Mudd Jeopardy! Update

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Andrew Chung made the finals in a runaway victory!  The final score was probably more indicative of his opponent's propensity for missing questions than any sort of "board dominance", but like any tournament, a win is a win.    Slightly disappointed that a chemist didn't get the element whose name means "acid creating", but now is no time to dwell

Comments

[robbbbbb]

"Acid creating"? Hydrogen?

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Wouldn't that be "water creating"?

[robbbbbb]

Yeah. Oops.

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They also included the clue that it was the most common element in the Earth's crust.

[steuard]

I boggled at the final question: many of the earlier questions had been in a range that I kinda sorta expected I might possibly know, but that final question was pretty much a "How on Earth would I expect to know that?" (Even the final topic was pretty much a "How on Earth?", to be honest. "Civil War Era Literature"? C'mon.)

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I agree the whole final was wacky. My impression is that the story used to be much more popular, the sort of thing that was commonly read in high school by people 20 years older than us. So this might just be a result of a generational difference between the writer and us, although even allowing for that there should have been stronger clues to have any expectation of a correct response.

[rudbeckia1]

What was the Civil War Era Literature question?

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Civil War Era Fiction:

A Northerner whose sympathies exiled him to the Confederacy, Bermuda & Canada inspired this 1863 tale.