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THE ROLLING STONES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'It was the number of the Rolling Stones' 1966 "Nervous Breakdown"'
$600
19th
Jeopardy!
4177
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire'
$600
Chicago
Jeopardy!
4177
THE COMMODORES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Commodore Isaac Hull commanded this ship to victory over Britain's Guerriere in the War of 1812'
$600
U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides")
Jeopardy!
4177
THE "B.G."s
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'2-word term for large animals hunted for sport'
$600
big game
Jeopardy!
4177
THE ANIMALS
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Extinct before the dinosaurs ever walked, trilobites are key signature creatures of this "old animal" era'
$800
Paleozoic
Jeopardy!
4177
PETER, PAUL & MARY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'This American silversmith & patriot was noted for his courier service'
$800
Paul Revere
Jeopardy!
4177
THE ROLLING STONES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Footage from a deadly 1969 Stones concert at this speedway was released in 1970 as the documentary "Gimme Shelter"'
$800
Altamont
Jeopardy!
4177
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years'
$800
El Nino
Jeopardy!
4177
THE COMMODORES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Negotiated by Matthew Perry, 1854's Treaty of Kanagawa opened up this country to commercial trade with the U.S.'
$800
Japan
Jeopardy!
4177
THE "B.G."s
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Swingin' virtuoso heard here'
$800
Benny Goodman
Jeopardy!
4177
THE ANIMALS
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Zoo Atlanta) There are 3 types of gorilla: mountain & the eastern & western type of these lesser-altitude gorillas'
$400
lowland gorillas
Jeopardy!
4177
PETER, PAUL & MARY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'His world travels helped him write "The Great Railway Bazaar", "The Mosquito Coast" & "Riding the Iron Rooster"'
$1000
Paul Theroux
Jeopardy!
4177
THE ROLLING STONES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'The Rolling Stones took their name from a song by this legendary blues musician'
$1000
Muddy Waters
Jeopardy!
4177
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Scientists believe the continents were once part of a single land mass called this, from the Greek for "all earth"'
$1000
Pangaea
Jeopardy!
4177
THE COMMODORES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'He's the naval hero & commodore famous for his declaration "Our country, right or wrong!"'
$1000
Stephen Decatur
Jeopardy!
4177
THE "B.G."s
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'A naval force made up of an aircraft carrier & support vessels'
$1000
battle group
Jeopardy!
4177
AMERICAN LITERATURE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi'
$400
Huckleberry Finn
Double Jeopardy!
4177
EDUCATION JARGON
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'65 out of 100 students did the same as or worse than you if your grade is in the 65th of these'
$400
percentile
Double Jeopardy!
4177
STATE GOVERNMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Maine's only publicly elected executive officer; if he dies the state senate president succeeds him'
$400
governor
Double Jeopardy!
4177
HERE'S LUCY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Before playing Xena, she co-hosted the travel show "Air New Zealand Holiday"'
$400
Lucy Lawless
Double Jeopardy!
4177
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Site of a 1977 6.5 earthquake:<br />Bucharest'
$400
Romania
Double Jeopardy!
4177
BEFORE & AFTER
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Carolyn Keene's fictional teenage detective who stars in a sitcom set in Cleveland'
$400
Nancy Drew Carey
Double Jeopardy!
4177
AMERICAN LITERATURE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley'
$800
"A Farewell to Arms"
Double Jeopardy!
4177
EDUCATION JARGON
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'IDEA is the Individuals with these Education Act, formerly the Education For All Handicapped Children Act'
$800
Disabilities
Double Jeopardy!
4177
STATE GOVERNMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In the Mississippi House of Representatives, this official calls members to order & signs acts'
$800
speaker of the house
Double Jeopardy!
4177
HERE'S LUCY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In 2000 she became the first Asian-American woman to host "Saturday Night Live"'
$800
Lucy Liu
Double Jeopardy!
4177
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Co-capitals:<br />La Paz & Sucre'
$800
Bolivia
Double Jeopardy!
4177
BEFORE & AFTER
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Otis Redding's No. 1 hit that's performed by a Scottish band on S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night'
$800
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay City Rollers
Double Jeopardy!
4177
AMERICAN LITERATURE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey'
$1,000
"Cannery Row"
Double Jeopardy!
4177
EDUCATION JARGON
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'It's the rhyming term for the technique of teaching with only a blackboard to help you'
$1200
chalk talk/chalk and talk
Double Jeopardy!
4177
STATE GOVERNMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In this post, Jim Ryan is Illinois' chief law enforcement & consumer protection official'
$1200
attorney general
Double Jeopardy!
4177
HERE'S LUCY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Lucy Hobbs Taylor must have aced her orals because in 1866 she became the first woman to receive a degree in this'
$1,200
dentistry
Double Jeopardy!
4177
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In southern Asia:<br />Dhaka'
$1200
Bangladesh
Double Jeopardy!
4177
BEFORE & AFTER
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Novel in which Rhett Butler tells Toad, Rat & Mole, "My dear, I don't give a damn"'
$1200
Gone With the Wind in the Willows
Double Jeopardy!
4177
AMERICAN LITERATURE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell'
$1600
"Studs"
Double Jeopardy!
4177
EDUCATION JARGON
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'From the Latin for "to heal", it's the type of education that brings deficient students up to standard levels'
$1600
remedial
Double Jeopardy!
4177
STATE GOVERNMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'The counties of Iowa & Arizona are headed by boards of these'
$1600
supervisors
Double Jeopardy!
4177
HERE'S LUCY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Lucy Simon, the sister of this pop singer, wrote the music for Broadway's "The Secret Garden"'
$1600
Carly Simon
Double Jeopardy!
4177
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'How peachy:<br />Tbilisi'
$1600
Georgia
Double Jeopardy!
4177
BEFORE & AFTER
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'The Beatles' 1967 album that was a 2001 WWII miniseries on HBO'
$1600
Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band of Brothers
Double Jeopardy!
4177
AMERICAN LITERATURE
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck'
$2000
Wolf Larsen
Double Jeopardy!
4177
EDUCATION JARGON
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title'
$2000
At Risk
Double Jeopardy!
4177
STATE GOVERNMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Many states have these for state lawmakers, but in 1995 the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional for Congress'
$2000
term limits
Double Jeopardy!
4177
HERE'S LUCY
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'She was the first wife of a president to be called first lady on a regular basis'
$2000
"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes
Double Jeopardy!
4177
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'In west Africa:<br />Luanda'
$2000
Angola
Double Jeopardy!
4177
BEFORE & AFTER
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'Van Gogh's 1889 painting of director George Romero's 1968 zombie film classic'
$2000
Starry Night of the Living Dead
Double Jeopardy!
4177
NOTABLE NAMES
2002-10-29T00:00:00
'His last direct descendant was a granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall, born to John & Susanna Hall in 1608'
null
William Shakespeare
Final Jeopardy!
4177
AUTHORS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit'
$200
Stephen King
Jeopardy!
6159
MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Fantine & her daughter Cosette'
$200
Les Misérables
Jeopardy!
6159
FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This type of felt hat that Dick Tracy wore is named for a play by Sardou'
$200
a fedora
Jeopardy!
6159
U.N. OBSERVANCES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'December 2 is International Day for the Abolition of this, which didn't disappear in 1865'
$200
Slavery
Jeopardy!
6159
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun'
$200
the Yucatan
Jeopardy!
6159
3-LETTER THE BETTER
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'To point your mauser'
$200
aim
Jeopardy!
6159
AUTHORS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894'
$400
tuberculosis
Jeopardy!
6159
MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza'
$400
The Man of La Mancha
Jeopardy!
6159
FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'1950s fashion favored this canine skirt'
$400
a poodle skirt
Jeopardy!
6159
U.N. OBSERVANCES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'March 22 is World this Resource Day; the theme for 1999 was "Everyone Lives Downstream"'
$400
Water
Jeopardy!
6159
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International'
$400
Tobago
Jeopardy!
6159
3-LETTER THE BETTER
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'What a film reel is stored in; hence something finished is "in" it'
$400
the can
Jeopardy!
6159
AUTHORS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands'
$600
Sir Walter Scott
Jeopardy!
6159
MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush'
$600
South Pacific
Jeopardy!
6159
FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This company's canvas All Star basketball shoe goes all the way back to 1917'
$600
Converse
Jeopardy!
6159
U.N. OBSERVANCES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'September 16 is International Day for the Preservation of this atmospheric layer'
$600
the Ozone Layer
Jeopardy!
6159
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine'
$1,500
Havana
Jeopardy!
6159
3-LETTER THE BETTER
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Saturated'
$600
wet
Jeopardy!
6159
AUTHORS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary"'
$800
Honoré de Balzac
Jeopardy!
6159
MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Aunt Eller Murphy & Laurey Williams'
$800
Oklahoma!
Jeopardy!
6159
FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This French-named garment looks like a skirt but is actually pants'
$800
culottes
Jeopardy!
6159
U.N. OBSERVANCES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Can't wait for Oct. 20, World Day for this science of collecting & arranging numerical facts & data'
$800
statistics
Jeopardy!
6159
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935'
$800
Angel Falls
Jeopardy!
6159
3-LETTER THE BETTER
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'To impose a levy'
$800
to tax
Jeopardy!
6159
AUTHORS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement'
$1000
Ernest J. Gaines
Jeopardy!
6159
MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey'
$1000
The Sound of Music
Jeopardy!
6159
FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope'
$1000
espadrilles
Jeopardy!
6159
U.N. OBSERVANCES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated'
$1000
Holocaust
Jeopardy!
6159
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda lake'
$1000
Mojave
Jeopardy!
6159
3-LETTER THE BETTER
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'It's the plant seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-05-26_J_30.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>; Don Draper favors one of its products'
$1000
rye
Jeopardy!
6159
"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Inserting a section of one plant into another so that they grow as one plant'
$400
to graft
Double Jeopardy!
6159
TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing'
$400
Billy Elliot
Double Jeopardy!
6159
I SERVED IN HIS CABINET
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius'
$400
Barack Obama
Double Jeopardy!
6159
ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH?
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Philippe of this family is Chief Ocean Correspondent for Animal Planet'
$400
Cousteau
Double Jeopardy!
6159
BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Hey<br />___<br />Law'
$400
Jude
Double Jeopardy!
6159
GREEK LETTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Precedes "-bits" in the name of a sweet Post cereal'
$400
alpha
Double Jeopardy!
6159
"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Rich in nutrients, this bat or bird dropping is good for your garden'
$800
guano
Double Jeopardy!
6159
TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to a small town to investigate a series of decapitations'
$800
Sleepy Hollow
Double Jeopardy!
6159
I SERVED IN HIS CABINET
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt'
$800
Ronald Reagan
Double Jeopardy!
6159
ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH?
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Born in 1911, Louise Bourgeois worked into her 90s on her biomorphic creations in this art form'
$800
sculpture
Double Jeopardy!
6159
BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Maker's<br />___<br />Sanchez'
$800
Mark
Double Jeopardy!
6159
GREEK LETTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter'
$800
pi
Double Jeopardy!
6159
"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Open an account at one of these banks that exist for the conservation of seeds, tissues or reproductive cells'
$1200
a gene bank
Double Jeopardy!
6159
TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'A young cop works with rogue detective Denzel Washington on the narcotics beat in Los Angeles'
$1200
Training Day
Double Jeopardy!
6159
I SERVED IN HIS CABINET
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Secretary of State Cyrus Vance'
$1200
Jimmy Carter
Double Jeopardy!
6159
ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH?
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Michelin 3-star chef Joel Robuchon opened his first U.S. restaurant in this city, not New York'
$1200
Las Vegas
Double Jeopardy!
6159
BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Prime<br />___<br />Racket'
$2,400
Numbers
Double Jeopardy!
6159
GREEK LETTERS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'A little bit, a really little bit'
$1200
iota
Double Jeopardy!
6159
"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'This cereal grain embryo is usually separated from the endosperm during milling; health nuts love the "wheat" kind'
$1600
the germ
Double Jeopardy!
6159
TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'A research chemist appears on a "60 Minutes" expose of the tobacco industry'
$1600
The Insider
Double Jeopardy!
6159
I SERVED IN HIS CABINET
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz'
$1600
Nixon
Double Jeopardy!
6159
ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH?
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'He was Jacques Chirac's predecessor as president'
$1600
François Mitterand
Double Jeopardy!
6159
BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS
2011-05-26T00:00:00
'Losing<br />___<br />Washington'
$1600
Isiah
Double Jeopardy!
6159