Ian's Jeopardy

2000s Movies

100

Nick Cage, immortally: "I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence"

National Treasure

200

The actor playing the titular character of this film now goes by Elliot, not Ellen

Juno

300

Christian Bale spends the movie fretting about business cards and returning videotapes

American Psycho

400

This 2007 Disney film about a fantasy world scarred many 90s kids-including me- when a main character unexpectedly falls and dies at the end

Bridge to Terabithia

500

Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany chase a French warship around South America to the Galapagos 

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Math/Stat

100

Take this of a function to calculate the area under a curve

Integral

200

This concept is immortalized in the mnemonic device "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally"

Order of operations

300

Go one of these each direction from the mean of a normal distribution and you'll have covered 68% of probable outcomes

Standard deviation

400

An experiment design where neither the subject nor the experimenter knows which treatment the subject receives

Double-Blind

500

The base of a natural logarithm

e (Euler's Number)

Disasters

100

Water from this hurricane overran MSY's levees in 2005

Katrina

200

Named for a British surveyor, this mountain claimed eight lives during a storm in 1996

Mt Everest

300

This ship sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 due to flaws in the design of its watertight bulkheads

Titanic

400

After an earthquake and tsunami, reactors at this nuclear power plant melted down in 2011

Fukushima

500

Damaged by foam during launch, this space shuttle was lost in 2003

Columbia

Members of the Orchestra

100

This stringed instrument falls between the violin and the cello

Viola

200

A very cute little mini flute

Piccolo

300

A very geometric percussion instrument

Triangle

400

The largest woodwind in the orchestra

Bassoon

500

Played by the oboist when needed, this instrument is both larger and has a lower range

English Horn

Architecture

100

The father of Prairie Style and designer of Falling Water

Frank Lloyd Wright

200

British-Iraqi architect, the mind behind PKX, which was completed posthumously 

Zaha Hadid

300

Broke her own record in 2021 for the tallest woman-designed building in the world

Jeanne Gang

400

Works include Federal Center in Chicago and Farnsworth House

Mies van der Rohe

500

This German school of architecture was founded by Gropius and sought to reconcile aesthetics with everyday function 

Bauhaus