JEOPARDY! (2015)

[Vipsoccermaster]

Welcome to the JEOPARDY! (2015) calendar edition! If you have been following my previous yearly topics, you should know how this works out. This time, we're doing JEOPARDY! You've probably seen Alex Trebek and the popular game show JEOPARDY!, so you know how this is going to work. I'll provide the answer, you will have to answer how the question is to be said pertaining to the answer. With that, let's get started!

Thursday, January 1, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: THE EARLY 1900s

VALUE: $400

ANSWER: ON JANUARY 1, 1902, THE FIRST POSTSEASON COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME WAS PLAYED IN THIS CITY; MICHIGAN BEAT STANFORD, 49-0​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, January 1, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS PASADENA?

Friday, January 2, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: THE EARLY 1900s

VALUE: $1200

ANSWER: IN 1900 CANADA'S GERALDINE MOODIE BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER WORKING ABOVE THIS "CIRCLE"​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, January 2, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS THE (EASTERN) ARCTIC CIRCLE?

Saturday, January 3, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: THE EARLY 1900s

VALUE: $2000

ANSWER: IN 1903 HE FORMED HIS OWN RAGTIME OPERA COMPANY TO PERFORM HIS A GUEST OF HONOR​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Saturday, January 3, 2015

QUESTION: WHO IS SCOTT JOPLIN?

Sunday, January 4, 2015

TYPE: FINAL JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: LANGUAGES

ANSWER: THE SEMITIC LANGUAGE OF AKKADIAN WAS SPOKEN IN THIS LAND WHOSE NAME MEANS "BETWEEN RIVERS"​

 

[kingboo]

Mesopotamia

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Sunday, January 4, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS MESOPOTAMIA?

Monday, January 5, 2015

TYPE: JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: WORD ORIGINS

VALUE: $200

ANSWER: THE VERB "TO POUNCE" COMES FROM A NOUN MEANING THIS PART OF A BIRD OF PREY​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, January 5, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS A CLAW? (ACCEPTABLE: TALON)

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

TYPE: JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: WORD ORIGINS

VALUE: $600

ANSWER: THE FRENCH FOR "TO THROW" GIVES US THIS WORD FOR A PIER​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, January 6, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS JETTY?

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

TYPE: JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: WORD ORIGINS

VALUE: $1000

ANSWER: OLDER BALING EQUIPMENT WOULD MALFUNCTION AND TANGLE, A POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THIS WORD FOR CRAZY OR DISORDERED​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, January 7, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS HAYWIRE?

Thursday, January 8, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: LIT BITS

VALUE: $400

ANSWER: THE CAPTAIN'S PEG LEG IN MOBY DICK IS MADE FROM A SPERM WHALE'S JAW​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Thursday, January 8, 2015

QUESTION: WHO IS AHAB?

Friday, January 9, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: LIT BITS

VALUE: $1200

ANSWER: IT FIGURES THAT THE WRITER OF THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS DIED IN THIS TOWN​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Friday, January 9, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS COOPERSTOWN?

Saturday, January 10, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: LIT BITS

VALUE: $2000

ANSWER: VALENTINE AND PROTEUS ARE THE TITLE CHARACTERS IN THIS PLAY, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1623​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Saturday, January 10, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA?

Sunday, January 11, 2015

TYPE: FINAL JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: A HINT OF SPICE

ANSWER: THIS SPICE RESEMBLES AN ONION SEED (HINT—IT SHARES ITS NAME WITH TV CHEF LAWSON)​

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Sunday, January 11, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS NIGELLA?

Monday, January 12, 2015

TYPE: JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: THE STATE NAME

VALUE: $200

ANSWER: . . . WITH THE MOST Is​

 

[Darkboo007]

What is Mississippi?

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Monday, January 12, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS MISSISSIPPI?

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

TYPE: JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: THE STATE NAME

VALUE: $600

ANSWER: . . . WITH THE MOST Es​

 

[Darkboo007]

What is Tennessee?

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Tuesday, January 13, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS TENNESSEE?

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

TYPE: JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: THE STATE NAME

VALUE: $1000

ANSWER: . . . WITH 2 Ks​

 

[Luigidenne3DSGCN]

Spoiler

What is Kentucky?

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Spoiler: Wednesday, January 14, 2015

QUESTION: WHAT IS KENTUCKY?

Thursday, January 15, 2015

TYPE: DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

CATEGORY: PUFF

VALUE: $400

ANSWER: THIS WORD PRECEDES "PUFF" IN A COMMON ALLITERATIVE BEAUTY AID​

 

[Ecks Dee]

What is "powder"?