Hello everyone, if you do not mind take a gander at my avatar. Yes, that is Alex Trebek alongside Sudbury's big nickel. Why do I want you to look at my avatar? Well today is Alex Trebek's birthday and I figured I would take some actually Jeopardy! Questions relating to numismatics and post them here.
The idea is I will post the answers (the trivia question) in my original post. You can then answer them and check your answers in the next post (where I will post the question [trivia answer]).
Show #7204 - Thursday, December 31, 2015
Category: Coinage (double jeopardy)$400In 2015 Nepal issued a 100-rupee coin that had a Red Cross on one side & this peak on the other
$800In 2014 Poland issued a new 2-zloty coin to commemorate the canonization of this late native son
$1200In 2015 Palau issued a special silver coin called "Rainbow of the Sea" on which one of these gems was mounted
$1600 daily doubleThis country's $1 coin, seen here, carries the image of its national bird; Queen Elizabeth is on the obverse
note to self, insert picture here after typeing up the rest
Edit: Unlike Alex I do make mistakes
$2000The first U.S. commemorative coin to honor a First Lady depicts her; her home Montpelier is on the reverse
Show #7306 - Monday, May 23, 2016
Category: Foreign Currency (double Jeopardy!)$400This country's 1-dollar coin features a loon on one side & is affectionately called a loonie
$800In 1991, after a period of hyperinflation, Peru dropped the inti for the nuevo sol, or "new" this
$1200Although Slovakia has switched to the euro, this neighbor still uses the koruna as its currency
$1600 This South African currency is also legal tender in Lesotho & Swaziland
$2000The name of this monetary unit of China means "round coin"
FINAL JEOPARDY!I took the final Jeopardy question from Show #3682 - Tuesday, September 12, 2000. It was originally the $1000 question in Double Jeopardy! .
Ancient Coins:
Smyrna, which claimed to be the birthplace of this poet, put him on a 2nd century B.C. coin
Posted 07/22/2016 8:23 pm
