Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Jeopardy Contestant Test Questions Part Two

I told you I would post the other two Jeopardy tests, and I'm definitely not a liar.

Below you'll find transcribed questions from the Jeopardy test on Wednesday, January 28th.

Of course, this is only the first stage of the application process, but if you score pretty well here, you're well on your way!

Oh, and remember to properly simulate test conditions, only give yourself 15 seconds for each question! Have fun!

1)MONTHS OF THE YEAR
Each year, it's Black History Month

2)RECENT MOVIES
"Slumdog Millionaire" is set in this city

3)ROYALTY
This British queen outlived her husband by 39 years.

4)LITERARY GENRES
An epistolary novel is written in the form of these.

5)DRAMA
This group played a major role in early Greek comedy but later only appeared between acts.

6)BIG BUSINESS
Murex, Conch, and Clam were names of early tankers owned by this company.

7)FAMILIAR PHRASES
A farewell performance is this bird's "song".

8)ANIMALS IN LITERATURE
The villains in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" are this type of animal.

9)SIMPLE SCIENCE
It's the type of electrical current that only travels one way.

10)GOLF LINGO
It's the term for shooting a 3 on a par-5 hole.

11)U.S. STATES
It's the third-largest state in the U.S. in area.

12)MILITARY HISTORY
This ship sunk December 7th, 1941 was designated a National Landmark in 1989.

13)BACK TO BACH
A group of 6 chamberworks from 1721 is known as these concertos.

14)PATRIOTIC SONGS
"The Fruited Plain" appears in this 1893 song.

15)CELEBRITIES
In 2008 this young actress confirmed her couplehood with Samantha Ronson.

16)VOCABULARY
It's a lady's dressing table, or a synonym for conceit.

17)ASTRONOMERS
Ptolemy's model was accepted for over 1000 years, until this Polish thinker came along in the 1500's.

18)RELIGIOUS LEADERS
He served as the Archbishop of Krakow in the 1960's.

19)AMERICAN NOVELS
This Upton Sinclair book was instrumental in the passage of the Pure Food & Drug Act

20)THE ART WORLD
He died in 1890 having sold 1 painting; in 1990 his Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million

21)BODIES OF WATER
Over a mile deep and 25 million years old, it's the deepest and oldest lake on earth.

22)THE INTERNET
The Mozilla Foundation released this open-source web browser in 2004.

23)BESTSELLERS
Completes the title of Elizabeth Gilbert's tale of a 3-country journey, "Eat, Pray ..."

24)THE 20TH CENTURY
Country in whose civil war the International Brigades fought in the 1930's.

25)'B' IN GEOLOGY
Formed from cooling lava, it's the most abundant volcanic rock.

26)ARCHITECTURE
Many Gothic cathedrals used an arched support called a "flying" this.

27)COLLEGE LATIN
3-word Latin phrase for the highest honors granted on graduation.

28)AMERICAN POEMS
Plural title of Joyce Kilmer's work that admits, "Poems are made by fools like me."

29)TV THEMES
It's "where everybody knows your name".

30)THE METRIC SYSTEM
1 inch equals 2.54 of these.

31)THE GRAMMYS
The 2007 classical crossover Grammy went to "Love Supreme: the Legacy of" this 1960's Jazz sax man.

32)BRITISH AUTHORS
His "Tom Jones" is one of the first great British novels.

33)19th C. PRESIDENTS
In 1823 he declared the Americas off-limits for European colonization.

34)HISPANIC AMERICANS
This governor of New Mexico ran for president in 2008.

35)U.S. CITIES
It forms a Metropolitan Statistical Area along with Cambridge & Quincy.

36)SHORT STORIES
Nick Adams is the protagonist in many of the short stories in this author's "In Our Time".

37)THE ELEMENTS
This element makes up about 78% of normal dry air by volume.

38)STATE BIRDS
The male of this state bird of Maryland is black, white & orange.

39)PLACES IN THE BIBLE
In Exodus 19 "The Lord descended upon" this mount "in fire".

40)STARTS & ENDS WITH 'T'
Object in which you'd brew your oolong.

41)WORLD LEADERS
This Venezuelan president likes to call his country a Bolivarian Republic.

42)20TH CENTURY LIT
T.S. Eliot's verse drama "Murder in the Cathedral" deals with the death of this man.

43)LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
This general, who took the Alamo, was made President of Mexico 11 times between 1833 and 1855.

44)WALL STREET WOES
This investment bank, swallowed up in 2008, had an appropriately non-bullish word in its name.

45)BUZZWORDS
This "bump" made Time Magazine's top 10 buzzwords of 2008.

46)PHYSICS
Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second.

47)STATES OF THE UNION
It's "The Yellowhammer State".

48)POETS
"The Tyger" is a famous lyric by this author-illustrator.

49)HANDICRAFTS
"Knit one" is commonly followed by this action "two".

50)THE MUSIC SCENE
This British band released "In Rainbows" as a name-your-own-price digital download.



And now the answers to all the questions (all data here was totally ripped off from the internet, so thanks to whoever the original compiler was)

ANSWERS

1) February
2) Mumbai (Bombay)
3) Queen Victoria
4) Letters (possibly documents, too)
5) The chorus
6) Shell
7) swan
8) snakes
9) direct current
10) eagle (maybe 'two-under-par', but I doubt it)
11) California
12) U.S.S. Arizona
13) The Brandeburg Concertos
14) "America the Beautiful"
15) Lindsay Lohan
16) vanity
17) Copernicus
18) Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła)
19) "The Jungle"
20) van Gogh
21) Lake Baikal
22) Firefox
23) "Love"
24) Spain
25) basalt
26) buttress
27) summa cum laude
28) "Trees"
29) "Cheers"
30) centimeters
31) John Coltrane
32) Henry Fielding
33) James Monroe
34) Bill Richardson
35) Boston
36) Ernest Hemmingway
37) nitrogen
38) oriole
39) Sinai
40) teapot
41) Hugo Chavez
42) Archbishop Thomas Becket
43) Santa Anna
44) Bear Stearns
45) fist bump
46) horsepower
47) Alabama
48) William Blake
49) purl
50) Radiohead

Hope you did well! If not, I'd recommend studying either through an awesome site like Sporcle.com or with a book like this one:



It was the one I used to study before I went on the show.

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