{"600785":{"#nid":"600785","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ivan Allen Alumna Competes on \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe category: Georgia Institute of Technology alumni for $1,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe question: \u0026ldquo;Who is Lindsay Resnick?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe answer: She is the 2013\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;graduate who appeared on the syndicated game show\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJeopardy!\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in January 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Jeopardy!\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;experience was the greatest of my life!\u0026rdquo; Resnick said after the two episodes she was in aired. Resnick won one game, and came in third in her second appearance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAppearing on the show was \u0026lsquo;so much fun!\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResnick, who said learning and trivia are passions, had been waiting to get on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJeopardy!\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;since only a few months after she graduated in May\u0026nbsp;2013 with a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/undergraduate\/major\u0022\u003EBachelor\u0026rsquo;s Degree in History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E, a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt began with an online test in January 2014 and kicked into high gear in September, when she got the call that she had been picked to be on the show.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For one month, I watched as many episodes as I could and scored myself during those practice sessions,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAn anagram tripped her up.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResnick\u0026rsquo;s two episodes were filmed on October 25.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Everyone throughout the process was friendly and warm, and my favorite part of being on the show was getting to know my fellow contestants,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;It was so much fun! I thought I would be nervous but I wasn\u0026rsquo;t.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe question that gave her the most trouble was Final Jeopardy in her second game. The category was \u0026ldquo;Senators\u0026rdquo; and the clue, \u0026ldquo;The last names of these two current senators, one from Virginia and one from Massachusetts, are anagrams of each other.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I knew Elizabeth Warren was a senator from Massachusetts but I couldn\u0026rsquo;t think of the senators from Virginia or a suitable anagram for Warren in thirty seconds, so I wasn\u0026rsquo;t able to answer the question,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the record, the answer would be Warren and Sen. Mark Warner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026lsquo;Tech education has expanded my intellectual interests.\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResnick, who after graduation went on to get a Master\u0026rsquo;s Degree in Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University in 2015, credited her Georgia Tech liberal arts education with helping her master categories in which she was not an expert.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My HTS degree from Tech was much more well-rounded than a history degree I would\u0026rsquo;ve earned from another school,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is now an archivist at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta. Her job is to help to preserve the history of the Savannah, Georgia\u0026rsquo;s Jewish community \u0026mdash; one of the longest-established Jewish communities in the South.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My Tech education has prepared me for the \u0026lsquo;real world\u0026rsquo; in countless ways, but one of the most apparent to me is that I\u0026rsquo;ve learned to relate to many different personalities and people from all walks of life,\u0026rdquo; Resnick said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I also feel like my well-rounded liberal arts education at Tech has benefitted me because of its focus on science, technology, and medicine,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;I was never interested in these topics before coming to Tech, but some of my favorite classes ended up being those, such as the History of Medicine. My Tech education has expanded my intellectual interests, and for that I will forever be grateful.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lindsay Resnick, who graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in History, Technology, and Society, credits her education in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts with helping broaden her intellectual horizons."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2018-01-12 20:27:16","changed_gmt":"2018-01-22 16:13:03","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600520":{"id":"600520","type":"image","title":"Jeopardy! 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