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BRITISH HISTORY 1982 | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'This heir to the throne was born June 21, 1982' | $400 | (Prince) William | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
WEIGHTS & MEASURES | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'This system of measurement is abbreviated avdp.' | $400 | avoirdupois | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
MOUNTAINS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'The highest peaks in these mountains of France & Spain lie in the Maladeta Range' | $400 | Pyrenees | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
PAINTINGS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'His 2nd & 3rd most famous women's portraits are "Cecilia Gallerani" & "Ginevra de' Benci"' | $600 | Leonardo da Vinci | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city' | $600 | Huntsville | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'This American historian, born Barbara Wertheim in 1912, won 2 Pulitzers for general nonfiction' | $600 | Barbara Tuchman | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
BRITISH HISTORY 1982 | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'In October this Tudor king's flagship the Mary Rose, which sank over 400 years earlier, was raised' | $600 | Henry VIII | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
WEIGHTS & MEASURES | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'Gold of this many karats is 3/4 pure' | $600 | 18 | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
MOUNTAINS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'Only 2 Alpine peaks exceed 15,000 feet -- Monte Rosa & this one' | $600 | Mont Blanc | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
PAINTINGS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'Venus, Juno & Minerva are the full-bodied women in this Flemish master's 1638 "Judgment of Paris"' | $800 | Rubens | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | '"Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state' | $4,800 | West Virginia | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'James Michener won his only Pulitzer Prize for this, his first book of fiction' | $800 | Tales of the South Pacific | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
BRITISH HISTORY 1982 | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'In operation since 1977, this low-fare airline declared bankruptcy' | $800 | Laker | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
WEIGHTS & MEASURES | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'In 1967 this unit of time was defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation of a cesium-133 atom' | $3,600 | the second | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
MOUNTAINS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'In Arabic this North African range is called Djezira El-Maghreb, or "Island of the West"' | $800 | the Atlas Mountains | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
PAINTINGS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'Victorine Meurend, his "Chanteuse des rues", is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe"' | $1000 | Manet | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state' | $1000 | Texas | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation"' | $1000 | Dean Acheson | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
BRITISH HISTORY 1982 | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'This opera company known for its Gilbert & Sullivan shows went out of business in February' | $1000 | D’Oyly Carte | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
WEIGHTS & MEASURES | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'This unit was originally intended to be 1/40,000,000 of the Earth's circumference' | $1000 | the meter | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
MOUNTAINS | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'Mount Kosciusko, Australia's highest peak, lies in this range of the Australian Alps' | $1000 | the Snowy Mountains | Double Jeopardy! | 2737 |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY | 1996-06-25T00:00:00 | 'It's the biggest single customer of the domestic airline industry, using about 15,000 flights a day' | null | the US Postal Service | Final Jeopardy! | 2737 |
MOVIES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Composer profiled in "Song Without End" and "Lisztomania"' | $100 | Franz Liszt | Jeopardy! | 351 |
SOUTH AMERICA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Ecuador derives its name from this geographical line' | $100 | the equator | Jeopardy! | 351 |
LIGHTNING | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Lightning causes over 10,000 of these a year and Smokey the Bear is getting mad!' | $100 | forest fires | Jeopardy! | 351 |
CARDS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Bridge term for a set of three games or what a hot rod lays when it takes off' | $100 | rubber | Jeopardy! | 351 |
THE 1950s | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | '1951 saw the first electric power ever generated from this source' | $100 | nuclear energy | Jeopardy! | 351 |
KNOTS TO YOU | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Kind of knot that sounds like its tied by your mother's mother' | $100 | a granny knot | Jeopardy! | 351 |
MOVIES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In his first screen role since 1939, he won the 1975 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Sunshine Boys"' | $200 | George Burns | Jeopardy! | 351 |
SOUTH AMERICA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In the past, 12- to 14-year-old brides were not unusual in this Portuguese-speaking country' | $200 | Brazil | Jeopardy! | 351 |
LIGHTNING | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In the 1931 film, he used lightning to bring his monster to life' | $200 | Dr. Frankenstein | Jeopardy! | 351 |
CARDS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'The appropriate goal in authors is to form these' | $200 | books | Jeopardy! | 351 |
THE 1950s | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Books in 1951 included "The Caine Mutiny", "From Here to Eternity", and this Salinger classic' | $200 | The Catcher in the Rye | Jeopardy! | 351 |
KNOTS TO YOU | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Term for a knot used to fasten a rope to an object or "your wagon to a star"' | $200 | hitch | Jeopardy! | 351 |
MOVIES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Director Norman Jewison's alliterative tale of a black infantry unit' | $300 | A Soldier\'s Story | Jeopardy! | 351 |
SOUTH AMERICA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Up to 80% of the counterfeit dollars passed in the U.S. are from this coffee country' | $300 | Colombia | Jeopardy! | 351 |
LIGHTNING | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Of 25, 50, or 100 miles, the longest length lightning strokes can reach' | $300 | 100 miles | Jeopardy! | 351 |
CARDS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'A shutout in gin rummy, or Pat Harrington in "One Day at a Time"' | $300 | Schneider | Jeopardy! | 351 |
THE 1950s | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In the early 1950s, "Teddy Boys" first appeared in this country' | $300 | England | Jeopardy! | 351 |
KNOTS TO YOU | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'This geometric knot is one of the oldest in use' | $300 | a square knot | Jeopardy! | 351 |
MOVIES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'David Carradine was "Bound for Glory" playing this great folk singer' | $400 | Woody Guthrie | Jeopardy! | 351 |
SOUTH AMERICA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'An estimated 40% of the world's total copper supply is in three mines in this coastal country' | $400 | Chile | Jeopardy! | 351 |
LIGHTNING | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Aided by lightning each year, 100 million tons of this gas washes into the soil and becomes fertilizer' | $400 | Nitrogen | Jeopardy! | 351 |
CARDS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'About 30 years ago, this South American game created the biggest fad in card history' | $400 | canasta | Jeopardy! | 351 |
THE 1950s | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Listed as a billionaire in 1957, this American lived in a modest room in London' | $400 | J. Paul Getty | Jeopardy! | 351 |
KNOTS TO YOU | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Half a pair of pants, or the looseness in a knot' | $400 | slack | Jeopardy! | 351 |
MOVIES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'For this Kipling story, John Huston first thought of Gable and Bogart, not Michael Caine and Sean Connery' | $500 | The Man Who Would Be King | Jeopardy! | 351 |
SOUTH AMERICA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Once known as Upper Peru, it has had over twenty presidents since World War II' | $500 | Bolivia | Jeopardy! | 351 |
LIGHTNING | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Unpunished in the Maxwell Anderson play, Rhoda is roasted by lightning in this movie's finale' | $500 | The Bad Seed | Jeopardy! | 351 |
CARDS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Variation of poker where the worst hand wins' | $500 | lo-ball | Jeopardy! | 351 |
KNOTS TO YOU | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Not tightness per se, but this kinetic force gives knots their holding power' | $500 | friction | Jeopardy! | 351 |
PLAYWRIGHTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'As a young congressman, LBJ escorted this author of "Pygmalion" around Texas' | $200 | George Bernard Shaw | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
AUTOMOBILES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In the 1890s, autos were so new and strange they were shown under the big top at these' | $200 | circuses | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WINTER SPORTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Contrary to popular legend, "mush!" isn't a command usually used in these races' | $200 | dogsled races | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WEDDINGS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'According to Kodak, only 45% of these are taken by a professional' | $200 | wedding pictures | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
HISTORICAL TRIVIA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Year the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded and the United States entered World War I' | $200 | 1917 | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
"BOOK"S | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'The insect kind eats binding, and the human kind devours pages' | $200 | bookworms | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
PLAYWRIGHTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'His "Volpone" played at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in 1605' | $400 | Ben Jonson | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
AUTOMOBILES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'You could use a Mustang to round up this discontinued Ford horse' | $400 | Pinto | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WINTER SPORTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In six of the first seven Winter Olympics, Canadian teams took the gold in this sport' | $400 | ice hockey | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WEDDINGS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'In a military wedding, an enlisted bride may wear a gown or this' | $400 | a dress uniform | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
HISTORICAL TRIVIA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Before he died in 1547, this Tudor king weighed over 400 pounds' | $400 | Henry VIII | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
"BOOK"S | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Common pharase that might follow "Call me!"' | $400 | I\'m in the book! | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
PLAYWRIGHTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'This playwright and actor portrayed Colonel Chuck Yeager, not Alan Shepard, in "The Right Stuff"' | $600 | Sam Shepard | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
AUTOMOBILES | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'This engine-driven band sounds like what a sports enthusiast might buckle' | $600 | fan belt | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WINTER SPORTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Participants can sail through this sport at speeds over 100 mph' | $600 | ice sailing (or boating) | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WEDDINGS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Actual title of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1986-01-13_DJ_28.mp3">this</a> selection from Mendelssohn's music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream:"' | $2,000 | "The Wedding March For Titania And Oberon" | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
HISTORICAL TRIVIA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'A 6th-century monk originally established the first day of the Christian era not as January the 1st, but this holiday' | $500 | Christmas | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
"BOOK"S | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Something set next to a volume, or something done according to the rules' | $600 | by the book | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
PLAYWRIGHTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | '17-year-old usher Sheila Delaney got a taste for theatre and went home one night to start this play' | $800 | A Taste of Honey | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WINTER SPORTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'The first artificial bobsled run was built in 1904 at this Swiss resort town' | $800 | St. Moritz | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WEDDINGS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'The bride-price is the opposite of this' | $800 | dowry | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
HISTORICAL TRIVIA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'This term first applied only to manners and conduct at royal courts' | $800 | etiquette | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
"BOOK"S | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Samuel Pepys sometimes put one of these in both the front and the back of his books' | $800 | a bookplate | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
PLAYWRIGHTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Oliver Goldsmith thrashed a publisher whose paper attacked this, his last play' | $1000 | She Stoops to Conquer | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WINTER SPORTS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'A rink of players--it's the number of persons on a curling team' | $1000 | 4 | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
WEDDINGS | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'By ancient law of this religion, one of three ways to get married was simply to consumate the union' | $1000 | Judaism | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
HISTORICAL TRIVIA | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Once France's richest colony, this now-impoverished country was 2nd in the New World to gain independence' | $1000 | Haiti | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
"BOOK"S | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Famous fooderie, found on 15th, for feasting on fish in Philly' | $1000 | Bookbinder\'s | Double Jeopardy! | 351 |
THE MILITARY | 1986-01-13T00:00:00 | 'Foreign country in which the most American soldiers are stationed' | null | Germany | Final Jeopardy! | 351 |
ME "FIRST"! | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'It forbids Congress from interfering with a citizen's freedom of religion, speech, assembly or petition' | $200 | the First Amendment | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SITCOM UNCLES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'Who could forget Paul Lynde as the practical-joking warlock Uncle Arthur on this series' | $200 | Bewitched | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
ALSO A CHINESE DYNASTY | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'The astronauts drank this orange-flavored breakfast drink' | $200 | Tang | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SAMUEL | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'Dedicated to upholding this nation's constitution, the Samuel Griffith Society is HQ'd in New South Wales' | $200 | Australia | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
LIBRARIES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'A unique mobile library in Kenya is transported from place to place by these "ships of the desert"' | $200 | camels | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
AMERICANA | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'El Paso has a 459-foot lighted one of these, also in the nickname of its state' | $200 | star | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
ME "FIRST"! | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'It's the seasonal favorite heard here' | $400 | "The First Noel" | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SITCOM UNCLES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'On a 1998 episode of this sitcom, Uncle Leo got caught shoplifting a book' | $400 | Seinfeld | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
ALSO A CHINESE DYNASTY | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'Mr. Solo of the movies' | $400 | Han | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SAMUEL | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'English painter Samuel Cooper's 1657 portrait of this British Puritan leader is seen here' | $400 | (Oliver) Cromwell | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
LIBRARIES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'Most of the books in the ancient library at Alexandria in Egypt were in this language' | $400 | Greek | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
AMERICANA | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'In 2003 chef Daniel Boulud started shaving truffles onto this fast food favorite & charging $50 for it' | $400 | hamburger | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
ME "FIRST"! | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'The woman born Julia Gardiner is best known to history as one of these' | $600 | a first lady | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SITCOM UNCLES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'On "The Dukes of Hazzard", Uncle Jesse was played by Denver Pyle; on "Full House", Uncle Jesse was played by this man' | $600 | John Stamos | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
ALSO A CHINESE DYNASTY | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'The past participle of the verb that means to make music vocally' | $600 | sung | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SAMUEL | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'Canadian business executive Samuel Bronfman was the founder & chief operating officer of this distilling company' | $600 | Seagram\'s | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
LIBRARIES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'The Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy was founded in the 15th century by members of this family' | $1,000 | the Medicis | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
AMERICANA | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'The Nelson Knitting Co. made these pieces of apparel that people made monkeys out of' | $600 | socks | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
ME "FIRST"! | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'It's marked by pain & reddening of the top layer of skin' | $800 | first degree burn | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
SITCOM UNCLES | 2004-04-26T00:00:00 | 'As Uncle Charley, William Demarest helped Fred MacMurray raise his boys on this '60s series' | $800 | My Three Sons | Jeopardy! | 4531 |
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