Jeopardy! Trivia Question of the Day

Who is Boyle?

Boyle is incorrect.

Stuart Farenheit?

Roger Celsius?

but for serious, who is Ernest Otto Beckmann

Fahrenheit is correct, although its “Gabriel.”

FRIDAY, MARCH 28th

Category: Science
$1200

Answer: Leo Szilard’s term for the fission process where one neutron breaks an atom in two, which splits more and more atoms

What is chain reaction?

This be correct!

You now have control of the board.

Just kidding.

I shall take balloons for $400 Alex.

Howz about another science question?

SATURDAY, MARCH 29th

Category: Science
$2000

Answer: Amoebas use temporary extensions called these to move or to surround and engulf food.

Filia?

Cilia?

I hate science…

What is pseudopod Alex you hunka hunka golden love?

The process of using pseudopods to engulf and then digest particles is called phagocytosis.

As in “I’d like to phagocytocize your boobies with my psuedopods you sexy Alex Trebek look-a-like.”

That is correct, and bizarre.

SUNDAY, MARCH 30th

Category: Movies
$400

Answer: Ironically, this movie opened just three weeks before the Three Mile Island incident.

What is The China Syndrome?

Correct.

Great movie, too.

MONDAY, MARCH 31st

Category: "Mum"s the Word
$200

Answer: In 1934, Ernest William Goodpasture and C.D. Johnson isolated the virus that causes this disease of the parotid glands.

What are the mumps?