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Final Jeopardy Questions
100

Madonna sang in this hit, “I know you’re going to be upset, ’cause I was always your little girl.”

What is Papa Don't Preach?

100

She said to appear in the mirror if her name is chanted repeatedly

Who is Bloody Mary?

100

When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis.

What is Play Dead?

100

By law, all PFDs, short for these, made of balsa or cork were retired from service by March 1999.

What are Personal Flotation Devices?

100

It's space that's entirely void of matter

What is Vacuum?

100

WASHED UP CELEBRITIES:

Born William Drayton in New York on 3/16/1959, both words of his stage name share the same first four letters.

Who is Flavor Flav?

200

 It wasn’t so long ago that this singer’s “Gangnam Style” was everywhere.

Who is Psy?

200

According to legend this particular candy is fatal when mixed with soda

What are Pop Rocks?

200

The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest.

What is a Sloth?

200

“No Person shall be” one of these “who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty years.”

What is a Senator?

200

This unit of electric potential is equivalent to one Joule per coulomb

What is the Volt?

200

CHEMICAL SPELLING:

Insect spelled using the chemical symbols of tungsten, arsenic, and phosphorus.

What is Wasp?

300

 1988 hit in which George Michael offered to be your “preacher, teacher, anything you have in mind.”

What is Father Figure?

300

According to another urban legend,  unsuspecting travelers discover what when they wake up in a bathtub filled with ice

What is They have organs missing?

300

Sweden’s only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that’s able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer.

What is a Lynx?

300

Twice in the 1800s China & Britain went to war over this drug.

What is Opium?

300

The tricuspid valves help separate the atria from these heart cavities

What are Ventricles?

300

TELEVISION:

In 1999 it became the first game show in over 40 years to lead the Nielsen ratings for a full season.

What is Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

400

Ufologists took notice of Nicki Minaj’s song about these title objects that were “meant to fly.”

What are Starships?

400

Mother Leeds is the mother of this supernatural creature uniquely associated with a specific US state 

Who is the Jersey Devil?

400



Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs.

What are Kangaroo Rats?

400

FDR’s first inaugural address introduced this policy of treating Latin American nations with respect.

What is The Good Neighbor's Policy?

400

Molasses is higher in this property, the resistance to flow, than water

What is Viscosity?

400

THE INTERNET:

This site, founded in 1994, links to various sites such as Breitbart, Politico, and RushLimbaugh.com

What is The Drudge Report?

500

This “Use Somebody” group sounds like a long line of Spanish royalty, but it actually formed in Nashville.

Who are Kings of Leon?

500

In the legend of the babysitter, she is watching television after putting the children to bed. The phone rings and the caller tells her to do this

What is "Check on the children"?

500

It’s the world’s largest burrowing animal & can make a destructive tunnel complex 650 feet long, so farmers don’t find it as cute as zoo-goers might.

What is a Wombat?

500

No government official may accept a present or this type of compensation from a foreign state without Congress’ OK.

What is an Emolument?

500

The monarch butterfly tastes bad to predators, so as a form of defense, this palatable but smaller butterfly mimics the monarch's coloration & pattern

What is the Viceroy?

500

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE:

This single work comprises nearly 10% of the corpus of surviving old English poetry.

What is Beowulf?

600

In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band.

Who are The Bangles?

600

This animal supposedly lived in the sewers of New York City in the '30's through the 50's

What are Alligators?

600

The arrival of foxes in Western Australia in the 1920s was bad news for the quokka, a type of this kangaroo relative.

What is Wallaby?

600

The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river.

What is the Tigris?

600

A quantity having direction as well as magnitude, especially as determining the position of one point in space relative to another.

What is Vector?

600

US PRESIDENTS:

He was the only grandson of a president to become president himself.

Who is Benjamin Harrison?

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