Saturday JEOPARDY

[luckytrim]

Saturday JEOPARDY
Highlight between the brackets to see the "question"........
JEOPARDY- EARLY AMERICA
1. ($400)- On Nov. 11, 1620, 41 men aboard this ship signed a famous compact...
[what is the Mayflower ? ]
2. ($1200)- He was looking for a Northwest Passage to China in 1609 when he sailed his ship, the Half Moon, into New York Harbor ...
[who is Henry Hudson ? ]
3. ($2000)- Jean Nicolet, who arrived at the south-easternmost shore of the Great Lakes in 1634, was the first European to visit what is now this state ...
[what is Wisconsin ? ]

Double JEOPARDY- INTERNATIONAL CUISINE
4.($800)- Hungary is famous for this beef stew flavored with paprika...
[ what is Goulash ?]
5. ($2400)- It's how you'd order rice with chicken in Spanish-speaking countries...
[ what is Arroz con Pollo ?]
6. ($4000)- The French will tell you cuisses de grenouille, which are these, taste a lot like chicken
[ what are frogs legs ? ]
Final JEOPARDY- 17th CENTURY SCIENCE
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In 1611 Kepler published a paper on the 6-sided nature of these phenomena...
[ what are snowflakes ? ]

 

[LPBeier]

Well there was no way I was going to get the first round (except I should have got the first one right).

I ran double Jeopardy and then came up short on Final Jeopardy.....I was way over-thinking it!

 

[Dawgluver]

I did pretty much the same thing, LP, but got all in Double and Final.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I'm not telling or else "someone" will threaten to take away my crayons again. The only reason I knew #6 is because I watch NCIS...otherwise I may have missed it, although the "tastes like chicken" might have given it away.

 

[Barbara L]

As usual, I'm stinking up the joint. I just got #s 1, 2, 4, and 5.