S&T Scares
Whatever you do, don't get lost in this seasonal attraction run by the Mining & Explosives Engineering Department.
What is the Haunted Mine?
This witch in "The Wizard of Oz" tries to thwart Dorothy & is almost certainly aquaphobic.
Jeopardy 10/23/24: Be Witched for $200
Who is the Wicked Witch of the West?
In 1898, an author published a book depicting the sinking of a passenger liner. 14 years liner, a similarly named ship would sink.
(200 for Ships name, Optional 200 for book name).
What is the Titanic? What is Titan?
In this book you'll find "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body".
Jeopardy 1/5/2024, Lines in Classic Novels for $200
What is Dracula?
Arachibutyrophobia [Araqi-beau-tyro-phobia] is the fear of having this spread stuck to the roof of your mouth.
What is Peanut Butter?
This is the country in which Halloween originated.
In the spring, S&T loves to partake in one of this country's other holidays...
Where is Ireland?
In the movie “Halloween”, the mask of Michael Myers is a painted version of a character's mask from this Sci-Fi show.
What is Star Trek?
On Halloween 2012 the New York Stock Exchange reopened after being closed for 2 days due to this weather event.
Jeopardy 10/31/17, What Happened When? for $400.
What was Hurricane Sandy?
In the 1930s the Daily Mail printed Robert Wilson's now-famous photo that purported to show its head & neck.
Jeopardy 12/5/23, A Paranormal Catagory for $600
What was The Loch Ness Monster?
These are the three assumptions for the Bernoulli Equation.
(400 per)
The flow is steady, incompressible, and inviscid.
According to the 22-23 COER Reported Career Outcomes, this was the average salary reported for a Civil Engineering student with a Bachelors. (+- $3k)
Name the film with this tagline:
"We dare you to say his name five times"
Jeopardy 1/4/22: Taglines of Scary Movies for $800
What is Candyman?
In 1494, This European nation experienced the closest thing to a real-life zombie outbreak, caused by a syphilis outbreak.
This rum cocktail was created in the 1930s for a tiki bar called Don the Beachcomber; it might be less fun after too many.
Jeopardy 4/16/24, Just For Fun [_]'s for $800.
What is a Zombie?
[The Zombie is also acceptable].
This phenomenon could occur in our canoe due to a point load (knee contact) through our canoe. (Two word answer).
What is Punching Shear?
According to the US Census & S&T Public Records, this is Mo Dehghani's Salary for the 2023 calendar year. (+- $20,000).
How much is $578,150.12 ?
Any answer ranging from 558,150.12 - 608,150.12 is correct.
https://collaborate.umsystem.edu/sites/hrpublic/documents/GEN/CURRENT/annual-salary-report.pdf
page 378
The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story. This story would be adapted by Mike Flannagan into a Netflix show in 2023.
Jeopardy 10/22/24: That's Just Part of the Story for $1000
What is The Fall of the House of Usher?
In 1929, researchers at Princeton University turned this animal into a working telephone... while it was still alive.
What is a Cat?
The scientists, Ernest Wever and Charles Bray, cut out part of its brain and attached one end of a telephone wire to its auditory nerve and the other end to a receiver. When Bray said something into the cat’s ears, Wever could hear him through the receiver in a soundproof room.
https://universityarchives.princeton.edu/2017/04/the-cat-telephone/
A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance".
Jeopardy 2/8/24, End Of Story for $800
What is Frankenstein?
What is The Freakler's Ethnicity?
(3 part answer. Two parts for 800 points and 1600 for all 3).
What is Thai, Japanese, and Hawaiian?
To graduate from the CArEE department, you are required to take 129 total credit hours. If you took this many more credits, you could graduate with a Civil & Architectural Engineering Dual Degree. (+-1)
How many hours is 19?
This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy--& some other things.
Jeopardy 1/30/23, Scary Movies for $2000
What is The Wicker Man?
These two former US presidents (still living) have misplaced Nuclear Launch Codes.
You must name both for all of the points.
Who are Jimmy Carter & Bill Clinton?
The producer of this 1922 German silent film was accused of ripping off Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula".
Jeopardy 5/1/19, VAMPIRE-POURRI for $4600
What is Nosferatu?
An alkyl is a hydrocarbon that has lost one of these atoms that has just 1 proton in its nucleus.
Jeopardy 10/31/23: Organic Chemistry for $1600
What is Hydrogen?