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JACKASS--THE CATEGORY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The jackass, possibly the Somali variety, was domesticated on this continent about 6,000 years ago' | $400 | Africa | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
STATE SONGS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Bet you a buckeye knows that his state song is "Beautiful" this' | $400 | Ohio | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE "L" YOU SAY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The Davy Crockett craze of the 1950s made these pioneer toy building sets wildly popular' | $400 | Lincoln Logs | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE WAR OF 1812 | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'In asking for a declaration of war, this president charged that Britain had stirred up Indian warfare in the Northwest' | $600 | James Madison | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
TV QUOTABLES | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '"I transported the whole kit & kaboodle into their engine room where they'll be no tribble at all"' | $600 | Scotty | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
INITIALLY YOURS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Eccentric punctuator & typographer Edward Estlin' | $600 | E.E. Cummings | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
JACKASS--THE CATEGORY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'When a jackass & a mare mate, the hybrid offspring is one of these' | $600 | a mule | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
STATE SONGS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'In 2000 it got a new state song: "These Green Mountains"' | $600 | Vermont | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE "L" YOU SAY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This tiny country doesn't manage its own postal & telephone services; it lets Switzerland do it' | $600 | Liechtenstein | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE WAR OF 1812 | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'In August 1812 the U.S. lost Fort Dearborn, where, oddly, this city now stands' | $800 | Chicago | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
TV QUOTABLES | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '"It's a... fact that cows were domesticated in Mesopotamia & were also used in China as guard animals"' | $800 | Cliff Clavin | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
INITIALLY YOURS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'American artist & illustrator Newell Convers' | $800 | N.C. Wyeth | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
JACKASS--THE CATEGORY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Apollo made these parts of Midas resemble those of a jackass after Midas picked Pan in a "Greek Idol" music contest' | $800 | his ears | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
STATE SONGS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The title of this state song is simply the name of the state with an exclamation point after it' | $4,000 | "Oklahoma!" | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE "L" YOU SAY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This 5-letter adjective can mean "full of healthy vigor" or just plain "lecherous"' | $800 | lusty | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE WAR OF 1812 | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The War Hawks included John C. Calhoun & this "Great Compromiser" who was Speaker of the House' | $1000 | Henry Clay | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
TV QUOTABLES | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '"The sea was angry that day, my friends... like an old man trying to return soup at a deli"' | $1000 | George Costanza | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
INITIALLY YOURS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'American author Edgar Laurence' | $1000 | E.L. Doctorow | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
JACKASS--THE CATEGORY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Jack or jackass refers to a male ass; this refers to a female' | $1000 | a jenny | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
STATE SONGS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '"Here We Have" this Northwest state (we know, we've seen its ID)' | $1000 | Idaho | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
THE "L" YOU SAY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The emperor Nero believed this big onion relative would improve his singing voice' | $1000 | the leek | Jeopardy! | 5069 |
PRAGUE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew hangs out on a street in Prage, Czech Republic.</a>) Legend says the <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_16a.jpg" target="_blank">upper part</a> of Prague's Old-New Synagogue holds the remains of this clay giant created to protect the Jews' | $400 | the golem | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ALBUMS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '"The Perfect Nanny" was a track on this soundtrack album that toppled "Beatles '65" from the No. 1 spot' | $400 | Mary Poppins | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
COMEDIE & TRAGEDIE FRANCAISE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Beaumarchais paired a clever servant with an amorous master in "Le barbier de Seville" & "Le mariage de" him' | $400 | Figaro | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
EDIBLE RHYME TIME | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'A cashew shack' | $400 | a nut hut | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ESTIMATED PROPHET | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This prophet was thrown into a den of lions by Darius' | $400 | Daniel | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
WE NEED THE MONEY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'When these 2 countries were reunited, the ostmark was eliminated' | $400 | East & West Germany | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
PRAGUE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Prague is in this region whose name comes from the Boii, a tribe that once populated the area' | $800 | Bohemia | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ALBUMS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This 1976 Eagles album was the first to feature the "new kid in town", Joe Walsh, who replaced Bernie Leadon' | $800 | Hotel California | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
COMEDIE & TRAGEDIE FRANCAISE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'In the final act it's the final act of the heroine of Racine's tragic masterpiece "Phedre"' | $800 | suicide | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
EDIBLE RHYME TIME | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'A prized French cheese that you got without paying for it' | $800 | free brie | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ESTIMATED PROPHET | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The Hadith is a collection of the words & deeds of this prophet' | $6,000 | Mohammed | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
WE NEED THE MONEY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Before the euro, the money seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_12.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> was the currency of this country' | $800 | Greece | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
PRAGUE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew steps out of a housefront in Prage, Czech Republic to point out the address.</a>) This novelist lived within the castle at number 22 Golden Lane a few years before <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_18a.jpg" target="_blank">he</a> wrote his novel "The Castle"' | $4,000 | (Franz) Kafka | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ALBUMS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Bela Fleck & this group's 2000 CD "Outbound" featured guest stars Shawn Colvin & Yes' Jon Anderson' | $1200 | The Flecktones | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
COMEDIE & TRAGEDIE FRANCAISE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This progressive "Theatre", unlike the "Cirque", began in 1964 with a production of "Les petits bourgeois"' | $1200 | du soleil | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
EDIBLE RHYME TIME | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'A long, tiresome speech delivered by a frothy pie topping' | $1200 | a meringue harangue | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ESTIMATED PROPHET | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'The last book of the New Testament is a collection of prophetic visions by this man' | $1200 | John (the Divine) | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
WE NEED THE MONEY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'When shopping in Cairo, it's important to know that 100 piastres make up this unit of Egyptian currency' | $1200 | the Egyptian pound | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
PRAGUE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> river that runs through Prague was immortalized in a <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_23.mp3">work</a> by composer Bedrich Smetana' | $1600 | the Moldau | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ALBUMS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1995 Alanis Morissette became one of the youngest to win a Grammy when this was named album of the year' | $1600 | Jagged Little Pill | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
COMEDIE & TRAGEDIE FRANCAISE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'A wise fool is at the center of this man's 1668 play "George Dandin"' | $1600 | Molière | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
EDIBLE RHYME TIME | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'A chocolate substitute shaped like an Egyptian beetle' | $1600 | a carob scarab | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ESTIMATED PROPHET | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This visionary Lebanese-American poet penned "The Garden of the Prophet"' | $1600 | Kahlil Gibran | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
WE NEED THE MONEY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'It's the unit of currency of the bill seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>' | $1600 | a ruble | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
PRAGUE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_24.wmv">Sarah of the Clue Crew leans out of a famous portal.</a>) 2 men were tossed out <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_24.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-09-28_DJ_24a.jpg" target="_blank">window</a> in the incident called the Defenestration of Prague, leading to this numerical war' | $2000 | the Thirty Years\' War | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ALBUMS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | '"All Jacked Up" was the follow-up to "Here for the Party", the debut album by this "Redneck Woman" of country' | $2000 | Gretchen Wilson | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
COMEDIE & TRAGEDIE FRANCAISE | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'This satirical novelist got serious with "Zaire", a 1732 tragedy about a Christian raised by Turks' | $2000 | Voltaire | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
EDIBLE RHYME TIME | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'A lower-fat Frankfurter' | $2000 | leaner wiener | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
ESTIMATED PROPHET | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'To his fellow slaves, this 19th century insurrectionist was known as "The Prophet"' | $2000 | Nat Turner | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
WE NEED THE MONEY | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Like its much larger neighbor Saudi Arabia, Qatar uses the currency called this' | $2000 | the rial | Double Jeopardy! | 5069 |
HISTORICAL TERMS | 2006-09-28T00:00:00 | 'Historians refer to "the long 19th century", the 125-year span between these 2 events' | null | the French Revolution and World War I | Final Jeopardy! | 5069 |
VOLCANOES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In 2010 stranded airline passengers learned that Eyjafjallajokull is a volcano in this country' | $200 | Iceland | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
WE'RE CUCKOO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Unlike most birds, cuckoos have 2 of these pointing forward & 2 pointing backwards, if you "grasp" the clue' | $200 | talons (or toes) | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
20th CENTURY WOMEN | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'At a June 2008 auction, candid footage of her on the set of "The Misfits" sold for $60,000' | $200 | Marilyn Monroe | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
MORE THAN ONE MEANING | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'A king's headgear, or a tooth cover' | $200 | a crown | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Around 900 the Toltec leader "Cloud Serpent" sacked Teotihuacan in what's now this country' | $200 | Mexico | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
ONLY YESTERDAY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '"Yesterday" was released as a Beatles song, but this lad wrote & sang it himself' | $200 | (Paul) McCartney | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
VOLCANOES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'A Japanese proverb says, "he who climes" this peak "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool"' | $400 | Mt. Fuji | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
WE'RE CUCKOO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In this 1975 film Jack Nicholson commented, "I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this!"' | $400 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
20th CENTURY WOMEN | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Before she was Secretary of State, she was a professor of international affairs at Georgetown Univ.' | $400 | Madeline Albright | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
MORE THAN ONE MEANING | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'A chemical element, or a golf club' | $400 | iron | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In Egypt in the 2nd millennium B.C., a typical daily laborer's wage included 1 or 2 jugs of this' | $400 | beer | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
ONLY YESTERDAY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'The thousands of covers include this group singing "I'm not half the girl I used to be" on the album "I Hear a Symphony"' | $400 | the Supremes | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
VOLCANOES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'According to National Geographic, it's the most dangerous volcano in the lower 48 states' | $1,000 | Mt. St. Helens | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
WE'RE CUCKOO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Edmund Spenser called the cuckoo the "messenger of" this season' | $600 | Spring | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
20th CENTURY WOMEN | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'She's one tough bunny--she ran daddy's Playboy Enterprises as CEO for over 20 years' | $600 | Christie Hefner | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
MORE THAN ONE MEANING | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'To throw a baseball, or to present a TV show idea for production consideration' | $600 | pitch | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In 627 Meccans besieged this city, but new resident Muhammad & his followers saved the day by digging a trench' | $600 | Medina | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
ONLY YESTERDAY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'This man crooned "Yesterday" on his 1969 album "My Way"' | $600 | Frank Sinatra | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
VOLCANOES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In Sicilian it's called Muncibeddu, meaning "mountain"' | $800 | Mt. Etna | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
WE'RE CUCKOO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Many cuckoo clocks have weights made into the shape of this reproductive part of a certain evergreen tree' | $800 | a pine cone | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
20th CENTURY WOMEN | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'She's the author & poet heard <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-20_J_11.mp3">here</a> reading from her memoir "A Song Flung Up to Heaven"<br /><br /><i>The times were so solemn, and the daily news so somber that we snatched mirth<br /> from unlikely places.</i>' | $800 | Maya Angelou | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
MORE THAN ONE MEANING | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'It's a house of worship, or the flattened region on either side of the forehead' | $800 | a temple | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In the 11th C. south Indian ruler Rajendracola Deva I conquered this island' | $800 | Sri Lanka | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
ONLY YESTERDAY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Syesha Mercado did the honors on this TV show's 2008 Beatles night' | $800 | American Idol | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
VOLCANOES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'A specific eruption style is named for this Caribbean volcano that erupted in 1902, killing thousands' | $1000 | Mt. Pelée | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
WE'RE CUCKOO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Dating from the 13th century, this word is derived from "cuckoo" & refers to a man with an unfaithful wife' | $1000 | a cuckold | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
20th CENTURY WOMEN | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Both of these Supreme Court justices were inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame' | $1000 | O\'Connor and Ginsburg | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
MORE THAN ONE MEANING | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'To sink, or someone who establishes something' | $1000 | founder | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Demosthenes was much in demand in ancient Athens as a logographer, later this job of Ted Sorenson' | $1000 | a speech writer | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
ONLY YESTERDAY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'This R&B quartet's version of "Yesterday" is on their 1994 album "II"' | $1000 | Boyz II Men | Jeopardy! | 6003 |
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'It was a short interlude between his wins for "Anna Christie" (1922) & "Strange Interlude" (1928)' | $400 | (Eugene) O\'Neill | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LAST MOVIES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"<br />(1967)' | $400 | Spencer Tracy | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LIZARDRY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Able to sit on a quarter, the dwarf variety of this lizard is the world's smallest & won't try to sell you car insurance' | $400 | the (dwarf) gecko | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
NON-DON KNOTS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-20_DJ_11.wmv">Kelly of the Clue Crew is ties a knot.</a>) Also known as a reef knot, this common knot should be used as a binding knot, never a bend' | $400 | a square knot | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
STATE / COLLEGES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Berklee College of Music & Amherst College' | $400 | Massachusetts | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
"ERE"Y WORDS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Fabric from goat hair' | $400 | cashmere | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'It was a picnic for him when he won in 1953 for "Picnic"' | $800 | William Inge | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LAST MOVIES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '"Canadian Bacon"<br />(1995)' | $800 | John Candy | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LIZARDRY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'The basilisk lizard is also known as the Jesus Christ lizard because of its ability to do this' | $800 | walk on water | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
NON-DON KNOTS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-20_DJ_12.wmv">Kelly of the Clue Crew ties a knot.</a>) Especially useful in sailing & rock climbing, this knot with a numerical name is easily untied, even after the greatest strain' | $800 | a figure-eight knot | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
STATE / COLLEGES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'New England College & Daniel Webster College' | $800 | New Hampshire | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
"ERE"Y WORDS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'From the Latin for "to respect", it's a verb meaning to regard with awe & devotion' | $800 | revere | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'For Frank Gilroy in 1965, the subject was winning when "The Subject Was" these took home a Pulitzer' | $1200 | Roses | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LAST MOVIES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '"Game of Death"<br />(released in 1978)' | $2,000 | Bruce Lee | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LIZARDRY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Because of a fracture plane across their lower vertebra, lizards have this ability, aka autotomy, to escape danger' | $1200 | to shed their tail | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
NON-DON KNOTS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-20_DJ_00.wmv">Sarah of the Clue Crew ties a knot.</a>) The knot called a "fisherman's bend" is also known as this "bend", as it can act as one for a boat to a dock' | $1200 | an anchor bend | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
STATE / COLLEGES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Swarthmore & Bryn Mawr' | $1200 | Pennsylvania | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
"ERE"Y WORDS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Disease has been declared a crime & the sick are imprisoned in this 1872 Samuel Butler novel' | $1200 | Erewhon | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
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