PHYSICS JEOPARDY!!

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MODERN US HISTORY FINAL Jeopardy!
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MODERN US HISTORY JEOPARDY
Double Jeopardy
Final Jeopardy
World War II
War in the Pacific
1950s
1960s
Civil Rights
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WORLD WAR II FOR 100He was the leader of
Germany during World War II
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WORLD WAR II for 100 points
Answer Hitler
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WORLD WAR II for 200 pointsName the three
major countries that made up the Axis Powers
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WORLD WAR II FOR 200 points
Answer Germany, Italy, and Japan
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WORLD WAR II for 300 pointsWhat 4 major
countries made up the allies
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WORLD WAR II for 300 points
Answer United States Great Britain,
France, Russia
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WORLD WAR II for 400 pointsCode name for the
allied invasion of France
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WORLD WAR II for 400 points
Answer D-Day
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WORLD WAR II for 500 pointsNazi Germanys
systematic murder of European Jews
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WORLD WAR II for 500 points
Answer Holocaust
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 100 pointsThe event
that sparked U.S. involvement in World War II
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 100 points
Answer Pearl Harbor attack
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 200 pointsStrategy that
involved selectively attacking specific enemy
held islands and bypassing others
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 200 points
Answer Island hopping
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 300 pointsCode name for
the project that developed the atomic bomb
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 300 points
Answer Manhattan Project
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 400 pointsThis
president made the decision to drop the atomic
bomb on Japan
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 400 points
Answer Truman
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 500 pointsName the two
cities that atomic bombs were dropped on
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC for 500 points
Answer Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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THE 1950s for 100 pointsTheory that if one
country fell to communism other countries would
follow
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THE 1950s for 100 points
Answer Domino Theory
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THE 1950s for 200 pointsWisconsin Senator
that fueled the Red Scare in the United States
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THE 1950s for 200 points
Answer Joseph McCarthy
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Daily Double!
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THE 1950s for 300 pointsThis was the result
of the Korean War (Conflict)
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THE 1950s for 300 points
Answer Korea remained divided at the 38th
parallel as it was before the war
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THE 1950s for 400 pointsA list circulated
among employers containing the names of persons
who should not be hired
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THE 1950s for 400 points
Answer Blacklists
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THE 1950s for 500 pointsThis country was
responsible for the invasion that started the
Korean War (Conflict)
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THE 1950s for 500 points
Answer North Korea
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THE 1960s for 100 points The two candidates in
the 1960 election
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THE 1960s for 100 points
Answer Richard Nixon JFK
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THE 1960s for 200 pointsPresident Kennedys
plan to improve the economy, assist the poor, and
advance the space program
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THE 1960s for 200 points
Answer New Frontier
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THE 1960s for 300 pointsThis group decided
that the assassination of JFK was the work of a
lone assassin
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THE 1960s or 300 points
Answer The Warren Commission
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THE 1960s for 400 pointsFailed invasion of
Cuba during the 1960s
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THE 1960s for 400 points
Answer Bay of Pigs
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THE 1960s for 500 pointsBarrier built by East
Germany to separate Communist and non-Communist
Berlin
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THE 1960s for 500 points
Answer Berlin Wall
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 100 pointsBelieved that
change should occur peacefully
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 100 points
Answer Martin Luther King Jr.
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CIVIL RIGHTS 200 pointsLaw aimed at reducing
the barriers that prevented African Americans
from voting
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 200 points
Answer Voting Rights Act of 1965
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 300 pointsGroups of civil
rights activists tested southern states
compliance to the Supreme Court ban of
segregation on buses
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CIVIL RIGHTS or 300 points
Answer Freedom Rides
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 400 pointsBelieved in gaining
civil rights by any means necessary leader of
the Black Nationalist movement
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 400 points
Answer Malcolm X
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 500 pointsOrganization founded
in 1942 to promote racial equality through a
peaceful means
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CIVIL RIGHTS for 500 points
Answer CORE
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ECONOMICS Double Jeopardy
Vietnam War
1970s
1980s
1990s
The Present
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VIETNAM for 200Communist guerillas in South
Vietnam
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VIETNAM for 200
Answer Viet Cong
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VIETNAM for 400The two terms used to refer to
Vietnam War supporters and protestors
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VIETNAM for 400
Answer Hawks and Doves
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Daily Double!
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VIETNAM for 600Incident in which American
soldiers killed women, children, and old men in a
Vietnamese village
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VIETNAM WAR for 600
Answer My Lai
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VIETNAM WAR for 800Herbicide dropped by pilots
on dense jungle landscapes to expose Viet Cong
hiding places
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VIETNAM WAR for 800
Answer Agent Orange
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VIETNAM WAR for 1000The end result of the
Vietnam War
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VIETNAM WAR for 1000
Answer South Vietnam falls to communism
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1970s for 200President elected in 1968
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1970s for 200
Answer Nixon
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1970s for 400Nixons Secretary of State
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1970s for 400
Answer Henry Kissinger
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1970s for 600Scandal in which Nixon had people
spy on the Democratic National Convention
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1970s for 600
Answer Watergate
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1970s for 800 President after Nixon
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1970s for 800
Answer Gerald Ford
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1970s for 1000President after Gerald Ford
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1970s for 1000
Answer Jimmy Carter
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THE 1980S for 200He was president for most of
the 1980s
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THE 1980S for 200
Answer Ronald Reagan
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THE 1980s for 400 He was President Reagans
Vice President
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THE 1980s for 400
Answer George H.W. Bush
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THE 1980s for 600Theory that tax reductions
will increase investment and encourage business
growth
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THE 1980s for 600
Answer Supply-side economics (trickle down)
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THE 1980s for 800Name the space shuttle that
exploded in midair less than two minutes after
takeoff in 1986
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THE 1980s for 800
Answer Challenger
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THE 1980s for 1000He was elected President in
1988
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THE 1980s for 1000
Answer George H.W. Bush
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THE 1990s for 200This event started the
Persian Gulf War
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THE 1990s for 200
Answer Iraq invaded Kuwait
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Daily Double!
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THE 1990s 400Name the policy of open/free
trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
created in the late 1990s
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THE 1990s for 400
Answer NAFTA
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THE 1990s for 600He became President of the
United States in 1992
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THE 1990s for 600
Answer Bill Clinton
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THE 1990s for 800Name the 3rd Party Candidate
that won a surprising 19 of the popular vote in
the 1992 election
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THE 1990s for 800
Answer H. Ross Perot
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THE 1990s for 1000Name the two crimes that
President Clinton was impeached for
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THE 1990s for 1000
Answer Perjury and Obstruction of Justice
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THE PRESENT for 200Name the Presidential
Candidate who won the larger percentage of the
popular vote in the 2000 election
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THE PRESENT for 200
Answer Al Gore
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THE PRESENT for 400Name the Presidential
Candidate that won the larger percentage of
electoral votes in the 2000 election
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THE PRESENT for 400
Answer George W. Bush
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THE PRESENT for 600Name the state that had
to recount its votes for the Presidential
election in 2000
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THE PRESENT for 600
Answer Florida
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THE PRESENT for 800 Name the two candidates in
the 2004 Presidential election
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THE PRESENT for 800
Answer George W. Bush and John Kerry
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THE PRESENT for 1000In 2006, this woman became
the first female to hold the position of Speaker
of the House
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THE PRESENT for 1000
Answer Nancy Pelosi
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FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION
At the end of World War II, the United States
developed a policy known as containment. What is
containment?
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FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION
Answer a policy of resisting further expansion
of communism around the world
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