Friday
01Feb2008
Pop Quiz!
Friday, February 1, 2008 at 1:03AM
Answer the following questions:
Here are the answers:
This was the online contestant test for Jeopardy that I just took. I don't know about you, but I certainly feel incredibly stupid.
- TV HITS: Maxim, Edyta and Karina are all featured performers on this hit
- US CITIES: It's the capital of West Virginia
- ARTISTS: He often featured roosters, floating women & fiddlers from his home country in his works
- FEMALE AUTHORS: Even though she wrote "Because I could not stop for death", she did die -- in 1886
- SPANISH HISTORY: Isabella ruled jointly with this man, her husband
- SOUTH AMERICA: This Waterfall, taller then Niagara Falls, is on the border between Brazil and Argentina
- METEOROLOGY: These thin, wispy clouds are the most common form of high-level cloud
- PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: While Iowa held the first caucus, this state held the first primary, on January 8th, 2008
- FOOD & DRINK: From the Swedish for "sandwich" and "table", it's a buffet of a variety of foods
- BOOKS: This title character of a Yann Martel novel finds himself adrift with unusual companions
- 2007 FILMS: Ryan Gosling finds himself opposite "The Real Girl" as this title character
- SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS: This play was the basis for the musical "Kiss Me, Kate"
- SPORTS RECORDS: In 2007, this team became the first NFL team in history to win 16 regular season games
- LATIN WORDS: Of the 12 words that appear on every currently circulated US quarter, this Latin word is the shortest
- EUROPEAN CAPITALS: It's the capital and largest city in Latvia
- 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: As a boy, he made $1.20 a week in Pittsburgh; he became one of the richest men in the world
- COMPOSERS: His best-known work, "The Threepenny Opera", contains "Mack the Knife"
- BRITISH POETS: He wrote the lines "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world"
- COMMON BONDS: Baron, Conrad, Nicky
- HOMONYMS: It's an extraordinary achievement, of the terminal part of your legs
- THEATRE: One of the only songs not written by Mel Brooks for this 2007 musical was "Puttin' on the Ritz"
- FRENCH HISTORY: Between 1309 and 1377, this French city was the seat of power for the pope
- SCIENTISTS: Watson and Crick determined the structure of this; it turned out to be a double helix
- BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This telecommunications co.'s one-letter New York Stock Exchange symbol is "T"
- QUEENS: She's the oldest reigning British queen in history
- WOMEN AUTHORS: The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, she won for Annie Allen in 1950
- SEA ANIMALS: It's also known as a sea cow
- PSYCHOLOGY: Dr. Kubler-Ross' list of the 5 stages of grief begins with this and ends with acceptance
- AFRICAN FLAGS: The flag of this African country combines parts of the old flags of Zanzibar and Tanganyika
- BIBLICAL BOOKS: On Purim it's a tradition to read from this Bible book with a woman's name
- R&B: This R&B singer's "Growing Pains" is her fourth no. 1 album
- THE BILL OF RIGHTS: It's the amendment that protects the right to bear arms
- WORLD CITIES: It's Libya's largest city & capital
- MATH TERMS: Polynomials and coefficients are used in the branch of math
- 2008 NEWS: In 2008, this ceremony, held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was turned into a press conference
- FAMOUS FAMILIES: Cosimo I of this family was the first Grand Duke of Tuscany
- PLAYWRIGHTS: He wrote plays like "Uncle Vanya" and "The Seagull"
- LAKES & RIVERS: This lake is the chief source of the Nile River
- STARTS WITH "W": This root becomes a green paste that's a condiment for sashimi
- WORD "FOLL"Y: In botany: a dry seed vessel or pod
- HUMORISTS: His humorous "I Am America (And So Can You!)" was a 2007 bestseller
- AWARDS: The Pritzker Prize is commonly referred to as "The Nobel of" this field of study
- BLACK HISTORY: In July 1881, this famous college opened in Alabama with Booker T. Washington as it's first principal
- PEN NAMES: It was the pen name of beloved children's author Theodor Geisel
- FAMOUS MOMENTS: He was the second man to walk on the moon
- THE WORLD OF SPORTS: Japan and this country co-hosted the 2002 World Cup
- LITERARY CHARACTERS: His characters included Lady Windermere and Dorian Gray
- THE WHITE HOUSE: He was the first president to live in the White House
- GRAMMAR: Rung and ringing are the past and present this of the verb "ring"
- FILM FINALES: This director's last film was 1976's "Family Plot"
Here are the answers:
- Dancing With The Stars
- Charleston
- Marc Chagall
- Emily Dickinson
- Ferdinand
- Iguazu Falls
- cirrus
- New Hampshire
- smorgasbord
- Pi
- Lars
- Taming of the Shrew
- New England Patriots
- E
- Riga
- Andrew Carnegie
- Bertolt Brecht
- Robert Browning
- Hiltons
- Feet/Feat
- Young Frankenstein
- Avignon
- DNA
- AT&T
- Elizabeth II
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Manatee
- Denial
- Tanzania
- Esther
- Mary J. Blige
- Second
- Tripoli
- Algebra
- Golden Globes
- Medici
- Kafka
- Lake Victoria
- Wasabi
- follicle
- Stephen Colbert
- architecture
- Tuskegee Institute
- Dr. Seuss
- Buzz Aldrin
- South Korea
- Oscar Wilde
- John Adams
- participles
- Alfred Hitchcock
This was the online contestant test for Jeopardy that I just took. I don't know about you, but I certainly feel incredibly stupid.
Reader Comments (4)
A couple of the answers appear to be wrong.
Uncle Vanya was writtend by Chekhov, I think. Not Kafka.
A couple of the answers appear to be wrong.
Uncle Vanya and the Seagull were written by Anton Chekhov, I think. Not Kafka.
Also, I think Kurt Weill is the answer to the "Three-penny Opera" question --- Bertolt Brecht wrote it, but Weill collaborated with him to compose the music.
And I thought the 'Math Terms' question was not up to the usual 'Jeopardy' quality. While 'algebra is probably the best answer, many branches of math use polynomials and coefficients --- calculus, trigonometry, number theory, etc.
Wish I would have found your site sooner --- I spend a lot of time googling the answers this morning!!
I have not completely gone over this yet. Guess I should have done that this morning! ;)
Double checking answers as we speak.