Saturday, January 31, 2009

Jeopardy! Online Test questions, January 28, 2009...

This past Wednesday 28 Ami took the Jeopardy! online test while I recorded the questions. The following is my record of the questions and the answers that I believe to be correct:

  1. Each year it’s black history month…February
  2. Slumdog Millionaire is set in this Indian city…Mumbai
  3. This British Monarch outlived her husband by 39 years…Queen Victoria
  4. An epistolary novel is written in the form of these…Letters (documents, diaries)
  5. This group played a major role in early Greek comedy, but later appeared only between acts…Chorus
  6. Murex, Conch, and Clam were names of early tankers owned by this company…Shell
  7. A farewell performance is this bird’s “song”…Swan song
  8. The villains in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are this type of animal…Cobras
  9. It’s the type of electrical current that travels one way only…direct current
  10. It’s the term for shooting a 3 on a par 5 hole…Eagle
  11. It’s the third largest state in the US in area…California
  12. This ship sunk on December 7, 1941 was designated a national landmark in 1989…USS Arizona
  13. A group of 6 chamber works from 1721 are known as these concertos…Brandenburg
  14. The fruited plain appears in this 1895 patriotic song…”America the Beautiful”
  15. In 2008 this young actress publicly confirmed her couplehood with Samantha Ronson…Lindsey Lohan
  16. It's a lady’s dressing table, or a synonym for conceit (Rhyme Time)…vanity
  17. Ptolemy’s model was accepted for over 1,000 years until this Polish thinker came along in the 1500s (Solar System)…Copernicus
  18. He served as archbishop of Krakow in the 1960’s…Pope john Paul II
  19. This Upton Sinclair novel was instrumental in the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act…The Jungle
  20. This artist died in 1890 having sold 1 painting. In 1990 his Portrait of Dr. Gauchet sold for $82.5 million…Van Gogh
  21. Over a mile deep and 25 million years old, it is the deepest and oldest lake on earth…Lake Baikal
  22. The Mozilla Foundation released this open source web browser in 2004…Firefox
  23. Completes the title of Elizabeth Gilbert’s tale of a 3 country journey - Eat, Pray,… …Love
  24. Country in whose civil war the International Brigades fought in the 1930’s…Spain
  25. Formed from cooling lava, it is the most abundant type of volcanic rock…Basalt
  26. Many gothic cathederals use an arched support called a flying this…Buttress
  27. 3 word latin phrase for highest honors granted on graduation…Summa Cum Laude
  28. Plural title of Joyce Kilmer’s work that admits that “poems are made by fools like me”…Trees
  29. It’s “Where everybody knows your name” (TV)…Cheers
  30. 1 inch equals 2.54 of these…centimeters
  31. The 2007 classical crossover Grammy went to A Love Supreme, The Legacy of… this 1960’s jazz sax man…John Coltrane
  32. His Tom Jones is one of the first great British novels…Henry Fielding
  33. In 1823 he declared the Americas off limits to colonization by the European powers…Monroe
  34. This governor of New Mexico ran for president in 2008 (Hispanic-American)…Bill Richardson
  35. It forms a metropolitan statistical area along with Cambridge and Quincy…Boston
  36. Nick Adams is the protagonist in many of the stories in this author’s In Our Time…Hemingway
  37. This element makes up about 78% of normal dry air by volume…Nitrogen
  38. The male of this state bird of Maryland is black, white, and orange…Baltimore Oriole
  39. In Exodus 19 “the Lord descended upon” this Mount “in fire”…Sinai
  40. The object in which you’d brew your Oolong (Starts and ends with “T”)…teapot
  41. This Venezuelan President likes to call his country a Bolivian Republic…Hugo Chavez
  42. T.S. Eliot’s poetic drama, Murder in the Cathedral, deals with the death of this man…Thomas Becket
  43. This general who took the Alamo was made president of Mexico of 11 times between 1833 & 1855…Santa Anna
  44. This investment bank swallowed up in 2008 had an appropriate non-bullish word in its name…Bear Stearns
  45. This “bump” made Time magazine’s list of top 10 buzzwords in 2008…Fist bump
  46. Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 ft-lbs of work per second…horsepower
  47. It’s the “Yellowhammer” state…Alabama
  48. “The Tygre” is a famous lyric by this author/illustrator…William Blake
  49. “Knit one” is commonly followed by this action “two”…Purl
  50. This British band released “In Rainbows” as a name-your-own-price digital download…Radiohead

I meant to do the same while my mom took the test on the 29th, but I forgot to start recording the information until about halfway through. Here is what I got for Thursday:

  1. In the Old Testament book named for the successor of Moses, he leads the Israelites into Canaan... Joshua
  2. This Ayn Rand novel tells the story of a visionary, untameable architect... The Fountainhead
  3. P.M. from 1634 to 1643, this cardinal helped make France dominant in Europe... Richelieu
  4. The Quakers are more formally known as the Society of these... Friends
  5. Asuncion is this country's capital... Paraguay
  6. The Executiuoner's Song is one of the major works by this American writer who died in 2007... Norman Mailer
  7. An affliction for centuries, this nutritional disorder is also called vitamin C deficiency... scurvy
  8. Going by AKC registrations, this long-haired cutie is the most popular terrier... Yorkshire
  9. The Rite of Spring is a ballet from this Russian composer... Stravinsky
  10. Its the antonym of "dystopian", a word applied to Brave New World and 1984... utopian
  11. This, not Atlanta, is Georgia's "Mother City"... Savannah
  12. It is the last name shared by Willy & Biff in Death of a Salesman... Loman
  13. The target of criticism in the 2008 campaign, this 3 nation treaty went into effect January 1, 1994... NAFTA
  14. The USA's worst commercial nuclear accident took place in this state... Pennsylvania
  15. Late menswear designer turned immigration station (Before & After)... Perry Ellis Island
  16. Used in dusting powder, this 4 letter mineral is the softest on the Mohs hardness scale... talc
  17. East of the Dardenelles, this Turkish Strait leads into the Black Sea... Bosporus
  18. His desperate flight through the Paris sewers is a highlight of Les Miserables... Jean Valjean
  19. Barack Obama nominated him to be the first African-American Attorney General... Eric Holder
  20. She starred in director Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge and Australia... Nicole Kidman


I haven't been able to find any other site where the tests from this year have been posted yet, so I have decided to post them here. I hope someone finds this information useful and enlightening.

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