{"id":128330,"date":"2017-06-15T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatminds\/?p=19865"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T14:19:55","slug":"umw-alum-shines-on-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2017\/06\/15\/umw-alum-shines-on-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Alum Shines on Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

UMW alum Becca Arm ’16 walked away from a recent episode of the long-running TV game show Jeopardy!<\/em> with $27,500 and a second-place finish.<\/p>

<\/span>Now employed as a library assistant, Arm served as a special collections student assistant in the Simpson Library during her time at UMW.<\/p>

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UMW alum Becca Arm ’16 walked away from a recent episode of the long-running TV game show Jeopardy! with $27,500 and a second-place finish. Photo courtesy of Jeopardy Productions Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

“She was a wonderful library assistant, very detail-oriented and a very good writer,” said UMW Head of Special Collections Carolyn Parsons. “We’re excited to see that she’s gone into the library profession.”<\/p>

Arm was a fierce contestant on Jeopardy!<\/em>, leading her competitors – a management consultant and the returning champion, an ESL teacher – for most of the game.<\/p>

She tore through categories like “1817,” “design & architecture” and “children’s books” in the show’s first round, finishing in the lead with $9,000. In the second round, she muscled through topics including “similes,” “entertaining fruits & vegetables” and “Biblical pairs,” maintaining the lead with $22,200. Arm also snagged one Daily Double in each of the game’s first two segments.<\/p>

In Final Jeopardy, she questioned the answer – “His First novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau<\/em>, a Princeton literary magazine” – correctly (F. Scott Fitzgerald) but wagered only $5,300, which left her just short of winning the game.<\/p>

Arm, who lives in Herndon, Virginia, majored in art history and was a scholarship recipient at Mary Washington. She is interested in onomastics, the study of names, she told the show’s host, Alex Trebek, who admitted to being unfamiliar with the topic.<\/p>

“It can be any kind of name, but I’m interested in personal names, given names. I like to watch what’s in the media, what’s going on in the news, see what’s going to become popular as a baby name,” Arm told Trebek. “It’s kind of fun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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