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BUILDINGS
SCIENTIFIC ISMs
LITERARY NAME DROPPERS
YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
Of her address to a 2019 global climate summit: "If you choose to fail us, I say, we will never forgive you"
(Greta) Thunberg
100
Charlie Munger planned a building at Michigan & a future 4,500-bed one at UCSB, both much discussed for the rooms' lack of these
windows
100
Some plant roots exhibit "negative" this -ism, turning away from the source of light
phototropism
100
A tragicomedy in 2 acts:
"Waiting for ____"
Godot
100
Dad wore flannel shirts & Doc Martens while listening to this music style of Nirvana & Pearl Jam
grunge
200
Of Rep. Shirley Chisholm's speech in favor of this proposed amendment: "There were no founding mothers--a great pity"
the Equal Rights Amendment
200
It's the geographic "Q" in the 1,058-foot Q1, Australia's tallest building
Queensland
200
It means walking on 2 legs & it first set our ancestors apart from apes 6 million or so years ago
bipedalism
200
Melville's
"____, the Scrivener"
Bartleby
200
Mom bought tickets over the phone (that used to be a thing) for this rocker's 1984-85 "Born in the U.S.A." tour
Springsteen
200
CATEGORY
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
300
Of her Nov. 29, 1872 trial hearing: "Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?" Her reply: "Not a particle"
Susan B. Anthony
300
The Burke Museum on the campus of this state U. has a shed-style roof inspired by the Coast Salish people of the Olympic Peninsula
Washington
300
Here's Dr. Pumpkinstein with a creation that exhibits this -ism
giantism (or gigantism)
300
Partly narrated by his college roommate:
"The Brief Wondrous Life of ____ ____"
Oscar Wao
300
In 1994 they watched this former Police-man win a Grammy for his vocal on "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You"
Sting (Gordon Sumner)
300
ANSWER
This country, the largest in area entirely within Europe, borders the largest country in the world
400
Of the radio broadcast of this 1937 disaster: "There's smoke and there's flames... Oh, the humanity"
the burning of the Hindenburg
400
Each side of this U.S. building extends for 921 feet; its total perimeter is 4,605 feet
the Pentagon
400
It's the word for tremors & other movement issues associated with a certain disease, even if not caused by it
parkinsonism
400
Famous first line of "Atlas Shrugged":
"Who is ____ ____?"
John Galt
400
In 1998 they were among the millions who bought "The Miseducation of" this Fugees singer
Lauryn Hill
400
QUESTION
Ukraine
500
Of this senator's 1954 hearings investigating the U.S. Army: "Have you no sense of decency?"
Joseph McCarthy
500
Wingspread, a sprawling home for wax tycoon Herbert F. Johnson, was Frank Lloyd Wright's last house in this style
Prairie Style
500
The alligators at Louisiana's Audubon Zoo have this -ism, from the Greek for "white", a loss of melanin akin to albinism
leucism
500
From a Percy Shelley poem:
"My name is ____, king of kings"
Ozymandias
500
They heard Chuck D & this band revolutionize hip-hop with albums like 1988's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
Public Enemy