Jeopardy Questions Flashcards by Melissa Hamm

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

A

All the President’s Men

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Communist Manifesto

A

Marx and Engels

Q

Italian inventor

A

Marconi

Q

Jewish prayer for the dead

A

Kaddish

Q

Who composed Carmen?

A

Bizet (Bee-zay)

Who wrote Madame Bovary?

Flaubert

Famous chess grandmaster

Kasparov

Author of Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

Wilson's Sec of State/Cross of Gold

William Jennings Bryan

Author of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Bernini

St. Peter's Basilica

Statue of Liberty poem

Emma Lazarus

Smallest Great Lake

Ontario

Patron Saint of Animals and Italy

St. Francis

Currency collecting

numismatics

Abyssinia aka

Ethiopia

Spain, 1926, Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Method Acting pioneer

Lee Strasberg

Utopia

Thomas Moore

Father of the Constitution

Madison

The Big Ditch aka

Panama Canal

Pravda

Truth

Dynasty known for vases

Ming

Pentagon Papers

NYT

Daphne Du Maurier

Rebecca

First American Nobel Piece Prize/Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

Croatoan

Roanoke

Clara Barton

Red Cross