Jeopardy Questions Flashcards by Melissa Hamm | Brainscape

Q

Guiro

A

gourd scraper instrument (Latin America)

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Red Wheelbarrow

A

William Carlos Williams

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Difference between glockenspiel and xylophone

A

glock-metal; xylo-wooden (xylo means wood)

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Marimba and vibraphone

A

wooden/metal bars with resonators

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Zither

A

central European folk stringed instrument

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Marco Polo birthplace

A

Venice

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Oldest planetarium

A

Adler (Chicago)

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Freedom Park location

A

Atlanta

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Little black dress originator

A

Givenchy

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Mayo clinic location

A

Rochester, Minnesota

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Johns Hopkins location

A

Maryland

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Q

George Sand

A

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin

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Nun’s habit

A

wimple

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The Iron Lady

A

Margaret Thatcher

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Zelig

A

Woody Allen film, came to mean chameleon

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Escher birthplace

A

Netherlands

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Amphora

A

tall Greek/Roman jar w/ two handles, narrow neck

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King Tut discoverer

A

Carter

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Everest exploration

A

George Mallory and Andrew Irvine

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Woodward and Bernstein

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All the President’s Men

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Communist Manifesto

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Marx and Engels

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Italian inventor

A

Marconi

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Jewish prayer for the dead

A

Kaddish

Q

Who composed Carmen?

A

Bizet (Bee-zay)

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Who wrote Madame Bovary?

A

Flaubert

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Famous chess grandmaster

A

Kasparov

Q

Author of Feminine Mystique

A

Betty Friedan

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Wilson’s Sec of State/Cross of Gold

A

William Jennings Bryan

Q

Author of Tarzan

A

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Bernini

A

St. Peter’s Basilica

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Statue of Liberty poem

A

Emma Lazarus

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Smallest Great Lake

A

Ontario

Q

Patron Saint of Animals and Italy

A

St. Francis

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Currency collecting

A

numismatics

Q

Abyssinia aka

A

Ethiopia

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Spain, 1926, Hemingway

A

The Sun Also Rises

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Method Acting pioneer

A

Lee Strasberg

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Utopia

A

Thomas Moore

Q

Father of the Constitution

A

Madison

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The Big Ditch aka

A

Panama Canal

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Pravda

A

Truth

Q

Dynasty known for vases

A

Ming

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Pentagon Papers

A

NYT

Q

Daphne Du Maurier

A

Rebecca

Q

First American Nobel Piece Prize/Main Street

A

Sinclair Lewis

Q

Croatoan

A

Roanoke

Q

Clara Barton

A

Red Cross

Q

A