July Jeopardy
Posted by howard in nyc
Monday 7/25
Category: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
Clue: The 2003 bestseller "The Meaning of Everything" is subtitled "The Story of" this reference classic
Answer: What is the Oxford English Dictionary?
Tuesday 7/26
Category: THE NEW TESTAMENT
Clue: This miracle that happens in all 4 Gospels, including Mark 6 & Luke 9, has elements that symbolically represent Jesus
Answer: What is the feeding of the multitudes, with the loaves and fishes?
Wednesday 7/27
Category: ROYALTY
Clue:On the run following the siege of Oxford, he surrendered May 5, 1646 near Newark on Trent (*not Newark on Passaic)
Answer: Who was Charles I?
Thursday 7/28
Category: WORLD HISTORY
Clue: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C.
Answer: What is an elephant ? (hannibal, alps, dead punics, you know)
Friday 7/29
Category: LOS ANGELES LANDMARKS
Clue: A James Dean memorial can be found adjacent to this structure, located at one of the high spots in Los Angeles
Answer: Where is the Hollywood sign?
Friday 7/22
Category: FAMOUS AMERICANS
Clue: In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and Stripes nailed to the Pole"
Answer: Who was Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary?
Thursday 7/21
Category: 20th CENTURY LEADERS
Clue: Time Magazine first mentioned him in 1939, when his father sent him on a diplomatic errand from London to Glasgow
Answer: Who was John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Wednesday 7/20
Category: SPORTS MOVIES
Clue: Their team colors were yellow and white & they were originally sponsored by Chico's Bail Bonds
Answer: Who are the Bad News Bears? Let Freedom Ring!
Tuesday 7/19 Category: 19th CENTURY NOVELS
Clue: This novel's first epilogue says, "the activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful"
Answer: What is Tolstoy's War and Peace?
Monday 7/18
Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Clue: Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3
Answer: Where is China? (Russia, India and Kazakhstan are the other three)
Friday 7/15
Category: TRADEMARKS
Clue: In 1987 a maker of fiberglass insulation became the first company to trademark a color--this color
Answer: What is pink?
let steven answer that question:
Thursday 7/14
Category: PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES
Clue: Opened in 1971, his presidential library is the farthest south
Answer: Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson?
Wednesday 7/13
Category: NAME THE POET
Clue: "The spirit who bideth by himself / in the land of mist and snow / he loved the bird that loved the man / who shot him with his bow"
Answer: Who was Samuel Taylor Coleridge? get your albatross!
Tuesday 7/12
Category: COMIC BOOK HISTORY
Clue: On the cover of the 1941 first issue of this comic book, the title hero punches Hitler in the jaw
Answer: Who is Captain American?
Monday 7/11
Category: 18th CENTURY QUOTATIONS
Clue: 2 yrs. before his 1794 execution, he said, "I am no courtier, nor moderator…nor defender of the people: I am myself the people"
Answer: Who was Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre?
Friday 7/1
Category: BRITISH AUTHORS
Clue: She described her work as "human nature in the midland counties" & involving "three of four families in a country village"
Answer: Who is Jane Austen?
