Originally Posted by
Bluedog
Watch it tonight! Greer Mackebee, a senior civil and environmental engineering major from Knoxville, Tennessee, is on Jeopardy! this week in the college championships. 12,000 people applied and 15 students were selected. He takes on a student from Indiana and MIT (the only other engineering student in the field) in the first round which is airing today. SPOILER below in white (highlight text to read) since it hasn't aired on the East Coast yet (but has in other areas):
http://www.pratt.duke.edu/node/3227
He wins and becomes a semi-finalist! Knows his colonial history and was the only one to get the final Jeopardy question correctly.
Good luck to him!
I randomly stumbled upon the Jeopardy program. I was very produ to be a Duke grad watching Greer handle himself. Any ideas when the semi-finals are?
My Quick Smells Like French Toast.