2015 Pacific-time Jeopardy! test questions and answers

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1.  A recent bestseller, "Z" is a fictionalized account of this author's wife Zelda

    F. Scott Fitzgerald
   
2.  In 2015 he won a Grammy for best rap album for "The Marshall Mathers LP 2"

    Eminem
   
3.  In Latin vacca is this animal

    cow
   
4.  This peak is the only mountain in North America that exceeds 20,000 feet

    Mount McKinley
   
5.  God gave him a name meaning "father of many nations"

    Abraham
   
6.  This 23-inch beeping metal sphere galvanized America in the 1950s

    Sputnik
   
7.  Readers had to hold their breath & bide their time for "Getting To Happy", Terry McMillan's sequel to this novel

    Waiting To Exhale
   
8.  In 2004, at age 14, she became the youngest female to play in a PGA tournament

    Michelle Wie
   
9.  Many of his portraits of the 1630s depict his wife, Saskia

    Rembrandt
   
10. This nickname for a Harley-Davidson is also the 3-letter stock symbol for the company

    HOG
    
11. This type of science is used to establish the facts in a court of law

    forensic
    
12. Rome lies on both banks of this 250-mile-long river

    Tiber
    
13. "Beautiful", which opened in 2014, tells of this singer & composer's rise to fame

    Carole King
    
14. In an Oscar Wilde novel, Basil Hallward is the artist who paints "the picture of" him

    Dorian Gray
    
15. This Austrian ruling family was known for its hereditary peculiarity, a protruding lower lip

    Habsburg
    
16. Fritz Haber won a Nobel Prize for producing this gas from hydrogen and nitrogen

    ammonia
    
17. The Sugar Plum Fairy welcomes Clara to the Kingdom of the Sweets in Act II of this ballet

    The Nutcracker
    
18. Bonito & Yellowfin are types of this fish

    tuna
    
19. The name of this study comes from words meaning "love of" and "wisdom"

    philosophy
    
20. It was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, author of "Middlemarch"

    George Eliot
    
21. A prelude to the Civil War was the bombardment & surrender of this South Carolina fort in April 1861

    Fort Sumter
    
22. This observance was first celebrated in 1919 when it was called Armistice Day

    Veterans Day
    
23. This poet spent most of her life on the island of Lesbos, her birthplace

    Sappho
    
24. National parks in this state include Arches & Bryce Canyon

    Utah
    
25. This highest waterfall in the world is named for an American pilot but located in Venezuela

    Angel Falls
    
26. This oldest major league park is at 4 Yawkey Way in the Back Bay

    Fenway
    
27. Captain John Yossarian is the protagonist of this 1961 bestseller

    Catch 22
    
28. It's the one-letter symbol used for the acceleration Earth imparts to objects near its surface

    g
    
29. Founded in 1693, this college is named for a pair who came to power in 1689

    William & Mary
    
30. One-word name of the 1865-1877 era of American history

    Reconstruction
    
31. He was born March 1, 1810 in the duchy of Warsaw

    Chopin
    
32. Peaceful or serene, like a calm lake (6 letters)

    placid
    
33. A cosmopolitan gets its pinky color from this type of juice

    cranberry
    
34. It's the fifth planet from the Sun

    Jupiter
    
35. At the 1993 inauguration of Bill Clinton, she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning"

    Angelou
    
36. Denmark has a land border with Germany & a bridge border with this country

    Sweden
    
37. It debuted on NBC at 11:30 P.M. on September 27, 1954

    The Tonight Show
    
38. This ancient unit was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger

    cubit
    
39. 8-letter term for a permanent, transmittable change to a cell's genome

    mutation
    
40. It's the capital of Vermont

    Montpelier
    
41. And & or are "coordinating" these

    conjunctions
    
42. You'll find Sardinia in this sea

    Mediterranean
    
43. The Focus & the Fusion are 2015 models from this maker

    Ford
    
44. On October 21, 1805 Lord Nelson beat a French & Spanish fleet near this cape that gave its name to the battle

    Trafalgar
    
45. This rotund character appears in 2 of Shakespeare's histories & one of his comedies

    Falstaff
    
46. Gautama was the clan name of this man who lived sometime between the 6th & 4th centuries B.C.

    Buddha
    
47. Named for a Moroccan port, it's also known as a mandarin orange

    tangerine
    
48. This 2009 blockbuster holds the worldwide box-office record of nearly $2.8 billion

    Avatar
    
49. First given in 1918, this award's novel prize was renamed the fiction prize in 1947

    Pulitzer
    
50. Pronounced one way, it's a stringed instrument; pronounced another, it's a fish

    bass

You're supposed to write "who is" or "what is" before the answer. 0/50.