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COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'It's the money paid by golfers to play on a course'
$400
greens fees
Double Jeopardy!
1794
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy & public" one of these'
$400
a trial
Double Jeopardy!
1794
WORLD CITIES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'This Canadian city's metro was the first subway in the Western Hemisphere to use rubber tires'
$600
Montreal
Double Jeopardy!
1794
ARTISTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Jose Orozco, a colleague of Diego Rivera, was one of this country's greatest muralists'
$600
Mexico
Double Jeopardy!
1794
LANGUAGES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Street signs in Brussels are printed in French & this language'
$600
Flemish
Double Jeopardy!
1794
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'George Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" takes place in America during this 18th century war'
$600
the American Revolution
Double Jeopardy!
1794
COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina is one of the highest peaks in this Appalachian range'
$600
the Blue Ridge
Double Jeopardy!
1794
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'The Bill of Rights guarantees that private property shall not be taken for public use without this'
$600
just compensation
Double Jeopardy!
1794
WORLD CITIES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'From 1920 to 1939, this Lithuanian capital was the capital of the Polish province of Wilno'
$800
Vilnius
Double Jeopardy!
1794
ARTISTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Goya's wall paintings decorate the Church of San Antonio de la Florida in this capital city'
$800
Madrid
Double Jeopardy!
1794
LANGUAGES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'In addition to English, most people of this self-governing U.S. island also speak Chamorro'
$800
Guam
Double Jeopardy!
1794
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Turgenev wrote a play called "A Month in" this place — how bucolic'
$800
the Country
Double Jeopardy!
1794
COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Type of reporting Hearst & Pulitzer used to fan the fires of war between Spain & the U.S.'
$800
yellow journalism
Double Jeopardy!
1794
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'This state's Declaration of Rights was the model for our first 10 amendments'
$5,500
Virginia
Double Jeopardy!
1794
WORLD CITIES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Pakistan's largest city, it was the country's capital from 1947 to 1959'
$1000
Karachi
Double Jeopardy!
1794
ARTISTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'The modern artist who was born Milton Rauschenberg changed his first name to this'
$1000
Robert
Double Jeopardy!
1794
LANGUAGES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'It's the only Slavic language that is an official language of the United Nations'
$2,300
Russian
Double Jeopardy!
1794
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'The N.Y. Drama Critics Circle gave its 1991 Best Play prize to John Guare's play "Six Degrees of" this'
$1000
Separation
Double Jeopardy!
1794
COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'This city in Southern Texas lies on the Rio Grande across from Matamoros, Mexico'
$1000
Brownsville
Double Jeopardy!
1794
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'This future president served on the House committee which prepared the Bill of Rights'
$1000
(James) Madison
Double Jeopardy!
1794
AMERICAN STORIES
1992-05-21T00:00:00
'Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains"'
null
\"Rip Van Winkle\"
Final Jeopardy!
1794
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Alphabetically, the countries in Europe run from Albania to this tiny landlocked nation'
$200
Vatican City
Jeopardy!
6244
THE 2011 EMMYS
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Emmy has spoken: he won his fourth straight award as Best Reality Host & we can tell you for sure that he knows how to rock & roll'
$200
(Jeff) Probst
Jeopardy!
6244
MILITARY WIVES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Her married life began in military housing in San Antonio in 1916; 37 years & 22 moves brought her to the White House'
$200
Mamie Eisenhower
Jeopardy!
6244
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'An entertainer: <br />"Moonwalk"'
$200
Michael Jackson
Jeopardy!
6244
STORAGE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The SSA, this association, says I'ts members control 2 1/4 billion square feet'
$200
Self Storage
Jeopardy!
6244
JEOPORTMANTEAU
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'U.S. chief executive plus prosthetic teeth'
$200
presidentures
Jeopardy!
6244
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'We're counting on your knowing that the Firth of Forth is an estuary in this country'
$400
Scotland
Jeopardy!
6244
THE 2011 EMMYS
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Guy Pearce won an acting Emmy for playing Monty in this HBO miniseries'
$400
Mildred Pierce
Jeopardy!
6244
MILITARY WIVES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Mary Custis had other suitors, like Sam Houston, but she was set on this soldier son of Light-horse Harry; they wed in 1831'
$400
Robert E. Lee
Jeopardy!
6244
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A vice president: <br />"In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir"'
$400
Dick Cheney
Jeopardy!
6244
STORAGE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'This item on which Garrick Ohlsson sits while working often has a compartment to store sheet music'
$400
a piano bench
Jeopardy!
6244
JEOPORTMANTEAU
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Jack-o-lantern gourd plus school for wee ones'
$400
pumpkindergarten
Jeopardy!
6244
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-11-10_J_28.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.</a>) Beginning northwest of Moscow and flowing 2,300 miles to the Caspian Sea, this river is the longest in Europe'
$600
the Volga
Jeopardy!
6244
THE 2011 EMMYS
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'With clear eyes & a full heart, Kyle Chandler couldn't lose Lead Actor in a Drama for this show'
$600
Friday Night Lights
Jeopardy!
6244
MILITARY WIVES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In 1824 David Farragut married Susan Marchant of this Virginia city & made that port his home'
$600
Norfolk
Jeopardy!
6244
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'An actor: <br />"My Wicked, Wicked Ways"'
$600
Errol Flynn
Jeopardy!
6244
STORAGE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Store your manly possessions using a gun, bat or pipe type of this 4-letter word'
$600
rack
Jeopardy!
6244
JEOPORTMANTEAU
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Additional note at the end of a letter plus revered texts'
$600
postscriptures
Jeopardy!
6244
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Bayonne, France'
$2,000
the Bay of Biscay
Jeopardy!
6244
THE 2011 EMMYS
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'After joining her fellow nominees onstage, Melissa McCarthy won for this double "M" sitcom'
$800
Mike and Molly
Jeopardy!
6244
MILITARY WIVES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A few weeks before their 1864 wedding, his fiancee Elizabeth called him her "old fellow with the golden curls"'
$800
(George Armstrong) Custer
Jeopardy!
6244
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A songwriter: <br />"Bound for Glory"'
$800
Woody Guthrie
Jeopardy!
6244
STORAGE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'At U.S. nuclear power plants, most spent fuel is stored in these, which cool them'
$800
ponds (or pools)
Jeopardy!
6244
JEOPORTMANTEAU
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Periodic student allowance plus swinging Foucault feat'
$800
stipendulum
Jeopardy!
6244
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'From their name, these Danish islands sound like they should be ruled by Egyptian royalty'
$1000
the Faroe Islands
Jeopardy!
6244
THE 2011 EMMYS
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'This best director was a raging bull in an Emmy shop for his work on "Boardwalk Empire"'
$1000
Martin Scorsese
Jeopardy!
6244
MILITARY WIVES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-11-10_J_25.jpg" target="_blank">That</a>'s the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-11-10_J_25a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> husband of hers'
$1000
General George Patton
Jeopardy!
6244
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'An architect: <br />"Inside the Third Reich"'
$1000
(Albert) Speer
Jeopardy!
6244
STORAGE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In 1955 the Sentry company made the first one of these classified as fire-resistant'
$1000
a safe
Jeopardy!
6244
JEOPORTMANTEAU
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Morning meal plus picky about details'
$1000
breakfastidious
Jeopardy!
6244
LADS NAMED VLAD
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'What a sport! In 2008 this Russian leader put out an instructional judo DVD'
$400
(Vladimir) Putin
Double Jeopardy!
6244
GIVE THE ORDER
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The gorilla'
$400
primate
Double Jeopardy!
6244
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Thomas Keneally won for a book about this title German man, an unlikely savior to Jews in WWII'
$400
(Oskar) Schindler
Double Jeopardy!
6244
POP CULTURE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Dana Owens took this name, Arabic for "gentle", at age 8; about 10 years later she put "Queen" in front of it'
$400
Latifah
Double Jeopardy!
6244
2 VS, PLEASE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A new production of an old play, or an evangelistic service'
$400
a revival
Double Jeopardy!
6244
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In 2011 the Fed, led by him, said let's do the Operation Twist, buying long-term bonds & selling shorter-term debt'
$400
Bernanke
Double Jeopardy!
6244
LADS NAMED VLAD
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A butterfly expert, he wrote much of "Lolita" while on butterfly hunting trips with his wife'
$800
Nabokov
Double Jeopardy!
6244
GIVE THE ORDER
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The chinchilla'
$800
rodent
Double Jeopardy!
6244
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A burned man is the title figure of this novel by Michael Ondaatje that's set in 1945'
$800
The English Patient
Double Jeopardy!
6244
POP CULTURE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'A 21-crunch salute to the late Arch West, the Frito-Lay executive credited with creating this brand of tortilla chips'
$800
Doritos
Double Jeopardy!
6244
2 VS, PLEASE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'To develop gradually, Darwin-style'
$800
evolve
Double Jeopardy!
6244
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In 2011 Christine Lagarde became the managing director of the IMF, this body, after it did a needed shuffle'
$800
the International Monetary Fund
Double Jeopardy!
6244
LADS NAMED VLAD
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The inspiration for Dracula, Prince Vlad Tepes earned this nickname by executing enemies by driving a stake through them'
$1200
Vlad the Impaler
Double Jeopardy!
6244
GIVE THE ORDER
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The grizzly bear & the gray wolf'
$1,200
carnivore
Double Jeopardy!
6244
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Roddy Doyle, born in this city, won for "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha", set in a fictional part of that city'
$1200
Dublin
Double Jeopardy!
6244
POP CULTURE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'We are royally mad about <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-11-10_DJ_03.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> British-born host'
$1200
Cat Deeley
Double Jeopardy!
6244
2 VS, PLEASE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Adjective meaning unforgiving or vengeful'
$1200
vindictive
Double Jeopardy!
6244
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'This 3-named Brit's "General Theory" says unemployment is reduced with more government spending; how low can you go?'
$1200
John Maynard Keynes
Double Jeopardy!
6244
LADS NAMED VLAD
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'This Russian-born piano virtuoso was the son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini'
$1600
Vladimir Horowitz
Double Jeopardy!
6244
GIVE THE ORDER
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The gypsy moth'
$1600
Lepidoptera
Double Jeopardy!
6244
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'1989's winner was this novel by Kazuo Ishiguro about a perfect English butler reflecting on his 30-year career'
$1600
The Remains of the Day
Double Jeopardy!
6244
POP CULTURE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In 2011 she returned to TV with a reality series about her efforts to run a macadamia farm in Hawaii'
$1600
Roseanne
Double Jeopardy!
6244
2 VS, PLEASE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'8-letter adjective preceding "procedure", as when a scalpel is required'
$1600
invasive
Double Jeopardy!
6244
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In honor of "Alas, Brazil", a 1999 article by this newspaper columnist & 2008 Nobel winner, it's time to lambada'
$1600
Paul Krugman
Double Jeopardy!
6244
LADS NAMED VLAD
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'In 1929, while working for RCA, this inventor & engineer demonstrated the first practical all-electronic TV'
$4,000
Vladimir Zworykin
Double Jeopardy!
6244
GIVE THE ORDER
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The platypus'
$2000
monotremes
Double Jeopardy!
6244
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'The 2002 prize went to Yann Martel's bestseller "Life of" this'
$2000
Pi
Double Jeopardy!
6244
POP CULTURE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Got that song "Pumped Up Kicks" stuck in your head? Blame this trio led by Mark Foster'
$2000
Foster the People
Double Jeopardy!
6244
2 VS, PLEASE
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'Last name of the 1904 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, dog'
$2000
Pavlov
Double Jeopardy!
6244
ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'This "funny" man said cuts in marginal tax rates increase tax revenues & draws (then dances) his "curve"'
$2000
(Arthur) Laffer
Double Jeopardy!
6244
HOLLYWOOD HISTORY
2011-11-10T00:00:00
'They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year'
null
Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland
Final Jeopardy!
6244
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'Natural killer cells target other cells that pose a danger, as in this, the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S.'
$200
cancer
Jeopardy!
5932
ETCHED IN STONE
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'The inscription on the London statue of this man seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-06-01_J_24.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> reads, "There is no darkness but ignorance"'
$200
Shakespeare
Jeopardy!
5932
FOOD SCIENCE
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'To combat hypothyroidism, iodine was first added in the 1920s to this common seasoning'
$200
salt
Jeopardy!
5932
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'After a 1976 gig in Memphis, Bruce scaled the wall of this music icon's home & was busted by a security guard'
$200
Elvis Presley
Jeopardy!
5932
THE BOSS
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'The boss is vacationing with Diddy & taking in a film festival in this French resort city on the Gulf of Napoule'
$200
Cannes
Jeopardy!
5932
BORN TO "RUN"
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'A meal served at 11:00 A.M. on a Sunday'
$200
brunch
Jeopardy!
5932
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'Interferons interfere with the replication of these organisms that live in cells, so only 1 at a time can get you'
$400
viruses
Jeopardy!
5932
ETCHED IN STONE
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'The inscription above <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-06-01_J_25.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> man's D.C. memorial starts, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."'
$400
Jefferson
Jeopardy!
5932
FOOD SCIENCE
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-06-01_J_20.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a slice of bread toasted to golden brown.</a>) Toasting <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-06-01_J_20a.jpg" target="_blank">bread</a> is actually a chemical reaction where this element, from the Latin for "charcoal", is released from the starch & sugar during the heating process'
$400
carbon
Jeopardy!
5932
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'In July of 1984 this Boss album began a 7-week stay atop the charts; it stayed on the survey for 139 weeks'
$400
Born in the U.S.A.
Jeopardy!
5932
THE BOSS
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'The boss wants to see you; seems you've been online playing a lot of this "stately" card game with a "river" & "turn"'
$400
Texas hold \'em
Jeopardy!
5932
BORN TO "RUN"
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'"I ran with llamas & bought 22 6-packs & went skydiving with Beyonce & Jay-Z was upset with me" is this type of sentence'
$400
a run-on sentence
Jeopardy!
5932
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'Lysozyme found in these secretions destroys bacteria that attack the cornea'
$600
tears
Jeopardy!
5932
ETCHED IN STONE
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'Underneath the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-06-01_J_26.jpg" target="_blank">sculpture</a> of Ramses II and his falcon god friend is an example of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-06-01_J_26a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> type of writing'
$600
hieroglyphics
Jeopardy!
5932
FOOD SCIENCE
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'When heated, the moisture turns to steam & explodes the shell, turning this snack inside out'
$600
popcorn
Jeopardy!
5932
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'In an unprecedented move in 1975, these 2 rival news magazines both featured cover stories on Bruce'
$600
Newsweek & Time
Jeopardy!
5932
THE BOSS
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'The boss isn't so tech-savvy; he just said to send a telegram using this company, which sent its last one on Jan. 27, 2006'
$600
Western Union
Jeopardy!
5932
BORN TO "RUN"
2010-06-01T00:00:00
'Meaning sulky or peevish, this 11-letter word seems to precede "ex-employee" a lot'
$600
disgruntled
Jeopardy!
5932