March Jeopardy Challenge
Posted by howard in nyc
Friday Mar 25--
Category: PHILANTHROPY
Clue: The Pink Pony Fund, for breast cancer care & prevention, is a philanthropic initiative of this fashion company
Answer: What is Ralph Lauren?
Monday Mar 28--
Category: SPORTS IN AMERICA
Clue: Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name
Answer: Where is Williamsport, PA?
Tuesday Mar 29--
Category: COASTAL STATES
Clue: With 301 miles, it has the most coastline of current states that were part of the 13 original colonies
Answer: Where is North Carolina?
and i'm calling shenanigans. they even call it long island. i'm not buying this one.
Wednesday Mar 30--
Category: INFLUENTIAL 19TH CENTURY THINKERS
Clue: At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity
Answer: Who is Karl Marx?
Thursday Mar 31--
Category: SHAKESPHEARE PLAYS
Clue: One of the 2 plays whose plots are set in motion by shipwrecks, one off Illyria & one off an unknown island
Answer: What are 'Twelfth Night' or 'The Tempest'? (you just need one of the two.)
Monday Mar 21--
Category: COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS ONSCREEN
Clue: From 1966 to 1968 this role was played by 2 different actresses in a TV series; it was also the title role in a 2004 film
Answer: Who is Catwoman?
Tuesday Mar 22--
Category: GARMENTS OF THE WORLD
Clue: The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling
Answer: What is the burqa?
Wednesday Mar 23--
Category: BRITISH NOVELISTS
Clue: In his journals he described how he once set 2 groups of boys against each other, likely inspiring his 1954 novel
Answer: Who is William Golding? (Lord of the Flies) kill the pig; cut his throat; bash him in!
Thursday Mar 24-
Category: 19th CENTURY LITERATURE
Clue: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author
Answer: Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain? The book was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Friday Mar 25--
Category: PHILANTHROPY
Clue: The Pink Pony Fund, for breast cancer care & prevention, is a philanthropic initiative of this fashion company
Answer: What is Ralph Lauren?
Monday Mar 14--
Category: AFI's 50 Greatest Film Villians
Clue: Of the 50 on the list, only one never appears on screen: Man, from this 1942 animated feature.
Answer: What is Bambi?
Tuesday Mar 15--
Category: SPORTS & MUSIC
Clue: In July 2010 this Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performed at the Baseball H.O.F. induction ceremonies
Answer: Who is John C. Fogarty?
Wednesday Mar 16--
Category: VOCABULARY
Clue: Pronounced one way, this 7-letter word can mean unjustified; pronounced another, it's some sickly
Answer: What is 'invalid'?
Thursday Mar 17--
Category: 20th CENTURY NOTABLES
Clue: Between April 1909 & March 1910, he killed 296 animals, including 9 lions & 8 elephants
Answer: Who is Theodore Roosevelt? (ex-president)
Friday Mar 18--
Category: THE PRESIDENCY
Clue: With a combined age of just 90 years, this president and vice-president were the youngest team ever inaugurated
Answer: Who are Clinton and Gore? 46 and 44yo respectively.
Monday Mar 7--Where are the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan? (three of those six)
Tuesday Mar 8--What is the pillory?
Wednesday Mar 9--Who is Henry VII? all for want of a horse. (richard iii'd lament, according to shakespeare. 'my kingdom for a horse!)
Thursday Mar 10--What is New York? (dewey and fdr)
Friday Mar 11--Where is Amsterdam?
Thursday Mar 3--Who is Oscar Wilde?
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much
Friday Mar 4--What is radium?
