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12.14.2021

Can You Ace This Quiz of Professor-Themed Clues?

Graphic in a dark blue and gold background with text that says: Clues from the 2021 Professors Tournament

You've been watching 15 elite educators compete on the Jeopardy! stage in our first-ever Professors Tournament. And now you have a chance to play professor, too.

We’ve rounded up clues from the Professors Tournament to see if you’ve got what it takes to school these instructors!

Don’t forget to tune in every weeknight and see who will be crowned head of the class on Friday, December 17.

*Quiz Rules: Respondents do not have to answer in the form of a question. Moderate spelling errors will receive consideration. No prizes, but big-time bragging rights.*

FAMOUS PROFESSORS Math professor John Nash, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, was the subject of this Oscar-winning film

THEY EARNED A PhD We will rock you when we tell you that this guitarist & founding member of Queen is a doctor of astrophysics

LITERARY PROFESSORS The protagonist of this author’s 1995 novel “Wonder Boys” was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor

SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR Insert some letters in “campus” to get this word meaning all askew

PROF TALK Profs definitely want good “P.R.”, this process by which academic experts referee papers

FAMOUS PROFESSORS In 1979 Stephen Hawking was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at this university

THEY EARNED A PhD She holds a PhD in animal science & authored “The Autistic Brain” & “Humane Livestock Handling”

PROF TALK In 1880 Harvard became the first to grant these marvelously restful paid leaves of absence

LITERARY PROFESSORS Phonetics professor Henry Higgins is a 1913 creation of this playwright

THEY EARNED A PhD This chairman of the Fed from 1987 to 2006 has a PhD in economics