Pulitzer Prize Winning Musicals
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Movie Before and After
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Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2016, this musical is based on a biography written by Ron Chernow.

What is Hamilton?

200

The measure of Angle B?

What is 25 degrees?


200

Jeopardy films a full week's episode in one day. Alex kept up the illusion of the passage of time by always changing this in between each game.

What is his suit?

200

Survey

Population

Count

Numbers

People

What is "census"?

200

After Yoda teaches Luke the force, he time travels in a DeLorean.

What is: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to the Future?

400

Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, this musical is loosely based on the opera La Boheme.

What is Rent?

400

Between these two consecutive whole numbers is the square root of 60.

What is 7 and 8?

400

The average age of a Jeopardy! viewer.

65.


We will accept anything in the 60s.

400

Ring

Crack

Freedom

America

symbol

What is "Liberty Bell"?

400

After becoming the ruler of his pride, Simba needs help from a coach to work through his stutter when addressing his subjects.

What is The Lion King's Speech ?

600

Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1976, this musical is based on hours of taped recordings of interviews with dancers.

What is A Chorus Line?

600
A new video game console (the X-Prism) is released with the motto: "Every game costs the same!"

Isabella buys the console and 2 games and pays $350.

Zoey busy the console and 4 games and pays $420.

The cost of an X-Prism console.

What is $280?

600

Shifting rapidly between Jeopardy categories is known as _________.  Named for the 1986 Tournament of Champions winner, this unorthodox strategy is legal, yet is frowned upon by Jeopardy staff because it complicates production and confuses viewers. 

It is  A. Anders Hopping  B. Forrest Bouncing   C. Jennings Jumping

What is Forrest Bouncing?

600

Generation

Jeans

Old Navy

Store

Mall

What is "Gap"?

600

A best-picture nominee about an seriously unsettling romance starring Daniel Kaluuya, in an Oscar-nominated performance, becomes a best picture winner with a romance between Meryl Streep, in an Oscar-nominated performance (of course!) and Robert Redford. It’s a Best Screenplay winner all throughout!

What is Get Out of Africa?

800

Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, this musical was later referenced in another prize-winning musical when Aaron Burr raps: "you have to be carefully taught".

What is South Pacific?

800
The area of the red square.

What is 100 square inches?

800

In order to get this maximum winnable sum in a single game, a single contestant would have to sweep both boards, find all three Daily Doubles – in the correct position and at the right time – make them true Daily Doubles and then wager everything in Final Jeopardy.

What is $566,400.


We will accept anything within $30,000.

800

Ox

Tibet

Chat

Blab

Gab

What is "yak"?

800

With an iconic score by Ennio Morricone, this spaghetti western unexpectedly becomes a romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.

What is The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth

1000

Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1985, this musical's main character is a famous artist, played by Mandy Patinkin in the oritginal cast, whose ahistoric girlfriend is named "Dot".

What is Sunday in the Park with George?

1000

The value of x that makes the following equation true:


310 + 310 + 310 = 3x

What is 11?

1000

The Jeopardy theme song is called “Think!” 

The notorious earworm was written by show creator Merv Griffin, and was originally a lullaby for his son Tony by this name.

What is "A Time for Tony"?

1000

Follow

Leader

Commands

Do this!

Ask

What is Simon Says?

1000

A film in which Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, and Drew Barrymore set out on a cross-country road trip and settle in Tucson turns into a psychological thriller in which an experimental drug is prescribed to Rooney Mara by Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones after which Channing Tatum is killed.

What is Boys on the Side Effects?

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