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Movies
Perplexing History
200
This book you get when accepted into S&T makes an interesting coffee table read.
What is Forged in Gold?
200
This letter is used to define a generation & also as a label for superhero mutants.
Jeopardy Catagory: Letter Perfect
What is X?
200
The singer responsible for the highest grossing tour of all time at $1,039,263,762 spanning from 2023 to 2024.
Who is Taylor Swift?
200
The movie directed recently by Greta Gerwig, relating to a popular children's doll that was released in the late 50s.
What is Barbie?
200
Sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn't popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century!
What is ketchup? (Chup if you will?)
400
This global conflict saw Curtis Laws Wilson enroll as an American soldier.
What is WW2?
400
This root veggie was first domesticated in Asia around the 10th c.; in the 17th c., Dutch painters popularized the orange variety
What is a carrot?
400
An art studio called Poetic Kinetics created the ginormous floating astronaut for the 2014 edition of this SoCal music festival
What is Coachella?
400
The curse word said simultaneously by Ice Cube and Chris Tucker from the movie Friday from 1995.
Hint: The two characters Craig and Smokey are sitting in lawn chairs and Smokey asks their friend Red, "how's your eye?" Both Craig and Smokey say this word in response.
What is DAAAAMNNNN?
400
What country did the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team defeat in the semi-finals of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, a game commonly known as the “Miracle on Ice”?
The Soviet Union
600
This was the original name of the school.
What is the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (MSM)?
600
In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California.
Jeopardy Catagory: Colleges & Universities
Where is UCLA?
600
This wind instrument evolved from the aura & the symphonium of the 1820s.
It is nearly tied for the best-selling instrument worldwide with Guitars and was the first instrument played in Space.
What is a Harmonica?
600
This Netflix series is based on Julia Quinn's series of eight novels about a families search of love in Regency-era London.
What is Bridgerton?
600
During the Battle of the Marne in this war, 6,000 French soldiers were rushed to the front lines in taxicabs.
What is World War 1?
800
Before Castleman Hall, the music offices used to be in this building on campus.
Hint: Don't think too hard about this. You don't need to if you want a degree in this field.
Where is Harris Hall? (Economics and ROTC)
800
2x Jeopardy!
Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program.
Jeopardy Catagory: 3 LITTLE LETTERS
What is the CDC?
800
After WWII a new country music style was named for this kind of roadside joint & Hank Williams was its biggest star
What is that honky-tonk music?
800
This (ironically slow) movie has the 5th largest budget of any major blockbuster released in 2023.
The movie in question has only regained half of its budget back in profit.
What is The Flash?
800
34 days after FDR was elected in 1932, this leader came to power. They later lost their power 19 days after FDR in 1945.
Who is Hitler?
1000
In this year, Butler-Carlton Hall opened up.
For reference, S&T did not have civil engineering COURSES until the 1920s. Over time, they required a whole new building.
Range of (+- 10 years)
When was 1960?
1000
The country where fortune cookies originated.
Japan
1000
This musician was deported from Japan in the 1980s for possession of marijuana.
Hint: This artist has worked with Kanye West and Michael Jackson. They now own the entire Beatles catalog.
Who is Paul McCartney
1000
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it” - Matthew Broderick said this quote of this film.
Hint: This is Grant's favorite movie and involves skipping school for adventures throughout downtown Chicago.
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
1000
This university is older than the Aztec empire.
What is Oxford?