7 'Jeopardy!' Questions About New Bedford

Almost every single question and answer found in the Jeopardy Archives regarding New Bedford had to deal with whaling. Apparently that is what the city will be associated with for eternity. Let's see how many of these questions you can answer correctly!

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1
A New Bedford, Massachusetts park commemorates this 19th c. industry with a museum & a schooner
Whaling - $800
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Google Maps
2
Exhibits in her 1893 trial in New Bedford, Mass., included her parents' skulls & the head of a hatchet
Lizzie Borden - $400
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Flickr/IonEngine
3
The narrator opens this 1851 tale (tail?) with a demand; leaves New Bedford; has some ocean trouble
Moby Dick - $200
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
4
Nye Lubricants, founded in New Bedford in 1844, sold the USA's last bottle of this type of oil in 1978
Whale oil - $1,200
NewBedfordSchools.org
NewBedfordSchools.org
5
The New Bedford, Mass. blacksmith Lewis Temple developed the toggle type of this weapon
Harpoon - $200
Getty Images / Drew Angerer / Stringer
Getty Images / Drew Angerer / Stringer
6
In 1838 this black abolitionist & author escaped from slavery to New Bedford, Massachusetts
Frederick Douglass - $400
Kerry Howard/Facebook
Kerry Howard/Facebook
7
The Nootka were expert at this activity of which New Bedford became the world's center
Whaling - $600

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