Chess Questions on the Jeopardy! Game Show
Jeopardy! is an American television game show that features a quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions. The show has been running since 1964, is currently syndicated, and produced daily by Sony Pictures Television. Over the years, the show would occasionally feature a chess-related category. Below are the category names, original airdates, dollar values, and questions.
Answers (clues) are found in a separate post here.
The Chess Club, November 4, 1997
| $200 | What is a king? |
| $400 | What is 8? |
| $600 | What is check? |
| $800 | What is a knight? |
| $1000 | What is a pawn? |
On the Chess Board, December 9, 1998
| $200 | What is a king? |
| $400 | What is a knight? |
| $600 | What is a pawn? |
| $800 | What is a rook? |
| $1000 | What is a bishop? |
Chess Mania, June 21, 1999
| $100 | Who is Humphrey Bogart? |
| $200 | What is a camel? |
| $300 | What is a grandmaster? |
| $400 | What is castling? |
| $500 | What is a computer? |
Chess Nuts, May 17, 2000
| $100 | What is stalemate? |
| $200 | What is castling? |
| $300 | What is a queen's rook? |
| $400 | What is en passant? |
| $500 | Who is Boris Spassky? |
Chess Nuts, November 15, 2001
| $200 | What is a knight? |
| $600 | What is a queen? |
| Daily Double | Who is Garry Kasparov? |
| $1000 | What is 16? |
A Game of Chess, March 8, 2002
| $400 | What is check? |
| $800 | What is pawn to king 4? |
| $1200 | What is a rook? |
| $1600 | What is her own color? |
| $2000 | What is an end game? |
Oooh...Chess, December 18, 2003
| $600 | What is a knight? |
| $800 | What is a bishop? |
| $1000 | What is castling? |
Chess, April 25, 2005
| $400 | What is a fork? |
| $800 | What is a defense? |
| $1200 | What is the king side? |
| $1600 | What is the fool's mate? |
| $2000 | What is the Ruy Lopez? |
Chess Pains, December 13, 2005
| $400 | What are bishops? |
| $800 | What is a question mark? |
| $1200 | What is a kibitzer? |
| $1600 | What is check? |
| $2000 | What is ran out of time? |
Chess Nuts, May 28, 2007
| $200 | What is touching it? |
| $400 | What is a pawn? |
| $600 | Who is Lewis Carroll? |
| $800 | What are checkmate & stalemate? |
| $1000 | What is an opening? |
A Game of Chess, April 24, 2008
| $200 | What is 16? |
| $400 | What is a rook? |
| $600 | What is a knight? |
| $800 | What is a queen? |
| $1000 | What is the end game? |
Let's Talk Chess, Champs, March 16, 2009
| $400 | What are bishops of opposite color? |
| $800 | What is en passant? |
| $1200 | What is a stalemate? |
| $1600 | What is the French Defense? |
| $2000 | What is a pin? |
Also a Chess Piece, November 2, 2009
| $400 | What is a pawn? |
| Daily Double | What are Kings? |
| $1200 | What is a bishop? |
| $1600 | What is a rook? |
| $2000 | What is a knight? |
Chess, December 1, 2009
| $200 | What is IBM? |
| $400 | What is a bishop? |
| $600 | Who is Bobby Fisher? |
| $800 | What is India? |
| $1000 | What is Washington? |
Chess, June 7, 2010
| $400 | What is turning over your king? |
| $800 | What is a knight? |
| $1200 | What is an exchange? |
| $1600 | What is the end game? |
| $2000 | What is the Sicilian defense? |
Chess Pieces, September 15, 2010
| $200 | What is a pawn? |
| $400 | What is the king and queen? |
| $600 | What is a bishop? |
| $800 | What is a rook? |
| $1000 | What is a knight? |
Chess Me, You Fool!, March 5, 2012
| $200 | What is 32? |
| $400 | What is a queen? |
| $600 | What is kibitz? |
| $800 | What is castling? |
| $1000 | What is a gambit? |
Chess?, Yes!, March 4, 2013
| $200 | What is a rook? |
| $400 | What is a grandmaster? |
| $600 | What is a bishop? |
| $800 | What is a blitz? |
| $1000 | What is the Sicilian defense? |
The TV Chessboard, April 29, 2014
| $200 | What is Pawn Stars? |
| $400 | Who is Larry King? |
| $600 | What is Knight Rider? |
| $800 | What is Gilmore Girls? |
| $1000 | What is Queen? |
Chess Drama, May 15, 2014
| $200 | What is the bathroom? |
| $400 | What is a grandmaster? |
| $600 | Who is Garry Kasparov? |
| $800 | What is a parapsychologist? |
| $1000 | Who is Magnus Carlsen? |
Not Chess Again!, July 24, 2015
| $200 | What is castling? |
| $400 | What is a pawn? |
| Daily Double | What are kings? |
| $800 | What is equality? |
| $1000 | What is a gambit? |
Chess Champs, November 9, 2015
| $200 | What is India? |
| $400 | What is air? |
| $600 | What is a grandmaster? |
| $800 | Who is Bobby Fisher? |
| $1000 | Who is Garry Kasparov? |
Historical Chess Pieces, July 20, 2017
| $200 | What is a mercenary? |
| $400 | Who is Joan of Arc? |
| $600 | Who is the Inquisitor? |
| $800 | Who is Christina? |
| $1000 | Who is Edward the Confessor? |
Let's Play Chess, September 28, 2017
| $200 | What is a pawn? |
| $400 | What is a draw? |
| $600 | What is a fork? |
| $800 | What is a queen? |
| $1000 | What is an algebraic term? |
Chess Pieces in Disguise, March 9, 2018
| $200 | What is king? |
| $400 | What is a pawn? |
| $600 | Who is Knight? |
| $800 | What is a rook? |
| $1000 | Who is Ellery Queen? |
Say Yes to the Chess, November 4, 2019
| $200 | What is a king? |
| $400 | What is the end game? |
| $600 | What are 32? |
| $800 | What is a pawn? |
| $1000 | What is the white knight? |
Chess Talk, November 28, 2019
| $200 | What is resign? |
| $400 | What is castling? |
| $600 | What is X-ray attack? |
| $800 | What are files? |
| $1000 | What is en passant? |
Chess Terms, April 7, 2021
| $200 | What is a pawn? |
| $400 | What is an opening? |
| $600 | What is a rook? |
| $800 | What is a grandmaster? |
| $1000 | What is a sacrifice? |
New Chess Strategems?, January 10, 2022
| $200 | What is an insanity defense? |
| $400 | What is a denial of service? |
| $600 | Who is Mario Lopez? |
| $800 | What is a gut check? |
| $1000 | What is a spaghetti fork? |
Chess for Champs, November 9, 2022
| $200 | What is a knight? |
| $400 | What is a blindfold? |
| $600 | What is the Italian Opening? |
| $800 | What is a stalemate? |
| $1000 | What is Deep Blue? |
Chess Pains, January 23, 2023
| $200 | What is the king? |
| $400 | What is a grandmaster? |
| $600 | What is a drug test? |
| $800 | Who is Bobby Fisher? |
| $1000 | Who is (Hans) Niemann? |
Chess, November 24, 2023
| $400 | What is correspondence? |
| $800 | What is defense? |
| $1200 | What is king side? |
| $1600 | What is a fool's mate? |
| $2000 |
What is the Ruy Lopez? |
Answers (clues) are found in a separate post here.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!
https://www.j-archive.com/
