Week of February 9: Alison's Gambit
What Is...? A Jeopardy! Podcast
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Show Notes
Jeopardy! crosses over into the true mainstream as Alison Betts' Final Jeopardy! joke actually pays off in another week of Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament action. We debate whether the boards have simply gotten too hard, actually, as contestants sputter all over the place. But we get some great anecdotes, we see some wonderful contestants from years past, and we get Andrew He's glorious new hairstyle. Plus, we dive deep on Black History Month.
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SOURCE: ASALH.org: "The Origins of Black History Month" by Daryl Michael Scott; Smithsonian Magazine: "A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise" by Meilan Solly
Special thank you as always to The Jeopardy! Fan and J-Archive.
This episode was produced by Producer Dan. Art by Max Wittert. Music by Nate Heller.