{"id":68,"date":"2007-09-14T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/14\/what-is-baylor-alex\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T15:21:41","slug":"what-is-baylor-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/what-is-baylor-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Baylor,&#8221; Alex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/jeopardy.jpg\" alt=\"Jeopardy - Baylor Proud\" align=\"right\" \/>I got worried when my friend told me Baylor was in jeopardy earlier this week, until he explained that he meant the long-running television quiz show <em>Jeopardy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the episode (curse that 4:30 time slot!), but as related to me, the $400 answer under the heading &#8220;Colleges and Universities&#8221; was: &#8220;The 735-acre campus of this Baptist school is on the banks of the Brazos River in Waco, Texas.&#8221; And yes, a contestant did get the right answer. (Or is it question? <em>Jeopardy<\/em> always confuses me on that.)<\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#8217;t the only game show Baylor made it into this week, either. Alumnus Wyatt McMahon (BS &#8217;99) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lubbockonline.com\/stories\/091007\/ent_091007022.shtml\">made his way onto the season-opening episode<\/a> of <em>Who Wants to be a Millionaire?<\/em> Monday night. Alas, McMahon was stumped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lubbockonline.com\/stories\/091107\/ent_091107013.shtml\">a question on <em>The Sopranos<\/em><\/a> and fell far short of the million-dollar goal. Still &#8211; he got a lot further than most of us ever could!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, quizmasters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got worried when my friend told me Baylor was in jeopardy earlier this week, until he explained that he meant the long-running television quiz show Jeopardy. I missed the episode (curse that 4:30 time slot!), but as related to me, the $400 answer under the heading &#8220;Colleges and Universities&#8221; was: &#8220;The 735-acre campus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}