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Accomplishment Jeopardy
Sports Politics Science
Arts History
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He is the youngest major league baseball player
to start a game.

• Who is Joe Nuxhall? 15yo

Sports 100
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He is the oldest Major League baseball player
ever to have played the game.

• Who is Satchel Paige? 59 yo

Sports 200
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She was the first American woman to win a gold
medal in Olympic gymnastics.

• Who is Mary Lou Retton? 15 yo

Sports 300
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He was the first athlete to win 7 gold medals in
a single Olympics.

• Who is Mark Spitz?

Sports 400
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These two switch hitters hold the National League
and the American League record for most home
runs.

• Who are Chipper Jones and Mickey Mantle?

Sports 500
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He is the oldest player to hit a home run in an
all star game.

• Who is Cal Ripken Junior?

Sports 1000
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He is the youngest senator ever elected to
Congress.

• Who was John Eaton? 28 yo

Politics 100
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He was the youngest person to be elected to the
office of President of the United States.

• Who is John F. Kennedy? 43 yo

Politics 200
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This man was the oldest person to assume the
office of the President of the United States.

• Who was Ronald Reagan? 60 yo

Politics 300
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This person holds the record for the longest time
served in the United States Congress.

• Who is Strom Thurmond?41 years, 9 months, 30 days

Politics 400
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This is the age that Gratian was when he was
named Emperor of the Roman Empire.

• What is 8?

Politics 500
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This is the age that John XII was pronounced
Pope, the youngest Pope to be named.

• What is 18?

Politics 1000
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This person is the youngest astronaut to fly in a
shuttle mission.

• Who is Sally Ride? 32 yo

Science 100
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He is the oldest astronaut to fly in a shuttle
mission.

• Who is John Glenn? 77 yo

Science 200
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This famous physicist is credited with many
theories on black holes and origins of the
universe even though he suffers greatly with ALS
or motor neuron disease .

• Who is Stephen Hawking?

Science 300
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These two gentlemen are credited with discovering
the basic shape of deoxyribonucleic acid.

• Who are Watson and Crick?

Science 400
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This man helped to invent the aqualung and became
an advocate of ocean conservation.

• Who was Jacque Cousteau?

Science 500
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This person is most known for his ideas about
animal origins. His nickname was Gas.

• Who is Charles Darwin?

Science 1000
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He is the youngest chess champion ever to be
crowned. His matches were once even televised.

• Who is Bobby Fischer?

Arts 100
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This music artist has the most gold and platinum
record albums ever awarded.

• Who is Elvis Presley?

Arts 200
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This composer produced his first minuet at age of
five, his first symphony before he was nine and
his first opera at age of twelve.

• Who is Wolfgang Mozart?

Arts 300
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This famous linkster made an appearance on The
Mike Douglas Show hitting golf balls off a tee at
the age of two.

• Who is Tiger Woods?

Arts 400
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This musical group has recorded the most number
of single hits with 20.

• Who are The Beatles?

Arts 500
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This person was Americas first political
cartoonist. He was also a noted inventor and the
first cartographer of the Gulf Stream.

• Who is Benjamin Franklin?

Arts 1000
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This person is credited as being the first to
circumnavigate the globe.

• Who is Magellan?

History 100
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This person is the youngest officer to become a
general in the United States Army at the age of
23. He met his demise at the hands of Sitting
Bull.

• Who was George Custer?

History 200
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He is the first person to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.

• Who was Sir Edmund Hillary?

History 300
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In 1960, Jacque Piccard descended to the
Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench in this
vehicle.

• What is the Trieste?

History 400
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This person is the first to have stepped foot on
the moon.

• Who is Neil Armstrong?

History 500
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At this age, Gregory Robert Smith is the youngest
person to get a degree and also be nominated for
the Nobel Peace Prize- twice.

• What is 13 years old?

History 1000