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ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL
1998-11-30T00:00:00
'The smallest of all monkeys is the pygmy type of this primate'
$1000
a marmoset
Double Jeopardy!
3276
VAN GOGH A-GO-GO
1998-11-30T00:00:00
'One theory about the cause of Van Gogh's odd behavior is poisoning from this liqueur made from wormwood'
$1000
absinthe
Double Jeopardy!
3276
SEEING RED AT THE MOVIES
1998-11-30T00:00:00
'Brigitte Nielsen was the title character in this 1985 sword & sorcery saga'
$1000
Red Sonja
Double Jeopardy!
3276
ENDS IN "EE"
1998-11-30T00:00:00
'This Massachusetts town was the birthplace of John Adams & John Hancock'
$1000
Braintree
Double Jeopardy!
3276
BANDS
1998-11-30T00:00:00
'This band's last surviving brother lives & records in St. Charles, Illinois, far from the ocean'
null
The Beach Boys
Final Jeopardy!
3276
U.S. CITIES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1921 this New Jersey city crowned its first Miss America'
$200
Atlantic City
Jeopardy!
4693
MOVIE DIRECTORS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'He was nominated for a 1994 Oscar for directing "Pulp Fiction"'
$200
(Quentin) Tarantino
Jeopardy!
4693
BUILDING FEATURES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'A roofed porch or balcony may be called a gallery, a lanai, or especially in the south, this'
$200
a verandah
Jeopardy!
4693
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Gene Tunney,<br />Gene Tierney,<br />Gene Rayburn'
$200
Gene Tierney
Jeopardy!
4693
CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale..."'
$200
Ahab
Jeopardy!
4693
ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Manus usually refers to this part of the body; in fact, some people live "from manus to mouth"'
$200
hand
Jeopardy!
4693
U.S. CITIES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This Georgia city that's popular with golfers was named for the mother of George III'
$400
Augusta
Jeopardy!
4693
MOVIE DIRECTORS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Producers told him he could direct "Taxi Driver" only if he got Robert De Niro to play the lead'
$400
(Martin) Scorsese
Jeopardy!
4693
BUILDING FEATURES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-19_J_13.jpg" target="_blank">Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the outside of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.</a>) The National Cathedral has 110 of these figures, whose function is to carry rain away from the walls and foundation'
$400
a gargoyle
Jeopardy!
4693
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Ashley Montagu,<br />Ashleigh Banfield,<br />Ashley Wilkes'
$400
Ashleigh Banfield
Jeopardy!
4693
CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'"Take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder waterside..."'
$400
King Arthur
Jeopardy!
4693
ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Hibernal means pertaining to this season'
$400
winter
Jeopardy!
4693
U.S. CITIES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Had this Michigan city kept its earlier name, there might have been a song "I've Got A Gal In Bronson"'
$600
Kalamazoo
Jeopardy!
4693
MOVIE DIRECTORS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This director cast his son Kyle in a bit role as a bass player in a blues band in "The Bridges of Madison County"'
$600
(Clint) Eastwood
Jeopardy!
4693
BUILDING FEATURES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'A fleche is a slender one of these rising above a church'
$600
a spire
Jeopardy!
4693
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Kim Philby,<br />Kim Stanley,<br />Kim Jong Il'
$600
Kim Stanley
Jeopardy!
4693
CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'"Dave, stop... stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going..."'
$600
HAL
Jeopardy!
4693
ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Related to the word "glacier", verglas is a thin coating of this on a rock'
$600
ice
Jeopardy!
4693
U.S. CITIES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'A bay & a river bear the name of this city, Alabama's second largest'
$800
Mobile
Jeopardy!
4693
MOVIE DIRECTORS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This quirky Californian directed "Batman" & "Batman Returns"'
$800
(Tim) Burton
Jeopardy!
4693
BUILDING FEATURES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'All right. See the dome, players? Now see the little "domey" thing on top of the dome? That's called <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-19_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">this</a>, from the Latin for tub'
$800
a cupola
Jeopardy!
4693
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Barry Sullivan,<br />Barrie Chase,<br />Barry Humphries'
$800
Barrie Chase
Jeopardy!
4693
CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..."'
$800
Sydney Carton
Jeopardy!
4693
ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Manducate, like this word that begins with the same 2 letters, means to chew'
$800
masticate
Jeopardy!
4693
U.S. CITIES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'An A to Z list of Ohio cities might run from Aberdeen to this birthplace of a famous western author'
$1000
Zanesville
Jeopardy!
4693
MOVIE DIRECTORS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1977 he directed his first film, "Grand Theft Auto", from a script he co-wrote with his father Rance'
$1000
Ron Howard
Jeopardy!
4693
BUILDING FEATURES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Of rooms usually found in real estate listings, the one on which a dormer window etymologically belongs'
$1,000
the bedroom
Jeopardy!
4693
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'P.D. James,<br />P.G. Wodehouse,<br />P.J. O'Rourke'
$1000
P.D. James
Jeopardy!
4693
CHARACTERS' FAREWELLS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'"Precious, precious, precious! My precious! O my precious!"'
$1000
Gollum
Jeopardy!
4693
ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Lacteous describes something that's the color of this substance'
$1000
milk
Jeopardy!
4693
WON
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'2 of the closest presidential races involved this man; in 1796 he lost to John Adams & in 1800 he beat Aaron Burr'
$400
Jefferson
Double Jeopardy!
4693
DOSE
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Linus Pauling pushed large doses of this vitamin in hopes that it would prevent cancer'
$400
C
Double Jeopardy!
4693
TREES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This "sad" tree's shade reportedly comforted Napoleon in exile on St. Helena; later, he was buried under one'
$400
a weeping willow
Double Jeopardy!
4693
"FORE"
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This legal process involves a mortgagor losing rights to the mortgaged property'
$400
foreclosure
Double Jeopardy!
4693
'56
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Israel's conflict with Egypt near the end of 1956 led to the Israeli seizure of this peninsula'
$400
the Sinai
Double Jeopardy!
4693
7 DEADLY SINS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'The name of this covetous "green" feeling can also mean the person about whom you're feeling it'
$400
envy
Double Jeopardy!
4693
WON
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'COTY, once a prestigious fashion award, stood for this when the Mini Cooper won it in 2003'
$800
Car of the Year
Double Jeopardy!
4693
DOSE
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1965 Vincent Dole & Marie Nyswander developed a way of treating heroin addicts using high doses of this'
$800
methadone
Double Jeopardy!
4693
TREES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This Shel Silverstein story is about an apple tree & its friend who grows from child to adult'
$800
The Giving Tree
Double Jeopardy!
4693
"FORE"
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'He won the best actor award at the 1988 Cannes film festival for his portrayal of Charlie Parker'
$800
Forest Whitaker
Double Jeopardy!
4693
'56
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Queen Elizabeth & the Duke of Edinburgh made an official visit to Lagos in this, Britain's largest African colony'
$800
Nigeria
Double Jeopardy!
4693
7 DEADLY SINS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Gary Cooper was this "of the Yankees" when playing Lou Gehrig in a 1942 weeper'
$800
Pride
Double Jeopardy!
4693
WON
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'In Serbia's first post-Communist direct elections held in 1990, this man won "reelection" by a large majority'
$1200
Slobodan Milosevic
Double Jeopardy!
4693
DOSE
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'L-dopa, which becomes this neurotransmitter in the brain, is used to treat Parkinson's'
$1200
dopamine
Double Jeopardy!
4693
TREES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This 5-letter tree of the pine family mentioned often in a famous Monty Python sketch is used to make telephone poles'
$1200
the larch
Double Jeopardy!
4693
"FORE"
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This Hitchcock film stars Joel McCrea as an American reporter who uncovers a spy ring in London prior to WWII'
$1200
Foreign Correspondent
Double Jeopardy!
4693
'56
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'En route to New York, this ship collided with the Stockholm in dense fog in the North Atlantic on July 25'
$2,500
the Andrea Doria
Double Jeopardy!
4693
7 DEADLY SINS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Sadly, drunkenness is sometimes included with this deadly sin... hic'
$1200
gluttony
Double Jeopardy!
4693
WON
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Fittingly, the HMS Victory was the British flagship at this famous 1805 battle'
$1600
Trafalgar
Double Jeopardy!
4693
DOSE
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'The hydrogen kind of this chemical is found in apple seeds & a dose of a few milligrams can be fatal'
$1600
cyanide
Double Jeopardy!
4693
TREES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'While the white variety of this "berry" tree feeds silkworms, other types yield edible fruit'
$1600
the mulberry
Double Jeopardy!
4693
"FORE"
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'You laugh & dance now, but I have this, a feeling inside that something terrible is about to happen'
$1600
foreboding
Double Jeopardy!
4693
7 DEADLY SINS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Deadly sin mentioned in the title of Irving Stone's Van Gogh book'
$1600
lust
Double Jeopardy!
4693
WON
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1984 this ice dancing pair won Olympic gold with all 9 judges giving them perfect scores for artistry'
$2000
Torvill & Dean
Double Jeopardy!
4693
DOSE
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'1 gray is equal to the dose absorbed when one kilogram of matter absorbs one joule of ionizing this'
$2,000
radiation
Double Jeopardy!
4693
TREES
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This type of pine named for its use in construction makes up most of the trees in Yellowstone National Park'
$2000
lodgepole
Double Jeopardy!
4693
"FORE"
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'This word can apply to a debate team or a lab that uses science to establish facts or evidence in the law'
$2000
forensic
Double Jeopardy!
4693
'56
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'Founded as Queen's College in 1766, it didn't officially become the State University of New Jersey until 1956'
$2000
Rutgers
Double Jeopardy!
4693
7 DEADLY SINS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'It's an arboreal mammal of the Americas, & some have 3 toes'
$2000
sloth
Double Jeopardy!
4693
CLASSIC AMERICAN SONGS
2005-01-19T00:00:00
'The introductory verse to this 1908 song begins, "Katie Casey was baseball mad"'
null
\"Take Me Out To The Ball Game\"
Final Jeopardy!
4693
HISTORIC WOMEN
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'She met Napoleon after her husband Alexandre de Beauharnais was guillotined in 1794'
$200
Josephine
Jeopardy!
5880
ALLITERATIVE ACTORS
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'He went "Old School" as a "Wedding Crasher"'
$200
Vince Vaughn
Jeopardy!
5880
AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Try not to leave <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-19_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> Greek landmark in any more of a shambles than it already is'
$200
the Parthenon
Jeopardy!
5880
JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Like actress Sally, this last name of 19th century U.S. department store owner Marshall is singular; add an "S"--imbibe'
$200
Field
Jeopardy!
5880
SAFETY FIRST
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'The Boat U.S. foundation has a program at waterfronts to lend these & make sure they fit'
$200
lifejackets
Jeopardy!
5880
FINISH THE PALINDROME
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'"Dammit! I'm" this'
$200
mad
Jeopardy!
5880
HISTORIC WOMEN
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'She was a teacher & administrator at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta for about 17 years until 1946'
$400
Mother Theresa
Jeopardy!
5880
ALLITERATIVE ACTORS
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'This "X-Files" star went to grad school at Yale but didn't finish his thesis'
$400
David Duchovny
Jeopardy!
5880
AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Hitting Innsbruck or Salzburg in this country & saying "G'day, mate!" over & over will only confuse the locals'
$400
Austria
Jeopardy!
5880
JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'When naming this member of the 2nd triumvirate, don't add an "H" to his last name or you're talking about J. Lo's hubby'
$400
Mark Antony
Jeopardy!
5880
SAFETY FIRST
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'BTSI technology makes you apply this when shifting out of park, so your 6-year-old can't drive off'
$400
the brakes
Jeopardy!
5880
FINISH THE PALINDROME
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'"Dennis and Edna" did this'
$400
sinned
Jeopardy!
5880
HISTORIC WOMEN
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'In 1956 this future Israeli prime minister adopted a new last name that means "to burn brightly" in Hebrew'
$600
Golda Meir
Jeopardy!
5880
ALLITERATIVE ACTORS
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'We were "Enchanted" by her performance as Delysia in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"'
$600
Amy Adams
Jeopardy!
5880
AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'If in Norway on July 18, don't inquire if it's a national holiday due to the birth of this traitor in 1887'
$600
(Vidkund) Quisling
Jeopardy!
5880
JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'If you add the incorrect "S" to this last book of the Bible that tells of the opening of 6 seals, down a whole cup'
$600
Revelation
Jeopardy!
5880
SAFETY FIRST
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'You're a lumberjack & you won't be okay if this item lacks a hand guard & throttle interlock'
$600
chainsaw
Jeopardy!
5880
FINISH THE PALINDROME
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'"No lemon, no" this'
$600
melon
Jeopardy!
5880
HISTORIC WOMEN
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'In her will, this queen of Castile pleaded for just treatment of New World Indians'
$800
Isabella
Jeopardy!
5880
ALLITERATIVE ACTORS
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'This actor turned to directing & won an Oscar for his first effort--"Ordinary People"'
$800
Robert Redford
Jeopardy!
5880
AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Don't sneeze & use one of the 2 extant "originals" of this 1215 document at the British Library to wipe your nose'
$800
the Magna Carta
Jeopardy!
5880
JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'If you say the WCTU is the "Women's Christian" rather than the "Woman's Christian" this, take a non-alcoholic swig'
$800
Temperance Union
Jeopardy!
5880
SAFETY FIRST
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Uvex specializes in protecting these, as with its innovative Astrospec line'
$800
eyes
Jeopardy!
5880
FINISH THE PALINDROME
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'"Lived on decaf, faced no" this'
$800
devil
Jeopardy!
5880
HISTORIC WOMEN
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'While attending Oxford in the 1940s, this Brit became president of the university Conservative Association'
$1,200
Margaret Thatcher
Jeopardy!
5880
ALLITERATIVE ACTORS
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Getting caught in the wheels of a machine makes him go berserk in 1936's "Modern Times"'
$1000
Charlie Chaplin
Jeopardy!
5880
AVOIDING A DISASTROUS TRIP TO EUROPE
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Loudly demanding only ketchup & no mustard at your meals in this capital of Burgundy... bad idea'
$1000
Dijon
Jeopardy!
5880
JEOPARDY! DRINKING GAMES
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Drink up if you say (incorrectly) this African-American author wrote "The Invisible Man"; he penned "Invisible Man"'
$1000
Ralph Ellison
Jeopardy!
5880
SAFETY FIRST
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Respirators can help prevent coal workers' pneumoconiosis, better known as this'
$1000
black lung disease
Jeopardy!
5880
FINISH THE PALINDROME
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'"Drab as a fool, aloof as a" this'
$1000
bard
Jeopardy!
5880
BERG-OPOLIS
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'The 108th mayor of New York City, he is a graduate of Johns Hopkins & Harvard Business School'
$400
(Michael) Bloomberg
Double Jeopardy!
5880
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'Weakened by scarlet fever, Beth March was sentenced to death by this author'
$400
(Louisa May) Alcott
Double Jeopardy!
5880
UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'On March 6, 1986 Vega 1 became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with this comet'
$400
Halley\'s Comet
Double Jeopardy!
5880
BUGS BUNNY
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'One of the world's most recognizable characters, Bugs Bunny is a mascot of this movie studio'
$400
Warner Brothers
Double Jeopardy!
5880
WHAT'S UP, "DOC"?
2010-03-19T00:00:00
'A nonfiction film about a factual event or person'
$400
a documentary
Double Jeopardy!
5880