The Need for Speed
Motion Picture
Alliterative Jobs
And You Can Take That to the Bank!
Games! Games!! Games!!!
What is Jeopardy History?
The '80s
100
In 2009 HE beat his own record and continued his reign as the "Fastest Man Alive," a distinction he still holds to this day.
Who is Usain Bolt?
100
What is Ratatouille?
100
If you're part of a ladder company, you're one of THESE.
What is Firefighter?
100
THIS is a not-so-nice term for an ugly and thin old woman.
What is Crone? (Krone, Danish Currency)
100
Kratos kills Ares & gets THIS title, also the name of the video game series.
What is God of War?
100
The second American iteration of THIS quiz show on ABC features several former Jeopardy! champions as its contestants enemies.
What is The Chase?
100
After the Canboulay Riots of the 1880s, the British banned traditional drums on Trinidad, leading to the creation of THESE from oil drums.
What are Steel Drums?
200
Now you see them, now you...still see them. Clocking in at an incredible 0.003mph, the 3-toed version of THIS animal cannot move over 100 feet in a day.
What is sloth?
200
What is Sunset Boulevard?
200
If your job involves a great deal of bureaucracy, you're one of THESE, colloquially.
What is a pencil pusher?
200
IT's the imperial equivalent to 0.45 kilograms, just about.
What is a Pound? (Currency in the UK, Egypt, Lebanon, and many more)
200
One theory as to the origin of THIS increasingly popular backyard game, which combines elements of various racket sports is that it was derived from the inventors' dog with the same briny name.
What is Pickleball?
200
In 2011, THIS IBM computer came in first place in a Jeopardy! tournament (winning $1m, which all went to charity). You might say it was "Elementry" for this particular program.
What is Watson?
200
THESE fashionable accessories kept growing throughout the Victorian Age & reached the elbow by the 1880s.
What are gloves?
300
343 m/s or 767 mph or 1235 km/h is the speed of THIS, also the name of a Coldplay song.
What is Sound?
300
What is Notting Hill?
300
THIS agent got you sprung from jail prior to trial; you were a no-show, so he got a bounty hunter to chase you down.
What is a bail bondsman?
300
IT's the first name of the Roman politician who was married to Cleopatra.
Who is Mark? (Currency in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
300
With over $8m raised, breaking Kickstarter records, was a small card game named for THIS exploding pet.
What are Kittens?
300
On April 1st, 1997, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek swapped hosting gigs with THIS fellow gameshow giant as part of an April Fools' Day joke.
Who is Pat Sajak?
300
In the 1880s THIS Arizona town famed for its O.K. Corral mined what today would be $1/2 billion in silver. We're pretty sure it had nothing to do with frozen pizza.
What is Tombstone?
400
Tom Cruise felt "the need - the need for speed" as THIS character in 1986's Top Gun.
Who is Maverick?
400
What is Madagascar?
400
THIS final gatekeeper at a stadium or movie theater may tear off a stub for the patron.
What is a ticket taker?
400
THIS word precedes MADRID in the name of a Spanish Futbol team based there.
What is REAL? (Brazilian Currency)
400
Mario's overalls turn THIS color after he consumes a fire flower and gains the ability to throw fireballs.
What is red?
400
HE was the host of the first iteration of Jeopardy! which ran off and on between 1964-1979.
Who is Art Fleming?
400
Talk about hustle and THIS: the 1880s saw a rise in popularity of this pad worn under the back of a skirt.
What is a bustle?
500
If you want to circumvent summoning sickness and have a creature attack on the turn it comes into play during a game of Magic: The Gathering, you're going to want to make sure it has THIS 5-letter ability.
What is Haste?
500
What is Duck Soup?
500
Lego maestros adept at interlocking plastic pieces are known as THESE types of crafters.
What are brick builders?
500
IT's the first name of the Guggenheim Museum Architect.
What is Frank (Lloyd Wright)? (Franc, Currency in Switzerland)
500
Property Managers might be able to guess that THIS was the original name of Monopoly, designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1904.
What is the Landlord's Game?
500
An episode from season 8 of the show Cheers saw Cliff Clavin get the Final Jeopardy clue, "Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz, and Lucille LeSueur," wrong after incorrectly saying THIS.
What is "Who are three people who've never been in my kitchen?"
500
The 1883 eruption of THIS Indonesian volcano was heard as far away as Perth, Australia (or so we've been told).
What is Krakatoa?