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Final Jeopardy
100
This famous boxer created a line of grills.
Who is George Foreman?
100
This race has the plurality in the most recent matriculating class at Rice University.
100
This first coronavirus variant was reported in the UK in December 2020.
What is Αlpha? ($10 wager)
100
A system that spans 50 stations and 131 miles of track, BART stands for:
What is Bay Area Rapid Transit?
100
This is the strip of land that divides North and South Korea.
What is the DMZ?
100
This is how two Koreans might say good-bye to each other.
What is anyeong?
100
This movie stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach.
What is Challengers?
100
According to most medical experts, the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of vitamin D for adults up to age 70 is 15 mcg, or 600 of this measure.
What is an International Unit?
100
2.2 pounds of a middle eastern pastry.
What is a phyllo kilo?
100
This notorious assassin shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
Haley, Alex, and Luke are the children of this realtor in Modern Family.
Who is Phil Dumphy?
100
This person won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between nations.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
This is the number of squares on the perimeter of a chessboard + the two digit prime number which is the smallest prime number whose digits are both themselves prime numbers + number of keys on a full-sized piano + number of amendments to the US Constitution - the number of books in the Bible. (Only the final number needs to be presented.)
What is 28+23+88+27-66 = 100. (work not required to be shown.)
200
This martial art was originally developed by Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld.
What is Krav Maga?
200
These two car companies have “rice” in the meaning of their native language.
What are Toyota & Honda?
200
This is the city where the main character of the Disney Pixar film that was released on December 25th, 2020 to Disney Plus, Joe Gardner, becomes a disembodied spirit heading to the “Great Beyond”.
What is New York City (Soul)?
200
This neighborhood in SF houses art galleries including the "White Walls" gallery and "Shooting Gallery". It is also where Raphael House is located.
What is the Tenderloin?
200
Kim Jong Il studied in this country abroad in his adolescent years.
What is Switzerland?
200
Koreans traditionally eat this dish on their birthday because of its known health benefits in postpartum recovery.
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200
This is the name that non English speaking countries would most likely use to refer to the only Grand Slam tournament played on clay courts.
What is Roland-Garros?
200
The Hoosier is this university’s mascot (must name university and campus).
What is Indiana University Bloomington?
200
One who chooses the alcohol.
What is a liquor picker?
200
California law recognizes libel and slander as the two types of this crime.
What is defamation?
200
In the Friends episode “The One with the Embryos”, we learn that Monica sorts this common household item into 11 categories.
What are towels?
200
In 1903, she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for being "active" in her field.
Who is Marie Curie?
300
A boxing match between these two men is set for July 20th and will be available to watch on Netflix.
Who are Mike Tyson and Jake Paul?
300
This US president visited Rice University and uttered the words “we must be bold” as part of a famous speech.
Who is JFK?
300
This TV host died in November 8, 2020 from pancreatic cancer.
Who is Alex Trebek?
300
This is the number of sharp turns on San Francisco’s famous Lombard Street.
What is 8?
300
In 2013, this US sports team played a diplomacy basketball game in Pyongyang.
Who are the Harlem Globetrotters?
300
This contestant partially credits his success on Jeopardy to his 11 years of education from Seoul Foreign School.
Who is Ken Jennings?
300
This is the name of the electronic line calling system that uses multiple camera angles to trace a tennis ball's trajectory to determine if it was in or out.
What is the Hawk-Eye Line-Calling System?
300
This is the name of the soju brand that famous Korean singer IU endorses.
What is Chamisul?
300
What one may find on their sole after a stroll through a dog park.
What is a shoe poo?
300
Al Capone was the leader of this crime family which was part of the Italian American Mafia.
What is The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or The Organization)?
300
Barney was forced to wear this for one year after losing a hibachi-related wager to Marshall and Lily, in HIMYM.
What is the Ducky Tie?
300
Alfred Nobel, the chemist who established the Nobel Prize, is credited with inventing this widely used product.
What is dynamite?
400
This MMA fighter is the first Muslim to win a UFC title.
Who is Khabib Nurmagomedov?
400
This American Football WR was involved in a hit and run in Dallas this year. He was driving a lambo.
Who is Rashee Rice?
400
This is the analogous term to 20/20 vision that might be used in countries like Denmark, France, and Germany.
What is 6/6 vision?
400
In 2014, this US company commissioned a new font called San Francisco, which is now used on their products and in their advertising.
What is Apple?
400
This actor plays Kim Jong Un in The Interview, a movie about journalists played by Seth Rogen and James Franco who are asked by the CIA to assassinate the North Korean Leader.
Who is Randall Park?
400
Hangul, the phonetic writing system for Korean, was developed in the 1400s by this person.
Who is King Sejong?
400
This is the currently highest ranked American Male Tennis Player.
Who is Taylor Fritz?
400
IU in IUD, a common form of birth control used by 14% of women, stands for:
What is Intrauterine?
400
A guitarist’s desire to top the charts.
What is musician ambition?
400
Shoplifting is upgraded to the charge of grand larceny when the property stolen is valued at or above this amount.
What is $950?
400
This character from New Girl is played by Lamorne Morris, and replaces “Coach” as a roommate. He likes turtles a lot.
Who is Winston Bishop?
400
He would have liked to receive the Nobel Peace Prize rather than the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
This martial art was conceived by the famous person who coined the phrase “Absorb what is useful; Disregard that which is useless”.
What is Jeet kun do (Bruce Lee)?
500
The most widely consumed species of rice, Oryza sativa contains two major subspecies: the sticky, short-grained japonica or sinica variety, and this nonsticky, long-grained, variety.
What is Indica?
500
This is the nickname of the person behind the tiktok account @rah_money1 that first started in July 2020, where you might find something like a Bacon Egg and Cheese on a Honey Bun, the “Ocky” way.
Who is General Ock?
500
This restaurant is not just the oldest in SF, but the oldest, continuously run restaurant in all of California. It was opened first by Croatian immigrants in 1849 as a coffee stand.
What is Ladich Grill?
500
In 2016, This UVA student was charged with subversion and imprisoned in North Korea after attempting to steal a poster.
Who is Otto Warmbier?
500
This 11th South Korean president who served from 2013 to 2017 was impeached and removed on charges related to influence peddling.
Who is Park Geun hye?
500
Iga Świątek is the current women’s world No. 1 in tennis. This is the country she is from.
What is Poland?
500
This is the name of the most recent full album by famous Korean singer IU, also a popular pastel color.
What is Lilac?
500
Unsmiling Sotheby’s staffer
What is a severe auctioneer?
500
Despite intimidation and threats of legal action, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was outed for fraud regarding her blood test technology by these two whistleblowers.
Who are Erika Cheung and Tyler Schultz?
500
These are the names of Ray and Debra’s kids in the show Everybody Loves Raymond.
Who are Ally (Alexandra), Michael, and Geoffery?
500
They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
600
This wrestling move was known as one of the signatures of Jordan Burrough, gold medalist at the 2012 olympics in 74kg freestyle wrestling Img link.
What is Spear Double or Blast Double?
600
The popular breakfast cereal with the slogan “Snap, Crackle, Pop” was invented in the 1920s in this city in Michigan.
What is Battle Creek?
600
This woman was the Libertarian Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, in which she finished third in the popular vote with about 1.9 million votes.
Who is Jo Jorgensen?
600
The Legion of Honor is an art museum sitting in Lincoln Park. It hosts the depicted famous statue, sculpted by this artist in 1904.
Who is Auguste Rodin?
600
China and North Korea are physically divided by three significant geographical features: the Yalu River, Paektu Mountain, and ____ River.
What is the Tumen River?
600
This island, less than 0.1 square mile in total area, is at the center of a 300 year old diplomatic dispute regarding its sovereignty between Korea and Japan.
What is Dokdo / Takeshima / Liancourt Island?
600
What are Novak Djokovic's two most recent apparel sponsors?
What are Uniqlo and Lacoste?
600
Famous Korean singer IU (Lee Ji Eun) made her TV acting debut in this 2011 Korean teen Drama, as Kim Pil Sook, a girl discouraged from singing for being overweight.
What is Dream High?
600
She rolls up flags
What is a furl girl?
600
The American serial killer Ted Bundy arrogantly represented himself at his murder trials instead of hiring a lawyer because he completed 1 year at this US law school.
What is the University of Utah?
600
In the episode of Community “Geothermal Escapism”, Troy Barnes (Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino) leaves the school by departing on a sailing vessel. This is the name of that vessel.
What is The Childish Tycoon?
600
Alongside UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020 for discovering CRISPR, a method for genetic editing.
Who is Emmanuelle Charpentier?