It’s the season of “Jeopardy!” super-champions.
Caleb Groen, a law and policy student originally from Thousand Oaks, California, is the latest player this season to win at least 10 consecutive games.
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His impressive run started just a few games after Adam Remsen’s 12-game winning streak concluded, and comes on the heels of other standout contestants like 31-game champion Jamie Ding, 10-game winner Tristan Williams and eight-game champ Chris D’Angelo.
So far, Groen has accrued $322,167 over 11 games — and eight of those games have been runaways.
Groen even managed to beat the record for the highest single-game winnings this season. He surpassed Ding’s record when he won $60,000 — and then beat his own record when he won $60,067 in a later game.
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He’s still nearly $30,000 shy of cracking the top 10 for highest single-game winnings, though — all of which are claimed by legendary player James Holzhauer.
Here’s a look at 16 clues Groen has missed during his run, per “Jeopardy!” archives. Can you answer them? (All answers are at the bottom of the article. Feel free to share how many you got right in the comments section.)
- Gimme five syllables: “It’s the fear of words, which would be pretty terrible to have right now in the middle of a language category.”
- Societies: “Formed by George Washington’s ex-officers in 1783, it was named for a Roman farmer-soldier, not an Ohio city.”
- Country distinctions: “At 38%, this nation is ranked by the World Atlas as having the highest percentage of vegetarians in the world.”
- Doctors: “Dr. Samuel Katz helped develop a vaccine in 1963 to save millions of kids from this, also called rubeola.”
- Metaphorical roads: “Per 19th-century humorist Josh Billings, the road to this synonym for disaster is wide ‘to accommodate the great amount of travel.’”
- Cars and trucks: “The name of this Toyota truck comes from a Native American name for Mount Rainier.”
- Lit bits: “J.D. Salinger published this numerical fiction collection in 1953.”
- Warrior women: “Around 20 B.C., the one-eyed queen Amanirenas of this four-letter kingdom in modern-day Sudan fought back a Roman army.”
- To soothe: “With ‘peace’ or its French equivalent at its root, this word for bringing about peace has had a bad reputation since the 1930s.”
- State of the union: “Although founded in Washington state in the 1930s, the first Filipino-led union in the U.S. was for cannery work in this not-yet-state.”
- It’s a number of things: “A tricentquinquagenary honors an event this many years past.”
- Big Farm-a: “Used to prepare for planting, a harrow smooths the surface of soil and loosens clumps left behind after this process.”
- Scientific discoveries: “In 1961, scientists cracked the first ‘word’ of this by ‘reading’ three-letter DNA combos.”
- Famous buildings: “Jane Austen and Izaak Walton are among those interred at the famed cathedral of this Southern England city.”
- 19th-century literature: “In this novel, a murderer tells the title character a story that he in turn tells a ship captain in the Arctic.”
- Northern Europe: “This country is said to have more islands than any other in the world; there are 30,000 just in the archipelago named for its capital.”
Answers: 1. logophobia; 2. Society of the Cincinnati; 3. India; 4. measles; 5. ruin; 6. Tacoma; 7. “Nine Stories”; 8. Kush; 9. appeasement; 10. Alaska; 11. 350 years; 12. plowing; 13. genetic code; 14. Winchester; 15. “Frankenstein”; 16. Sweden
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