MIT Jepardy

Word Origins

100

This part of an egg gets its name from the old English for "yellow"

Yolk

200

The name of this style of aircraft is derived from the Greek, meaning "Spiral Wing"

Helicopter

300

The name of this ballroom dance with gliding turns comes from the German for "roll" or "turn"

Waltz

400

This word, for the art and science of good eating, goes back to the Greek for "Belly"

Gastronomy

500

From the Latin for "Much writing", this machine is a potent deception detector

Polygraph

Fictional Languages

100

Linguist Marc Okrand created this language spoken by Star Trek's Worf

Klingon

200

You can be like Daenerys and learn around 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo

Dothraki

300

Harry Potter acquired the ability to speak this language of snakes from Voldemort

Parseltongue

400

J.R.R. Tolkien crafted this language, whose forms include Quenya and Sindarin, long before writing his books

Elvish or Elven

500

You would say "Doubleplusunwarm" rather than "Freezing cold" in this language from George Orwell's 1984

Newspeak

Pops

100

If I "Gotta have my pops", I may be hankering for this sugary puffed cereal by Kellogg's

Corn Pops

200

Researchers at Swarthmore College say it takes an average of 144 licks to get to the center of these

Tootsie Pops

300

The "Pops" in the name of this Mass Bay Ensemble, led by Keith Lockhart, refers to popular music

Boston Pops

400

These patriotic tricolor frozen treats are also found in stores as "Firecrackers"

Bomb Pops or Rocket Pops

500

Batman, Batgirl and Green Lantern were the first to be turned into these vinyl figurines, debuted in 2010

Funko Pops

Game Shows

100

The 2008 film "Slumdog Millionaire" featured a contestant accused of cheating at this trivia competition

Who wants to be a Millionaire

200

Pat Sajak and Vanna White have hosted this twist on hangman together since 1982

Wheel of Fortune

300

The showcase showdown has selected contestants in the final round of this frugal faceoff since 1975

Price is Right

400

This highfalutin' game of tic-tac-toe usually starred Paul Lynde, Joan Rivers or Whoopi Goldberg as the center square

Hollywood Squares

500

This mid-century game of twenty questions featured Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Frances

What's My Line

Musical Clothing

100

In Flo Rida's hit "Low", Shawty pairs these trousers with "boots with the fur"

Apple Bottom Jeans

200

Right Said Fred's protagonist found that he was far too sexy for this item of clothing in the group's 1991 hit

his shirt (or his hat)

300

These titular shoes earned Kellie Pickler her first gold record in 2009, three years after the song's release

Red High Heels

400

According to Bryan Hyland, "She was afraid to come out of the locker" while wearing this for the first time today

An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini

500

On her 2006 album B'Day, Beyonce advises "When he acts wrong", that's when you put on this eponymous garment

A Freakum dress

Weights and Measures

100

This commonly used metric measure of volume is not part of an official part of the international system of units

Liter (official is cubic meter)

200

This measure, less popular that the foot, is still used to measure the height of horses

Hand

300

The name and confusing abbreviation for this unit of weight are both derived from the Latin "Libra Pondo"

Pound

400

This nautical term refers to length, and traveling 20,000 will get you a fourth of the way from the earth to the moon

A league

500

The MIT institutional unit of length was named after Young Oliver in 1958

Smoot