Elizabeth Holmes Trivia Jeopardy
The finger-prick promise, the famous board, the exposé and the verdict, as one Theranos board. Copy it free and host it with phone buzzers.
6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.
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A Single Drop
- $200
Holmes founded this blood-testing company in 2003, its name a blend of "therapy" and "diagnosis."
What is Theranos?
- $400
Theranos promised full lab results from a few drops of blood drawn this way instead of from a vein.
What is a finger prick?
- $600
The company's tiny blood-collection tube went by this trademarked name.
What is the nanotainer?
- $800
Theranos's own blood analyzer was named for this American inventor of the phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison? (the Edison)
- $1,000
Behind the scenes, many patient samples ran on modified commercial analyzers made by this German company.
What is Siemens?
Bored of Directors
- $200
Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford, this Nobel Peace Prize winner sat on the Theranos board.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
- $400
Nicknamed "Mad Dog," this retired Marine general joined the board and later became Secretary of Defense.
Who is James Mattis?
- $600
Reagan's Secretary of State championed Holmes, even as his own grandson Tyler blew the whistle.
Who is George Shultz?
- $800
Known for nuclear arms control, this former Georgia senator also served on the board.
Who is Sam Nunn?
- $1,000
This Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton rounded out the board's roster of former cabinet officials.
Who is William Perry?
Out for Blood
- $200
John Carreyrou's October 2015 exposé of Theranos ran in this newspaper.
What is The Wall Street Journal?
- $400
In 2013 Theranos opened testing "wellness centers" inside stores of this pharmacy chain.
What is Walgreens?
- $600
Alongside Tyler Shultz, this young lab associate alerted federal regulators to problems in the Theranos lab.
Who is Erika Cheung?
- $800
In 2016 this federal agency, known by three letters, barred Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years.
What is CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)?
- $1,000
This media mogul invested more than $100 million in Theranos and declined to intervene when his own newspaper investigated it.
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
The Verdict
- $200
Holmes was convicted in January 2022 in federal court in this Silicon Valley city.
What is San Jose?
- $400
The jury convicted Holmes of defrauding this group, while acquitting her on the counts involving patients.
Who are investors?
- $600
In November 2022 Holmes was sentenced to just over this many years in federal prison.
What is 11?
- $800
Holmes's former boyfriend and the company's president, he was convicted on all 12 counts against him.
Who is Sunny (Ramesh) Balwani?
- $1,000
In May 2023 Holmes reported to a federal prison camp in this state.
What is Texas?
Turtleneck Tycoon
- $200
Holmes's signature black turtleneck was a nod to this Apple co-founder.
Who is Steve Jobs?
- $400
Holmes dropped out of this university to start her company.
What is Stanford?
- $600
Holmes became known for speaking in an unusually deep one of these, which some former colleagues said was put on.
What is a voice?
- $800
Holmes's Siberian husky, which she sometimes called a wolf, shared its name with a famous Alaskan sled dog.
What is Balto?
- $1,000
In 2014 this magazine named Holmes the youngest self-made woman billionaire; in 2016 it revised her net worth to zero.
What is Forbes?
On Screen and Page
- $200
Amanda Seyfried won an Emmy playing Holmes in this 2022 Hulu series.
What is The Dropout?
- $400
Alex Gibney directed this 2019 HBO documentary subtitled "Out for Blood in Silicon Valley."
What is The Inventor?
- $600
The Dropout began as a podcast from this TV network's news division.
What is ABC?
- $800
Carreyrou's 2018 bestseller about Theranos shares its title with a Taylor Swift song.
What is Bad Blood?
- $1,000
In The Dropout, this Lost actor played Sunny Balwani.
Who is Naveen Andrews?
Final Jeopardy — Family Fortune
Holmes's ancestors include the Fleischmann family, whose company became a household name selling this baking staple.
What is yeast?
How to run this board
Theranos is the Silicon Valley story people keep retelling, and every new documentary sends a fresh crowd back to it. This board covers the whole arc: the single-drop-of-blood pitch, the board stacked with former cabinet secretaries, the reporting that unraveled it, the San Jose trial, and the shows and books that turned it into pop culture.
It works best as a watch party closer, when everyone has the details fresh, or as a game night round for the friend who has read Bad Blood twice. Clues reward people who paid attention to the people involved, not just the headline.
Hosting tip: the On Screen and Page column is the easy on-ramp for anyone who only saw the Hulu series, so steer newcomers there first.
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