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SCIENCE BRIEFS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'It's elemental:<br />Zn'
$800
zinc
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-05-31_DJ_02.jpg" target="_blank">Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from horseback.</a>) Shakespeare used this word in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to catch someone's notice; I use it to stop my horse'
$800
whoa (ho also accepted)
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE "CAPTAIN"
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Hans Conried voiced this villain in a 1953 Disney classic'
$800
Captain Hook
Double Jeopardy!
4787
TO NEIL
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'A star of D.W. Griffith's "America", Neil Hamilton played Commissioner Gordon on this TV show'
$800
Batman
Double Jeopardy!
4787
MUSCAT LOVE
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'The 3 main forts in Muscat date from the 1580s when this small Iberian nation conquered & occupied it'
$800
Portugal
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE NAACP
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-05-31_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.</a>) This award, the NAACP's highest honor, was first bestowed in 1915 & named for a past chairman of the NAACP'
$2,400
the Spingarn Medal
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SCIENCE BRIEFS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'For water, it's 0 degrees Celsius:<br />F.P.'
$1200
freezing point
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'From Latin for "indecent", this word in "Love's Labour's Lost" is the type of book banned by the Comstock Law'
$1200
obscene
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE "CAPTAIN"
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'For his role as Manuel, Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for this 1937 fish story'
$1200
Captains Courageous
Double Jeopardy!
4787
TO NEIL
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'From 1979 to 1981, Neil Goldschmidt was Secretary of this department abbreviated D.O.T.'
$1200
the Department of Transportation
Double Jeopardy!
4787
MUSCAT LOVE
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Completed in 2001, the "Grand" one of these in Muscat is the 1st in the country to be open to non-Muslims'
$1200
a mosque
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE NAACP
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'This future Supreme Court justice won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the court as a lawyer for the NAACP'
$1600
Thurgood Marshall
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SCIENCE BRIEFS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Used of radio waves:<br />MHz'
$1600
megahertz
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'This word in "Henry VI Part 2" meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite'
$1600
jaded
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE "CAPTAIN"
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Hooray for this Groucho Marx character from "Animal Crackers"'
$1600
Captain Spaulding
Double Jeopardy!
4787
TO NEIL
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'In the '50s, Neil H. McElroy was this man's Secretary of Defense'
$1600
President Eisenhower
Double Jeopardy!
4787
MUSCAT LOVE
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Qaboos bin Said al Said rules from his palace in Muscat under this title that means "ruler" in Arabic'
$1600
sultan
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE NAACP
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-05-31_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.</a>) In 1995 this widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers became the first woman to head the NAACP'
$2000
Myrlie Evers(-Williams)
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SCIENCE BRIEFS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'When the stork won't come:<br />IVF'
$2000
in vitro fertilization
Double Jeopardy!
4787
SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'The word "fashionable" came into vogue with Ulysses' speech to Achilles in this play'
$1,800
Troilus and Cressida
Double Jeopardy!
4787
THE "CAPTAIN"
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Errol Flynn is a doctor who is forced to become a pirate in this 1935 action fest'
$2000
Captain Blood
Double Jeopardy!
4787
TO NEIL
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'In 1989, this "bright" Neil Sheehan work about the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction'
$2000
A Bright Shining Lie
Double Jeopardy!
4787
MUSCAT LOVE
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'A main strategic value of Muscat stems from its position at the entranceway to this 90,000 sq. mi. body of water'
$2000
the Persian Gulf
Double Jeopardy!
4787
BEATLES MUSIC
2005-05-31T00:00:00
'Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song'
null
\"Drive My Car\"
Final Jeopardy!
4787
THE ENVIRONMENT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'The Florida wild black type of this carnivore is down to about 3,000 animals & needs its habitat protected'
$200
a bear
Jeopardy!
6135
CELEBRITY FACTS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'In 2010 she got engaged to a choreographer she met on the set of "Black Swan"'
$200
Natalie Portman
Jeopardy!
6135
LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'About 635 violins still exist among the 1,100 instruments this 17th century man constructed'
$200
Stradivarius
Jeopardy!
6135
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'This item on a bicycle lets drivers see cyclists at night'
$200
taillight (or reflector)
Jeopardy!
6135
HOME FURNISHINGS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Four-poster is a type of this, sometimes with a canopy'
$200
a bed
Jeopardy!
6135
FATHERS-IN-LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'United Farm Workers president Arturo Rodriguez' father-in-law was this man who died in 1993'
$200
César Chávez
Jeopardy!
6135
THE ENVIRONMENT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'A New York Times article said this, falling in winter in the Adirondacks, may be more toxic for fish than its liquid counterpart'
$400
acid snow
Jeopardy!
6135
CELEBRITY FACTS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Alice Cooper's Phoenix eatery has dishes named for ballplayers & is named this, like the Hall of Fame site'
$400
Cooperstown
Jeopardy!
6135
LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Message for you, sir...! In 1897 he founded his wireless telegraph & signal company in London'
$400
(Guglielmo) Marconi
Jeopardy!
6135
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'This 5-letter word can mean "overweight"'
$400
plump
Jeopardy!
6135
HOME FURNISHINGS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'You don't have to work in the movie industry to have <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-22_J_08.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> furnishing named for a professional'
$400
a director\'s chair
Jeopardy!
6135
FATHERS-IN-LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'German emperor Frederick III's was this German-born British prince consort'
$400
Prince Albert
Jeopardy!
6135
THE ENVIRONMENT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'As you know from the movie "Medicine Man", the rain forests hold essential plants for treating this disease'
$600
cancer
Jeopardy!
6135
CELEBRITY FACTS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-22_J_18.jpg" target="_blank">Hi. I'm Kyra Sedgwick.</a>) Thanks to my appearances in movies like "The Woodsman" & "Murder in the First", I have a 1, the best score possible, in this popular party game'
$600
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Jeopardy!
6135
LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'This food network personality grew up in her film producer grandfather's restaurant, DDL Foodshow'
$600
Giada De Laurentiis
Jeopardy!
6135
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Like a horse'
$600
equine
Jeopardy!
6135
HOME FURNISHINGS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'A jardiniere is a decorative stand for holding these'
$600
plants
Jeopardy!
6135
FATHERS-IN-LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Catherine Zeta-Jones' is this legendary actor'
$600
Kirk Douglas
Jeopardy!
6135
CELEBRITY FACTS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Jake Gyllenhaal got his first driving lesson from this late movie star & auto racer'
$800
Paul Newman
Jeopardy!
6135
LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'This Italian-born man began his brief tenure as pope on August 26, 1978'
$1,000
John Paul I
Jeopardy!
6135
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'The part of an atom's nucleus that fits the category'
$800
a neutron
Jeopardy!
6135
HOME FURNISHINGS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'To add a southwestern touch, furnish a room with the rug seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-22_J_27.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, named for this second most populous Indian tribe'
$800
Navajo
Jeopardy!
6135
FATHERS-IN-LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Jefferson Davis' was this U.S. president'
$800
Zachary Taylor
Jeopardy!
6135
CELEBRITY FACTS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Angelina Jolie's uncle, Chip Taylor, wrote this song that says, "you make my heart sing"'
$1000
"Wild Thing"
Jeopardy!
6135
LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'In 2002 he wrote "Baudolino", a historial novel set in 12th century Europe; what an author ... author ... author'
$1000
Umberto Ecco
Jeopardy!
6135
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Pertaining to the scientific use & study of very low temperatures'
$1000
cryogenic
Jeopardy!
6135
HOME FURNISHINGS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'By definition, this type of china cabinet has a slightly projecting middle section'
$1000
breakfront
Jeopardy!
6135
FATHERS-IN-LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Daniel Day-Lewis' was this dramatist'
$1000
Arthur Miller
Jeopardy!
6135
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'His "Heroic" Period, from about 1803 to 1812, produced his "Eroica" Symphony'
$400
Beethoven
Double Jeopardy!
6135
THEY'RE ON CABLE
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'He plays novelist Hank Moody, a New Yorker transplanted to L.A., on "Californication"'
$400
David Duchovny
Double Jeopardy!
6135
POETIC TITLE VERBS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'"_____ By Woods On A Snowy Evening"'
$400
Stopping
Double Jeopardy!
6135
IT'S A COUP D'ETAT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'After his murder, the conspirators did not gain control, as power was passed on to the Second Triumvirate'
$400
Julius Caesar
Double Jeopardy!
6135
COMPOUND WORDS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'A student's may be 3-ring or spiral bound'
$400
a notebook
Double Jeopardy!
6135
FATHER'S IN LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Father was quite the cutup in Prof. Charles Fried's class at this Massachusetts law school founded in 1817'
$400
Harvard
Double Jeopardy!
6135
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'One of Verdi's first masterpieces was this Shakespearean opera with an intense sleepwalking scene'
$800
Macbeth
Double Jeopardy!
6135
THEY'RE ON CABLE
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'James Roday is Shawn Spencer, a police consultant who pretends to have otherworldly powers, on this comedic series'
$800
Psych
Double Jeopardy!
6135
POETIC TITLE VERBS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'"I _____ Lonely As A Cloud"'
$800
Wandered
Double Jeopardy!
6135
IT'S A COUP D'ETAT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Carl Henrik Anckarsvard was the leader of the coup that overthrew King Gustav IV of this country'
$800
Sweden
Double Jeopardy!
6135
COMPOUND WORDS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Common name for the patella'
$800
the kneecap
Double Jeopardy!
6135
FATHER'S IN LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Father has rooms near the Court of Chancery in this state where half of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated'
$2,000
Delaware
Double Jeopardy!
6135
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Charles Gounod's mother thought he might become a priest, & one of his best-known works is this setting of a Catholic prayer'
$1200
Ave Maria
Double Jeopardy!
6135
THEY'RE ON CABLE
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-22_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">I'm Joel McHale.</a>)<br />When you're not watching "Community", you can catch me on this show on E! that satirizes other shows (though sometimes they do the job themselves)<br /><i>"Hint, hint. It's not the Kardashians."</i>'
$1200
The Soup
Double Jeopardy!
6135
POETIC TITLE VERBS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'"She _____ In Beauty"'
$1200
Walks
Double Jeopardy!
6135
IT'S A COUP D'ETAT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'In 1921 Reza Pahlavi helped with a coup that eventually brought his son to power in this country'
$1200
Iran
Double Jeopardy!
6135
COMPOUND WORDS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'It's often said, "Build a better" this "and the world will beat a path to your door"'
$1200
a mousetrap
Double Jeopardy!
6135
FATHER'S IN LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Coincidentally, today father's squash opponent was also his deponent, as father was taking this'
$1200
a deposition
Double Jeopardy!
6135
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'He was 24 years older than his friend Mozart, but outlived him by almost 20 years'
$1600
Franz Joseph Haydn
Double Jeopardy!
6135
THEY'RE ON CABLE
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'The title pair of this TNT show is Boston detective Angie Harmon & medical examiner Sasha Alexander'
$1600
Rizzoli & Isles
Double Jeopardy!
6135
POETIC TITLE VERBS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'"To An Athlete _____ Young"'
$1600
Dying
Double Jeopardy!
6135
IT'S A COUP D'ETAT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'This S. American president was the leader of an unsuccessful coup in 1992 & was the target of a coup in 2002'
$2,000
Hugo Chavez
Double Jeopardy!
6135
COMPOUND WORDS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Lunar term meaning mentally deranged or dreamily romantic'
$1600
moonstruck
Double Jeopardy!
6135
FATHER'S IN LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'Father learned about the quaint problems of the poor at Chicago's "Edwin F. Mandel" this type of "Clinic"'
$1600
legal aid
Double Jeopardy!
6135
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-22_DJ_05.wmv">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Juilliard School.</a>) The string quartet is a stripped down, personal expression of a composer's feelings; Debussy wrote only one, but it's the only work that he gave one of these numbers'
$2000
an opus
Double Jeopardy!
6135
THEY'RE ON CABLE
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'We are bananas about <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-22_DJ_20.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> celebrity stylist; the show titled her "Project" is seen on Bravo'
$2000
Rachel Zoe
Double Jeopardy!
6135
POETIC TITLE VERBS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'"On First _____ Into Chapman's Homer"'
$2000
Looking
Double Jeopardy!
6135
IT'S A COUP D'ETAT
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'In Pakistan Nawaz Sharif tried to dismiss this military leader in 1999 but was overthrown by him instead'
$2000
Musharraf
Double Jeopardy!
6135
COMPOUND WORDS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'It's the 9-letter name for a type of restaurant that specializes in steak & other meat on the bone'
$2000
chophouse
Double Jeopardy!
6135
FATHER'S IN LAW
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'As a non-partner who has a formal relationship with a firm, father is said to be "of" this to Bisbee, Pell & Bisbee'
$2000
Counsel
Double Jeopardy!
6135
BIOGRAPHERS
2011-04-22T00:00:00
'As many mourned, this minister wrote in a letter, "Washington is gone! Millions are gasping to read ...about him"'
null
Parson Weems
Final Jeopardy!
6135
THEY ALSO RAN
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'Born in Brooklyn in 1944, he was mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002'
$200
Rudy Giuliani
Jeopardy!
5443
ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'David Lee Roth,<br />Sammy Hagar,<br />David Lee Roth'
$200
Van Halen
Jeopardy!
5443
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'In 2004 this Dutch airlines merged with Air France'
$200
KLM
Jeopardy!
5443
RODENTS
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'Spaniards named these furry rodents for the Chincha Indians'
$200
chinchilla
Jeopardy!
5443
"F"OOD
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'This, food cooked in a central pot on the table, is from the French for "to melt"'
$200
fondue
Jeopardy!
5443
HOMOPHONES
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'A native of Copenhagen, or to stoop to do something'
$200
dane/deign
Jeopardy!
5443
THEY ALSO RAN
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'He received a degree from NC State & pushed papers at his own Raleigh law firm'
$400
John Edwards
Jeopardy!
5443
ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'Roger Daltrey'
$400
The Who
Jeopardy!
5443
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'In 1999 Ford snatched up the auto unit of this company for 50 billion kronor'
$400
Volvo
Jeopardy!
5443
RODENTS
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'Some of the quills of the Eurasian species can be 12 inches, equal to about half of its body length'
$400
a porcupine
Jeopardy!
5443
"F"OOD
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'It's a Spanish baked custard coated with caramel'
$400
flan
Jeopardy!
5443
HOMOPHONES
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'To take a quick look, or the top of a mountain'
$400
peek/peak
Jeopardy!
5443
THEY ALSO RAN
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'Formerly a U.S. Secretary of Energy & U.N. Ambassador, he's now the Governor of New Mexico'
$600
(Bill) Richardson
Jeopardy!
5443
ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'Anthony Kiedis'
$600
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jeopardy!
5443
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'In an $80 billion deal these 2 oil companies joined forces in 1999 in the biggest merger up to that time'
$2,200
Exxon & Mobil
Jeopardy!
5443
RODENTS
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'These rodents of the Plains received their name because they "bark" like canines'
$600
prairie dogs
Jeopardy!
5443
"F"OOD
2008-04-16T00:00:00
'It's the Japanese name for certain species of puffer fish that contain lethal poison but can be eaten as a delicacy'
$600
fugu
Jeopardy!
5443