“What is mustard?” That was the ‘question’ to the ‘answer’ on the iconic syndicated game show, Jeopardy! The episode that aired Tuesday, December 4, 2012, featured that golden question-answer.
The category was “A Bit of Honey” and the question-answer was worth $800. The contestant who answered it correctly was a lawyer named Jennifer.
“I’ll take A Bit of Honey for $1,000, Alex…”
We are asked from time to time how things like this come about and how we know we’ll be on shows like this. In the case of Jeopardy!, a fact checker for the show called earlier this summer asking questions about the Museum in general. Then, last week we got a call from someone at the show letting us know we were going to be mentioned in a question-answer on Tuesday’s show.