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THE ENGLISH TOP 100 | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'Title of the Beatles song that tells us "life is very short"--5 words: Nos. 27, 53, 87, 11, 43' | $1000 | "We Can Work It Out" | Jeopardy! | 5580 |
BRASS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'In 1989 this son of Jamaican immigrants became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff' | $400 | (Colin) Powell | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
STRINGS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'When this product was introduced in 1972, it was said to have a full "quarter mile" of fun shot out of a can' | $400 | Silly String | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
WOOD & WIND | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'This author wrote of Fangorn Forest, named for the oldest of the Ents-or was the Ent named for the forest?' | $400 | Tolkien | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
"PER"CUSSION | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'A type of fish, or to sit on an elevated platform' | $400 | perch | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
CONDUCTORS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'The Lone Ranger could tell you this precious metal is the best conductor of electricity among metals' | $400 | silver | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
SYMPHONIES ON FILM | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" for this 1940 Disney film' | $400 | Fantasia | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
BRASS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'If you don't know he was made commander of the 2nd Armored Tank Division in April 1941, I'll slap you silly' | $800 | (George) Patton | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
STRINGS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'In the 1630s it was a backup bow & arrow part; today it means backup on a sports team' | $2,000 | second string | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
WOOD & WIND | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'In this Herman Wouk tale, Pug Henry is an advisor to FDR prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor' | $800 | The Winds of War | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
"PER"CUSSION | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-12-05_DJ_02.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Gathering of Nations.</a>) The Colorado nonprofit Hawkquest doesn't just protect hawks; they also help <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-12-05_DJ_02a.jpg" target="_blank">these</a> falcons, whose name means "wandering"' | $800 | peregrine | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
CONDUCTORS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-12-05_DJ_07.wmv">Jon of the Clue Crew lights up a bulb by touching wires to its terminals.</a>) It's a series of electrical components that form a conducting path' | $800 | a circuit | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
SYMPHONIES ON FILM | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'This Russian director's Mexico footage was compiled as "Mexican Symphony" in 1941' | $800 | (Sergey) Eisenstein | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
BRASS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'We shall return to this man who graduated from West Point in 1903 with the highest honors in his class' | $1200 | Doug MacArthur | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
STRINGS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'To make this candy, put a string in a glass of sugar & water that was boiled to a syrup & let stand for a week' | $1200 | rock candy | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
WOOD & WIND | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'His play "Under Milk Wood", about the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside town, was published posthumously' | $1200 | Dylan Thomas | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
"PER"CUSSION | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'Russian for "rebuilding", this term was first used by Gorbachev in the mid-1980s' | $1200 | perestroika | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
CONDUCTORS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the symbol B is a workable conductor' | $1200 | boron | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
SYMPHONIES ON FILM | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'In 1998's "Serengeti Symphony", the title nature reserve in this country is shown with only music & natural sound' | $1200 | Tanzania | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
BRASS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'A 10-man, 22-ton "infantry fighting vehicle" named for this general has a 2-man turret & a 25mm cannon' | $1600 | (Omar) Bradley | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
STRINGS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'According to Bud Collins' "Encyclopedia of Modern Tennis", the best of this string material comes from cows' | $1600 | gut | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
WOOD & WIND | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'The line "O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being" starts an 1819 ode by this man' | $1600 | Percy Shelley | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
"PER"CUSSION | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'This daughter of Zeus & Demeter made regular trips to Hades' | $1600 | Persephone | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
CONDUCTORS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'It's the term for material that conducts at high temperatures & insulates at low temperatures' | $1600 | a semiconductor | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
SYMPHONIES ON FILM | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'This 1922 film seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-12-05_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> was subtitled "A Symphony of Horror"' | $1600 | Nosferatu | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
BRASS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'In 1864 Democrats nominated this Union general for president, though he repudiated their platform' | $8,000 | George McClellan | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
STRINGS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'The hope behind String Theory is that it will result in this, sometimes shortened to "T.O.E."' | $2000 | the theory of everything | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
WOOD & WIND | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'This Frost poem ends with "And miles to go before I sleep, <br />And miles to go before I sleep"' | $2000 | "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
"PER"CUSSION | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | '11-letter word for the sac containing the heart' | $2000 | pericardium | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
CONDUCTORS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-12-05_DJ_10.wmv">Jimmy of the Clue Crew powers a fan by putting one terminal into a beaker of saltwater.</a>) Current that will power the fan is carried by ions rather than free electrons in the saltwater, which is one of these conducting liquids' | $2000 | an electrolyte | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
SYMPHONIES ON FILM | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'The 1934 drama "The Unfinished Symphony" was director Anthony Asquith's tribute to this Austrian composer' | $2000 | Shubert | Double Jeopardy! | 5580 |
HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS | 2008-12-05T00:00:00 | 'On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres' | null | Corsica | Final Jeopardy! | 5580 |
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Of Hawaii's 8 main islands, this one receives the lion's share of the tourist dollars' | $200 | Oahu | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Cash,<br />Depp' | $200 | Johnny | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
NOVELS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'The 1719 1st edition told of him "having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all... men perished but himself"' | $200 | Robinson Crusoe | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
BRIGHT IDEAS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Edwin Budding adapted a rotary shearer used to remove excess fibers from carpets into this outdoor tool' | $200 | the lawnmower | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TEENS IN HISTORY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1468 this teen was recognized as heiress to the throne of Castile' | $200 | Queen Isabella | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
RHYME TIME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'An intelligent beginning' | $200 | a smart start | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora' | $400 | Mt. McKinley | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Bakula,<br />Wolf' | $400 | Scott | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
NOVELS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Even the epilogue is lengthy in this 1869 Tolstoy epic; it comes out in 2 parts &, in our copy, is 105 pages long' | $400 | War and Peace | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
BRIGHT IDEAS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1948 scientists at Bristol-Meyers "buffered" this medicine for the first time' | $400 | aspirin | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TEENS IN HISTORY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match' | $400 | Annie Oakley | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
RHYME TIME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A more obese baseball slugger' | $400 | a fatter batter | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This river begins in Colorado & empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas' | $600 | Rio Grande | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Carey,<br />Bledsoe' | $600 | Drew | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
NOVELS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This 1939 Steinbeck novel helped publicize the plight of Dust Bowl refugees' | $600 | The Grapes of Wrath | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
BRIGHT IDEAS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Lawrence Sperry used the gyroscope his dad developed in this device that keeps planes on course without human aid' | $600 | autopilot | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TEENS IN HISTORY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it)' | $1,000 | Rodin | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
RHYME TIME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A wealthy sorceress' | $600 | a rich witch | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Florida's panhandle borders these 2 states' | $800 | Alabama and Georgia | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Lillard,<br />Modine' | $800 | Matthew | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
NOVELS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Chapter 10 of this 1960 novel begins, "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty"' | $800 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
BRIGHT IDEAS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1882 Schuyler Wheeler put a propellor on the shaft of an electric motor & created this--how cool!' | $800 | a fan | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TEENS IN HISTORY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia' | $800 | Catherine the Great | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
RHYME TIME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Written text of a movie about an underground burial chamber' | $800 | a crypt script | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This large lake on the New York-Vermont border is Vermont's lowest point' | $1000 | Lake Champlain | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Connelly,<br />Garner,<br />Holliday' | $1000 | Jennifer | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
NOVELS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Published in 1949, this futuristic tale is set in Oceania, a few years before you were born' | $1000 | 1984 | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
BRIGHT IDEAS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'James Fergason invented this type of "display" that found an early use in calculators' | $1000 | LCD (or Liquid Crystal Display) | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TEENS IN HISTORY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific' | $1000 | Captain Cook | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
RHYME TIME | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Voraciously eat an "all-purpose" baking ingredient' | $1000 | devour flour | Jeopardy! | 4699 |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Of particular interest to the NRA is the amendment that allows us "to keep & bear" these' | $400 | arms | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain & their 9 teammates on the field' | $400 | soccer | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
LOW CUT GENES | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Because they develop from a single ovum, this variety of twins has the same genetic makeup' | $400 | identical | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
IN THE DICTIONARY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This math term comes from the Latin frangere, "to break"' | $400 | fraction | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FINE DINING | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A Vacherin dessert features this crisp concoction of beaten egg whites & sugar' | $400 | meringue | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TAKE OUT | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'It's the common operation to remove 2 small oval masses of tissue at the back of the mouth' | $400 | a tonsillectomy | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Under the 5th Amendment, 1 of the 3 things that no person shall be deprived of "without due process of law"' | $6,000 | life (or liberty or property) | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie & their 3 teammates on the floor' | $800 | basketball | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
LOW CUT GENES | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Genes that affect hereditary traits are called alleles & are either "dominant" or this' | $800 | recessive | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
IN THE DICTIONARY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This synonym for "room" can precede music & maid' | $800 | chamber | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FINE DINING | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'NYC sushi chef Masa Takayama has paid more than $120 a pound for this fish--a bit pricier than Star-Kist's' | $800 | tuna | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TAKE OUT | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A rhytidectomy removes these surgically; botox takes them out another way' | $800 | wrinkles | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was ratified in this year' | $1200 | 1865 | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Misty May & Kerri Walsh' | $1200 | beach volleyball | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
LOW CUT GENES | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Since the 1980s this hormone used by diabetics has been produced by genetically engineered bacteria' | $1200 | insulin | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
IN THE DICTIONARY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'The name of this 6-pointed star comes from the Greek for "six" & "letter"' | $1200 | a hexagram | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FINE DINING | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This word for a French stew is pronounced the same as a pasta sauce brand' | $1200 | ragout | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TAKE OUT | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A lobectomy removes one of the 5 lobes of the lungs; a lobotomy takes out part of this organ' | $1200 | the brain | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'The 24th Amendment says you don't have to pay this type of tax, or any other in order to vote' | $1600 | poll | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Mohini Bhardwaj, Courtney Kupets & their 4 teammates' | $1600 | gymnastics | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
LOW CUT GENES | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A pair of chromosomes with this 2-letter designation makes a woman a woman' | $1600 | XX | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
IN THE DICTIONARY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'The name of this African equine comes from the Portuguese for "wild ass"' | $1600 | a zebra | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FINE DINING | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A company at Union Wharf in Portland ships all kinds of seafood, but is called "Maine" this creature "Direct"' | $1600 | Lobster | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TAKE OUT | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'A keratotomy is an incision of this eye part; a keratectomy removes part of it' | $1600 | the cornea | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Decade when the 27th & last amendment, having to do with pay raises in Congress, took effect' | $2000 | the 1990s | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Lisa Fernandez, Jennie Finch & their 7 teammates on the field' | $2000 | softball | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
LOW CUT GENES | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'Named for a German neuropathologist, this memory loss disease may be caused by a gene on chromosome 21' | $2000 | Alzheimer\'s disease | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
IN THE DICTIONARY | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'This cutting implement has the same name as a type of dive & a kind of trailer-truck accident' | $800 | a jackknife | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
FINE DINING | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'En croute, as in salmon en croute, is French for "in" this, also found on toast' | $2000 | crust | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
TAKE OUT | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'The embolus removed from an artery in an embolectomy is usually one of these obstructions' | $2000 | a (blood) clot | Double Jeopardy! | 4699 |
MOUNTAINS | 2005-01-27T00:00:00 | 'To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government' | null | Mount Everest | Final Jeopardy! | 4699 |
COMMON BONDS | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'Fife,<br />Rubble,<br />Miller' | $100 | Barney | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
SIMPLE SCIENCE | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'State of matter a substance is in after it's gone through evaporation' | $100 | gaseous | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
ROCK MUSIC | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'In April of 1990 she began her worldwide "Blond Ambition" tour to promote her CD "I'm Breathless"' | $100 | Madonna | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
AT THE BUILDING SITE | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'He's got the building wired for "current" affairs' | $100 | an electrician | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
HEY, GOOD-LOOKIN' | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'A 4-legged one may be a vixen; a 2-legged one may be a vixen, too' | $100 | a fox | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'? | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'I'm boiling these to mix with red cabbage; it's too darn hot to roast them on an open fire' | $100 | chestnuts | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
COMMON BONDS | 1998-02-25T00:00:00 | 'Foehn,<br />Zephyr,<br />Simoom' | $200 | winds | Jeopardy! | 3113 |
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