We’ll take obvious racism for $600, Alex. On a college championship edition of Jeopardy, three White college students—Laurie Beckoff, a sophomore at the University of…
During a college championship round of Jeopardy three college students avoided the “African American History” category as long as they could. Instead of choosing to answer questions about black history, the contestants gladly chose from categories like “International Cinema Showcase,” “Weather Verbs,” and “Kiwi Fauna.” Not surprising since they answered only three out of the […]
If you don’t know who Leonard Cooper is, read on ’cause this young brother is someone you need to know about. You see, the cool, calm, collected (and a little cocky) Mr. Cooper – a Little Rock, Arkansas high school student – just won $75,000 on “Jeopardy Teen Tournament.” Needless to say, that’s quite a […]
Teachers are pretty smart people, on that we can all agree. But Illinois’ Fenwick High schoolteacher Colby Burnett has bragging rights most teachers don’t – he’s the big winner on this year’s “Jeopardy Teachers Tournament” which took place earlier this month. Burnett, who teaches Advanced Placement World History and is coach of the school’s Scholastic […]
