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Journalism Jeopardy 3

Color

Question: Who had a 1980’s hit with True Colors?
Answer: Cyndi Lauper

Question: What part of the eye gives it color?
Answer: Iris

Question: What kind of legume provides the colored inks used in most US daily newspapers?
Answer: Soybean

Question: Which hair color graces the heads of one in 16 Americans?
Answer: Red

Question: How many colors are there in the spectrum when white light is separated?
Answer: 7

Terminology

Question: Focus or approach that is taken to a story
Answer: Angle (story angle)

Question: Two facing pages designed as one unit.
Answer: Spread

Question: A pre-mixed ink used to add a single color to a page.
Answer: Spot color

Question: Using copyrighted material either in its exact form or a variation, without obtaining the permission of the copyright holder.
Answer: Copyright infringement

Question: Developments that took place in the past can be important to the reader's understanding of a breaking news story. What is such background information called?
Answer: Tie back

Math

Question: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
Answer: K and M

Question: What’s a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
Answer: Halogram

Question: What digit did Arab mathematician Al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 BC?
Answer: Zero

Question: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
Answer: 20

Question: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees”?
Answer: Obtuse

Technology

Question: Adolf Loos was a designer of what?
Answer: Buildings

Question: What nationality of plane first broke the 100 mph sound barrier?
Answer: French

Question: Which company sold the first hand-held hair dryers?
Answer: Racine Universal Motor Company

Question: In 1908 Wilbur Wright traveled what record-breaking number of miles in 2 hours and 20 minutes (Less than 100 miles)?
Answer: 77

Question: The first air collision took place over which country?
Answer: Austria

Food

Question: What is the most widely eaten fish in the world?
Answer: Herrin

Question: Name one of the top two selling spices in the world?
Answer: Pepper and Mustard

Question: What milk product did the U.S. Agriculture Department propose as a substitute for meat in school lunches in 1996?
Answer: Yogurt


Question: How many flowers are in the design stamped on each side of an Oreo cookie?
Answer: 12 (Each has 4 petals)

Question: Under what name did the Domino’s Pizza chain get its start?
Answer: DomNick's