2013 Final Jeopardy! Archive



Tuesday December 31st

Category: 19th Century Vice Presidents

A: Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him famous".

Q: Who is Aaron Burr?



Monday December 30th

Category: Word Origins

A: When evidence was lacking, juries of yore would reply with this Latin word meaning "we don know know"; now it means dunce.

Q: What is Ignoramus?




Friday December 27th

Category: 18th Century America

A: There were just 13 of these, the title of an historic document; one offered admission to Canada.

Q: What are the Articles of Confederation?



Thursday December 26th

Category: Tech Terms

A: In a July 1990 post Yisrael Radai called this 7-letter term "a word I just coined for trojans, viruses, worms etc.".

Q: What is Malware?



Wednesday December 25th

Category: Authors

A: "The American Tolkien" was what Time Magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien.

Q: Who is George R.R. Martin?



Tuesday December 24th

Category: Geopolitical Hot Spots

A: On the Grand Trunk Road, the Wagah Border separating these 2 countries since 1947 is called the "Berlin Wall of Asia".

Q: What are India & Pakistan?



Monday December 23rd

Category: Presidents & Film

A: Jimmy Carter held 480 screenings at the White House; his first was this film set in 1970's Washington, D.C.

Q: What is All The President's Men?




Friday December 20th

Category: 20th Century Literary Terms

A: The writer who named this U.S. movement said the term referred to supreme blessedness, not exhaustion.

Q: What is the Beat Movement?



Thursday December 19th

Category: TV Characters

A: Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban & Mayor Mike Rawlings were 3 of the real folks at the 2013 memorial for this TV character.

Q: Who is J.R. Ewing?



Wednesday December 18th

Category: Children's Literature

A: Joy, Nellie & Aranea are 3 of the many children of this title character.

Q: Who is Charlotte from "Charlotte's Web"?



Tuesday December 17th

Category: Classical Music

A: "Royal March of the Lion", "The Aquarium" & "The Aviary" are thematically related 1886 works from this man.

Q: Who is Camille Saint-Saens?



Monday December 16th

Category: Countries For Short

A: North Korea is the DPRK; this country is the LPDR.

Q: What is Laos?




Friday December 13th

Category: Health & Medicine 2013

A: There's news of the first lab test for this 10-letter condition the NIH calls the leading cause of disability for Americans 15 to 44.

Q: What is Depression?



Thursday December 12th

Category: 21st Century Novels

A: In a letter to the author, President Obama called this "a lovely book--an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling".

Q: What is The Life of Pi?



Wednesday December 11th

Category: Sports Term History

A: After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this.

Q: What is Hail Mary?



Tuesday December 10th

Category: State Capitals

A: It's the southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help. (there were six panels)

Q: What is Austin, Texas?



Monday December 9th

Category: U.S. Presidents

A: Although born in the United States, he was the only President who spoke English as a second language.

Q: Who is Martin Van Buren?




Friday December 6th

Category: Historic Letters

A: In April 1865 she wrote to Mary Lincoln, "I cannot remain silent... brokenhearted by the loss of my own beloved husband".

Q: Who is Queen Victoria?



Thursday December 5th

Category: 20th Century Arts

A: Pretending to be a tree is an exercise in a key textbook of this system that spread from Russia to Broadway & then to Hollywood.

Q: What is the Method Acting or Stanislavsky System?



Wednesday December 4th

Category: Asia

A: Consisting of a peninsula & 2 islands, it was the longest-lasting European colony in Asia: 442 years, ending in 1999.

Q: What is Macau?



Tuesday December 3rd

Category: The Internet

A: The inventor of this image format said the OED wrongly has 2 pronunciations of it--the right one is with a soft "G".

Q: What is a GIF?



Monday December 2nd

Category: Pop Groups

A: In 2012, 22 years after their first album, they released a new one that includes "Good Vibrations" & "Monday Monday".

Q: Who is Wilson Phillips?




Friday November 29th

Category: College Sports Mascots

A: In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today.

Q: What is Oregon?



Thursday November 28th

Category: 20th Century Names

A: In 1942 Winston Churchill said, "I can handle this peasant"; historians aren't sure things turned out that way.

Q: Who is Joseph Stalin?



Wednesday November 27th

Category: Government Programs

A: Over 8,000 people have been saved from harm by this program authorized in a 1970 law, but we're not allowed to name any.

Q: What is the Witness Protection Program?



Tuesday November 26th

Category: Authors

A: An international airport in Jamaica is named for this author who set many of his stories of the 1950s & 1960s there.

Q: Who is Ian Fleming?



Monday November 25th

Category: Nobel Laureates

A: The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award.

Q: What is Myanmar?




Teacher's Tournament (Nov. 11 - 22)

Friday November 22nd

Category: Country Names

A: In England in 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined this name, a country that wouldn't be formed until 14 years later.

Q: What is Pakistan?



Thursday November 21st

Category: U.S. Presidents

A: The second man to become President who was never elected to the job, he twice ran for the position unsuccessfully.

Q: Who is Millard Fillmore?



Wednesday November 20th

Category: Novel Titles

A: These are not found in the Koran & the angel Gabriel told Muhammad that they were not revealed by God.

Q: What are the Satanic Verses?



Tuesday November 19th

Category: The 2012 Olympics

A: NBC reported that in the first days of Olympic coverage, this sport seen in recent books & on film was the most watched on cable.

Q: What is Archery?



Monday November 18th

Category: Buildings

A: Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for this building on October 13, 1932 & got to work in it for about 6 years.

Q: What is the U.S. Supreme Court?




Friday November 15th

Category: Play Characters

A: In Peter Roach's Phonetics Glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician".

Q: Who is Henry Higgins?




Thursday November 14th

Category: Symbols

A: One legend says Clovis, king of Franks, adopted this symbol after flowers revealed a safe river crossing for his army.

Q: What is the Fleur-de-Lis?



Wednesday November 13th

Category: Mythology

A: Rich with electrum, the Turkish river Pactolus is where this legendary man was said to have washed off his curse.

Q: Who is King Midas?



Tuesday November 12th

Category: Historic Objects

A: In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria.

Q: What is the Rosetta Stone?



Monday November 11th

Category: 2013 Newsmakers

A: The name of this woman who achieved a long-held goal in 2013 is a homophone of a word for a water nymph.

Q: Who is Diana Nyad?




Thursday November 7th

Category: Literary Influences

A: The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in NYC but 120 years earlier.

Q: What is The Age of Innocence?



Wednesday November 6th

Category: On The Globe

A: Of the 5 named circles of latitude on a standard Earth globe, it's the one with the longest name.

Q: What is the Tropic of Capricorn?



Tuesday November 5th

Category: First Families

A: Sasha & Malia Obama are the first Presidential children who were not old enough to vote for dad since this one.

Q: Who is Chelsea Clinton?



Monday November 4th

Category: Food & Drink

A: This soft drink was named for a digestive enzyme & a native African plant.

Q: What is Pepsi?




Friday November 1st

Category: Nations of the World

A:  The only 2 countries in the Americas that border each other & begin with the same letter.

Q: What are Brazil and Bolivia?



Thursday October 31st

Category: The Tudors

A: "Alone in prison strong/I wail my destiny" & "Let pass my weary, guiltless ghost" are lines from a poem attributed to her.

Q: Who is Anne Boleyn?



Wednesday October 30th

Category: Internet Firsts

A: A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction.

Q: What is the First Item Sold on E-Bay?



Tuesday October 29th

Category: Movie Comedies

A: The hero of this 1993 comedy says he's "been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, & burned".

Q: What is Groundhog Day?



Monday October 28th

Category: Literary Characters

A: This 19th century character talks about his own writings about tattoo marks & on the tracing of footsteps.

Q: Who is Sherlock Holmes?




Friday October 25th

Category: European Literature

A: This 1922 novel's first chapter is titled "The Son of the Brahman".

Q: What is Siddhartha?



Thursday October 24th

Category: Art in the U.S. Capitol

A: Members of the Hungarian, Swedish, & Israeli Parliaments spoke when a bust of this foreign diplomat was unveiled.

Q: Who is Raoul Wallenberg?



Wednesday October 23rd

Category: Foreign Currency

A: Iran's 50,000 Rial note includes an international symbol for one of these, featuring 3 well-defined orbits.

Q: What is an Atom?



Tuesday October 22nd

Category: The Caribbean

A: Pico Duarte & Lago Enriquilo in this country 650 miles from Florida are the highest & lowest points in the Caribbean.

Q: What is the Dominican Republic?



Monday October 21st

Category:  AFI's 100 Funniest Films

A:  These 2 films were no. 1 & no. 2 on the AFI's list of funniest American films; both involve cross-dressing.

Q:  What is "Some Like It Hot" & "Tootsie"?




Friday October 18th

Category:  Cars

A:  Introduced as a 2-seater & later celebrated in song, it was Motor Trend's Car of the Year for 1958, 1987, 1989, & 2002.

Q:  What is the Thunderbird?



Thursday October 17th

Category:  Trademarks

A:  Facebook & TiVo have both claimed trademarks for an icon representing this gesture.

Q:  What is a Thumbs-Up?



Wednesday October 16th

Category:  Female Singers

A:  In 2013 she became on the the third female singer after Aretha Franklin & Madonna to chart over 40 Top 40 hits.

Q:  Who is Taylor Swift?



Tuesday October 15th

Category:  Novels

A:  Chapter 1 of this 1952 book ends, "This is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather...settled in the foothills".

Q:  What is East of Eden?



Monday October 14th

Category: Big Countries

A: In area, it's the largest former Soviet Republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean.

Q: What is Kazakhstan?




Friday October 11th

Category: World Capitals

A: It's the capital city of the only country that borders both the Mediterranean Sea & the Black Sea.

Q: What is Ankara, Turkey?



Thursday October 10th

Category: Literary Illustrations

A: Emile Bayard's illustration of this character seen here first appeared in the 1860s. (it showed a picture of a little girl with a mop)

Q: Who is Cosette (from Les Miserables)?



Wednesday October 9th

Category: Literary Locales

A: The creator of this title place said its name came from the letters labeling the last drawer of his file cabinet.

Q: What is Oz?



Tuesday October 8th

Category: Presidential Election History

A: In 1948 he won South Carolina with 72% of the vote & 3 other states but finished a distant third overall.

Q: Who is Strom Thurmond?



Monday October 7th

Category: Toys

A: A caveman-themed game in which "rocks" were thrown at other players led to the creation of this product in 1969.

Q: What is a Nerf Ball?





Friday October 4th

Category: Countries of the World

A: By population, it's the largest country in the world without nuclear weapons.

Q: What is Indonesia?



Wednesday October 2nd

Category: Inventors

A: Last name of the man whose 1934 patent application for a toll is seen here.  (It shows a picture of the head of a Phillips' screw, so...)

Q: What is Phillips?



Monday September 30th

Category: Mount Rushmore

A: 2 of the 4 men on Mount Rushmore were born in Virginia; these 2 states were the birthplaces of the other 2 men.

Q: What is Kentucky and New York?





Friday September 27th

Category: European Capitals

A: Since a national split in 1993, it's the only world capital that borders 2 other countries-- Austria & Hungary.

Q: What is Bratislava, Slovakia?



Thursday September 26th

Category: The Internet

A: The animal for which this computer program is named is actually a red panda.

Q: What is Firefox?



Wednesday September 25th

Category: 20th Century Names

A: Since his 1988 death, he's been inducted into the U.S. Hockey, World Figure Skating, & National Inventors Halls of Fame.

Q: Who is Frank Zamboni?



Tuesday September 24th

Category: Newspapers

A: On July 23, 2013 this bestselling British tabloid re-spelled its name on its masthead to honor big British news.

Q: What is The Sun?



Monday September 23rd

Category: Classic Films

A: The first scene of this movie was shot on the first day of filming, October 2, 1960 at 5 a.m. at 727 5th Avenue at 57th Street in New York City.

Q: What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?




Friday September 20th

Category: French Geography

A: 8 countries border mainland France; its smallest border, at 2.7 miles, is with this country.

Q: What is Monaco?



Thursday September 19th

Category: Classic Albums

A: This 1960s album ends with the line "I'd love to turn you on".

Q: What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?



Wednesday September 18th

Category: World War II

A: Because time was short, only this ship's starboard side, used for boarding, was repainted September 1, 1945.

Q: What is the USS Missouri?



Tuesday September 17th

Category: U.S. Places

A: A logo on this town's website includes its incorporation date, 1981, as well as the historic date Dec. 17, 1903.

Q: What is Kitty Hawk, NC?



Monday September 16th

Category: Poets

A: Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust.

Q: Who is T.S. Eliot?



New Season Starts in September


Kids' Tournament (July 29 - Aug 2)

Friday August 2nd

Category: Bodies of Water

A: This body of water bearing the name of a country borders 5 U.S. states.

Q: What is the Gulf of Mexico?



Thursday August 1st

Category: Postal Abbreviations

A: Like NM & MN, the postal abbreviations of these 2 states are the reverse of one another.

Q: What are Alabama and Louisiana?



Wednesday July 31st

Category: The Civil War

A: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "A fit and necessary war measure".

Q: What is the Emancipation Proclamation?



Tuesday July 30th

Category: Toy Brands

A: In 1966 this company produced 706 million elements of its product; in 2011, it produced 36 billion.

Q: What is Lego?



Monday July 29th

Category: In The Dictionary

A: The last entry in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is used to represent this annoying sound.

Q: What is Snoring?





Friday July 26th

Category: Classical Musicians

A: The cover of the May 19, 1958 Time magazine called him "the Texan who conquered Russia".

Q: Who is Van Cliburn?



Thursday July 25th

Category: French History

A: Starting in 1349, this marine animal was on the coat of arms of the heir apparent to the French throne.

Q: What is a Dolphin?



Wednesday July 24th

Category: 3-Named People

A: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey.

Q: Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?



Tuesday July 23rd

Category: Oscar-Winning Actors

A: They're the only 2 Best Actor Winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005.

Q: Who are Dustin and Philip Seymour Hoffman?



Monday July 22nd

Category: Sports Geography

A: Though they live elsewhere, Alan Page & Dan Dierdorf will both always be in this Ohio city where they were born.

Q: What is Canton, OH?




Friday July 19th

Category: Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels

A: The first line of this novel says "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head".

Q: What is A Confederacy of Dunces?



Thursday July 18th

Category: Historic Telegrams

A: In May 1945 Churchill cabled Truman that this "is drawn down upon their front. We don not know what is going on behind".

Q: What is the Iron Curtain?



Wednesday July 17th

Category: International Sports

A: 2013 marks the 100th running of this event, first won by Maurice Garin with a time of 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds.

Q: What is the Tour de France?



Tuesday July 16th

Category: The World of TV

A: In 2013 Britain marked this show's 50th Anniv. with a series of stamps of the 11 actors who have played the lead role.

Q: What is Doctor Who?



Monday July 15th

Category: Opera

A: This 1871 opera is set in Memphis & Thebes, & along the banks of the Nile.

Q: What is Aida?




Friday July 12th

Category: Video Game History

A: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife.

Q: What is The Legend of Zelda?



Thursday July 11th

Category: Classical Music

A: This piece that premiered in Moscow in 1882 includes strains from "God Save the Czar" & "La Marseillaise".

Q: What is the 1812 Overture?



Wednesday July 10th

Category: Authors

A: He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway.

Q: Who is Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss?



Tuesday July 9th

Category: National Official Languages

A: This country has an area of only 275 square miles but has 4 official languages: English, Tamil, Chinese & Malay.

Q: What is Singapore?



Monday July 8th

Category: African-American Firsts

A: Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th century Penn., Karen Batchelor made news as this org.'s first African-American member.

Q: What is the Daughters of the American Revolution?



Friday July 5th

Category: U.S. Presidents

A: The only 2 men who were U.S. President 10 years to the day after their first inauguration.

Q: Who are Franklin D. Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland?



Thursday July 4th

Category: Saints On The Map

A: In population, it's the largest U.S. city with the same Spanish name as a current western hemisphere capital.

Q: What is San Jose?



Wednesday July 3rd

Category: 20th Century Music

A: European music has "3 B's"; 20th C. American music's "3 C''s" were John Cage, Elliot Carter & this composer/conductor.

Q: What is Aaron Copland?



Tuesday July 2nd

Category: The Ancient World

A: The area that the people of ancient Rome called this was their city's equivalent of the Greek Agora.

Q: What is the Forum?



Monday July 1st

Category: Novels

A: This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Peru Palace in Istanbul; the room is now a memorial to the author.

Q: What is Murder on the Orient Express?



Friday June 28th

Category: 1950s Fiction

A: John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier.

Q: What is On The Road?



Thursday June 27th

Category: Transportation

A: Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world".

Q: What is the Bicycle?



Wednesday June 26th

Category: Movies & The Bible

A: In this crime drama, a 1994 Oscar nominee for Best Picture, a character misquotes Ezekiel 25:17 twice.

Q: What is Pulp Fiction?



Tuesday June 25th

Category: Plants

A: Economically speaking, this plant family with about 10,000 species is by far the most important.

Q: What is the Grass Family?



Monday June 24th

Category: World Geography

A: Names of the 2 geographical features on a 2012 postage stamp issued jointly by Nepal & Israel.

Q: What are Mount Everest and the Dead Sea?



Friday June 21st

Category: Cartoon Characters

A: She first appeared in 1930's "Dizzy Dishes", along with singing cats in flapper outfits.

Q: Who is Betty Boop?



Thursday June 20th

Category: World Leaders

A: Since 1991 this country has had only 3 different Presidents; the current one took over in 2012 for the second time.

Q: What is Russia?



Wednesday June 19th

Category: War Novels

A: Appropriately, the sound of musketry & artillery is described as "A crimson roar" in this story.

Q: What is The Red Badge of Courage?



Tuesday June 18th

Category: Food & Drink

A: A sign of a trend, in 2010 this product passed Pepsi to move into the no.2 spot in U.S. soft drink popularity.

Q: What is Diet Coke?



Friday June 14th

Category: The United Nations

A: Of nations in the world almanac, 3 are not U.N. Members: Taiwan, Vatican City, & this European one that gained independence in 2008.

Q: What is Kosovo?



Thursday June 13th

Category: Best Picture Wordplay

A: From 2005, it's the last Best Picture Oscar Winner whose name is just one syllable.

Q: What is Crash?



Wednesday June 12th

Category: 20th Century History

A: In terms of British Monarchs, it's next in the sequence: seventh, fifth, eighth, sixth...

Q: What is Second? (Elizabeth II)



Tuesday June 11th

Category: American Literature

A: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi.

Q: What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?



Monday June 10th

Category: 19th Century Names

A: This French engineer once asked, "Why should we disguise the industrial nature of iron, even in the city?".

Q: Who is Gustav Eiffel?



Friday June 7th

Category: American Writers

A: Contemporary reviews called this writer "a Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes".

Q: Who is Henry David Thoreau?



Thursday June 6th

Category: Americana

A: A Bo'Sun Whistle was once a prize in boxes of this alliterative product introduced in 1963.

Q: What is Cap'n Crunch?



Wednesday June 5th

Category: Sporting Events

A: An old name for this Olympic sporting event is the Quinquertium.

Q: What is the Pentathlon?



Tuesday June 4th

Category: Notable Names

A: In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a 'big bang'".

Q: Who is Stephen Hawking?



Monday June 3rd

Category: European History

A: This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber.

Q: Who is Louis XIV?



Friday May 31st

Category: Classic Novels

A: In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about....chivalry".

Q: What is Don Quixote?



Thursday May 30th

Category: American Scientists

A: In 1920 the N.Y. Times said he lacks the "knowledge ladled out daily in high schools"; on July 17, 1969, the paper apologized.

Q: Who is Robert Goddard?



Wednesday May 29th

Category: American Military Men

A: In April 1951 he told Congress, "In war there can be no substitute for victory".

Q: Who is General Douglas MacArthur?


Tuesday May 28th

Category: American Actors

A: Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral.

Q: Who is Gregory Peck?


Monday May 27th

Category: Classic Kid Stuff

A: This 1920s plaything still made today got its name in tribute to 2 famous men of the day: Marconi & Lindbergh.

Q: What is the Radio Flyer?




Friday May 24th

Category: Disney Songs

A: This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine.

Q: What is "A Spoonful of Sugar"?



Thursday May 23rd

Category: Art Subjects

A: In 1816 Francisco Goya published a series of 33 etchings called "La Tauromaquia", depicting this activity.

Q: What is Bullfighting?



Wednesday May 22nd

Category: American Women

A: Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it".

Q: Who is Rosa Parks?



Tuesday May 21st

Category: French Literature

A: An article about improvements in transportation, including the opening of the Suez Canal, inspired this 1873 novel.

Q: What is Around the World in 80 Days?




College Tournament (May 6th - 17th)


Friday May 17th

Category: The Civil War

A: The last of the 11 southern states to secede from the Union, it borders 6 of them.

Q: What is Tennessee?



Thursday May 16th

Category: 20th Century Presidents

A: These 2 men followed each other consecutively as Vice President & later, in reverse order, as President.

Q: Who are Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson?



Wednesday May 15th

Category: Famous Europeans

A: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem.

Q: Who is Oskar Schindler?



Tuesday May 14th

Category: Modern-Day China

A: Because internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535".

Q: What is June 4th?



Monday May 13th

Category: Authors in the News

A: When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before.

Q: Who is Ray Bradbury?



Friday May 10th

Category: Famous Names in Transportation

A: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, The Smithsonian.

Q: What is the Spirit of St. Louis?



Thursday May 9th

Category: The Continents

A: It's the continent that's home to the most U.N. Member Countries, including a new one added in 2011.

Q: What is Africa?



Wednesday May 8th

Category: Famous Englishman

A: On the eve of his 200th birthday in 2009, the Church of England offered him "an apology for misunderstanding you".

Q: Who is Charles Darwin?



Tuesday May 7th

Category: Characters in Shakespeare

A: This character said to represent Shakespeare's philosophy has a name that means "fortunate" in Latin.

Q: Who is Prospero?



Monday May 3rd

Category: State Quarters

A: The back of the quarter for this state is the only one that features a monarch.

Q: What is Hawaii?




Friday May 3rd

Category: Science

A: For a 1953 paper Odile Crick drew the diagram showing the structure of this.

Q: What is DNA?



Thursday May 2nd

Category: Island Countries

A: No longer "Western", this 1-word nation has moved to the west side of the Intl. Date Line to join Asia & Australia.

Q: What is Samoa?



Wednesday May 1st

Category: The Theater

A: Dramatizing a murder from the year 1170, a 1935 T.S. Eliot play aptly had its first performance in this English city.

Q: What is Canterbury?



Tuesday April 30th

Category: Classic Hit Songs

A: In 1962 Chatham County, Georgia gave this name to a body of water flowing past Johnny Mercer's childhood home.

Q: What is Moon River?



Monday April 29th

Category: Magazines

A: Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013, 5280 Magazine is a guide to this city.

Q: What is Denver?




Friday April 26th

Category: Great Novels

A: A preface to this novel called it "Rustic all through.. moorish, and wild, and knotty as the root of heath".

Q: What is Wuthering Heights?



Thursday April 25th

Category: TV Spin-Offs

A: Premiering in 1993, this show lasted 11 seasons, like its predecessor show; the 2 were set nearly 2,500 miles apart.

Q: What is Frasier?



Wednesday April 24th

Category: The U.S. Government

A: Donna Shalala, Alberto Gonzales, & Tom Vilsack have each served as the "Designated Survivor" skipping this event.

Q: What is The State of the Union Address?



Tuesday April 23rd

Category: Geographic Math

A: North America's 3 mainland countries have a total of 91 states & provinces; Mexico has this many states.

Q: What is 31?



Monday April 22nd

Category: Best Actress Oscar Nominees

A: Her nomination in 1987 was the first Best Actress nomination for a Science Fiction film.

Q: Who is Sigourney Weaver?




Thursday April 18th

Category: World Leaders

A: In 1990 she became the first modern head of government to give birth while in office, to a daughter named Bakhtawar.

Q: Who is Benazir Bhutto?



Wednesday April 17th

Category: 1960's Television

A: Jackie Gleason considered, but then decided against, suing this show that premiered September 30, 1960.

Q: What is The Flintstones?



Tuesday April 16th

Category: Nobel Peace Prize Winners

A: The winner in 1984, he likes to be called "Arch", a reference to his job.

Q: Who is Desmond Tutu?



Monday April 15th

Category: Authors

A: In hiding when his life was threatened, Salman Rushdie paid tribute to Conrad & Chekhov by using this pseudonym.

Q: Who is Joseph Anton?




Friday April 12th

Category: Physicists

A: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone.

Q: What is Win the Nobel Prize for Physics?



Thursday April 11th

Category: World Cities

A: Founded in 1521, 44 years before St. Augustine, Fla., it's the oldest city est. by Europeans on what is now U.S. territory.

Q: What is San Juan, Puerto Rico?



Wednesday April 10th

Category: 19th Century Authors

A: His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules".

Q: Who is Lewis Carroll?



Tuesday April 9th

Category: The Tony Awards

A: Winner of Best Play in 1949, it's the only play to win the Best Revival Tony 3 different times.

Q: What is Death of a Salesman?



Monday April 8th

Category: Art

A: One of its principal members said, "One morning one of us, having no black, used blue instead, &" this movement "was born".

Q: What is Impressionism?




Friday April 5th

Category: Broadway Musicals

A: The last song in this musical is "Tomorrow is a Latter Day".

Q: What is The Book of Mormon?



Thursday April 4th

Category: At The Grocery Store

A: The National Promotion Board for this food, citrullus lanatus, lists hydration as a primary health benefit.

Q: What is Watermelon?



Wednesday April 3rd

Category: 20th Century Names

A: In 2012 her picture replaced that of Julio Argentino Roca on a currency note.

Q: Who is Eva Peron?



Tuesday April 2nd

Category: Authors

A: This author who passed away in 2012 quipped, "For those who haven't read the books, I am known best for my hair preparations".

Q: Who is Gore Vidal?



Monday April 1st

Category: State Mottos

A: On a state seal since 1850, this one-word motto is found in a story about Archimedes.

Q: What is Eureka?




Friday March 29th

Category: Presidential Elections

A: Since 1850, 1 of the 2 republicans to appear on a ticket as president or vice president 3 elections in a row.

Q: Who are Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush?



Thursday March 28th

Category: Business

A: In 1972 this company bought its first ship, the Empress of Canada, & renamed it the Mardi Gras.

Q: What is Carnival Cruise Lines?



Wednesday March 27th

Category: Awards

A: For 2012, the front of these awards shows Nike stepping out of the Parthenon & the reverse depicts the Thames.

Q: What are the Olympic Medals?



Tuesday March 26th

Category: The 1990s

A: The 7th & last American to stay there was aerodynamic scientist Andy Thomas, with 130 days there in 1998.

Q: What is the Mir Space Station?



Monday March 25th

Category: The AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies

A: "The Wizard of Oz" & this 1950s film are the 2 musicals in the Top 10 on the AFI's list.

Q: What is Singing in the Rain?




Friday March 22nd

Category: Science Words

A: This biological term for cell division was borrowed in 1939 to describe a form of energy release.

Q: What is Fission?



Thursday March 21st

Category: Artists

A: On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others.

Q: Who is Vincent Van Gogh?



Wednesday March 20th

Category: Europeana

A: In the 16th century the ancestors of the current president of France fled what is now this country.

Q: What is the Netherlands?



Tuesday March 19th

Category: Literary Title Places

A: An 1831 novel says that Charlemagne laid the first stone of this title place, "Old Queen of Our Cathedrals".

Q: What is Notre Dame?



Monday March 18th

Category: Songs

A: This U.S. ceremonial song was written in 1811 about the head of a Scottish clan, not an American leader.

Q: What is Hail to the Chief?




Friday March 15th

Category: Shakespeare

A: Samuel Johnson said Shakespeare "so carefully informs us" that this play is set on the eve of May Day & yet called it this.

Q: What is A Mid-Summer Night's Dream?



Thursday March 14th

Category: Beatles Songs

A: It was one of the Beatles' longest songs & the one to spend the most time at no. 1 on the U.S. charts--9 weeks.

Q: What is Hey Jude?



Wednesday March 13th

Category: Newspapers

A: The circulation of The Times of New York & London totals about 1/2 the "Times of" this place, largest of any English daily.

Q: What is India?



Tuesday March 12th

Category: Historical Relatives

A: This king was the first of Henry VIII's many fathers-in-law.

Q: Who is King Ferdinand?



Monday March 11th

Category: British Novels

A: Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn.

Q: Who is Tess of the d'Urbervilles?




Friday March 8th

Category: The Oscars

A: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars:  He for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win.

Q: Who are Jane and Peter Fonda?



Thursday March 7th

Category: The Western Hemisphere

A: One of the 2 Central American countries never under military rule in the last 50 years.

Q: What are Costa Rica and Belize?



Wednesday March 6th

Category: U.S. History

A: Congress has passed 11 of these:  The first in 1812, the last in 1942.

Q: What are Declarations of War?



Tuesday March 5th

Category: Classic Novels

A: In this novel the title character says, "It is a bad omen" after a guard does not hear a train & is crushed.

Q: What is Anna Karenina?



Monday March 4th

Category: Colleges & Universities

A: One of its mascots is a restored 1930 Sport Coupe that's been in use at the school since 1961.

Q: What is Georgia Tech?




Friday March 1st


Category: Business History

A: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned.

Q: Who is A.C. Nielsen?



Thursday February 28th

Category: The Universe

A: In 2006 it was moved to a new list that includes Ceres & Eris.

Q: What is Pluto?



Wednesday February 27th

Category: Speechwriters

A: To the question "Did you write the best-known line in JFK's Inaugural?" Ted Sorensen would smile & say these 2 words.

Q: What is "Ask Not"?




Tournament of Champions (Feb 13 - Feb 26)



Tuesday February 26th

Category: 19th Century America

A: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as President of the United States.

Q: What is 1841 or 1881?



Monday February 25th

Category: American Authors

A: In 1925 she visited a floating theater docked in North Carolina to research her next novel.

Q: Who is Edna Ferber?



Friday February 22nd

Category: Italy

A: The Italian word for "Shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence.

Q: What is Umbria?



Thursday February 21st

Category: Russian History

A: Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger.

Q: What is Stalin's First Five-Year Plan?



Wednesday February 20th

Category: Classic Jazz Songs

A: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared.

Q: What is Take Five?



Tuesday February 19th

Category: The New 7 Wonders of the World

A: On the new list chosen in 2007, this wonder designed by Heitor da Silva Costa is the only statue.

Q: What is Christ the Redeemer (it's that big statue in Rio de Janeiro)?



Monday February 18th

Category: World Capitals

A: Alphabetically, Zagreb is the last world capital; this capital of a former Soviet Republic is second to last.

Q: What is Yerevan?



Friday February 15th

Category: Famous Women

A: Her 1886 obituary in a Mass. paper said, "Very few in the village, except among the older inhabitants, knew" her "personally".

Q: Who is Emily Dickinson?



Thursday February 14th

Category: Museums

A: Its collection includes a 16" high architects' model of its first permanent building, opened in 1939.  (There is a picture of a model of a building that kind of looks like an open piano)

Q: What is the Museum of Modern Art?




Wednesday February 13th

Category: The Rosetta Stone

A: Champollion's deciphering the 1st symbol as "Sun" led to translating the name of this leader --there were 11 of them named this.

Q: What is Ramses?




Teen Tournament (Jan 30-Feb 12)


Tuesday February 12th

Category: Military Men

A: On June 6, 1944 he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you".

Q: Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?



Monday February 11th

Category: American Literature

A: In the 1st chapter of this 1939 novel, "When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust".

Q: What is The Grapes of Wrath?




Friday February 8th

Category: U.S. Government

A: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 Act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire.

Q: What is FEMA?



Thursday February 7th

Category: Capital Cities

A: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "Peace Walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods.

Q: What is Belfast?



Wednesday February 6th

Category: Famous Asians

A: When this diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012, he said, "Until 2 days ago...I was the most famous Korean in the world".

Q: Who is Ban Ki-moon?



Tuesday February 5th

Category: Short Stories

A: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth...in nightly quest of his head".

Q: What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?



Monday February 4th

Category: Mount Rushmore

A: It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore.

Q: What is Virginia?




Friday February 1st

Category: The Planets

A: To the Ancient Greeks & Romans, it was the slowest-moving planet seen from Earth.

Q: What is Saturn?



Thursday January 31st

Category: Fundraising

A: In 2011 the city of Savannah granted an exemption allowing the sale of these items outside Juliette Gordon Low's birthplace.

Q: What are Girl Scout Cookies?



Wednesday January 30th

Category: Historic Quotes

A: In April 1865 he said, "Go home, all you boys who fought with me, and help to build up the shattered fortunes of our old state".

Q: Who is Robert E. Lee?



Tuesday January 29th

Category: Meteorological Terms

A: In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that 1st determined this measurement heard in weather reports.

Q: What is Wind Chill?



Monday January 28th

Category: The Grammys

A: Of the more than 75 competitive categories, this one does not cite the title of any album, song or other project.

Q: What is Best New Artist?




Friday January 25th

Category: Musical Theater

A: Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People".

Q: What is Funny Girl?



Thursday January 24th

Category: Olympic Host Cities

A: When this city hosted the XIV Winter Olympics, it was located in a different nation than today.

Q: What is Sarajevo?



Wednesday January 23rd

Category: Women Authors

A: The first of Jane Austen's 6 novels to be published in her lifetime, its title is last alphabetically.

Q: What is Sense and Sensibility?



Tuesday January 22nd

Category: Official Country Names

A: It's the only nation in the world that officially describes itself as a confederation.

Q: What is Switzerland or Swiss Confederation?



Monday January 21st

Category: Museums

A: Opened in 2012, the Belfast museum seen here commemorates this, also constructed there. (There was a picture of a building that supposedly looked like a ship's bow)

Q: What is the Titanic?




Friday January 18th

Category: Military Slogans

A: In 1779 U.S. Marine Corps Captain William Jones advertised for these, later a 1992 movie title.

Q: What are A Few Good Men?



Thursday January 17th

Category: 19th Century Literary Introductions

A: Title character who's "Clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere".

Q: Who is Dracula?



Wednesday January 16th

Category: Recent Oscar Winners

A: From 2008, it's the most recent film to win Best Picture & Best Song; the lyrics are in a foreign language.

Q: What is Slumdog Millionaire? (I forgot this movie even won, probably b/c it sucked)



Tuesday January 15th

Category: U.S. Landmarks

A: Design artist Iwao Takamoto said the exterior for the Skypad Apts. on "The Jetsons" was inspired by a landmark in this city.

Q: What is Seattle?



Monday January 14th

Category: Countries of the World

A: 2 of the 3 countries that are completely encircled by one other country.

Q: What are San Marino, Vatican City, and Lesotho?




Friday January 11th

Category: Rivers

A: It's the world's longest river whose outflow is into an entirely inland body of water.

Q: What is the Volga River?



Thursday January 10th

Category: Legal Terms

A: This term for a type of decision is from old French for "to speak the truth".

Q: What is Verdict?



Wednesday January 9th

Category: Capital Cities

A: These 2 world capitals are separated by only 250 miles of land & less than 1 degree of latitude, at 59* 17' & 59* 57' N.

Q: What is Stockholm and Oslo?



Tuesday January 8th

Category: Presidential Distinctions

A: Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office.

Q: Who is Jimmy Carter?



Monday January 7th

Category: American Sports Legends

A: A bio from 1974, 26 years after his death, quotes him: "I swing big... I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can".

Q: Who is Babe Ruth?




Friday January 4th

Category: Imaginary Characters

A: For a 1912 play they were dubbed Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick, & Quee; 25 years later, they got new names.

Q: Who are The Seven Dwarves?



Thursday January 3rd

Category: Sex & The Constitution

A: Of the 27 Amendments to the Constitution, it's the number of the the only one to contain the word "sex".

Q: What is the 19th Amendment?



Wednesday January 2nd

Category: Baseball Stadiums

A: This Major League Baseball team's current stadium was built for a 20th century Olympics.

Q: Who are the Atlanta Braves?



Tuesday January 1st

Category: 19th Century America

A: Held in 1857, America's first national landscape design contest was for the creation of this place.

Q: What is Central Park?


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