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CHEW MUST REMEMBER THIS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'In the 1600s this Frenchman lent his name to a creamy white sauce used to make dried cod taste better'
$1000
Louis de Béchamel
Jeopardy!
5928
A KISS IS STILL A KISS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Natalie Portman was just shy of lip action in this 2005 movie, though she does smooch Hugo Weaving's Guy Fawkes mask'
$1000
V for Vendetta
Jeopardy!
5928
AS TIME GOES BY
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'In a 19th century bestseller of men & the sea, Richard Henry Dana Jr. told of living this many "Years Before the Mast"'
$1000
Two
Jeopardy!
5928
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'In an exciting event of his administration, he signed the Federal Reserve Act into law in 1913'
$400
Wilson
Double Jeopardy!
5928
POE IS ME!
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered," this & this'
$400
weak & weary
Double Jeopardy!
5928
I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Spice Girl Victoria Adams, in 1999'
$400
David Beckham
Double Jeopardy!
5928
THE HARDY BOYS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'He partnered with Stan Laurel in more than 100 comedies'
$400
Oliver Hardy
Double Jeopardy!
5928
-ISMs
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Communism & socialism are both types of this 12-letter system of group ownership'
$400
collectivism
Double Jeopardy!
5928
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Silence! I need this on the set & the Western Front, please!'
$400
quiet
Double Jeopardy!
5928
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'The 1999 New Jersey state quarter includes a depiction of this president on the reverse'
$800
Washington
Double Jeopardy!
5928
POE IS ME!
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'"Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of runic rhyme, to the throbbing of" these title items'
$800
bells
Double Jeopardy!
5928
I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Khloe Kardashian, in 2009'
$800
Lamar Odom
Double Jeopardy!
5928
THE HARDY BOYS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Moses Hardy, who died in 2006 at the age of 113, was one of the last surviving veterans of this war'
$800
World War I
Double Jeopardy!
5928
-ISMs
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-26_DJ_04.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.</a>) The map of Africa in 1914 included <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-26_DJ_04a.jpg" target="_blank">Belgian</a>, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-26_DJ_04b.jpg" target="_blank">German</a>, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-26_DJ_04c.jpg" target="_blank">British</a> & <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-26_DJ_04d.jpg" target="_blank">French</a> territories--the result of imperialism and this 11-letter sister -ism'
$800
colonialism
Double Jeopardy!
5928
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'It's the pre-computer machine on which you'd find a QWERTY keyboard'
$800
a typewriter
Double Jeopardy!
5928
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'His first term saw the turn of the 20th century & the annexation of Guam & Puerto Rico'
$1200
McKinley
Double Jeopardy!
5928
POE IS ME!
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'"And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me"'
$2,000
Annabel Lee
Double Jeopardy!
5928
I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Tatum O'Neal, in 1986; singer Patty Smyth, in 1997'
$1200
John McEnroe
Double Jeopardy!
5928
THE HARDY BOYS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Rocker Brian Setzer is among the stars whom artist Ed Hardy has personally decorated with these'
$1200
tattoos
Double Jeopardy!
5928
-ISMs
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Deadly sounding word for the belief that everything's been decided so we must accept what's going to happen'
$1200
fatalism
Double Jeopardy!
5928
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'To need'
$1200
require
Double Jeopardy!
5928
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Former First Lady Barbara Bush is a distant cousin of this 1850s President'
$5,000
Franklin Pierce
Double Jeopardy!
5928
POE IS ME!
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'"And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel" in "The Masque of" this'
$1600
Red Death
Double Jeopardy!
5928
I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Janet Jones, in 1988'
$1600
Wayne Gretzky
Double Jeopardy!
5928
THE HARDY BOYS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'General Hugh Hardy was a 1980s commanding officer of this huge Marine base near San Diego'
$1600
Camp Pendleton
Double Jeopardy!
5928
-ISMs
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'The belief that all people deserve the same rights; the word comes from those revolutionary French'
$1600
egalitarianism
Double Jeopardy!
5928
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Medieval knights jousted in days of this, meaning time past or long ago'
$1600
yore
Double Jeopardy!
5928
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'"A Country of Vast Designs" is a book subtitled him, "the Mexican War & the Conquest of the American Continent"'
$2000
James K. Polk
Double Jeopardy!
5928
POE IS ME!
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'"Luchesi cannot tell" this title pale, dry Spanish wine "from sherry"'
$2000
amontillado
Double Jeopardy!
5928
I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Vanessa Williams, in 1999'
$2000
Rick Fox
Double Jeopardy!
5928
THE HARDY BOYS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Captain Thomas Hardy (not the author) kissed this mortally wounded admiral at the Battle of Trafalgar'
$2000
Nelson
Double Jeopardy!
5928
-ISMs
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'Freud's last major work was alliteratively titled "Moses and" this religious -ism'
$2000
monotheism
Double Jeopardy!
5928
WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'10-letter word for the owner of a hotel'
$2000
proprietor
Double Jeopardy!
5928
PEDIATRICS
2010-05-26T00:00:00
'In 1943 Drs. Leo Kanner & Hans Asperger each used this word for the then-unnamed disorder they were studying'
null
autism
Final Jeopardy!
5928
2008 NEWS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Protests disrupted its progress, & it had to be re-lit in cities including Paris & Jakarta'
$200
the Olympic torch
Jeopardy!
5526
ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Don't be afraid--this animal is a pollo'
$200
a chicken
Jeopardy!
5526
BLAME THE FRENCH
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In 1998 France hosted this contest & eventually won it, beating Brazil 3-0 in the final'
$200
the World Cup
Jeopardy!
5526
A BIT OF EVERYTHING
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This British guy gave us a particle theory of light in 1704, but it's the "apple falling on his head" thing you may remember'
$200
Newton
Jeopardy!
5526
GIN & JUICE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Effervescence abounds with lemon juice, sugar & club soda in a "gin" this'
$200
fizz
Jeopardy!
5526
SNOOP DOGG
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Snoop was down with OCD when he guested as Murderuss on this Tony Shalhoub detective series'
$200
Monk
Jeopardy!
5526
2008 NEWS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'These Australians got a "sorry" from their government for 2 centuries of mistreatment'
$400
the Aborigines
Jeopardy!
5526
ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This animal, gatto, got your lingua?'
$400
a cat
Jeopardy!
5526
BLAME THE FRENCH
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is beneath this landmark'
$400
the Arc de Triomphe
Jeopardy!
5526
A BIT OF EVERYTHING
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Bobby McFerrin could tell you this phrase, "ne bespokoisya" in Russian, can precede "be happy"'
$400
don\'t worry
Jeopardy!
5526
GIN & JUICE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Gin, sweet & dry vermouth, triple sec & lemon juice make this drink, also a road for a certain demon barber'
$400
a Fleet Street
Jeopardy!
5526
SNOOP DOGG
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'What we have here, Frank, is Snoop's "Sensual Seduction", heard on a 2008 episode of this Fla.-based crime show'
$400
CSI: Miami
Jeopardy!
5526
2008 NEWS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In July, leaders of Israel, Syria, Algeria, etc. met in France to launch the Union for this body of water'
$600
the Mediterranean Sea
Jeopardy!
5526
ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Who scared the puzzola, this animal? Now we'll never get rid of the smell'
$600
a skunk
Jeopardy!
5526
BLAME THE FRENCH
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This Paris locale featured in "The Da Vinci Code" opened in 1793'
$600
the Louvre
Jeopardy!
5526
A BIT OF EVERYTHING
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In 2003 the FDA said food containing these fatty acids would have to be so labeled'
$600
trans fats
Jeopardy!
5526
GIN & JUICE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Shorts-lovin' Ms. Duke might enjoy lemon juice, sugar, grenadine, maraschino cherry & an orange slice in a "gin" this'
$600
a gin Daisy
Jeopardy!
5526
SNOOP DOGG
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Word on the street is, in 2004 Snoop played Huggy Bear in the movie based on this '70s cop show'
$600
Starsky & Hutch
Jeopardy!
5526
2008 NEWS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In a close nomination race, we learned about these, which include all Dem. congresspeople & governors'
$800
superdelegates
Jeopardy!
5526
ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'If you want to win on "Jeopardy!", don't be as quiet as a topo, one of these'
$800
a mouse
Jeopardy!
5526
BLAME THE FRENCH
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'A tale of "Toul" cities would include Toulon & this metropolis of more than 350,000 people'
$800
Toulouse
Jeopardy!
5526
A BIT OF EVERYTHING
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'When Texas became a republic in 1836, he became its first Secretary of State;<br />capital!'
$800
(Stephen) Austin
Jeopardy!
5526
GIN & JUICE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'He's single! & drinking crushed ice, gin, grenadine, Rose's lime juice & an egg white in a "confirmed" this'
$800
a bachelor
Jeopardy!
5526
SNOOP DOGG
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Who else but Snoop could voice Alabaster Jones on this Texas-set Fox animated show?'
$800
King of the Hill
Jeopardy!
5526
2008 NEWS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Former bishop Fernando Lugo was elected pres. of this South American country after 6 decades of 1-party rule'
$1000
Paraguay
Jeopardy!
5526
ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena, one of these'
$1000
a whale
Jeopardy!
5526
BLAME THE FRENCH
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'A Canadian war memorial stands atop this French ridge where fighting raged in April 1917'
$1000
Vimy Ridge
Jeopardy!
5526
A BIT OF EVERYTHING
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'The 2 senators whose husbands have won major party nominations for president'
$1000
(Elizabeth) Dole & (Hillary) Clinton
Jeopardy!
5526
GIN & JUICE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'A writer into "Self-Reliance" goes for this one-word drink with maraschino liqueur, vermouth, gin & lemon juice'
$400
Emerson
Jeopardy!
5526
SNOOP DOGG
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In 2006 it was Showtime for Snoop on this Mary-Louise Parker series'
$1000
Weeds
Jeopardy!
5526
AMERICAN LIT
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Perhaps his first collection of stories, "Twice-Told Tales", was printed in scarlet letters?'
$400
Hawthorne
Double Jeopardy!
5526
THEY MADE THE TOP 40
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'1959:<br />This 375-voice group with "Battle Hymn Of The Republic"'
$400
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Double Jeopardy!
5526
RACING BIKES
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew presents from Trek Bicycle Corporation in Waterloo, WI.</a>) In 1997, Trek Bikes signed <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_26a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> former world champion; he was an unknown quantity at the time due to his cancer diagnosis the year before'
$400
Lance Armstrong
Double Jeopardy!
5526
MYTHS & LEGENDS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This god of the vine was the son of Zeus & Semele'
$400
Bacchus (or Dionysus)
Double Jeopardy!
5526
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In 1919 this wireless pioneer represented Italy in Paris & helped negotiate the Treaty of Versailles'
$400
Marconi
Double Jeopardy!
5526
COLORFUL LANGUAGE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'The part of a phone book with strictly alphabetical listings & no ads'
$400
the white pages
Double Jeopardy!
5526
AMERICAN LIT
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In Bernard Malamud's "The Natural", Roy Hobbs wields Wonderboy, this object'
$800
a baseball bat
Double Jeopardy!
5526
THEY MADE THE TOP 40
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'1970:<br />"We've Only Just Begun" &<br />1977:<br />"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft"'
$800
the Carpenters
Double Jeopardy!
5526
RACING BIKES
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew holds a bicycle frame at Trek Bicycle Corporation in Waterloo, WI.</a>) Trek uses a proprietary method of optimum compaction & low void to maximize strength & minimize weight of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_27a.jpg" target="_blank">frames</a> & parts made of this element'
$800
carbon
Double Jeopardy!
5526
MYTHS & LEGENDS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'One of the heroes of the "Iliad", this king of Ithaca is the son of Laertes'
$800
Odysseus
Double Jeopardy!
5526
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'In the late 18th century, this "steamy" Scot invented a special ink for copying letters'
$800
(James) Watt
Double Jeopardy!
5526
COLORFUL LANGUAGE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'A communist & a warning of danger might each "raise" this'
$800
a red flag
Double Jeopardy!
5526
AMERICAN LIT
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This novel begins, "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing"'
$1200
The Call of the Wild
Double Jeopardy!
5526
THEY MADE THE TOP 40
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'1995:<br />"Hand In My Pocket"'
$1200
(Alanis) Morissette
Double Jeopardy!
5526
RACING BIKES
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_28.wmv">Jon of the Clue Crew spins pedals and wheels at Trek Bicycle Corporation in Waterloo, WI.</a>) Popular with bike messengers & recreational riders, track bikes are called "fixed" this, so the pedals turn with the wheels, like at the dawn of cycling'
$1200
fixed gear
Double Jeopardy!
5526
MYTHS & LEGENDS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'One legend says that Acteon's death was caused by seeing this virgin goddess naked; she set his hounds on him'
$1200
Artemis
Double Jeopardy!
5526
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Created by Copenhagen yoga instructor Anne Kalso, they made their U.S. debut in April 1970 as "Minus Heel Shoes"'
$1200
Earth Shoes
Double Jeopardy!
5526
COLORFUL LANGUAGE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_13.jpg" target="_blank">I'm astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.</a>) In my latest book, "Death by" one of these, I refer to a process called spaghettification, in which differences in gravity across your body stretch you long & thin'
$1200
a black hole
Double Jeopardy!
5526
AMERICAN LIT
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This 3-named American poet wanted the ship of state to "sail on... strong and great"'
$1600
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Double Jeopardy!
5526
THEY MADE THE TOP 40
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'1971:<br />"I Woke Up In Love This Morning"'
$1600
the Partridge Family
Double Jeopardy!
5526
RACING BIKES
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_29.wmv">Sarah of the Clue Crew looks over a welder's shoulder at Trek Bicycle Corporation in Waterloo, WI.</a>) Hydroformed alloys of aluminum used in the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_29a.jpg" target="_blank">frame</a> keep the weight down while maintaining this, from the Latin for "stiffness"'
$1600
rigidity
Double Jeopardy!
5526
MYTHS & LEGENDS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'The judgment of Paris was fixed; this Greek goddess won the title by promising to give him Helen'
$5,000
Aphrodite
Double Jeopardy!
5526
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'A national weapons lab in Livermore, Calif. is named for this physicist who invented the cyclotron in 1929'
$5,200
(Ernest) Lawrence
Double Jeopardy!
5526
COLORFUL LANGUAGE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This term for nobility comes from the Spanish sangre azul'
$1600
blue blood
Double Jeopardy!
5526
AMERICAN LIT
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Thomas Sutpen goes south to seek his destiny in this Faulkner novel with a double talk title'
$2000
Absalom, Absalom!
Double Jeopardy!
5526
THEY MADE THE TOP 40
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'1983:<br />"Pass The Dutchie"'
$2000
Musical Youth
Double Jeopardy!
5526
RACING BIKES
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_30.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew strolls through the factory of Trek Bicycle Corporation in Waterloo, WI.</a>) Aeordynamics & lateral stiffness are key to bikes designed for <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-09-22_DJ_30a.jpg" target="_blank">these</a> indoor tracks whose name comes from the French'
$2000
velodromes
Double Jeopardy!
5526
MYTHS & LEGENDS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This Greek goddess' name has come to mean "an unbeatable opponent or rival"'
$2000
Nemesis
Double Jeopardy!
5526
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This jar used to store an electric charge is credited to both E.G. von Kleist & Pieter van Musschenbroek'
$2000
a Leyden jar
Double Jeopardy!
5526
COLORFUL LANGUAGE
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'Shakespeare used this facial-hair-based word for an old man in "The Taming of the Shrew"'
$2000
a graybeard
Double Jeopardy!
5526
SYMBOLS
2008-09-22T00:00:00
'This symbol incorporates the semaphore signs for the letters N & D, for nuclear disarmament'
null
the peace symbol
Final Jeopardy!
5526
THE 1960s
2009-03-04T00:00:00
'1963 protests by members of this religion, some of whom immolated themselves, led to the fall of South Vietnam's govt.'
$200
Buddhists
Jeopardy!
5643
THE QUOTABLE KEITH RICHARDS
2009-03-04T00:00:00
'Keith said "the only things" he & this guy disagree about are "the band, the music and what we do"'
$200
Mick Jagger
Jeopardy!
5643
"S"CIENCE
2009-03-04T00:00:00
'Eradicated worldwide by vaccination programs, this febrile disease is caused by the variola virus'
$200
smallpox
Jeopardy!
5643
IN THE OFFICE FRIDGE
2009-03-04T00:00:00
'There's an empty cup in the freezer to make scooping this more sanitary for all (yet no one refills the trays)'
$200
ice
Jeopardy!
5643
THE SOUTHERN DANDY EXPOUNDS
2009-03-04T00:00:00
'Ah do so enjoy dressin' like this fast food icon, who began sellin' his products in buckets in 1957, indeed ah do'
$200
Colonel Sanders
Jeopardy!
5643