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THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Sadly, Jonathan Larson had died by the time this musical of his won the Pulitzer in 1996' | $1600 | Rent | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LAST MOVIES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '"Brainstorm"<br />(1983)' | $1600 | Natalie Wood | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LIZARDRY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'To ward off predators, the horned lizard will squirt this out of its eyes' | $1600 | blood | 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>) This type of hitch can be used to tow a log either afloat or on land; you might hear a lumberjack yell it, too' | $1600 | a timber hitch | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
STATE / COLLEGES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Morehouse & Spelman Colleges' | $1600 | Georgia | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
"ERE"Y WORDS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Lake Hazen on this Canadian island is the world's largest lake entirely north of the Arctic Circle' | $3,000 | Ellesmere Island | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '1954's winner was John Patrick for "The Teahouse of" this' | $2000 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LAST MOVIES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | '"Always"<br />(1989)' | $2000 | Audrey Hepburn | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
LIZARDRY | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'The name of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-20_DJ_29.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> lizard of Australia tells you he's not just happy to meet you, he's this' | $2000 | frilled | 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 name of this binding knot also describes a suffocating type of snake' | $2000 | a constrictor | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
STATE / COLLEGES | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Flagler College & Ringling School of Art & Design' | $2000 | Florida | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
"ERE"Y WORDS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'In Greek mythology, one must pass through this dark region of the underworld to reach Hades' | $2000 | Erebus | Double Jeopardy! | 6003 |
COUNTRY DEMOGRAPHICS | 2010-10-20T00:00:00 | 'Because of a policy adopted in 1979, this country's young people are collectively referred to as "little emperors"' | null | China | Final Jeopardy! | 6003 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The problem in this 1902 story is for Sherlock to find the beast (or man) that's been killing folks on the Devonshire moors' | $200 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
A PIECE OF HISTORY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The Huntington Library has some jewels--a manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" (c. 1410) & one of his Bibles (c. 1455)' | $200 | Gutenberg | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
LINENS & THINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A flat piece of absorbent material on which you wipe your feet before entering a house' | $200 | a doormat | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'This Spielberg film featured a longer ending in which Richard Dreyfuss explores the mother ship' | $200 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
HYBRIDS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Grapple' | $200 | a grape & an apple | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
JIM RHYME | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The outward projection of a hat' | $200 | a brim | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'In this story Bilbo & the dwarves have to get a pile of treasure out from under a dragon' | $400 | The Hobbit | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
A PIECE OF HISTORY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Hebrew university has his archives--digitized, too, so you can see his notes on relativity in his hand' | $400 | Einstein | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
LINENS & THINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'This basic type of sheet has elastic edges tailored to grip a mattress; can somebodv help me fold it?' | $400 | a fitted sheet | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A blood-craving Audrey II "branches" out & takes over NYC in Frank Oz' ending that never was to this film' | $400 | Little Shop of Horrors | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
HYBRIDS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Stagflation' | $400 | stagnation & inflation | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
JIM RHYME | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Filled with gloom, like a certain reaper' | $400 | grim | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Sydney Carton solves the problem of saving Charles Darnay's neck (literally) in this work' | $600 | A Tale of Two Cities | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
A PIECE OF HISTORY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Apollo astronauts collected 841 pounds of these (most are stored at Johnson space center)' | $600 | Moon rocks | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
LINENS & THINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'From the Greek for heavy fabric, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_J_08.jpg" target="_blank">it's</a> the type of thick wall covering seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_J_08a.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>' | $600 | a tapestry | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'An alternate ending for this movie has Will Smith alive & a reunion of vampire lovers' | $600 | I Am Legend | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
HYBRIDS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Pixel' | $1,200 | picture element | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
JIM RHYME | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Dainty & refined partner of proper' | $600 | prim | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'In this 1980 Ludlum thriller, an amnesiac is faced with the problem of reconstructing his past while dodging killers' | $800 | The Bourne Identity | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
A PIECE OF HISTORY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A 17-ton piece of its hull was recovered from its wreckage site, 450 miles off the coast of Newfoundland' | $800 | the Titanic | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
LINENS & THINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Named for an 18th century London draper, it's a small, lacy, ornamental cloth' | $800 | a doily | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Dante got shot while minding the convenience store in the original end of this Kevin Smith comedy' | $800 | Clerks | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
HYBRIDS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Tangelo' | $800 | a tangerine & a pomelo | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
JIM RHYME | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A sudden, capricious desire or act' | $800 | whim | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Porfiry's problem in this story is to get Raskolnikov to confess' | $1000 | Crime and Punishment | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
A PIECE OF HISTORY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system' | $1000 | cuneiform | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
LINENS & THINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'It's not something false, it's a decorative covering for a pillow' | $1000 | a sham | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The original script for this Jamie Foxx film set in Saudi Arabia had his FBI team getting blown up' | $1000 | The Kingdom | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
HYBRIDS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Cyborg' | $1000 | cybernetic organism | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
JIM RHYME | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'What one does during natation' | $1000 | swim | Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | '12 hens each lay a half dozen eggs, but 2 get broken; then a hen lays one more, leaving this many unbroken eggs' | $400 | 71 | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
CLASSICAL TV THEMES | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The 18th c. fanfare heard <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_07.mp3">here</a> is the theme for this PBS show that's brought class & drama to American TV' | $400 | Masterpiece Theatre | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Until 1792 Kentucky was a part of this state' | $400 | Virginia | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
FROM THE DUTCH | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'From the Dutch for "to cross", it's a pleasure trip taken aboard ship' | $400 | a cruise | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_17.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_17.jpg" target="_blank">) Though they've ridden Harleys & Kawasakis, the CHP has been riding motorcycles made by this Munich-based company since the 1990s' | $400 | BMW | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'If a lepidopterist spots 4 butterflies, each with 3 black spots & 5 yellow spots, he spots this many spots' | $800 | 32 | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
CLASSICAL TV THEMES | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The evening newscast by Chet Huntley & this partner used Beethoven's 9th for its theme' | $800 | (David) Brinkley | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Reflecting the state nickname, the International Museum for this genre of music is in Owensboro' | $800 | bluegrass | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">) The Breathalyzer will test to see if I'm over this blood alcohol content; its enactment as the limit in all 50 states has saved many lives' | $800 | .08 | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The "Jeopardy!" writers drank 72 beers after work yesterday: 20 in the 1st round, 26 in the 2nd & this many at last call' | $1200 | 26 | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
CLASSICAL TV THEMES | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Appropriately, the series titled this director "Presents" used a <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_09.mp3">funeral march</a> by Gounod as its theme' | $1200 | Hitchcock | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'This racetrack is home to the Kentucky Derby' | $1200 | Churchill Downs | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A widget costs 64 cents & you pay with a dollar; you get 4 coins in change, these' | $1600 | a penny, a quarter & two nickels | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
CLASSICAL TV THEMES | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'In 1829, though he didn't know it, he composed the theme music for "The Lone Ranger"' | $2,000 | Gioachino Rossini | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The first of these restaurants was opened by Colonel Harland Sanders in Corbin, Kentucky' | $1600 | KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
FROM THE DUTCH | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A medical charlatan, it's from a longer Dutch word meaning one who applies a phony cure-all ointment' | $1600 | a quack | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
STORY PROBLEMS | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'A scout troop hikes 3 miles due north, 4 miles due east & straight back this far to their starting point' | $4,000 | 5 | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
ATHLETES' COUNTRIES OF BIRTH | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Eric Lindros,<br />Eric Gagne' | $2000 | Canada | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
CLASSICAL TV THEMES | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'The <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_11.mp3">overture</a> to Reznicek's "Donna Diana" introduced this TV mountie "of the Yukon"' | $2000 | Sergeant Preston | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
KENTUCKY IS JUST DUCKY | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'Not Calhoun but this John C. from Kentucky was U.S. VP from 1857 to 1861 & then Sec. of War for the Confederacy' | $2000 | John C. Breckinridge | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
FROM THE DUTCH | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'This term for a leave of absence granted to a member of the military is from a Dutch word for "permission"' | $2000 | furlough | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-03-15_DJ_19.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento, CA.</a>) Named for a slain nine-year-old girl, these alerts issued by the CHP are an attempt to galvanize a community into looking for a missing child' | $2000 | an Amber alert | Double Jeopardy! | 5876 |
RELIGION | 2010-03-15T00:00:00 | 'In 1875 she wrote, "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe"' | null | Mary Baker Eddy | Final Jeopardy! | 5876 |
THE 1890s | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'In February 1898, this battleship sent to protect U.S. citizens & property in Cuba mysteriously blew up' | $100 | the Maine | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
FRENCH CUISINE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Popeye might like epinards au beurre, which is this vegetable with butter' | $100 | spinach | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
ACTRESSES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Annette Bening's pregnancy kept her from playing this "feline" role in "Batman Returns"' | $100 | the Catwoman | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
LAMP PEOPLE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'He didn't dream of Genie, but of Badrul-Bodor, the Sultan of China's daughter' | $100 | Aladdin | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | '"Jim Smiley and His Frog" was the original title of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this place' | $100 | Calaveras County | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
"T" ON THE MAP | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'This is the largest & most important French island in the south Pacific' | $100 | Tahiti | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
THE 1890s | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'It was in the late 1890s that he first described the Oedipus Complex' | $200 | Sigmund Freud | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
FRENCH CUISINE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'You can use the instant type of this beverage to make a souffle au cafe' | $200 | coffee | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
ACTRESSES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'In 1991 Bruce Willis rented Six Flags Magic Mountain for this actress's 29th birthday party' | $200 | Demi Moore | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
LAMP PEOPLE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Legend has it Diogenes carried a lighted lamp in daylight searching for one of these' | $200 | an honest man | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'The adventures of Rat, Mole, Toad & Badger are told in this 1908 British book' | $200 | The Wind in the Willows | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
"T" ON THE MAP | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Bay Street is the heart of this Canadian city's financial district' | $200 | Toronto | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
THE 1890s | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'As an indoor alternative to other sports, James Naismith invented this game in 1891' | $300 | basketball | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
FRENCH CUISINE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Adventurous chefs can use these fungi to make an ice cream called glace au truffe' | $300 | truffles | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
ACTRESSES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'At age 82, she reunited with Sid Caesar for a 1991 stage show called "Together Again"' | $300 | Imogene Coca | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
LAMP PEOPLE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Sir Humphrey Davy won the Rumford gold & silver medals for the safety lamp he made for these workers' | $300 | coal miners | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'In this work, James M. Barrie based Nana partly upon his wife's St. Bernard, Porthos' | $300 | Peter Pan | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
"T" ON THE MAP | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'This lake on the California-Nevada border drains into Pyramid Lake via the Truckee River' | $300 | Lake Tahoe | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
THE 1890s | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'The world's first Ferris wheel began cranking in 1893 at the Columbian Exposition in this city' | $400 | Chicago | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
FRENCH CUISINE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'If you want to order this ever-popular dessert in France, ask for gateau au chocolat' | $400 | chocolate cake | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
ACTRESSES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Timothy Bottoms fell in love with her while making "The Last Picture Show"; so did Peter Bogdanovich' | $400 | Cybill Shepherd | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
LAMP PEOPLE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'She wrote the 1883 poem that ends "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"' | $400 | Emma Lazarus | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'In "Rumplestiltskin", it's the trade of the man whose daughter must spin straw into gold' | $400 | Miller | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
"T" ON THE MAP | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'This city became the seat of the Nationalist Chinese government in 1949' | $400 | Taipei (Taiwan) | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
THE 1890s | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'In an effort to curb monopolies, Congress passed this act in 1890' | $900 | the Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
FRENCH CUISINE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'After you stuff this vegetable, you can call it chou-farsi' | $500 | cabbage | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
ACTRESSES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'One of this late actress's last films, "Dying Young", starred her son, Campbell Scott' | $500 | Colleen Dewhurst | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
LAMP PEOPLE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'During the Crimean War, she used a lamp to light her way on rounds in the Scutari Hospital wards' | $500 | Florence Nightingale | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'In an interview, Dr. Seuss said he modeled this domineering reptile on Adolf Hitler' | $500 | Yertle the Turtle | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
"T" ON THE MAP | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'This North African city was officially international until integrated into Morocco in 1956' | $500 | Tangier | Jeopardy! | 1881 |
GENERAL SCIENCE | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'Using this form of electromagnetic radiation, you can cook an entire chicken in 15 minutes' | $200 | Microwave | Double Jeopardy! | 1881 |
HISTORIC NAMES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | '18-year-old Manuel II became king of this country after his father was assassinated in Lisbon in 1908' | $200 | Portugal | Double Jeopardy! | 1881 |
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'As you might expect, you'll find Golden Gate University in this city' | $200 | San Francisco | Double Jeopardy! | 1881 |
CLASSICAL MUSIC | 1992-11-09T00:00:00 | 'While living in Paris in 1829, he wrote his last opera, "William Tell"' | $200 | Gioachino Rossini | Double Jeopardy! | 1881 |
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