Please Welcome Myth Greece
Teen Math
A Word of Advice
Quoting the Movies
Oops on Stamps
Coming of Age
FINAL JEOPARDY!
400
Enjoying mountain living, 12 major Greek gods called this place home; at nearly 9,600' up there, the gods did have a nice view
What is Olympus
400
Book 13 of his "Elements" deals with regular solids
Who is Euclid
400
A friendly hint, or 20% for good service
What is a tip
400
2015: "I gotta… grow 3 years worth of food… on a planet where nothing grows… luckily I'm a botanist"
What is The Martian
400
A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L")
What is illiteracy
400
This age came in with Britain's new queen in 1837
Who/What is Victoria or the Victorian Age
800
Heracles got in on an expedition with the Argonauts, led by this man
Who is Jason
800
A problem at the 2017 Intl. Math Olympiad for Teens involved one of these lines touching a circle at a single point
What is a tangent line
800
Advice on where to go; you might get it from the same type of high school counselor
What is guidance
800
A 2003 cartoon: "All drains lead to the ocean"
What is Finding Nemo
800
A stamp had this big landmark; not the original in N.Y. Harbor, but the lady in front of Vegas' New York-New York Casino
What is the Statue of Liberty
800
The golden age of this buccaneering activity began around 1650
What is piracy
1200
In addition to being god of the sea, he's also the god of earthquakes
Who is Poseidon
1200
It's (13 + 14) x 15
What is 405
1200
Leave this 10-letter advice in the box; maybe we'll take it
What is a suggestion
1200
2009: "You’re not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora"
What is Avatar
1200
On the stamp seen here, Monaco "oops"ed by putting 5 fingers & a thumb, too, on this New Deal U.S. president
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
1200
Wet cultivation of this crop marks the start of Japan's Yayoi Period
What is rice
1200
Winner of 6 Tonys in 2017, it's the first Broadway musical to focus on the subject of teens & social media
What is Dear Evan Hansen
1600
Thought to be the center of the Earth, this town at Mt. Parnassus' foot was known for its oracle--ya see that coming?
What is Delphi
1600
In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers
What is a prime number
1600
Beginning & ending with "M", it's a wise saying or rule of conduct
What is a maxim
1600
2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock: "Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?"
What is Gravity
1600
A 1932 Philippine stamp honored Pagsanjan Falls but showed Vernal Falls in this California national park
What is Yosemite
1600
In history's stages per Karl Marx, feudalism gave way to this -ism, AKA the free market
What is capitalism
2000
Homer dubbed this war god "the blood-stained bane of mortals", & ol' Homie wasn't far wrong
Who is Ares
2000
In 1640 16-year-old Blaise Pascal came to math fame with an essay on these "sections"
What are conic sections
2000
I'm going to give you this, also an access point on a computer or the info that goes through it
What is an input
2000
2017: "I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus"
What is Wonder Woman
2000
A 1968 Chinese stamp, "The Whole Country Is Red", did not red out this island, & the authorities soon recalled it
What is Taiwan
2000
For warships, the iron age began at the same time as the age of this type of power
What is steam