More Jeopardy Trivia We have chosen six categories with six questions in each category. The categories are: Q, Mind Your Own Business, Summer Movies, State Capitals, Mama Told Me, and Alternate Forms of Communication.
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• Print a copy of the Jeopardy questions and answers. Play as a group or in teams. The “host” reads the clue, and the group/team tries to come up with the question/answer. Keep score and award points. Print pictures to hand out as visual clues for some of the trivia questions.
• Set up a Jeopardy board. Draw a grid. Write the six categories across the top of a whiteboard or flip chart, and write the dollar amounts below each category. Play as a group, in teams, or with three contestants, as on the TV show. Keep score and award points. Mark off each amount after it is awarded. The first person/team to answer correctly gets to select the next category and amount. Choose a Daily Double question in advance and award double points for the correct answer. Players can wager any amount of their winnings during the Final Jeopardy round. Alternate answers appear in parentheses after the primary answer.
• Print fill-in-the-blank copies of just the clues to hand out for independent activities. Also available are the clues with the answers.
Trivia Questions and Answers Q
1. ($100) In this 1970s TV drama by the same name, you were as likely to find this medical examiner in the field solving crimes as you were to find him in the morgue.
Answer: Who is Quincy? The full title of the show is Quincy, M.E., starring Jack Klugman.
2. ($200) If you were exposed to a highly contagious disease that posed a threat to your community, you would be likely to find yourself under this order, which restricts your movement.
Answer: What is quarantine? The purpose of a quarantine is to separate the infected person from others.
3. ($400) You never want to stumble across this type of sand.
Answer: What is quicksand? Quicksand is common sand that has been saturated with water. If you struggle, you will sink into it. Quicksand is denser than your body, so the best strategy is to relax and let your body float to the top.
4. ($600) He is the hunchback of Notre Dame.
Answer: Who is Quasimodo? The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written by Victor Hugo. In the story, Quasimodo was a deformed child left at Notre Dame and adopted by the archdeacon.
5. ($800) Another term for a dilemma or state of confusion.
Answer: What is quandary?
6. ($1,000) If you divided a circle into four equal sections using two perpendicular lines, you would have four of these.
Answer: What are quadrants? Merriam-Webster defines a quadrant as “an arc of 90 degrees that is one quarter of a circle.”
Mind Your Own Business
7. ($100) Ninety-four percent of the global population recognizes this beverage’s red and white logo.
Answer: What is Coca-Cola?
8. ($200) This fast food restaurant that serves burritos and tacos was a flop in Mexico.
Answer: What is Taco Bell?
9. ($400) This is the most productive day of the workweek.
Answer: What is Tuesday? Wednesday is the second-most productive day. Monday and Friday are difficult days to get anything done because people are coming off the weekend or getting ready for the following weekend.
10. ($600) The song “Happy Birthday” is now in the public domain, but the copyright was held by this large production company until 2016.
Answer: What is Warner Brothers? The copyright was due to expire in 2030, but a lawsuit ended the term early, and now everyone can sing “Happy Birthday” without fear of reprisal.
11. ($800) McDonald’s first food was not the hamburger; it was this popular item.
Answer: What is hot dog? The company started as a hot dog stand.
12. ($1,000) In 2013, this became the top industry in America.
Answer: What is health care?
Summer Movies
13. ($100) In this 1962 film starring James Stewart and Maureen O’Hara, the couple takes a month-long vacation. It was originally envisioned as a romantic trip, but it turned into a family vacation with their grown children, spouses, and offspring.
Answer: What is Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation? After returning from the trip, Roger Hobbs (James Stewart) writes a letter to his wife about their vacation to be opened only upon his death.
14. ($200) In this 1961 classic, Hayley Mills plays a pair of twins who live with separate parents and meet at summer camp.
Answer: What is The Parent Trap? After camp, they switch places.
15. ($400) This 1966 documentary film chronicles the adventures of two California surfers as they travel the world looking for the perfect wave. Their travels take them to Tahiti, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
Answer: What is The Endless Summer?
16. ($600) Marilyn Monroe stars as “The Girl” in this 1955 film. She and her neighbor Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) enjoy an innocent friendship while his family is away on their annual vacation.
Answer: What is The Seven Year Itch?
17. ($800) In this 1955 film, an early-20th century con artist, Harold Hill (Robert Preston), poses as a music professor. He travels around the Midwest and bilks the townspeople out of money while claiming he will set up school marching bands.
Answer: What is The Music Man? The cast includes Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, and Ron Howard.
18. ($1,000) This 1955 Hitchcock film stars Cary Grant as a retired thief who searches for a copycat thief in a string of jewel heists to clear his name. Grace Kelly plays one of the suspects.
Answer: What is To Catch a Thief? The film is set on the French Riviera.
State Capitals
19. ($100) According to the U.S. Census, this southwestern state’s capital is the most populous state capital.
Answer: What is Phoenix, Arizona? Its population is around 1.4 million. The second-most populous state capital in the Southwest is Austin, Texas, with around 680,000 residents.
20. ($200) Georgia moved its capital city more than 10 times before settling in this city in 1868.
Answer: What is Atlanta? Augusta, Macon, and Savannah have been the state capital one or more times.
21. ($400) It is one of the four state capitals named after a U.S. president.
Answer: What is Jackson, Mississippi; Lincoln, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Missouri; or Madison, Wisconsin? The presidents are Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
22. ($600) These two state capitals contain the state’s name.
Answer: What is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma? (People from Oklahoma are called Okies) or Indianapolis, Indiana? (People from Indiana are called Hoosiers)
23. ($800) This city was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Answer: What is Richmond, Virginia?
24. ($1,000) The U.S. Naval Academy is located in this capital city.
Answer: What is Annapolis, Maryland? Forbes named it the No. 1 public college in America.
Mama Told Me
25. ($100) One of these a day keeps the doctor away.
Answer: What is apple? It’s more accurate to say that apples are food full of nutrients that help to cleanse the teeth, improve digestion, treat anemia, and prevent heart disease and dementia. Help is the operative word in all cases. Most of the nutrients are found in the skin.
26. ($200) This monthly occurrence seemingly turns some people into lunatics.
Answer: What is full moon? There is no empirical evidence to back up this claim, but there is a mountain of anecdotal evidence, including higher rates of admissions to emergency rooms. The words lunatic and lunar come from the Roman goddess Luna.
27. ($400) This digestive problem in pregnant women foretells a hairy baby.
Answer: What is heartburn? That’s what a study conducted by Johns Hopkins University suggests. The point of the study was to disprove the old wives’ tale, but it confirmed the claim.
28. ($600) Finish this old wives’ tale: “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s _______.”
Answer: What is warning? Red skies are caused by light coming through a high concentration of dust particles. A red sky at night often indicates good weather the next day, but a red sky in the morning can indicate the good weather has passed.
29. ($800) Put one of these near your legs under the bottom sheet to reduce the frequency of leg cramps.
Answer: What is bar of soap? Many people swear by this old wives’ tale, but doctors say increasing magnesium intake would be more helpful with keeping nighttime cramps at bay.
30. ($1,000) This is good for the soul as well as for a cold.
Answer: What is chicken soup? Many medical studies show it helps with upper respiratory colds, and it is safer for children than over-the-counter medications.
31. ($100) When you agree with someone, you might inadvertently do this with your head.
Answer: What is nod? A study conducted at Ohio State University suggests that in addition to communicating agreement to the speaker, we are influencing our own attitudes.
32. ($200) When you tell a white lie, you might do this with your fingers behind your back.
Answer: What is cross them?
33. ($400) You might do this with your eye when you’re teasing or flirting with someone.
Answer: What is wink?
34. ($600) Many grandparents use these two Internet-based apps to see their grandchildren while talking with them.
Answer: What is Skype or FaceTime? Seeing your loved ones is the next-best thing to being there.
35. ($800) When you were a child, you might have used two of these connected by string to talk with your friend.
Answer: What are cans?
36. ($1,000) When you disagree with someone, you might do this with your arms.
Answer: What is cross them? Psychologists call it a defensive gesture, often used when a person feels threatened.
Final Jeopardy
This is the city Al Capone used as his alibi for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Answer: What is Miami? Capone was considered “Public Enemy No. 1” at the time. The police couldn’t connect him with the murders, but he was convicted of tax evasion and served time at Alcatraz. He died in Miami eight years after his release.
1. ($100) In this 1970s TV drama by the same name, you were as likely to find this medical examiner in the field solving crimes as you were to find him in the morgue.
Answer: !
2. ($200) If you were exposed to a highly contagious disease that posed a threat to your community, you would be likely to find yourself under this order, which restricts your movement.
Answer: !
3. ($400) You never want to stumble across this type of sand.
Answer: !
4. ($600) He is the hunchback of Notre Dame.
Answer: !
5. ($800) Another term for a dilemma or state of confusion.
Answer: !
6. ($1,000) If you divided a circle into four equal sections using two perpendicular lines, you would have four of these.
Answer: !
Mind Your Own Business
7. ($100) Ninety-four percent of the global population recognizes this beverage’s red and white logo.
Answer: !
8. ($200) This fast food restaurant that serves burritos and tacos was a flop in Mexico.
9. ($400) This is the most productive day of the workweek.
Answer: !
10. ($600) The song “Happy Birthday” is now in the public domain, but the copyright was held by this large production company until 2016.
Answer: !
11. ($800) McDonald’s first food was not the hamburger; it was this popular item.
Answer: !
12. ($1,000) In 2013, this became the top industry in America.
Answer: !
Summer Movies
13. ($100) In this 1962 film starring James Stewart and Maureen O’Hara, the couple takes a month-long vacation. It was originally envisioned as a romantic trip, but it turned into a family vacation with their grown children, spouses, and offspring.
Answer: !
14. ($200) In this 1961 classic, Hayley Mills plays a pair of twins who live with separate parents and meet at summer camp.
Answer: !
15. ($400) This 1966 documentary film chronicles the adventures of two California surfers as they travel the world looking for the perfect wave. Their travels take them to Tahiti, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
Answer: !
16. ($600) Marilyn Monroe stars as “The Girl” in this 1955 film. She and her neighbor Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) enjoy an innocent friendship while his family is away on their annual vacation.
17. ($800) In this 1955 film, an early-20th century con artist, Harold Hill (Robert Preston), poses as a music professor. He travels around the Midwest and bilks the townspeople out of money while claiming he will set up school marching bands.
Answer: !
18. ($1,000) This 1955 Hitchcock film stars Cary Grant as a retired thief who searches for a copycat thief in a string of jewel heists to clear his name. Grace Kelly plays one of the suspects.
Answer: !
State Capitals
19. ($100) According to the U.S. Census, this southwestern state’s capital is the most populous state capital.
Answer: !
20. ($200) Georgia moved its capital city more than 10 times before settling in this city in 1868.
Answer: !
21. ($400) It is one of the four state capitals named after a U.S. president.
Answer: !
22. ($600) These two state capitals contain the state’s name.
Answer: !
23. ($800) This city was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Answer: !
24. ($1,000) The U.S. Naval Academy is located in this capital city.
Answer: !
Mama Told Me
25. ($100) One of these a day keeps the doctor away.
1. ($100) In this 1970s TV drama by the same name, you were as likely to find this medical examiner in the field solving crimes as you were to find him in the morgue.
Answer: Who is Quincy? The full title of the show is Quincy, M.E., starring Jack Klugman.
2. ($200) If you were exposed to a highly contagious disease that posed a threat to your community, you would be likely to find yourself under this order, which restricts your movement.
Answer: What is quarantine? The purpose of a quarantine is to separate the infected person from others.
3. ($400) You never want to stumble across this type of sand.
Answer: What is quicksand? Quicksand is common sand that has been saturated with water. If you struggle, you will sink into it. Quicksand is denser than your body, so the best strategy is to relax and let your body float to the top.
4. ($600) He is the hunchback of Notre Dame.
Answer: Who is Quasimodo? The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written by Victor Hugo. In the story, Quasimodo was a deformed child left at Notre Dame and adopted by the archdeacon.
5. ($800) Another term for a dilemma or state of confusion.
Answer: What is quandary?
6. ($1,000) If you divided a circle into four equal sections using two perpendicular lines, you would have four of these.
Answer: What are quadrants? Merriam-Webster defines a quadrant as “an arc of 90 degrees that is one quarter of a circle.”
7. ($100) Ninety-four percent of the global population recognizes this beverage’s red and white logo.
Answer: What is Coca-Cola?
8. ($200) This fast food restaurant that serves burritos and tacos was a flop in Mexico.
Answer: What is Taco Bell?
9. ($400) This is the most productive day of the workweek.
Answer: What is Tuesday? Wednesday is the second-most productive day. Monday and Friday are difficult days to get anything done because people are coming off the weekend or getting ready for the following weekend.
10. ($600) The song “Happy Birthday” is now in the public domain, but the copyright was held by this large production company until 2016.
Answer: What is Warner Brothers? The copyright was due to expire in 2030, but a lawsuit ended the term early, and now everyone can sing “Happy Birthday” without fear of reprisal.
11. ($800) McDonald’s first food was not the hamburger; it was this popular item.
Answer: What is hot dog? The company started as a hot dog stand.
12. ($1,000) In 2013, this became the top industry in America.
Answer: What is health care?
Summer Movies
13. ($100) In this 1962 film starring James Stewart and Maureen O’Hara, the couple takes a month-long vacation. It was originally envisioned as a romantic trip, but it turned into a family vacation with their grown children, spouses, and offspring.
Answer: What is Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation? After returning from the trip, Roger Hobbs (James Stewart) writes a letter to his wife about their vacation to be opened only upon his death.
14. ($200) In this 1961 classic, Hayley Mills plays a pair of twins who live with separate parents and meet at summer camp.
Answer: What is The Parent Trap? After camp, they switch places.
15. ($400) This 1966 documentary film chronicles the adventures of two California surfers as they travel the world looking for the perfect wave. Their travels take them to Tahiti, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
Answer: What is The Endless Summer?
16. ($600) Marilyn Monroe stars as “The Girl” in this 1955 film. She and her neighbor Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) enjoy an innocent friendship while his family is away on their annual vacation.
Answer: What is The Seven Year Itch?
17. ($800) In this 1955 film, an early-20th century con artist, Harold Hill (Robert Preston), poses as a music professor. He travels around the Midwest and bilks the townspeople out of money while claiming he will set up school marching bands.
Answer: What is The Music Man? The cast includes Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, and Ron Howard.
18. ($1,000) This 1955 Hitchcock film stars Cary Grant as a retired thief who searches for a copycat thief in a string of jewel heists to clear his name. Grace Kelly plays one of the suspects.
Answer: What is To Catch a Thief? The film is set on the French Riviera.
State Capitals
19. ($100) According to the U.S. Census, this southwestern state’s capital is the most populous state capital.
Answer: What is Phoenix, Arizona? Its population is around 1.4 million. The second-most populous state capital in the Southwest is Austin, Texas, with around 680,000 residents.
20. ($200) Georgia moved its capital city more than 10 times before settling in this city in 1868.
Answer: What is Atlanta? Augusta, Macon, and Savannah have been the state capital one or more times.
21. ($400) It is one of the four state capitals named after a U.S. president.
Answer: What is Jackson, Mississippi; Lincoln, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Missouri; or Madison, Wisconsin? The presidents are Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
22. ($600) These two state capitals contain the state’s name.
Answer: What is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma? (People from Oklahoma are called Okies) or Indianapolis, Indiana? (People from Indiana are called Hoosiers)
23. ($800) This city was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Answer: What is Richmond, Virginia?
24. ($1,000) The U.S. Naval Academy is located in this capital city.
Answer: What is Annapolis, Maryland? Forbes named it the No. 1 public college in America.
Mama Told Me
25. ($100) One of these a day keeps the doctor away.
Answer: What is apple? It’s more accurate to say that apples are food full of nutrients that help to cleanse the teeth, improve digestion, treat anemia, and prevent heart disease and dementia. Help is the operative word in all cases. Most of the nutrients are found in the skin.
26. ($200) This monthly occurrence seemingly turns some people into lunatics.
Answer: What is full moon? There is no empirical evidence to back up this claim, but there is a mountain of anecdotal evidence, including higher rates of admissions to emergency rooms. The words lunatic and lunar come from the Roman goddess Luna.
27. ($400) This digestive problem in pregnant women foretells a hairy baby.
Answer: What is heartburn? That’s what a study conducted by Johns Hopkins University suggests. The point of the study was to disprove the old wives’ tale, but it confirmed the claim.
28. ($600) Finish this old wives’ tale: “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s _______.”
Answer: What is warning? Red skies are caused by light coming through a high concentration of dust particles. A red sky at night often indicates good weather the next day, but a red sky in the morning can indicate the good weather has passed.
29. ($800) Put one of these near your legs under the bottom sheet to reduce the frequency of leg cramps.
Answer: What is bar of soap? Many people swear by this old wives’ tale, but doctors say increasing magnesium intake would be more helpful with keeping nighttime cramps at bay.
30. ($1,000) This is good for the soul as well as for a cold.
Answer: What is chicken soup? Many medical studies show it helps with upper respiratory colds, and it is safer for children than over-the-counter medications.
Alternate Forms of Communication
31. ($100) When you agree with someone, you might inadvertently do this with your head.
Answer: What is nod? A study conducted at Ohio State University suggests that in addition to communicating agreement to the speaker, we are influencing our own attitudes.
32. ($200) When you tell a white lie, you might do this with your fingers behind your back.
Answer: What is cross them?
33. ($400) You might do this with your eye when you’re teasing or flirting with someone.
Answer: What is wink?
34. ($600) Many grandparents use these two Internet-based apps to see their grandchildren while talking with them.
Answer: What is Skype or FaceTime? Seeing your loved ones is the next-best thing to being there.
35. ($800) When you were a child, you might have used two of these connected by string to talk with your friend.
Answer: What are cans?
36. ($1,000) When you disagree with someone, you might do this with your arms.
Answer: What is cross them? Psychologists call it a defensive gesture, often used when a person feels threatened.
Final Jeopardy
This is the city Al Capone used as his alibi for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
Answer: What is Miami? Capone was considered “Public Enemy No. 1” at the time. The police couldn’t connect him with the murders, but he was convicted of tax evasion and served time at Alcatraz. He died in Miami eight years after his release.
