Entertainment Sports Shawnee Mission Westridge Potpourri!

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What is American Idol?
This is the most popular reality show on television.

100

Who are the New Orleans Saints?
This team won the 2010 Super Bowl.

100

What is Shawnee Mission North
This Shawnee Mission high school is the oldest in the district.

100

What is The Westrdige Way.
The Westridge PBS motto recently changed from PAWS to this catchy 3-word phrase.

100

What is Juneau
This city is the state capital of Alaska?

200

What is JAWS?
This 1975 blockbuster sees Roy Scheider utter: "We need a bigger boat"?

200

Who are the T-Bones?
The Royals are one of 2 major league baseball teams in the Kansas City metropolitan area. This is the name of the other team.

200

What is 8:10-3:10
This time range represents the schedule that a Shawnee Mission elementary school is in session on a regular school day?

200

What is Hillcrest Junior High?
Before becoming Westridge Middle School, this building had a completely different name.

200

What is Hydrogen?
The letter H in ‘H-bomb’ stands for this.

300

Who is Bruce Willis
This actor plays Det. John McClane in the Die Hard movie series.

300

What is a face-off?
In Basketball it’s called a Tip Off, in Football a Kick off this is what it's called in Ice Hockey.

300

What are the Cougars, Indians, Lancers, Raiders, Vikings
These are the 5 mascots of the 5 Shawnee Mission high schools...in alphabetical order.

300

What is 1962?
We know that Westridge was Hillcrest Junior High before becoming a middle school. This is the year that Hillcrest opened its doors.

300

What is The Decaration of Independence?
This famous document begins: "When in the course of human events..."

400

What is CSI (Crime Scene Investigation)?
This popular TV show has spin-offs that are set in Miami and NY.

400

What is Cooperstown?
If you wanted to visit the baseball hall of fame you would go to this city.

400

Who is Howard McEachen?
The district's administration buiding is named after this former superintedent.

400

What is 12?
This is the number of basketball goals in the gyms at Westridge.

400

Who is Chaucer?
This person wrote The Canterbury Tales

500

Who are Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julie Louise-Dreyfuss, Michael Richards?
These are the names of the four actors who starred in the sitcom Seinfeld.

500

Who are the Florida Gators?
Gatorade was invented to curb dehydration for this college sports team.

500

What is 49? (35 Elem, 7 Middle Schools, 5 High Schools)
Including Broadmoor Technical Center and Horizons High School, this is the number of schools in the Shawnee Mission School District.

500

What is 23?
This is the number of regular busses that transport Westridge students on a daily basis.

500

What is Las Vegas
This city imploded five of its landmark hotels in the 1990s, to the delight of cheering tourists.

Westridge Jeopardy Round 1

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