Jeopardy! Trivia Question of the Day

Non-Phish General
#625

SATURDAY, JUNE 21st
Category: Novel Weddings
$2000

Answer: In this Steinbeck novel, the evil Cathy drugs Adam Trask on their wedding night and seduces his brother.

SUNDAY, JUNE 22nd
Category: Government
Final Jeopardy

Answer: Due to growing responsibilities of the Attorney General, Congress established this Cabinet department on June 22, 1870

MONDAY, JUNE 23rd
Category: Inventive Minds
$200

Answer: In 1957, W. Ralph Gamber became the first to sell honey in a container shaped like one of these.

#626

1.?
2.?
3. What is a ‘honey’ bear?

#627
  1. East of Eden
  2. ?
#628

Correct.

Correct.

#2 is the Department of Justice.

MONDAY, JUNE 24th
Category: Inventive Minds
$600

Answer: In the 1960s, Hoyle Schweitzer and Jim Drake added one of these to a surfboard to help create a new sport.

#629

What is a sail?

#630

What is trucks and wheels?

#631

^^ah fuckin windsurfing.

poop.

#632

^^
haha…sail is correct.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th
Category: Inventive Minds
$1000

Answer: In 1952, he and Charles Bowman joined forces to develop a hybrid corn that left fewer kernels unpopped.

#633

Who is Orville Redenbacher?

#634

Correct. A good ol’ Indiana boy.

#635

THURSDAY, JUNE 26th
Category: June Bugged
$400

Answer: On June 22nd, 1815, four days after Waterloo, he had to officially abdicate for the second time.

#636

Who is the original Nappy Headed Ho, Napoleon Blownapart.

Dy-No-Mite!

#637

^
Correct.

FRIDAY, JUNE 27th
Category: June Bugged
$1200

Answer: In June 1969, Nigeria banned the Red Cross from this secessionist state.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28
Category: June Bugged
$2000

Answer: On June 28th, 1841, the Kaiser’s yacht race was interrupted by news of an assassination in this Balkan city.

#638

SUNDAY, JUNE 29th
Category: Architects
Final Jeopardy

Answer: He designed the Richelieu wing of the Louvre, as well as the pyramidal glass entrance.

#639

MONDAY, JUNE 30th
Category: Journalism
$200

Answer: A young reporter may have to work in this section updating life stories, just in case.

#640

Louvre: Who is I.M. Pei?

#641

^
Yep. Yesterdays answer was obituaries.

TUESDAY, JULY 1st
Category: Journalism
$600

Answer: An uncritical piece is called this and is as hard-hitting as the pastry of the same name.

#642

Fluff balls!

#643

eclair?

#644

I’m sorry. The correct answer is “coffee cake.”

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2nd
Category: Journalism
$1000

Answer: These freelance reporters not completely “tied” to the paper but working part-time were once paid by the column inch.