JEOPARDY

HAIR POTPOURRI

100

Four-letter word that describes the 1970’s hairstyle worn by Angela Davis and Michael Jackson.  

Afro  

200

This is the term for the tactile hairs on most any animal, from walruses to housecats.

Whiskers

300

Jackie Kennedy’s bouffant and the “big hair” sported by Raquel Welch and Ann-Margaret were achieved by this technique of back-combing large strands of hair.

Teasing

400

This red-orange hair dye has been used since antiquity in ancient Egypt, India, Persia and other parts of Africa and the Middle East.

Henna

500

This is the unusual way that many women, and men too, achieved the long, straighthaired look that was popular in the 1960s.

Pressing it with an iron

1974

100

In August 1974, he declared: “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”  

Gerald Ford. After taking the oath of office, President Ford spoke to the nation in a television address, declaring the chaos and division of the Watergate scandal to be over.  

200

Can you name the six kid characters from The Brady Bunch, which went off the air in 1974 after five seasons?

Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan, and Cindy

300

In 1974, he became the all-time Major League Baseball homerun leader, hitting his 715th homer in Atlanta in front of a national television audience.

Hank Aaron

400

Widely considered to be the best selling toy ever, this cube-shaped, six-color puzzle was introduced by a Hungarian sculptor and architecture professor in 1974.

Rubik’s Cube

500

This British sketch comedy television series ended its five-year run on the BBC in 1974 – the same year it was introduced to the United States on Public Television.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

POLITICAL ICONS

100

What country was led by Hugo Chavez from 1999 to 2013?  

Venezuela

200

What country was led by Ho Chi Minh from 1951 to 1969?

Vietnam

300

What country was led by Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979?

Uganda

400

What country was led by Muammar Gaddafi from 1969 to 2011?

 Libya

500

What country was led by Haile Selassie from 1930 to 1974?

Ethiopia

PLANT, FISH, BIRD, OR INSECT?

100

Weevil

Insect (a member of the beetle family)  

200

Booby

Bird (a Marine bird related to the gannet)

300

Seahorse

Fish

400

Crappie

Fish (a popular pan fish related to the perch)

500

Baobab

Plant (a tree native to southern Africa and Australia)

WHAT’S THEIR JOB?

100

B F. Skinner, Karl Jung, Joyce Brothers  

Psychiatrist/Psychologist  

200

Al Capp, Scott Adams, Garry Trudeau, Hank Ketcham

Cartoonist

300

Penelope Cruz, Alan Rickman, Don Cheedle

 Actor

400

Vladimir Horowitz, Scott Joplin, Jerry Lee Lewis

Pianist

500

Paul Krugman, Alan Greenspan, John Kenneth Galbraith

 Economist