'Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time' question involves Butler site
A nationwide audience watching Thursday night's “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” tournament was treated to an answer featuring Butler.
The answer was “We'll stop in Butler, Penn. & Florham Park, N.J. to go back to childhood of yore in attractions called 'little red' this.”
And in true “Jeopardy!” fashion, the solution in the form of a question was “What is a school house?”
That was a reference to the Butler County Historical Society's very own Little Red School House at 200 E. Jefferson St. Sara Donaldson, collections manager for the historical society, said her phone and email were loaded with messages when she got to work Friday.
“We did not know they were going to do this category,” Donaldson said.
Bridgette Maney, publicity director for ABC Entertainment Group, said the Butler reference came up in the tournament's first of two games. “Road Trip! was the category. It was the $800 clue,” said Maney. “Brad Rutter got the clue correct.”
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“Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” brings together the three highest money winners in the long-running game show's history: James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings and Rutter.
The three are competing in a series of matches; the first to win three receives $1 million and the title of “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time.”
The two runners-up each will receive $250,000.
Each match consists of two regular games featuring the Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy rounds, including the typical three Daily Doubles.
The school house came up as one of the Double Jeopardy clues. “Our one-room school house is unique,” Donaldson said.“The one-room school houses were normally made of logs. Ours is made of brick.”The Little Red School House was constructed in 1838 and was the first public school built in Butler.It was used as a classroom until 1874, when a larger facility, the Jefferson Street School, was built next door. The building then was used as an office, Butler's public library, a meeting room and a center for the Red Cross during World War II, according to the historical society.In 1966, the Butler Area School District permitted the historical society to use the building as a museum until 1991, when it closed due to structural deterioration.The school district deeded the building to the society in 1993, and a restoration project began to return the building to its original one-room school condition.The site is a living history museum that recreates the one-room school experience for children and adults during tours between the months of April and September.The next broadcast of the “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” tournament is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday on ABC.
