Grateful Dead Jeopardy | Questions + Answers

Article Contributed by Charles Sokoloff | Published on Saturday, May 17, 2014

B & B

Rainbow Full of Sound

Flora

Fauna

Weather Report Suite

Before and After

The titular end to a popular Dylan cover, often played as an encore in the later years.

This beloved Hunter/Garcia piece found a companion in ’77, unlike its narrator who had to “let her pass by”.

An Asian feline perennial.

Sculpted by Doug Irwin, these are the nicknames of Jerry’s two most famous and heavily played guitars.

Droplets at dawn.

My mother’s brother and I listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Members of The Dead that were born in October.

This ballad about regret and the ephemeral nature of life debuted in ’72 and was often slotted in the penultimate spot during the second set.

The flower most closely associated with Valentine’s Day is titularly attached to these two Dead originals.

This sublime Hunter/Garcia piece flew to new heights when Branford Marsalis sat in with the band in Nassau.

This occurs when you plant ice.

Baja border town lamentation for a deity.

Sobriquet for a Cantor recording.

A tiny raincloud in an otherwise pristine blue summer sky.

These two members of the flora kingdom are name-checked in Sugar Magnolia and begin with the letter “R”.

This LSD impresario was close friends with Pigpen and, likewise, answered to a mammalian moniker.

The temperature climbed to a sweltering

98º F in Veneta on this date, one of the most important in Dead lore.

Outside on a new moon night searching the sky for an invisible mass of hydrogen.

Pigpen’s (girl)friend and booze buddy’s band.

Roughly 3.8 out of

every 10 Americans.

After barley and rye are harvested to make this whiskey (known by its first name), the stalks are dried to create this type of horse and cattle feed.

This animal, from the subfamily Murinae, is highly social and nocturnal, making it apropos for the Deadheads whose own subfamily is derived from its agnomen.

In Colorado, the titles of these two Dead songs are typically uttered right before, and very soon after, a downpour.

April cries of ebullience in the Midwest, fulfilling a collective reverie to exile the nimbi.

Two of the ten places visited while Truckin’.

These three chromatically linked songs illuminate man in his darkest of hours.

In a song that alludes to a John Steinbeck quote, this is the type of riparian Magnoliophyta the narrator intends to plant.

In Fennario, this carnivore preys on a human whereas in Winterfell, the domesticated type only kills humans in self-defense or to protect its family.

One of the Dead’s most famous jams, clocking in at over 27 minutes, segued from Weather Report Suite in what famous basketball arena?

This venue became the Grateful Dead’s home court 35 years before Kobe’s game winner over Jon Barry in 2003.

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	B & B	Rainbow Full of Sound	Flora	Fauna	Weather Report Suite	Before and After
$ 1 0 0	What is Baby Blue?	What is Scarlet Begonias?	What is a China Cat Sunflower?	What are Wolf and Tiger?	What is Morning Dew?	What is Me and My Uncle John’s Band?
$ 2 0 0	Who are Brent and Bobby?	What is Stella Blue?	What are It Must’ve Been The Roses and Ramble on Rose?	What is Bird Song?	What is “you’re gonna harvest wind”?	What are Mexicali Blues for Allah?
$ 3 0 0	What is a Betty Board?	What is a Touch of Grey?	What are roses and rushes?	Who is Owsley “Bear” Stanley?	What is August 27, 1972?	What is In The Dark Star?
$ 4 0 0	What is Big Brother and The Holding Company?	What are Brown Eyed Women?	What is Jack Straw?	What is a Wharf Rat?	What are Looks Like Rain and Here Comes Sunshine?	What is Here Comes Sunshine Daydream?
$ 5 0 0	Where are Buffalo and Bourbon Street?	What are Black Throated Wind, Black Peter, and and Black Muddy River.	What is a weeping willow?	What is a Dire Wolf?	What is the Boston Garden?	What is Fillmore West L.A. Fadeaway?