AUGCGeo-Jeopardy!
Game 1
Capitals of Europe
Planets in the News
Olympic Games
Rock ArtFamous
VolcanoesCows
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What is the capital of France?
What is the capital of Portugal?
What is the capital of Wales?
What is the capital of Romania?
What is the capital of Slovenia?
This planet is currently being explored by the Rovers.
This planet has been in news following the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft in its
orbit.
This planet hit the headlines in 1994 when Comet
Schumacher-Levy hit it.
This planet made a big splash on 11 February
1999, when it moved into its usual place as the
second-outermost planet of the Solar System.
Earlier this year this planet performed one of its
twice-in-130-years transits across the Sun.
The first Olympic Games in 776 BC were held to honour
this god.
Two of the three US citiesthat have hosted the
summer Olympic Games
What are St. Louis, Los Angeles and Atlanta?
This sand-in-your-toes sport made its debut at the
1996 Atlanta Olympics.
What is beach volleyball?
Three of the five events that are part of the Modern Pentathlon at
the Olympics.
What are cross-country running, swimming, pistol-shooting,
fencing and horseback-racing?
The English translation of the three-word motto of the
Olympic Games, Citius, Altius, Fortius.
What is swifter, higher, stronger?
The painting of this horse must postdate the introduction of
horses to this continent in 1788.
What is Australia?
Carvings like this one in Kejimkujik, Nova Scotia, are referred to by this term.
What are petroglyhs?
An Upper Paleolithic cave
painting from France illustrates
the immense antlers of this
extinct member of the deer family.
What is the Irish elk?
The earliest rock art from this desert indicates climate was
much wetter in the hunter period of Tasilli.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Rock art painted with egg albumen or blood can be dated
with the technique that measures racemisation or
decay of these compounds in proteins.
What are amino acids?
This American volcano erupted in 1980, spreading an
ash cloud over much of the United States and southern
Canada.
What is Mount St. Helens?
This famous Italian volcano is the source of the term Plinian, meaning a high-velocity, high-column,
explosive eruption.
What is Vesuvius?
This Japanese volcano last erupted in 1707.
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This Martian volcano is thought to be the highest and largest volcano in the
Solar System
What is Olympus Mons?
This volcanic island made its appearance in 1963 and is named after the owner of
fire in Norse mythology.
The number of stomachs possessed by a cow.
The breed of cattle with the highest percentage of
butterfat and protein, named after one of the
English Channel Islands.
What is the Jersey?
The cow’s switch is on this part of her anatomy
What is her tail?
An average Holstein produces 52 pounds
of this daily.
The Holstein-Frisian breed of cow originated in the
north of this country.
What is the Netherlands?