Heroes of DC and Marvel
This hero studied in a chinese temple and gathers chi to fuel his powers.
Iron Fist
Why are contestants expected to answer questions in the form of a question on Jeopardy?
It was a gimmick to differentiate the show from other quiz shows at the time.
The station is primarily made of two previously planned crewed Earth-orbiting stations: the United States' Space Station Freedom and the Soviet Union's Mir-2. It was built in modules, with subsequent launches adding more. It wasn't till November of 2000 that long term human occupancy began on the station. What year was the first module for the station launched?
1998
Do you write Ancient Hieroglyphs left to right or right to left?
Trick question, both! You can write in either direction, readers will pick up on which direction to read by the direction the glyphs depicting living beings are facing.
The 5 movie ratings in the U.S. are NC-17, R, PG, PG-13 & this one
G
Name 5 women heroes!
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What year did Jeopardy first air?
1964
How is the ISS primarily powered?
Solar power! Large solar panel arrays, like wings, collect sunlight and use it to power critical life support systems and research on the station.
While Egyptian women may have been publicly and socially viewed as inferior to men, Egyptian women still enjoyed a great deal of rights compared to the ancient Greeks (who saw women as property of their husbands). Name 3 rights afforded to Egyptian Women.
-Buy and sell property
-Serve on juries
-Make wills
-Enter into legal contracts.
-Same pay for the same job a man would do (usually, on the rare instance a women worked outside the home)
-Divorce and remarry (including prenups where a women was guaranteed the wealth she entered into the marriage with in advent of divorce)
-Pharaohs! Though it was rare, and early on only possible as an "acting regent" when the husband died, there were woman leaders.
Including first, in which the heels are together, there are 5 basic foot positions in the classical type of this
Ballet
What color was the Hulk originally in the comics?
Gray! Inconsistent printing meant they couldn't keep up the color so they changed it to green.
Who has won the most amount of money from jeopardy?
Brad Rutter, with over $4.9 million in winnings!
The ISS has been visited by over 280 individuals, representing 23 countries. Name 10 of them.
USA, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Belarus, Great Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Japan, Malasia
"Kemet" is what the Ancient Egyptians called their homeland, Egypt. The word refers to the dark, fertile soil left behind after the Nile floods. What does "Kemet" mean?
Black land.
Dolly Parton wrote, "Workin"' these hours, "what a way to make a livin"'
9-5
Who is the first major openly gay character in Marvel comics?
Northstar!
How many seasons of jeopardy are there? (can be off by +/- 10%)
41! (37-45)
Roughly how many orbits of Earth does the station complete each day? (+/- 10%)
It takes 93 minutes to circle the earth, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. That's roughly 15.5 (14-17) orbits per day!
Ancient Egyptians didn't just mummify humans, they also mummified animals! Millions of a certain bird species were mummified and believed to be kept in many households (including the poor). What bird was it?
The Ibis!
"The Five Ways", a work of 13th c. philosophy, lays out 5 proofs for the existence of this being
God
Name 4 heroes with a clinical disability, and what their disability is!
Moon Knight (multiple personality disorder and schizoprenzia), Charles Xavier (wheelchair), Daredevil (blind), Oracle (formerly Batgirl)(wheelchair), Komodo (double amputee), Jerico(mute), Captain Marvel Jr. (wheelchair), Jubilee (dyscalculia), Puck (Chronic pain caused by dwarfism), Hornet (Celebral Palsy), Dr. Strange(nerve damage in hands), Legion(mental illness), Deadpool (chronic pain), Hawkeye(deaf)
What is the most amount of money you can win in jeopardy? (can be off by +/- 10%)
$566,400! (509,760-6230,040)
Scientific research being the primary purpose of the ISS, many experiments have taken place on board. Arguably one of the most notable is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which NASA holds as important as the Hubble Telescope. What does the AMS do?
Detects antimatter in cosmic rays! This helps us better understand the formation of our universe and dark matter.
Akhenaten was a pharaoh nearly lost to time, if it wasn't for the chance discovery of old temple pieces buried in a later temple walls. Rulers following him tried to erase his legacy, removing him from royal lineages, destroying his buildings and using the peices to pack the inside of future projects. During his reign, he, alongside his wife (the now famous Nefertiti), tried to switch the religion from polytheistic to more monotheistic, with the primary worship of the god "Aten." This included moving the capitol city and new art style, Amarna, which was more realistic and featured movement. The "Aten", the focus of all this change, means "the disk of the..."
Sun! If you think Ra is the god of the sun, you'd still be correct! Aten was originally thought to be one aspect of Ra, though Akhenaten pushed it to be above all other gods.
Irene Hunt's novel "Across Five Aprils" takes place over the long years of this American conflict.
The civil war.