{"id":13931,"date":"2022-02-28T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13931"},"modified":"2022-02-27T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:50:22","slug":"jeopardy-contestants-go-0-for-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/jeopardy-contestants-go-0-for-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy contestants go 0-for-Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.j-archive.com\/showgame.php?game_id=7297\">Last Friday&#8217;s &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221;<\/a> had a collision of two of my favorite categories \u2014 college football and geography \u2014 with questions about the Big Ten Conference. (There was another college sports-related category <a href=\"https:\/\/www.j-archive.com\/showgame.php?game_id=7271\">just on Feb. 10<\/a>, &#8220;Their Current College Conference.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>But the contestants didn&#8217;t do too well in that one, and flubbed the $200 clue: <em>The Hawkeyes&#8217; home is <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?lat=41.65782000000007&amp;lon=-91.52652999999998#.YhxhVi2ZPsE\">this 2-word town<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then another Iowa-related question came in a category about first ladies, and once again nobody knew: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/heho\/index.htm\">His wife<\/a>, the former Lou Henry, was one of the first women in the U.S. to earn a geology degree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shame. Shame. Shame.<\/p>\n<p>(Did I run the Disney princess songs category the same day? Darn tootin&#8217;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday&#8217;s &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; had a collision of two of my favorite categories \u2014 college football and geography \u2014 with questions about the Big Ten Conference. (There was another college sports-related category just on Feb. 10, &#8220;Their Current College Conference.&#8221;) But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/jeopardy-contestants-go-0-for-iowa\/\">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-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13934,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions\/13934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}