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LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'In 1945 Virginia Gildersleeve was the only female U.S. delegate to the conference that drafted this charter'
|
$600
|
the United Nations
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
COUNTRY MUSIC
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Not to be confused with Lady Gaga is Lady this, the country music group with the CD "Need You Now"'
|
$600
|
Lady Antebellum
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
THE LOYOLA OPPOSITION
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'When Clement XIV abolished the Jesuits in 1773, they thrived in Russia with help from this empress'
|
$600
|
Catherine the Great
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Counsel is putting words in the witness' mouth with this type of question; the word also means "in first place"'
|
$600
|
a leading question
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOOD CAUSES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'A "Mission" to help the homeless is named for this Lower Manhattan street known as a skid row since the 1800s'
|
$2,000
|
Bowery
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
BLARNEY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'This type of sprite will lead you to the gold'
|
$600
|
a leprechaun
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Named for his cousin, James Buchanan Eads built the first bridge across this river at St. Louis'
|
$800
|
the Mississippi
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
COUNTRY MUSIC
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'This sound, like that made by plucking a guitar, is the title of a 2009 album by George Strait'
|
$800
|
twang
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
THE LOYOLA OPPOSITION
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'In 1542 missionaries sent by Ignatius to Ireland were hampered by this king'
|
$800
|
Henry VIII
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Counsel is being argumentative, also known as doing this to the witness, as seen here'
|
$800
|
badgering
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOOD CAUSES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'The LFA is a leading group battling this disease named for lesions that resemble a wolf's bite'
|
$800
|
lupus
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
BLARNEY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Tiny pieces, or the New Jersey band that sang "Only a Memory"'
|
$800
|
smithereens
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Doris Eaton Travis, who passed away in 2010 at age 106, was the last surviving showgirl from these follies'
|
$1000
|
Ziegfeld
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
COUNTRY MUSIC
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'This frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish went country with his solo album "Learn to Live"'
|
$1000
|
(Darius) Rucker
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
THE LOYOLA OPPOSITION
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'While in Paris, Ignatius was accused & brought before Ori, this type of truth-seeking 10-letter holy man'
|
$1000
|
an inquisitor
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'We've heard the question already; I'm making this objection that could be called "triple a"'
|
$1000
|
asked and answered
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOOD CAUSES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'The Andre Agassi foundation for education runs Agassi Prep in this city'
|
$1000
|
Las Vegas
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
BLARNEY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'This word for a type of liquor applies to a 1794 American rebellion'
|
$1000
|
whiskey
|
Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
MOVIE CITIES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Of course there's a car chase on the freeway in 1985's "To Live and Die in __.__."'
|
$400
|
L.A.
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
WOMEN: WRITE ON!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Sadly, she died in Boston in 1888, just 2 days after her transcendentalist father Bronson'
|
$400
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOAT-POURRI
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Goat Island splits Niagara Falls into the American Falls & this waterfall on the Canadian side'
|
$400
|
Horseshoe Falls
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
EPONYMS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Although sources disagree over the origin of this "do-over" golf shot, many accept that it was named for a bad golfer'
|
$400
|
a Mulligan
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
"A" SCIENCE CATEGORY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'It's what the "A" stands for in AIDS'
|
$800
|
acquired
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
MOVIE CITIES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'2010 brought Travolta as a spy in "From ____ with Love"'
|
$800
|
Paris
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Entertainment mogul Barry & funny lady Phyllis'
|
$800
|
Diller
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
WOMEN: WRITE ON!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'In 2009 she published her 76th bestseller, "Matters of the Heart", & was inducted into the Calif. Hall of Fame'
|
$800
|
Danielle Steel
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOAT-POURRI
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'In 1846 Neptune was discovered in this constellation, the 10th sign of the zodiac'
|
$800
|
Capricorn
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
EPONYMS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'This country is named after "the George Washington of South America" (the actual George only got cities & a state)'
|
$800
|
Bolivia
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
"A" SCIENCE CATEGORY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands behind a table) The experiment showing that two objects weighing the same displace different amounts of water because they have different densities was developed by this mathematician'
|
$1200
|
Archimedes
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
MOVIE CITIES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'2010, starring Kristen Bell: "When in ____"'
|
$1200
|
Rome
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Late radio commentator Paul & James I's physician William'
|
$1200
|
Harvey
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
WOMEN: WRITE ON!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Esther Greenwood is an aspiring poet in this poet's novel "The Bell Jar"'
|
$1200
|
Sylvia Plath
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOAT-POURRI
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Pierre Gringoire rescues this gypsy girl's goat from a mob'
|
$1200
|
Esmeralda
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
EPONYMS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Meaning elegant or fancy, it's from the name of a hotel chain founded by a Swiss businessman'
|
$4,000
|
ritzy
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
"A" SCIENCE CATEGORY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'In the 1920s Edwin Hubble determined that this galaxy was in fact a separate galaxy from the Milky Way'
|
$1600
|
Andromeda
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
MOVIE CITIES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'2008's "The Mysteries of ____" was based on a novel'
|
$1600
|
Pittsburgh
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'"Tennessee Tailor" Andrew & poet/NAACP leader James Weldon'
|
$1600
|
Johnson
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
WOMEN: WRITE ON!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'"Shiksa Goddess: (or, How I Spent My Forties)" is a collection of essays by this "Heidi Chronicles" playwright'
|
$1600
|
(Wendy) Wasserstein
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOAT-POURRI
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'The backward-curving horns of the Siberian species of this 4-letter goat may be nearly 5 feet long'
|
$1600
|
ibex
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
EPONYMS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'This submachine gun was named for an Israeli army officer whose design won a competition in the 1950s'
|
$1600
|
Uzi
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
"A" SCIENCE CATEGORY
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'These are just small masses of lymphoid tissue in the nasopharynx'
|
$12,000
|
adenoids
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
MOVIE CITIES
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'The 1980 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film was "____ does Not Believe in Tears"'
|
$2000
|
Moscow
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'17th century philosopher Sir Francis & 20th century painter Francis'
|
$2000
|
Bacon
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
WOMEN: WRITE ON!
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'"Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life" is a 2006 memoir by this "Fear of Flying" author'
|
$2000
|
Erica Jong
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
GOAT-POURRI
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Crippled beggar Sammy Smalls, who traveled in a goat cart, inspired a title character of this opera set on Catfish Row'
|
$2000
|
Porgy and Bess
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
EPONYMS
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Named for a French courtesan, Pommes Anna is a dish of layered these, not apples'
|
$2000
|
potatoes
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
| 2010-09-20T00:00:00 |
'Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories'
| null |
Bermuda
|
Final Jeopardy!
|
5981
|
THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'"I never believed in anything before I believed in movies", said this "E.T." director'
|
$100
|
Spielberg
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
PLACES
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'A small & informal restaurant, or one who eats there'
|
$100
|
diner
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
"LIGHT"s
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Famous ones include Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini & Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran'
|
$100
|
lightweights
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CAMERA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The names of TV cameras & videocassette recorders are combined in this device'
|
$100
|
a camcorder
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
ACTION!
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'This hero made his comic book debut in & on the cover of Action Comics No. 1'
|
$100
|
Superman
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WHERE'S MY COFFEE?
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Once Yemen's chief coffee port, its name now refers to a flavor of chocolate & coffee'
|
$100
|
Mocha
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'"Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!" noted this man who raised "Kane"'
|
$200
|
Orson Welles
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
PLACES
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'A building for religious veneration, or the L.A. auditorium that hosted 1997's Academy Awards'
|
$200
|
shrine
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
"LIGHT"s
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'To do this to someone's plight, you could trivialize it, or just take the P away'
|
$200
|
make light of it
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CAMERA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Aptly, underwater photography may require these widest wide-angle lenses'
|
$200
|
fisheye lenses
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
ACTION!
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'In a 1965 speech this president put out a call for "affirmative action" in hiring by federal contractors'
|
$200
|
Johnson
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WHERE'S MY COFFEE?
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The flavorful coffee beans from this country are grown at high altitudes near Nairobi'
|
$200
|
Kenya
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'When an actress in his "Lifeboat" asked him what her best side was, he said, "My dear, you're sitting on it"'
|
$300
|
Hitchcock
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
PLACES
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Libraries & the Christian Science Church maintain these areas; the British Museum built a big one in 1857'
|
$300
|
reading rooms
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
"LIGHT"s
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Ben Franklin invented this device & would have been shocked if it hadn't worked'
|
$300
|
the lightning rod
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CAMERA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'In 1986 Kodak left the instant camera business after a judge found it had violated this company's patents'
|
$300
|
Polaroid
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
ACTION!
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'You may not give a fig, but according to Newton, there's one of these for every action'
|
$300
|
an equal & opposite reaction
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WHERE'S MY COFFEE?
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Java is a synonym for coffee; a high-grade bean also comes from this next most populous Indonesian island'
|
$300
|
Sumatra
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'"Manhattan"ite who said, "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable"--sounds "Bananas" to us'
|
$400
|
Woody Allen
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
PLACES
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'A place where a river is shallow enough to cross on foot, alone or with an "escort"'
|
$400
|
a ford
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
"LIGHT"s
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'A joking question asked about many groups is "How many does it take to" do this'
|
$400
|
screw in a light bulb
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
ACTION!
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, & the action of these can ring a buoy's bell'
|
$400
|
a wave
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WHERE'S MY COFFEE?
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Mexico's best coffee comes from Chiapas, a state that borders this noted coffee-growing nation'
|
$400
|
Guatemala
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'"The best director is the one you don't see", observed this director of "Some Like It Hot"'
|
$500
|
Billy Wilder
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
PLACES
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'This term for a house's entrance hall also refers to the space between cars on a train'
|
$500
|
the vestibule
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
"LIGHT"s
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'"I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine"'
|
$500
|
this little light of mine
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
ACTION!
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Dutch-American artist about whose work the term "action painting" was coined'
|
$500
|
Willem de Kooning
|
Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera "Le Marchand de Venise"'
|
$200
|
The Merchant of Venice
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
BACKWARDS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch'
|
$200
|
a countdown
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CARTOONS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Mel Blanc said he created this character's voice by combining Brooklyn & Bronx accents'
|
$200
|
Bugs Bunny
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
19th CENTURY AMERICA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune'
|
$200
|
gold
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
MEN OF THE WORLD
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego'
|
$200
|
Tijuana
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WORD ORIGINS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'This state's name is from the Sioux for "sky-tinted waters"; maybe they meant the 10,000 lakes'
|
$200
|
Minnesota
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers'
|
$400
|
Romeo & Juliet
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
BACKWARDS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'In psychology it's the process of reverting to an earlier, childlike form of behavior'
|
$400
|
regression
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CARTOONS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'I say there, son, this Warner Bros. cartoon rooster is sometimes pursued by a chicken hawk'
|
$400
|
Foghorn Leghorn
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
19th CENTURY AMERICA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto'
|
$400
|
Johnson
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
MEN OF THE WORLD
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The U.S. statesman seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1998-02-24_DJ_22.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> was born in 1923 in this country:'
|
$400
|
Germany
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WORD ORIGINS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'The Old Norse word "vindauga" gave us this pane-ful word for an opening in a wall'
|
$400
|
window
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'You'll need some long-winded singers to star in "Stormen", a Swedish opera based on this play'
|
$600
|
The Tempest
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
BACKWARDS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Field Marshal Barclay used this maneuver associated with defeat to lure Napoleon deep into Russia'
|
$600
|
a retreat
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CARTOONS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'On screen, he's a "tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff"'
|
$600
|
Winnie the Pooh
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
19th CENTURY AMERICA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Kansas homesteader Bewster Higley's poem "The Western Home" was retitled this when set to music'
|
$600
|
"Home On The Range"
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
MEN OF THE WORLD
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'This media mogul from Melbourne has been called a real-life Citizen Kane'
|
$600
|
Rupert Murdoch
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WORD ORIGINS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Derived from the Latin for "salted vegetables", this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar'
|
$600
|
salad
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Verdi wrote an aria called "La Luce Langue"--The Light Fails--for this bloothirsty villainess'
|
$800
|
Lady Macbeth
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
BACKWARDS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'In competitive rowing, this is the only person in the boat whose back is not to the finish line'
|
$800
|
the coxswain
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CARTOONS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Ted Cassidy, who played Thing on "The Addams Family", was also the voice of The Thing of this superhero group'
|
$800
|
The Fantastic 4
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
19th CENTURY AMERICA
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'To avoid Boss Tweed's graft, Alfred Beach secretly built one of these under Broadway in 1869-70'
|
$800
|
a subway
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
WORD ORIGINS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'This number can be traced back to the Sankrit "Shunya", or empty'
|
$800
|
zero
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet'
|
$500
|
Othello
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
BACKWARDS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Called "Bojangles", he was renowned for tap dancing on stairs & running backwards at high speed'
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$1000
|
(Bill) Robinson
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
CARTOONS
| 1998-02-24T00:00:00 |
'Sylvester believes Hippety Hopper, a baby one of these, to be a gigantic mouse'
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$1000
|
a kangaroo
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
3112
|
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