Can You Sweep This Week’s Jeopardy Beer Category?

I admit I haven’t watched “Jeopardy!” in ages. Unless the categories are songs by the Monkees, Beatles, and Springsteen, or the Detroit Tigers roster during the 1990s, I’m not your go-to for trivia night.

But I think all us beer geeks would have nailed a category on Jeopardy’s May 22, 2017, episode: Beers by State.

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The beer category appeared during the gameshow’s first round, where the questions are worth $200, $400, $600, $800 and $1000. Other categories that round included DGA Feature Film Award Winners and the Bold and the Beautiful. (Don’t worry, I would have failed both too.)

I found all five questions on J-Archive, the Jeopardy! enthusiast blog that archives every question of every episode.

Let’s quiz you and see if you get them all correct.

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Are You Smarter Than a Jeopardy Contestant?

Before we begin, a quick Jeopardy refresher: Remember, host Alex Trebek reads the answers on the board and contestants must provide the response in the form of a question: “What is _____, Alex?”

Here were the answers on the board:

$200: Samuel Adams
$400: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
$600: Jai Alai IPA
$800: Yuengling
$1000: Shiner Bock

Are you ready with your answers/questions? Let’s see how many you got right.

$200: Samuel Adams | What is Massachusetts?
$400: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale | What is California?
$600: Jai Alai IPA | What is Florida?
$800: Yuengling | What is Pennsylvania?
$1000: Shiner Bock | What is Texas?

Florida-based Cigar City Brewing is super psyched about its appearance on the gameshow. You can see the video on the brewery’s Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/cigarcitybeer/videos/1466700570016683/

The Jai Alai IPA question stumped a lot of Jeopardy! fans on JBoard.tv, another fan site (my research for this story was very serious, you guys), but it didn’t stump contestant Justin Braddock, a power engineer from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Justin correctly answered that Jai Alai IPA was from Florida, adding $600 to his name early in the game.

We wonder if Cigar City is working on a special delivery for Justin …

I guess I can add beer to my random trivia knowledge specialties. But please don’t ever look to me for answers about Russian Culture and 19th Century Congressmen — two categories that appeared later on the show.

Jess Baker

Jess Baker walked into a beer fest in 2010 and realized beer had come a long way from what her dad had been drinking since the 70s. She served as editor-in-chief of CraftBeer.com from spring 2016 to spring 2020, bringing you stories about the people who are the heartbeat behind U.S. craft brewing. She's a runner, a die-hard Springsteen fan, a mom who is always scouting family-friendly breweries, and always in search of a darn good porter.

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