25 Jeopardy Clues and Answers: Weapons and People Who Use Them
Since its debut, the syndicated show has presented contestants with over 450,000 clues, as documented by the fan-created website J! Archive. These clues are introduced with playful category names such as "Julius Caesar Salad" (words derived from Julius Caesar) or more direct ones, like "The Old West."
Within its archive, there are more than 30 clues pertaining to firearms throughout history. These clues explore themes like famous guns, outlaws and lawmen of the Old West, notorious individuals associated with specific guns, preferred weapons of fictional figures, and the incorporation of gun-related expressions like "smoking gun" into everyday language. If you want to read up on facts about guns before you try out the questions, here are 37 facts about guns that you may not know.
THE OLD WEST $100:
In the Old West, a long holster for carrying this firearm was usually called a
ANIMALS & THE LAW $200:
Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy, but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters is legally problematic.
WEAPONS $200:
The name of this firearm can be used as a verb meaning to ransack or plunder.
ORGANIZATIONS $200:
In 1871, Ambrose Burnside became the first president of this group that promotes firearm safety.
WEAPONS $400:
This phrase meaning "the whole of anything" is taken from the 3 main parts of a firearm.
THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR $400:
The U.S. Army didn't have goons but did have these cavalrymen armed with both swords & firearms.
OHIO BIO $400:
Born in Darke County in 1860, she developed her amazing proficiency with firearms at an early age.
THE OLD WEST $400:
Due to its reliability, this arms maker's model 1873 rifle was called "the Gun that Won the West".
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? $500:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
REVERSIBLE COMPOUND WORDS $600:
The sound of a firearm, a firearm used to ensure a pregnant daughter gets married.
LET'S ROCK & ROLL! $600:
Hominid use of this variety of quartz to make tools goes back millions of years; we "locked" it into early firearms a bit later.
"AIR" INCLUDED $600:
Reticle is the technical name for this pair of intersecting lines in a firearm scope.
I BEG YOUR PARDON $600:
In 2001, she was pardoned for a 1974 armed bank robbery for using a firearm during a felony.
DIAL M FOR MURDER $600:
Firearm in the nickname of murderous Jack McGurn: rat-tat-tat.
PUSH BY SAFIRE $800:
Safire defined "the proof of guilt that precipitates resignations" as this 2-word term describing a discharged firearm.
OF THE LAW $800:
The Natl. Firearms Act of 1934 says this hunting weapon becomes a firearm if its barrel is less than 18" long, like a sawed-off one.
ALPHANUMERIC TERMS $800:
A book simply called "The Gun" is a history of this assault rifle, of which 75 million are in use worldwide.
HODGEPODGE $1,000:
Around the time of the American revolution, a "Brown Bess" weighing about 10 pounds was this type of firearm.
HUNTING & FISHING $1,000:
In Maryland, there are 3 seasons for deer: regular firearms, muzzle-loaded firearms, this non-firearm activity.
THE SECRET OF HOMONYM $1,000:
A dull person or the caliber of a firearm.
GEOLOGY $1,200:
Used in the Stone Age for spear points & arrowheads, this form of quartz later found a use in firearms.