HP hits Jeopardy

[vjmerri]

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From: vjmerri
Subject: HP hits Jeopardy
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6566] Re: My favorite non-human in HP
Date: 8/10/00 9:25 pm  (ET)

No one else seems to have posted on this yet. SO,

Harry POtter was the final jeopardy question tonight.

They are doing the college tournament and had the quarter finals. The
three students today didn't seem exceptional knowledgable to me. As
a group they missed a number of questions that I thought were quite
obvious, BUT

The category was "fictional characters." rather a broad one.

The final jeopardy answer was some thing "this student's school's motto is
'draco...' or 'Never tickle a sleeping dragon'.

[I forget the exact motto and translation.]

The answer, of course, is Harry Potter.

NO ONE GOT IT. Three people and no one got it. I was very surprised. Then
Alec Trebek displayed his ignorance (or maybe he was being nice to the
players) and said "well, maybe you're too old to be interested in it."

Ha. Too old. But they didn't seem to be all that terrific on older
literature or on history, as one student missed an obvious answer
referring to "a conneticut yankee in king arthurs court" in the Mark
Twain category, and that has to be one of his most famous works. Oh, well,

The whole point is that Harry Potter not only made jeopardy, but Final
Jeopardy.

Vicki