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100

His best-known compositions include "Here Comes the Sun" & "Taxman"

Who is George Harrison

100

This Austrian Physicist's name is now synonymous with a measurement of the speed of sound

Who is Ernst Mach

100
On August 10, 1966 NASA launched a probe to take high-resolution photos of landing sites here

What is the moon

100

This famous "Death Be Not Proud" line is from this man's "Holy Sonnets"

Who is John Donne

100

This central nervous system of the body consists of the spinal cord & this Organ

What is the Brain

200

He received the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the European Recovery Plan

Who is George Marshall

200

This snug-fitting one-piece garment used by dancers was invented by, & named for, a French Aerialist

What is a Leotard

200
A hydroelectric power plant at this U.S. landmark opened in 1881

What is Niagara Falls

200

This British "Lord" & Poet declared, "Truth is always strange--stranger than fiction"

Who is Lord Byron
200

These teeth are named for their resemblance to a dog's sharp teeth

What are Canines

300

In 1876 Mary Ann Evans used this masculine pen name for "Daniel Deronda"

Who is George Eliot

300

This disease's name is from the Italian for "Bad Air"; It was first thought to be caused by foul swamp air, not mosquitoes

What is Malaria

300

This video-sharing website founded in 2005 was banned in Thailand, Turkey, Pakistan & Iran

What is Youtube

300

John Keats' "Ode On" this includes the line "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"

What is "A Grecian Urn"
300

The system inside these organs is commonly called the "Bronchial Tree"

What are the lungs
400

His "Seven words you can't say on TV" will not be featured on "Jeopardy!"

Who is George Carlin

400

Used to Foretell the future, this game's name is derived from the French & German words for "Yes"

What is the Ouija Board

400

The Name of this device was reportedly inspired by a line from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

What is the iPod

400

This witty poet helped fund the screenwriters guild & left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr.

Who is Dorothy Parker
400

It's the medical name for the thighbone, the longest bone in the body

What is the Femur

500

In 1919 this "Porgy & Bess" composer wrote his first successful popular song, "Swanee"

Who is George Gershwin

500

First launched on October 4, 1957, its name is Russian for "Fellow Traveller"

What is Sputnik

500

Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from Farscope to Telebaird

What is the Television

500

He once described his "Leaves of Grass" as a "Language Experiment"

Who is Walt Whitman

500

The stapes, the smallest bone in the body is located in this organ

What is the Ear

600

Who was the George who played the character James Bond in a movie?

Who is George Robert Lazenby 

600

The earliest (now archaic) meaning for Prestigious comes from the Latin word praestigiosis meaning ______.

What is "full of tricks" or "deceitful."

600

Pierre Omidyar founded which popular online auction company in 1995 out of San Jose, California?

What is Ebay

600

How many lines are there in a sonnet?

What is 14 

600

What is another name for your voice box?

What is the Larynx 

700

Name the George who was nominated eight times for an Academy Award winning only on one occasion?  

Who is George Clooney
700

The word debacle comes to English from the French débâcler, meaning ______.


What is to clear, unbolt, unbar

700

What computer and printer giant was founded in 1939 in Palo, Alto, CA? It is sometimes better known by the two-letter acronym based on its founders names.

Who is Hewlett-Packard

700

What does the term “foot” mean in poetry?

Two or more syllables

700

The shape of DNA is known as?

What is a double helix 

800

Final Jeopardy Country Music

Who is known as the King of the so-called ‘Singing Cowboys’?


Who is Gene Autry