A: Draft Picks
Q: What was one of tonight’s Jeopardy categories?
I was excited to discover that tonight’s Jeopardy had a beer category! It was the last one left over from the first Jeopardy round. I bet the contestants thought it was a sports category. Do you know the questions to these answers? Shamefully, I didn’t know the $1000 question.
- $200: Its name tells you that it’s “Genuine Draft Beer”.
- $400: 2 Brothers launched this lager in 1887; it’s Australian for beer, mate.
- $600 (Daily Double): The founder of this stout was brilliant, getting a 9,000-year lease to a brewery at St. James’ Gate in Dublin.
- $800: This pale ale that’s brewed in the northern California city of Chico is named for a nearby mountain range.
- $1000: A Belgian brewery created this beer for Christmas 1926 but started selling it year-round when it proved popular.
I’ll leave the answers in the comments, so I don’t spoil your fun.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Here are the answers:
$200: What is Miller?
$400: What is Foster’s?
$600: What is Guinness?
$800: What is Sierra Nevada?
$1000: What is Stella Artois?
No one got the $1000 question, and the $800 question was incorrectly stated as “What is Molson?” from the first to buzz in.
February 1st, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I knew them all except $1K, too.
Molson?!
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Fortunately Stella is one of my go to beers. They were all pretty easy for me.
February 5th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Stella - it’s Belgian for Bud.
OK, so there’s no such language as Belgian. But Stella (IMO) is surprisingly nasty for a beer from the country that makes consistently amazing beer.
I didn’t get the $1,000 question either. The others were really easy.
February 5th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Perhaps you’re just drinking it at the wrong time of year!
February 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
The Stella thing is weird…a christmas beer????? I don’t believe it. I immediatly guessed Chimay Blue as it really was brewed to be a Christmas beer and eventually became their flagship (not sure of the actual date it was launched though). Stella???! It is refered to ‘Wife Beater’ beer in these parts. God aweful crap.
Cheers,
Jeff
February 7th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I hadn’t heard that about “wifebeater” before. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Artois) also claims that “brain damage” and “fella” are common nicknames for it.