January 2012 Final Jeopardy! Challenge
Posted by howard in nyc
Monday 1/30
Category: 1960S TV CHARACTERS
Clue: One of her first spoken lines is translated as "you have the face of a wise and fearless Caliph"
Answer: Who is 'Jeannie' ?
Tuesday 1/31
Category: 1870s PEOPLE
Clue: Preserved in the West Point library, his last message reads, "Benteen. Come on. Big Village. Be Quick. Bring Packs.
Answer: Who was George Armstrong Custer ? those packs wouldn't have helped unless they were shoulder-launched rockets.
Monday 1/23
Category: AMERICAN HISTORY
Clue: This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days
Answer: Who were the Rough Riders ?
Tuesday 1/24
Category: ISLANDS
Clue: The Carabelli & Durazzo families are considered the Hatfields & McCoys of this island
Answer: Where is Corsica ?
Wednesday 1/25
Category: INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS
Clue: In 2002, his No. 10 jersey from the 1970 World Cup finals sold at auction for a record $220,850
Answer: Who is Edson Arantes do Naciemento ? give us a break, alex. everyone knows Pelé
Thursday 1/26
Category: HEALTH MATTERS
Clue: This term for sudden severe head pain that typically lasts only a few minutes was trademarked by 7-Eleven in 1994
Answer: What is 'brain freeze' ?
Friday 1/27
Category: WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Clue: After living in Honduras, O. Henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export
Answer: What is a 'banana republic' ?
Monday 1/16
Category: ENGLISH MONARCHS
Clue: Since 1066, the longest the monarch had the same name was 116 years with this given name
Answer: What is 'George' ?
Tuesday 1/17
Category: U.S. POPULATION
Clue: Between 2000 and 2010 these 2 states that border each other led the nation in highest percentage of population increase, 35% and 25%
Answer: Where are Nevada and Arizona ?
Wednesday 1/18
Category: FATHERS & SONS
Clue: The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria
Answer: Who was Daedalus ? flew too high.
Thursday 1/19
Category: SPORTS AND THE MOVIES
Clue: When asked for a home address in "The Blues Brothers", Elwood gives 1060 Addison St., the home of this facility
Answer: What is Wiggly Field ?
Friday 1/20
Category: ENGLISH LITERATURE
Clue: This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets anglicized
Answer: Who is Robinson Crusoe ?
Monday 1/9
Category: RECENT FILMS
Clue: An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D.
Answer: What is Thor ?
Tuesday 1/10
Category: RULERS IN HISTORY
Clue: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them
Answer: Who was Peter the Great ? (of russia; St. Petersburg is the city, but we used to call it Leningrad)
Wednesday 1/11
Category: FOOD ETYMOLOGY
Clue: Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan
Answer: What is canola oil ? (CANola CANada)
Thursday 1/12
Category: WOMEN AUTHORS
Clue: 1 of the 2 American women authors nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938
Answer: Who was Margaret Mitchell or Pearl Buck ?
Friday 1/13
Category: PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATES
Clue: The traditional Inaugural Lunch for this President and V.P. featured boiled stuffed lobster & prime ribs of beef au jus
Answer: Who were Kennedy and Johnson ?
Monday 1/2
Category: '70s OSCARS
Clue: This film whose title refers to an establishment holds the record for most wins, 8, without winning best picture
Answer: What is Cabaret ? i thought surely it was Network.
Tuesday 1/3
Category: ASTRONOMY
Clue: In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846
Answer: What is Neptune ?
Wednesday 1/4
Category: 1930s NOVELS
Clue: An audio version by this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted authro has introductions from
Cindy Sheehan and Ron Kovic
Answer: What is Johnny Got his Gun ? (by Dalton Trumbull) at least i knew erich maria remarque, a german national, was not blacklisted by american authorities.
Thursday 1/5
Category: CALIFORNIA HISTORY
Clue: Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento River in 1848
Answer: Who was Sutter ?
Friday 1/6
Category: ANCIENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Clue: The Hebrew word for this Biblical unit of measurement is Ammah, aptly meaning "elbow" or "forearm"
Answer: as bill cosby once queried, What's a cubit ?
