Food and Drink
Theatre and Fairytales
Actual Jeopardy Questions.
Animals
History
100
Sliced apples sautéed in butter are a classic filling for these French pancakes.
What is a crepe?
100
Here’s a 19th century illustration of this character:
Who is Puss in Boots?
100
First planted in Rio in the 1770s, by 1830 it was Brazil’s top export.
Coffee
100
This fearsome predator gets the first part of its name from the stripes on its sides.
A tiger shark.
100
The Sixth Amendment grants the right “to a speedy and public” this.
Trial.
200
To make mousse d’ecrevisses, you need at least 30 of these freshwater crustaceans.
What are crayfish?
200
The 4 words that complete the line from “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the…”
“Blood of an Englishman.”
200
Liquid plastic used to make “Creepy Crawlers” in the 1960s.
Plasti-Goop
200
Koalas have adapted their diet with an extra-long gut to break down poisons in these leaves & sleep 20 hours a day due to a lack of nutrition in the leaves.
Eucalyptus.
200
“The President shall be” this “of the Army and Navy of the United States”.
Commander in Chief.
300
Garbanzo beans commonly go by this name as well.
Chickpeas
300
After the queen correctly guesses his name, this little man, in a rage, tears himself in two.
Rumpelstiltskin
300
They’re a pair of passageways divided by a bony septum, leading to the vestibule.
The nostrils
300
The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest.
A sloth.
300
With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he’s the longest-ruling king in European history.
Louis XIV.
400
If you’re in Central Asia, ask for shashlik; if you head down to the Middle East, ask for this 2-word skewered meat equivalent.
Shish kebab.
400
Two children learn a valuable lesson about not eating someone's house in the woods when a witch tries to bake them in the oven.
Who are Hansel and Gretel?
400
In 1917, a cookware salesman began giving customers soapy steel-wool pads, which he later sold under this name.
S.O.S pads
400
When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis.
Play dead.
400
Twice in the 1800s China & Britain went to war over this drug.
Opium.
500
This chilled leek & potato soup is traditionally topped with chopped chives
Vichyssoise
500
This famous English Playwright, poet, and actor wrote many plays including Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
A collapsed cavity in the ground caused by water erosion
A sinkhole.
500
Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name.
A mule deer.
500
In 2010 the remains of this “father of modern astronomy” were reburied in Poland with full Catholic honors.
Copernicus.