Game 4, Round 10 -- Challenge Round: Homage to Jeopardy!

	A. World Capital
	B. 8-Letter Lords
	C. Potent POTUSes
	D. Business & Infamy
	E. Art & Alex
	F. Ken Lost on Jeopardy!

A. World Capital

A1. What is the basic unit of money in Sweden?

	krona
	(also accept the plural "kronor" or the English "crown")

A2. What is the basic unit of money in Israel?

	(new) shekel

B. 8-Letter Lords

B1. This British lord, born in Italy, was Governor-General of Canada
    from 1872 to 1878.  He established the Governor-General's Academic
    Medals.  A major street in Toronto bears his 8-letter name.

	Lord Dufferin
	(or Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood,
	Earl of Dufferin, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava)

B2. This British lord was Governor-General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.
    He was born in Edinburgh and, not coincidentally, bore the name of
    another Scottish city.  It's 8 letters.

	Lord Aberdeen
	(or Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon,
	Earl and Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair)

C. Potent POTUSes

C1. POTUS, of course, means President Of The United States.  You may
    remember from round 6 that John Tyler was the first US vice-president
    to succeed a dead president, this in 1841.  He was also notable for
    siring more children than any other president.  How many altogether,
    within 1?

	15 (accept 14-16)

	(While he was president, his wife died and he married again --
	to a woman younger than three of his children.  Over a span of 45
	years he had 8 children with the first wife and 7 with the second.)

C2. One well-remembered US president, a widower at the time, was alleged
    by a political opponent to have had a long-term affair with one of his
    slaves and to be the father of her children.  The facts have never been
    definitively resolved; eventual DNA testing left the question open.
    Name the slave.

	Sally Hemings
	(property of Thomas Jefferson)






D. Business & Infamy

D1. In 1920 the Securities Exchange Company made a splash by paying off
    short-term investments at amazingly high rates, all by arbitraging
    international postal reply coupons.  Or so they said.  But the company's
    real source of money was the millions deposited by new investors.
    It was shut down the same year and its president imprisoned.  Name him.

	Charles Ponzi

D2. Under President Berisha, this country began endorsing Ponzi or pyramid
    schemes as legitimate investments; its citizens lost about $1 billion
    when they collapsed in 1996-97.  The riots were so bad, the UN intervened
    to prevent a civil war.   An early election was then called and Berisha
    was turfed out.  Name the country.

	Albania

E. Art & Alex

E1. This pair is about artists named Alex.  This Canadian artist moved
    from Toronto to Nova Scotia as a child in 1929.  He painted Canadian
    troops at the Juno Beach landing and later taught at Mount Allison
    University.  His name is Alex what?

	Colville

E2. This New York City artist was born in 1924.  He uses simple,
    cartoon-like pop-art colors, most often for large portraits of
    sophisticated women or groups: for example, "Green Cap", "Red Coat",
    and "Ada in a Pillbox Hat".  Colby College in Waterville, Maine,
    has a museum wing devoted to his paintings.  His name is Alex what?

	Katz

F. Ken Lost on Jeopardy!

F1. In 2004 Ken Jennings broke the US record and tied the world record
    by winning 74 times on Jeopardy!, but he lost his 75th game by going
    wrong on Final Jeopardy!.  Either name the woman who beat him, or
    name the US-based firm most of whose 70,000 seasonal white-collar
    employees work only 4 months a year.

	Nancy Zerg
	H&R Block (for fun, accept "What is H&R Block?" or similar)

	(Jennings, who had always done his own taxes, didn't think of
	the right "season".  Rather than leave a blank, he guessed FedEx.
	Zerg lost the next day.)

F2. In 2005 Jeopardy! held an "Ultimate Tournament of Champions" to select
    opponents for a 3-day final against Ken Jennings.  The player who beat
    Jennings in the final, thus regaining the game-show money record,
    was assured of victory by the time the third Final Jeopardy! was
    reached, but he won in style by being the only one to get it right.
    Either name him, or name the two Mercury astronauts, who orbited
    Earth in May 1962 & May 1963, whose surnames are also occupations.

	Brad Rutter
	Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper (accept "Who are...?", etc.)

	(Ken Jennings tried Carpenter and Alan Shepard; the third player,
	Jerome Vered, put Cooper and Shepard.  But Shepard's name was not
	spelled Shepherd and his Mercury flight, in May 1961, was suborbital.)