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JERSEY GIRLS
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'This "Fudge"-tastic children's author was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey'
|
$1600
|
Judy Blume
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
RUSSIAN
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'To get around underground, the letter seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-11_DJ_05.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> stands for this word'
|
$1600
|
metro
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
STRING THEORY 201
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'String theory is part of this "P" branch of physics that studies eensy little items'
|
$1600
|
particle
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
LIBRARIES
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Among this San Marino, California library's exhibits are a 15th century manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" & a Gutenberg Bible'
|
$2000
|
the Huntington Library
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
THE HOUND OF MUSIC
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Three word slogan that accompanied the RCA Victor advertisement seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-11_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>'
|
$2000
|
His Master\'s Voice
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
PLAY ADJECTIVES
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Howard Sackler's "The ____ ____ Hope"'
|
$2000
|
The Great White Hope
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
JERSEY GIRLS
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Governor of New Jersey form 1994 to 2001, she appointed the state's first female Attorney General'
|
$4,000
|
Christine Whitman
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
RUSSIAN
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Russian word for a home like Novo-Ogarevo, Vladimir Putin's forest retreat near Moscow'
|
$2000
|
a dacha
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
STRING THEORY 201
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Bosonic string theory has only bosons & none of these particles named for physicist Enrico'
|
$2000
|
fermions
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
PRISONS
| 2010-10-11T00:00:00 |
'Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here'
| null |
the Tower of London
|
Final Jeopardy!
|
5996
|
RUSSIA
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In the July 3, 1996 runoff, he defeated Gennadi Zyuganov'
|
$100
|
Boris Yeltsin
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This "Alien" actress starred in her long-time pal Christopher Durang's 1996 play "Sex and Longing"'
|
$100
|
Sigourney Weaver
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BIOGRAPHIES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'"Rare Air" is a photo biography of this basketball star'
|
$100
|
Michael Jordan
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BUSINESS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'The tires on Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" were made by this former competitor of Goodyear'
|
$100
|
B.F. Goodrich
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This "Messiah" composer's first job was as a church organist in Halle, Germany, at age 17'
|
$100
|
Georg Handel
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
PROVERBS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'"You can't make a silk purse" out of this'
|
$100
|
a sow\'s ear
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
RUSSIA
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In 1996 this Russian newspaper stopped publishing after 84 years'
|
$200
|
Pravda
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Don't blink--or you'll miss Richard Dreyfuss in this 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel'
|
$200
|
Valley of the Dolls
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BIOGRAPHIES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This actor-director is the subject of David Thomson's biography "Rosebud"'
|
$200
|
Orson Welles
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BUSINESS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In 1866, William A. Breyer started the company that's now the oldest national producer of this'
|
$200
|
ice cream
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'"Variations on a Theme by Haydn" was this "lullaby" composer's first major work for full orchestra'
|
$200
|
Johannes Brahms
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
PROVERBS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'"Imitation is the sincerest form of" it, but beware, it "corrupts both the receiver and the giver"'
|
$200
|
flattery
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
RUSSIA
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In April of 1996, Russian rockets killed Dzhokhar Dudayev, this breakaway republic's leader'
|
$300
|
Chechnya
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This "Seinfeld" co-star became a Broadway star at age 23 in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Merrily we Roll Along"'
|
$300
|
Jason Alexander
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BIOGRAPHIES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'"Shalom, Friend" tells of "The Life and Legacy" of this slain Israeli leader'
|
$300
|
Yitzhak Rabin
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BUSINESS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This San Francisco-based clothing company's full name includes "De Corps"'
|
$300
|
Esprit
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In 1977, his "Immortal Beloved" was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant'
|
$300
|
Beethoven
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
PROVERBS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'It's where you should "never tell tales"'
|
$300
|
out of school
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
RUSSIA
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Abbreviated CIS, it replaced the USSR'
|
$400
|
Commonwealth of Independent States
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'John Mahoney, who plays Martin Crane on this sitcom, was born in England; he moved to the U.S. when he was 19'
|
$400
|
Frasier
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BIOGRAPHIES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'"The Education of a Woman" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun tells of this feminist and famous Ms'
|
$400
|
Gloria Steinem
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BUSINESS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'From 1875 to 1989, this New York company's name included "Glassworks"'
|
$400
|
Corning
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth'
|
$400
|
Franz Liszt
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
PROVERBS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'The saying "Strike while the iron is hot" originally alluded to this profession'
|
$400
|
blacksmith
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
RUSSIA
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'They're the colors of the three stripes on the Russian flag'
|
$500
|
red, white, and blue
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Professional name used by the actress seen here during her film career; it's different from her married name (clip from "Hellcats of the Navy")'
|
$1,000
|
Nancy Davis
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BIOGRAPHIES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Known for his "Compleat Angler", he also wrote a biography of his friend, writer John Donne'
|
$500
|
Izaak Walton
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
BUSINESS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This Warner-Lambert product contains retsyn, a finely homogenized vegetable oil'
|
$500
|
Certs
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'He composed his "Leningrad Symphony" during the World War II siege of Leningrad'
|
$500
|
Dmitri Shostakovich
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
PROVERBS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'These two things "wait for no man"'
|
$500
|
time and tide
|
Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE SUPREME COURT
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Justices Butler, Van DeVanter, Sutherland, and McReynolds opposed this president's "New Deal"'
|
$200
|
F.D. Roosevelt
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
LANGUAGES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This Scandinavian language changed "aa" to a circle-topped "a", making it closer to Swedish and Norwegian'
|
$200
|
Danish
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
SCIENTISTS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In 1633 this astronomer was found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy"'
|
$200
|
Galileo
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE CIVIL WAR
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Union pay department officers wore the M1840, one of these weapons that featured a straight 31" all-gilt blade'
|
$200
|
Sword
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
POETRY
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In stanza three of "The Star Spangled Banner", he mocks "The hireling and slave" who doubt America's victory'
|
$200
|
Francis Scott Key
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ODDS & ENDS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This city's Hartsfield International overtook O'Hare as the world's busiest airport even before the Summer Olympics'
|
$200
|
Atlanta
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE SUPREME COURT
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This president called his 1953 appointment of Earl Warren "the biggest damn' fool mistake I ever made"'
|
$400
|
Eisenhower
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
LANGUAGES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'All of the Romance languages have their roots in this language'
|
$400
|
Latin
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
SCIENTISTS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"'
|
$400
|
George Washington Carver
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE CIVIL WAR
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'On May 29, 1865, he issued a general amnesty for most rebels; the rich and those with high ranks weren't included'
|
$400
|
Andrew Johnson
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
POETRY
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Poe said this maiden "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me"'
|
$400
|
Annabel Lee
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ODDS & ENDS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'For about $200 a whack, you can spend the night at the Fall River MA home of this alleged murderess'
|
$400
|
Lizzie Borden
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE SUPREME COURT
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In 1995 two justices rejected The Citadel's appeal of an order to admit her'
|
$600
|
Shannon Faulkner
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
LANGUAGES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Balinese is spoken on several islands of this country'
|
$600
|
Indonesia
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
SCIENTISTS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'The symbol "J" as a unit of energy honors this physicist'
|
$600
|
Joule
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE CIVIL WAR
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In June of 1861, Dorothea Dix was appointed to supervise the female ones of these'
|
$600
|
nurses
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
POETRY
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Originally, he didn't want his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published'
|
$600
|
Gray
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ODDS & ENDS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'They're the two main ingredients in a Cape Codder cocktail'
|
$600
|
cranberry juice and vodka
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE SUPREME COURT
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'He served as Chief Justice the longest; 34 years from 1801-1835'
|
$800
|
John Marshall
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
LANGUAGES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Hungarians call their official language this'
|
$800
|
Magyar
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
SCIENTISTS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In 1791 this Italian published the results of his experiments in "animal electricity"'
|
$800
|
Luigi Galvani
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE CIVIL WAR
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'In the Gettysburg campaign, Lee's forces were along Seminary Ridge and the federal forces along this ridge'
|
$800
|
Cemetery Ridge
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
POETRY
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'His series "Bells and Pomegranates" included "Pippa Passes" and "My Last Duchess"'
|
$800
|
Robert Browning
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ODDS & ENDS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Muhammad received the first of the Koran's revelations during this holy month'
|
$800
|
Ramadan
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE SUPREME COURT
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'After the 1987 rejection of this man's nomination to the court, Anthony Kennedy filled Powell's seat'
|
$1,500
|
Robert Bork
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
LANGUAGES
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Punjabi is spoken by about half of all households in this country'
|
$1000
|
Pakistan
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
SCIENTISTS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'His 1637 "Discours de la methode" prefaced a series of essays on optics, meteorology, and geometry'
|
$2,500
|
Rene Descartes
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
THE CIVIL WAR
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'Hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, he resigned November 1, 1861, as head of the Union army'
|
$1000
|
Winfield Scott
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
POETRY
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'This poet to whom T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Wasteland" ended up in a mental institution'
|
$1000
|
Ezra Pound
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
ODDS & ENDS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'It's the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg'
|
$1000
|
the fibula
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
RIVERS
| 1996-11-27T00:00:00 |
'It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon"'
| null |
the Nile
|
Final Jeopardy!
|
2818
|
SCIENCE & NATURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'In June 1991 weightlessness experiments were conducted on about 2,500 jellyfish aboard this'
|
$200
|
the Space Shuttle
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
RUN, RUN, RUN
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'If you want to hit this type of "contained" home run, you probably will need to run really fast'
|
$200
|
an inside-the-park home run
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
MILITARY SLANG
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'This 2-word term, also a movie title, is slang for Navy Fighter Weapons School'
|
$200
|
Top Gun
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCULPTURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic'
|
$200
|
the Mayo Clinic
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
BUSINESS BUDDIES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'S. Duncan Black & this partner filed a patent for a drill in 1914'
|
$200
|
Decker
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
COMMON SIMILES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'If you're scared, you might be "shaking like" this botanical item'
|
$200
|
a leaf
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCIENCE & NATURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'The ARS, an agency of this U.S. government department, is looking to develop better bio-insecticides'
|
$400
|
the Department of Agriculture
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
RUN, RUN, RUN
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'In 1925 N.Y. Journal-American writer Bill Corum first called the Kentucky Derby the "run for" these'
|
$400
|
the roses
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
MILITARY SLANG
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'"Angels" is slang for this measurement of height, in thousands of feet'
|
$400
|
altitude
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCULPTURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'This country's 12th century sculptor Unkei is known for his wooden statues carved for Buddhist temples'
|
$400
|
Japan
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
BUSINESS BUDDIES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'This maker of optical products borrowed money from his good friend Henry Lomb, but it turned out okay'
|
$400
|
Bausch
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
COMMON SIMILES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Adjective found before "as leather" & "as nails"'
|
$400
|
tough
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCIENCE & NATURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Despite the fierce appearance of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-11-24_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> plated beast, scientists believe it to have been an herbivore'
|
$600
|
a Stegosaurus
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
RUN, RUN, RUN
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Due to an increase of endorphins in the brain, it's a state of euphoria experienced by exercisers'
|
$600
|
runner\'s high
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
MILITARY SLANG
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'"SAR" stands for this, the effort to extract a downed aircrew in a combat zone'
|
$1,300
|
search and rescue
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCULPTURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Bartolommeo Ammannati designed this city's Fountain of Neptune & the courtyard of the Pitti Palace'
|
$600
|
Florence
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
BUSINESS BUDDIES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Book publisher Henry Houghton made this guy his partner'
|
$600
|
(George) Mifflin
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
COMMON SIMILES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'This ichthyological simile might apply to someone spending too much time at the bar'
|
$600
|
drinking like a fish
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCIENCE & NATURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Platinum, atomic number 78, is worth more than this other metal, atomic number 79'
|
$800
|
gold
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
RUN, RUN, RUN
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'This 2-word hoops term is an offensive rush to beat the defense to the hoop'
|
$800
|
a fast break
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
MILITARY SLANG
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'A "polliwog" has never crossed this geographic line while aboard ship'
|
$800
|
the equator
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCULPTURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'An art museum on Madison Avenue is named for this sculptress who created the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C.'
|
$800
|
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
BUSINESS BUDDIES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Postage meter inventor Arthur Pitney merged his company with that of this entrepreneur'
|
$800
|
(Walter) Bowes
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
COMMON SIMILES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'Ironically, something incomprehensible is said to be "as clear as" this 3-letter word'
|
$800
|
mud
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCIENCE & NATURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'In 2009 a new hominid skeleton dubbed Ardi was aged at 4.4 million years, predating this other "girly" find by 1 mil. years'
|
$1000
|
Lucy
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
RUN, RUN, RUN
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'In the modern pentathlon, athletes go 3,000 meters in this hyphenated type of running'
|
$1000
|
cross-country
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
MILITARY SLANG
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'A "ROAD" scholar is "retired on" this (coasting until actual retirement)'
|
$1000
|
active duty
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
SCULPTURE
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'This English sculptor made one of his reclining figures for the 1951 Festival of Britain'
|
$1000
|
Henry Moore
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
BUSINESS BUDDIES
| 2009-11-24T00:00:00 |
'A crossword puzzle book started it all for Richard L. Simon & this publishing partner'
|
$1000
|
Schuster
|
Jeopardy!
|
5797
|
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