Who is Arthur C. Clarke? Not quite

It’s a sign of fame when you become a Jeopardy! question. It’s a sign of declining fame when none of the contestants recognize you from the answer. I was watching the Jeopardy! college championship tonight when Alex Trebek asked who wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. One of the students on the show piped up with “Arthur C. Clarke,” and no one came up with the correct answer. If they’d have asked that one way back in the ’80s when I went to college, someone would have answered “Douglas Adams.”

Just think, in 25 years, Harry Potter may not even be a memory.