Jeopardy

SHAKESPEARE

100

For most of Shakespeare's life, this monarch ruled England

Queen Elizabeth I

200

Shakespeare paid part of the cost of building this theater that opened in late 1599

The Globe

300

Shakespeare's 37 plays are traditionally classified into 3 groups: comedies, tragedies & these

Histories

400

Alliterative 2-word name for the 1623 volume of Shakespeare's collected plays

The First Folio

500

Whether play or poem, blank verse or rhymed, the majority of Shakespeare's works are written in this meter

iambic pentameter 

MUSIC TERMS

100

This male voice range falls between tenor & bass

baritone

200

The 2 arias for the Queen of the Night in Mozart's "Magic Flute" are for this type of soprano

coloratura

300

String players debate how much of this technique to use; a little adds warmth to the tone, but too much & you get the nanny goat effect

vibrato

400

German for "song", it's a German folk or art song

lied 

500

This Italian word is used of music gradually getting softer, the same as decrescendo

diminuendo

THESE PUNS ARE OFFAL

100

The Soviet Union's economy was slow to recover after World War II; it just kept this dictator

Stalin

200

Without this branch of mathematics pioneered by Euclid, life would be pointless

geometry

300

The blood bank wouldn't let me donate; I went there in this blood vessel

vein

400

Young Karl flunked out of Communist school; he was getting terrible these

Marx

500

Careful golfers always carry 2 pair of pants in case they get one of these rare things

A hole in one

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES

100

Aha! I have found it, this Greek word that's the state motto of California

Eureka

200

This 2-word French term for an incorrigible child sounds a lot worse than it is

enfant terrible

300

Russian for "openness", it was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of open discussion

glasnost

400

Come closer--if you don't want to be overheard, speak softly, this way, Italian for "in a low voice"

sotto voce

500

Japanese for "way of the warrior", it was the chivalric code of the samurai

bushido

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

100

Nobel Peace Prize, 1964

Martin Luther King Jr.

200

Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Paul Dirac. Someone might want to check up on his cat. 

Erwin Schrödinger

300

The names of 2 of the 3 shared winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins

400

Nobel Prize in Literature, 2016

Bob Dylan

500

Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie. 

Antoine Henri Becquerel