Can You Answer These Hannibal Jeopardy Questions?

I’m not a big fan of Jeopardy!, probably because I rarely get any of the answers correct, unless they’re about music or pop culture. Even then, I often find myself wrong.

However, there have been a few times when Hannibal has been mentioned on the long-running show. Let’s see if you can get the answers right!

There have been at least eight questions I found about Hannibal that have been on the famous game trivia show. Let's see how you do.

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List of Questions

Show #1186 October 30, 1989 - Yes indeed, Hannibal, Mo. does have a memorial bridge named for this 19th-century citizen
Show #1414 October 25, 1990 - Pilaster House in Hannibal, Missouri
Show #2966 June 23, 1997 - He was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839
Show #2973 July 2, 1997 - In Hannibal, Missouri's fence painting contest, judges favor entrants who dress like this character
Show #4008 January 23, 2002 - A statue of these 2 fictional characters stands at the foot of Cardiff Hill in Hannibal, Missouri
Show #4376 September 22, 2003 - ...to Hannibal, Missouri, where we saw this author's boyhood home, & an actual cave featured in his "Tom Sawyer"
Show #4653 November 24, 2004 - Prefabricated & shipped by steamboat to Hannibal, Mo., Pilaster House is a childhood home of this author
Show #8158 February 12, 2020 - Beneath the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri

Local Contestants Who Appeared on the Show

Lucas Bergman from Quincy was a 1998 College Championship Quarterfinalist: $2,500 - he appeared on show #3165, which aired on May 8, 1998.
Omar Mahmood was on season 14 show #308,2, which aired on January 13, 1998; he lost all of his earnings on Final Jeopardy!
Jason Washington from Quincy was on season 31 show #691,3, which aired on October 08, 2014, and won $200.
Bob Winthrop from Hannibal was a part of the 1988 Senior Tournament Quarterfinalist show #863, which aired on May 5, 1988, and earned $1.000.

You just never know what questions will be asked on the game show that has been on TV for over 50 years.

Every Time Jeopardy! Asked a Question About the Tri-States

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