{"id":73,"date":"2017-05-03T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/?p=73"},"modified":"2017-05-05T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T22:10:59","slug":"come-on-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/come-on-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Come on Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HMC student-run Committee for Activities Planning coordinates and funds many off-campus excursions. In October, a group headed to Hollywood to attend a taping of <em>The Price Is Right<\/em>. Episode 7764 features Clark Elijah Whitsett \u201919 (shown top left, blue shirt) being cheered on by ecstatic Mudders as he correctly prices his way onstage to play television\u2019s longest-running game show. Among his prizes: a rotisserie oven, air purifier, beard trimmer and $250.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/student-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/student-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Students on the set of Come on Down!\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/student-1-1.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/student-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/student-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/student-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2>A History of Guessing Right<\/h2>\n<p>2011\u2013 Crystal Leonard \u201986 was a runner-up on <em>Jeopardy! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>2008 \u2013 Andrew Chung \u201910 was a finalist and $25,000 winner in the <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> 2008 College Championship<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2013 Both Sarah Daniels \u201902 and Ethan Bodnaruk \u201904 appeared on separate episodes and won big on <em>The Price is Right <\/em><\/p>\n<p>1998 \u2013 In a nationally televised tournament over two weeks in May, Andrew \u201cRif\u201d Hutchings \u201998 won the College <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> tournament. In addition to knowing lots of random trivia, he was aided by his excellent betting strategies and a category entitled \u201cAll About Calculus,\u201d in which he swept all five questions. Hutchings&#8217; win earned him $25,000, a new Volvo and the opportunity to appear on the <em>Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions<\/em> early in 1999. Volvo also donated $25,000 to the school on his behalf, which inspired a fundraising effort to establish an endowed college scholarship to attract talented math students to HMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HMC student-run Committee for Activities Planning coordinates and funds many off-campus excursions. In October, a group headed to Hollywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.hmc.edu\/spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}