April Jeopardy
Posted by howard in nyc
Monday Apr 25--
Category: BRITISH LANDMARKS
Clue: Completed in 1858, it was to be named St. Stephen, but was nicknamed this, honoring the chief commissioner of the works
Answer: What is Big Ben?
Tuesday Apr 26--
Category: PLAYWRIGHTS
Clue: This Brit won Tonys for best play in 1968, 1976, 1984 and & 2007; in the 90s he settled for the 1998 best screenplay Oscar
Answer: Who is Tom Stoppard?
i didn't even know he was a brit
Wednesday Apr 27--
Category: TV THEME SONGS
Clue: A 1984 country hit, "All My Rowdy Friends are Coming Over Tonight" is the basis for its theme song
Answer: What is "Monday Night Football"?
Thursday Apr 28--
Category:U.S. PRESIDENTS
Clue: This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House
Answer: Who was James Earl Carter?
Friday Apr 29--
Category: AMERICAN ARTISTS
Clue: In 1909 he completed his last painting, a canvas called "Driftwood"
Answer: Who was Winslow Homer?
Monday Apr 18--
Category: BASEBALL GEOGRAPHY
Clue: After Alaska, it's the largest state in area without a major league baseball team
Answer: Where is Montana?
Tuesday Apr 19--
Category: AUTHORS
Clue: He died in 1995, the day before a Glasgow veterinary library named for him
Answer: Who was James Herriott?
Wednesday Apr 20--
Category: HISTORIC AMERICANS
Clue: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here
Answer: Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
Thursday Apr 21--
Category: SCIENTISTS
Clue: At the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, his widow said, "that was his dream, sending a rocket to the moon"
Answer: Who is Robert Goddard?
Friday Apr 22--
Category: BIOGRAPHERS
Clue: As many mourned, this minister wrote in a letter, "Washington is gone! Millions are gasping to read…about him"
Answer: Who was Parson Weems?
Monday Apr 11--
Category: GEOGRAPHIC ADJECTIVES
Clue: Of the nations with adjectives in their common names, only this Western Hemisphere one bears the name of a religious order
Answer: Where is the Dominican Republic?
Tuesday Apr 12--
Category: BASEBALL & THE PRESIDENCY
Clue: As both VP & Pres., he threw out a season's 1st pitch, each time for a different Senators franchise
Answer: Who is RM Nixon?
Wednesday Apr 13--
Category: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
Clue: The 2 Middle East prime ministers of the same ocuntry who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with another leader
Answer: Who was Yitzhak Rabin and is Shimon Peres?
Thursday Apr 14--
Category: AUTHORS ON AUTHORS
Clue: Faulkner said this writer "has no courage" & "has never used a word where the reader (may need) a dictionary"
Answer: Who was Ernest Hemmingway?
Friday Apr 15--
Category: ANCIENT ARTIFACTS
Clue: Some of its text says, "the decree should be written on a stela of hard stone, in sacred writing, document writing & Greek writing"
Answer: What is the Rosetta Stone
Monday Apr 4--
Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Clue: These 3 nations each border the world's largest and smallest oceans
Answer: Where are the USA, Canada and Russia? Arctic and Pacific.
Tuesday Apr 5--
Category: BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
Clue: The latest "Bartlett's" lists quotes chronologically; the first quotes come from this country
Answer: Where is Egypt?
Wednesday Apr 6--
Category: COMPOSERS
Clue: His first name means "happy", but three of his five symphonies are in gloomy minor keys.
Answer: Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
Thursday Apr 7--
Category: LITERARY QUOTATIONS
Clue: Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost remarked that this is what gets "lost in translation"
Answer: What is poetry?
Friday Apr 8--
Category: THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Clue: 64 paintings from The Met's foundng purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation
Answer: Where are The Netherlands?
Friday Apr 1--
Category: BILLBOARD'S HOT 100
Clue: In 2010 they broke The Beatles' record for having had the most songs on the Hot 100 chart by a non-solo act
Answer: Who is the cast of Glee?
