Actual Jeopardy Qs
Scientific Names:
It was first given a scientific name meaning "Flat-Footed Duck"; It was later given one meaning "Birdlike Snout"
Platypus
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas will become the youngest two-time Oscar winners in history if they win for their song featured in this movie
Barbie
This city was the site of the first modern Olympics
Athens, Greece
This noble allegedly exclaimed "Let them eat cake"
Marie Antoinette
Defying Gravity, Popular, The Wizard and I
Wicked
Body Parts in Latin:
Genu (as in genuflect)
Knee
This famous score composer, and frequent Spielberg collaborator, has the most Oscar nominations of any living person
John Williams
This is the northernmost national capital city in the world
Reykjavik, Iceland
This poet and playwright is given credit for the quote “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken"
Oscar Wilde
Summer Nights, Beauty School Dropout, Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee
Grease
Fruit:
Clingstone and freestone are the two main classifications for this fruit, once called a Persian apple
Peach
This performer earned a nomination for his role in Killers of the Flower Moon, and set a new record for the longest time between an actor's first and last Oscar nomination (49 years)
Robert De Niro
This is the smallest country in the world, housing a population of 825
Vatican City
This rhyming children's book author never wrote "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
Dr. Seuss
My Shot, You'll Be Back, Wait For It
Hamilton
An Atomic Category:
These subatomic particles come in 6 flavors, including up, down & strange
Quarks
This Best Picture nominee is technically the first Christmas movie to be nominated for Best Picture since 1948’s Miracle on 34th Street
The Holdovers
This country is known as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes"
Finland
This fictional anti-hero actually never uttered the phrase “Elementary my dear Watson"
Sherlock Holmes
Good Morning Baltimore, You Can't Stop The Beat, Welcome to the 60's
Hairspray
In The Dictionary:
The last entry in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is used to represent this annoying sound
Snoring
This quirky director, nominated for best live action short film, has now been nominated in five different categories, but has never won a trophy
Wes Anderson
This country is made up of more than 7,000 islands
Philippines
This movie star is meant to have said "Well-behaved women rarely make history"?
Marilyn Monroe
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