Jeopardy! category: VISITING ITALY (09-11-2015)
$1600 clue: Enjoy Manarola, one of the five towns on Italy’s West Coast collectively known by this name, Italian for “Five Lands”
The gist: Well-known from innumerable travel blog posts about Italy. Continue reading
Jeopardy! category: VISITING ITALY (09-11-2015)
$1200 clue: Villa Oleandra is George Clooney’s house on this lake
The gist: It’s been attracting George Clooney types for thousands of years. Continue reading
Jeopardy! category: VISITING ITALY (09-11-2015)
$800 clue: Grand Duke Leopold I gave this Florence landmark its status as a museum
The gist: Before that, it was just some stuffy old offices. Continue reading
Just as it’s starting to get cold in Toronto, Jeopardy! invites me to join the (relative) southern European sun in Italia. It also happens to be probably my favourite place in the world where I’ve spent an appreciable amount of time, so if I don’t have the time to go in person, at least I can go via some clues written in L.A. Plus, it’s from the finals of the 2015 Tournament of Champions, so it oughta be good.
Jeopardy! category: VISITING ITALY (09-11-2015)
$400 clue: The Tuscan town of Poggibonsi is part of the region called this local wine “classico”
The gist: With or without fava beans. Continue reading
Final Jeopardy! category: PHYSICS (20-06-2010)
Final Jeopardy! clue: Discovered in the early 20th century, these 2 particles, 1 with a positive charge, the other a packet of energy, differ by a letter
The gist: Pretty different indeed, except in their spelling. Continue reading
Jeopardy! category: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU (04-11-2015)
$2000 clue: The subatomic weak force acts on these particles named for an Italian-American physicist
The gist: Sadly, Dirac doesn’t get the same credit Continue reading
Jeopardy! category: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU (04-11-2015)
$1600 clue: Take a second to turn things over & identify this, also called the moment of force
The gist: There’s a twist to this clue. Continue reading
Jeopardy! category: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU (04-11-2015)
$1200 clue: In the northern hemisphere, a projectile moving north outraces Earth’s rotation, so it will appear to be deflected to the right, thanks to this force named for a 19th century Frenchman
The gist: But it has nothing to do with toilets. Really. Continue reading
Jeopardy! category: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU (04-11-2015)
$800 clue: Pushing through the air at more than 1,300 miles per hour, the Concorde expanded 8 inches in length during flight because of heat generated by this contact force
The gist: The skin type, specifically. Continue reading
How could I resist?
Jeopardy! category: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU (04-11-2015)
$400 clue: Whether a climber takes a direct route or a scenic one, it takes the same amount of work to overcome gravity on the way to the top of the mountain because gravity is this type of force, a political antonym of “liberal”
The gist: Named for what it does to mechanical energy, not its side in the culture wars. Continue reading