Georgia Tech
Spring Break
Jeopardy
Before and After
World Tour
100
These are the official colors of Georgia Tech
white, old gold
100

The first official spring break event in 1938 was a swim-meet for 300 students held in this state. By 1985, MTV had been banned, as well as alcohol, on the beaches of this state as a result of inappropriate behavior by spring breakers.

Florida
100

Ken Jennings holds the record for the most wins on the show with this many in a row.

74
100

What colorful, masculine sounding, passerine bird native to North America acted as the main character who pined for Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most popular novel?

Blue J Gatsby
100

Seen from space this planet appears as a blue ocean sphere marked with brown green & white areas

Earth
200

This spirited Yellow Jacket, who made their first campus appearance in 1980 — is the world-famous and beloved mascot of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Buzz
200
Winter is extended for this many weeks if the groundhog sees its shadow on Groundhog Day.
6
200

But Ken didn't win the most money, that record is held by this contestant, who won $3,455,102.

Brad Rutter

200

What prisoner of Azkaban was Harry Potter’s godfather that designs and imports power tools and accessories out of its corporate headquarters in Towson, Maryland?

Sirius Black and Decker
200

Despite being closest to the sun this planet may have some ice in its polar regions

MERCURY

300

Under coach John Heisman, the Georgia Tech football team achieved the most lopsided victory in college football history, with this score.

222-0
300

According to the American Medical Association, Spring Break can be damaging to one’s health. The average student on vacation drinks a whopping this many alcoholic drinks a day.

10
300
Although it has never happened, this is the maximum winnable amount in a single game of Jeopardy

$566,400

300

Located in London, what is the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world that manufactures some of the tastiest ice cream east of Burlington, Vermont?

Big Ben & Jerry's
300

After 3000 years of secrecy this animal’s eggs were smuggled out of china by 2 monks around 552 a.d.

Silkworm
400

Founded on Oct. 13, of this year, Georgia Tech initially only offered a Mechanical Engineering major.

1985
400

This ancient civilization began the bacchanal now known as spring break?

The Greeks
400

This is the most common category featured on Jeopardy!

“Before & After"

400
CBS sitcom about Ted Mosby's search for the nun who founded the order of the missionaries charity in India.
How I Met Your Mother Theresa
400

Romance languages have many diphthongs combinations of these sounds

Vowels
500

George P. Burdell, a fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 who has supposedly received all undergraduate degrees offered by Georgia Tech, served in the military, gotten married, and served on Mad magazine's Board of Directors, among other accomplishments was invented as a practical joke by this man.

William Edgar "Ed" Smith

500

What spring break-themed movie kicked the annual celebration into high gear in 1960?

"Where the Boys Are"
500

Only once in Jeopardy! history has there ever been a three-way tie. On March 16 of this year, all three contestants answered the Final Jeopardy! question correctly with matching scores of $16,000 a piece.

2007
500
C.S. Lewis's Narnia book that showed off a little too much skin at the 2004 super bowl halftime show.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe malfunction.
500

This planet was discovered in 1846 its largest moon triton was discovered less than a month later.

Neptune
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