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BINGO
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'Of yardie, housie or barnie, what bingo is known as in Australia'
$1200
housie
Double Jeopardy!
5014
WAS HIS NAME O'
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'In 1934 this writer had an "Appointment in Samarra"'
$1200
John O\'Hara
Double Jeopardy!
5014
"B-I"
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'It's a person who loves or collects books'
$1200
a bibliophile
Double Jeopardy!
5014
NGO
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'Based in Illinois, this league with a Spanish name is trying to get mothers to put down that bottle'
$2,000
La Leche
Double Jeopardy!
5014
THERE WAS A FARMER
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'Boekenhout-Fontein is the farm of Paul Kruger, a leader of these people who warred with Britain in the 1890s'
$1,600
the Boers
Double Jeopardy!
5014
HAD A DOG
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'In Tibetan tradition these dogs, like the one seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-06-01_DJ_04.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, were regarded as reincarnated lamas'
$1600
a Lhasa Apso
Double Jeopardy!
5014
BINGO
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'During the Depression, a verson of bingo called screeno was played across the U.S. in these locations'
$1600
movie theaters
Double Jeopardy!
5014
WAS HIS NAME O'
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'Bestsellers by this political satirist include "Parliament of Whores" & "Give War a Chance"'
$1600
(P.J.) O\'Rourke
Double Jeopardy!
5014
"B-I"
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'The first peacetime atomic weapons test was conducted here on July 1, 1946'
$1600
Bikini Atoll
Double Jeopardy!
5014
NGO
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'Orbis International says 28 million people stricken by this don't need to be'
$1600
blindness
Double Jeopardy!
5014
THERE WAS A FARMER
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'This Roman wrote the "Georgics", an instructional work on farming, before turning to historical epics'
$2000
Virgil
Double Jeopardy!
5014
HAD A DOG
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'2006's winner of Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show was a colored type of this terrier'
$2000
a bull terrier
Double Jeopardy!
5014
BINGO
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'The first recorded use of bingo for charity fundraising was in 1930 at a church in Wilkes-Barre in this state'
$2000
Pennsylvania
Double Jeopardy!
5014
WAS HIS NAME O'
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'This Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock" for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin'
$2000
Sean O\'Casey
Double Jeopardy!
5014
"B-I"
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'The name of this ball game comes from the French for "sticks"'
$2000
billiards
Double Jeopardy!
5014
NGO
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'The NGO now called this began with people of a British college town trying to feed WWII Greece'
$2000
Oxfam
Double Jeopardy!
5014
PLAYWRIGHTS
2006-06-01T00:00:00
'In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored'
null
August Wilson
Final Jeopardy!
5014
FIRST NOVELS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Stephen King's first published novel was this tale of a tormented telekinetic teen'
$200
"Carrie"
Jeopardy!
4348
SONGS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'The No. 1 hit "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)" satirized this song that didn't even make the Top 40'
$200
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Jeopardy!
4348
COUNTRIES' NO. 1 EXPORTS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'From Cote d'Ivoire, the "beans" that make this ice cream flavor'
$200
chocolate
Jeopardy!
4348
GRAVE MATTERS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In October 1977 both his & his mother's remains were moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to Graceland'
$200
Elvis Presley
Jeopardy!
4348
A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'The placement of a wedding ring comes from a supposed connection between the ring finger & this'
$200
the heart
Jeopardy!
4348
GOING TOPLESS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'What the Forty-Niners sought or, without its first letter, what people over 49 are to some'
$200
gold (to old)
Jeopardy!
4348
FIRST NOVELS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Amy Tan's first novel, it told of 4 Chinese mothers & their American-born daughters'
$400
"The Joy Luck Club"
Jeopardy!
4348
SONGS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'"I Dig Rock and Roll Music" was a Top 10 hit for this trio better-known for folk songs'
$400
Peter, Paul and Mary
Jeopardy!
4348
COUNTRIES' NO. 1 EXPORTS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'From Comoros, this plant product, also an ice cream flavor'
$400
vanilla
Jeopardy!
4348
GRAVE MATTERS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'His tombstone in Washington, D.C. is inscribed: "Renowned Photographer of the Civil War"'
$400
Mathew Brady
Jeopardy!
4348
A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'That famous Mendelssohn music means it's time to start this, the exit of the wedding party'
$400
recessional
Jeopardy!
4348
GOING TOPLESS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Left unopened, this term for wheat, rice or rye becomes something you'll need to open an umbrella for'
$400
grain (to rain)
Jeopardy!
4348
FIRST NOVELS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise"'
$600
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jeopardy!
4348
SONGS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'(Hi, I'm Pam Tillis) My No. 1 country hit "Mi Vida Loca" translates to this in English'
$600
"My Crazy Life"
Jeopardy!
4348
COUNTRIES' NO. 1 EXPORTS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'From Guatemala, this crop, also an ice cream flavor'
$600
coffee
Jeopardy!
4348
GRAVE MATTERS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Once the "Greatest Athlete in the World", he now rests in the Pennsylvania town that's named for him'
$600
Jim Thorpe
Jeopardy!
4348
A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'When a Jewish groom breaks a glass, some say it's to commemorate the destruction of this'
$600
the Temple
Jeopardy!
4348
GOING TOPLESS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Take the top off this musical instrument & you'll get a potent potable you can't beat'
$600
drum (to rum)
Jeopardy!
4348
FIRST NOVELS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'K is for "Keziah Dane", her first novel published in 1967'
$800
Sue Grafton
Jeopardy!
4348
SONGS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'"Thuggish-Ruggish-Bone" was the first Top 40 hit for this rap group'
$800
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Jeopardy!
4348
GRAVE MATTERS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Although his new museum has since opened, he's buried on the grounds of his old one in Malibu, California'
$800
J. Paul Getty
Jeopardy!
4348
A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'I'm going to this place, also the term for a 2 1/2-yard-long veil, and I'm gonna get married'
$800
chapel
Jeopardy!
4348
GOING TOPLESS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Without its leadership, this European country experiences physical suffering; Ouch!'
$800
Spain (to pain)
Jeopardy!
4348
FIRST NOVELS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'I order you to name this first novel by Pat Conroy about tough Marine Corps colonel Bull Meecham'
$1,400
"The Great Santini"
Jeopardy!
4348
SONGS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'They were on a "roll" when they sent us a "Rock and Roll Love Letter" in '76'
$1000
Bay City Rollers
Jeopardy!
4348
GRAVE MATTERS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'While he's buried next to Tennyson at Westminster Abbey, his wife Elizabeth is in Florence, Italy'
$1000
Robert Browning
Jeopardy!
4348
A JUNE WEDDING CATEGORY
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'"Jumping" this object that signifies a wife's duties in the home is an African-American wedding tradition'
$1000
broom/broomstick
Jeopardy!
4348
GOING TOPLESS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Thunder can turn up the volume in a puffy one of these; so can losing its first letter'
$1000
cloud (to loud)
Jeopardy!
4348
THE '76ers
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Roman emperor Theodosius I abolished these Greek games that had begun back in 776 B.C.'
$400
Olympic Games
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE WIZARDS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'According to the Harry Potter books, wizards use these birds, like Harry's Hedwig, to deliver mail'
$400
owls
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE GRIZZLIES
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'With an estimated 32,000, this state has the largest population of grizzly bears'
$400
Alaska
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE ROCKETS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Probably crude gunpowder-filled tubes tied to arrow shafts, rockets appear to have originated in this country'
$400
China
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE "SUN"s
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Butch could tell you this was outlaw Harry Longbaugh's nickname'
$400
The Sundance Kid
Double Jeopardy!
4348
PRO BASKETBALL
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In the name of Israeli basketball team Maccabi Elite T.A., T.A. stands for this city'
$400
Tel Aviv
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE '76ers
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'It made news in Nov. 1976 when it was announced that this 9-year-old girl would attend a D.C. public school'
$800
Amy Carter
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE WIZARDS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'T.A. Barron wrote a 5-book epic on this wizard who's a big part of T.H. White's "The Once and Future King"'
$800
Merlin
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE GRIZZLIES
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In this annual state, a grizzly's heart rate drops from about 40 beats a minute to as low as 10'
$800
hibernation
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE ROCKETS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'This "colorful" missile range near Las Cruces, New Mexico is an important rocket propulsion testing facility'
$800
White Sands
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE "SUN"s
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'This Idaho ski resort is located in the Sawtooth Mountains'
$800
Sun Valley
Double Jeopardy!
4348
PRO BASKETBALL
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'This Laker guard spent much of his youth in Italy -- his dad Joe "Jelly Bean" played pro hoops there'
$800
Kobe Bryant
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE '76ers
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'First published at Harvard in 1876, it was the first collegiate humor magazine in the U.S.'
$1200
Harvard Lampoon
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE WIZARDS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Novelist who wrote the line "I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad wizard"'
$1200
L. Frank Baum
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE GRIZZLIES
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'This U.S. president's pet grizzly bears were a present from Lewis & Clark'
$1200
Thomas Jefferson
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE ROCKETS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Producing thrust against the main engines, these are fired to slow down the movement of a space vehicle'
$1200
retrorockets
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE "SUN"s
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Ernest Hemingway's original title for this 1926 work was "The Lost Generation"'
$1200
"The Sun Also Rises"
Double Jeopardy!
4348
PRO BASKETBALL
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In 2002 the Houston Rockets' first round draft pick was this 7'5" center, formerly of the Shanghai Sharks'
$1200
Yao Ming
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE '76ers
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'This "timely" British royal observatory was open for business in 1676'
$1600
Greenwich
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE WIZARDS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In a John Varley novel, Cirocco Jones is the wizard of this living world named for an Earth goddess'
$1,000
Gaea
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE GRIZZLIES
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Grizzly bears are actually a subspecies of this "colorful" species'
$1600
brown bears
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE ROCKETS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'All the Apollo spacecraft that landed on the moon were launched by this booster rocket'
$1600
Saturn rockets
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE "SUN"s
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'From the Arabic for "lawful", it's the largest branch of Islam'
$1600
Sunni
Double Jeopardy!
4348
PRO BASKETBALL
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'This pro league founded by Dennis Murphy in 1967 used a red, white & blue basketball'
$1600
ABA (American Basketball Association)
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE '76ers
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'The "Babylonian Captivity" of the Roman Catholic popes in this French city was ended by Pope Gregory XI in 1376'
$10,800
Avignon
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE WIZARDS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Ged is the title "Wizard of Earthsea" in a book by this sci-fi writer who uses her middle initial'
$2000
Ursula K. Le Guin
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE GRIZZLIES
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Seen here, a grizzly bear prepares to feed on this fish, a staple of its diet'
$2000
salmon
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE ROCKETS
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'Abbreviated the ESA, this agency launches payloads into space from French Guiana using Ariane rockets'
$2000
European Space Agency
Double Jeopardy!
4348
THE "SUN"s
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'He was the governor of New Hampshire before he became the first President Bush's chief of staff'
$2000
John Sununu
Double Jeopardy!
4348
PRO BASKETBALL
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In 2002 this Sparks center made history with the first slam dunk in a WNBA game'
$2000
Lisa Leslie
Double Jeopardy!
4348
TELEVISION
2003-06-25T00:00:00
'In Apple's I-Movie program, the effect seen here that's done with photos is named for this TV filmmaker'
null
Ken Burns
Final Jeopardy!
4348
THE 1990S
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'On Nov. 20, 1994 he beatified 5 individuals, including Franciscan sculptor Claudio Granzotto'
$100
Pope John Paul II
Jeopardy!
2835
SINGERS WHO ACT
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'This Jackson made her film debut in 1993 as a poetry-writing beautician in John Singleton's "Poetic Justice"'
$100
Janet Jackson
Jeopardy!
2835
ANNUAL EVENTS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'The Queen Liliuokalani Canoe Races take place on Labor Day weekend in this state'
$100
Hawaii
Jeopardy!
2835
METALS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'South Africa is the world's leading supplier of this precious metal'
$100
Gold
Jeopardy!
2835
HINTS FROM HELOISE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Diners on a diet can substitute yogurt or cottage cheese for this sour dairy product'
$100
Sour Cream
Jeopardy!
2835
IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'On April 4, 1940 Neville Chamberlain said that this dictator had "missed the bus"'
$100
Adolf Hitler
Jeopardy!
2835
THE 1990S
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'In 1996 Tomiichi Murayama, this country's first Socialist premier since 1948, resigned'
$200
Japan
Jeopardy!
2835
SINGERS WHO ACT
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Part of this "Material Girl"'s film "Dangerous Game" was shot near our former "Jeopardy!" offices'
$200
Madonna
Jeopardy!
2835
ANNUAL EVENTS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'The Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run is part of Ice Box Days in International Falls in this state'
$200
Minnesota
Jeopardy!
2835
METALS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'A ferroalloy always contains this metal'
$200
Iron
Jeopardy!
2835
HINTS FROM HELOISE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Rub this part of a pencil on an emery board so it won't cause smudges on your paper'
$200
Eraser
Jeopardy!
2835
IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Margot Asquith said of Lloyd George, "He could not see" one of these "without hitting below it"'
$200
Belt
Jeopardy!
2835
THE 1990S
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'He ended a 35-year military career in 1993 by resigning as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff'
$300
Colin Powell
Jeopardy!
2835
SINGERS WHO ACT
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'He married Julia Roberts after they appeared in Robert Altman's film "The Player"'
$300
Lyle Lovett
Jeopardy!
2835
ANNUAL EVENTS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Milwaukee's yearly Lakefront Festival of the Arts takes place at the War Memorial Center on this lake'
$500
Lake Michigan
Jeopardy!
2835
METALS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'This liquid metal is added to paints to make them mildew proof'
$300
Mercury
Jeopardy!
2835
HINTS FROM HELOISE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Use these washday items to hold sheet music or to clamp coupons to your pocket while shopping'
$300
Clothespins
Jeopardy!
2835
IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"'
$300
Groucho Marx
Jeopardy!
2835
THE 1990S
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'More than 300 Republican candidates signed this document September 27, 1994'
$400
Contract With America
Jeopardy!
2835
SINGERS WHO ACT
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Reba McEntire made her TV acting debut as his leading lady in "The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw"'
$400
Kenny Rogers
Jeopardy!
2835
METALS
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'They're the 2 main metals found in brass'
$400
Copper & Zinc
Jeopardy!
2835
HINTS FROM HELOISE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'Cover ripening ears of this with used beverage cans to keep birds from eating them'
$400
Corn
Jeopardy!
2835
IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'"I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them", she wrote in Ms.'
$400
Gloria Steinem
Jeopardy!
2835
THE 1990S
1996-12-20T00:00:00
'In December 1995 2 of this country's former presidents, Chun Doo Hwan & Roh Tae Woo, were indicted'
$500
South Korea
Jeopardy!
2835