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Sunday School - Season 1, Week 8

Alex Jacob
Nov 21, 2022
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Sunday School - Season 1, Week 8

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Hi everyone! School of Trivia player Andrew He will be back on Jeopardy! on Monday and is just one game away from winning the Tournament of Champions! Good luck Andrew!!

This is a free quiz series made up of an extra question from each of a previous week's quizzes. It's open for anyone to play, and you can still catch up with Quizzes #1-7, linked below. Feel free to forward this along to those who might be interested! You can check your scores on the "Sunday" tab of the leaderboard page.

Links

Join the league! Season 12 starts Monday Nov. 28

School of Trivia leaderboard — docs.google.com

leaderboard.schooloftrivia.com

Sunday Quiz #1 — docs.google.com

Sunday Quiz #2 — docs.google.com

Sunday Quiz #3 — docs.google.com

Sunday Quiz #4 — docs.google.com

Sunday Quiz #5 — docs.google.com

Sunday Quiz #6 — docs.google.com

Sunday Quiz #7 — docs.google.com

Composers theme entries

  • John Cage: avant-garde composer whose piece 4'33" consists of complete silence

  • Gustav Holst: British composer known for his orchestral suite titled "The Planets"

  • Johann Strauss II: "Waltz King" who composed "The Blue Danube"

  • Joseph Haydn: "Father of the Symphony" with the nickname "Papa"

  • Jean Sibelius: composer who often paid tribute to his home country of Finland

Sunday Quiz #8

[Q1] Day 1 - "Silence is Golden": RUNNING GAGS OF THIS SPY COMEDY TV SERIES CO-CREATED BY MEL BROOKS INCLUDED WACKY GADGETS SUCH AS THE SHOE PHONE AND THE CONE OF SILENCE, AS WELL AS CATCHPHRASES LIKE "SORRY ABOUT THAT, CHIEF" AND "MISSED IT BY *THAT* MUCH"

[Q2] Day 2 - "Planet Trivia": THOUGH IT'S NEARLY TWICE AS FAR FROM THE SUN AS MERCURY, THIS PLANET IS THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S HOTTEST ON AVERAGE DUE TO THE SEVERE GREENHOUSE EFFECT CAUSED BY ITS ATMOSPHERE

[Q3] Day 3 - "Can You Danube?": THE SOURCE OF THE DANUBE RIVER IS IN A REGION KNOWN IN GERMANY AS THE SCHWARZWALD, THE ORIGIN OF A VARIETY OF HAM AND A CAKE MADE WITH THIS FRUIT

[Q4] Day 4 - "Papa Can You Quiz Me?": ACCORDING TO KEN BURNS' "BASEBALL," NEGRO LEAGUES LEGEND JAMES BELL — KNOWN BY THIS CATEGORY-APPROPRIATE NICKNAME — WAS SO FAST THAT HE ONCE SCORED FROM FIRST ON A SACRIFICE BUNT

[Q5] Day 5 - "Finnishing Up the Week": LUXEMBOURG IS THE ONLY CURRENTLY EXISTING GRAND DUCHY, BUT FROM 1809 UNTIL ITS INDEPENDENCE IN 1917, FINLAND WAS A GRAND DUCHY OF THIS COUNTRY

Sunday Quiz #8 — docs.google.com

Good luck! As always, feel free to reply to this email or reach me on Twitter with any questions, feedback, etc.

Alex

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