December Jeopardy AM

Winter Holidays

100

Another name for Santa Claus in the Christian tradition is Saint _________.

Nicolas or Nick

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

This holiday celebrates the beginning of a calendar year whose months are moon cycles.

Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year

300

How many candles does a menorah used in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah have?

9

400

Kwanzaa celebrates how many principles?

7

1. Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family and community.
2. Kujichagulia (Self-determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
3. Ujima (Collective work and responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
4. Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
5. Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
6. Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
7. Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

500

Approximately how many real Christmas trees are sold in the US each year?

a) 2 million

b) 25 million

c) 200 million

d) 200,000

b) 25 million

International Foods

100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Crepe

200

Hint: Latin America/Caribbean 

Tostones/Fried Plantains

300

Hint: Russia

Borscht

400

Hint: Indian

Biryani

500

Hint: Chinese

Peking Duck

DC Movies

100

Who played the Joker in the 1989 film Batman?

Jack Nicholson

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What Does the S on Superman’s chest stand for in Kryptonian?

a) Love  

b) Hope  

c) Faith  

d) Star

b) Hope

300

Which facility houses the criminals featured in Suicide Squad? 

a) Arkham Asylum

b) Belle Reve Special Security Barracks

c) Iron Heights

d) Stryker’s Island Penitentiary

b) Belle Reve Special Security Barracks

400

What is the name of the island that Wonder Woman comes from?

a) Themyscira 

b) Manhattan

c) Mythos

d) Euboea

a) Themyscira

500

What is Superman's birth name?

Kal-El

Riddles

100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What cannot sew but has hundreds of needles?

A (Christmas) tree

200

The strongest people cannot hold me for more than 5 minutes even though I am the lightest thing. What am I?

Your breath

300

I am a five-letter word but when you add two letters I become shorter. What word am I?

Short

400

First I am dry, then I am wet; the longer I swim, the stronger I am. What am I?

Tea

500

What ship has two mates but doesn’t sail the seas?

A relationship

US Presidents

100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Which president had turned down offers to play professional football?

a) George W. Bush

b) Bill Clinton

c) Jimmy Carter

d) Gerald Ford

d) Gerald Ford 

Ford attended the University of Michigan, where he was a star football player. The team won national titles in both 1932 and 1933. After graduation, he turned down offers to play with both the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers. Instead, he took a coaching job at Yale University in 1935 because he also wanted to attend law school. He left after six seasons with a law degree in hand.

200

Who was the first American-born president?

a) Martin Van Buren 

b) George Washington

c) Abraham Lincoln

d) Teddy Roosevelt

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), 8th President.
Van Buren was the first president to have been born after the American Revolution, in Kinderhook, New York on December 5, 1782, technically making him the first American-born president. The seven before him were all born in the American colonies.

300

Which president donated all of his presidential salary (and his congressional salary before that) to charity?

a) Barack Obama

b) John F. Kennedy

c) Richard Nixon

d) Dwight Eisenhauer 

b) John F. Kennedy

Born into wealth and prestige, JFK was one of the richest men to take office. He lived off the Kennedy family’s considerable trusts, so he donated his congressional salary and later his presidential salary to charities like the United Negro College Fund and Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America. President Herbert Hoover had also donated his presidential salary during his term in office (1929-1933), as did President Donald Trump (2017-2021)

400

Who was the first and only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms?

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th President.

Between terms, Cleveland moved back to New York City, worked at a law firm, and his wife gave birth to their famous first daughter, Baby Ruth.

500

Name one of the three presidents to die on the 4th of July.

Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe