Jeopardy! Trivia Question of the Day

What is geneology?

Correct.

Today’s reminded me of a novel I haven’t read in a long time and that I may just purchase sometime soon. Can anyone guess the novel?

FRIDAY, MAY 16th

Category: Hobby Time
$1200

Answer: People who study and collect these like to call themselves conchologists.

What are sea shells?

Correct.

Whoops, forgot to put up Saturday and Sunday’s.
Here’s yesterday’s:

MONDAY, MAY 19th

Category: Acronyms
$200

Answer: An anti-substance abuse program’s slogan is this “to keep kids off drugs.”

TUESDAY, MAY 20th

Category: Acronyms
$600

Answer: RAM, this type of data storage on a computer, allows the machine to handle data in any order.

Monday: what is D.A.R.E.?

Today: what is Random Access Memory?

Correct on both counts.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21st

Category: Acronyms
$1000

Answer: On Wall Street, EBITDA stands for these before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Debt and Amoritization?

Clearly did not read the questions fully.

Let’s try again.

What are earnings?

Heh.

Correct.

I had no idea. I thought it was equity.

THURSDAY, MAY 22nd

Category: Divine Figures
$400

Answer: In Hawaiian mythology, this resident of Kilauea is a goddess of dance, violence, and volcanoes.

Something with a combination of the letters a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p, w.

who is pele?

Correct!

Argggh…I deal with EBITDA all the time at my job!! My whole life was geared towards answering that question and I missed it!! DAMN IT ALL!!!

Stevo

^yeah, dude…you really shit the bed on that one.

The world needs ditch diggers, too.

FRIDAY, MAY 23rd

Category: Divine Figures
$1200

Answer: Izanagi and Izanami are male and female creator gods from this island nation of Asia.

Where is the god damn world is Indonesia?

No, I’m going to say its a toss up btwn Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor?! Show daddy the goods!!!

No, Japan?

Christ its probably Pele again.

I think you meant Tomax and Xamot, Neil-i-o.

Hey, don’t shoot the messenger.

Me just types what me reads.

And yes, on the 5th guess, glodpihsh is correct.