Jeopardy2 Flashcards
ANIMAL SYMBOLS ///// THOMAS NAST FIRST USED THIS SYMBOL FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN HARPER’S WEEKLY NOVEMBER 7, 1874
Elephant
DRAMA & DRAMATISTS ///// “LYSISTRATA” IS BY THIS ANCIENT GREEK “FATHER OF COMEDY”
Aristophanes
OCEANOGRAPHY ///// IN 1943 JACQUES COUSTEAU CO-INVENTED THIS SCUBA APPARATUS THAT HAS A BODY PART IN ITS NAME
Aqua Lung
STARTS WITH “A” ///// TO GIVE CONCESSIONS TO A THREATENING PERSON OR A THREATENING NATION, SUCH AS GERMANY IN THE 1930s
Appease
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ///// THIS ISLAND, THE WORLD’S 4th LARGEST, IS SEPARATED FROM AFRICA BY THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL
Madagascar
POLITICIANS ///// DEVAL PATRICK WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN ELECTED GOVERNOR OF THIS STATE
Massachusetts
INSECTS ///// LOCUSTS ARE SHORT-HORNED TYPES OF THESE INSECTS & KATYDIDS ARE THE LONG-HORNED TYPE
Grasshoppers
THE BILLBOARD TOP 40 ///// THE TITLE OF THIS SONG, A NO. 2 HIT BY DRAKE, REFERS TO A LATE-NIGHT CELLPHONE CALL
Hotline Bling
BROADWAY TUNES ///// “MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER” & “TEVYE’S DREAM” ARE SONGS IN THIS SHOW
Fiddler on the Roof
TELEVISION FOR SHORT ///// “ASYLUM” & “FREAK SHOW” ARE SEASONS OF THIS SHOW, “AHS” FOR SHORT
American Horror Story
FILMS OF THE 1930S ///// HE PLAYED THE TRAMP WHO BEFRIENDS A MILLIONAIRE & FALLS IN LOVE WITH A BLIND GIRL IN THE 1931 FILM “CITY LIGHTS”
Charlie Chaplin
HONORARY DEGREE ///// CAROLL SPINNEY, BEST KNOWN FOR PLAYING THIS VERY TALL TV CHARACTER, RECEIVED AN HONORARY DEGREE FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON
Big Bird
C’EST CHEESE ///// THIS 4-LETTER CHEESE GETS ITS NAME FROM THE MODERN GREEK FOR “SLICE”
Feta
FAMOUS AMERICANS ///// IN APRIL 1775 PAUL REVERE MADE IT AS FAR AS THIS MASSACHUSETTS CITY ON HIS FAMOUS RIDE, NOT MAKING IT TO CONCORD
Lexington
REPTILES ///// THE LARGEST SEA TURTLE IS THIS ONE, NAMED FOR THE THICK SKIN ON ITS SHELL
Leatherback
ART CITY ///// CITY THAT’S HOME TO THE WORLD-FAMOUS RIJKSMUSEUM
Amsterdam
NURSERY RHUMES ///// THIS NURSERY RHYME CHARACTER WITH A RHYMING NAME TOOK A TERRIBLE TUMBLE
Humpty Dumpty
SPORT FILMS ///// THE HANSON BROTHERS WERE HOCKEY GOONS IN THIS 1977 FILM THAT STARRED PAUL NEWMAN
Slapshot
SOUTH AMERICA ///// IN 2018 THIS VENEZUELAN LEADER INTRODUCED A CRYPTOCURRENCY CALLED THE PETRO
Nicolas Maduro
GEOLOGY ///// SPANISH FOR “TABLE”, IT’S A FLAT-TOPPED MOUNTAIN LIKE THE “GRAND” ONE IN COLORADO
Mesa
EUROPEAN PLAYS ///// “SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR” WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN THIS LANGUAGE
Italian
LINES FROM SHAKESPEARE ///// IN “HENRY IV, PART II”, A HOSTESS COMPLAINS THAT THIS KNIGHT HAS “EATEN ME OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME”
Falstaff
STRING INSTRUMENTS ///// YO-YO MA IS A FAMOUS PLAYER OF THIS INSTRUMENT
Cello
LANGUAGES ///// AFTER SPANISH, THIS IS THE SECOND LANGUAGE IN THE CITY OF BARCELONA
Catalan