Science & Technology
History & History of Words (Etymology)
Cheeses
Famous Folk
Animals
Final Jeopardy Question
100
Named after a Dutch physicist, this effect causes the observed frequency of waves to change based on relative motion between source and observer.
What is the Doppler effect?
100
Founded by Allen and Wright in 1920s California, this root beer stand became one of America's first franchised restaurant chains.
What is A&W?
100
What is blue cheese?
100
She is the only female to serve as Canadian Prime Minister, serving from June 1993-November 1993.
Who is Kim Campbell?
100
These large land mammals are the only animals that can’t jump
What are elephants?
100
Which of the following animals are not born with a shell?
A) Snails
B) Crabs
C) Turtles
D) Tortoises
C
200
What is the only stone that floats?
Pumice
200
From Latin, this word deriving from famulus originally referred to the household slaves and servants under one roof
What is family?
200
The "eyes" or holes in Emmentaler Swiss cheese are formed by this gas, produced by Propionibacterium freudenreichii bacteria during aging.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
Paul McCartney's middle name
What is Paul?
200
This is the only bird that can fly backwards
What is the hummingbird?
300
This element was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1772 and Joseph Priestley in 1774.
What is oxygen?
300
In 1788, widespread shortages of this staple food in Paris helped fuel riots and unrest that contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution
What is bread?
300
This Italian cheese's name means "recooked" because it's made from the whey left over from making other cheeses
What is ricotta?
300
This singer/songwriter is the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award.
Who is Billie Eilish?
300
This common household pet cannot taste sweetness.
What is a cat?
400
This device, while initially invented to assist in childbirth in the late 1800s, now famously requires hearing protection to be used in modern industrial contexts.
What is a chainsaw?
400
This 17th-century word for a foolish person may derive from Latin "non compos mentis" or French "nicodème," referencing this biblical figure.
What is nincompoop? (Who is Nicodemus?)
400
Unlike American "Parmesan," Parmigiano-Reggiano uses only these three ingredients in its production, with no additives allowed.
What are milk, salt, and rennet?
400
The first recorded autopsy was performed on this historical figure.
Who is Julius Caesar?
400
This bird cannot move its eyes in its sockets
What is an ostrich?
500
The critical radius around a mass at which gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape
What is the Schwarzschild radius?
500
Forrest Mars Sr. partnered with the son of Hershey's president, to create these shell-coated chocolates named with their combined initials for wartime troops, so it would not melt in their hands
What are M&Ms
500
Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stamped with pin-dot markings around the entire rind to verify authenticity, and each wheel must weigh at least this many pounds.
What is 66 pounds (acceptable 60-75)?
500
This person won Time Magazine's first Man of The Year award in 1927.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
500
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