High School English/Biology Jeopardy!Stefen Kutchey
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Round 1:High School English
Grammar Vocabulary Literary Devices
Notable Literary Figures
Historical Context
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Double Jeopardy!:High School Biology
The Cell Ecology Human Body Evolution Genetics
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Final Jeopardy!
Topic: Advanced English Grammar
FINAL JEOPARDY!
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In the phrase “If I
were running for president . . .” the verb is in this mood.
What is the subjunctive?
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Grammar: $100
This is the form of a
verb ending in –ing that functions as a noun in a sentence.
What is a gerund?
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The mark of punctuation
used to conjoin two independent
clauses.
What is a semicolon?
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A sentence with with a dependent
and independent
clause.
What is a complex
sentence?
Grammar: $400
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What is a split
infinitive?
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The comma appearing at the end of a list before “and” and the final
item.
What is a serial (or Oxford)
comma ?
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Lackadaisical
What is “carelessly
lazy”?
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Facetious
What is “treating serious things
comically”?
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DeleteriousWhat is
“harmful”?
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Perfidious What is “disloyal”?
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Taciturn What is “quiet in speech”?
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A comparison between two things using
“like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
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The repetition of sounds at
the beginning of
words, especially in
verse.
What is alliteration?
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Five poetic feet of
stressed-unstressed syllables.
What is iambic
pentamenter?
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A tragic flaw.What is a hamartia?
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When an object is
represented by one of its
parts.
What is metonymy?
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Hispanic author
famous for writing in the genre magical realism.
Who his Gabriel García
Márquez?
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He wrote the satirical novel
Candide, which was
later translated, in French.
Who is Voltaire?
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Writer known for such works
as The Portrait of
Dorian Grey and The
Importance of Being Ernest.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
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This American is known for
portrayals of post-
apocalyptic society in The Road.
Who is Cormac
McCarthy?
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French existentialist who won the Nobel Prize
in 1957. Wrote The
Fall.
Who is Albert
Camus?
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This novel was written
as an allegory of
events during the
Russian Revolution.
Features pigs.
What is Animal Farm?
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The time in which Oscar Wilde wrote.
What is the Victorian
Era?
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This novel comments
on southern racial
injustice. Won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1960 .
What is To Kill a
Mocking Bird?
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What is the Underground
Railroad?
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Route written about largely by runaway slaves.
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This Dalene Matthee
novel tackles South African
apartheid racism.
What is Fiela’s Child?
The Cell: $200
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What is the Golgi body
(apparatus)?
This organelle packages cell proteins.
The Cell: $400
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This organelle is found in plant cells
and contributes to photosynthesi
s.
What is a chloroplast?
The Cell: $600
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In this form of cell
division, daughter cells are
genetically identical to parent cells.
What is mitosis?
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The Cell: $800
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These facilitate the transfer of
solids in and out of cells.
What are transport proteins?
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What is a capsule?
The slime layer surrounding this type of cell.
Ecology: $200
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Group of organisms of
the same species
interacting with each
other.
What is a population?
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When organisms struggle for control of
limited resources .
What is competition?
Ecology: $600
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A relationship
between organisms in which each organism benefits from the
other.
What is a mutualistic
relationship?
Ecology: $800
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Where an organism is on a food
chain.
What is a trophic level?
Ecology: $1000
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The highest level of
ecological organization.
What is the biosphere?
Human Body: $200
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What is a gerund?
This.
Human Body: $400
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A type of muscle
contraction that creates movement.
What is istonic?
Human Body: $600
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Moving the arms away from the body in a
lateral motion.
What is abduction?
Human Body: $800
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Organ system
composed of skin, hair,
nails, sweat glands, etc.
What is the integumentary system?
Human Body: $1000
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What is the lymphatic system?
This system.
Evolution: $200
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What is duplication?
Evolution: $400
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When traits flourish or
diminish in a population
over time due to
environmental pressures.
What is natural
selection?
Evolution: $600
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Term used to describe animals’
competition for mates.
What is sexual
selection?
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When desirable traits are
selected by people and bred into a population.
What is artificial
selection?
Evolution: $1000
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Diagram used to
illustrate lineages and evolutionary
paths.
What is a phylogeny?
Genetics: $200
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What is a Punnett Square?
Genetics: $400
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Where genes are located.
What are chromosome
s?
Genetics: $600
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Chart with which
geneticists track
phenotypes through time
.
What is a pedigree?
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When a gene is
transcribed into a useful
product, usually protein.
What is gene
expression?
Genetics: $1000
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They package DNA into
nucleosomes.
What are histones?
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