Museum Installation Featured Clue on Jeopardy!

Artist Spencer Finch’s installation “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning” is seen in Memorial Hall. The installation features the Virgil quote “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” The plaque is surrounded by 2,983 watercolor squares, each their own shade of blue.

Mounted in 2014, Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning is an installation by American artist Spencer Finch. The blue-tiled artwork surrounds a quote from Virgil’s Aeneid, created out of recovered World Trade Center steel by the artist Tom Joyce.

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum was a featured Jeopardy! clue during its Monday, March 7 episode. Part of the category "Monuments," the clue included a video of game show host Alex Trebek at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. The quote installation, created out of recovered World Trade Center steel by artist Tom Joyce, is vibrantly featured while Trebek prompted contestants with the clue: "No day shall erase you from the memory of time is from this work by Virgil about the legendary founder of what would become Rome." Contestant Natasha answered correctly, "What is the Aeneid?" This is not the first time the organization has been featured on Jeopardy! Last January, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum and the events before and after September 11, 2001 was included as a category.

By 9/11 Memorial Staff