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THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT, MAN!
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Colombia to the north, Peru to the west, Paraguay to the south & the Atlantic Ocean to the east'
$600
Brazil
Jeopardy!
4808
MOTTOES
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'"All power to the people" was the motto of this African-American political organization of the 1960s'
$600
the Black Panthers
Jeopardy!
4808
NOT A POPE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Romanus I,<br />Julius I,<br />Caesar III'
$600
Caesar III
Jeopardy!
4808
STARTS WITH A PRONOUN
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'One who interlaces cloth, or an African bird that interlaces grass to make its elaborate nest'
$600
a weaver
Jeopardy!
4808
INVENTIVE MINDS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In 1948, Rene Bussoz sold the USA's first Aqua Lung, invented by this Frenchman'
$800
Cousteau
Jeopardy!
4808
BIOGRAPHY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'She's the enduring actress <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_J_11.jpg" target="_blank">seen</a> <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_J_11a.jpg" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_J_11.mp3"><i>"The 30-year-old had gone from a sheltered life with her family straight into a marriage and a fast-paced career."</i></a>'
$800
Susan Sarandon
Jeopardy!
4808
THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT, MAN!
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Syria to the north & east, Israel to the south & the Mediterranean Sea to the west'
$800
Lebanon
Jeopardy!
4808
MOTTOES
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'"Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil to him who evil thinks) is the motto of this British Chivalric order'
$800
Order of the Garter (or Knights of the Garter)
Jeopardy!
4808
NOT A POPE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Stephen IX,<br />John XXIV,<br />Clement VIII'
$800
John XXIV
Jeopardy!
4808
STARTS WITH A PRONOUN
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff'
$800
sheer
Jeopardy!
4808
INVENTIVE MINDS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'30 years after inventing an instant camera, he invented Polavision, instant movies'
$1000
Edwin Land
Jeopardy!
4808
BIOGRAPHY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Director seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_J_12.jpg" target="_blank"> here</a> discussing his movie "10"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_J_12.mp3"><i>"The most I liked about it was that everybody predicted it would be a major flop."</i></a>'
$1000
Blake Edwards
Jeopardy!
4808
THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT, MAN!
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Thailand to the west, Laos to the north & Vietnam to the east'
$1000
Cambodia
Jeopardy!
4808
MOTTOES
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Strangely, "Blood & fire" is the motto of this Christian charitable organization'
$1000
the Salvation Army
Jeopardy!
4808
NOT A POPE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Dominicus I,<br />Honorius I,<br />Innocent I'
$1000
Dominicus I
Jeopardy!
4808
STARTS WITH A PRONOUN
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'It's a printed-out schedule or outline of one's travel plans'
$1000
an itinerary
Jeopardy!
4808
LITERATURE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'"Tai-Pan" was a "Novel of Hong Kong" by James Clavell, & this was his 1975 "Novel of Japan"'
$400
Shogun
Double Jeopardy!
4808
WHO PLAYED 'EM
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'2003 & 2004:<br />The bride who's trying to kill Bill'
$400
Uma Thurman
Double Jeopardy!
4808
MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.</a>) Ironically, this organ was considered of minor importance, crudely removed through the nose & often not preserved'
$400
the brain
Double Jeopardy!
4808
CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In 1954 this Wisconsin senator ws condemned for insulting other senators & obstructing investigations'
$400
(Joe) McCarthy
Double Jeopardy!
4808
I READ THE NEWS TODAY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'This "Post" is one of Israel's largest English-language daily newspapers'
$400
(the) Jerusalem (Post)
Double Jeopardy!
4808
OH, "BOY"
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'It was founded by Baden-Powell in 1907'
$400
the Boy Scouts
Double Jeopardy!
4808
LITERATURE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In Pierre Boulle's "Planet of the Apes", Zira & Cornelius are this species of ape'
$800
chimpanzees
Double Jeopardy!
4808
WHO PLAYED 'EM
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'2004:<br />Monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing'
$800
(Hugh) Jackman
Double Jeopardy!
4808
MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.</a>) Among the many amulets placed within the linen wrappings of a mummy was <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_DJ_27a.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> symbol of life'
$800
an ankh
Double Jeopardy!
4808
CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'This former house speaker was reprimanded in 1997 for misuse of tax-exempt funds & submitting false informaiton'
$800
Newt Gingrich
Double Jeopardy!
4808
I READ THE NEWS TODAY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Political theorist Nikolai Bukharin edited this "truthful" Soviet newspaper from 1917 to 1929'
$800
Pravda
Double Jeopardy!
4808
OH, "BOY"
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In this 2002 film, single guy Hugh Grant's life is changed by a 12-year old'
$800
About a Boy
Double Jeopardy!
4808
LITERATURE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Milan Kundera's "Immortality" read in this, its original language, may be unbearably light reading'
$1200
Czech
Double Jeopardy!
4808
WHO PLAYED 'EM
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'2004:<br />Cady Heron, who loves & hates the "Mean Girls" at her high school'
$1200
Lohan
Double Jeopardy!
4808
MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.</a>) These stone coffins, like the ones built for Tutankhamen, were the final resting places of mummies'
$1200
sarcophogi
Double Jeopardy!
4808
CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In 1811 Senator Thomas Pickering was censured for reading aloud from secret documents about this purchase'
$1200
(the) Louisiana (Purchase)
Double Jeopardy!
4808
I READ THE NEWS TODAY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">Hi, I'm Al Sparks.</a>) In 1987 I was named "Funniest Teenager in Chicago" by this newspaper for which Roger Ebert works'
$1200
the Chicago Sun-Times
Double Jeopardy!
4808
OH, "BOY"
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Viiolinist-turned-boxer Joe Bonaparte dies in a car crash at the end of this tragic Odets play'
$1200
Golden Boy
Double Jeopardy!
4808
LITERATURE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Goethe called him Faust; Marlowe dubbed him this'
$1600
Dr. Faustus
Double Jeopardy!
4808
WHO PLAYED 'EM
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'2004:<br />Sirius Black, the prisioner of Azkaban'
$1600
Gary Oldman
Double Jeopardy!
4808
MY MUMMY DONE TOLD ME
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-06-29_DJ_29.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.</a>) Named for a lesser-known Greek hero, these containers were used to store the removed viscera of the mummified'
$1600
canopic jars
Double Jeopardy!
4808
CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In 1921 Congress censured Rep. Thomas Blanton for inserting "obscene matter" into this publication'
$2,100
the Congressional Record
Double Jeopardy!
4808
I READ THE NEWS TODAY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'At the time JFK was shot, Jack Ruby was placing some ads in this "morning" publication'
$2,000
the Dallas Morning News
Double Jeopardy!
4808
OH, "BOY"
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'This law states that at a constant temp., the volume of a gas in inversely proportional to the pressure'
$1600
Boyle\'s (law)
Double Jeopardy!
4808
LITERATURE
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Completes the title of Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 memoir "Soul on..."'
$2000
Ice
Double Jeopardy!
4808
WHO PLAYED 'EM
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'1999 & 2002:<br />Mini-Me'
$2000
Verne Troyer
Double Jeopardy!
4808
CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Senator Benjamin Tappan was censured in 1844 for leaking information about the annexation of this to the Union'
$2000
Texas
Double Jeopardy!
4808
I READ THE NEWS TODAY
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'Florida's highest circulation newspaper is this Gulf Coast city's Times, with about 350,000 daily copies sold'
$2000
St. Petersburg
Double Jeopardy!
4808
OH, "BOY"
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'The Marine Corps' "Black Sheep" squadron was commanded this famed major'
$2000
Pappy Boyington
Double Jeopardy!
4808
MUSICAL THEATER
2005-06-29T00:00:00
'In Act II of this musical, an election victory is announced "on the balcony of the Casa Rosada"'
null
Evita
Final Jeopardy!
4808
WORLD CITIES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'From Bei Hai Park in this city, pass the Great Hall of the People, bear left, & then it's straight on to Mao's mausoleum'
$200
Beijing
Jeopardy!
5467
SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'His "called shot" home run off Charlie Root in the 1932 World Series is baseball legend'
$200
Babe Ruth
Jeopardy!
5467
MODES OF TRANSPORT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'3 types of these are rescue trucks, pumpers & ladder trucks'
$200
fire trucks
Jeopardy!
5467
TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'His autobiography was called "I Don't Mean To Be Rude, But..."'
$200
Simon Cowell
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE STAGE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Title of a Jonathan Larson musical, or what the East Village residents in it have trouble coming up with'
$200
Rent
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE "WAR"PATH
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Pop art poster boy who was famous much longer than 15 minutes'
$200
Andy Warhol
Jeopardy!
5467
WORLD CITIES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This Sudanese capital lies on a narrow piece of land bounded by the White & Blue Nile Rivers'
$400
Khartoum
Jeopardy!
5467
SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Maybe...Yes, sir! Nailing an 11-foot putt on 17 helped seal the 1986 Masters for this Golden Bear'
$400
Jack Nicklaus
Jeopardy!
5467
MODES OF TRANSPORT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The Triton was the first one of these to travel around the world underwater'
$400
a (nuclear) submarine
Jeopardy!
5467
TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'He was "Feelin' Groovy" as an Illinois senator from 1985 to 1997'
$400
Paul Simon
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE STAGE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'On Skid Row, love blooms for Seymour while Audrey II has a feeding frenzy in this play'
$400
Little Shop of Horrors
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE "WAR"PATH
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Homeothermic, like mammals'
$400
warm-blooded
Jeopardy!
5467
WORLD CITIES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The Tsarina's Stone is the oldest monument in this city that was made Finland's capital by Russian insistence'
$600
Helsinki
Jeopardy!
5467
SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'His prestidigitation (or in this case a "Jr. Skyhook") won Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals for the Lakers'
$600
Magic Johnson
Jeopardy!
5467
MODES OF TRANSPORT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'These ships were nicknamed "blubber ships"'
$600
whaling ships
Jeopardy!
5467
TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'In an 1852 novel, he's the plantation owner & slave master'
$600
Simon Legree
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE STAGE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Their first commission was "Thespis" for London's Gaiety Theatre in 1871'
$600
Gilbert & Sullivan
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE "WAR"PATH
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'In Super Bowl XXXIV, this Rams QB passed for a record 414 yards, beating Joe Montana's record by 57 yards'
$600
Kurt Warner
Jeopardy!
5467
WORLD CITIES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This Caribbean island's capital, Fort-de-France, lies about 15 miles southeast of Mt. Pelee volcano'
$800
Martinique
Jeopardy!
5467
SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'In 1994 this 45-year-old won the title with a 1-2 punch that sent Michael Moorer to Horizontal Land'
$800
George Foreman
Jeopardy!
5467
MODES OF TRANSPORT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This nickname for early cars pointed out that they were not pulled by equines'
$800
horseless carriages
Jeopardy!
5467
TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This playwright won a Pulitzer in 1991 with "Lost in Yonkers"'
$800
Neil Simon
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE STAGE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This playwright hit the right note with "Amadeus" & then horsed around with "Equus"'
$800
Peter Shaffer
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE "WAR"PATH
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The 14th Chief Justice of the United States'
$800
Earl Warren
Jeopardy!
5467
WORLD CITIES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Construction began on this German city's Gothic cathedral near the Rhine in 1248 & lasted 632 years'
$1000
Cologne
Jeopardy!
5467
SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'In 1999 she wasn't shirtless in Seattle but rather in Pasadena after her kick won the Women's World Cup for the U.S.'
$1000
Brandi Chastain
Jeopardy!
5467
MODES OF TRANSPORT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'He named the first Bell X-1 rocket plane for his wife, Glennis'
$1000
Chuck Yeager
Jeopardy!
5467
TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'He was the head of Vienna's Jewish Documentation Center from 1961 to 2003'
$1000
Simon Wiesenthal
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE STAGE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'All the original B'way cast, except Diane Keaton, bared all in a group nude scene in this musical about hippies'
$1000
Hair
Jeopardy!
5467
ON THE "WAR"PATH
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'In response to NATO, Eastern European nations including Poland & the USSR signed this 1955 treaty'
$2,000
the Warsaw Pact
Jeopardy!
5467
GENERAL SCIENCE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This alliterative event happened 14 billion years ago'
$400
the Big Bang
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Peter Fonda was in "Ulee's Gold"; "Fool's Gold" stars this daughter of Goldie Hawn'
$400
Kate Hudson
Double Jeopardy!
5467
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'In this play, Casca says Cicero's speech "was Greek to me"'
$400
Julius Caesar
Double Jeopardy!
5467
A WHITE CATEGORY
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The London district of Whitechapel is associated with this infamous killer'
$400
Jack the Ripper
Double Jeopardy!
5467
MAMMALS
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'It makes sense that these proud & powerful mammals live in groups called prides'
$400
lions
Double Jeopardy!
5467
"T" TIME
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Lay-deez annnd gentlemen! To "walk" this slender item means to tread carefully'
$400
tightrope
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GENERAL SCIENCE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'A hydrate contains this compound weakly bound in its crystals'
$800
water
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'"First Blood" was a Rambo movie; this 2007 film had Daniel Day-Lewis searching for oil'
$800
There Will Be Blood
Double Jeopardy!
5467
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'"She speaks yet she says nothing", pines one character for his unattainable love in this tragedy'
$800
Romeo & Juliet
Double Jeopardy!
5467
A WHITE CATEGORY
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The mass of a typical one of these stars is about 70% that of the sun'
$800
white dwarf
Double Jeopardy!
5467
MAMMALS
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Common in Dixie, a razorback is a wild one of these'
$800
hog
Double Jeopardy!
5467
"T" TIME
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Left pinky makes "A" & right index makes "J" in this activity'
$800
typing
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GENERAL SCIENCE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one is further divided into plutonic & volcanic types'
$1200
igneous
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Ian McKellen was Gandalf in "LOTR"; Ian McEwan wrote the novel on which this 2007 Keira Knightley film was based'
$1200
Atonement
Double Jeopardy!
5467
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'It was actually Christopher Sly, not Kate, who says, "I'll not budge an inch" in this comedy'
$1200
The Taming of the Shrew
Double Jeopardy!
5467
A WHITE CATEGORY
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-05-20_DJ_20.wmv">Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Steinway & Sons factory in New York.</a>) Steinway stopped using this material in keys decades ago, & in 1993 the company patented a piano key material made of a substitute for it'
$1200
ivory
Double Jeopardy!
5467
MAMMALS
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The name of this order of mammals comes from the Latin verb "rodere", meaning to gnaw'
$1200
rodent
Double Jeopardy!
5467
"T" TIME
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'A synonym for "journey", it's also an upper-crust nickname for a guy with Roman numeral III in his name'
$1200
trip
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GENERAL SCIENCE
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The IRAS telescope, which revealed 5 new comets, made its observations in this part of the light spectrum'
$8,000
infra-red
Double Jeopardy!
5467
GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'"North Country" starred Charlize Theron; "No Country for Old Men" featured this Spaniard as a relentless killer'
$1600
Javier Bardem
Double Jeopardy!
5467
SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'A wife tries to console her husband in this tragedy by telling him, "What's done is done"'
$7,000
Macbeth
Double Jeopardy!
5467
A WHITE CATEGORY
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'This black & white dairy cow originated in an area of Holland'
$1600
Holstein
Double Jeopardy!
5467
MAMMALS
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'The giant species of this "armor-plated" animal has more teeth than any other land mammal'
$1600
armadillo
Double Jeopardy!
5467
"T" TIME
2008-05-20T00:00:00
'Poi, a luau treat, is made from these mashed roots'
$1600
taro
Double Jeopardy!
5467