{"id":752,"date":"2008-12-09T13:07:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/09\/alum-wins-jeopardy\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:07:45","slug":"alum-wins-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/alum-wins-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum wins Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/geoffmoore-dec08.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Moore on Jeopardy\" align=\"right\" \/>A friend of mine who loves all things trivia e-mailed me this morning to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/boiler-babe.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/baylor-knocks-off-amherst-and-babs-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">1998 Baylor alum Geoff Moore was yesterday&#8217;s winner on Jeopardy<\/a>! (On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/showguide_thisweek.php\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>, you can see Moore&#8217;s encouragement to watch the show.)<\/p>\n<p>During his chat with host Alex Trebek, Moore &#8212; a 1998 graduate &#8212; talked about his time in Chamber helping train the live bear mascots. Moore, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\/story.php?story=004627\" target=\"_blank\">now a screenwriter in Los Angeles<\/a>, took a lead into the show&#8217;s last round and had good fortune when it came to the Final Jeopardy category: &#8220;Actor-Directors.&#8221; Moore answered (questioned?) correctly for the win, and thus gets to play again on today&#8217;s show (check your local listings).<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first Baylor\/gameshow connection; you might remember back to last fall, when &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/09\/14\/what-is-baylor-alex\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is Baylor University?<\/a>&#8221; was the answer\/question to a Jeopardy puzzle and <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/19\/baylor-student-wins-wheel-of-fortune\/\" target=\"_blank\">a current student won nearly $30,000 on Wheel of Fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Geoff!<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: He <a href=\"http:\/\/gskingdom.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/1292008-results.html\" target=\"_blank\">won again Tuesday<\/a> but <a href=\"http:\/\/gskingdom.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/12102008-results.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost on Wednesday<\/a>. Still, a nice run, netting Moore over $56,000!] <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine who loves all things trivia e-mailed me this morning to say that 1998 Baylor alum Geoff Moore was yesterday&#8217;s winner on Jeopardy! (On this page, you can see Moore&#8217;s encouragement to watch the show.) During his chat with host Alex Trebek, Moore &#8212; a 1998 graduate &#8212; talked about his time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","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\/752","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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}