SKIP CLASS
THE MOVIE'S CAST
STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
MY HERO OF ACADEMIA
SHAKESPEARE
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
There's not just "one" strategy for this game, but a few, like discarding "wild draw 4" cards & using "reverse" & "skip" adeptly
What is Uno?
100
2013, set in the 1840s & 1850s:
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Michael Fassbender
What is 12 Years a Slave?
100
Sure, some birds can mimic speech, but Puck, this type of bird, like the one we're showing, knew more than 1,500 words, & that's a mouthful
What is a parakeet?
100
Lewis & Clark College prof. Zaher Wahab was among many who returned here after 2001 to build post-Taliban education
What is Afghanistan?
100
In a metaphor close to Will's heart, "All the world's" this, "and all the men and women merely players"
What is a stage?
200
Here's the skip lining up a shot in this icy sport
What is curling?
200
2017:
Sally Hawkins,
Doug Jones, who probably got wet a lot
What is The Shape of Water?
200
This pair surmised they had traveled 4,162 miles from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; pretty close, guys--only off by about 40 miles
Who are Lewis & Clark?
200
Civil engineering professor Marc Edwards has exposed dangerous levels of this element in the drinking water of D.C. & Flint, Mich.
What is lead?
200
In 1889 John Singer Sargent painted "Ellen Terry as" this ambitious character
Who is Lady Macbeth?
200
CATEGORY
20th CENTURY LEADERS
300
Skippy is a brand of this, available in Creamy & Super Chunk
What is peanut butter?
300
1984:
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd,
Sigourney Weaver
What is Ghostbusters?
300
High-tech trains like one in Shanghai eliminate most friction & get up to impressive speeds by using high-power these to levitate over the rails
What are magnets?
300
Fatima Meer, the first non-white teacher at a white South African university, wrote the first authorized bio of this man
Who is Nelson Mandela?
300
The first scene of this late play ends with the line "The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death"
What is The Tempest?
300
ANSWER
He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen
400
To survive outside of water, the fish called a mudskipper traps air in the chambers of these organs
What are gills?
400
2014:
Michael Keaton,
Edward Norton,
Emma Stone
What is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)?
400
Making genetically identical offspring via a shared root system, a grove in Utah of the quaking species of this tree is considered one of the largest organisms in the world
What is aspen?
400
Professor Sebald Brugmans pioneered methods to stop this, tissue death around a wound, & saved many after the Battle of Waterloo
What is necrosis (or gangrene)?
400
A Stratford-upon-Avon statue of the Bard is surrounded by four characters, including this young prince from the history plays
Who is Prince Henry?
400
QUESTION
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
If it feels as if your heart has skipped a beat, you might have heart these, from the Latin for "throbbing"
What are palpitations?
500
1999:
Haley Joel Osment,
Bruce Willis
What is The Sixth Sense?
500
In 2014, a so-called "hurricane" 600 miles wide arose in the ionosphere over the North Pole; the cyclone was composed of this substance dubbed "the 4th state of matter"
What is plasma?
500
Organic chemists John Roberts & this double Nobel winner made Caltech accept its first female Ph.D. candidate, Dorothy Semenow
Who is Linus Pauling?
500
This Roman tragedy premiered Jan. 24, 1594 & the stage blood has been flowing since
What is Titus Andronicus?