Jeopardy is an American classic, a game show that has been ongoing for almost 50 years, and on Friday, Oct. 20, it took a new twist at UNH. The Elm City Review and Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society, put on a Musical Jeopardy event on for students. It was held in Kaplan, Room 203 as a PowerPoint presentation, but this relaxed setting didn’t give way for an easygoing game. (It must have been the plethora of sweets provided from Dunkin’ Donuts that provided a sugar rush to boost competition.)

Students, either in teams or playing solo as per tradition, took this as seriously as a real game of jeopardy; and when the prize is a Nook, how could you not? There were three students playing separately and two teams of two, yet surprisingly, it was all three of the students who played by themselves who won prizes (and none of them were music majors!).

Playing in teams strangely seemed to put kids at a disadvantage as none of them made it into the top three scores by the end.

Co-hosted by Liana Teixeira and Colby Thammavongsa, this game followed most of Jeopardy’s classic rules, with the exception that no points were taken off for wrong answers, to everyone’s relief. The board featured categories like classic rock, modern literature, Halloween music, the 90s and Shakespeare, and tested knowledge across different genres, decades and mediums. Some questions used clips from songs as well, such as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

The game had two rounds and, besides undefeated Dan Davies, the people who had high or low scores in the first round didn’t necessarily keep that status in the second round. Some dark horses came up in the competition to snatch second and third place.

Second and third place winners, Tanya Springvloed and Jasmine Penny, won fifty-dollar gift cards to Barnes and Noble, while first place winner Dan Davies won the revered Nook.