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"BOOT" CAMP
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'It's a common name for a Wild West cemetery'
$200
Boot Hill
Double Jeopardy!
3429
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'The Sabor is the legislative body of Croatia, which was part of this country until it broke away in 1991'
$400
Yugoslavia
Double Jeopardy!
3429
4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'Whether single, double or triple, this oldest major figure skating jump is launched while moving forward'
$400
axel
Double Jeopardy!
3429
COLORFUL AMERICA
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'Color common to the names of a mountain range of southeast Washington & a mountain range of West Virginia'
$400
blue
Double Jeopardy!
3429
ENEMY LINES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'In 1959 he said his revolution began "With 82 men. If I had to do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith"'
$400
Fidel Castro
Double Jeopardy!
3429
MEDICAL PEOPLE
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'Before Howard Florey & Ernest Chan purified this antibiotic around 1940, it did more harm than good'
$400
penicillin
Double Jeopardy!
3429
"BOOT" CAMP
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'It's an unauthorized concert recording of your favorite rock band'
$400
bootleg
Double Jeopardy!
3429
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'Of Togo, Tonga or Tunisia, the one not in Africa'
$600
Tonga
Double Jeopardy!
3429
4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'This basketball ploy, when a player sets a screen & then receives a pass, includes 2 4-letter words'
$600
pick & roll
Double Jeopardy!
3429
COLORFUL AMERICA
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'One of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the U.S., it was founded as Rhode Island College in 1764'
$600
Brown University
Double Jeopardy!
3429
ENEMY LINES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'About the bombing of Pan Am 103 he said, "The evidence against Libya is less than a laughable piece of fingernail"'
$600
Muammar Qaddafi
Double Jeopardy!
3429
MEDICAL PEOPLE
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'"And They Shall Walk" is the autobiography of Sister Kenny, who devised treatment for kids with this disease'
$600
polio
Double Jeopardy!
3429
"BOOT" CAMP
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'It's what a self-made man has pulled himself up by'
$600
his bootstraps
Double Jeopardy!
3429
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'A few islets in the Pescadores, Quemoy & Matsu & this larger island form the Republic of China'
$800
Taiwan
Double Jeopardy!
3429
4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'(Hi, I'm wide receiver Curtis Conway of the Chicago Bears) This type of pass pattern gets its name because I head for the uprights'
$1,200
post
Double Jeopardy!
3429
COLORFUL AMERICA
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'Home to the N.C. Agricultural & Technical State University, this large city's main industry is textiles'
$800
Greensboro
Double Jeopardy!
3429
ENEMY LINES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'At a reception in Moscow in 1956 he bragged to Western ambassadors, "We will bury you"'
$800
Nikita Khrushchev
Double Jeopardy!
3429
MEDICAL PEOPLE
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'During his career, goiter surgery pioneer Emil Kocher performed over 5,000 operations on these glands'
$800
thyroids
Double Jeopardy!
3429
"BOOT" CAMP
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'This legendary cat helped his master amass a fortune; what has yours done for you?'
$800
Puss in Boots
Double Jeopardy!
3429
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'This country with a royal embassy in Washington is ruled by Queen Margrethe II'
$1000
Denmark
Double Jeopardy!
3429
4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'In diving & gymnastics, it's the somewhat fetal "position" with the thighs held against the chest'
$1000
tuck
Double Jeopardy!
3429
COLORFUL AMERICA
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'U2's first live album, "Under A Blood Red Sky", contains music recorded at this Colorado site'
$1000
Red Rocks
Double Jeopardy!
3429
ENEMY LINES
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'In 1988 this religious figure warned, "Leave the Persian Gulf before...you drown in quagmires of death"'
$1,000
Ayatollah Khomeini
Double Jeopardy!
3429
MEDICAL PEOPLE
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'In 1873 William Osler gave us the "dish" on this third type of blood corpuscle'
$1000
platelet
Double Jeopardy!
3429
"BOOT" CAMP
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'City name for the device that keeps a parked car from going anywhere'
$1000
Denver boot
Double Jeopardy!
3429
PRESIDENTIAL FACTS
1999-07-01T00:00:00
'FDR called it the Sacred Cow; for Truman it was Independence; for Eisenhower, the Columbine; & from JFK on, this'
null
Air Force One
Final Jeopardy!
3429
NYC IN THE '70s
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Live from New York, it debuted October 11, 1975 at 11:30 P.M.'
$100
Saturday Night Live
Jeopardy!
3289
GARDENING
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Plant vegetable seeds in a line called this, even if it's a tough one "to hoe"'
$100
Row
Jeopardy!
3289
HOW PROVINCIAL!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Hainan,<br />Hunan,<br />Yunnan'
$100
China
Jeopardy!
3289
MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place'
$100
Love Shack
Jeopardy!
3289
ANAGRAMMED ANIMAL SOUNDS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Far'
$100
Arf
Jeopardy!
3289
CANDLES
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress'
$100
Marilyn Monroe
Jeopardy!
3289
NYC IN THE '70s
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Saying he wouldn't be active in the day-to-day running of the Yankees, in 1973 he led the group that bought them'
$200
George Steinbrenner
Jeopardy!
3289
GARDENING
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Privet, an evergreen shrub, is commonly grown as one of these to keep your garden privet'
$200
Hedge
Jeopardy!
3289
HOW PROVINCIAL!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Western Cape,<br />Eastern Cape, <br />Kwazulu-Natal'
$200
South Africa
Jeopardy!
3289
MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'The Dixie Cups sang, "Gee I really love you and we're gonna get married, goin' to" this place'
$200
Chapel Of Love
Jeopardy!
3289
ANAGRAMMED ANIMAL SOUNDS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'A rock'
$200
Croak
Jeopardy!
3289
CANDLES
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film'
$200
Liar Liar
Jeopardy!
3289
NYC IN THE '70s
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In 1978 & '79 over 1 million people saw his "treasures" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art'
$300
King Tut
Jeopardy!
3289
GARDENING
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Gardening books recommend dried blood (they don't say whose) as an organic type of this'
$300
Fertilizer
Jeopardy!
3289
HOW PROVINCIAL!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Limburg,<br />Antwerp,<br />West Flanders'
$300
Belgium
Jeopardy!
3289
MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for the Drifters in 1962'
$300
Up On The Roof
Jeopardy!
3289
ANAGRAMMED ANIMAL SOUNDS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Table'
$300
Bleat
Jeopardy!
3289
CANDLES
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle"'
$300
Perry Mason
Jeopardy!
3289
NYC IN THE '70s
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'On August 7, 1974 Philippe Petit traveled via this between the towers of the World Trade Center'
$400
Highwire/tightrope
Jeopardy!
3289
GARDENING
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'The peat type is used to pack young plants; other types can crop up unwelcome on your lawn'
$400
Moss
Jeopardy!
3289
HOW PROVINCIAL!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Dong Nai, <br />Dong Thap,<br />Lam Dong'
$400
Vietnam
Jeopardy!
3289
MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In "Royal Wedding" Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit'
$500
Dancing On The Ceiling
Jeopardy!
3289
ANAGRAMMED ANIMAL SOUNDS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Quakes'
$400
Squeak
Jeopardy!
3289
CANDLES
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum'
$400
Paraffin wax
Jeopardy!
3289
NYC IN THE '70s
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'The city rolled out this famous ad campaign in 1977'
$500
"I Love New York" ("I (heart) NY")
Jeopardy!
3289
GARDENING
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'The African variety of this annual, seen here, has an appropriate color in its name'
$500
Marigold
Jeopardy!
3289
HOW PROVINCIAL!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Almeria,<br />Salamanca,<br />Cordoba'
$500
Spain
Jeopardy!
3289
MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Melissa Etheridge's first Top 40 song, it says, "Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon"'
$500
Come To My Window
Jeopardy!
3289
ANAGRAMMED ANIMAL SOUNDS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Hinge'
$500
Neigh
Jeopardy!
3289
CANDLES
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'This play contains the line "Out, out brief candle!"'
$500
Macbeth
Jeopardy!
3289
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'On June 16, 1775 American forces didn't stop at this hill but went on to defend Breed's Hill'
$200
Bunker Hill
Double Jeopardy!
3289
BY GEORGE!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'His best-known compositions include "Here Comes The Sun" & "Taxman"'
$200
George Harrison
Double Jeopardy!
3289
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'You probably didn't see Robert Shaw in "Gantry", based on this novel; it closed the night it opened'
$200
Elmer Gantry
Double Jeopardy!
3289
READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Chicken-sized dinosaurs called compys didn't make it from this 1990 Michael Crichton novel to the 1993 film'
$200
Jurassic Park
Double Jeopardy!
3289
TOUGH HODGEPODGE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Served in Bolivia, chicha is a fermented drink made from the mash of this grain'
$200
Corn
Double Jeopardy!
3289
"LET"s END THIS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'From the title of a medieval Latin work, it's the term for publications like Paine's "Crisis" series'
$200
Pamphlet
Double Jeopardy!
3289
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'During the war this silversmith had a booming business casting cannons for the Continental Army'
$400
Paul Revere
Double Jeopardy!
3289
BY GEORGE!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'This Kansas City Royal infielder led the American League in batting in '76, '80 & '90'
$400
George Brett
Double Jeopardy!
3289
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Shelley Winters played the mother of these madcap brothers in "Minnie's Boys", co-written by Groucho's son'
$400
The Marx Brothers
Double Jeopardy!
3289
READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Talking gargoyles named Victor & Hugo were in a 1996 adaptation of this (they weren't in the book)'
$400
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Double Jeopardy!
3289
TOUGH HODGEPODGE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'On Sept. 16, 1975 Viking Press announced it had hired this world-famous woman as a consulting editor'
$400
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Double Jeopardy!
3289
"LET"s END THIS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'To prepare a cheese one of these, you'll need butter, eggs & of course, cheese'
$400
Omelet
Double Jeopardy!
3289
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'On September 11, 1777, the Americans retreated from Brandywine Creek allowing the British to occupy this city'
$5,000
Philadelphia
Double Jeopardy!
3289
BY GEORGE!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'A Pulitzer Prize winner in '77, this conservative columnist was the sports editor of his college newspaper'
$600
George Will
Double Jeopardy!
3289
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In 1976 he starred in "Home Sweet Homer", a musical based on "The Odyssey"; he should have stayed in Siam'
$600
Yul Brynner
Double Jeopardy!
3289
READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Elia Kazan directed this author's script of "Viva Zapata!", but had someone else adapt his "East Of Eden"'
$600
John Steinbeck
Double Jeopardy!
3289
TOUGH HODGEPODGE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Until the 1720s, many diamonds, including the Great Mogul, were found in this Asian country'
$600
India
Double Jeopardy!
3289
"LET"s END THIS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'A drinking glass with a stem & a base, its name is from the old French for "cup"'
$600
Goblet
Double Jeopardy!
3289
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'This guerrilla known as "The Swamp Fox" led quick raids on the British & then fled back to the marshes'
$800
Francis Marion
Double Jeopardy!
3289
BY GEORGE!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'A "manly" 19th century realist, she penned works like "Adam Bede", "Felix Holt" & "Daniel Deronda"'
$800
George Eliot
Double Jeopardy!
3289
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In 1985 he "skywalked" onto Broadway as half of the famous comedy team "Harrigan 'N Hart"'
$800
Mark Hamill
Double Jeopardy!
3289
READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'For Bogie's screen role, this book's Charlie Allnutt was changed from a Cockney to a Canadian'
$1,000
The African Queen
Double Jeopardy!
3289
TOUGH HODGEPODGE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'This Hungarian became president of the new Hungarian Academy of Music in 1875'
$800
Franz Liszt
Double Jeopardy!
3289
"LET"s END THIS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'This charm to ward off evil & injury is often worn around the neck'
$800
Amulet
Double Jeopardy!
3289
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'During the winter of 1778-79, this Prussian wrote the first American Army manual<br />of drill & regulations'
$1000
Baron Friedrich Von Steuben
Double Jeopardy!
3289
BY GEORGE!
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Many musical masterpieces sprang from the head of this 18th century George'
$1000
George F. Handel
Double Jeopardy!
3289
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'"First Impressions", based on this "Austen"tatious novel, starred Farley Granger as Mr. Darcy'
$1000
Pride And Prejudice
Double Jeopardy!
3289
READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'Jack Burden is this book's central character; the 1949 movie switched it to Willie Stark'
$1000
All The King\'s Men
Double Jeopardy!
3289
TOUGH HODGEPODGE
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In 1913 this Kiev-born aircraft designer built Le Grand, the world's first 4-engine plane'
$1000
Igor Sikorsky
Double Jeopardy!
3289
"LET"s END THIS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'We can't see this type of light, but experiments indicate that bees & butterflies can'
$1000
Ultra-violet
Double Jeopardy!
3289
ENTREPRENEURS
1998-12-17T00:00:00
'In 1991 he flew the Pacific in the "Virgin Otsuka Pacific Flyer", the world's largest hot-air balloon'
null
Richard Branson
Final Jeopardy!
3289
WORLD LIT
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'In "Blessed By Thunder", Flor Fernandez Barrios describes growing up in this country during Castro's revolution'
$100
Cuba
Jeopardy!
3888
SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'From the Latin for "hearing", it's a short performance by an actor applying for a role'
$100
Audition
Jeopardy!
3888
SURVIVAL SKILLS
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'Lie flat on your back with arms & legs outstretched to avoid sinking in this, which is just sand mixed with upwelling water'
$100
Quicksand
Jeopardy!
3888
ANIMALS
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'It's the common term for the young of a whale as well as a cow'
$100
Calf
Jeopardy!
3888
YOU SAY POTATO
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'The Russet Burbank potato is also known by this "state"ly name'
$100
Idaho potato
Jeopardy!
3888
CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'Derby state<br /> (8)'
$100
Kentucky
Jeopardy!
3888
WORLD LIT
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'His 1999 memoir "'Tis" opens in 1949, when he emigrated from Ireland to America at age 19'
$200
Frank McCourt
Jeopardy!
3888
SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'This name for the Hollywood actor's necessity seen here sounds like a boxing blow to the skull'
$200
Headshot
Jeopardy!
3888
SURVIVAL SKILLS
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'[Hi, I'm Jeff Probst of "Survivor"] Stings from this marine creature, also called a medusa, should be washed with rubbing alcohol or vinegar'
$200
Jellyfish
Jeopardy!
3888
ANIMALS
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'Of a wild dog, a rabbit or a bird, what a jackdaw is'
$200
Bird
Jeopardy!
3888
YOU SAY POTATO
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end'
$200
Dan Quayle
Jeopardy!
3888
CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'Chivalrous chesspiece<br /> (6)'
$200
Knight
Jeopardy!
3888
WORLD LIT
2001-06-27T00:00:00
'Euphrase Kezilahabi of Tanzania wrote his novel "Rosa Mistika" in this African language'
$300
Swahili
Jeopardy!
3888