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Final Jeaopardy
100
Fern Arable bawls her eyes out after this runty pig is marked for the axe in a 1952 book, but her dad relents & Fern is happy
Who is Wilbur?
100
It's the instrument being played here:
What is a Hyperbass Flute?
100
Amy Adams returns to her hometown to investigate murders in this miniseries based on a Gillian Flynn novel
What is Sharp Objects?
100
The first words he spoke on the telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you"
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
WE LOVE "R" MUSIC:
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry joined this rap trio on their 1986 hit “Walk This Way.”
Who is Run-DMC?
100
US STATE NAMES:
The two states whose 1-word names are contained in other state names
What are Kansas (Arkansas) and Virginia (West Virginia)?
200
This ghost who haunts a Hogwarts bathroom earned her name crying rivers of tears & wailing
Who is Moaning Myrtle?
200
Music played as King Charles & Camilla left the coronation included this March No. 4 by Elgar
What is Pomp & Circumstance?
200
Before "The Last of Us", Craig Mazin wrote this HBO miniseries set in Europe in 1986
What is Chernobyl?
200
Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
Who is Rodney King?
200
UNICEF:
This 1971 George Harrison project has raised over $10 million for UNICEF programs
What is the Concert for Bangladesh?
200
MEDICAL HISTORY:
One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
As they left Lórien, all the members of this title Tolkien group were "filled with tears. Gimli wept openly"
What is The Fellowship of the Ring?
300
From Italian for "jest" or "joke", it's a quick, lively musical piece often making up the third movement of a symphony or sonata
What is a Scherzo?
300
In "The Night Of", this actor plays a character incarcerated on Rikers Island
Who is Riz Ahmed?
300
In 2005 he urged Stanford's graduating class, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life"
Who is Steve Jobs?
300
BEASTLY NOVELS BY CHARACTER:
Fly, Rex, Farmer Hoggett
What is Babe?
300
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES:
The College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is named for him
Who is Howard Hughes?
400
In this dystopian novel, Mrs. Phelps is brought to tears when Guy Montag reads "Dover Beach"
What is Fahrenheit 451?
400
In Act II of this opera, we learn how Falke was once left drunk & asleep in a park dressed in a bat costume
What is Die Fledermaus?
400
This second-generation actress played Alex, a young mother in the Netflix miniseries "Maid"
Who is Margaret Qualley?
400
At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Reagan gave "Mr. Gorbachev" this 4-word challenge
What is "Tear Down This Wall"?
400
STATE FLORA:
Hawaii’s state plant is kalo, the local name for this root used to make poi
What is Taro?
400
FAMOUS AMERICANS:
In 1936, at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury
Who is Clarence Darrow?
500
In a 1594 play he tells his brother Marcus Andronicus that a woman's tears are like "honey-dew upon a gather'd lily"
Who is Titus Andronicus?
500
James Taylor & Brandi Carlile are among those scheduled to play this Berkshires summer music festival in 2024
What is Tanglewood?
500
This Hulu miniseries was based on the Lawrence Wright book subtitled "Al-Qaeda & the Road to 9/11"
What is The Looming Tower?
500
In April 1970, this mission commander informed Houston, "We've had a problem"
Who is Jim Lovell?
500
THE BIBLE:
In Mark 1, he says, “There cometh one mightier than I after me.”
Who is John the Baptist?
500
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS:
This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist’s dummy
Who is Cormac McCarthy?