1 day Ago By Daniel Wagner
The Vancouver Canucks were one of the answers — or, rather, one of the questions — on Jeopardy! on Wednesday, September 18. The opening round, known as the Jeopardy! Round, featured "Vancouver, B.C.
" as one of the six categories, with all five pieces of trivia in the category relating to Vancouver in some way. The easiest, worth $200, would be fairly obvious to any Canucks fan, though hockey has proved a stumper on the long-running trivia game show. Consider the time a Jeopardy! contestant answered, "Who is Magic Johnson?" in response to who in NHL history put up 100+ assists in 11 different seasons.
Thankfully, one of the contestants knew the identity of the team that joined the NHL in 1970 and calls Rogers Arena home. The correct question — "Who are the Canucks?" — was provided by Aiden Orzech, who had an unfair advantage over his competitors in that category: he's Canadian. Apologies for the spoilers, but if you can't get that response correct, then what are you even doing here? Mr.
Orzech, a teacher from Thornhill, Ontario, got three out of five correct in the "Vancouver, B.C." category, including the round's Daily Double.
He was in his third episode, having won a total of $49,599 in his previous two appearances. He went into Final Jeopardy, however, in third place with $5,200 and lost it all with the incorrect response in the category "The Movies." Chris Lindsay, who responded correctly to the $1000 answer in the "Vancouver, B.
C." category, won the episode with a total of $11,600. Here are all of the answers from Wednesday's "Vancouver, B.
C." category. How many questions can you get correct? $200 - Vancouver's Rogers Arena is the home ice of this team that joined the NHL in 1970.
$400/Daily Double - The first sea voyage by this group set sail from Vancouver in 1971 in protest of nuclear testing in Alaska. $600 - George Vancouver was immortalized after exploring the area in this ship, also the name of the longest-service space shuttle. $800 - In the 1880s Vancouver was fortuitously chosen as the western terminal of this transportation system, the CPR.
$1000 - The city hosted a famous race in the then British Empire & these Games; John Landy looked back as Roger Bannister passed him..
