Jeopardy Trivia April 2021 - Acclaim Health

Jeopardy Trivia
             April 2021
There are six categories with six questions in each category,
followed by a Final Jeopardy question. The categories are:
           • Day Time
           • Show Your Age
           • Movies by the Numbers
           • Semper Fi
           • Happy Birthday, April Baby
           • It Happened One April

Day Time ($100)

This is the time during
 daylight hours that is
 neither a.m. nor p.m.

What is noon?
 Midnight is also neither a.m. nor p.m. A.m. stands
for ante meridiem, which means “before noon,” and
p.m. stands for post meridiem, meaning “after noon.”

Day Time ($200)

   This is the first day when
listing the days alphabetically.

What is Friday?
 The days in alphabetical order are
 Friday, Monday, Saturday, Sunday,
Thursday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Day Time ($400)

 In the summertime, countries
     that experience daylight
  throughout the day and night
are called “the land of [this] sun.”

What is midnight?
 For a few days in the summer, portions of
Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska experience
   daylight throughout the day and night.
Some of these places see 20 hours of sunlight
    for two months during the summer.

Day Time ($600)

Daylight saving time was first
 enacted on this continent.

What is Europe?
It was enacted during World War I.
The United States enacted it during
           World War II.

Day Time ($800)

   This continent in the
southern hemisphere goes
without daylight during its
     winter months.

What is Antarctica?

Day Time ($1,000)

This day of remembrance,
which falls on November 2,
  is the biggest religious
    holiday in Mexico.

What is Day of the Dead?
    People clean the gravesites of
  their relatives in anticipation of
visits from loved ones on this day.
It’s considered a day of celebration
       rather than mourning.

Show Your Age ($100)

Age goes before this.

What is beauty?
    Although “age before beauty”
 is mostly used humorously today,
many still follow the time-honored
tradition of allowing their elders to
         go ahead of them.

Show Your Age ($200)

 I was born during the day,
but I wasn’t born on this day.

What is yesterday
         (or similar?)
 It’s also said, “I was born at night but not
last night.” The expression is used to show
  that someone is not naïve. It originated
           around the 18th century.

Show Your Age ($400)

Athletes who are no longer
able to compete are said to
        be past this.

What is their prime?
Most athletes and models “age out”
    at a relatively young age.

Show Your Age ($600)

There’s a saying that life
  begins at this age.

What is 40?
The expression comes from the
   book Life Begins at 40 by
       Walter B. Pitkin.

Show Your Age ($800)

    Someone who has not
reached a legal age for certain
  activities is said to be this.

What is underage?
For example, underage people are
      not allowed to drink.

Show Your Age ($1,000)

A senior who feels young
and acts young is said to
    be young at this.

What is heart?
Young at Heart is the title of a
 1954 film and a song from
       its soundtrack.

Movies by the Numbers ($100)

 The character Phileas Fogg
went around the world in this
      number of days.

What is 80?
 The 1956 film Around the World in
  Eighty Days has an ensemble cast
   including David Niven, Shirley
    MacLaine, and Charles Boyer.
Phileas Fogg was Niven’s favorite role.

Movies by the Numbers ($200)
      The ever-popular
    1947 Christmas movie
  starring Maureen O’Hara
  and John Payne is about a
    miracle on this street.

What is 34th?
 Miracle on 34th Street is the story of
a man who calls himself Kris Kringle
 and claims to be Santa Claus. He is
   taken to court over the claim.

Movies by the Numbers ($400)

In the 1975 film, this number
 flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

What is one?
 Two of the most memorable characters
 in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are
     R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)
    and Nurse Ratched, also known as
Big Nurse (Louise Fletcher). People today
 call overbearing nurses Nurse Ratched.

Movies by the Numbers ($600)
 Marilyn Monroe stars in the
1955 film about this itch, which
  is often associated with the
 number of years it takes for a
    marriage to disintegrate.

What is
    seven year?
The Seven Year Itch follows
  a New Yorker who sends
  his family to the country
  for the summer while he
 remains in New York and
is attracted to his neighbor.

Movies by the Numbers ($800)

The 1997 film Murder at this
 number indicates it takes
 place at the White House.

What is 1600?
The address of the White House is 1600
 Pennsylvania Avenue. Murder at 1600
stars Wesley Snipes as Detective Regis.

Movies by the Numbers ($1,000)

 This 1987 film is about this
 number of men and a baby.

What is three?
 Three Men and a Baby is the story
of three roommates, played by Tom
Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted
Danson, grappling to take care of a
 baby who is left on their doorstep.

Semper Fi ($100)

Semper Fidelis means this.

What is “always faithful”
 (or “always loyal”)?
 It’s the Marine Corps motto and
is used as a greeting and a parting
 word. It’s also a final send-off for
           a fallen Marine.

Semper Fi ($200)

  The U.S. Marine Corps falls
under this military department.

What is U.S. Navy?
    It is its own branch, but it does not have a separate
 department under the Department of Defense. Marine
officers train at the Naval Academy. During World War I,
  the Marines fell under the authority of the U.S. Army.

Semper Fi ($400)

U.S. Marines train at one
  of these two places.

What is Parris Island, California,
  or San Diego, California?

Semper Fi ($600)

 This is the youngest age at
which someone can enlist in
     the U.S. Marines.

What is 17?

Semper Fi ($800)

 True or false? Only
U.S. citizens can enlist
   in the Marines.

What is false?
Foreign-born non-U.S. citizens
 with green cards may enlist.
 Officers must be U.S. citizens.

Semper Fi ($1,000)

    Early U.S. Marine
enlistments took place in
    this public place.

What is a bar, pub,
      or tavern?
The first enlistments are said to
  have taken place in 1775 in
 Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.

Happy Birthday, April Baby ($100)

   Born April 3, 1942, this
Las Vegas legend first became
   known for his hit single
      “Danke Shöen.”

Who is Wayne Newton?
  He first performed in Las Vegas in
 1958 while he was still in high school.
 He’s been performing for live and TV
audiences for more than 60 years. He is
currently performing at Caesar’s Palace.

Happy Birthday, April Baby ($200)

    Born April 26, 1933, this
comedienne’s signature song on
her variety show is “I’m So Glad
 We Had This Time Together.”

Who is
 Carol Burnett?
The Carol Burnett Show
won 25 Emmy Awards.

Happy Birthday, April Baby ($400)

     Born April 21, 1926,
  this is the longest-reigning
    constitutional monarch
            in Britain.

Who is
     Queen Elizabeth II?
    The queen ascended to the throne
  February 6, 1952. She became the heir
apparent when her uncle King Edward VIII
 abdicated and her father King George VI
               stepped in.

Happy Birthday, April Baby ($600)

  Born April 3, 1922, this singer and
actress had an eponymous sitcom and
 starred in With Six You Get Eggroll,
   Pillow Talk, Send Me No Flowers,
 Teacher’s Pet, and many more films.

Who is Doris Day?
  Her leading men included Brian
 Keith, Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor,
   James Garner, and other A-list
celebrities. She also founded several
    animal welfare organizations.

Happy Birthday, April Baby ($800)

   Born April 5, 1900, this
 actor is believed to have had
    a long-term affair with
     Katharine Hepburn.

Who is Spencer Tracy?
 They starred together in nine films,
and their relationship spanned three
decades. It has been rumored the two
served as the inspiration for the Sam
  and Diane characters in Cheers.

Happy Birthday, April Baby ($1,000)
   Born April 23, 1939, this actor
played Heath in The Big Valley and
starred in The Fall Guy and The Six
 Million Dollar Man. He was once
     married to Farah Fawcett.

Who is Lee Majors?
 He played a bionic man in
The Six Million Dollar Man.

It Happened One April ($100)

Every April 1, we celebrate
  this unofficial holiday.

What is April Fools’ Day?
  According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac,
“The term ‘All Fools’ was probably meant as a
    deliberate stab at All Saints Day and
                All Souls Day.”

It Happened One April ($200)
On April 5, 1887, Annie Sullivan,
dubbed “the miracle worker,” had
a breakthrough with Helen Keller.
It was on that day that she helped
      Helen learn this word.

What is water?
     Nouns were easy for Helen to
  understand after that, but verbs were
 much harder because they involved an
action. Did you know Sullivan was also
visually impaired as a child but regained
    some of her sight after surgery?

It Happened One April ($400)

    On April 5, 1992, this
once-richest man in the world
and founder of Walmart died.

Who is Sam Walton?
  The first Walmart opened in 1962 in Rogers,
Arkansas. By 2010, it was the largest company in
 the world. President George W. Bush honored
Walton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
 Today, Walmart’s online distribution competes
   with Amazon and offers two-day delivery.

It Happened One April ($600)
On April 3, 1995, she became
 the first woman to preside
over the U.S. Supreme Court,
  filling in for Chief Justice
      William Rehnquist.

Who is
Sandra Day O’Connor?
  She was also the first woman
appointed to the Supreme Court.

It Happened One April ($800)

   On April 30, 1789,
 George Washington was
 inaugurated in this city.

What is New York City?
    Thomas Jefferson was the first
  president to be inaugurated at the
Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Subsequent presidential inaugurations
 have occurred in various locations.

It Happened One April ($1,000)

    On April 27, 2005, the
 maiden flight of the A380,
 produced by this European
   consortium, took place.

What is Airbus?
     It was the aircraft’s first test flight,
    and it’s still the largest commercial
 aircraft in the world. It would have been
   a failure if not for the huge order by
      Dubai-based Emirates (airline).
Airbus will end A380 production in 2021.

Final Jeopardy

   This magazine publishes an
annual list that ranks the 500 top
 companies in the United States.

What is Fortune?
    The list, known as the “Fortune 500,”
   includes public and private companies
     and ranks them by total revenues.
  The magazine publishes other lists, too,
such as “World’s Most Admired Companies”
  and “100 Best Companies to Work For.”

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