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ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Jeopardy Round - "Presidential Superlatives"

$200 - Longest-serving
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

$400 - Tallest
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

$600 - First born in a hospital
JIMMY CARTER

$800 - Lived longest after leaving office

$1000 - Fathered the most children
JOHN TYLER

Double Jeopardy Round - "The Civil Rights Movement"

I'M ASSUMING THAT THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS BELOW SHOULD BE DOUBLED

$200 - This NAACP field secretary was shot and killed outside his Jackson, MS home by Byron de la Beckwith
MEDGAR EVERS

$400 - 18 years after the landmark Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Restoration Act was passed over this President's veto
RONALD REAGAN

$600 - Precedent-setting case overruled by Brown v Board of Ed

$800 - He became the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King

$1000 - Not the United Mine Workers leader, he's a former president of SNCC and the author of Walking With the Wind. He's also a U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
JOHN LEWIS

ToLiveIsToFly wrote: Jeopardy Round - "Presidential Superlatives"

$200 - Longest-serving -- Mr. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

$400 - Tallest -- Mr. President Abraham Lincoln

$600 - First born in a hospital -- Mr. President Jimmy Carter

$800 - Lived longest after leaving office -- pass

$1000 - Fathered the most children -- Pass, because I forget.

Double Jeopardy Round - "The Civil Rights Movement"

I didn't study this in home school so much, so I will pass on everything. Darn.

$200 - This NAACP field secretary was shot and killed outside his Jackson, MS home by Byron de la Beckwith

$400 - 18 years after the landmark Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Restoration Act was passed over this President's veto

$600 - Precedent-setting case overruled by Brown v Board of Ed

$800 - He became the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King

$1000 - Not the United Mine Workers leader, he's a former president of SNCC and the author of Walking With the Wind. He's also a U.S. Congressman from Georgia.

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:Sorry for posting this so late - couldn't get at the thing.

Due to the lateness of the posting, I'll leave it open until Midnight (CT) Wednesday.

Game 3, Day 1

Jeopardy Round - "Presidential Superlatives"

$200 - Longest-serving FDR

$400 - Tallest Lincoln

$600 - First born in a hospital Carter

$800 - Lived longest after leaving office Hoover

$1000 - Fathered the most children Tyler

Double Jeopardy Round - "The Civil Rights Movement"

$200 - This NAACP field secretary was shot and killed outside his Jackson, MS home by Byron de la Beckwith Medgar Evers

$400 - 18 years after the landmark Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Restoration Act was passed over this President's veto Reagan (I think that your years are off)

$600 - Precedent-setting case overruled by Brown v Board of Ed Plessy v. Ferguson (only overruled in part, dealing with public education. Separate but equal doctrne of Plessy remained for other areas of life, such as restaurants.)

$800 - He became the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther King Ralph Abernathy

$1000 - Not the United Mine Workers leader, he's a former president of SNCC and the author of Walking With the Wind. He's also a U.S. Congressman from Georgia.