{"id":14335,"date":"2022-09-16T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:49:27","slug":"iowa-stumps-the-smart-set-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/iowa-stumps-the-smart-set-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa stumps the smart set again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/j-archive.com\/showgame.php?game_id=7430\">Monday&#8217;s &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221;<\/a> started the show&#8217;s 39th season. It has a new, extended, and varying opening, with images of prominent champions (starting with Amy Schneider) and the studio audience.<\/p>\n<p>One thing, however, remains the same: Iowa remains largely a mystery to the contestants. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/jeopardy-contestants-go-0-for-iowa\/\">This calendar year<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/city-of-chopped-liver\/\">not been kind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Road Again, for $1200:<\/p>\n<p><em>An uphill bike race is held annually in Burlington, Iowa, on this alley seen here, named for a type of critter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The image was of Burlington&#8217;s Snake Alley, and no one buzzed in. The contestants immediately went on to not answer the next clue, about I-10.<\/p>\n<p>At least Tuesday&#8217;s group was successful in the football category (NFL opening weekend), <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/yet-for-some-reason-i-still-havent-gotten-the-call\/\">unlike some in the past,<\/a> earning gratitude from host Ken Jennings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; started the show&#8217;s 39th season. It has a new, extended, and varying opening, with images of prominent champions (starting with Amy Schneider) and the studio audience. One thing, however, remains the same: Iowa remains largely a mystery to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/iowa-stumps-the-smart-set-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14336,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions\/14336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}