FourOreos Away from Paradise

May 10-11, 2019

Hour Bonus 7: Encrypted Jeopardy

The Game

The game here is Encrypted Jeopardy. You will notice that below lies a Jeopardy board with 6 categories of five questions each. You will also notice that the first row of questions is readable while the rest of the questions seem to be written in gibberish. The key to decrypting each question lies in the answer of the question in the cell above it. For example, the easy question in the time category reveals the key to decrypt the medium question in the time category. Your goal is to decrypt every question in the table which will allow you to decrypt the final bonus message at the bottom.

Clues have been encrypted using the famous Vigenčre cipher. You may use this site to decrypt the questions:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mconger/vigeneredecrypt.html
Or, do it by hand. It's fun! For a little while.

Important Rules

  1. The key will be the first signficant word of the answer to the question.
  2. A word is significant if it is NOT an article (a, an, the) or the same word as the question's category.
  3. Example: if the category is "Space", the RED words are the keys:
    • The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Alex Michael Dailey
    • A Space Odyssey
  4. Ignore any non-alphanumeric characters (Apostrophes, commas, colons, etc.)
  5. If an answer contains a number, assume the number is written out in words (i.e. 1 becomes one, 2 becomes two, etc.)
  6. You may use spell check on Microsoft word or Google docs if you are unsure of how to spell a word. Company names, brands, or fictitious characters will often be corrected there.
  7. If you feel as though you are absolutely correct with your answer but you think the spelling is off, the internet MAY be used to correct your spelling but may ONLY be used for that purpose. This will NOT count as "using the internet"

GOOD LUCK!

  Time Space Soul Power Mind Reality
Easy Doc Brown from Back to the Future builds a time machine out of what kind of car? Which non-dwarf planet is furthest from the Sun? The R&B soul band Earth Wind and Fire famously sings about which calendar month? What is the SI unit of power? (singular) What song about opening your mind to wonder does Willy Wonka sing? What reality TV show involves many single women fighting for the heart of one man?
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Now use your six final keys to decrypt the six words of this final bonus message:

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