"Valen-time's" Journey
Shakespearean Showdown
A "Library" of Movies
The History of Beverly
Jeopardy in Jeopardy
100

This man was born in 226 in Terni, Italy, and died on February 14th, 269 AD. He was rumored to have sent a letter saying "From your Valentine" to his "jailer's daughter" whom he cured from blindness and fell in love with. He was also rumored to have gone against the Emperor's orders and secretly married couples.

Who is Saint Valentine?

100

The man who says this line: "To be, or not to be-- that is the question," featured in a play by his own name.

Who is Hamlet?

100

This book-based movie is the first installment of a three-part series, starring Jennifer Lawrence. She fights for her life in an arena of foes in this dystopian movie.

What is the Hunger Games?

100
Beverly was settled in this year, 149 years before the "shot heard round the world" and the beginning of the American Revolution.

When was 1626.

100

This is the year that Jeopardy was founded and is also the same year as the Civil Rights Act.

When was 1964?

200

Although historians aren't quite sure how Valentine's Day started, many believe that almost 700 years ago, Pope Gelasius I forbade the celebration of Lupercalia (a pastoral festival of ancient Rome, celebrating fertility and purity) and replacing it with Valentine's Day during this century.

What is the fourteenth century?

200

The lead female role says this famous line in which of Shakespeare's plays, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to toe-top full of direst cruelty." Don't say the actual name though, because this dark play is rumored to curse those who utter it in a theatre. (please use one of it's alternate names...)

What is The Scottish Play?

200

Some might just jot down "notes" in it, however, others make romantic movies about it. It is also considered to be Ryan Gosling's big break.

What is The Notebook?

200

This famous Beverly theatre was founded in 1960 after the completion of Route-128. It has hosted many event and in its hay-day had almost 350,000 people attend shows each year. It also held the world-premier of the musical, Memphis, in 2003, and the regional premiers of the musicals Hairspray, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and many others. In 2023, it also premiered an original musical based off of Elvis Presley's life, called Elvis: A Musical Revolution.

What is the North Shore Music Theatre?

200

He was the first host of Jeopardy, born in 1924.

Who is Art Fleming?

300

This symbol, associated with love, first arose as a "vaguely pine-cone shaped" object in a decoration on the letter "S" in a 1250's French Manuscript called the Roman de la Poire (Romance of the Pear).

What is the heart?

300

Who utters this line, in a play by their own name, in the final moment before their tragic death, "Et tu, Brute?"

Who is Julius Caesar?

300

Tom Hanks stars in this story about a man from Alabama who believes that "life's a box of chocolates." There's even real life restaurants inspired by his shrimp-fishing business.

What is Forrest Gump? (or) Who is Forrest Gump?

300

In 1902, a quarter mile-stretch of factory buildings, now known as the Cummings Center, was built next to modern-day "shoe pond," a landmark example of reinforced concrete production. It was one of the largest producers in the world of this commodity.

What is shoe factory machinery?

300

This is the first ever Final Jeopardy Question in the category "Holidays." "The third Monday of January starting in 1986." (answer it).

What is "Martin Luther King Jr. Day?"

400

Heart-shaped boxes of chocolate have become almost synonymous with Valentine's Day, however they haven't always been around. This British company, also famous for making cream-filled Easter Eggs, began marketing the boxes as the "perfect gift for your significant other" in the year of 1868.

What is Cadbury?

400

This five-act Shakespearean comedy really is about... well, nothing much, I guess.

What is Much Ado About Nothing?

400

This heroic tale, containing giant fire-breathing rats and poisonous plots, starring Ivan Simon and Carry Elwes, was originally a bedtime story that William Goldman told his daughters.

What is The Princess Bride?

400

Daily Double!

This commodity was produced ever since the United States was founded as a group of colonies. Because of its relation with this commodity, Beverly is sometimes referred to as "the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution" because of its first-of-its-kind (in the USA) factory that was finished being constructed in 1787, that was used to convert the item into different things. It was also the largest of its kind in its heyday.

What is cotton?

400

This number is the amount of Jeopardy seasons and also the amount of floors in Boston's Exchange Place. The spelling of this number is also the only number in the English language in which the letters appear in perfect alphabetical order. This number expressed as a function would also be equal to ((cbrt(sqrt(P)+7)-10)+47): P being equal to the amount of points this question is worth.

What is 40?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!

This New-England-based candy company is famous for inventing the first candy hearts, as well as their famous wafers by the same name as the company.


What is NECCO (New England Confectionary Company)?

500

It's in this "second" play, by the name of one of the King's of England, that Shakespeare originally coined the strange phrase "dead as a doornail," which is still often quoted today.

What is Henry IV, Part 2?

500

This movie, starring Tom Hanks, features a dark religious conspiracy that has been hiding many secrets for thousands of years, revealed partially by secret "codes" in Da Vinci paintings.

What is The Da Vinci Code?

500

This famous North End businessman opened his original department store (by the same name) in 1956 on Enon Street in Beverly. The store closed and was replaced by a Stop & Shop sometime before or during 2014.

What is Marshalls? (or) Who is Alfred Marshall?

500

This is considered to be one of the hardest final Jeopardy questions ever asked. Everybody on the show got it wrong. Good luck. "A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy." (answer it).

Who is "George Washington?"

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