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COMPANIES
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'This co. agreed in 1993 to lease the New Amsterdam Theatre, & the old Times Square of degradation & filth was history'
$400
Disney
Jeopardy!
4842
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory'
$400
bittersweet
Jeopardy!
4842
THE ONION HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'"Refugees Row" this entire island "to Miami"'
$600
Cuba
Jeopardy!
4842
TOP O' THE CHARTS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'In 1977 this "sleepy" song became Fleetwood Mac's only No. 1 hit'
$600
"Dreams"
Jeopardy!
4842
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'A weapon removed from a stone'
$600
Excalibur
Jeopardy!
4842
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'On October 5, 1818 this mother of Lincoln & 2 of her relatives died of milk sickness'
$600
Nancy Hanks
Jeopardy!
4842
COMPANIES
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'This chain with a month as its name has acquired stores like Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh & Robinson's in L.A.'
$600
May Company (May\'s Department Store accepted)
Jeopardy!
4842
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Alliterative two-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops'
$600
friendly fire
Jeopardy!
4842
THE ONION HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Boston rejoices as this team "Lose(s) In 50th Straight Pennant Race; Fans Blame 'Curse of Jeter'"'
$800
the Yankees
Jeopardy!
4842
TOP O' THE CHARTS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" was sung over the closing credits of this 1992 film'
$800
A League of Their Own
Jeopardy!
4842
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881'
$800
Treasure Island
Jeopardy!
4842
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'While serving in the Illinois legislature, Abe switched to this party of his political idol Henry Clay'
$800
the Whigs
Jeopardy!
4842
COMPANIES
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Orange & Rockland Utilities is a subsidiary of this company named for an inventor'
$800
Consolidated Edison (ConEd)
Jeopardy!
4842
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally'
$800
an open secret
Jeopardy!
4842
THE ONION HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'This country "Bombed Back into the Renaissance"'
$1000
Italy
Jeopardy!
4842
TOP O' THE CHARTS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'In 1991 this heartthrob took Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" back to the top spot'
$1000
Michael Bolton
Jeopardy!
4842
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'A market town of Upper Egypt built on the ruins of Thebes'
$1000
Luxor
Jeopardy!
4842
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'During his 80 days of military service in 1832, Abe attempted without success to track down this Sauk & Fox Indian chief'
$1,000
Black Hawk
Jeopardy!
4842
COMPANIES
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors'
$1000
Amway
Jeopardy!
4842
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "Advanced"'
$1000
BASIC
Jeopardy!
4842
HITCHCOCK
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller'
$400
The Birds
Double Jeopardy!
4842
CHAD IS RAD
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Chad's colonial overlord until independence in 1960'
$400
France
Double Jeopardy!
4842
IT'S A "SIN"
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'It can mean to burn slightly, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth'
$400
singe
Double Jeopardy!
4842
TAKE-OFFS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial'
$400
Dr. Seuss
Double Jeopardy!
4842
LANDINGS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'As its name suggests, the tipp toe approach procedure at SFO is meant to minimize this'
$400
noise
Double Jeopardy!
4842
HITCHCOCK
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart'
$800
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Double Jeopardy!
4842
ANIMAL TRACKS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-04_DJ_21.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks displayed on a monitor.</a>) Though its tail sometimes drags over its trail, this animal, Castor canadensis, can be identified by its <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-04_DJ_21a.jpg" target="_blank">webbed hind foot</a>'
$800
the beaver
Double Jeopardy!
4842
CHAD IS RAD
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'In the 11th century the kings of Chad converted to this faith'
$800
Islam
Double Jeopardy!
4842
IT'S A "SIN"
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'For more than 200 years, the annual Baltic Herring Market & Fair has been a big to-do in this world capital'
$800
Helsinki
Double Jeopardy!
4842
TAKE-OFFS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'"Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" is a satirical type of this guide'
$800
a travel guide
Double Jeopardy!
4842
LANDINGS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Runways are numbered by compass degrees without the last digit, so this is the highest number used'
$800
36
Double Jeopardy!
4842
HITCHCOCK
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper'
$1200
To Catch a Thief
Double Jeopardy!
4842
CHAD IS RAD
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad'
$1200
the Sudan
Double Jeopardy!
4842
IT'S A "SIN"
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this'
$1200
Basin
Double Jeopardy!
4842
TAKE-OFFS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale'
$1200
The Three Musketeers
Double Jeopardy!
4842
LANDINGS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'You land, not anchor, at this Phoenix airport, named by a board member from Scenic Airways'
$1200
Sky Harbor Airport
Double Jeopardy!
4842
HITCHCOCK
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman fall in love & ferret out Nazis in Brazil in this classic'
$1600
Notorious
Double Jeopardy!
4842
ANIMAL TRACKS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-04_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some animal tracks on a monitor.</a>) The overlapping track of this animal, also known as the bay lynx, is similar to that of the siamese but bigger & deeper'
$1600
a bobcat
Double Jeopardy!
4842
CHAD IS RAD
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'It's the country directly north of Chad'
$1600
Libya
Double Jeopardy!
4842
IT'S A "SIN"
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Of Welsh extraction, Frank Lloyd Wright named his homes & fellowship after this early Welsh poet'
$1600
Taliesin
Double Jeopardy!
4842
TAKE-OFFS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Rafreaky the baboon & a 30-year-old Annie have appeared in this NYC theater spoof that debuted in 1982'
$4,000
Forbidden Broadway
Double Jeopardy!
4842
LANDINGS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'A beach on this half-Dutch island offers <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-04_DJ_24.jpg" target="_blank">close-up views</a> of planes landing at Princess Juliana Airport'
$1600
St. Maarten
Double Jeopardy!
4842
HITCHCOCK
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'John Dall & Farley Granger strangle a college friend just for thrills in this, Hitch's first color film'
$2000
Rope
Double Jeopardy!
4842
ANIMAL TRACKS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-10-04_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks on a monitor.</a>) Deer usually leave a simple, 2-toed track, but if they run in snow, you can see the imprint of these vestigial claws'
$2000
the dewclaws
Double Jeopardy!
4842
CHAD IS RAD
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'The capital & largest city'
$2000
N\'Djamena
Double Jeopardy!
4842
IT'S A "SIN"
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons'
$3,000
(Giovanni) Cassini
Double Jeopardy!
4842
TAKE-OFFS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'"Go for Barocco" is a take-off of Balanchine by this hairy, all-male ballet troupe'
$2000
the Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Double Jeopardy!
4842
LANDINGS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'The ILS, short for this, was first installed at Indianapolis in 1940'
$2000
the Instrument Landing System
Double Jeopardy!
4842
20th CENTURY NOVELS
2005-10-04T00:00:00
'Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967'
null
Fahrenheit 451
Final Jeopardy!
4842
SHAKESPEARE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'These lovers do "with their death bury their parents' strife"'
$100
Romeo and Juliet
Jeopardy!
1658
PRINCETON
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'One of its 1st presidents, John Witherspoon, was the only clergyman to sign this document'
$100
Declaration of Independence
Jeopardy!
1658
THE FUNNIES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This Johnny Hart strip features such characters as Thor, Peter, Wiley & Clumsy Carp'
$100
B.C.
Jeopardy!
1658
JUST DESSERTS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Unlike sherbet, sorbet never contains this dairy product'
$100
milk
Jeopardy!
1658
FAMOUS LLOYDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This Texas Democrat has represented his state in the U.S. Senate since 1971'
$100
Lloyd Bentsen
Jeopardy!
1658
BRIDGES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This bridge spanning NYC's East River was designated a national historic landmark in 1964'
$100
Brooklyn Bridge
Jeopardy!
1658
SHAKESPEARE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'The play in which Emilia screams, "The moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! Murder!"'
$200
Othello
Jeopardy!
1658
PRINCETON
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Princeton was given its name in 1896, the year this future Princeton student & Jazz Age author was born'
$200
Scott Fitzgerald
Jeopardy!
1658
THE FUNNIES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1941 a daughter named Cookie was born to this comic strip couple'
$200
Blondie and Dagwood
Jeopardy!
1658
JUST DESSERTS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Perfect for dipping in wine or coffee, biscotti are twice-baked cookies from this country'
$200
Italy
Jeopardy!
1658
FAMOUS LLOYDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1980 this "Evita" composer won a Tony for Best Score & a Grammy for Best Cast Show Album'
$200
(Andrew Lloyd) Webber
Jeopardy!
1658
BRIDGES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This bridge in Venice connects the doge's palace with the old state prison'
$200
Bridge of Sighs
Jeopardy!
1658
SHAKESPEARE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio'
$300
Hamlet
Jeopardy!
1658
PRINCETON
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Of 1769, 1869 or 1969, the year Princeton began to admit women as undergraduates'
$300
1969
Jeopardy!
1658
THE FUNNIES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'"The Flintsones" have a dinosaur named Dino; this strip has a dinosaur named Dinny'
$300
Alley Oop
Jeopardy!
1658
JUST DESSERTS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This thick liquid is the traditional sweetening in Indian pudding'
$300
molasses
Jeopardy!
1658
FAMOUS LLOYDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This British prime minister helped draft the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I'
$300
Lloyd George
Jeopardy!
1658
BRIDGES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'The 1st Roman bridge of which there is any record is the Pons Sublicius, built in 621 B.C. over this river'
$300
Tiber
Jeopardy!
1658
SHAKESPEARE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In "The Merchant of Venice" he tells his friend Tubal, "Meet me at our synagogue"'
$400
Shylock
Jeopardy!
1658
PRINCETON
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1783 Princeton's Nassau Hall doubled as this for the nation'
$400
capital
Jeopardy!
1658
THE FUNNIES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Jon is this cat's master; Odie is his dog friend'
$400
Garfield
Jeopardy!
1658
JUST DESSERTS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'A rich custard topped with caramelized sugar, its name means "burnt cream" in French'
$400
crème brûlée
Jeopardy!
1658
FAMOUS LLOYDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1832 this editor founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society'
$400
William Lloyd Garrison
Jeopardy!
1658
BRIDGES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'The Francis Scott Key Bridge crosses the Patapsco River in this city'
$400
Baltimore
Jeopardy!
1658
SHAKESPEARE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In "King Lear", she poisons her sister Regan, then stabs herself'
$500
Goneril
Jeopardy!
1658
PRINCETON
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1974 this Princeton grad & PBS host wrote "How to Make Money in Wall Street"'
$500
Louis Rukeyser
Jeopardy!
1658
THE FUNNIES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'His Stars and Stripes cartoons featured the battle-weary GIs Willie & Joe'
$500
Bill Mauldin
Jeopardy!
1658
JUST DESSERTS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Chef Josef Dobos is famous for creating this type of cake named for him'
$500
(Dobos) torte
Jeopardy!
1658
FAMOUS LLOYDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1953 he orginated the role of Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" on Broadway'
$500
Lloyd Nolan
Jeopardy!
1658
BRIDGES
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This Colorado canyon has the world's highest suspension bridge – 1,053' above the Arkansas River'
$500
Royal Gorge
Jeopardy!
1658
THE 14th CENTURY
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'The carol notwithstanding, a king with this "good" name had St. John of Nepomuk killed in 1393'
$200
Wenceslas
Double Jeopardy!
1658
OPERA SINGERS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This hefty ebullient tenor once taught elementary school in Modena, Italy, his birthplace'
$200
Luciano Pavarotti
Double Jeopardy!
1658
LITERATURE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Ellen Glasgow, a native of this Virginia capital, set several novels there but called it "Queenborough"'
$200
Richmond
Double Jeopardy!
1658
POLITICS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1967 Richard Hatcher became the 1st elected black mayor of this steel-producing Indiana city'
$200
Gary
Double Jeopardy!
1658
ISLANDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This largest island in the world also contains the northernmost land in the world'
$200
Greenland
Double Jeopardy!
1658
PHYSICS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Sublimation is the direct change from solid to gas without passing through this stage'
$200
liquid
Double Jeopardy!
1658
THE 14th CENTURY
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Name given to the split in the Catholic church when rival popes were elected in 1378'
$400
Great Schism
Double Jeopardy!
1658
OPERA SINGERS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This Spaniard starred in Franco Zeffirelli's film "La Traviata"'
$400
(Placido) Domingo
Double Jeopardy!
1658
LITERATURE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Title character who says, "Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day — mock me horribly!"'
$400
Doran Gray
Double Jeopardy!
1658
POLITICS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'At over 30 years, this West Virginian is currently the longest-serving Democrat in the U.S. Senate'
$400
(Robert) Byrd
Double Jeopardy!
1658
ISLANDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Lewis with Harris is the most northerly of this "Outer" Scottish island group'
$400
Outer Hebrides
Double Jeopardy!
1658
PHYSICS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Plano-convex, biconvex & concavo-convex are 3 of the types of this optical component'
$400
lens
Double Jeopardy!
1658
THE 14th CENTURY
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Claiming the French throne, England's Edward III invaded the continent in 1337, setting off this war'
$600
100 Years War
Double Jeopardy!
1658
OPERA SINGERS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This Neapolitan tenor made his last public appearance on Christmas Eve, 1920 in "La Juive"'
$600
Caruso
Double Jeopardy!
1658
LITERATURE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'She wrote in "Emma", "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other"'
$600
Jane Austen
Double Jeopardy!
1658
POLITICS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'During his record 11 years as FDR's Sec'y of State, this Tennessean conceived the idea of the United Nations'
$600
(Cordell) Hull
Double Jeopardy!
1658
ISLANDS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This Indonesian island became world famous after giant lizards were discovered there in 1912'
$600
Komodo
Double Jeopardy!
1658
PHYSICS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This field is the study of the properties & production of sound'
$600
acoustics
Double Jeopardy!
1658
THE 14th CENTURY
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'Chaucer wrote a treatise on how to build one of these & use it to compute the position of a star'
$800
astrolabe
Double Jeopardy!
1658
OPERA SINGERS
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'In 1971 this part-Maori diva had her first Covent Garden triumph in "The Marriage of Figaro"'
$2,000
Kiri Te Kanawa
Double Jeopardy!
1658
LITERATURE
1991-11-13T00:00:00
'This "Madame Bovary" author visited Tunisia to research "Salammbo", his novel about Carthage'
$800
Flaubert
Double Jeopardy!
1658