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BEWARE OF GOD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Venus' boy, this god, said, "Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you"... & they did'
$600
Cupid
Jeopardy!
6274
GEORGE STRAIT TO NO. 1
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'One of these "I Can't Put Out"'
$600
a fire
Jeopardy!
6274
"CUS" WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'You're "on" this if your birthday separates 2 signs of the zodiac'
$600
the cusp
Jeopardy!
6274
PARDON MY FRENCH
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'The name of these "Grand" mountains near Jackson Hole comes from the French'
$600
the Tetons
Jeopardy!
6274
A MATTER OF SOME GRAVITY
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Building on the work of Galileo and Kepler, he published the first quantitative theory of gravitation in 1687'
$1,000
Newton
Jeopardy!
6274
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'What we call this is actually the netted melon or muskmelon'
$800
a cantaloupe
Jeopardy!
6274
BEWARE OF GOD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'This sometimes destructive Hindu deity cut off one of Brahma's heads & dropped it in Uttar Pradesh'
$800
Shiva
Jeopardy!
6274
GEORGE STRAIT TO NO. 1
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'"Am I" this, "Baby" this or this "Clear Sky"; (3 No. 1 hits with the same word!)'
$800
Blue
Jeopardy!
6274
"CUS" WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'If you'd give your eye teeth for something, these are the teeth you'd give'
$800
cuspids
Jeopardy!
6274
PARDON MY FRENCH
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'This tennis term may come from the French l'oeuf, meaning "egg", like a goose egg'
$800
love
Jeopardy!
6274
A MATTER OF SOME GRAVITY
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'There's "gravity" in this term for the point in an object that, if supported, puts the whole object in equilibrium'
$1000
center of gravity
Jeopardy!
6274
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Prickly but edible, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-12-22_J_10.jpg" target="_blank">they</a>'<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-12-22_J_10a.jpg" target="_blank">re</a> one letter different from the name of cities in Arizona & Mexico'
$1000
nopales
Jeopardy!
6274
BEWARE OF GOD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Prometheus should have bewared of Zeus, who in Greek myth had a vulture eat this organ each day'
$1000
his liver
Jeopardy!
6274
GEORGE STRAIT TO NO. 1
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'"Let's Fall" this way "Together"'
$1000
To Pieces
Jeopardy!
6274
"CUS" WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'One of the ceremonial titles of the king of Saudi Arabia is this keeper "of the two holy mosques"'
$1000
custodian
Jeopardy!
6274
PARDON MY FRENCH
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'The European Space Agency launches its Ariane rockets from this South American territory'
$1000
French Guiana
Jeopardy!
6274
6-LETTER TV SHOWS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Magic has been banned by Uther Pendragon in the Syfy series about this title youthful wizard'
$400
Merlin
Double Jeopardy!
6274
FLEECE NAVIDAD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'This site that started as AuctionWeb has more than 5,000 "ugly Christmas sweaters" on the auction block'
$400
eBay
Double Jeopardy!
6274
A WHALE OF A BOOK
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Jodi Picoult's first novel is titled "Songs of" this whale'
$400
the Humpback
Double Jeopardy!
6274
2-LETTER WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'To be fired from a job is "to get" this bladed tool'
$400
the ax
Double Jeopardy!
6274
TRY STATE AREA
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'663,267 total square miles, a little bigger than Iran'
$400
Alaska
Double Jeopardy!
6274
6-LETTER TV SHOWS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'This Fox show transitions between our universe & one in which the World Trade Center still stands'
$800
Fringe
Double Jeopardy!
6274
FLEECE NAVIDAD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'QVC sold out of a Christmas sweater that had reindeer whose noses lit up using this technology with hair-thin filaments'
$800
fiber optics
Double Jeopardy!
6274
A WHALE OF A BOOK
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Ethan Hawley, descendant of whaling captains, is the protagonist of this author's "The Winter of Our Discontent"'
$800
John Steinbeck
Double Jeopardy!
6274
2-LETTER WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'In a game of tag, this player attempts to catch other players'
$800
it
Double Jeopardy!
6274
TRY STATE AREA
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'1,545 total square miles, a little smaller than Miami-Dade county'
$800
Rhode Island
Double Jeopardy!
6274
IN BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-12-22_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.</a>) It looks like the painter initially included himself but then changed his mind; that shy artist was Branwell, the brother of these literary siblings, in their only group portrait'
$4,000
the Brontës
Double Jeopardy!
6274
6-LETTER TV SHOWS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'One episode in the last season of this show was titled "The Bar Manager, the Shrink, His Wife & Her Lover"'
$1200
Cheers
Double Jeopardy!
6274
FLEECE NAVIDAD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'In Killington in this state, My Ugly Christmas Sweater Inc. makes tacky holiday sweaters as ironic fashion statements'
$1200
Vermont
Double Jeopardy!
6274
A WHALE OF A BOOK
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'"Humphrey the Lost Whale" is the true tale of a whale trapped in the Sacramento River after venturing into this bay'
$1200
San Francisco Bay
Double Jeopardy!
6274
2-LETTER WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Slang for the featured product at Papa John's & Domino's'
$1200
za
Double Jeopardy!
6274
TRY STATE AREA
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'It's the smallest on the West Coast, with 71,300 total square miles'
$1200
Washington
Double Jeopardy!
6274
IN BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Please, sir, I want someone to name this author & statesman seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-12-22_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> eight years before his execution'
$1600
(Sir Thomas) Moore
Double Jeopardy!
6274
6-LETTER TV SHOWS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'The sanguine opening to this Showtime series shows the title character killing a mosquito'
$1600
Dexter
Double Jeopardy!
6274
FLEECE NAVIDAD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Knit a virtual heinous wool sweater at a site whose motto is "We love holiday sweaters. We hate" these creatures'
$1600
sheep
Double Jeopardy!
6274
A WHALE OF A BOOK
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'It's the native country of Witi Ihimaera, author of "The Whale Rider"'
$1600
New Zealand
Double Jeopardy!
6274
2-LETTER WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Archaic second-person pronoun found before "gods" in a mild expletive'
$1600
ye
Double Jeopardy!
6274
TRY STATE AREA
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'Land area 43,562 square miles, about 2,000 less than a century ago'
$1600
Louisiana
Double Jeopardy!
6274
IN BRITAIN'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-12-22_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.</a>) Holding a compass with his plans for the west end of St. Paul's Cathedral, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-12-22_DJ_26a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> man was 79 when his portrait was painted in 1711'
$2000
Christopher Wren
Double Jeopardy!
6274
6-LETTER TV SHOWS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'The title character from this animated FX show works for the International Secret Intelligence Service'
$2000
Archer
Double Jeopardy!
6274
FLEECE NAVIDAD
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'In England, pullover sweaters are called these, as in the website cheesychristmas these.com'
$2000
jumpers
Double Jeopardy!
6274
A WHALE OF A BOOK
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'The hero stows away on a whaler in Poe's "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, of" this Massachusetts island'
$2000
Nantucket
Double Jeopardy!
6274
2-LETTER WORDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'The second-largest city in Sierra Leone, or an Indian fig tree under which Buddha once sat'
$2000
bo
Double Jeopardy!
6274
TRY STATE AREA
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'59,425 total square miles, today the biggest of the original 13'
$2,000
Georgia
Double Jeopardy!
6274
ISLANDS
2011-12-22T00:00:00
'1 of the 2 islands with a population exceeding 100 million; each one is part of an Asian country'
null
(1 of) Honshu or Java
Final Jeopardy!
6274
FIRST NAMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'You don't have to know it was Pulitzer's first name to win a Pulitzer prize'
$100
Joseph
Jeopardy!
964
U.S. STATES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The largest U.S. naval base is at Norfolk in this state'
$100
Virginia
Jeopardy!
964
POETS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Georgia poet Sidney Lanier spent several months in a Maryland prison during this war'
$100
the Civil War
Jeopardy!
964
THE BODY HUMAN
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'These smallest blood-carrying tubes in the body link arteries to veins'
$100
capillaries
Jeopardy!
964
1979
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Acronym used to refer to the treaty signed by Brezhnev & Carter in Vienna in June'
$100
SALT II
Jeopardy!
964
CELEBRITY RELATIVES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Larry Hagman's famous mom who's famous for playing a boy'
$100
Mary Martin
Jeopardy!
964
FIRST NAMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The dynamite first name of the founder of the Nobel prizes'
$200
Alfred
Jeopardy!
964
U.S. STATES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The two U.S. states that begin with "N" that are neither "North" nor "New"'
$200
Nebraska & Nevada
Jeopardy!
964
POETS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'In one of his cute couplets he quipped, "A bit of talcum is always walcum"'
$200
Ogden Nash
Jeopardy!
964
THE BODY HUMAN
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'To prevent rejection of transplanted organs, doctors suppress these blood cells'
$200
lymphocytes (or white blood cells)
Jeopardy!
964
1979
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This Boston outfielder became the first American League player to get both 3,000 hits and 400 home runs'
$200
Carl Yastrzemski
Jeopardy!
964
CELEBRITY RELATIVES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'"Dr. Zhivago" wasn't this actress' first film; as a child she appeared in her father's film "Limelight"'
$200
Geraldine Chaplin
Jeopardy!
964
FIRST NAMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Were he alive, you would call him by this first name to thank him for a Rhodes scholarship'
$300
Cecil
Jeopardy!
964
U.S. STATES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Among its 77 counties are Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole & Osage'
$300
Oklahoma
Jeopardy!
964
POETS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Ralph Waldo Emerson spent much of his life in this New England state where he was born'
$300
Massachusetts
Jeopardy!
964
THE BODY HUMAN
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Though associated with ill temper, this organ actually produces antibodies'
$300
the spleen
Jeopardy!
964
1979
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Group heard <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1988-11-10_J_26.mp3">here</a> singing the first No. 1 hit of the year:<br /><br /><i>"Nobody gets too much heaven no more, it's as high..."</i>'
$500
The Bee Gees
Jeopardy!
964
CELEBRITY RELATIVES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Mariska Hargitay of "Falcon Crest" is the daughter of this late sex symbol'
$300
Jayne Mansfield
Jeopardy!
964
FIRST NAMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Colonel Sanders of "finger lickin'" fame'
$400
Harland
Jeopardy!
964
U.S. STATES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Its state song is "Home On The Range", not "Over The Rainbow"'
$400
Kansas
Jeopardy!
964
POETS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This nineteenth-century poet laureate was the most famous poet born in the Lake District of England'
$400
William Wordsworth
Jeopardy!
964
THE BODY HUMAN
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The integumentary system is another term for this, the body's largest organ'
$400
the skin
Jeopardy!
964
1979
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Amity Island was the setting for this 1975 film that topped 1979's TV ratings'
$400
Jaws
Jeopardy!
964
CELEBRITY RELATIVES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This former brother-in-law of Angela Lansbury co-starred with her in "Death on the Nile" as Hercule Poirot'
$400
Peter Ustinov
Jeopardy!
964
FIRST NAMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'According to Hoyle, it was his first name'
$500
Edmund
Jeopardy!
964
U.S. STATES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Named for John Jacob Astor, Astoria, first American settlement west of the Rockies, is in this state'
$500
Oregon
Jeopardy!
964
POETS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This Maine poetess sometimes wrote under the shorter pen name Nancy Boyd'
$500
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jeopardy!
964
THE BODY HUMAN
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The scientific name for the shinbone'
$500
the tibia
Jeopardy!
964
1979
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This general resigned as Supreme Commander of NATO and also retired from the U.S. Army'
$500
Alexander Haig
Jeopardy!
964
CELEBRITY RELATIVES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Singer whose ex-son-in-law, Sidney Lumet, directed her in "The Wiz", in the role of a witch'
$500
Lena Horne
Jeopardy!
964
ANCIENT TIMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'He built Babylon's Ishtar Gate as well as the Hanging Gardens'
$200
Nebuchadnezzar (II)
Double Jeopardy!
964
COLLEGES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'In the 1940s the University of Chicago came to be recognized as the birthplace of this type of energy'
$200
Atomic/Nuclear
Double Jeopardy!
964
MUSIC
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The written notes for all the instruments and voices of a particular work, or Tigers 5 Yankees 3'
$200
Score
Double Jeopardy!
964
MOUNTAINS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Due to the number of climbers, the Park Service may put an outhouse at the 17,000' level of this Alaskan peak'
$200
Mount McKinley
Double Jeopardy!
964
NATIONAL LEADERS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'President Mitterand is this country's head of state'
$200
France
Double Jeopardy!
964
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Shaw character who thinks she's descended from a sacred cat and that her blood is made with Nile water'
$200
Cleopatra
Double Jeopardy!
964
ANCIENT TIMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The place in Egypt where Jacob settled was known to the Hebrews as the Land o' ....this'
$400
Goshen
Double Jeopardy!
964
COLLEGES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'In 1779 this Virginia institution became the first U.S. college to establish a law department'
$400
William & Mary
Double Jeopardy!
964
MUSIC
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'A concertino is a short concerto, and a concertina is a simple one of these instruments'
$400
Accordion
Double Jeopardy!
964
MOUNTAINS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The third highest peak in North America is in this third largest country in North America'
$400
Mexico
Double Jeopardy!
964
NATIONAL LEADERS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Prime Minister Mulroney'
$400
Canada
Double Jeopardy!
964
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title "miss" is "absolutely wild!"'
$400
"Miss Julie"
Double Jeopardy!
964
ANCIENT TIMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Byzantine emperor who built the Hagia Sophia Church and collected Roman laws into one code'
$600
Justinian (I)
Double Jeopardy!
964
COLLEGES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'It ends its cheer, "cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u dv; slipstick, slide rule...."'
$600
MIT
Double Jeopardy!
964
MUSIC
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Before he composed the "London" Symphony in 1795, he had written the six Paris symphonies'
$600
Franz Joseph Haydn
Double Jeopardy!
964
MOUNTAINS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Mountain ranges on this continent include the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Alexandra, and Queen Maud'
$600
Antarctica
Double Jeopardy!
964
NATIONAL LEADERS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'President Mubarak'
$600
Egypt
Double Jeopardy!
964
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'In Euripides' tragedy, Jason's new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman'
$600
Medea
Double Jeopardy!
964
ANCIENT TIMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'With the defeat of this man at Actium in 31 B.C., Octavian had full control of the Roman Empire'
$800
Mark Antony
Double Jeopardy!
964
COLLEGES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This Ivy League school is the land grant college of New York State'
$800
Cornell
Double Jeopardy!
964
MUSIC
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Name shared by the operatic heroines of "Fidelio" and "Il Trovatore"'
$800
Leonora
Double Jeopardy!
964
MOUNTAINS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'This Englishman was the first to survey K2's peak'
$2,000
Henry Godwin-Austen
Double Jeopardy!
964
NATIONAL LEADERS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Queen Margrethe II'
$800
Denmark
Double Jeopardy!
964
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'Violet Venable's son, who never appears in the play "Suddenly Last Summer" because he's been eaten'
$800
Sebastian (Venable)
Double Jeopardy!
964
ANCIENT TIMES
1988-11-10T00:00:00
'The ancient Persian holy book, called the "Avesta", contains the writings of this man and his followers'
$1000
Zoroaster
Double Jeopardy!
964