Potpourri
The pot is the total sum of bets in this game.
What is Poker?
The three ships Columbus sailed to the Americas aboard.
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
Mountain Dew's original recipe contains this fruit juice.
What is orange juice?
Which I, quite ironically, have never enjoyed.
The 1863 proclamation of Lincoln freeing the slaves.
What is Emancipation?
The proclamation was actually unlawful and outside the scope of Lincoln's power as president.
“Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.”
What is H&R Block?
The infamous question that ended the 74 game winning streak of Ken Jennings.
This drug is often referred to as 'pot'.
What is marijuana?
The Trireme derives its name from its three of these.
What are rows of oars?
I bet someone said sails, Triremes only ever contained 1 or 2 sails.
The number of flavors contained in Dr. Pepper.
What is 23?
Joe memorized all of them as part of a talent show act during The Awaken Project.
Providing an explanation for this word is ironic.
What is an enigma?
The host of the show from 1964 to 1979.
Who is Art Fleming?
Early American culture is frequently described as this kind of pot.
What is Melting?
This is the definition of the knot in seafaring.
What is one nautical mile per hour?
A nautical mile is ~1.15 miles
This is the origin of the word 'Soda'.
What is sodium carbonate?
This nation was formerly known as Swaziland.
What is Eswatini?
The nation changed it's name after succeeding from Mozambique
Alex Trebek switched places with this game show mogul on April Fools Day, 1997.
Who is Pat Sajak?
Pat and Alex switched places for an episode that received extremely high ratings.
This piece of cookware is often called a one pot wonder or a casserole dish.
This pirate/privateer owned the infamous 34 cannon Adventure Galley.
Who is William Kidd?
The oldest commercially available soda.
What is Schweppes?
It was invented in 1783, and it's creator was the first recorded person to sell carbonated mineral water.
Rapper Known as the 'Godfather of Gangsta Rap'.
Who is Eazy-E?
The creator of Jeopardy.
Who is Merv Griffin?
POTS or POT Syndrome is characterized by this symptom when standing.
What is elevated heart rate?
POTS stands for Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
The name of the first aircraft carrier.
What is the HMS Argus?
It was developed by the British during World War 1
Root beer originally came from the roots of this tree.
What is the Sassafras?
It is no longer used as the root is now a known carcinogen.
The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and humankind.
What is eschatology?
To the nearest thousand, this is the highest score in a single game of Jeopardy.
What is 131 Thousand?
James Holzhauer holds the record for the top 12 single game totals of all time.