February 2012 Final Jeopardy! Challenge
Posted by howard in nyc
Monday2/27
Category: U.S. MEMORIALS
Clue: "No day shall erase you from the memory of time" from Virgil's "Aeneid" is inscribed on a wall at this memorial
Answer: What is the 9-11 memorial in New York? bullshit question.
Tuesday 2/28
Category: THE 1960s
Clue: On nominating this man in 1967, LBJ said "(I)t is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man & the right place"
Answer: Who was Thurgood Marshall ? first African-American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Wednesday 2/29
Category: THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Clue: The Catholic & Eastern Churches separated in 1054, when the Pope & Pariarch did this to each other; it was undone in 1965
Answer: What is excommunicated ?
Monday2/20
Category: FRENCH PAINTERS
Clue: This French painter wrote, "I am good for nothing except painting and gardening"
Answer: Who was Claude Monet ?
Tuesday 2/21
Category: ASIAN BORDERS
Clue: In 1893 the British established the Durand line, now the boundary, much in the news since 2001, between these two countries
Answer: Where are Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Wednesday 2/22
Category: THE NEW TESTAMENT
Clue: In Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Apostles, Matthias is chosen to replace him
Answer: Who is Judas Iscariot ?
Thursday 2/23
Category: SINGERS
Clue: On the eve of Earth Day, 2011, he became the first performer inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame
Answer: Who was John Denver ? what a dumb-ass clue.
Friday 2/24
Category: LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES
Clue: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes"
Answer: Who was Kurt Vonnegut Jr ?
Monday2/13
Category: ANNIVERSARIES
Clue: In 2011 Elizabeth II marked the 400th anniversary of this, assembled by 47 translators in Oxford, London & Cambridge
Answer: What was the King James Bible ?
Tuesday 2/14
Category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Clue: The 14 countries that border China run alphabetically from this to Vietnam
Answer: Where is Afghanistan ?
Wednesday 2/15
Category: U.S. STATES
Clue: This third-smallest state in area is home to the USA's third-oldest college
Answer: What is Connecticut ?
Thursday 2/16
Category: PEOPLE IN HISTORY
Clue: The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish
Answer: Et Tu Brute ?
Friday 2/17
Category: LITERARY CHARACTERS
Clue: The only title character in her creator's 6 major novels, she was portrayed in a 1996 film & a 2009 miniseries
Answer: Who is Emma (Woodhouse) ? first name is sufficient, according to alex
Monday2/6
Category: COLONIAL HISTORY
Clue: A 1763 letter said that these 2 men were equipped with "instruments…to look at the posts in the line for ten or twelve miles"
Answer: Who were Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon ?
Tuesday 2/7
Category: MEDICAL DISCOVERIES
Clue: Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called 'pancrein', now known as this
Answer: What is insulin ?
Wednesday 2/8
Category: COMIC BOOKS
Clue: An inspiration for this character introduced in 1929 was 15-year-old Palle Huld's 44-day voyage around the world
Answer: Who is Tintin ? What is 'the fuck is that'?
Thursday 2/9
Category: CHARACTERS IN POETRY
Clue: The name of this title heroine of an 1847 poem is from the Greek for "good news
Answer: Who is Evangeline? that's almost Anabel Lee, right? half-credit?
Friday 2/10
Category: ANCIENT QUOTATIONS
Clue: When Byzantine Emperor Justinian completed Hagia Sophia, he declared, this king, "I have surpassed thee"
Answer: Who was Solomon ?
Wednesday 2/1
Category: WORD ORIGINS
Clue: From the Arabic for "storehouse", in 1731 it was first used to refer to a monthly storehouse of information
Answer: What is 'magazine' ?
Thursday2/2
Category: 19th CENTURY AUTHORS
Clue: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "i want to write about a fellow who was two fellows"
Answer: Who was Robert Louis Stevenson ?
Friday 2/3
Category: NATIONAL PARKS
Clue: A biosphere reserve,, this southern national park is the largest in the lower 48 completely within one state
Answer: What is Everglades National Park ?
