Events in Years ending with 9
Hail "Mary"
Full of "Grace"
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
Word Play
Midterm Exam
100
George Washington became the first president of the United States.
What is 1789?
100
This is a mixture of tomato juice and vodka, sometimes served with a celery stick.
What is a Bloody Mary?
100
This Hollywood actress married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956 and became a princess.
Who is Grace Kelly?
100
In 1912, a French tailor tested a wearable parachute he had designed by jumping from this landmark—and died when it failed.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
100
Remove the first letter from this royal title and you will get to a dark place that is pronounced the same.
What is knight and night?
100
The Election Act of 1845 designated the date of all elections across the country. This year it will fall on this date.
What is Tuesday, November 3?
200
Michael Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon.
What is 1969?
200
This author wrote Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
200
This American singer was the lead vocalist for Jefferson Airplane.
Who is Grace Slick?
200
This French military leader's invasion of Russia in 1812 ended in catastrophe, in part because his forces were unprepared for the conditions and the retreat.
Who is Napoleon?
200
What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
What is incorrectly?
200
On Monday, October 12, Trump traveled to this state to support Republican Senator Jon Husted and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
What is Ohio?
300
Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh my!. This is the year that the Wizard of Oz was released.
What is 1939?
300
This six year girls was named Scottish queen and was executed in 1587 on the orders of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
Who is Mary Queen of Scots?
300
Debi Messing played a character on this show.
What is Will and Grace?
300
This drug was prescribed to pregnant women in several countries from the late 1950s to the early 1960s to relieve morning sickness, but its use caused severe birth defects in thousands of children.
What is thalidomide?
300
Rearrange SCHOOLMASTER into a two-word phrase describing where a teacher works.
What is THE CLASSROOM?
300
Democrats are working hard to turn the senate race in this state since the last time a democratic Senator won a statewide election was 1988.
What is Texas (Ken Paxton - R vs. James Talarico-D).
400
A common European currency (Euro) was introduced for electronic payments and financial transactions, before coins and banknotes arrived a few years later.
What is 1999?
400
This comedy was released in 1998 and has a classic scene involving a zipper.
What is There's Something About Mary?
400
Holly Hunter played a troubled Oklahoma cop who is given a chance to redeem herself by an angel named Earl in this 2007-2010 series.
What is Saving Grace?
400
His predecessor William McKinley was assasianated in Buffalo, New York and he survived an assassination attempt on October 14, 1912, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
Catch a sight of this word pair both starting with an o meaning “to supervise” and “to fail to notice or ignore.”
What is oversee/overlook?
400
In the last midterm, after the Supreme Court overturned this case in June 2022, voters in several states many states voted on the issue.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
500
Congress passed this constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote; it was ratified the following year.
What is 1919?
500
This American artist, known for her Impressionist paintings, created The Child's Bath.
Who is and Mary Stevenson Cassatt?
500
Comedian Brett Butler played a divorced single mother raising three children while rebuilding her life in this series (1993-1998).
What is Grace Under Fire?
500
A German company marketed this highly addictive drug as a cough remedy, hoping it would be a safer substitute for morphine.
What is heroin?
500
This word meaning below the surface starts and ends with the same three letters in the exact order.
What is underground?
500
This is the number of U.S. House of Representatives seats that will be up for grabs in the midterms.
What is 435 (all of them)? A Reuters report on October 12 estimated that just 40–50 of the 435 House seat are in contention.
600
Bonus Jeopardy
Historical Birth Buddies
600
In 1809, on the same day in February, a future president who would preserve the Union and a future scientist who would transform biology were born. Name them both.
Who is Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin?