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FICTION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'The "lovable" family of Peter Pan'
$200
the Darlings
Jeopardy!
9
FIRST LADIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'One of her early suitors was her husband's arch rival, Stephen A. Douglas'
$200
Mary Todd Lincoln
Jeopardy!
9
MYSTERIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'1st cousins Dannay & Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name'
$200
Ellery Queen
Jeopardy!
9
RACY LADIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Though a hot prospect in '80, Beth Heiden was frozen out of gold in this Olympic sport'
$200
speed skating
Jeopardy!
9
ADDRESSES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Feathered friend who lives at 123½ Sesame Street'
$200
Big Bird
Jeopardy!
9
TRIVIA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Number of blank tiles in a Scrabble set'
$200
2
Jeopardy!
9
FICTION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's" portly patriarch'
$300
Big Daddy
Jeopardy!
9
FIRST LADIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Teddy's niece, her married & maiden names were the same'
$300
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jeopardy!
9
MYSTERIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye"'
$300
the Pinkerton agency
Jeopardy!
9
RACY LADIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Never has to jockey for position as Mrs. Fred Astaire'
$300
Robyn Smith
Jeopardy!
9
ADDRESSES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'He shared digs with John Watson at 221-B Baker Street'
$300
Sherlock Holmes
Jeopardy!
9
TRIVIA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Longest river in Canada or the SCTV bros.'
$300
the Mackenzie
Jeopardy!
9
FICTION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'The Philip Roth character with a "complaint"'
$400
Portnoy
Jeopardy!
9
FIRST LADIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Her tough Texas husband preferred her nickname to calling her Claudia Alta'
$400
Lady Bird Johnson
Jeopardy!
9
MYSTERIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'She's Agatha Christie's ageless amateur detective'
$400
Miss (Jane) Marple
Jeopardy!
9
ADDRESSES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'"Kookie" Byrnes parked cars for Dino's Lodge'
$400
77 Sunset Strip
Jeopardy!
9
TRIVIA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'It's whom Boris Spassky lost the chess crown to in 1972'
$400
Bobby Fischer
Jeopardy!
9
FICTION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Pasternak's Moscow medic'
$500
Dr. Zhivago
Jeopardy!
9
FIRST LADIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'She was expelled from Society of Friends for marrying non-Quaker 4th president'
$1,000
Dolley Madison
Jeopardy!
9
MYSTERIES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Author of "Burr" who wrote chilling mysteries under the pen name Edgar Box'
$500
Gore Vidal
Jeopardy!
9
ADDRESSES
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'You'd find this at 1313 S. Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, CA'
$500
Disneyland
Jeopardy!
9
TRIVIA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Awarded medal as "1st woman to be killed in action" in WWII: she was Gable's wife'
$500
Carole Lombard
Jeopardy!
9
BLACK AMERICA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'The first black in Big League Baseball'
$200
Jackie Robinson
Double Jeopardy!
9
GRAMMAR
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'The adverb in "think fast"'
$200
fast
Double Jeopardy!
9
BROTHERS & SISTERS
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'An "easy rider" whose sister played an easy lady in "Klute"'
$200
Peter Fonda
Double Jeopardy!
9
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Hilltop home of the gods'
$200
Mt. Olympus
Double Jeopardy!
9
FOODS
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'"Real men" don't eat this French custard cheese pie'
$200
quiche
Double Jeopardy!
9
SOVIET UNION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Largest Soviet newspaper, its name means "Truth"'
$200
Pravda
Double Jeopardy!
9
BLACK AMERICA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Forced to give up crown as Miss America because of photos in "Penthouse"'
$400
Vanessa Williams
Double Jeopardy!
9
GRAMMAR
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'The superlative form of good'
$400
best
Double Jeopardy!
9
BROTHERS & SISTERS
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'In the Bible, Aaron was this brother's mouthpiece in dealing with Pharaoh'
$400
Moses
Double Jeopardy!
9
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'He ultimately got "fleeced" by Medea'
$400
Jason
Double Jeopardy!
9
FOODS
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'On the market since 1896, it wasn't until 1912 that they included prizes'
$400
Cracker-Jacks
Double Jeopardy!
9
SOVIET UNION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Daughter of this Soviet ruler has been living in America since 1967'
$400
Stalin
Double Jeopardy!
9
BLACK AMERICA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'A symbol for black performers in film since the '50's, he won an Oscar as Best Actor in '63'
$600
Sidney Poitier
Double Jeopardy!
9
GRAMMAR
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'It can be common, proper, collective or concrete'
$2,000
a noun
Double Jeopardy!
9
BROTHERS & SISTERS
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Nursing mother who wouldn't make "house calls", she's Vanessa's sister'
$600
Lynn Redgrave
Double Jeopardy!
9
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'A challenge to any optician, these giants had only one eye'
$600
cyclops
Double Jeopardy!
9
SOVIET UNION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Soviet republic that has same name as an American state'
$600
Georgia
Double Jeopardy!
9
BLACK AMERICA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'As result of anti-slavery raid on Harper's Ferry, his "body lies a moldering in the grave"'
$800
John Brown
Double Jeopardy!
9
GRAMMAR
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'3-letter ending of present participles & gerunds'
$800
-ing
Double Jeopardy!
9
BROTHERS & SISTERS
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Apollo's loving sister, sometimes served on the half shell'
$800
Venus
Double Jeopardy!
9
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'A "bull" of a man, he lived in a labyrinth'
$800
the Minotaur
Double Jeopardy!
9
SOVIET UNION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Soviet official who advocated using gasoline-filled bottles against Nazi tanks'
$800
Molotov
Double Jeopardy!
9
BLACK AMERICA
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Harriet Tubman, who freed over 300 slaves, was 1 of its foremost "conductors"'
$1000
the Underground Railroad
Double Jeopardy!
9
GRAMMAR
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'It comes at the end of a declarative sentence'
$1000
a period
Double Jeopardy!
9
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'First member of the "me" generation, this youth fell in love with his own reflection'
$1000
Narcissus
Double Jeopardy!
9
SOVIET UNION
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'Kenny Ball did <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1984-09-27_DJ_24.mp3">this</a> jazzed up version of an old Russian folk song'
$2,000
"Midnight In Moscow"
Double Jeopardy!
9
SCIENCE
1984-09-20T00:00:00
'The mammal that holds the record for the longest lifespan'
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man
Final Jeopardy!
9
NAME THE COUNTRY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'"Don't Cry For Me," this country'
$100
Argentina
Jeopardy!
3821
RADIO HISTORY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'The Indigo Girls joined an effort to get this government body to license low-power FM stations'
$100
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Jeopardy!
3821
ODDS & ENDS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'There's got to be a morning after, when you eat these remains from the night before'
$100
Leftovers
Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE BOOKSTORE
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Kathryn Glasgow's first novel, "Another Song About the King", features a mom obsessed with this singer'
$100
Elvis Presley
Jeopardy!
3821
BOYS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In 2000 he played "Little Nicky", Satan's son'
$100
Adam Sandler
Jeopardy!
3821
IN THE "HOOD"
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'At the beginning of this TV show, the host put on a cardigan sweater & tennis shoes'
$100
Mister Rogers\' Neighborhood
Jeopardy!
3821
NAME THE COUNTRY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'A schoolyard chant says, "I see London, I see" this country'
$200
France
Jeopardy!
3821
RADIO HISTORY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Starting at KLIF in Dallas, Bill Meeks pioneered these musical arrangements of call letters'
$200
Jingles
Jeopardy!
3821
ODDS & ENDS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Mash alone means a confused mixture; this alliterative longer version, the same thing'
$200
Mish mash
Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE BOOKSTORE
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'2 men travel America with this man's brain in a Tupperware bowl in the true story "Driving Mr. Albert"'
$200
Albert Einstein
Jeopardy!
3821
BOYS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'This singer was nicknamed "The Lizard King"'
$200
Jim Morrison
Jeopardy!
3821
IN THE "HOOD"
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Pope John Paul II has given 1,235 people this status, more than all of his predecessors combined'
$200
Sainthood
Jeopardy!
3821
NAME THE COUNTRY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'A song in "The Producers" says, "Springtime for Hitler and" this country'
$300
Germany
Jeopardy!
3821
RADIO HISTORY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'This type of sound came to FM radio in the early '60s & to AM 20 years later'
$300
Stereo
Jeopardy!
3821
ODDS & ENDS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'A Hungarian stew, or a hodgepodge of items'
$300
Goulash
Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE BOOKSTORE
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'This prolific novelist proved her "metal" once again with her 2000 bestseller "The House on Hope Street"'
$300
Danielle Steel
Jeopardy!
3821
BOYS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Grant Goodeve played David, the oldest of the Bradford children, on this series'
$300
Eight Is Enough
Jeopardy!
3821
IN THE "HOOD"
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Some say he was born at Locksley around 1160 & was really named Robert Fitzooth'
$300
Robin Hood
Jeopardy!
3821
NAME THE COUNTRY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'"Something is rotten in the state of" this'
$400
Denmark
Jeopardy!
3821
RADIO HISTORY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Brace Beemer was a studio manager at WXYZ Detroit when he was cast as this western hero heard here'
$400
The Lone Ranger
Jeopardy!
3821
ODDS & ENDS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'It's a mixed heap or mass, or the word puzzle seen here'
$400
Jumble
Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE BOOKSTORE
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'"Dark Eagle" by historian John Ensor Harr is called "A Novel Of" this traitor "And the American Revolution"'
$400
Benedict Arnold
Jeopardy!
3821
BOYS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In 1999 this former "Daily Show" host replaced Tom Snyder on "The Late Late Show"'
$400
Craig Kilborn
Jeopardy!
3821
IN THE "HOOD"
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'It's Oregon's highest point'
$400
Mount Hood
Jeopardy!
3821
NAME THE COUNTRY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Terry Gilliam co-wrote & directed this 1985 film'
$500
Brazil
Jeopardy!
3821
RADIO HISTORY
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In 1983 Congress established Radio Marti to broadcast accurate news to this country'
$1,000
Cuba
Jeopardy!
3821
ODDS & ENDS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'It's a mix of businesses owned by one company, or a rock that contains a mix of pebbles'
$500
Conglomerate
Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE BOOKSTORE
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'The front cover of "Hooking Up" by this "Bonfire of the Vanities" author shows his name but not the book's title'
$500
Tom Wolfe
Jeopardy!
3821
BOYS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'This producer has been called "A boy genius in music, producing, assembling, marketing girl groups"'
$500
Phil Spector
Jeopardy!
3821
IN THE "HOOD"
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'This organization began as a birth control clinic founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916'
$500
Planned Parenthood
Jeopardy!
3821
THE TRUMAN SHOW
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'You're on the money if you know Truman kept a sign on his desk with this famous 4-word motto'
$200
"The Buck Stops Here"
Double Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE MOVIES
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Let's all do the Time Warp again while watching this 1975 film starring Tim Curry'
$200
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THEY'RE STILL MYTHING
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Some legends say that in addition to stealing fire from heaven, this Greek also created man from clay'
$200
Prometheus
Double Jeopardy!
3821
20th CENTURY WOMEN
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In 1929 she placed third in the first Powder Puff Derby, a cross-country air race for women'
$200
Amelia Earhart
Double Jeopardy!
3821
TOURIST TREATS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'A traditional treat served at Wimbledon consists of these berries & cream'
$200
Strawberries
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THERE'S "ANT"s IN MY CATEGORY!
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'A substance like sodium bicarbonate used to neutralize certain stomach fluids'
$200
Antacid
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THE TRUMAN SHOW
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Truman once refused to go on this ride at Disneyland; it looked too much like a Republican symbol'
$400
Dumbo
Double Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE MOVIES
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'"Chuma" in Hindi, it happened on screen in India for the first time in a mainstream movie in 1977'
$400
Kiss
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THEY'RE STILL MYTHING
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Icarus' dad, he built the Labyrinth'
$400
Daedalus
Double Jeopardy!
3821
20th CENTURY WOMEN
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Former wife of Nelson, she was South Africa's first black medical social worker'
$400
Winnie Mandela
Double Jeopardy!
3821
TOURIST TREATS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In Italy it's a term for sweet treats, or the kind of "vita" you'll have if you eat enough'
$400
Dolce
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THERE'S "ANT"s IN MY CATEGORY!
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'A hymn of praise or loyalty, perhaps a national one'
$400
Anthem
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THE TRUMAN SHOW
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In 1949 Pres. Truman was on hand when the cornerstone was laid for this organization's NYC headquarters'
$600
United Nations
Double Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE MOVIES
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'She won an Oscar for playing Lynn Bracken in "L.A. Confidential"'
$600
Kim Basinger
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THEY'RE STILL MYTHING
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'It's said that his singing & lyre-playing "drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek"'
$600
Orpheus
Double Jeopardy!
3821
20th CENTURY WOMEN
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Actress Melina Mercouri twice served as this country's minister of culture'
$600
Greece
Double Jeopardy!
3821
TOURIST TREATS
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'In the U.S. this green vegetable is often creamed; in India cheese is added for saag paneer'
$600
Spinach
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THERE'S "ANT"s IN MY CATEGORY!
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Swift bovidae family member seen here'
$600
Antelope
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THE TRUMAN SHOW
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Similar to the New Deal, Truman's domestic policy was called this'
$800
Fair Deal
Double Jeopardy!
3821
AT THE MOVIES
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'This 1975 film classic contains the line "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"'
$800
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Double Jeopardy!
3821
THEY'RE STILL MYTHING
2001-03-26T00:00:00
'Perseus came to her rescue & married this woman who was strained, er...chained to a rock'
$1,000
Andromeda
Double Jeopardy!
3821