Quiz Bowl - Double Jeopardy

Historic Ships

200

The 48-gun galleon San Martin was the flagship of the Duke of Medina  Sidonia, who led this group against England in 1588

The Spanish Armada

400

This ironclad built by John Ericsson for the U.S.  Navy was never truly seaworthy & sank in December 1862 off Cape Hatteras

the Monitor 

600

Daily Double:

The world's largest aircraft carrier for 10 years, it was built starting in October 1943 & named for a battle 16 months before

Midway

800

In 1789 this ship's crew tried to settle on Tubuai in the Austral Islands but were rebuffed by the native inhabitants & returned to Tahiti

the Bounty

1000

This similar-sounding sister ship of the Lusitania named for a North African kingdom served as a hospital ship in World War I

the Mauretania

TV TIDBITS

200

Will Arnett watches magic being made with tiny plastic bricks on the Fox show called this "Masters"

Lego

400

In 2022, he logged his 1,500th sketch with "Saturday Night Live" & that's what's up with that

Kenan Thompson

600

James & Patrick Crawley's deaths on the Titanic set up an inheritance problem early on in this British drama 

Downton Abbey

800

This actor who played a very mad man in season 5 of "Fargo" had a "dedicated nippleologist" for his faux piercings

Jon Hamm

1000

This veteran actor has been seen on Netflix in "3 Body Problem" & the final 2 seasons of "The Crown"

Jonathan Pryce

IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITALYou'll give us the country

200

Kandahar (1747-1773)

Afghanistan

400

Yangon, sometimes called Rangoon (1948-2005)

Myanmar

600

Entebbe (1894-1962)

Uganda

800

Quezon City (1948-1976)

The Philippines

1000

Turku (1809-1812)

Finland

GENERAL SCIENCE

200

Types oof these waves include Love, primary, secondary & the "did you feel that?" kind

seismic waves

400

Radar images taken by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s helped determine that this planet has around 85,000 volcanoes 

Venus

600

In 1671 naturalist John Ray discovered this acid by collecting & distilling large numbers of dead ants 

Formic Acid

800

In 1948 this vitamin C advocate found that the polypeptide chain would coil into a structure he called the alpha helix

Linus Pauling

1000

It's the 5-syllable word for a counterpart such as the positron to the negatively charged electron

an antiparticle

ENDS IN DOUBLE "E"

200

It's an embankment raised alongside a river, perhaps the Mississippi, to prevent it from overflowing

a Levee

400

From the French for "retort" it's witty conversation marked by quick responses

repartee

600

Paridae is a family of smallish birds such as the titmouse & this one

a chickadee

800

This word for a wild close-quarter brawl can also mean a confused jumble of people in a crowd

a melee

1000

Fisherman father of the Apostles James & John in the Bible

Zebedee