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BIBLICAL PEOPLE
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'After being delivered from the belly of the great fish, he warned Nineveh of its great evil'
$200
Jonah
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AWARDS
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Sylvester Stallone received "Best Actor" & "Best Original Screenplay" Oscar nominations for this 1976 film'
$200
Rocky
Double Jeopardy!
2046
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Tha main part of Cairo lies on 2 islands & the East Bank of this river'
$200
the Nile
Double Jeopardy!
2046
POETS & POETRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'His last volume of poetry, "The Raven and other Poems", was published in 1845'
$200
Edgar Allan Poe
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AMERICAN HISTORY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Before becoming chief justice in 1789, he was Sec'y of Foreign Affairs in the Continental Congress'
$400
John Jay
Double Jeopardy!
2046
GEMS & JEWELRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'The oldest Chinese carvings made from this gem are simple tools & amulets'
$400
jade
Double Jeopardy!
2046
BIBLICAL PEOPLE
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'According to Mark, he bent to the will of the mob in sending Jesus to the cross'
$400
Pontius Pilate
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AWARDS
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'His "No Respect" LP won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording of 1980'
$400
Rodney Dangerfield
Double Jeopardy!
2046
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'The Thar Desert occupies a part of Pakistan & much of this country's Haryana & Rajasthan states'
$400
India
Double Jeopardy!
2046
POETS & POETRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'This poet's birthplace in Galesburg, Ill. displays a first edition of his Lincoln biography'
$400
Sandburg
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AMERICAN HISTORY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising "a chicken in every pot"'
$600
Hoover
Double Jeopardy!
2046
GEMS & JEWELRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Popularly worn in brooches, cairngorm is a smoky quartz from this country'
$600
Scotland
Double Jeopardy!
2046
BIBLICAL PEOPLE
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Her 2 husbands were Uriah the Hittite & David the king'
$600
Bathsheba
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AWARDS
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'This chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991'
$600
(Colin) Powell
Double Jeopardy!
2046
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'This body of water borders the northern coast of Wales'
$600
the Irish Sea
Double Jeopardy!
2046
POETS & POETRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'In a Lewis Carroll poem, these two title characters "were walking close at hand"'
$600
the Walrus & the Carpenter
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AMERICAN HISTORY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Judge John T. Raulston presided over this Dayton, Tennessee trial in July 1925'
$800
the Scopes trial
Double Jeopardy!
2046
GEMS & JEWELRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'The most highly prized color of this September gem is cornflower blue'
$800
sapphire
Double Jeopardy!
2046
BIBLICAL PEOPLE
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'This judge's general, Barak, refused to battle the Canaanites unless she accompanied him'
$1,000
Deborah
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AWARDS
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'In the title role of 1964's "What Makes Sammy Run?", this husband of Eydie Gorme got a Tony nomination'
$800
Steve Lawrence
Double Jeopardy!
2046
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'The capitals of British Columbia, Hong Kong & the Seychelles share this name'
$800
Victoria
Double Jeopardy!
2046
POETS & POETRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'A poem about him begins, "Come, all you rounders, if you want to hear a story 'bout a brave engineer"'
$800
Casey Jones
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AMERICAN HISTORY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'The first gusher in the U.S. occurred in this oil field near Beaumont, Texas in 1901'
$1000
Spindletop
Double Jeopardy!
2046
GEMS & JEWELRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'An English art critic said this gem "shows the most glorious colors to be seen in the world..."'
$1000
the opal
Double Jeopardy!
2046
BIBLICAL PEOPLE
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'The original name of this man, thrown in the fiery furnace, was Azariah'
$1000
Abednego
Double Jeopardy!
2046
AWARDS
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'In 1962 this "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" was given the Fermi Award for achievement in Atomic Energy'
$1000
Edward Teller
Double Jeopardy!
2046
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Denmark's highest point, Yding Skovhoj, rises only 568 feet on this peninsula'
$1000
Jutland
Double Jeopardy!
2046
POETS & POETRY
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Before he died this poet requested that "Crossing the Bar" appear last in his collections'
$500
Tennyson
Double Jeopardy!
2046
GODS & GODDESSES
1993-06-28T00:00:00
'Augustus Caesar encouraged the worship of this god who was considered the avenger of Julius Caesar'
null
Mars
Final Jeopardy!
2046
U.K. DEPENDENCIES
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This archipelago east of North Carolina is now self-governing under P.M. Jennifer Smith'
$100
Bermuda
Jeopardy!
3940
BOBBING FOR BOBS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'He started "Penthouse" as a pet project in 1965'
$100
Bob Guccione
Jeopardy!
3940
ART ATTACK
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Laszlo Toth took a hammer to his Pieta & Pietro Cannata took one to his David'
$100
Michelangelo
Jeopardy!
3940
ACTORS & THEIR FILMS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Matt Damon showed off his talent in this "talented" title role in 1999'
$100
Mr. Ripley
Jeopardy!
3940
MISSING LINKS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Old Rough & ____ to Wear'
$100
Ready
Jeopardy!
3940
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'The last public execution by this method took place on June 17, 1939 in Versailles, France'
$100
guillotine
Jeopardy!
3940
U.K. DEPENDENCIES
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This Caribbean island group is economically interdependent with the same-named U.S. group to its south'
$200
British Virgin Islands
Jeopardy!
3940
BOBBING FOR BOBS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'He was the loser on Sept. 20, 1973 in tennis' "Battle of the Sexes"'
$200
Bobby Riggs
Jeopardy!
3940
ART ATTACK
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In January 1999 a man scribbled with a gray marker on a painting in Rome by this American drip master'
$200
Jackson Pollock
Jeopardy!
3940
ACTORS & THEIR FILMS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Clint Eastwood directed & starred in this 2000 film that could have been called "Grumpy Old Astronauts"'
$200
Space Cowboys
Jeopardy!
3940
MISSING LINKS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Blue Eyes Crying in the ____ Man'
$200
Rain
Jeopardy!
3940
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This band gave its last concert with Jerry Garcia at Chicago's Soldier Field in 1995'
$200
the Grateful Dead
Jeopardy!
3940
U.K. DEPENDENCIES
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Britain's territory on this continent has no permanent residents & has been governed out of the Falklands'
$500
Antarctica
Jeopardy!
3940
BOBBING FOR BOBS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Don't worry, he's the musical virtuoso who sang "Don't Worry, Be Happy"'
$300
Bobby McFerrin
Jeopardy!
3940
ART ATTACK
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In 1998 an art student in London painted a yellow pound sign on a self-portrait by this Dutchman'
$300
Rembrandt
Jeopardy!
3940
ACTORS & THEIR FILMS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew rides the Ferris wheel at the Orange County Fair) Joseph Cotten & Orson Welles took a famous ride in a Ferris wheel in this classic 1949 film noir'
$300
The Third Man
Jeopardy!
3940
MISSING LINKS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Sympathy for the ____ with a Blue Dress on'
$300
Devil
Jeopardy!
3940
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'The last of these swingin' clubs closed its doors in July of 1988 in Lansing, Michigan'
$300
Playboy Clubs
Jeopardy!
3940
U.K. DEPENDENCIES
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In the 1990s, one of these destroyed Plymouth, the capital of Montserrat'
$400
volcano
Jeopardy!
3940
BOBBING FOR BOBS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'He may not like Mondays, but it didn't stop this man from organizing the "Live Aid" concerts in 1985'
$400
Bob Geldof
Jeopardy!
3940
ART ATTACK
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Students looking at "Fall of the Angels" in a Rome museum noticed this problem, as it didn't match the guidebook photo'
$400
it was upside down
Jeopardy!
3940
ACTORS & THEIR FILMS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This Georgia-born actress earned an Oscar nomination for playing Sally Field's Southern daughter in "Steel Magnolias"'
$400
Julia Roberts
Jeopardy!
3940
MISSING LINKS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'The Trouble with ____ and the Hendersons'
$400
Harry
Jeopardy!
3940
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Vadim Bakatin became the last head of this intelligence service in 1991'
$400
KGB
Jeopardy!
3940
U.K. DEPENDENCIES
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Napoleon was, so to speak, dependent on this island from 1815 to 1821'
$500
St. Helena
Jeopardy!
3940
BOBBING FOR BOBS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This British actor has played Benito Mussolini, Sancho Panza & Manuel Noriega'
$500
Bob Hoskins
Jeopardy!
3940
ART ATTACK
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In 1999 an escaped mental patient in Amsterdam slashed this Spaniard's "Nude Woman in Front of the Garden"'
$500
Pablo Picasso
Jeopardy!
3940
ACTORS & THEIR FILMS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'(Hi, I'm Virginia Madsen) I played Princess Irulan in this 1984 David Lynch film based on Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel'
$500
Dune
Jeopardy!
3940
MISSING LINKS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Better than ____ Pound'
$500
Ezra
Jeopardy!
3940
AMERICAN HISTORIC EVENTS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'On May 15, 1963 Gordon Cooper became the last American to do this alone'
$200
last solo American to go into space
Double Jeopardy!
3940
EVERYBODY LOVES RAY BRADBURY
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Ray's story "The Illustrated Man" is about a carnival worker covered in these'
$200
tattoos
Double Jeopardy!
3940
I'M IN CHARGE!
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In Asia:<br />Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi'
$200
Japan
Double Jeopardy!
3940
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Don't get all wrapped up with the ball type of this African critter seen here'
$200
python
Double Jeopardy!
3940
TAXI
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Listening to cabbies' problems on "Taxi" paid off for him with an Oscar nomination as a shrink in "Ordinary People"'
$200
Judd Hirsch
Double Jeopardy!
3940
"CAB"
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'It's the words of a language; we'll see how good yours is now'
$200
vocabulary
Double Jeopardy!
3940
AMERICAN HISTORIC EVENTS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'The "Great" one of these paralyzed New York City on March 12, 1888'
$400
Blizzard
Double Jeopardy!
3940
EVERYBODY LOVES RAY BRADBURY
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'"Dandelion Wine" is based on Bradbury's own childhood in Waukegan in this state'
$400
Illinois
Double Jeopardy!
3940
I'M IN CHARGE!
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In southern Europe:<br />Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi'
$400
Italy
Double Jeopardy!
3940
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the San Diego Zoo) This bird, second in size to the ostrich, has rudimentary wings under its feathers...he should be in here somewhere'
$400
emu
Double Jeopardy!
3940
TAXI
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'He wasn't the boss but a boxer on "Taxi" & had a real-life pro record of 12-3'
$400
Tony Danza
Double Jeopardy!
3940
"CAB"
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Donald Rumsfeld & Norman Mineta are 2 of the 15 members of this elite advisory body'
$400
the cabinet
Double Jeopardy!
3940
AMERICAN HISTORIC EVENTS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Ladies of Edenton, N.C. held an event called this on Oct. 25, 1774, 10 months after a more famous one in Boston'
$1,000
Edenton Tea Party
Double Jeopardy!
3940
EVERYBODY LOVES RAY BRADBURY
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'"The Fire Man" was the working title of this classic Bradbury novel'
$1,500
Fahrenheit 451
Double Jeopardy!
3940
I'M IN CHARGE!
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In central Europe:<br />President Aleksander Kwasniewski'
$600
Poland
Double Jeopardy!
3940
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Horseshoe crabs are more closely related to this group that includes spiders than they are to crabs'
$600
arachnids
Double Jeopardy!
3940
TAXI
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Friends thought that the news of the 1984 death of this comic who played Latka was one of his practical jokes'
$600
Andy Kaufman
Double Jeopardy!
3940
"CAB"
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Stephen King's 1980 overview of the horror genre was called "Danse" this'
$600
Macabre
Double Jeopardy!
3940
AMERICAN HISTORIC EVENTS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'He's the secretary of state seen here in a 1981 clip<br /><i>As of now, I am in control here in the White House</i>'
$800
Alexander Haig
Double Jeopardy!
3940
I'M IN CHARGE!
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In western Europe:<br />Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar'
$800
Spain
Double Jeopardy!
3940
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) I'm with a cub of this animal that could get a speeding ticket in a 65 MPH zone'
$800
cheetah
Double Jeopardy!
3940
TAXI
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Played by this actor, Rev. Jim changed his name to Ignatowski, thinking it was "star child" spelled backwards'
$800
Christopher Lloyd
Double Jeopardy!
3940
"CAB"
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This bandleader seen here passed away in 1994'
$800
Cab Calloway
Double Jeopardy!
3940
AMERICAN HISTORIC EVENTS
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'When an ex-Idaho governor was killed in 1905, this labor leader called "Big Bill" was acquitted in a sensational trial'
$1000
"Big Bill" Haywood
Double Jeopardy!
3940
I'M IN CHARGE!
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'In southeast Asia:<br />President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo'
$1000
the Philippines
Double Jeopardy!
3940
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'Put on some soft howling music during this season of the year when wolves mate'
$1000
winter
Double Jeopardy!
3940
TAXI
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This actress who played a cabbie had romances with 2 cast members & John Travolta'
$1000
Marilu Henner
Double Jeopardy!
3940
"CAB"
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'It's a type of VW, or a light, 2-wheeled, one-horse carriage with a folding top'
$1000
Cabriolet
Double Jeopardy!
3940
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM NAMES
2001-10-19T00:00:00
'This team received its name after an 1890 incident in which it "stole" away an important player from another team'
null
Pittsburgh Pirates
Final Jeopardy!
3940
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-12-16_J_17.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C.</a>) It's no coincidence that the Red Cross <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-12-16_J_17a.jpg" target="_blank">emblem</a> looks like this country's flag in reverse; the International Red Cross began there in 1863'
$200
Switzerland
Jeopardy!
6044
SOCCER TO US!
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'In 2002 Germany's Oliver Kahn was named World Cup MVP, the first from this position that may hand-le the ball'
$200
the goalie
Jeopardy!
6044
BASKIN ROBBINS ICE CREAM
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'A seasonal favorite, baseball nut first hit a home run in 1958 to celebrate the Dodgers' move from this borough'
$200
Brooklyn
Jeopardy!
6044
WOODWINDS
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'The shakuhachi, a Japanese flute made of this tall grass, is used as a tool for Buddhist meditation & many types of music'
$200
bamboo
Jeopardy!
6044
LANGUAGE CRAFT
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'In the Harry Potter world, Parseltongue is the language of these; Salazar Slytherin was a noted speaker'
$200
snakes
Jeopardy!
6044
ADD A LETTER
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'Add a letter to surgeon & you'll net yourself this fish'
$200
sturgeon
Jeopardy!
6044
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-12-16_J_27.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C.</a>) One of the best ways you can help the Red Cross is to donate blood, & since you can do it every 56 days, that's this many times a year'
$400
6
Jeopardy!
6044
SOCCER TO US!
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'In 1987, at age 15, she joined the U.S. women's team & later won the World Cup & 2 Olympic gold medals'
$400
Mia Hamm
Jeopardy!
6044
BASKIN ROBBINS ICE CREAM
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'Once upon a time, a flavor called "Fiona's Fairytale" celebrated the release of this movie's sequel'
$400
Shrek
Jeopardy!
6044
WOODWINDS
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'In Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", this 4-letter woodwind represents the duck'
$400
the oboe
Jeopardy!
6044
LANGUAGE CRAFT
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'The dwarves in his novels speak Khuzdul; the inscription on the ring is in "Black Speech"'
$400
Tolkien
Jeopardy!
6044
ADD A LETTER
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'When curvy gets an extra letter, it becomes this disease'
$400
scurvy
Jeopardy!
6044
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
2010-12-16T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-12-16_J_28.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the American Red Cross in New Orleans, LA.</a>) The Red Cross recommends that your emergency kit include a radio; here's <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-12-16_J_28a.jpg" target="_blank">one</a> with four power sources--namely batteries, A.C. power, solar power, & this old-fashioned method'
$600
turning or cranking
Jeopardy!
6044