Geography
The Maple Leaf is on this country's flag.
What is Canada?
This is the country that the U.S. purchased Alaska from.
What is Russia?
This was the collective name given to the trio of opera singers who first performed together in Rome on the eve of the 1990 World Cup Final.
Who are The Three Tenors?
This part of the cinnamon tree becomes the spice.
What is the bark?
This was the biggest Dance Craze launched by Chubby Checker.
What was the Twist?
This is the only state with a single-syllable name.
What is Maine?
The 18th Amendment banned the production, sale, and transportation of this product.
What is alcohol?
However...it did not ban consumption, & lasted from 1920-1933.
This is by far the most famous painting hanging in the Louvre.
What is the Mona Lisa?
This is the heaviest breed of bear.
What is the Polar Bear?
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," Rick says to the Captain at the end of this 1942 Classic Film.
What is Casablanca?
This city takes tourists to the Anne Frank house.
What is Amsterdam?
This is the oldest continuously settled city in the U.S.
What is St. Augustine, FL?
This is considered Michelangelo's most famous statue housed in Florence, Italy.
What is David?
This is the #1 fruit produced globally.
What is the banana?
This is the newspaper that Clark Kent works for?
What is The Daily Planet?
This vegetable takes its name from the capital of Belgium.
What are Brussels sprouts?
This was the 28-mile structure started in 1961 that came down in 1989 and was the subject of President Reagan's speech, 'tear down this wall' in 1987.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This hugely successful 1939 movie was based on Margaret Mitchell's book.
What is Gone with the Wind?
In the 10-Event Decathalon three events are 'throwing.' These are the 3 things thrown.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Name three more events in the Decathalon for Double Points.
What is the javelin throw, discus throw, and shot put?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: (first day) 100-metre dash, running long (broad) jump, shot put, high jump, and 400-metre run; (second day) 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and 1,500-metre run
This is the role Cesar Romero filled 19 times in the TV episodes of Batman.
Who is the Joker?
This river begins in the Andes Mountains of Peru and ends in the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Brazil.
What is the Amazon River?
This President began carrying a gun in public after his predecessor, William McKinley, was assassinated.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is the name of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
...and his disability was...
Who is Quasimodo?
Double Points: deafness
These birds were traditionally used as 'gas detectors' in the coal mines.
What are Canaries?
Canaries were used in coal mines as early as 1845 as a safety mechanism to detect toxic gases like carbon monoxide. Canaries are more sensitive to carbon monoxide than humans, so they would become sick before miners, giving miners time to escape or put on protective gear. If a canary started shaking its cage or stopped singing, it signaled to miners that methane was present and they needed to evacuate the area immediately.
This archeologist is in search of the Ark of the Covenant in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Who is Indiana Jones?