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100
This person killed Goliath with a sling and 5 stones.
Who was David?
100
This composer went deaf in his later years.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
100
Objects do this thing in zero gravity.
What is floating?
100
This french food is like a thin, flat pancake that is often used as a wrap for sweet or savory fillings.
What are crepes?
100
The Indianapolis 500 is a world famous event in this sport.
Car-racing.
200
This anglicized Greek word means "book".
What is the Bible?
200
The Music for the Royal Fireworks was written for George II of Great Britain by a composer then very popular in Europe.
Who was George Frederic Handel?
200
Vibrations in the air cause this common thing.
What is sound?
200
This slavic soup is chiefly made of beets and is often served with sour cream.
What is borscht?
200
In this sport you use a foil, an epee, and a sabre.
What is fencing?
300
This book of the Bible follows the three books of John?
What is the book of Jude?
300
This double-reeded instrument is similar to an oboe but is slightly larger and therefore slightly lower.
What is an English Horn?
300
This planet is the farthest planet that is visible to the unaided eye.
What is Saturn?
300
An anthropophagi eats these.
What are humans?
300
These Olympic games were boycotted by the USA and 57 other nations.
What were the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow?
400
This Persian conqueror allowed the Hebrews to return to Israel from exile.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
400
This Romantic Era composer was born in Poland but moved to Paris as a young man, where he eventually became famous for his compositions for the piano.
Who was Frederic Chopin? DOULBE JEOPARDY: What work of music is considered to have a curse for composers on it?
400
This substance is the most widely used of all solvents.
What is water?
400
This food has a name that means little strings.
What is spaghetti?
400
The five circles on the olympic stand for these.
What are the five continents (at least, the ones recognized when the Olympic flag was designed)?
500
The Essenes lived at Qumran and were responsible for their work of preservation and re-creation of a certain literature.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The weeping prophet, Jeremiah, was mourning this event.
500
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" was written as part of this musical work.
What is Midsummer's Night Dream?
500
The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel was associated with this science.
What is genetics?
500
This blue-veined, Italian cheese is made from cow's milk.
What is gorgonzola?
500
The first Super Bowl was held here.
What is Los Angeles?