Saturday JEOPARDY

Luckytrim

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Saturday JEOPARDY

Highlight between the brackets to see the "question"........

JEOPARDY- Happy Thanksgiving
1. ($400)-
This holiday decoration was inspired by the horn of Amalthea, who nursed
Zeus when he was a baby...
[what is a cornucopia ? (acceptable; horn of plenty) ]
2. ($1200)- Eat enough cranberries and you won't get scurvy, as they are full of this
vitamin...
[what is vitamin c? ]
3. ($2000)- The sedative effect of turkey has been attributed to this amino acid...
[what is tryptophan? ]

Double JEOPARDY- Bond Women
4.($800)- The color Shirley Eaton was painted all over her body...
[what is gold? ]
5. ($2400)- This Swiss bombshell set the style for all Bond girls to come with her work as
Honey Ryder in "Dr. No"...
[ who is Ursula Andress? ]
6. ($4000)- This "license to Kill" co-star later got a license to practice "Law and Order"...
[who is Carey Lowell? ]

Final JEOPARDY- Longfellow
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This poem is set "in the Acadian land, on the shores of the basin of Minas"...
[ what is "Evangeline"? ]

 
Shabby showing! I got two Jeopardy answers correct, two Double Jeopardy answers right and was way off on the Final Jeopardy question - I said Song Of Hiawatha - you know, "on the banks of Gitchygoomey" and all that................

Ian :oops:
 
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.

Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water........ etc.
 
Hey, LT.....Boy, am I ever totally impressed! Anyone who can quote Longfellow right off the top of their head like that has my complete admiration! I've always loved his work and have a large book of his poems which I was way too lazy last night to get up and look up. Thanks for the quote. My all-time favorite Longfellow poem is the Children's Hour, with Sweet Alice and Laughing Allegra. But I couldn't just quote it out of hand like you did. Wow! If I remember my college studies of Longfellow correctly, he loved the Acadian area and spent a lot of time up there. It's certainly beautiful country.....................DW and I have paid a visit to his gravesite in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA several times - high up on a hill with a lovely view across the hills. Nice.

Ian :whistling:
 
That's all I've got on that one ..........I think it's over ninety stanzas.........

I can do the complete Gettysburg Address, tho '
My favorite poem is by TS Elliot - The Hollow Men............
 
That's amazing! The Complete Gettysburg Address! Wow! I can get all the way to "Four Score and seven years ago................and that's it for me, I'm afraid. I've never had much of a memory for things like that - just snatches and bits and pieces. You must have a photographic memory.

Ian :encore:
 
No, not a great memory; but we all tend to hang onto passages that impress us.......
as to the Gettysburg Address, I was born in Gettysburg. Our fourth grade class had to memorize it, and it's never gone away................
 
LT......Back several years ago, while I was still in school, I had a summer job working on our local paper. One of the gentlemen with whom I worked had recently visited the Gettysburg battlefield memorial and said that as he walked across the area he could hear the voices of the soldiers who'd fought there - out of body experience, I suppose. It sounded a little far-fetched to me but the mind can certainly play strange tricks on one, can't it? I've never been to Gettysburg but would really like to visit there one day. There are a couple of other Civil War Battlefields I'd love to visit, as well. Been to Atlanta and it's fantastic but nothing much like what it once was back in the Day. It's the antiquity I'd like to experience.

Ian :whistle:
 
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