Pub Quiz Jeopardy

A genuinely hard mixed board for trivia regulars: history, geography, science, literature, wordplay and sport. Free to copy; teams buzz in by phone.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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History Buffs

$200
Henry V's longbowmen won this 1415 battle against a much larger French army.
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
$400
Signed in 1648, this set of treaties ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
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This 1494 treaty drew a line down the Atlantic dividing newly found lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
$800
Often called the shortest war in history, an 1896 conflict of under an hour pitted Britain against this sultanate.
What is Zanzibar?
$1,000
This 6th-century Byzantine emperor ordered the great codification of Roman law that bears his name.
Who is Justinian I?

Geography Deep Cuts

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Lake Titicaca straddles the border between Peru and this country.
What is Bolivia?
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In 1991, this country officially moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja.
What is Nigeria?
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The kingdom of Lesotho is completely surrounded by this country.
What is South Africa?
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Thimphu is the capital of this Himalayan kingdom.
What is Bhutan?
$1,000
Liechtenstein and this Central Asian nation are the world's only doubly landlocked countries.
What is Uzbekistan?

Science Lab

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The chemical symbol W stands for this element, from its German name wolfram.
What is tungsten?
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This thigh bone is the longest in the human body.
What is the femur?
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This SI unit of electrical resistance is named for a German physicist.
What is the ohm?
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This scale ranks mineral hardness from talc at 1 to diamond at 10.
What is the Mohs scale?
$1,000
CERN announced the discovery of this long-sought particle in 2012.
What is the Higgs boson?

Literary Figures

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This first mate of the Pequod lent his name to a coffee chain.
Who is Starbuck?
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Sherlock Holmes calls this archenemy "the Napoleon of crime."
Who is Professor Moriarty?
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This squire rides a donkey beside Don Quixote.
Who is Sancho Panza?
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In Jane Eyre, this first wife of Mr. Rochester is kept locked in the attic of Thornfield Hall.
Who is Bertha Mason?
$1,000
In Joyce's Ulysses, this advertising canvasser wanders Dublin on 16 June 1904.
Who is Leopold Bloom?

Words and Wordplay

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Words like "racecar" and "level" that read the same backward as forward are called this.
What is a palindrome?
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NASA and scuba are examples of this kind of abbreviation, pronounced as a word.
What is an acronym?
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This term covers words like "buzz" and "sizzle" that imitate the sounds they name.
What is onomatopoeia?
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"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is this kind of sentence, using every letter of the alphabet.
What is a pangram?
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The dot over a lowercase i or j is called this.
What is a tittle?

Sporting Chance

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Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament still played on this surface.
What is grass?
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The Ashes is a cricket series played between England and this country.
What is Australia?
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Players use a hurley to strike a ball called a sliotar in this Irish sport.
What is hurling?
$800
The best climber in the Tour de France wears a white jersey covered in dots of this color.
What is red?
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In golf, a score of three under par on a single hole is called this bird.
What is an albatross?

Final Jeopardy — Flags of the World

It is the only country whose national flag is neither a rectangle nor a square, being made of two stacked pennants.

What is Nepal?

How to run this board

This board is written for people who already play pub quizzes and want something that makes them work. Columns cover history, geography, science, literature, words and language, and sport, and the difficulty is set well above a casual game night.

It runs well in a bar with the board on a TV behind the bar or a projector on the wall. Each team buzzes in from one phone, which avoids the usual shouting over who answered first.

House rule suggestion: allow a short consultation before answering, but only after buzzing. Teams that buzz fast and confer quickly get rewarded, and the room stays lively instead of silent.

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