Since the early 1990s, more than 70 clues on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! have featured this Northern California university. The correct response, in the form of a question, natch:
What is Stanford? (Cal clues, by comparison, numbered only 30.)
Last year, Jeopardy!’s “Clue Crew” even visited the Farm to shoot video clips for special categories on sleep, pain research and particle accelerators that aired during the fall. Think you know your trivia? Test your Cardinal knowledge with these clues that have appeared on the show.
| $200 | In 1997, as her daughter left for Stanford, she wondered “why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.” |
| $400 | In 2000, Stanford got a secretary to speak at Commencement—this Secretary-General. |
| $600 | This Super Bowl MVP quarterback who retired in 1999 played his college football at Stanford. |
| $800 | In the first of several Nobel Prizes won at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the high rate of new particle production was traced to a new kind of particle, the charm type of this. |
| $1000 | On May 10, 1869, Leland Stanford drew back his sledgehammer, let it fall, and missed the spike linking these railroads. |
Answers: Hillary Rodham Clinton; Kofi Annan; John Elway, ’83; A quark; Union Pacific & Central Pacific
