A TV Land showdown
Michelle Tanner is from what TV show?
That was one of the many questions asked Wednesday at the TV Land Jeopardy competition for Homecoming.
Michelle Tanner was from “Full House,” and within seconds, a team buzzed in with the answer, even though they had 10 seconds to get the answer correctly.
Questions were from TV shows up to the year 1989 and divided into five categories: TV shows, characters, quotes, theme songs and EIU sub-themes.
The questions, however, proved not to stump students.
“The questions were a little easy,” said Jon Collier, a senior psychology major who was representing the Alpha Phi/Lambda Chi Alpha team. “I probably shouldn’t watch that much TV.”
One the theme song of “The Jeffersons” was played, and people in the audience started to dance to the music. But before long, the song was stopped, and a team had the answer.
The one word contestants used to describe the difficulty of the questions was “easy.”
Jenn Scharringhausen, a senior middle level education major, also thought the questions were easy and attributes it to her fondness of Nick at Nite.
“For me personally, they were easy because I’m a TV nut,” she said.
Scharringhausen represented her service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, which won third place overall.
First place was Sigma Sigma Sigma/Sigma Nu and second place went to Delta Delta Delta/Phi Kappa Theta/Alpha Tau Omega. The winners will receive extra points, and the organizations who participated will all receive participation points.
Josh Bowers, a senior business major, was representing Christian Campus House and found the questions to be easy, but he did not have time to answer because his teammates were faster.
“I don’t think I won any points but it feels like I just won a trip to Disneyland,” he said.
There were a few glitches in the Jeopardy event, such as showing the answers before people had time to answer, and the wrong answer was shown at times.
Some contestants found the glitches fun while others found it a bit irritating but still enjoyed the show.
Bowers said the glitches made it fun because the contestants appeared smarter when they corrected the mistakes, and it allowed them to interact with the hosts.
Amanda Moxley, a junior special education major who represented Tri Sigma, wasn’t amused.
“It was irritating when you saw the answer beforehand, but overall it was fun,” she said.
Sherri Smith, a junior family and consumer sciences major and co-chair of Homecoming activities, thought the event went well despite the glitches.
The glitches were minor technical difficulties because the computer was difficult to work, she said.
Smith said the Jeopardy game went well, especially after the two to three months they put into planning.
“Overall it went well,” she said. “I would say excellent event.”
This was the first time Homecoming had used Jeopardy as an event.
“I like Jeopardy so it was good how they all put it together,” said Kristin McNellis, a freshman biology major who represented the Alpha Phi sorority.
The organizations agreed that the event went well and they enjoyed being able to represent their group.
“It was a lot of fun and intense,” Moxley said.