Jeopardy Quiz: Will Your Memory Bank Beat Ken Jennings?

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Jeopardy Quiz Questions

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Question 1

Located on Sunset Blvd, the Hollywood Palladium became the setting of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra in 1961

  • A
    Who is Lorin Maazel?
  • B
    Who is Sir Colin Davis?
  • C
    Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
  • D
    Who is Lawrence Welk?

Question 2

Many of the 70,000 white-collar employees of this firm work seasonally for only four months

  • A
    What is Amazon?
  • B
    What is Federal Express?
  • C
    What is Google?
  • D
    What is H&R Block?

Question 3

Before and After: 1918 pandemic infectious disease plus simple foamy Italian custard

  • A
    What is influenzabaglione?
  • B
    What is sciaticannoli?
  • C
    What is propositiramasu?
  • D
    What is conjunctavitisfogliatella?

Question 4

10 miles west of this city lies the skiing village of Snowmass

  • A
    What is Aspen, Colorado?
  • B
    What is Beijing, China?
  • C
    What is Jackson Hole, Wyoming?
  • D
    What is Sun Valley, Idaho?

Question 5

This Utah national park is named after the sandstone feature pictured here

  • A
    What is Arches?
  • B
    What is Yellowstone?
  • C
    What is Canyonlands?
  • D
    What is Zion?

Question 6

Often roasted, squab refers to a baby bird of this type

  • A
    What is a partridge?
  • B
    What is Big Bird?
  • C
    What is a pigeon?
  • D
    What is an eagle?

Question 7

Applied as an abrasive for grinding and polishing, this birthstone, combined with gold, is an official color for Florida State

  • A
    What is diamond?
  • B
    What is garnet?
  • C
    What is emerald?
  • D
    What is quartz?

Question 8

Grabbed by a Frenchman in a 1901 novel, a girl is “perhaps carried off to” this awful destiny

  • A
    What is "the seven circles of hell"?
  • B
    What is "a fate worse than death"?
  • C
    What is "Never Neverland"?
  • D
    What is "the inferno"?

Question 9

"The genius biographies" box set by this author features books on Leonardo da Vinci & Ben Franklin

  • A
    Who is Martin Kemp?
  • B
    Who is Doris Kearns Goodwin?
  • C
    Who is Walter Isaacson?
  • D
    Who is Stephen King?

Question 10

This 2019 Kanye West Album features tracks “Follow God” & “Closed on Sunday”

  • A
    What is Ye?
  • B
    What is Lemonade?
  • C
    What is Yeezus?
  • D
    What is Jesus is King?

Question 11

When she and her husband were coronated in 1999, she wore a gown conceived by Lebanese designer Elie Saab

  • A
    Who is Haya?
  • B
    Who is Rania?
  • C
    Who is Noor?
  • D
    Who is Jill?

Question 12

Earning the title, "Ireland's greatest person," in a 2010 poll, this politician won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998

  • A
    Who is John Hume?
  • B
    Who is Basil Kelly?
  • C
    Who is Alan Abernethy?
  • D
    Who is Colin Firth?

Question 13

When this Batman actor was caught looking sad in a 2016 interview, he became the meme the internet always wanted

  • A
    Who is Robert Pattinson?
  • B
    Who is Andrew Garfield?
  • C
    Who is Christian Bale?
  • D
    Who is Ben Affleck?

Question 14

On the Channel-side of this French region, Monet was frequently spotted painting along the cliffs

  • A
    What is Normandy?
  • B
    What is Champagne?
  • C
    What is Dover?
  • D
    What is Brittany?

Question 15

Instead of dedicating his third symphony to Napoleon, Beethoven called it this, for “the memory of a great man”

  • A
    What is "Monument"?
  • B
    What is "Memorial"?
  • C
    What is "Eroica"?
  • D
    What is "Memories"?

Question 16

DNA's non-sex chromosomes, called autosomes, can show us our ethnicity; this many pairs of autosomes is the norm

  • A
    What is 46?
  • B
    What is 23?
  • C
    What is 2?
  • D
    What is 22?

Question 17

Winning two Best Director Oscars, neither of these two foreign-born directors has won Best Picture

  • A
    Who are Francis Ford Coppola & Sofia Coppola?
  • B
    Who are Alfonso Cuaron & Ang Lee?
  • C
    Who are Bong Joon-ho & Guillermo del Toro?
  • D
    Who are Martin Scorsese & Quentin Tarantino?

Question 18

Western movie extras would hang out on the corner of this alliterative name, made famous in 1940 when one gunslinger was gunned down by another

  • A
    What is the Wild West?
  • B
    What is Gower Gulch?
  • C
    What is Gunslinger Gate?
  • D
    What is Deadwood Deal?

Question 19

In the play, As You Like It, the line, "a great reckoning in a little room," is believed to refer to this poet's early death

  • A
    Who is Christopher Marlowe?
  • B
    Who is Emily Brontë?
  • C
    Who is William Blake?
  • D
    Who is William Shakespeare?

Question 20

This condition was thought to arise from an excess of black bile, the origin of its name

  • A
    Black Plague
  • B
    Melancholy
  • C
    Bildungsroman
  • D
    Consumption

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