105 Sample Jeopardy! Questions to Test Your Skills - Trivia Bliss (2024)

Want to test your Jeopardy! readiness? Below are real categories from the show with questions of all difficulties to help you measure your trivia chops.

Food and Drink

Question: Sliced apples sautéed in butter are a classic filling for these French pancakes.

Answer: Crepes.

Question: To make mousse d’ecrevisses, you need at least 30 of these freshwater crustaceans.

Question: Many a French meal ends with a dry red wine served with this blue-veined treat, the “cheese of kings and popes.”

Question: This chilled leek & potato soup is traditionally topped with chopped chives.

Question: For a change of pace at soup time, try soup aux cerises, made with red wine & this fruit.

Question: If you’re in Central Asia, ask for shashlik; if you head down to the Middle East, ask for this 2-word skewered meat equivalent.

Question: The name of this Caribbean liqueur is from the Spanish for “aunt Mary.”

Question: Similar to a latte is a galao, a coffee drink that originated in this country.

Question: Aromatics, like garlic & fennel, are key to this Middle Eastern rice dish with a 5-letter name.

Question: Bot chien is fried dough & egg served with papaya & a popular street food in this city once known as Saigon.

Question: White, black, & green types of this drink all come from the same plant—Camellia sinensis.

Question: Gruyere is a firm, tangy cheese named for a district in this nation.

Question: Grown in Spain, Marcona is a variety of this nut.

Question: Garbanzo beans commonly go by this name as well.

Question: Koumiss is a fermented drink made from mare’s milk; this similar fermented milk also starts with a “K”

Theater, Plays, and Folklore

Question: How fitting that she starred in “Twelfth Night” in 2009—she has the same name as Shakespeare’s wife.

Question: In 1965, at age 20, Helen Mirren played this Egyptian at the Old Vic.

Question: He received acting & directing Oscar nominations for 1989’s “Henry V.”

Question: In 1993 Lynn Redgrave premiered her 1-woman show “Shakespeare for My Father,” dedicated to this man.

Question: In 1935 as Petruchio in “Taming of the Shrew,” Alfred Lunt tamed this wife who played Katharina.

Question: In the Grimms’ version, this creature becomes a prince not from a kiss but when he’s thrown against the wall.

Question: Here’s a 19th century illustration of this character:

Question: An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have “banished death from my heart, with your sweet song.”

Question: The 4 words that complete the line from “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the…”

Question: After the queen correctly guesses his name, this little man, in a rage, tears himself in two.

Question: The title & theme of this Ibsen play about an ambitious architect reflect a folktale.

Question: In this Jason Miller drama, members of a high school basketball team celebrate the 20th anniversary of their state title.

Question: In 1933 his play “Ah, Wilderness!” opened in New York with George M. Cohan as one of the leads.

Sports

Question: In 2020 Dominic Thiem completed a comeback to win this event & became the first new male Grand Slam winner in 6 years.

Question: In 2014, 2015 & 2019 Novak Djokovic defeated this Swiss player in the Wimbledon final.

Question: This 5-letter word means an extended exchange of strokes before a point in tennis.

Question: At the 2012 French Open, this Russian completed her career slam.

Question: Tennis teams representing different nations vie for this trophy named for its donor.

Question: Like a score in U.S. football, a goal kick, a reminder of rugby’s soccer origins, is worth this many points.

Question: This position is the last line of defense in rugby; in the NFL it’s the offensive role of Larry Csonka & Moose Johnston.

Question: The USA’s national rugby team is the Eagles; Argentina’s is Los these, aka mountain lions.

Question: First held in Uruguay in 1930, it’s the largest single-sport tournament in the world.

Question: In 2016 Neymar led this nation to its first-ever Olympic gold medal in soccer.

Question: The Timbers represent this city in Major League Soccer.

Question: Winner of the FIFA award for Best Soccer Player of the Year in 2016 & 2017, he was named in part for President Reagan.

Question: Also a term used in baseball, it’s what the Brits call a soccer field.

Question: In the NFL each of these measures 10 yards by 53 1/3 yards.

Question: In 2012, after turning Denver’s 2011 season around, this quarterback was traded to the Jets.

Animals

Question: Koalas have adapted their diet with an extra-long gut to break down poisons in these leaves & sleep 20 hours a day due to a lack of nutrition in the leaves.

Question: The eastern gray kangaroo can cover 25 feet in a single leap, & they’re widespread in this, the country’s smallest state.

Question: It’s the world’s largest burrowing animal & can make a destructive tunnel complex 650 feet long, so farmers don’t find it as cute as zoo-goers might.

Question: The arrival of foxes in Western Australia in the 1920s was bad news for the quokka, a type of this kangaroo relative.

Question: This egg-laying mammal has no teeth with which to eat; its taxonomic name is Tachyglossidae, or “fast tongue.”

Question: The right or bowhead this gets tangled in fishing nets, which can stunt growth, causing the species to be shorter than its typical 52 feet.

Question: The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest.

Question: When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis.

Question: The kestrel is also known as this type of hawk, after the nice little bird it’s looking around for here.

Question: Sweden’s only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that’s able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer.

Question: Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs.

Question: This fearsome predator gets the first part of its name from the stripes on its sides.

Question: This largest pinniped gets its name from its size & its trunk-like snout.

Question: Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name.

Question: There’s a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines.

History

Question: The Sixth Amendment grants the right “to a speedy and public” this.

Question: Patents & copyrights are authorized “to promote the progress of science and useful” these.

Question: “The President shall be” this “of the Army and Navy of the United States”.

Question: “No Person shall be” one of these “who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty years.”

Question: No government official may accept a present or this type of compensation from a foreign state without Congress’ OK.

Question: By law, all PFDs, short for these, made of balsa or cork were retired from service by March 1999.

Question: The last royal yacht of the UK, it was retired in 1997 & is now a tourist attraction in Edinburgh.

Question: In 1959 she became president of India’s Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later.

Question: Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro.

Question: Westminster Abbey’s Coronation Chair included this 336-pound symbol in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England.

Question: In 2010 the remains of this “father of modern astronomy” were reburied in Poland with full Catholic honors.

Question: The first English child born in the Americas, she disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colonists.

Question: In 1825 Charles X of France finally recognized this nation, 21 years after it declared its independence.

Question: With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he’s the longest-ruling king in European history.

Question: Twice in the 1800s China & Britain went to war over this drug.

Question: FDR’s first inaugural address introduced this policy of treating Latin American nations with respect.

Question: The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river.

Music

Question: She had 3 of Billboard’s Top 20 songs of 2015, including “Bad Blood.”

Question: This singer’s 2021 hit “Take My Breath” is perfect for a Saturday or Sunday.

Question: Do start now & name this English-born woman of Albanian ancestry who was “Levitating” up the charts in 2021.

Question: In 1995 this one-named singer rose to the top of the charts with “Kiss From A Rose.”

Question: In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band.

Question: 1988 hit in which George Michael offered to be your “preacher, teacher, anything you have in mind.”

Question: In a song from The Temptations, “Papa” was one of these, “wherever he laid his hat was his home.”

Question: Luther Vandross emotionally told us he’d “Love, love, love” to do this with his father again.

Question: Madonna sang in this hit, “I know you’re going to be upset, ’cause I was always your little girl.”

Question: In this “feline” hit, Harry Chapin sings, “When you coming home, son?”

Question: The hive was buzzing in 2019 when she released her live album “Homecoming.”

Question: It wasn’t so long ago that this singer’s “Gangnam Style” was everywhere.

Question: This French pop duo were right at home in their “Tron: Legacy” cameos—lots of people were wearing futuristic headgear.

Question: This “Use Somebody” group sounds like a long line of Spanish royalty, but it actually formed in Nashville.

Question: Ufologists took notice of Nicki Minaj’s song about these title objects that were “meant to fly.”

Astronomy

Question: The constellation Sagittarius represents an archer, but its eight brightest stars are often depicted as one of these, with the Milky Way as the steam rising from the spout.

Question: The first close-up images sent back to Earth from another planet were from a Russian probe on this planet in 1975.

Question: The 2 main types of optical telescopes are reflectors & these, which use lenses to magnify objects.

Question: This Zodiac constellation has only one bright star, Hamal–Arabic for “sheep.”

Question: Undetected until the 1990s, this belt is a zone of space past 30 A.U. & home to objects like dwarf planets & icy centaurs.

Question: The only permanent feature on a comet is this central part, also part of an atom.

Question: Asteroid 1998 QE2, which buzzed by the Earth in 2013, surprised scientists who discovered it had one of these in tow.

Question: Our closest galactic neighbors are two little satellite galaxies known as “the Clouds of” him.

Question: In 1992 astronomers Luu & Jewitt found the first of these “objects,” KBOs for short.

Question: On the Moon, Hell, Billy & Julius Caesar are these.

Question: The Cassini Division is a dark gap between these structures orbiting the sixth planet.

Question: The magnitude of Algol, a binary star, changes every 69 hours as the fainter star does this, passes in front of its pal.

Question: Also a term for a part of speech, it’s when the Earth, a heavenly body like Venus, & the Sun are all nearly in a straight line.

Question: In March 1930 its discovery was announced at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

Question: John Archibald Wheeler popularized this term for an object so dense that not even light can escape.

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