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WHAT, ME HURRY?
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'In 2009 I filed Form 4868 & got an automatic 6-month extension on my tax return--now it's not due until this date'
$1,000
October 15
Jeopardy!
5759
I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'"His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. 'Hey, Boo,' I said"'
$600
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jeopardy!
5759
"T-H-E"
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'The Beatles had this head of a Christian religious community for women "jump the gun"'
$600
Mother Superior
Jeopardy!
5759
AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'1914:<br />This country closes the Dardanelles waterway to Allied ships'
$800
Turkey
Jeopardy!
5759
ODE TO BILLY JOEL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'You sang to Virginia in this hit /<br />Don't get mad & don't try to fix me /<br />All I'm saying about it /<br />Is that you just turned 60'
$800
"Only The Good Die Young"
Jeopardy!
5759
STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Ein Museum fur moderne Kunst is this specific type of place'
$800
a museum of modern art
Jeopardy!
5759
WHAT, ME HURRY?
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'It's only 1915--I've got this many years to get my bets in on the Reds before the White Sox throw the World Series'
$800
4
Jeopardy!
5759
I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'"<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-10-01_J_14.mp3">'Is it safe to get my diamonds?'</a>… Szell opened the black leather case. And took out a portable hand drill"'
$800
Marathon Man
Jeopardy!
5759
"T-H-E"
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'It's the condition where the human body's temperature falls below 95 degrees'
$800
hypothermia
Jeopardy!
5759
AN OCTOBER FIRST FEST
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'1979:<br />A ceremony returns a chunk of territory to this Central American country'
$1000
Panama
Jeopardy!
5759
ODE TO BILLY JOEL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'This album won a Grammy /<br />& made you some real bones /<br />Its title's a reminder /<br />Some folks should not throw stones'
$1000
Glass Houses
Jeopardy!
5759
STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Take a guess:<br />Blut ist dicker als Wasser is this familial proverb'
$1000
blood is thicker than water
Jeopardy!
5759
WHAT, ME HURRY?
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'It's only 6:45 P.M. here in L.A.; I still have this many minutes to call my pal in Montreal before his 11 P.M. bedtime'
$1000
75
Jeopardy!
5759
I READ IT IN A BOOK ONCE
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'"For him evidently Mr. Kurtz was not in his grave; I suspect that for him Mr. Kurtz was one of the immortals"'
$1000
Heart of Darkness
Jeopardy!
5759
"T-H-E"
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'It's an old term for a drugstore'
$1000
an apothecary
Jeopardy!
5759
PUNCTUATION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'http://www.j-archive.com/Read all about me at www.jeopardy.com this punctuation mark showguide_bioalex.php'
$400
forward slash
Double Jeopardy!
5759
DASH
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'This former NBAer fell backward for a victory after a sprint against 67-yr.-old ref Dick Bavetta at the 2007 All-Star game'
$400
Charles Barkley
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PERIOD
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'The rocks of the Carboniferous period provide the Earth with this, some of it bituminous'
$400
coal
Double Jeopardy!
5759
QUESTION, MARK
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'In a Shakespeare play, he says, "Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall!"'
$400
Mark Anthony
Double Jeopardy!
5759
EXCLAMATION "POINT"!
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'A meeting arranged in advance'
$400
an appointment
Double Jeopardy!
5759
COLIN POWELL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin was born in this section of Manhattan in 1937'
$400
Harlem
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PUNCTUATION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Distinct from parentheses, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-10-01_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">these</a> are <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-10-01_DJ_07a.jpg" target="_blank">used</a> around editorial insertions that clarify a text, like "sic"'
$800
brackets
Double Jeopardy!
5759
DASH
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Not for harvesting machines, this annual NFL scouting event is known for its 40-yard dash'
$800
the combine
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PERIOD
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'The Cenozoic's Tertiary period is logically followed by this period'
$800
Quaternary
Double Jeopardy!
5759
QUESTION, MARK
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'He wrote, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-10-01_DJ_12.mp3">"I am a great & sublime fool. But... I am God's fool, & all his works must be contemplated with respect"</a>'
$800
Mark Twain
Double Jeopardy!
5759
EXCLAMATION "POINT"!
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'A type of embroidery resembling tapestry'
$800
needlepoint
Double Jeopardy!
5759
COLIN POWELL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'In 1962 Colin was one of the 16,000 military advisers dispatched to South Vietnam by this president'
$800
John F. Kennedy
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PUNCTUATION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Independent clauses within a sentence can be separated with a conjunction or with this'
$1200
a semicolon
Double Jeopardy!
5759
DASH
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Aussie John Landy shaved 1.5 seconds off this Brit's mile record in 1954, but lost to him in a race 2 months later'
$1200
Roger Bannister
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PERIOD
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'As evidenced by Dover, England, the Cretaceous period's name derives from this type of limestone'
$1200
chalk
Double Jeopardy!
5759
QUESTION, MARK
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'When asked if he has any writers, this piano-playing comic says, "Yes, I have 535 writers. 100 in the Senate & 435 in the House…"'
$1200
(Mark) Russell
Double Jeopardy!
5759
EXCLAMATION "POINT"!
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Numerical term for maneuvering a vehicle around by a series of back & forth arcs'
$1200
a three-point turn
Double Jeopardy!
5759
COLIN POWELL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Colin was on a drill team known as the Pershing Rifles when he was in ROTC, short for this'
$1200
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PUNCTUATION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'An "Oxford" or "series" this is the one before "and" in a series of items'
$1600
a comma
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PERIOD
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Meaning "all Earth" in Greek, this hypothetical supercontinent tore apart during the Triassic period'
$3,000
Pangaea
Double Jeopardy!
5759
QUESTION, MARK
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'To <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-10-01_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> painter, the battle of horizontal & vertical was a metaphor for existential conflicts'
$1600
Rothko
Double Jeopardy!
5759
EXCLAMATION "POINT"!
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'A spot with a wide perspective; Lyndon Johnson used it as the title of his memoir of the presidency'
$1600
vantage point
Double Jeopardy!
5759
COLIN POWELL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'In 1983 Colin was an assistant to Secy. of Defense Caspar Weinberger when the U.S. invaded this island nation'
$1600
Grenada
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PUNCTUATION
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Suspension points is another term for this indication of a pause'
$1,400
an ellipsis
Double Jeopardy!
5759
PERIOD
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'A period is one of 4 major units of geologic time; these are the other 3, & they all start with "E"'
$2000
eon, era & epoch
Double Jeopardy!
5759
QUESTION, MARK
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Mark Haddon penned the bestselling novel "The Curious Incident of" this'
$2000
the Dog in the Night-time
Double Jeopardy!
5759
EXCLAMATION "POINT"!
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'Hyphenated term for being so close to a target that the projectile travels in a straight line to it'
$2000
point-blank
Double Jeopardy!
5759
COLIN POWELL
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'In 2009 this controversial radio host called Colin part of the "stale... worn-out GOP that never won anything"'
$2000
(Rush) Limbaugh
Double Jeopardy!
5759
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
2009-10-01T00:00:00
'For 200 years, much of this large current country was known as "Rupert's Land", in honor of a cousin of Charles II'
null
Canada
Final Jeopardy!
5759
BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'The British tell the tale of St. George & this; the Apocrypha has the book of Bel & this'
$200
the Dragon
Jeopardy!
5332
ESPN ENTERTAINMENT
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'In the ESPN drama "3", Barry Pepper played this late NASCAR legend'
$200
Dale Earnhardt
Jeopardy!
5332
JAPANESE THEATRE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_J_14.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew observes a female kabuki performer at a kabuki theatre in Tokyo, Japan.</a>) In the word "kabuki", the middle syllable, "bu", stands for this art form, a major part of kabuki'
$200
dance
Jeopardy!
5332
I WANT CANDY
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'I could go for some of these sugar & marshmallow chicks--especially the blue ones--when's Easter?'
$200
Peeps
Jeopardy!
5332
IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'It's black & white & eats about 80 pounds of bamboo shoots a day'
$200
a panda bear
Jeopardy!
5332
FROM THE GREEK
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'A pentad is a group of this many'
$200
5
Jeopardy!
5332
BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'You can read his "Song" in the Old Testament & his "Wisdom" in the apocrypha'
$400
Solomon
Jeopardy!
5332
ESPN ENTERTAINMENT
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'3 sharps team up to take down Don "The Matador" Everest in "Tilt", an ESPN series about this card game'
$400
poker
Jeopardy!
5332
JAPANESE THEATRE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Kabuki introduced the revolving stage to the world in the 1770s; it was inspired by this children's toy'
$400
a (spinning) top
Jeopardy!
5332
I WANT CANDY
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'"Joy of Cooking" has a recipe for dark chocolate this & credits Baltimore with the invention; I prefer vanilla or maple'
$400
fudge
Jeopardy!
5332
IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Born in South Africa, this Sisters of Notre Dame nun wears her habit to host TV shows on art'
$400
Sister Wendy
Jeopardy!
5332
FROM THE GREEK
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1840 Christian Schonbein followed his nose to identify this form of oxygen & named it from the Greek for "smell"'
$400
ozone
Jeopardy!
5332
BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'There are up to 4 books of this military group associated with Hanukkah'
$600
the Maccabees
Jeopardy!
5332
ESPN ENTERTAINMENT
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'John Turturro played this oft-fired manager in the 2007 ESPN miniseries "The Bronx is Burning"'
$600
Billy Martin
Jeopardy!
5332
JAPANESE THEATRE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_J_25.jpg" target="_blank">Alex holds up a mask in a store in Tokyo, Japan.</a>) These traditional masks are worn by the shite, or hero, of this revered & highly stylized form of Japanese drama'
$600
noh
Jeopardy!
5332
I WANT CANDY
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Meaning "no equal", it's another name for snow caps'
$600
nonpareils
Jeopardy!
5332
IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Famous for his B&W images used in psychology, as a youth he was named "Kleck", German for "inkblot"'
$2,000
(Hermann) Rorschach
Jeopardy!
5332
FROM THE GREEK
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Triglycerides are these, from the Greek for "fat"'
$600
lipids
Jeopardy!
5332
BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Break out the hamantaschen--the apocrypha contains additions to her Old Testament book'
$800
Esther
Jeopardy!
5332
ESPN ENTERTAINMENT
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'In 2005 ESPN aired "Four Minutes", about this athlete who was born in Middlesex, England in 1929'
$800
Roger Bannister
Jeopardy!
5332
JAPANESE THEATRE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Instead of human actors, bunraku theatre features these, which are manipulated in full view of the audience'
$800
puppets
Jeopardy!
5332
I WANT CANDY
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'You can buy squares of its chocolate, like the raspberry or mint-filled, at its famous square in San Francisco'
$800
Ghirardelli
Jeopardy!
5332
IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'"<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_J_23.mp3">My fellow Americans</a>", this black & white cocker spaniel gave its name to a 1952 speech'
$800
Checkers
Jeopardy!
5332
FROM THE GREEK
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'From Greek for "steward", it's been defined as "the dismal science"'
$800
economics
Jeopardy!
5332
BOOKS OF THE APOCRYPHA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This beautiful widow who beheads General Holofernes gets her own book'
$1000
Judith
Jeopardy!
5332
ESPN ENTERTAINMENT
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Matt Dillon narrates "Once in a Lifetime", about this New York City soccer team Pele played for'
$1000
the Cosmos
Jeopardy!
5332
JAPANESE THEATRE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_J_27.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents in front of a kabuki demonstration in Tokyo, Japan.</a>) Kabuki theatre's golden age came as Japan developed an urban culture in this era, named for what Tokyo was called then'
$1000
the Edo era
Jeopardy!
5332
I WANT CANDY
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Hershey's could have called this candy bar "Thingamajig"; it would have been 4 letters shorter'
$1000
Whatchamacallit
Jeopardy!
5332
IT'S ALL BLACK & WHITE TO ME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'An African name for <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_J_24.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> monkey that sits in trees as if in prayer means "messenger of the gods"'
$1000
the colobus
Jeopardy!
5332
FROM THE GREEK
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This first name of poet Roethke means "gift of God"'
$1000
Theodore
Jeopardy!
5332
OPERA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Susanna the maid is the bride in this Mozart opera'
$400
The Marriage of Figaro
Double Jeopardy!
5332
FUNNY OR DIE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'In "A Day at the Races", while checking a pulse, he said, "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped"'
$400
Groucho Marx
Double Jeopardy!
5332
A SLICE OF LETTISH
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Bishop Albert made this Latvian capital the HQ of the Knights of the Sword'
$400
Riga
Double Jeopardy!
5332
UNDER THE VOLCANO
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Lava that flows far forms shield volcanoes; this island is made up of 5 of them, including Mauna Kea'
$400
the Big Island of Hawaii
Double Jeopardy!
5332
YOGA TIME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Some yoga poses, or asanas, are named after animals, like the upward facing this, seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_DJ_11.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>'
$400
dog
Double Jeopardy!
5332
EPONYM DROPPER
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This 2-word phrase for a loyal & resourceful assistant comes from a character in a Daniel Defoe novel'
$400
Man Friday
Double Jeopardy!
5332
OPERA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'The name of this Verdi opera means "The Fallen Woman"'
$800
La Traviata
Double Jeopardy!
5332
FUNNY OR DIE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This good sport said, "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours"'
$800
Yogi Berra
Double Jeopardy!
5332
A SLICE OF LETTISH
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Newly independent at the time, Latvia joined this world body on Sept. 22, 1921'
$800
the League of Nations
Double Jeopardy!
5332
UNDER THE VOLCANO
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'One difference between wide & narrow craters is the presence of this to mix with magma & cause big steam explosions'
$800
water
Double Jeopardy!
5332
YOGA TIME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Contrary to popular belief, only a minuscule fraction of this "weaving" school of yoga deals with sex'
$800
Tantric
Double Jeopardy!
5332
EPONYM DROPPER
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'March Madness is in effect with <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> instrument named for a composer whose band first used it'
$800
a sousaphone
Double Jeopardy!
5332
OPERA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Puccini's last opera, it's set in Peking'
$1200
Turandot
Double Jeopardy!
5332
FUNNY OR DIE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This director: "There are worse things" than death; "ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"'
$1200
Woody Allen
Double Jeopardy!
5332
A SLICE OF LETTISH
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'About 60% of Latvians are ethnically Latvian; this nationality makes up about a third of the population'
$1200
Russian
Double Jeopardy!
5332
UNDER THE VOLCANO
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Volcanoes can be formed by plumes of magma originating in this layer of the Earth below the crust'
$1200
the mantle
Double Jeopardy!
5332
YOGA TIME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'A tradition of yoga teaches that the cosmos was once filled with this 1-syllable mantra'
$1200
om
Double Jeopardy!
5332
EPONYM DROPPER
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Call the sheriff! This English shire is named for an Old Saxon landowner; the name means "Snot's home"'
$1200
Nottingham
Double Jeopardy!
5332
OPERA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera'
$4,000
Pagliacci
Double Jeopardy!
5332
FUNNY OR DIE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This man who played Honore Lachaille in "Gigi" said, "I prefer old age to the alternative"'
$1600
(Maurice) Chevalier
Double Jeopardy!
5332
A SLICE OF LETTISH
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This is the sea on Latvia's west coast'
$1600
the Baltic
Double Jeopardy!
5332
UNDER THE VOLCANO
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'In this island country, nearly 60% of eruptions, like those of Katla, occur under glacial ice'
$1600
Iceland
Double Jeopardy!
5332
YOGA TIME
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Yoga is mentioned in these ancient religious texts of India that date back 3,500 years'
$1600
the Vedas
Double Jeopardy!
5332
EPONYM DROPPER
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'Seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-11-13_DJ_09.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, it's named for a U.S. Army officer who designed it as an effective weapon for trench warfare'
$1600
a Thompson (submachine) gun
Double Jeopardy!
5332
OPERA
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'"La Bisbetica Dominata" was based on this Shakespeare play'
$2000
The Taming of the Shrew
Double Jeopardy!
5332
FUNNY OR DIE
2007-11-13T00:00:00
'This 19th c. journalist said, "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate"; then he disappeared'
$2000
Ambrose Bierce
Double Jeopardy!
5332