{"id":1442303,"date":"2021-09-27T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442303"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:45:33","slug":"quiz-how-many-of-these-literary-jeopardy-questions-can-you-answer-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-how-many-of-these-literary-jeopardy-questions-can-you-answer-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: How Many of These Literary <i>Jeopardy!<\/i> Questions Can You Answer Correctly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jeopardyquiz2021MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jeopardyquiz2021MAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/jeopardyquiz2021MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind telling you I watch <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> like a middle-aged father of two might watch <em>Monday Night Football<\/em>. I shout at the TV; I jump up from the couch; I throw my hands in the air whenever someone misses the Daily Double. Do I get the questions right? Of course not! I was never in this for the glory. I&#8217;m here for one reason and one reason alone: to sometimes watch incredibly intelligent people say things like \u201cWho is Lady Gaga?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only category in which I have but the barest smattering of confidence is literature. Don&#8217;t bother asking me about geography or math; I don&#8217;t know where anything is, and I forgot the quadratic formula the second I got my diploma. But books? I can hold my own with books, sometimes. (The conditions have to be just right. The moon has to be full, the waves still, the animals ominously quiet.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you, too, hold your own when it comes to books? Here are twenty literary questions (or answers, whatever) that they&#8217;ve previously asked on <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> (I got all of them right, if you&#8217;re curious. No one was there, though; you&#8217;ll just have to take my word for it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mind telling you I watch Jeopardy! like a middle-aged father of two might watch Monday Night Football. I shout at the TV; I jump up from the couch; I throw my hands in   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25016],"tags":[2335,546,1653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442303"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448252,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442303\/revisions\/1448252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}