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12.17.2021

Can You Respond Correctly to These Clues Like Professors Tournament Champion Sam Buttrey?

Sam Buttrey has been crowned the champion of Jeopardy!’s first-ever Professors Tournament!

For fun, we’ve rounded up some of the clues he responded to correctly. See if you’ve got the skills to take on the winning professor. Good luck!

*Quiz Rules: Respondents do not have to answer in the form of a question. Moderate spelling errors will receive consideration. No prizes, but big-time bragging rights.*

THE RULES OF THE GAME With no game clocks on the field, only a referee such as Daniele Orsato keeps time

PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES That’s a secret! Keep it below one’s deerstalker, or to put it another way… this

A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array

“ENNIAL” RESPONSE WILL DO Jon Ossoff, born in 1987, has been called the first of these in the U.S. Senate

19th CENTURY LIT This children’s classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood

MODERN SHORTHAND You might post your C.V. on this website, L.I. for short

SIDEKICKS In 1954 DC Comics debuted a series about “Superman’s Pal”, this copy boy-turned-cub reporter

GEMS & JEWELS An oblong one of these blue gems is in the center of the brooch Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria the day before they wed

THE 15th CENTURY 2 short years after attending Charles VII’s coronation at Reims, she was burned at the stake

CLASSIC MOVIES In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller

LITERARY MUSEUMS Head to Wamego, Kansas for a museum dedicated to this fictional land created by L. Frank Baum

PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! The Greek for “mushroom” gives us this word for the study of fungi

MIRROR IMAGE WORDS Created & dutch cheese

BEFORE & AFTER A Frankfurter within canis major

LATIN MOTTOES & PHRASES New York’s state motto is this Latin word that means “ever upward”

Plus, see if you can run the below category like Sam!

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A fashionable Athenian computer wonk

TRIPLE RHYME TIME The center violin puzzle

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A searing camp bed scheme

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A small & portable spacecraft plug receptacle

TRIPLE RHYME TIME A narrow tanqueray smirk