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Jeopardy 77 Flashcards

1
Q

Trick to eat pretzels

A

Focus on the crunch.

4 pretzels to 2.75.

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2
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Folks make poorer decisions, particularly “false alarm” decisions.

When they wear masks with…

A

Alcohol.

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3
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3 Doctor-related facts about men who hold “traditional” views of masculinity.

A

1 - more likely to prefer a male physician.

2 - less likely to be honest with male doc about their symptoms.

3 - less likely to see a doc at symptom onset.

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4
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Formula for calculating the sum of the interior angles of a polygon.

A

(N-2) * 180’

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5
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How many radians in 180’?

A

Pi.

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6
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King of Belgium during Khruschevs reign.

When shit went down in the congo, in the poisonwood bible.

A

Baudouin.

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7
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Who wrote the poisonwood bible?

A

Barbara Kingsolver.

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8
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“He told me” in French

A

Il m’a dit.

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9
Q

Shame in french

A

Honte

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10
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Conduire means what in french

A

To drive

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11
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At first, en francais

A

D’abord

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12
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Proud, en francais

A

Fier/e

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13
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Diet, en francais

A

Régime

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14
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To get fat, en francais

A

Grossir

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15
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Cherry, en francais

A

La cerise

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16
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As a matter of fact

A

En fait

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17
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Place/spot, en francais

A

Endroit

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18
Q

Remember, remind, recall

En francais

A

Se rappeler

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19
Q

Gimme a break,

In hebrew

A

Rachmones

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20
Q

Colossal gall, in hebrew.

Also a joke regarding that and a boy.

A

Chutzpah.

Boy kills parents.
Yes im guilty but have mercy.
Nobody cares for me im an orphan.

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21
Q

Shut up in arabic.

A

In chep.

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22
Q

How are you?
In arabic.

Fine. (Also)

A

Shlomek?

Zain.

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23
Q

Most famous king of Thebes.

His son.

A

Laius.

Oedipus.

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24
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What monster inhabited a rock in thebes?

Asked riddles and killed those who could not solve.

What did monster look like?

A

Sphinx.

Body of lion.

Head of woman.

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25
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What riddle did oedipus solve and what happened?

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Sphinx killed self.

Thebes hands itself off to Oedipus as king

He marries jocaste.

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26
Q

Name the dr seuss book about racism involving stars.

A

The sneetches.

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27
Q

Who said “if i have been able to see further, it was only because i stood on the shoulders of giants.

A

Isaac newton.

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28
Q

Who was walden robert cassotto?

Was he a member of 27 club?

A

Bobby darin.

  1. Die.
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29
Q

What is the ‘27 club’?

A

Cobain
Morrison
Hendrix

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30
Q

431-404 BCE
What war
Between whom

A

Peloponnesian war

Peloponnesian league led by sparta

Athenian league

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31
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Leader of athens 460bce-430

A

Pericles

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32
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Goddess of wisdom who decided to compete against Juno and Venus for most beautiful

A

Minerva

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33
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Who wasnt invited to the party on olympus and threw in the golden apple

A

Eris

Discord

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34
Q

Who judged the goddesses for the goldenapple?

Where did they wait for judgment?

A

Jupiter.
(But he passes off to paris)

Mt ida

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35
Q

Who did paris pick?

A

Venus.

Who offered the fairest bride.

She decides thats meneleas wife helen of troy.

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36
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Who was helen of troys husband

A

Meneleaus

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37
Q

King of troy

Sonand wife

A

Priam

hector
and andromache

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38
Q

What does lex talionis mean

A

Eye for an eye

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39
Q

Who invented aspirin for bayer in 1897?

A

Felix Hoffman.

Acetyl salicylic acid.

From willow bark.

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40
Q

What is a CAFO?

A

Concentrated
Animal
Feeding
Operation

41
Q

Shakespeare’s B’day

And death day.

A

April 23
1564
1616

42
Q

In 2000 a farmer fed how many people?

How about 1960?

A

140+

25

43
Q

What genetic mutation is involved in as many as half of all cancers?

Breast and lung.

A

P53.

44
Q

To become a full-blown malignancy, a cancer cell must pass thru these 3 stages:

A

Initiation
Promotion
Progression

45
Q

The single component in tobacco smoke that alters the same genes of lung cells as p53

A

Benzopyrene

46
Q

DDT

A

Dichloro
Diphenyl
Trichloroethane

47
Q

PCB

A

Polychlorinated biphenyls

48
Q 
Rachel carson
In what book
\_\_\_\_\_\_
Says
Hazards that are universally common or repetitive assume the "
A

Silent spring

…“harmless aspect of the familiar…”

49
Q

Lakers and Clippers, years of establishment.

A

1946 lakers (in la???)

1970

50
Q

Who quotes Lincoln saying “to sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men”

A

Rachel carson

Silent spring

51
Q

What accounts for only 5% of all skin cancers, but is the most dangerous kind, accounting for 75% of skin cancer deaths.

A

Melanoma

52
Q

The industrialized nation accounts for half of all cancers, despite being what percent of the population

A

20%

53
Q

What do soybean oil and formaldehyde have in common?

A

Adhesives.

54
Q

What is the chemical formula for formaldehyde?

A

CH2O

55
Q

Tell me about a chemical accident in 1984.

Where?
What?
Who?

A

Union Carbide.
(Dow!)

Bhopal, India
Feedstock for pesticide manufacture.

Killed sleeping thousands.

56
Q

Chemicals that are mixed with plastics to give them more strength and flexibility.

A

Plasticizers.

57
Q

These are added to detergents, herbicides, and paints to help the active ingredient stick to the surface of its target.

A

Surfactants.

58
Q

The most abundant industrial contaminant in the environment– plasticizer

A

Phthalates.

59
Q

There are 11,000 different types of these - they make up half of the synthetic materials known to function as endocrine disruptors.

They are not all estrogenic but most are.

A

Organochlorides.

60
Q

What known carcinogen are we exposed to every time we pump gas?

A

Benzene.

61
Q

Where do freshwater eels from north america, europe, and africa migrate to spawn (every12/24years)?

What islands are there?

A

Sargasso Sea.

Bermuda.

62
Q

Which creature does not get cancer, as it somehow sequesters carcinogens in their tissues in a way that prevents damage to their chromosomes.

A

Lobster.

63
Q

What fish lies hidden in sand at bottom of water, its left eye having migrated to the right side of its face.

A

Flounder.

64
Q

What book “all flesh is grass”?

A

Isaiah 40:6

65
Q

Paradise Lost
Written by
Published in

A

1667

Milton

66
Q

The Tibetans call the physical body THIS which means

“Something you leave behind.”

A

LU.

67
Q

Who posed for the Mona Lisa?

A

The 3rd wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Madonna Elisabetta.

68
Q

Who founded IBM?

A

Thomas J Watson Sr

69
Q

Who said: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”?

A

Mark Twain

70
Q

Who said: “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination”?

A

Oscar Wilde.

71
Q

Who said: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

A

Einstein.

72
Q

Who said: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”

A

Richard P Feynman

73
Q

Who said: “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

A

Bruce Lee.

74
Q

When were the first humans?

A

2.5 million years ago.

East Africa.

75
Q

What great ape did humans stem from?

A

Australopithecus.

76
Q

How long have Homo sapiens been around?

A

300,000 yrs.

77
Q

Lou Gramm & Mick Jones Band

A

Foreigner.

78
Q

Napoleon born where?

Died where?

A

Corsica.

St Helena.

79
Q

Drink made from scotch, sweet vermouth, and a dash of bitters

A

Rob Roy.

80
Q

She participated in one of tv’s first interracial kisses in “ platos stepchildren”

A

Nichelle Nichols

81
Q

Xena actress

A

Lucy Lawless

82
Q

First Oscars what year?

Host?

Best Picture?

A

1929

Douglas Fairbanks

Wings

83
Q

Longest Chinese river

A

Yangtze

84
Q

Who said, “There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”

A

Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes.

85
Q

Capital of Finland

A

Helsinki

86
Q

Tenzing-Hilary airport in what country

A

Nepal

87
Q

2015 Tony Winning Musical

A

Fun Home

88
Q

Paloma is Spanish for…

A

Dove

89
Q

What kind of drugs thin blood?

A

Anti-coagulants

90
Q

Houhynims have what as their slaves

A

Yahoo!’s

91
Q

Astoria, Oregon - origin of what river

A

Columbia river

92
Q

Mesopotamia is near what gulf

A

Persian gulf.

93
Q

What bridge connects upper and lower Michigan

A

Mackinaw

94
Q

Florida keys bridge – out of biscayne bay

A

Seven mile bridge

95
Q

Three wise men

A

Melchior, gaspar and Balthasar

96
Q

Forest of Robin Hood

A

Sherwood

97
Q

Silvery white tree

A

Birch

98
Q

Who boycotted 1980 olympics

A

USA

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