--- title: Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow Compete on Jimmy Fallon description: Jimmy Fallon challenges Tina Fey and Rachel Maddow to a game of Know It All, a trivia face off, on The Tonight Show. canonical: https://time.com/4246246/tina-fey-rachel-maddow-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-03T15:50:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:42.212Z og:title: Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow Compete on Jimmy Fallon og:description: Jimmy Fallon challenges Tina Fey and Rachel Maddow to a game of Know It All, a trivia face off, on The Tonight Show. og:url: https://time.com/4246246/tina-fey-rachel-maddow-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow Compete on Jimmy Fallon twitter:description: Jimmy Fallon challenges Tina Fey and Rachel Maddow to a game of Know It All, a trivia face off, on The Tonight Show. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Tina Fey Outsmart Rachel Maddow on _The Tonight Show_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 3, 2016 3:50 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 3, 2016 3:50 PM UTC Comedian Jimmy Fallon challenged actress [Tina Fey](http://time.com/4243817/tina-fey-aging-actress-challenge/) and MSBNC anchor Rachel Maddow to a trivia contest on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ Wednesday night. In a recurring game on the show, known as “Know It All,” he presents a category, and the contestants have to come up with words within that category as fast as they can. After struggling to think of the proper name for “wiener dog” during the “dog breeds” round, Fey, the former _Saturday Night Live_ star, proved she knew her “rappers” and “cheeses” better than the host of _The Rachel Maddow Show._ Fey plays a war correspondent in her latest film [_Whiskey Tango Foxtrot_](http://time.com/4243466/review-whiskey-tango-foxtrot-tina-fey/), which opens in theaters March 4. Tina Fey, Rachel Maddow Compete on Jimmy Fallon ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4246246/tina-fey-rachel-maddow-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4246246/tina-fey-rachel-maddow-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/"},"headline":"Watch Tina Fey Outsmart Rachel Maddow on The Tonight Show","datePublished":"2016-03-03T15:50:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:42.212Z","description":"Jimmy Fallon challenged them to a trivia contest","url":"https://time.com/4246246/tina-fey-rachel-maddow-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4246246/tina-fey-rachel-maddow-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/","name":"Watch Tina Fey Outsmart Rachel Maddow on The Tonight Show"}}]}] ```