Today was the third episode of this year’s Teen Tour­na­ment. Today’s Jeop­ardy! round included a cat­e­gory called “Right On The Money,” with trivia about U.S. cur­rency. The $200 clue was (approx­i­mately) “The cur­rent $2 bill fea­tures Thomas Jef­fer­son on the front and the sign­ing of this doc­u­ment on the back.” The con­tes­tant responded, “What is the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence?” and this response was deemed cor­rect. It isn’t. The back of the cur­rent $2 note does not fea­ture the sign­ing of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence. It fea­tures the pre­sen­ta­tion of the draft of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence to Con­gress by the Draft­ing [ . . . ]

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