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BEASTLY MOVIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'1986:<br />Paul Hogan faces the jungle of New York City'
$400
Crocodile Dundee
Double Jeopardy!
4142
UP WORDS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'In the King James Bible, Hilkiah is described as this type of priest'
$400
High priest
Double Jeopardy!
4142
CHINESE DYNASTIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'(Alex reading clue in a Southern drawl) Li Po & Tu Fu did their own thang, & wrote a bunch of these works in the dynasty T'ang'
$800
Poems
Double Jeopardy!
4142
NICKNAMES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the halls of Alcatraz) During his term at Alcatraz, this man called "Machine Gun" worked as an altar boy in the prison chapel'
$800
"Machine Gun" Kelly
Double Jeopardy!
4142
PLACES IN THE NEWS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'People in this South American city were upset by a "Simpsons" episode showing street kids & monkeys there'
$800
Rio de Janeiro
Double Jeopardy!
4142
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'Captain Nemo & Phileas Fogg'
$800
Jules Verne
Double Jeopardy!
4142
BEASTLY MOVIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'1992:<br />Criminals "hound" each other following a bungled jewel heist'
$800
Reservoir Dogs
Double Jeopardy!
4142
UP WORDS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'It's the type of music played here, from the place you might hear it'
$800
Elevator music
Double Jeopardy!
4142
CHINESE DYNASTIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'The Chinese one of these dates back to the Shang dynasty & it accounted for the phases of the moon'
$1200
Calendar
Double Jeopardy!
4142
NICKNAMES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'Because of his oratory style, James K. Polk was nicknamed this French leader "of the stump"'
$1200
Napoleon
Double Jeopardy!
4142
PLACES IN THE NEWS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'In a landmark case, Slobodan Milosevic was arraigned on war crimes charges in this European city in 2001'
$1,400
The Hague
Double Jeopardy!
4142
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'Pudd'nhead Wilson'
$1200
Mark Twain
Double Jeopardy!
4142
BEASTLY MOVIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'1968:<br />As Henry II, Peter O'Toole deliberates over who should succeed him'
$1200
The Lion in Winter
Double Jeopardy!
4142
UP WORDS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'A type of apartment often used by artists, or the backward slant on a golf club's face'
$1200
Loft
Double Jeopardy!
4142
NICKNAMES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'It was the "chubby" nickname of jazz musician Thomas Wright Waller'
$1600
"Fats"
Double Jeopardy!
4142
PLACES IN THE NEWS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'A coup against this country's president Hugo Chavez fizzled in 2002'
$1600
Venezuela
Double Jeopardy!
4142
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'John Yossarian'
$1600
Joseph Heller
Double Jeopardy!
4142
BEASTLY MOVIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'1965:<br />Jane Fonda turns from schoolteacher to outlaw'
$1600
Cat Ballou
Double Jeopardy!
4142
UP WORDS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'"You're" this, "you're a Waldorf salad; you're" this, "you're a Berlin ballad"'
$1600
The Top
Double Jeopardy!
4142
NICKNAMES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'Nicknamed "Night Train", in 1952 he became the first & only player in NFL history to intercept 14 passes in one season'
$2000
Dick Lane
Double Jeopardy!
4142
PLACES IN THE NEWS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'On June 14, 2001 the U.S. said it would end bombing exercises on this Puerto Rican island'
$2000
Vieques
Double Jeopardy!
4142
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'George Smiley'
$1,000
John le Carre
Double Jeopardy!
4142
BEASTLY MOVIES
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'1976:<br />Burt Reynolds as an ex-con with a personal vendetta against corrupt politicians'
$2000
Gator
Double Jeopardy!
4142
UP WORDS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew pulling up a punching bag) As a verb, it means "to lift"; as a noun, it's an assembly of pulleys to lift heavy objects'
$2000
Hoist
Double Jeopardy!
4142
BY THE NUMBERS
2002-09-10T00:00:00
'In the 1800s Carl Wunderlich got this number by averaging over a million readings from armpits of 25,000 patients'
null
98.6 degrees
Final Jeopardy!
4142
VOCABULARY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This flower's name didn't come from just any old garden, but from a botanist, Dr. Alexander Garden'
$100
the Gardenia
Jeopardy!
1247
"BLACK" MOVIES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Leonard Maltin described the 1971 British film version of this Anna Sewell tale as "average horse opera"'
$100
Black Beauty
Jeopardy!
1247
ROYALTY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'After Macbeth's death, his stepson, Lulach, became king of this country, but only for a few months'
$100
Scotland
Jeopardy!
1247
MINNESOTA
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This city was named after Daniel Greysolon, who was also known as Sieur du Lhut'
$100
Duluth
Jeopardy!
1247
THE NAVY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'While they've served in the Navy since before WWI, they weren't admitted to the academy until 1976'
$100
Women
Jeopardy!
1247
PUDDING
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The short-grain, medium-grain & long-grain varieites of this can all be used to make pudding'
$100
rice
Jeopardy!
1247
VOCABULARY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'From the Greek, these 2nd year students are the "wise fools" of the academic world'
$200
sophomores
Jeopardy!
1247
"BLACK" MOVIES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'In this film Theresa Russell played a young woman who seduced, married & then murdered wealthy men'
$200
Black Widow
Jeopardy!
1247
ROYALTY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'In 1931 Alfonso XIII was forced to leave this country, & he died in exile in Rome 10 years later'
$200
Spain
Jeopardy!
1247
MINNESOTA
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'About 10,000 years ago this dug out the 10,000 lakes'
$200
the glacier
Jeopardy!
1247
THE NAVY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'One-word term for an authorized leave from duty; to a sailor it means freedom for 48 hours or less'
$200
liberty
Jeopardy!
1247
PUDDING
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This phrase refers to the ability to measure up to expectations & can precede "is in the eating"'
$200
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
Jeopardy!
1247
VOCABULARY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Something producing rainbowlike colors is said to be this, after Iris, goddess of the rainbow'
$300
iridescent
Jeopardy!
1247
"BLACK" MOVIES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This 1929 Hitchcock movie, his & England's 1st talkie, was shot originally as a silent'
$300
Blackmail
Jeopardy!
1247
ROYALTY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Queen Victoria's uncle Leopold I was the 1st king of this country'
$300
Belgium
Jeopardy!
1247
MINNESOTA
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Both the cities of Bemidji & Brainerd have statues honoring this ox'
$300
Babe the Blue Ox
Jeopardy!
1247
THE NAVY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'They are the 2 official colors of the U.S. Navy'
$300
blue & gold
Jeopardy!
1247
PUDDING
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This pudding is a type of cornmeal mush, as Yankee Doodle could have told you'
$300
hasty pudding
Jeopardy!
1247
VOCABULARY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'An ideal community, from the title of a Thomas More work'
$400
Utopia
Jeopardy!
1247
"BLACK" MOVIES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'George Segal played Sam Spade Jr. in this 1975 film satirizing "The Maltese Falcon"'
$500
The Black Bird
Jeopardy!
1247
ROYALTY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This country has been ruled by Haakon the Good, Haakon the Old & Haakon the Broad-Shouldered'
$400
Norway
Jeopardy!
1247
MINNESOTA
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'With this as the state nickname, Fred Grandy should have been a representative from Minnesota'
$400
"The Gopher State"
Jeopardy!
1247
THE NAVY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'In 1985 the submarine Rhode Island was renamed for this late Washington State senator'
$400
(Henry) Jackson
Jeopardy!
1247
PUDDING
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The 3 traditional methods used in cooking puddings are boiling, baking & this'
$400
steaming
Jeopardy!
1247
VOCABULARY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'From the Urdu word for "dusty", cloth of this color was popularized during the Sepoy Mutiny in India'
$500
khaki
Jeopardy!
1247
"BLACK" MOVIES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This 1979 Disney sci-fi film starring Maximilian Schell was nominated for an Oscar for Visual Effects'
$500
The Black Hole
Jeopardy!
1247
MINNESOTA
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This St. Paul co. began by mining corundum, then making sandpaper & masking tape'
$500
3M
Jeopardy!
1247
THE NAVY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Base that's headquarters to the U.S. Pacific Fleet'
$500
Pearl Harbor
Jeopardy!
1247
PUDDING
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'In a nursery rhyme, this boy's name is followed by "pudding and pie"'
$500
Georgie Porgie
Jeopardy!
1247
NOVEL PLOTS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'3 men are captured by a "sea monster" which turns out to be a strange underwater ship, the Nautilus'
$200
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Double Jeopardy!
1247
TIMEPIECES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'A little birdie told us this timepiece was 1st made around 1750 in Germany's Black Forest'
$200
the cuckoo clock
Double Jeopardy!
1247
1985
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'He had a "Big Adventure" that pulled in big bucks at the box office'
$200
Pee-Wee Herman
Double Jeopardy!
1247
LANGUAGES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Unlike their Spanish-speaking Central American neighbors, most residents of Belize speak this language'
$200
English
Double Jeopardy!
1247
SINGERS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'This curvaceous country singer has written many of her own hits, including "Applejack" & "2 Doors Down"'
$200
Dolly Parton
Double Jeopardy!
1247
THE LOUVRE
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The Dept. of Egyptian Antiquities was formed in 1826 to study artifacts from his Egyptian campaign'
$200
Napoleon
Double Jeopardy!
1247
NOVEL PLOTS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Martians conquer England with heat rays but then succumb to Earthly bacteria'
$400
The War of the Worlds
Double Jeopardy!
1247
TIMEPIECES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'1st called a longcase or coffin clock, it was renamed this after a popular turn-of-the-century song'
$400
a grandfather clock
Double Jeopardy!
1247
1985
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Ted Turner tried to buy CBS after this company bought ABC'
$400
Capital Cities
Double Jeopardy!
1247
LANGUAGES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The so-called click languages, such as Hottentot, are native to this continent'
$400
Africa
Double Jeopardy!
1247
SINGERS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'He titled one of his albums "A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night"'
$400
Harry Nilsson
Double Jeopardy!
1247
THE LOUVRE
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'His "Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 2" is in a Glasgow museum; No. 1 is in the Louvre'
$400
James McNeill Whistler
Double Jeopardy!
1247
NOVEL PLOTS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'W. Somerset Maugham's tale of a medical student obsessed with the vulgar waitress Mildred'
$600
Of Human Bondage
Double Jeopardy!
1247
TIMEPIECES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The 1st mechanical clock had no dial or hands but did this to indicate the time'
$600
chimed (a bell rang)
Double Jeopardy!
1247
1985
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Robert McFarlane resigned as National Security Advisor & this man, his deputy, succeeded him'
$600
John Poindexter
Double Jeopardy!
1247
LANGUAGES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'It was the basic literary language of Italy as late as the 15th century'
$600
Latin
Double Jeopardy!
1247
SINGERS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Canadian whose 1st No. 1 hit in the U.S. was "You Needed Me" in 1978'
$600
Anne Murray
Double Jeopardy!
1247
THE LOUVRE
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Visitors now enter the museum through a new structure shaped like one of these'
$600
a pyramid
Double Jeopardy!
1247
NOVEL PLOTS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Emma takes poison after using up her husband's inheritance to finance her love affair'
$800
Madame Bovary
Double Jeopardy!
1247
TIMEPIECES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'After WWII the United States Time Corporation changed its name to this'
$2,000
Timex
Double Jeopardy!
1247
1985
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'A typo that reversed her explanation of rhythm method forced Warner Books to recall her book'
$800
Dr. Ruth (Westheimer)
Double Jeopardy!
1247
LANGUAGES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'What the Dalmatian, Gothic & Babylonian languages have in common'
$1,500
dead languages
Double Jeopardy!
1247
SINGERS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'"Seasonal" surname of siblings Jimmy & Edgar'
$800
Winter
Double Jeopardy!
1247
THE LOUVRE
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The French ambassador at Constantinople bought this statue, though incomplete, from Greek peasants'
$800
Venus de Milo
Double Jeopardy!
1247
NOVEL PLOTS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The old priest Stephen Kumalo sadly tracks down his son in Johannesburg in this Alan Paton novel'
$1000
Cry, the Beloved Country
Double Jeopardy!
1247
1985
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'The city of Times Beach, Mo. was permanently abandoned due to contamination by this chemical substance'
$1000
dioxin
Double Jeopardy!
1247
LANGUAGES
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Seemingly unrelated to any other language, "Euskara" is spoken by these people of the Pyrenees'
$1000
Basques
Double Jeopardy!
1247
SINGERS
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'He sang with Sarah Vaughan & Mel Torme on his "2:00 AM Paradise Cafe" album'
$1000
Barry Manilow
Double Jeopardy!
1247
THE LOUVRE
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'Among his other paintings in the Louvre are "St. John the Baptist" & the "Virgin of the Rocks"'
$1000
Leonardo
Double Jeopardy!
1247
AMERICAN HISTORY
1990-01-23T00:00:00
'He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859'
null
John Brown
Final Jeopardy!
1247
STATE CAPITALS
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Musically, this capital is known for its "Pops" concerts & summer concerts on the Charles River Esplanade'
$100
Boston
Jeopardy!
3376
WHICH CAME FIRST?
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Basketball,<br />American intercollegiate football,<br />rugby'
$100
Rugby
Jeopardy!
3376
MYTHS & MISSES
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'This group of warriors called Hippolyta their queen'
$100
Amazons
Jeopardy!
3376
MOVIE QUOTES
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Title character who says, "Rommel, you magnificent bastard...I read your book!"'
$100
Patton
Jeopardy!
3376
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'This domestic animal's circling movement before lying down goes back to a grass-flattening behavior'
$100
Dog
Jeopardy!
3376
FIX THE PROVERB
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Every clod has a liver shining'
$100
Every cloud has a silver lining
Jeopardy!
3376
STATE CAPITALS
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'This small capital lies at the western edge of its state's Bluegrass region'
$200
Frankfort, Kentucky
Jeopardy!
3376
WHICH CAME FIRST?
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'The Red Hot Chili Peppers,<br />the Sex Pistols,<br />the Moody Blues'
$200
Moody Blues (1960s)
Jeopardy!
3376
MYTHS & MISSES
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'By jove, she was right by Jupiter, as his wife'
$200
Juno
Jeopardy!
3376
MOVIE QUOTES
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Classic 1930 movie in which you'd hear "Mother of mercy! Is this the end of Rico?"'
$200
Little Caesar
Jeopardy!
3376
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Salmon depend mainly on this sense to find their native rivers'
$200
Smell
Jeopardy!
3376
FIX THE PROVERB
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'Bleat, stink & be hairy'
$200
Eat, drink & be merry
Jeopardy!
3376
STATE CAPITALS
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'It was the original western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad'
$500
Sacramento
Jeopardy!
3376
WHICH CAME FIRST?
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'The Slinky,<br />Wham-O's hula hoop,<br />the Barbie Doll'
$300
Slinky
Jeopardy!
3376
MYTHS & MISSES
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'All that blooms or the Roman goddess of all that blooms'
$300
Flora
Jeopardy!
3376
MOVIE QUOTES
1999-04-19T00:00:00
'In "Gilda" this actress declares, "If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me The Bar Nothing"'
$300
Rita Hayworth
Jeopardy!
3376