As a Public Service Announcement to those who A) read my blog and b) enjoy useless trivia, I'm planning to henceforth post the nightly Final Jeopardy! clue. Under the rare occasion that I'm not home from 7:30-8:00 PM Eastern Standard time Monday-Friday night (I'm a hermit), I've set up a Jeopardy! season pass on my TiVo.So here it is...
Category: Famous Names
Clue: In 1906, he launched Conjurer's monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself.
Answer: Harry Houdini
I had no idea who it was and couldn't even venture a guess, but the magazine's title probably should have been a giveaway. And as most of us already know, a fan of Houdini's met him in his dressing room and asked if the rumors of him being able to withstand any physical blow to the body were true. Houdini boldly claimed that he could, and then was unexpectedly punched in the stomach. He was soon hospitalized and eventually died a few days later of peritonitis sustained from a ruptured appendix. Now, he was already suffering from the early stages of appendicitis before his run-in with the fan and very likely could have died anyway even if he weren't hit in the stomach. But it's a makes for a much cooler story if Harry Houdini died because he was trying to act like a big shot.
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