Jeopardy! enlists Butler museum for help with monster truck category
Jan 15, 2025
*Video provided by Jeopardy! / Sony Pictures Television
BUTLER, Ind. (WANE) -- The popular game show Jeopardy! consistently offers a plethora of trivia categories in order to test the overall acumen of its contestants.
During Tuesday's episode, Jeopardy! enlisted the help of a Butler museum with some of the questions for a category covering 1980s monster trucks.
Joshua Conrad, executive director of the International Monster Truck Museum and Hall of Fame, said the museum helped Jeopardy! with some of the questions. The $400 clue -- featured during the first round of the game -- also mentioned the museum directly.
"Jeopardy! has a very unique process where they triple verify everything ... we were one of the verifiers for them to be sure that the trucks actually performed in the 1980s," Conrad said.
He told WANE 15 he appreciates the exposure being on Jeopardy! provides and hopes it will spur more people to visit the museum.
"Anytime you can put light upon our organization on a national media outlet is a good day for your organization," Conrad said. "We also put a little bit of light onto the industry of monster trucks, which is few and hard to come by I'm sure, but it's been really good for us. The social media, the online, the phone calls have been great.