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To: Rummyfan

Everyone on the show guessed Brigham young

The answer was Stanford. Or Stamford. Some guy or the founder of Stanford U

No one in the world associates Stanford with Utah, which in final Jeopardy when you have 45 seconds to come up with an answer then write it down in 15, is always going to mean a famous Mormon.


39 posted on 04/17/2021 2:09:47 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Talking about driving the Golden Spike for the RR. Stanford was the president of the Central Pacific RR.
I enjoyed Rogers. He got better the second week.


45 posted on 04/17/2021 5:40:26 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: stanne

I didn’t know Leland Stanford was a native Utahan. Brigham Young doesn’t work as he wasn’t born in Utah, he led the Mormons to Utah.


48 posted on 04/17/2021 7:02:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: stanne

The Final Jeopardy question was actually, “One of the luminaries who drove the “Golden Spike” in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university.” Nothing about being a native of Utah.


50 posted on 04/18/2021 4:26:34 AM PDT by macrahanish #1 ( BABYMETAL-METAL GALAXY)
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