Jeopardy!/SMW5
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Jeopardy! Round
| THE OLYMPIC GAMES | ALSO AN NHL TEAM | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS | SPORTS | AFRICAN COUNTRIES | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS |
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| This French capital opened the 2024 Olympics with a citywide party along the Seine | Charles III, Willem-Alexander, Louis XIV | Shhh... This geometrically-named music venue that took the world by storm is sleeping! | Lionel Messi cemented himself in footballing history when he won this most prestigious competition in 2022 | Nelson Mandela was the first post-apartheid president of this country | Watch out, Squidward! New Orleans jazz musician Doreen Ketchens takes this woodwind to the next level |
| Novak Djokovic completed this sport after adding the 2024 Olympic men's singles title to his collection, including 24 Grand Slam titles | Mallard, mandarin, wood | Las Vegas is the largest city in this Silver State, but it's not the capital; that title goes to Carson City | Do you believe in miracles? Well, the US national ice hockey team did, when they beat the Soviets at Lake Placid in this Empire State | 1 in 10 of the 218M+ people in this West African country live in Lagos, its largest metropolis | Perhaps you could say they pulled out all the stops on this "king of instruments" common in Western churches |
| In 2008 this Jamaican stormed to gold with a world record time of 9.69 seconds in the final of the men's 100 metres | Whale, mako, blacktip reef | The Venetian Las Vegas, the biggest hotel in the Strip, treats visitors to a ride on these quintessentially Venetian boats | This sport developed as a gentleman's game in England and suddenly became a viral sensation in India, especially now with the Indian Premier League | Lemurs are known as the flagship mammal species of this island, also a DreamWorks film | Juanjo Monserrat played Nessun dorma on this tiny synthesizer in Got Talent España, winning the Golden Buzzer |
| Last played in 1900, this bat-and-ball game will return to the Olympic program in 2028; my bet is that a new captain (likely of IPL fame) leads India to gold | Navy, baby, royal | You can zoom on a cable under the LED barrel vault canopy at the Fremont Street Experience doing this activity | The story of Jamaica's 1988 Olympic bobsled team inspired this 1993 Disney film | Known for the Serengeti and its wildebeest migration, its name is a portmanteau of two regions: Tanganyika and Zanzibar | The name of this tiny cousin of the xylophone comes from the German terms for bells and play |
| Teen girl power! At the age of 14 this Romanian was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 at the Olympics | F-18 Hornet, Su-27, Typhoon | When I stumbled upon the famous fountains of this hotel, they were playing "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller | The All Blacks, New Zealand's national rugby team, perform this ceremonial Māori dance before every match | Holy Trinity Cathedral in this country's capital Addis Ababa is the highest-ranking cathedral of the world's largest Oriental Orthodox church | This] is the Neapolitan variant of this tiny string instrument, a staple of the city's vibrant music scene |
Double Jeopardy! Round
| ON "VA"CATION | UNIVERSITY NICKNAME'S THE SAME | FRENCH LITERATURE | 1960s MILESTONES | SOUL POWERS | DINOSAURS |
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| It's the smallest sovereign state, an enclave of Rome, the headquarters of the Catholic Church, and the location of the world's largest church building | Troy University and the University of Southern California | Do you hear the people sing? In this Victor Hugo novel, Jean Valjean tries to escape Javert after breaking parole, having previously been incarcerated for 19 years | In 1968, for the very first time, an Ivy League school went coed as this Connecticut university admitted 588 women | She was the Queen of Soul and had one of the greatest voices of all time | The clues were taken from this show because I hadn't realized J!AD games were meant to be completely original. |
| Among this developer's finest games include Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, and Team Fortress 2 | Jacksonville State University and the University of South Carolina | In this classic Dumas novel, Edmond Dantès plots his revenge after being falsely accused of treason; when he escapes, he assumes the titular identity | The NRG Astrodome, the world's first domed multi-purpose stadium, opened in 1965 in this Texas city | This King of Soul died way too young, but a couple months before he released a No. 1 hit single | |
| Commonly associated with white ice cream and unmodded Minecraft, it's a kind of spice obtained from orchids of the eponymous genus | Bowling Green State University and the United States Air Force Academy | After crashing in the Sahara on an airplane, the narrator meets the titular character of this Saint-Exupéry novel, who subsequently asks him to draw a sheep | Walt Disney played a major role in designing some of the 1964 New York World's Fair's attractions, all of which moved to this first Disney park in California | Unfortunately, this Prince of Soul was killed by his own father a day before his 45th birthday in 1984 | |
| A video on YouTube combines this music genre and aesthetic with videos of commuter trains in the United States | Colgate University and Texas Tech University | This Camus novel is divided into two parts, presenting the first-person perspective of Meursault before and after the murder of an Arab man in Algiers | Despite protests, destruction of the old Penn Station building in New York began in 1963; it's mostly now the site of this famed arena | With his rendition of Georgia on My Mind being declared the state song, he was truly The Genius | |
| Pictured in the diagram shown here is this electron in the outermost shell of a molecule, bearing the ability to form chemical bonds by sharing such electrons between atoms | Jackson State University and the University of Missouri | A seminal work of literary realism, this Flaubert novel reveals the tragic consequences of romanticism on the wife of a provincial doctor | The first star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame belonged to this actress and wife of 50 years to Paul Newman who is best known for her role in The Three Faces of Eve | This soul power recorded Soul Power, as well as Funky Drummer, one of the most heavily-sampled tracks |
Final Jeopardy! Round
| GREEK MYTHOLOGY |
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| This Olympian was said to have created the first horse, and so like earthquakes, he presides over horses |