Besides the story about Harvard's Carrie Tian mentioned in the faux tweets, there's one about William and Mary's Zach McDonnell, and one about North Texas' Monica Thieu, and one about Stanford's Matt Olson, and one about Indiana's Sarah Bauer, and one about YouTube's Weird Al Yankovic.
Oh, scratch that last one. But the Weird Al story does mention I Lost on Jeopardy. Which, unfortunately, will be the theme song for all but one of the fifteen students when the tournament wraps up February 14. But the student left standing will get a hundred grand, which is about $99,990 more than I ever had when I was in college.
I've already grumped about too many Jeopardy tournaments. But it's hard to begrudge college kids a shot at real money. Especially when the tournament is a real-life Revenge of the Nerds. Bookworms and trivia geeks on campus get their day in the sun, or at least syndication. That's not bad at all.
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