The professor’s at it again.
Joseph Bartolomeo, who specializes in 18th Century British literature as an English professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, held on to his champion status Friday on the long-running game show “Jeopardy!” It was the Florence resident’s second night in the winner’s circle. He racked up $14,000 Thursday and $22,500 Friday.
In the Final Jeopardy category on Friday, “Name That 19th Century Work,” with $7,500 on the line for Bartolomeo — having at this point amassed $15,000 — the three contestants had to infer the following: “Modern bourgeois society … is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers … called up by his spells.”
The answer? “What is the Communist Manifesto?” And with that, Bartolomeo won yet again.
In a lucky turn of events on Thursday, however, Bartolomeo answered the final question incorrectly, but had only wagered $200 and still managed to emerge victorious.
Thursday’s defending champion, Amanda Berofsky, a quality assurance analyst from Waterford, Michigan, had the lead headed into the final question but lost after she incorrectly answered and then dropped her amount below Bartolomeo’s.
Watch two-time champion Bartolomeo compete in “Jeopardy!” Monday at 7:30 p.m. EST on WWLP NBC Springfield-Holyoke.