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THE SOLAR SYSTEM | 1997-02-10T00:00:00 | 'The 2 planets that have no moons' | null | Mercury & Venus | Final Jeopardy! | 2871 |
QUOTES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'In the "Aeneid", Virgil wrote, "I fear" them "even when they bring gifts"' | $100 | Greeks | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CINEMA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'A clause in Orson Welles' RKO contract prevents Ted Turner from colorizing this 1941 film' | $100 | "Citizen Kane" | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
LIBRARIES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library' | $100 | Alexandria | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
SCIENCE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'The mother of a mule' | $100 | Horse (Mare) | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'These 7 characters received their names from the Disney studios, not from the Brothers Grimm' | $100 | The Seven Dwarfs | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
2-LETTER WORDS | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'It's a prefix meaning "former" but it's also used alone to describe a former spouse' | $100 | Ex | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
QUOTES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'England's James I called it "Hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"' | $200 | Tobacco | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CINEMA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'It was the 2nd film in the "Star Wars" trilogy' | $200 | "The Empire Strikes Back" | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
LIBRARIES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'When the Library of Congress bought this president's private library, it doubled its collection' | $200 | Thomas Jefferson | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
SCIENCE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'It's another name for your coccyx' | $200 | Tailbone | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'The Pied Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of these pests' | $200 | Rats | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
2-LETTER WORDS | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'It is I, royally speaking' | $200 | We | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
QUOTES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | '19th C. German chancellor who spoke of "Blut und Eisen", meaning "blood & iron"' | $300 | Otto von Bismarck | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CINEMA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Vangelis' theme from this 1981 British film took a record 21 weeks on the charts to reach No. 1' | $300 | "Chariots of Fire" | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
LIBRARIES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'In 1757 King George II gave his royal library to this London museum's library' | $300 | The British Museum | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
SCIENCE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Union Carbide makes this common car additive that contains ethylene glycol' | $300 | Antifreeze | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'This author was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805' | $300 | Hans Christian Andersen | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
2-LETTER WORDS | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Freudian component of personality that seeks immediate gratification' | $300 | Id | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
QUOTES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Longfellow called it "The Universal Language of Mankind"' | $400 | Music | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CINEMA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Herbert Marshall played this author in "The Moon & Sixpence" & "The Razor's Edge"' | $400 | Somerset Maugham | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
LIBRARIES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'This D.C. Shakespeare library is named for the oil executive who founded it' | $400 | Folger Library | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
SCIENCE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb' | $400 | Millibar | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'In this tale, the heroine is named for the rampion her father stole from the witch's garden' | $400 | Rapunzel | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
2-LETTER WORDS | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Originating in China c. 2300 B.C., it's still the most popular board game in Japan' | $400 | Go | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
QUOTES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Pascal said if her "nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed"' | $500 | Cleopatra (of Egypt) | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CINEMA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'It completes the title of the 1973 film "No Sex Please,..."' | $500 | "We\'re British" | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
LIBRARIES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523' | $500 | Michelangelo | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
SCIENCE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity' | $500 | Pierre Curie | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'She wrote 6 sequels to "Anne of Green Gables", but her adult fiction never sold well' | $500 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
2-LETTER WORDS | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'A girlfriend of Zeus, or a moon of Jupiter' | $500 | Io | Jeopardy! | 1195 |
20TH CENTURY AMERICA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'A work week of this many days was not generally accepted until the 1930s' | $200 | 5 | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
ART | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'The Mona Lisa was painted in oil on this, not canvas' | $200 | Wood Panel | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'U.S. pioneers in this industry include Little, Brown & Co., 1837 & Houghton Mifflin Co., 1832' | $200 | Publishing | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THEATER | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'This Ibsen play usually ends with Nora leaving home because she's tired of being treated like a toy' | $200 | "A Doll\'s House" | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THE SOVIET UNION | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'A Soviet writer says he found the lost graveyard of this czar & his family' | $200 | Nicholas II | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Anne Lindbergh's maiden name' | $200 | Morrow | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
20TH CENTURY AMERICA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Gerald Ford, Hale Boggs & Allen Dulles were among those appointed to this commission 11/29/63' | $400 | The Warren Commission | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
ART | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Winslow Homer's "Prisoners from the Front" is a scene from this war' | $400 | The Civil War | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Nestle became "contented" when it acquired this company in 1985' | $400 | Carnation | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THEATER | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'The original cast of this Agatha Christie play featured Richard Attenborough as a detective, not a rodent' | $400 | "The Mousetrap" | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THE SOVIET UNION | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Gorbachev cut short his trip to NYC in 1988 to visit this republic devastated by a 6.9 earthquake' | $400 | Armenia | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Julia Howe's' | $400 | Ward | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
20TH CENTURY AMERICA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'In 1904, Ida Tarbell published the muckraking history of this oil company' | $600 | Standard Oil | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
ART | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'On May 9, 1989 a self-portrait by this artist went for a whopping $47.85 million' | $600 | Pablo Picasso | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'These new Nabisco animal cookies were almost called "Grrrrahams"' | $600 | Teddy Grahams | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THEATER | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'In "West Side Story", these gangs represent the Capulets & the Montagues' | $600 | Jets & Sharks | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THE SOVIET UNION | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'The party chief who lost the election in this city, the cradle of the revolution, was running unopposed' | $600 | Leningrad | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Adela St. Johns'' | $600 | Rogers | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
20TH CENTURY AMERICA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Between '46-51 this organization was headquartered at the Sperry gyroscope plant at Lake Success on Long Island' | $1,000 | The United Nations | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
ART | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Meaning "like a wild beast", it's the art movement associated with Matisse' | $800 | Fauvism/Fauves | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Edward VII's authorization in 1901 allowed John Doulton's Co. to market porcelain under this name' | $800 | Royal Doulton | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THEATER | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Actor-playwright who won a 1979 Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child"' | $800 | Sam Shepard | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THE SOVIET UNION | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'To quell recent protests in Tbilisi in this republic, the gov't used poison gas & several people died' | $800 | Georgia | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Mary Rinehart's' | $800 | Roberts | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
20TH CENTURY AMERICA | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'At 1st this "radio priest" supported FDR but in later years opposed the New Deal' | $1000 | Fr. Charles Coughlin | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
ART | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Artist whose most famous painting, seen here ("The Swing"), is an example of the Rococo style:' | $3,000 | Fragonard | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Catalog shoppers know Lillian Katz better by this name' | $1000 | Lillian Vernon | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THEATER | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Durrenmatt play in which a woman promises to give townspeople a fortune if they will kill her ex-lover' | $1000 | "The Visit" | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THE SOVIET UNION | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'We gave the Soviets this spy in 1962 to get back U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers' | $1000 | Col. Rudolf Abel | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
AUTHORS' MAIDEN NAMES | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | 'Mary Dodge's' | $1000 | Mapes | Double Jeopardy! | 1195 |
THE CENSUS | 1989-11-10T00:00:00 | '2 of the 4 U.S. states with a population density greater than 500 people per square mile' | null | (2 of) Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey & Rhode Island | Final Jeopardy! | 1195 |
ARCHAEOLOGY | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'In 1974 farmers digging for water found an army of clay warriors "protecting" an emperor's tomb in this country' | $200 | China | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
BIG FAN | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Idolizers of this singer:<br />claymates' | $200 | Clay Aiken | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Hollywood in this state isn't too far from Biscayne Bay' | $200 | Florida | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'The N.Y. Times questioned where the $123 billion the Federal Reserve loaned to this insurer actually went' | $200 | A.I.G. | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE MOST WANTED LIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'The FBI began publishing an official "Ten Most Wanted" list in 1950, while this man was director' | $200 | J. Edgar Hoover | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ANAGRAMS OF COMPASS DIRECTIONS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Oolong & Assam' | $200 | teas | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ARCHAEOLOGY | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'This Andean civilization used knotted cords called quipus to store information' | $400 | the Incas | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
BIG FAN | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Fans of this radio host:<br />Dittoheads' | $400 | Rush Limbaugh | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'This state's Phoenix welcomes y'all! Perhaps you'll also visit its Oak Ridge or Thibodaux' | $400 | Louisiana | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'This 185-nation agency agreed to lend $100 billion to healthy countries that are having trouble borrowing money' | $400 | IMF (the International Monetary Fund) | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE MOST WANTED LIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'When arrested in 1967, James Ringrose gave FBI agents one of these Monopoly cards; it didn't work' | $400 | "get out of jail free" | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ANAGRAMS OF COMPASS DIRECTIONS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'To worry, perhaps over goulash' | $400 | stew | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ARCHAEOLOGY | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'In 1932 Danish archaeologists uncovered the remains of a church near Erik the Red's farm on this island' | $600 | Greenland | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
BIG FAN | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Nothing against Trekkies but Leonard Nimoy says true believers prefer this term' | $600 | Trekkers | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'O Pioneers! To get from Lexington to Columbus in this state, take Highway 30, through Kearney' | $600 | Nebraska | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'The Times said that with stocks, the price-to-this ratio should average about 16; it was at 27 as of 2007' | $600 | earnings | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE MOST WANTED LIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Don Bussmeyer made the list in 1967 but didn't last long; he was caught shirtless, with this tattooed on his chest' | $600 | his name | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ANAGRAMS OF COMPASS DIRECTIONS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'A yell, or a brand of stain remover' | $600 | shout | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ARCHAEOLOGY | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Excavations of this neighbor of Pompeii show it to have been a secluded retreat of the leisure class' | $800 | Herculaneum | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
BIG FAN | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Cheeseheads eat up this NFL team (love the hats)' | $800 | the Green Bay Packers | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Paris is in the northeast corner of this state, near Detroit, Omaha & Pittsburg' | $800 | Texas | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'This N.Y. attorney general, son of a former governor, warned against bonuses for bankers who took federal funds' | $1,000 | Andrew Cuomo | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE MOST WANTED LIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Of the nearly 500 people on this list since its inception, only 8 have been these; the first made it in 1968' | $800 | women | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ANAGRAMS OF COMPASS DIRECTIONS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'On a plant it's also known as a prickle' | $800 | thorn | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ARCHAEOLOGY | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed' | $1000 | Ur | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
BIG FAN | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Change one letter in Barry Manilow's last name to get this term for one of this fans' | $1000 | a fanilow | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THAT'S NOT WHERE YOU THINK IT IS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Home to an intl. airport & a motor speedway, Ontario in this state was named by Canadian settlers around 1882' | $1000 | California | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
THE MOST WANTED LIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'The original "Slick Willie", this bank robber made the list in its second week; he got caught within 2 years' | $1000 | Willie Sutton | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ANAGRAMS OF COMPASS DIRECTIONS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'To fill an appetite' | $1000 | sate | Jeopardy! | 5679 |
JAMES JOYCE | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses" was modeled on this ancient work' | $400 | The Odyssey | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
DUBLINERS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'U2 vocalist known for good works' | $400 | Bono | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'He created the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-23_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">self-portrait seen here</a> in 1986' | $400 | (Andy) Warhol | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
AS A YOUNG MAN | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | '…as a pre-teen this "Le Nozze di Figaro" composer wrote a one-act German singspiel' | $400 | Mozart | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
ULYSSES | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'This goddess of wisdom appears to Ulysses' son Telemachus & tells him to find out what happened to Dad' | $400 | Athena | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
FINNEGAN'S "WAKE" | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'When Finnegan has to get up early at a Radisson, he appreciates one of these, even if it's automated' | $400 | a wake-up call | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
JAMES JOYCE | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Bloomsday, a celebration of Joyce & his works, is celebrated each year on the 16th of this month' | $800 | June | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
DUBLINERS | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'Boomtown Rats vocalist known for good works' | $800 | Bob Geldof | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST | 2009-04-23T00:00:00 | 'If you can't remember the name of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-04-23_DJ_17.jpg" target="_blank">this painter</a>, just put your lips together and blow' | $800 | Whistler | Double Jeopardy! | 5679 |
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