Jeopardy 77 Flashcards
(98 cards)
1
Q
Trick to eat pretzels
A
Focus on the crunch.
4 pretzels to 2.75.
2
Q
Folks make poorer decisions, particularly “false alarm” decisions.
When they wear masks with…
A
Alcohol.
3
Q
3 Doctor-related facts about men who hold “traditional” views of masculinity.
A
1 - more likely to prefer a male physician.
2 - less likely to be honest with male doc about their symptoms.
3 - less likely to see a doc at symptom onset.
4
Q
Formula for calculating the sum of the interior angles of a polygon.
A
(N-2) * 180’
5
Q
How many radians in 180’?
A
Pi.
6
Q
King of Belgium during Khruschevs reign.
When shit went down in the congo, in the poisonwood bible.
A
Baudouin.
7
Q
Who wrote the poisonwood bible?
A
Barbara Kingsolver.
8
Q
“He told me” in French
A
Il m’a dit.
9
Q
Shame in french
A
Honte
10
Q
Conduire means what in french
A
To drive
11
Q
At first, en francais
A
D’abord
12
Q
Proud, en francais
A
Fier/e
13
Q
Diet, en francais
A
Régime
14
Q
To get fat, en francais
A
Grossir
15
Q
Cherry, en francais
A
La cerise
16
Q
As a matter of fact
A
En fait
17
Q
Place/spot, en francais
A
Endroit
18
Q
Remember, remind, recall
En francais
A
Se rappeler
19
Q
Gimme a break,
In hebrew
A
Rachmones
20
Q
Colossal gall, in hebrew.
Also a joke regarding that and a boy.
A
Chutzpah.
Boy kills parents.
Yes im guilty but have mercy.
Nobody cares for me im an orphan.
21
Q
Shut up in arabic.
A
In chep.
22
Q
How are you?
In arabic.
Fine. (Also)
A
Shlomek?
Zain.
23
Q
Most famous king of Thebes.
His son.
A
Laius.
Oedipus.
24
Q
What monster inhabited a rock in thebes?
Asked riddles and killed those who could not solve.
What did monster look like?
A
Sphinx.
Body of lion.
Head of woman.
25
What riddle did oedipus solve and what happened?
Sphinx killed self.
Thebes hands itself off to Oedipus as king
He marries jocaste.
26
Name the dr seuss book about racism involving stars.
The sneetches.
27
Who said "if i have been able to see further, it was only because i stood on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac newton.
28
Who was walden robert cassotto?
Was he a member of 27 club?
Bobby darin.
37. Die.
29
What is the '27 club'?
Cobain
Morrison
Hendrix
30
431-404 BCE
What war
Between whom
Peloponnesian war
Peloponnesian league led by sparta
Athenian league
31
Leader of athens 460bce-430
Pericles
32
Goddess of wisdom who decided to compete against Juno and Venus for most beautiful
Minerva
33
Who wasnt invited to the party on olympus and threw in the golden apple
Eris
| Discord
34
Who judged the goddesses for the goldenapple?
Where did they wait for judgment?
Jupiter.
(But he passes off to paris)
Mt ida
35
Who did paris pick?
Venus.
Who offered the fairest bride.
She decides thats meneleas wife helen of troy.
36
Who was helen of troys husband
Meneleaus
37
King of troy
Sonand wife
Priam
hector
and andromache
38
What does lex talionis mean
Eye for an eye
39
Who invented aspirin for bayer in 1897?
Felix Hoffman.
Acetyl salicylic acid.
From willow bark.
40
What is a CAFO?
Concentrated
Animal
Feeding
Operation
41
Shakespeare's B'day
And death day.
April 23
1564
1616
42
In 2000 a farmer fed how many people?
How about 1960?
140+
25
43
What genetic mutation is involved in as many as half of all cancers?
Breast and lung.
P53.
44
To become a full-blown malignancy, a cancer cell must pass thru these 3 stages:
Initiation
Promotion
Progression
45
The single component in tobacco smoke that alters the same genes of lung cells as p53
Benzopyrene
46
DDT
Dichloro
Diphenyl
Trichloroethane
47
PCB
Polychlorinated biphenyls
48
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Rachel carson
In what book
______
Says
Hazards that are universally common or repetitive assume the "
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Silent spring
..."harmless aspect of the familiar..."
49
Lakers and Clippers, years of establishment.
1946 lakers (in la???)
1970
50
Who quotes Lincoln saying "to sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men"
Rachel carson
| Silent spring
51
What accounts for only 5% of all skin cancers, but is the most dangerous kind, accounting for 75% of skin cancer deaths.
Melanoma
52
The industrialized nation accounts for half of all cancers, despite being what percent of the population
20%
53
What do soybean oil and formaldehyde have in common?
Adhesives.
54
What is the chemical formula for formaldehyde?
CH2O
55
Tell me about a chemical accident in 1984.
Where?
What?
Who?
Union Carbide.
(Dow!)
Bhopal, India
Feedstock for pesticide manufacture.
Killed sleeping thousands.
56
Chemicals that are mixed with plastics to give them more strength and flexibility.
Plasticizers.
57
These are added to detergents, herbicides, and paints to help the active ingredient stick to the surface of its target.
Surfactants.
58
The most abundant industrial contaminant in the environment-- plasticizer
Phthalates.
59
There are 11,000 different types of these - they make up half of the synthetic materials known to function as endocrine disruptors.
They are not all estrogenic but most are.
Organochlorides.
60
What known carcinogen are we exposed to every time we pump gas?
Benzene.
61
Where do freshwater eels from north america, europe, and africa migrate to spawn (every12/24years)?
What islands are there?
Sargasso Sea.
Bermuda.
62
Which creature does not get cancer, as it somehow sequesters carcinogens in their tissues in a way that prevents damage to their chromosomes.
Lobster.
63
What fish lies hidden in sand at bottom of water, its left eye having migrated to the right side of its face.
Flounder.
64
What book "all flesh is grass"?
Isaiah 40:6
65
Paradise Lost
Written by
Published in
1667
| Milton
66
The Tibetans call the physical body THIS which means
| "Something you leave behind."
LU.
67
Who posed for the Mona Lisa?
The 3rd wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Madonna Elisabetta.
68
Who founded IBM?
Thomas J Watson Sr
69
Who said: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"?
Mark Twain
70
Who said: "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination"?
Oscar Wilde.
71
Who said: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Einstein.
72
Who said: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
Richard P Feynman
73
Who said: "One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Bruce Lee.
74
When were the first humans?
2.5 million years ago.
| East Africa.
75
What great ape did humans stem from?
Australopithecus.
76
How long have Homo sapiens been around?
300,000 yrs.
77
Lou Gramm & Mick Jones Band
Foreigner.
78
Napoleon born where?
Died where?
Corsica.
St Helena.
79
Drink made from scotch, sweet vermouth, and a dash of bitters
Rob Roy.
80
She participated in one of tv's first interracial kisses in " platos stepchildren"
Nichelle Nichols
81
Xena actress
Lucy Lawless
82
First Oscars what year?
Host?
Best Picture?
1929
Douglas Fairbanks
Wings
83
Longest Chinese river
Yangtze
84
Who said, "There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes.
85
Capital of Finland
Helsinki
86
Tenzing-Hilary airport in what country
Nepal
87
2015 Tony Winning Musical
Fun Home
88
Paloma is Spanish for...
Dove
89
What kind of drugs thin blood?
Anti-coagulants
90
Houhynims have what as their slaves
Yahoo!'s
91
Astoria, Oregon - origin of what river
Columbia river
92
Mesopotamia is near what gulf
Persian gulf.
93
What bridge connects upper and lower Michigan
Mackinaw
94
Florida keys bridge -- out of biscayne bay
Seven mile bridge
95
Three wise men
Melchior, gaspar and Balthasar
96
Forest of Robin Hood
Sherwood
97
Silvery white tree
Birch
98
Who boycotted 1980 olympics
USA
