October 2014 Final Jeopardy! Challenge
Posted by howard in nyc
2014_10_01
18:35
It's back. Popular demand (one guy on the sportsfrog asked for it.)
Tiebreaker #1:
CANADIAN HISTORY
A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada
Answer: Who is Alexander Mackenzie?
Tiebreaker #2
PHRASE ORIGINS
Meaning "not working properly", it may date back to a character in the comic strip "The Katzenjammer Kids"
Answer: What is 'on the fritz'?
Friday 10/24
Category: TONY NOMINATIONS
Clue: Although she has appeared in only 2 Broadway musicals, she got Tony nominations for both, for 1962 & 1964
Answer: Who is Barbra Streisand ?
Monday 10/27
Category: Rock and Roll
Clue: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song.
Answer: What is Ruby Tuesday ?
Tuesday 10/28
Category: The Bible
Clue: The first conversation recounted in The Bible is in Genesis 3, between these two; it leads to trouble
Answer: Who are Eve and the serpent ? Satan is also acceptable.
Wednesday 10/29
Category: American-born authors
Clue: In 1915 his reasons for naturalization included "having lived and worked in England for the best part of forty years"
Answer: Who was Henry James ?
Thursday 10/30
Category: Monarchs of England
Clue: The fifth king & the eighth king of this name share the distinction of both having been proclaimed king but never crowned
Answer: What is Edward ?
Friday 10/31
Category: Inventions
Clue: This machine was invented in 1929; the govt. began buying them to help prevent any more in a series of Army Air Corps fatalities
Answer: What is the flight simulator ?
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Wednesday 10/1
Category: U.S. CITY FIRSTS
Clue: Among its firsts are underwater auto tunnel to a foreign country & corporation to net more than $1 billion in a single year
Answer: Where is Detroit ?
Thursday 10/2
Category: 2014 Newsmakers
Clue: Both making news in June, these 2 Davids with similar last names are LeBron's new coach & Eric Cantor's conqueror
Answer: Who are David Blatt and David Brat ?
Friday 10/3
Category: TV in the 2000s
Clue: A key scene of this sitcom's 2014 finale after 9 seasons was actually filmed in season 2
Answer: What is How I Met Your Mother ?
Monday 10/6
Category: Music
Clue: John Williams said
his music for this event, not a film, tried to capture "the spirit of
cooperation, of heroic achievement"
Answer: What
were the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, in Los Angeles, California? (I
usually get the right answer for things in history which I was there)
What was the Olympics? is sufficient.
Tuesday 10/7
Category: Fauxbituaries
Clue: He received a real obituary in The Albuquerque Journal in 2013 noting his "long battle with lung cancer"
Answer: Who was Walter White ? Breaking Bad character. Guess he got what he deserved.
Wednesday 10/8
Category: Novel Title Characters
Clue:
"His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to
have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met"
Answer: Who is Don Quixote ?
Thursday 10/9
Category: Historical Figures
Clue: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy
Answer: Who was George Washington ?
Friday 10/10
Category: Countries of the world
Clue: It became a colony of the U.S. in 1898, a commonwealth in 1935 & an independent country in 1946
Answer: Where are The Philippines ?
Monday 10/13
Category: Sports Figures
Clue: He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of TIME, with the caption "He and the boss took a chance"
Answer: Who was Jack Roosevelt Robinson ?
Tuesday 10/14
Category: Business
Clue: Today this company markets more than 100 times the number of products found in a slogan it used in 1896
Answer: What is Heinz ? ("57 Varieties")
Wednesday 10/15
Category: Wordplay
Clue:
Subtract a letter from the name of a keystroke found in computer
commands & you get this violent reaction to social change
Answer: What is 'backlash' ?
Thursday 10/16
Category: Literature
Clue: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels
Answer: What is "Journey to the Center of the Earth" ?
Friday 10/17
Category: Coats of Arms
Clue: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship
Answer: Where is Liberia ?
Monday 10/20
Category: Literature
Clue: A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character "One-eyed, Lame" another calls him "deaf"
Answer: What is The Hunchback of Notre Dame ?
Tuesday 10/21
Category: 18th Century
Clue: Losses in this event included 12 chests of souchong
Answer: What was the Boston Tea Party ?
Wednesday 10/22
Category: Eponymous Geography
Clue: Named around 1616, it's the world's fifth-largest island & the largest named after a person
Answer: Where is Baffin Island ? Really, where the fuck is it?
Thursday 10/23
Category: French Food History
Clue: A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar
Answer: Where is Dijon ?
