New Years Family Jeopardy 🤠

Random Tom Hanks Movies

100

A genie grants Tom Hanks his wish to grow up overnight, confusion ensues

What is Big

200

Tom Hanks leads the crew of the Maersk Alabama through some trying times with some unpredictable Somalis

What is Captain Philips

300

Tom Hanks gets stuck in transit between countries and somehow builds a fountain inside an airport without anyone noticing, which makes zero sense

What is The Terminal

400

Tom Hanks becomes the manager of a one-hit wonder 1960s pop band

What is That Thing You Do!

500

Tom Hanks + wife buy an old house on the cheap and they try to fix it up, they regret it 

What is The Money Pit

Ancient Egypt

100

This most famous of Pharaohs was discovered in 1922 by British Egyptologist Howard Carter

Who was Tutankhamun (“King Tut”)

200

After pyramids fell out of fashion, this royal burial ground outside the ancient city of Thebes became the final resting place for hundreds of pharaohs

What is the Valley of the Kings

300

This ancient Egyptian god of the dead was frequently depicted with green skin and mummy bandages

Who is Osiris 

400

UNESCO moved this massive temple at the border of Egypt and Sudan block by block, saving it from encroaching floodwaters caused by the Aswan High Dam

What is Abu Simbel 

500

This famously heretical pharaoh moved the ancient Egyptian capital city, changed the standard canon of art, was married to Nefertiti, and was believed to be the father of King Tut

Who is Akhenaten 

World Capitals

100

South Korea

What is Seoul

200

Norway

What is Oslo

300

Costa Rica

What is San Jose

400

Lithuania

What is Vilnius

500

Laos

What is Vientiane 

Rivers

100

Starting as a trickle in Gloucestershire, this river bisects London

What is the Thames

200

This river forms 889 miles of the US-Mexico border

What is the Rio Grande

300

This is the longest river in North America

What is the Missouri river

400

This river flows through Russia for more than 2,000 miles, emptying into the Caspian sea

What is the Volga

500

This river is Africa’s second longest

What is the Congo River

Constellations

100

This hunter is most easily identified by the three stars in his “belt”

What is Orion 

200

One of the 12 zodiac signs, this constellation takes the shape of a “sea-goat”

What is Capricornus (or ‘Capricorn’)

300

This swan shaped constellation consists of six stars

What is Cygnus

400

This constellation contains the brightest star in the night sky

What is Canis Major (also acceptable answers: the Big Dog, the Dogstar, Sirius)

500

This sea-monster constellation is the largest in the sky, taking up more than 3% of the night sky

What is Hydra