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WORLD UP!
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'Russia's longest border is not with China but with this "stan"'
$1600
Kazakhstan
Double Jeopardy!
5476
IT HAD TO "BU"
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'Established in 1881, The Wharton School at the U. of Pennsylvania was the world's first collegiate school of this'
$1600
business
Double Jeopardy!
5476
20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-06-02_DJ_21.jpg" target="_blank">His</a> original name was Tafari Makonnen, but he ruled his country under this name'
$2000
Haile Selassie
Double Jeopardy!
5476
WESTERNS
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-06-02_DJ_18.mp3">Dag nabbit!</a> He's the perennial sidekick who won 3 Oscars, including one for 1940's "The Westerner"'
$2000
Walter Brennan
Double Jeopardy!
5476
ART
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'"The Regatta at Argenteuil" shows this Frenchman's love of water subjects, like lilies'
$2000
Monet
Double Jeopardy!
5476
WORLD UP!
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'In 1980 Luis Garcia Meza took power in this landlocked S. Amer. country that's had more than 180 coups in its history'
$2000
Bolivia
Double Jeopardy!
5476
IT HAD TO "BU"
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'From the Greek for "herdsman", it means pastoral or idyllic'
$2000
bucolic
Double Jeopardy!
5476
THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
2008-06-02T00:00:00
'A song by this artist hit No. 1 in 1999, making her at age 52 the oldest female to have a Billboard No. 1 single'
null
Cher
Final Jeopardy!
5476
BOTANY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The flowers of this lawn weed, Taraxacum oficinale, are sometimes used to make wine'
$200
dandelions
Jeopardy!
5171
I PLAY THE DRUMS!
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_01.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the drummer's throne.</a>) A common rock & roll pattern is <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_01.mp3">this one</a> which stresses the 2nd and 4th beat; it's also the title of a movie about the Beatles'
$200
backbeat
Jeopardy!
5171
FLY COUNTRIES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Iberia Airlines'
$200
Spain
Jeopardy!
5171
FUN WITH BALLET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance'
$200
Can-can
Jeopardy!
5171
LETTER MEN
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'At his death in 1971, there were more than 1,600 department stores bearing his name'
$200
J.C. Penney
Jeopardy!
5171
ONE-WORD RHYMES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'An important person, perhaps with an elaborate toupee'
$200
bigwig
Jeopardy!
5171
BOTANY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The common species of this prairie flower, Helianthus annuus, can reach a height of 15 feet'
$400
sunflower
Jeopardy!
5171
I PLAY THE DRUMS!
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_02.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew peers down between the cymbals.</a>) Playing triplets--<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_02.mp3">three strokes for every two notes</a>--was a trademark of this late Led Zeppellin drummer'
$400
John Bonham
Jeopardy!
5171
FLY COUNTRIES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Aer Lingus'
$400
Ireland
Jeopardy!
5171
FUN WITH BALLET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director'
$400
Alfred Hitchcock
Jeopardy!
5171
LETTER MEN
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'He's the taller of the two gentlemen in the photo seen here'
$400
P.T. Barnum
Jeopardy!
5171
ONE-WORD RHYMES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'I've come to the ashram so this person can show me the unreality of material things -- oops, I scratched his Mercedes'
$400
guru
Jeopardy!
5171
BOTANY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'About 3/4 of U.S. plantings of this palm fruit are of the Deglet Noor, a semidry variety'
$600
dates
Jeopardy!
5171
I PLAY THE DRUMS!
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_03.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew sticks with his drums--& drums with his sticks.</a>) Playing this gives me an explosive sound on the snare drum; to help out a comedian's lame joke <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_03.mp3">combine it with a cymbal crash</a>'
$600
a rimshot
Jeopardy!
5171
FLY COUNTRIES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Olympic Airlines'
$600
Greece
Jeopardy!
5171
FUN WITH BALLET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The Roanoke Ballet's dancers raced around with logos on their unitards in a ballet named for this auto assoc.'
$600
NASCAR
Jeopardy!
5171
LETTER MEN
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In 1930 he directed his first talkie, "Abraham Lincoln", starring Walter Huston'
$600
D.W. Griffith
Jeopardy!
5171
ONE-WORD RHYMES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Nicole Kidman is one; so was Lucille Ball & Vincent Van Gogh'
$600
redhead
Jeopardy!
5171
BOTANY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this'
$800
fern
Jeopardy!
5171
I PLAY THE DRUMS!
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew subs on the drum set.</a>) After you get into a groove, now & again throw in <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_04.mp3">this</a>; as the name suggests its for when there's an empty space in the music'
$800
a fill
Jeopardy!
5171
FLY COUNTRIES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk)'
$800
Belarus
Jeopardy!
5171
FUN WITH BALLET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski'
$800
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
Jeopardy!
5171
LETTER MEN
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'He designed the building for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame'
$800
I.M. Pei
Jeopardy!
5171
ONE-WORD RHYMES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In Manhattan, going from Central Park to Chelsea is heading this way'
$800
downtown
Jeopardy!
5171
BOTANY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Prized for its oil, this evergreen shrub of the American southwest is also known as the goat nut'
$1000
Jojoba
Jeopardy!
5171
I PLAY THE DRUMS!
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_05.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the final clue of the category.</a>) It's the rhyming phrase for a steady rhythm that hits the bass drum on <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2007-02-19_J_05.mp3">each quarter note</a>'
$1000
four-on-the-floor
Jeopardy!
5171
FLY COUNTRIES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Koninklijke<br />Luchtvaart<br />Maatshappij<br />(you might know it by its abbreviation)'
$1000
The Netherlands (KLM)
Jeopardy!
5171
FUN WITH BALLET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him'
$1000
Charlie Parker
Jeopardy!
5171
LETTER MEN
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'A visit to the Marabar Caves is a turning point in his novel "A Passage to India"'
$1000
E.M. Forster
Jeopardy!
5171
ONE-WORD RHYMES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'This term for empty words or nonsense was originally a trick to gain applause'
$1,000
claptrap
Jeopardy!
5171
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water'
$400
the Dead Sea
Double Jeopardy!
5171
WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Liza Minnelli'
$400
Judy Garland
Double Jeopardy!
5171
AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'You might see Bob Woodward during your walking tour of this publication's building on 15th Street N.W.'
$400
the Washington Post
Double Jeopardy!
5171
NAME THE POET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'"His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels"'
$400
Milton
Double Jeopardy!
5171
GRAPES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Ths underwear maker's logo contains fig leaves, an apple & different types of grapes'
$400
Fruit of the Loom
Double Jeopardy!
5171
OF "RATH"
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'It's an adjective meaning really, really angry'
$400
wrathful
Double Jeopardy!
5171
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'This mount "as altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire"'
$4,000
Sinai
Double Jeopardy!
5171
WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Kate Hudson'
$800
Goldie Hawn
Double Jeopardy!
5171
AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The Peacock room at the Freer Gallery shows the fun-loving side of this artist known for that dour depiction of mama'
$800
Whistler
Double Jeopardy!
5171
NAME THE POET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'"Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day"'
$800
Dylan Thomas
Double Jeopardy!
5171
GRAPES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'A wine known as Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ" is made from grapes grown on the slopes of this Italian volcano'
$800
Vesuvius
Double Jeopardy!
5171
OF "RATH"
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'On election night 2000, this newsman spouted lines like "Bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster"'
$800
Dan Rather
Double Jeopardy!
5171
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Lying at the foot of the mount of olives, this garden was the site where Jesus was betrayed & arrested'
$1200
Gethsemane
Double Jeopardy!
5171
WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Gwyneth Paltrow'
$1200
Blythe Danner
Double Jeopardy!
5171
AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The museum that's now the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Bldg. was the site of this man's 1881 inaugural ball'
$1200
Garfield
Double Jeopardy!
5171
NAME THE POET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'"I hear American singing, the varied carols I hear"'
$1200
Walt Whitman
Double Jeopardy!
5171
GRAPES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In an Aesop fable, this animal decides the grapes he can't reach must therefore be sour'
$1200
a fox
Double Jeopardy!
5171
OF "RATH"
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'For many, this Johannesburg-born actor will forever be the definitive Sherlock Holmes'
$1200
Basil Rathbone
Double Jeopardy!
5171
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In Ezekiel this capital of Egypt is called Noph, & the Lord promises to "destroy the idols" there (he didn't mean Elvis)'
$1600
Memphis
Double Jeopardy!
5171
WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Melanie Griffith'
$1600
Tippi Hedren
Double Jeopardy!
5171
AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'It was once known as "Presidents Park" but perhaps this name for it looks better on a "Marquis"'
$2,500
Lafayette Park
Double Jeopardy!
5171
NAME THE POET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee"'
$1600
Shakespeare
Double Jeopardy!
5171
GRAPES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In 1962 this man organized migrant grape pickers into what became known as the United Farm Workers'
$1600
Cesar Chavez
Double Jeopardy!
5171
OF "RATH"
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Persian religious leader AKA Zoroaster'
$1600
Zarathustra
Double Jeopardy!
5171
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'In the Song of Solomon, a bride refers to herself as "the rose of" this plain between Joppa & Mount Carmel'
$2000
Sharon
Double Jeopardy!
5171
WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Mariska Hargitay'
$2000
Jayne Mansfield
Double Jeopardy!
5171
AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'This Frenchman who planned D.C. had such a "terrible" temperament that he was dismissed in 1792'
$2000
Pierre L\'Enfant
Double Jeopardy!
5171
NAME THE POET
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words"'
$2000
Emily Dickinson
Double Jeopardy!
5171
GRAPES
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'A popular grape used in making raisins is this variety that shares its name with the capital of Oman'
$2000
Muscat
Double Jeopardy!
5171
OF "RATH"
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'Basement beerhall in Bavaria'
$2000
rathskeller
Double Jeopardy!
5171
ORGANIZATIONS
2007-02-19T00:00:00
'The C.A.P., or Common Agricultural Policy, accounts for almost half the budget of this 25-nation organization'
null
the European Union
Final Jeopardy!
5171
"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'Make a trek to Utrecht & you'll find yourself in this country'
$100
Netherlands
Jeopardy!
3191
ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'Widely hunted for their hides, the American, Cuban & Nile species of this reptile are now in danger'
$100
Crocodile
Jeopardy!
3191
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'The Houses of Lancaster & York used different colored types of these flowers as their symbols'
$100
Roses
Jeopardy!
3191
MOVIE DEBUTS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'She debuted in a bit part as Woody Allen's date in "Annie Hall" 2 years before "Alien" made her a star'
$100
Sigourney Weaver
Jeopardy!
3191
CONVENTIONS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'On "Saturday Night Live", William Shatner told attendees at this type of convention, "Get a life!"'
$100
Star Trek
Jeopardy!
3191
PROVERBS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'It "makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"'
$100
"Early to bed and early to rise"
Jeopardy!
3191
"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'On the first Monday in June, this Kiwi country celebrates the Queen's birthday, the queen being Elizabeth'
$200
New Zealand
Jeopardy!
3191
ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'Because it dips its food in water, it has the scientific name Lotor, which means "washer"'
$200
Raccoon
Jeopardy!
3191
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'He was thick-skulled, heavy-browed, about 5 feet tall & lived in Germany about 80,000 years ago'
$200
Neanderthal Man
Jeopardy!
3191
MOVIE DEBUTS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'This half-sister of country singer Wynonna first hit the big screen in the 1992 comedy "Kuffs"'
$200
Ashley Judd
Jeopardy!
3191
CONVENTIONS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'New England Federalists convened in Hartford in 1814 to denounce this war'
$200
War of 1812
Jeopardy!
3191
PROVERBS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'In "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy clicks her heels & repeats this before she's whisked back to Kansas'
$200
"There\'s no place like home"
Jeopardy!
3191
"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'There are thousands of temples & shrines in this country's Katmandu Valley'
$300
Nepal
Jeopardy!
3191
ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'Males of this duck-billed mammal have poison spurs on each hind foot that can kill small animals'
$300
Platypus
Jeopardy!
3191
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'The number of different hexagrams in the I Ching, or the number of squares on a checkerboard'
$300
64
Jeopardy!
3191
MOVIE DEBUTS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'At 13 this actress with a weekday in her name starred in the 1956 classic "Rock, Rock, Rock!"'
$300
Tuesday Weld
Jeopardy!
3191
CONVENTIONS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'In the film "Chasing Amy", boy meets girl at a convention for artists & fans of these'
$300
Comic books
Jeopardy!
3191
PROVERBS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'It "seldom knocks twice", so make the most of it'
$300
Opportunity
Jeopardy!
3191
"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'Homeland of Edvards Munch & Grieg'
$400
Norway
Jeopardy!
3191
ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'The barn species of this bird is sometimes called monkey-faced due to its simian features'
$400
Owl
Jeopardy!
3191
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'When his friend became Pope in 1623, he thought he'd be allowed to discuss his heliocentric theory'
$400
Galileo
Jeopardy!
3191
MOVIE DEBUTS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'The Al Pacino legal drama "...And Justice for All" marked the screen debut of this actor, later TV's "Coach"'
$400
Craig T. Nelson
Jeopardy!
3191
CONVENTIONS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'(Hi, I'm Paula Poundstone) I heard stories of Bob Dole in a towel at the 1996 Republican Convention in this California city'
$800
San Diego
Jeopardy!
3191
PROVERBS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'"Better the foot slip than" this body part'
$400
Tongue/lip
Jeopardy!
3191
"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'It became fully independent of South Africa March 21, 1990'
$500
Namibia
Jeopardy!
3191
ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'The "great" species of this slender predatory fish seen here has been called the "Tiger of the Sea"'
$500
Barracuda
Jeopardy!
3191
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'Native Americans grew these together with corn & at harvest time combined them into "M'sickquatash"'
$500
Lima beans
Jeopardy!
3191
MOVIE DEBUTS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'This son of Colleen Dewhurst & George C. Scott debuted in the 1988 film "Five Corners"'
$500
Campbell Scott
Jeopardy!
3191
CONVENTIONS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'The Annapolis Convention of 1786 did nothing but suggest holding this convention in Philadelphia'
$500
Constitutional Convention
Jeopardy!
3191
PROVERBS
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'"Manus manum lavat" is the Latin equivalent of this proverb'
$500
"One hand washes the other"
Jeopardy!
3191
AMERICAN HISTORY
1998-06-15T00:00:00
'British commander Sir Edward Pakenham was killed in this battle fought 2 weeks after the War of 1812'
$200
Battle of New Orleans
Double Jeopardy!
3191