LET US PLAY JEOPARDY!
Jeopardy is one of favorite TV Show. In this posting I asked my Writing Assistant to create 75 questions, ranging from easy, medium and hard questions design for seniors, who are still mentally fit. This posting is also inspired by Our Trivia Party here at THD.
Here’s, my Jeopardy-style game board: 5 categories × 5 clues each, arranged from easier ($100) to harder ($500). It has three Editions, Easy, Advanced and Hard. Categories: World History, Science & Nature, Literature & Arts, World Geography and Mixed Knowledge,
The answers are all grouped at the bottom of each set. Have Fun! Let me know What your Score in the Comments Section of this Posting.
1.🎲 Jeopardy Party Game for Active Seniors- Easy Edition
Category 1: World History
$100: The Marshall Plan was designed to rebuild this continent after World War II.
$200: The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ended this major European conflict.
$300: This empire, ruled by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century, stretched from Hungary to the Arabian Peninsula.
$400: This ancient city, located in modern Iraq, is where the Hanging Gardens were said to be built.
$500: This queen ruled England for just nine days in 1553.
Category 2: Science & Nature
$100: The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth.
$200: DNA is made of four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and this.
$300: This law of thermodynamics states that entropy in a closed system always increases.
$400: This physicist won the Nobel Prize for discovering the photoelectric effect.
$500: The largest species of shark, which feeds on plankton.
Category 3: Literature & Arts
$100: The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by this Colombian Nobel laureate.
$200: This American poet wrote Leaves of Grass.
$300: Dante’s Divine Comedy is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and this.
$400: This Shakespeare play opens with the line, “If music be the food of love, play on.”
$500: Georges Seurat pioneered this painting style using tiny dots of color.
Category 4: World Geography
$100: The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from this African country.
$200: The only country in the world whose flag is not rectangular.
$300: Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, is located in this country.
$400: The capital of Canada before Ottawa was this city.
$500: This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
Category 5: Mixed Knowledge
$100: The first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences.
$200: This Greek historian is often called the “Father of History.”
$300: This U.S. Supreme Court case established judicial review in 1803.
$400: The term “quark” in physics was borrowed from a line in a novel by this Irish author.
$500: This mathematical conjecture asserts that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.
No Cheating Did you get 100%. If so, You are my jeopardy Champion and I owe you a dollar.
✅ Answers
World History:
$100: Europe
$200: Thirty Years’ War
$300: Ottoman Empire
$400: Babylon
$500: Lady Jane Grey
Science & Nature:
$100: Uranium
$200: Thymine
$300: Second Law of Thermodynamics
$400: Albert Einstein
$500: Whale Shark
Literature & Arts:
$100: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
$200: Walt Whitman
$300: Paradiso
$400: Twelfth Night
$500: Pointillism
World Geography:
$100: Morocco
$200: Nepal
$300: Russia
$400: Quebec City
$500: Sahara Desert
Mixed Knowledge:
$100: Marie Curie
$200: Herodotus
$300: Marbury v. Madison
$400: James Joyce
$500: Goldbach Conjecture
If the above 25 questions is too easy for you. I will make it harder.
Here's a more challenging set of questions. These questions will target sharp, intellectually curious seniors with backgrounds in science, executive leadership, and academia. Jeopardy-style 5×5 board and all answers at the bottom.
2. 🎲 Jeopardy Party: Advanced Edition
Category 1: History & Politics
$100: This French general became emperor in 1804 after rising to power during the Revolution.
$200: The Peace of Augsburg in 1555 allowed German princes to choose the religion of their state; this principle describes that policy.
$300: He was the British Prime Minister during most of World War II.
$400: The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453 to this Ottoman sultan.
$500: The Glorious Revolution of 1688 replaced King James II with these co-rulers.
Category 2: Science & Technology
$100: The chemical element with atomic number 82 is this.
$200: He formulated the three laws of planetary motion in the early 17th century.
$300: CRISPR technology is used to edit this type of biological molecule.
$400: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle relates the precision of measuring these two quantities.
$500: This Nobel Prize-winning physicist predicted antimatter before it was discovered.
Category 3: Literature & Philosophy
$100: This Russian author wrote The Brothers Karamazov.
$200: The philosophical work Critique of Pure Reason was authored by this thinker.
$300: This 20th-century playwright wrote Waiting for Godot.
$400: The Japanese author of The Tale of Genji, considered the world’s first novel.
$500: The French existentialist philosopher who wrote Being and Nothingness.
Category 4: World Geography & Cultures
$100: The island nation of Sri Lanka was formerly called this.
$200: This river forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico.
$300: The ancient city of Timbuktu is located in this modern-day country.
$400: The Pamir Mountains, known as “The Roof of the World,” are mainly in this country.
$500: This desert in China is the second-largest non-polar desert in the world.
Category 5: Arts & Miscellaneous Knowledge
$100: This Dutch painter is known for The Night Watch.
$200: The composer who wrote The Magic Flute and Requiem Mass in D minor.
$300: In economics, this Italian economist is known for the “invisible hand” theory.
$400: This mathematician formulated the incompleteness theorems in 1931.
$500: This Renaissance artist painted The School of Athens in the Vatican.
✅ Answers
History & Politics:
$100: Napoleon Bonaparte
$200: Cuius regio, eius religio
$300: Winston Churchill
$400: Mehmed II
$500: William III and Mary II
Science & Technology:
$100: Lead
$200: Johannes Kepler
$300: DNA
$400: Position and momentum
$500: Paul Dirac
Literature & Philosophy:
$100: Fyodor Dostoevsky
$200: Immanuel Kant
$300: Samuel Beckett
$400: Murasaki Shikibu
$500: Jean-Paul Sartre
World Geography & Cultures:
$100: Ceylon
$200: Rio Grande
$300: Mali
$400: Tajikistan
$500: Taklamakan
Arts & Miscellaneous Knowledge:
$100: Rembrandt
$200: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
$300: Adam Smith
$400: Kurt Gödel
$500: Raphael
3. Here's the ultra-hard Jeopardy board designed for highly intellectual seniors — questions will require deep knowledge in history, science, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and global affairs. Answers will be at the bottom, as before.
3. 🎲 Jeopardy Party: Ultra-Hard Edition
Category 1: History & Politics
$100: He was the first chancellor of the German Empire after its unification in 1871.
$200: The Peace of Nikolsburg in 1621 ended hostilities between Ferdinand II and this principality.
$300: The Byzantine Emperor Justinian I is known for codifying this body of law.
$400: This 19th-century treaty ended the Opium War between Britain and China.
$500: The Congress of Vienna in 1815 aimed to restore the European balance of power after this major conflict.
Category 2: Science & Technology
$100: The mathematician who proved that e (Euler’s number) is irrational.
$200: The particle physics term “strangeness” was first introduced to describe particles produced in this type of interaction.
$300: The first artificial element synthesized in 1940 was this.
$400: This principle in quantum mechanics, formulated by Pauli in 1925, states that no two fermions can occupy the same quantum state.
$500: The first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 shared it for research on this type of radiation.
Category 3: Literature & Philosophy
$100: This Italian poet’s De Monarchia argues for the separation of church and state.
$200: The German philosopher who wrote The World as Will and Representation.
$300: This author’s novel If on a winter’s night a traveler is famous for its recursive narrative structure.
$400: The 20th-century French philosopher who coined the term “absurd” in existentialist literature.
$500: This Persian polymath of the 11th century wrote The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia.
Category 4: World Geography & Cultures
$100: This city was the capital of the Sassanian Empire before its fall in 651 CE.
$200: The river Indus originates in this modern country.
$300: The indigenous Aymara people primarily inhabit this South American country.
$400: This plateau, sometimes called the “Third Pole,” spans parts of China, India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
$500: The only country to have coastlines on both the Arctic and the Baltic seas.
Category 5: Mathematics & Miscellaneous Knowledge
$100: The 18th-century mathematician Leonhard Euler introduced this function, fundamental in number theory.
$200: Gödel, Escher, Bach is subtitled “An Eternal Golden” this.
$300: The four-color theorem states that any map can be colored with at most this many colors without adjacent regions sharing a color.
$400: In topology, this surface has only one side and one edge.
$500: The physicist Emmy Noether is best known for this theorem linking symmetries and conservation laws.
✅ Answers
History & Politics:
$100: Otto von Bismarck
$200: Transylvania
$300: Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian Code)
$400: Treaty of Nanking
$500: Napoleonic Wars
Science & Technology:
$100: Lambert or Euler (Euler proved later rigorously)
$200: Strong interaction (strong nuclear interaction)
$300: Neptunium
$400: Pauli Exclusion Principle
$500: Marie Curie; radiation = radioactivity
Literature & Philosophy:
$100: Dante Alighieri
$200: Arthur Schopenhauer
$300: Italo Calvino
$400: Albert Camus
$500: Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
World Geography & Cultures:
$100: Ctesiphon
$200: Tibet (China)
$300: Bolivia
$400: Tibetan Plateau
$500: Russia
Mathematics & Miscellaneous Knowledge:
$100: Euler’s totient function φ(n)
$200: Braid
$300: Four
$400: Möbius strip
$500: Noether’s theorem
How many questions were you able to answer on the hardest set? If you get 10 out of 25, I salute you!! You are indeed smart and a highly intellectual Senior!!!
Lastly, here's my photo of the Day:
Can you Guess, where's this photo was Taken? Hint_ Northern California.
