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FOREIGN FILMS | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'This 1978 film with Michel Serrault as Albin was remade in 1996 with Nathan Lane as Albert' | $600 | "La Cage Aux Folles" | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
CAPITAL QUOTES | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'In his poem "Hellas", Shelley wrote, "Let there be light!" said Liberty; and this city "Arose!"' | $1,500 | Athens | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
ALL ABOUT SRI LANKA | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Before Britain's Mrs. Thatcher, Mrs. Bandaranaike was the world's first woman in this post; she still holds it' | $600 | Prime Minister | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
GENERAL SCIENCE | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'On June 22, 1978 James W. Christy discovered Charon, a moon orbiting this distant planet' | $800 | Pluto | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
NEW LATIN | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'An "exemplum simillime expressum" is just one of these, ma'am' | $800 | the fax | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
BIG "MAC"s | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Highland outlaw Rob Roy was a member of this clan' | $800 | MacGregor | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
FOREIGN FILMS | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'In "The Seventh Seal", Max Von Sydow plays chess with this black-clad character' | $800 | Death | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
CAPITAL QUOTES | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Field Marshal Montgomery said, "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on'" this Russian city' | $800 | Moscow | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
ALL ABOUT SRI LANKA | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Since 1983 the Liberation Tigers of this minority group have fought for an independent state' | $800 | Tamils | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
GENERAL SCIENCE | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Hydrogen has 3 isotopes: protium, tritium & this one with a mass number of 2' | $1,000 | Deuterium | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
BIG "MAC"s | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'This poetic Archibald served as Librarian of Congress from 1939 to 1944' | $1000 | Archibald MacLeish | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
FOREIGN FILMS | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'This hero of 3 Satyajit Ray films shares his name with the Kwik-E-Mart proprietor on "The Simpsons"' | $1000 | Apu | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
CAPITAL QUOTES | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Disraeli described it as "A nation, not a city"' | $1000 | London | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
ALL ABOUT SRI LANKA | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'Cinnamon Gardens is an upscale area of this largest Sri Lankan city & port' | $1000 | Colombo | Double Jeopardy! | 2993 |
WALL STREET | 1997-09-10T00:00:00 | 'As part of 1997 changes to its industrial average group, Dow Jones replaced Woolworth with this retailer' | null | Wal-Mart | Final Jeopardy! | 2993 |
WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The Japanese pantheon includes Kagutsuchi, god of this, something to get your hibachi going' | $200 | fire | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
RANCHES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'At about 12,000 sq. mi., Strangeray Springs, a cattle ranch (or station) in this country, is bigger than Vermont' | $200 | Australia | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The Foreign Service Institute' | $200 | State Department | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
'80s ROCK | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'In December 1984 Madonna touched No. 1 for the very first time with this song' | $200 | "Like A Virgin" | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MAMA & PAPAYA | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'While these look like caviar & are edible, Mama usually throws them out' | $200 | papaya seeds | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'If you needed a railway tunnel dug, you could call on this American folk hero -- it was his job' | $400 | John Henry | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
RANCHES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Prairie Chapel is the name of George W. Bush's ranch near this Texas town, population 705' | $400 | Crawford | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The Office of Disability Employment Policy' | $400 | Department of Labor | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
'80s ROCK | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'In 1984 this group of all-stars tried to make things better with "Do They Know It's Christmas?"' | $400 | Band Aid | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MAMA & PAPAYA | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Mama joked that this other name for the papaya makes it sound like little cat feet -- Mama wasn't funny' | $400 | pawpaw | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE JAMES GANG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The deposed father of England's Queen Anne' | $400 | James II | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Jewish legend says his first wife was Lilith, who created the need for a good divorce lawyer' | $600 | Adam | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
RANCHES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Kendall County, Texas is named for the man who brought merinos to the area as this type of rancher' | $800 | sheep rancher | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The Bureau of Engraving & Printing' | $600 | Treasury Department | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
'80s ROCK | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Title of a 1985 Bruce Springsteen hit, or a book about him by Dave Marsh' | $600 | "Glory Days" | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MAMA & PAPAYA | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Papaya plants are dioecious, meaning the plants are divided this way, like Mama & Papa' | $600 | by sex | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The life of this legendary king of Britain was fodder for a Shakespeare tragedy in 1605' | $800 | King Lear | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
RANCHES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Around 1905 these animals, not native to Arizona, were brought to a ranch in the state, where they now roam' | $800 | buffalo | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The U.S. Marshals Service' | $800 | Justice Department | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
'80s ROCK | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'In 1987 this group dreamed up its first Top 10 hit, heard here' | $800 | R.E.M. | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MAMA & PAPAYA | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'When things get tough in the kitchen, Mama gets out the hammer or uses this with papain, an enzyme from papaya, in it' | $800 | meat tenderizer | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE JAMES GANG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1736, this inventor is mostly renowned for his improvements to the steam engine' | $800 | James Watt | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'When he fell for Helen, Paris was married to Oenone, one of these nature deities' | $1000 | nymph | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
RANCHES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'It's the name of Steve & Gayle Henson's California ranch for which a creamy dressing was named' | $1000 | Hidden Valley | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The National Park Service' | $1000 | Department of the Interior | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
'80s ROCK | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'A No. 1 hit by this group began, "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you"' | $1000 | The Human League | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MAMA & PAPAYA | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'When Mama's in the mood for Indian food, she makes papdi &, to top them, this relish with papaya' | $1000 | chutney | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE JAMES GANG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'In 1986 he was named the first ever artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera' | $1000 | James Levine | Jeopardy! | 4245 |
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The NFL Europe's Dragons play their home games in this Spanish city that hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics' | $400 | Barcelona | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
LETTER HISTORIES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Seventh in the Greek alphabet, it came back later as the last, but not least, letter' | $400 | zeta | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MANY MOONS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'It's the closest planet to the sun that has a moon' | $400 | Earth | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
VAUDEVILLE | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'It's an early name for vaudeville, or a type of skit-&-music TV show descended from vaudeville' | $400 | variety | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE LINCOLN LOG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The month in which Abe Lincoln was born' | $400 | February | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
FROM THE FRENCH | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'A diplomat serving temporarily in place of an ambassador is called this "d'affaires"' | $400 | charge | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'This southern South American capital city's first European visitor was Pedro de Mendoza in 1536' | $800 | Buenos Aires | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
LETTER HISTORIES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'A 14th century addition, it came from a little extra ornamentation of the "I"' | $800 | J | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MANY MOONS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, was discovered by this man in 1610' | $800 | Galileo | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
VAUDEVILLE | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'A vaudevillian transported clothes & gear in one of these, & might have been born in one in Pocatello, Idaho' | $800 | trunk | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE LINCOLN LOG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The state from which Abe was first elected to national office' | $800 | Illinois | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
FROM THE FRENCH | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | '(Sofia of the Clue Crew) This bike part whose name is from the French helps you shift gears; it's not used to overturn trains' | $800 | derailleur | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'This bay between Spain & Brittany is named for the Basques who live on the shore there' | $1200 | Bay of Biscay | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
LETTER HISTORIES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'A Latin link of 2 letters pronounced as one is why we, in modern English, always follow this letter with U' | $1200 | Q | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MANY MOONS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Its moon Charon is about half its size' | $2,700 | Pluto | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
VAUDEVILLE | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'When you were playing the best vaudeville houses, you'd "hit" this, also a Peter Gabriel song title' | $1200 | the "Big Time" | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE LINCOLN LOG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'His wife's maiden name' | $1200 | Todd | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
FROM THE FRENCH | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The French word for "father", it's an equivalent of "senior", as when it follows Dumas or George Bush' | $1200 | pere | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The British looted this Asian capital in 1860, bringing back a dog breed bearing its old name' | $1600 | Beijing | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
LETTER HISTORIES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'An Anglo-Saxon rune became this letter that's double one of its predecessors' | $1600 | W | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
MANY MOONS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Because of its decaying orbit, the moon Phobos will crash into this planet -- in about 40 million years' | $1600 | Mars | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
VAUDEVILLE | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'This theater fit for royalty, once the premiere vaudeville venue, was revived when Judy Garland played it in 1951' | $2,000 | the Palace | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE LINCOLN LOG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'The photographer whose picture was the basis for the image on the five-dollar bill' | $1600 | Mathew Brady | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
FROM THE FRENCH | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'In "Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll adapted this 4-couple French dance for lobsters' | $1600 | quadrille | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'This Slovakian capital was widely known by the German name Pressburg until after World War I' | $2000 | Bratislava | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
LETTER HISTORIES | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'Latin abandoned this letter, from the Semitic symbol for an open hand, in favor of the "C"' | $2000 | K | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
VAUDEVILLE | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'This sales pitch was the catchphrase of Joe Penner, seen here' | $2000 | "Wanna buy a duck?" | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
THE LINCOLN LOG | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'His first vice president' | $2000 | Hannibal Hamlin | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
FROM THE FRENCH | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'From the French for "to slaughter", it's another name for a slaughterhouse' | $2000 | abattoir | Double Jeopardy! | 4245 |
AUTHORS | 2003-01-31T00:00:00 | 'In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa's Cedar Bridge' | null | Robert James Waller (author of \"The Bridges of Madison County\") | Final Jeopardy! | 4245 |
ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'In February, he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, not his intended target' | $200 | Dick Cheney | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_02.jpg" target="_blank">Ken Burns opens the category for us.</a>) On January 8, 2001 the series "Jazz" premiered with a look at <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_02a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> birthplace of jazz, the USA's most cosmopolitan <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_02b.jpg" target="_blank">city</a> at the turn of the 20th century' | $200 | New Orleans | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
NOTHING SPECIFIC | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'You can "think outside of" it, or a group of opera patrons can be held in it' | $200 | the box | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
PULP FICTION | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'All Story Magazine's October 1912 issue featured this hero in "A Romance of the Jungle"' | $200 | Tarzan | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
THE "PEN" | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'This antibiotic is effective against certain spirochetes' | $200 | penicillin | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'First used in 1915 by the Germans, this 12-letter portable assault weapon adds serious fire-power' | $200 | a flamethrower | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'One of the 2 space shuttles that went aloft in 2006' | $400 | the Discovery (or the Atlantis) | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_13.jpg" target="_blank">Ken delivers the clue once more.</a>) I made a film on this architect who claimed that his <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_13a.jpg" target="_blank">Guggenheim</a> would make the nearby Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn' | $400 | (Frank Lloyd) Wright | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
NOTHING SPECIFIC | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'In the 1970s, this character's normal rate for psychiatric help was 5 cents' | $400 | Lucy (van Pelt) | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
PULP FICTION | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'Black Star was created by Johnston McCulley, most famous for this hero, Z best he ever created' | $400 | Zorro | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
THE "PEN" | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'Examples of these are the Gaspe, Arabian & Yucatan' | $400 | peninsulas | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'The M60 type of this weapon is air-cooled, gas-operated & fires about 600 rounds per minute' | $400 | a machine gun | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'In November, an Andy Warhol work depicting this Asian leader sold for more than $17 million' | $600 | Mao | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_14.jpg" target="_blank">Ken shows another one for us.</a>) In films like "The Civil War", the use of archival <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_14b.jpg" target="_blank">records</a> & <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_14a.jpg" target="_blank">photos</a> is what I call "emotional" this science, because it unearths the heart of our national experience' | $600 | archaeology | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
NOTHING SPECIFIC | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'These are the deformed offspring that elves & fairies substitute for human infants' | $600 | changelings | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
PULP FICTION | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'First serialized in Black Mask, "The Maltese Falcon" introduced the world to this detective' | $600 | Sam Spade | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
THE "PEN" | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'Religiously, it's a punishment undergone in token of sorrow for sin' | $600 | penance | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'This powder used to thicken gasoline was introduced in WWII' | $600 | napalm | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'This famous American passed away the day after Christmas at the age of 93' | $800 | Gerald Ford | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_15.jpg" target="_blank">Ken trudges through this next clue.</a>) In "The War", my documentary about World War II, soldiers tell the harrowing story of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_15.wmv">this</a> German offensive that took place in the frozen Ardennes forest' | $800 | the Battle of the Bulge | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
NOTHING SPECIFIC | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'One of this university's graduate centers is the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center' | $800 | Penn State | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
PULP FICTION | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'Frederick Schiller Faust wasn't a big name in this genre, but his pen name of Max Brand was' | $800 | Westerns | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
THE "PEN" | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | '7-letter term meaning dreamily or wistfully thoughtful' | $800 | pensive | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'The -25 interceptor version of this Soviet fighter plane was capable of Mach 3' | $800 | the MiG | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
ANCIENT HISTORY: 2006 | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'He led the French team to the finals of soccer's World Cup, only to be ejected after headbutting an Italian player' | $1000 | (Zinedine) Zidane | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_16.jpg" target="_blank">Ken finishes off the category.</a>) My film "Unforgivable Blackness" chronicles the rise & fall of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-01-04_J_16a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> champion who fought for freedom, & not just with his fists' | $1000 | Jack Johnson | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
NOTHING SPECIFIC | 2008-01-04T00:00:00 | 'According to the song in a 1941 Ronald Reagan film, it's what was found "in a five and ten cent store"' | $1000 | my million dollar baby | Jeopardy! | 5370 |
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