidential election and opposes Trump's economic policies. But she said she has another reason to be skeptical of Trump's tariffs: She is a descendant of one of the legislators behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, a law that many economic historians believe worsened the Great Depression. 'I think it's a terrible idea and potentially devastating,' Cezar, 70, said in a phone interview Wednesday, a few hours after Trump announced plans to impose duties on goods brought into the United States from other countries. 'I think people don't remember all the harm caused by tariffs in our history.' Cezar's great-grandfather was Rep. Willis C. Hawley, an Oregon Republican who sponsored the 1930 tariff act with Sen. Reed Smoot, a Utah Republican. The act, which President Herbert Hoover signed into law roughly a year into the Great Depression, increased duties, set off a trade war and — in the eyes of many historians — aggravated the effects of the era's economic downturn. The law was 'one of the most controversial tariff acts ever enacted by Congress,' Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, wrote in 2020. (Irwin said Wednesday on X that Trump's expansive tariffs are 'bigger than Smoot-Hawley.') The law re-entered public consciousness with the 1986 release of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' featuring actor Ben Stein as a dry high school teacher who tells his students the act was a failure. Cezar, whose great-grandfather died in 1941, said the law was part of her early education, too. 'The Smoot-Hawley Act is part of my family's history, and I learned about it as a kid,' she said. She recalled that her mother was 'deeply embarrassed' by the last name Hawley when she was growing up in Baltimore in the wake of the Great Depression. She was ashamed of being linked with a law that had intensified economic devastation, Cezar said. 'She was happy to get a new name when she got married,' Cezar added. Cezar has kept some family mementos from that dark historical chapter, including ration tickets for food and basic goods such as shoes. In recent weeks, as Wall Street reeled from uncertainty over Trump's tariff plans, Cezar watched her financial holdings tumble. She said her 401(k) retirement account lost around 10% of its value. She said she does not believe the nation is entering a new 'golden age,' as Trump proclaimed Wednesday. Trump's tariffs regime has been presented as an effort to boost domestic manufacturing by forcing importers to pay steeper levies on goods produced in other countries. It's an initiative likely to drive up prices for consumers. Trump, who has long argued that the United States gets 'ripped off' by other countries, said Wednesday that the nation has been 'looted, pillaged, raped and plundered.' He vowed that American industry would be 'reborn.' U.S. stock markets reversed post-election gains as Trump delivered his remarks. In after-hours trading, S&P 500 futures dropped 1.5%. Days after the presidential election, amid speculation about Trump's economic agenda, Cezar posted a comment on Facebook that implored other users to 'learn about what tariffs do to the economy.' 'I asked people to just take a minute and study their history,' she said. Nobody replied. This article was originally published on
NBC News
03-04-2025
- Business
- NBC News
Her great-grandfather was behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. She thinks Trump's tariffs are 'terrible.'
Carey Stewart Cezar, a retired nurse who lives in Baltimore, watched with dismay Wednesday as President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on imports. Cezar voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in last year's presidential election and opposes Trump's economic policies. But she said she has another reason to be skeptical of Trump's tariffs: She is a descendant of one of the legislators behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, a law that many economic historians believe worsened the Great Depression. 'I think it's a terrible idea and potentially devastating,' Cezar, 70, said in a phone interview Wednesday, a few hours after Trump announced plans to impose duties on goods brought into the United States from other countries. 'I think people don't remember all the harm caused by tariffs in our history.' Cezar's great-grandfather was Rep. Willis C. Hawley, an Oregon Republican who sponsored the 1930 tariff act with Sen. Reed Smoot, a Utah Republican. The act, which President Herbert Hoover signed into law roughly a year into the Great Depression, increased duties, set off a trade war and — in the eyes of many historians — aggravated the effects of the era's economic downturn. The law was 'one of the most controversial tariff acts ever enacted by Congress,' Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, wrote in 2020. (Irwin said Wednesday on X that Trump's expansive tariffs are 'bigger than Smoot-Hawley.') The law re-entered public consciousness with the 1986 release of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' featuring actor Ben Stein as a dry high school teacher who tells his students the act was a failure. Cezar, whose great-grandfather died in 1941, said the law was part of her early education, too. 'The Smoot-Hawley Act is part of my family's history, and I learned about it as a kid,' she said. She recalled that her mother was 'deeply embarrassed' by the last name Hawley when she was growing up in Baltimore in the wake of the Great Depression. She was ashamed of being linked with a law that had intensified economic devastation, Cezar said. 'She was happy to get a new name when she got married,' Cezar added. Cezar has kept some family mementos from that dark historical chapter, including ration tickets for food and basic goods such as shoes. In recent weeks, as Wall Street reeled from uncertainty over Trump's tariff plans, Cezar watched her financial holdings tumble. She said her 401(k) retirement account lost around 10% of its value. She said she does not believe the nation is entering a new 'golden age,' as Trump proclaimed Wednesday. Trump's tariffs regime is an effort to change trade arrangements under which the United States outsourced manufacturing to foreign countries in return for cheaper goods, a status quo that critics say has harmed America's industrial core. Trump, who has long argued that the United States gets 'ripped off' by other countries, said Wednesday that the nation has been 'looted, pillaged, raped and plundered.' He vowed that American industry would be 'reborn.' U.S. stock markets reversed post-election gains as Trump delivered his remarks. In after-hours trading, S&P 500 futures dropped 1.5%. Days after the presidential election, amid speculation about Trump's economic agenda, Cezar posted a comment on Facebook that implored other users to 'learn about what tariffs do to the economy.' 'I asked people to just take a minute and study their history,' she said.
