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CLASSICAL MUSIC
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'The music of this Tchaikovsky "Suite" comes from his 1892 ballet, popular at Christmas'
$600
"The Nutcracker"
Double Jeopardy!
3447
WHOSE IS IT?
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'Ben Franklin used a pen name to publish this almanac from 1732 to 1757'
$600
Poor Richard\'s Almanack
Double Jeopardy!
3447
THE CIVIL WAR
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'When this general accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, he was wearing a mud-splattered private's coat'
$800
Ulysses S. Grant
Double Jeopardy!
3447
LANGUAGES
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'Javanese is the native language of about 60 million people on the island of Java in this country'
$800
Indonesia
Double Jeopardy!
3447
NURSERY RHYMES
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'"Hey Diddle, Diddle!" After the little dog laughed, these 2 things ran off together'
$800
Dish & spoon
Double Jeopardy!
3447
ARE WE THERE YET?
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'The Congress Street Bridge is where Bostonians recreate this historic event every December'
$500
Boston Tea Party
Double Jeopardy!
3447
CLASSICAL MUSIC
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'Prokofiev wrote a famous orchestra piece called "Peter and" this animal'
$800
The wolf
Double Jeopardy!
3447
WHOSE IS IT?
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'The Battle of the Little Bighorn, won by the Sioux, also has this "final" name'
$800
Custer\'s Last Stand
Double Jeopardy!
3447
THE CIVIL WAR
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'In February 1861 6 Southern states founded the Confederate States of America & elected him president'
$1000
Jefferson Davis
Double Jeopardy!
3447
LANGUAGES
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'Most of the people of Brazil speak this official language'
$1000
Portuguese
Double Jeopardy!
3447
NURSERY RHYMES
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'It's what Peter, Peter ate; later he kept his wife in the shell of one'
$1000
Pumpkin
Double Jeopardy!
3447
ARE WE THERE YET?
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'This oldest national park has entrances in Wyoming & Montana'
$1000
Yellowstone
Double Jeopardy!
3447
CLASSICAL MUSIC
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'This Austrian child prodigy began composing minuets when he was only 5'
$1000
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Double Jeopardy!
3447
WHOSE IS IT?
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'This "heel" is named for thr only place a famous Greek warrior could be wounded'
$1000
Achilles\' heel
Double Jeopardy!
3447
EMPIRES
1999-09-07T00:00:00
'In the early 1800s, this man's empire included the duchy of Warsaw, the kingdom of Naples & Spain'
null
Napoleon
Final Jeopardy!
3447
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This play opens on the battlements of the castle at Elsinore as Barnardo asks, "who's there?"'
$200
Hamlet
Jeopardy!
6294
THAT'S BUSINESS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'He started a book business from his home in 1873; his son William joined forces with G. Clifford Noble in 1917'
$200
(Charles M.) Barnes
Jeopardy!
6294
NURSERY RHYMES
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Peter, Peter was an eater of this; he kept his wife in its shell'
$200
pumpkin
Jeopardy!
6294
INLETS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This largest Alaskan city lies at the head of cook inlet on the Kenai peninsula'
$200
Anchorage
Jeopardy!
6294
THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This '60s "Nights in White Satin" band has another color in its name'
$200
Moody Blues
Jeopardy!
6294
FOREIGN
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In Portuguese, domingo is this day of the week'
$200
Sunday
Jeopardy!
6294
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'"Othello" opens with Roderigo addressing this villain: "Tush, never tell me; I take it much unkindly"'
$400
Iago
Jeopardy!
6294
THAT'S BUSINESS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1997 Tyco International moved to this U.K. territory in the Atlantic for tax purposes'
$400
Bermuda
Jeopardy!
6294
NURSERY RHYMES
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'"I had a little hobby-horse and it was dapple gray; its head was made of pea-straw, its tail was made of" this'
$400
hay
Jeopardy!
6294
INLETS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Big ships must pass through Admiralty Inlet to enter or leave this Washington State sound'
$400
Puget Sound
Jeopardy!
6294
THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'1974's "Mandy" was his first Top 40 hit--& it reached No.1'
$400
Barry Manilow
Jeopardy!
6294
FOREIGN
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes'
$400
a bird
Jeopardy!
6294
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'The chorus of "Romeo & Juliet" tells us it's in this city "where we lay our scene"'
$600
Verona
Jeopardy!
6294
THAT'S BUSINESS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'An Italian clothier is known as the United Colors of this'
$600
Benetton
Jeopardy!
6294
NURSERY RHYMES
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In a counting nursery rhyme, they were "a-courting", "in the kitchen" & "a-waiting"'
$600
maids
Jeopardy!
6294
INLETS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Faxa Bay in the North Atlantic is between this country's Snaefells & Reykjanes peninsulas'
$1,000
Iceland
Jeopardy!
6294
THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This singer of "Jack & Diane" had to fight to record under his own name'
$600
John Mellencamp
Jeopardy!
6294
FOREIGN
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'If Popeye spoke Hebrew he'd ask for tered, this'
$600
spinach
Jeopardy!
6294
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Completes the opening sentence "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of..."'
$800
York
Jeopardy!
6294
THAT'S BUSINESS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1851 this company started using a logo with a man in the moon & 13 stars; now it uses its initials'
$800
Proctor & Gamble
Jeopardy!
6294
NURSERY RHYMES
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'While "January brings the snow", "may brings flocks of pretty" these, "skipping by their fleecy dams"'
$800
lambs
Jeopardy!
6294
INLETS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This Chilean city whose name means "valley of paradise" lies on a wide inlet of the Pacific'
$800
Valparaiso
Jeopardy!
6294
THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In the '90s it was "Enter Sandman" with this group'
$800
Metallica
Jeopardy!
6294
FOREIGN
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Tredici is Italian for this symbol of bad luck'
$800
thirteen
Jeopardy!
6294
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This play opens most dramatically with thunder & lightning. A ship is seen. Then a cry of "bos'n!"'
$1000
The Tempest
Jeopardy!
6294
THAT'S BUSINESS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1927 this brand name first appeared on a Sears washing machine'
$1000
Kenmore
Jeopardy!
6294
NURSERY RHYMES
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'"Here we go round" this bush "on a cold and frosty morning"'
$1000
the mulberry bush
Jeopardy!
6294
INLETS
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'North Carolina's Albemarle Sound is no deeper than 25 feet & is protected from the Atlantic by this island chain'
$1000
the Outer Banks
Jeopardy!
6294
THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In the 2000s "Makes Me Wonder" got this group noticed'
$1000
Maroon 5
Jeopardy!
6294
FOREIGN
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In German, berg is this topographical feature on a map'
$1000
a mountain
Jeopardy!
6294
AMERICAN HISTORY
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In December 1974 this former New York governor was sworn in as Vice President'
$400
Rockefeller
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'If you can't stand the heat, there's always this raw dish that includes onions, capers, egg yolks & beef tenderloin'
$400
steak tartare
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'The British A22 Mark IV tank carried a 75-millimeter gun & this prime minister's name'
$400
Churchill
Double Jeopardy!
6294
THE LIVING PLANET
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Able to lift 850 times its own weight, the strongest animal is the rhinoceros type of this insect'
$400
beetle
Double Jeopardy!
6294
ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Blair Underwood as President Elias Martinez'
$400
The Event
Double Jeopardy!
6294
4 N
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song'
$400
ninety-nine
Double Jeopardy!
6294
AMERICAN HISTORY
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1951 he told a joint session of congress that he "tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty"'
$800
(Douglas) McArthur
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'A New England boiled dinner is traditionally made with this cured deli meat'
$800
corned beef
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Ships in the U.S. Navy's Casablanca class of "escort" these were smaller than their big cousins like the Lexington'
$800
aircraft carriers
Double Jeopardy!
6294
ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Dennis Haysbert & D.B. Woodside as David & Wayne Palmer, respectively'
$800
24
Double Jeopardy!
6294
4 N
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'"U" know it means not deliberate; I'm sorry, that slip of the tongue was completely this'
$800
unintentional
Double Jeopardy!
6294
AMERICAN HISTORY
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government'
$1,800
the Federalists
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'A New York steak is also known as this alliterative steak'
$1200
strip steak
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Today, this Japanese car company makes the galant; in WWII, it was better known for its A6M "Zero" fighter'
$1200
Mitsubishi
Double Jeopardy!
6294
THE LIVING PLANET
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Relative to the size of the bird, this flightless New Zealand denizen has the largest egg'
$1200
the kiwi
Double Jeopardy!
6294
ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Fred Armisen as Barack Obama'
$1200
Saturday Night Live
Double Jeopardy!
6294
4 N
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'It's the church festival on March 25 commemorating what Gabriel told Mary'
$2,400
the annunciation
Double Jeopardy!
6294
AMERICAN HISTORY
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'His foes said that in 1877 he agreed to withdraw remaining federal troops from the south in return for electoral support'
$1600
(Rutherford B.) Hayes
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'The second word in the French name of this boneless steak means "dainty"'
$1600
filet mignon
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'It was the alphanumeric designation of the U.S. Army's Garand rifle'
$1600
the M1
Double Jeopardy!
6294
THE LIVING PLANET
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2012-01-19_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a bunch of jar-preserved specimens.</a>) Butterflies, centipedes, scorpions, spiders, crabs, lobsters--these & millions of other creepy crawlers belong to this phylum that makes up more than 80% of all animal species, from the Greek for "joint foot"'
$1600
arthropod
Double Jeopardy!
6294
ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'On Fox, Patricia Wettig as Caroline Reynolds'
$1600
Prison Break
Double Jeopardy!
6294
4 N
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Adjective preceding the railroad completed in 1869'
$1600
transcontinental
Double Jeopardy!
6294
AMERICAN HISTORY
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'In 1917 the U.S. purchased the islands of St. Croix, St. John & St. Thomas from this country for $25 million'
$2000
Denmark
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'To make this dish, beef is topped with pate de foie gras & a mushroom paste before it's wrapped in pastry & cooked'
$2000
beef Wellington
Double Jeopardy!
6294
WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'"Hefty" nickname of the second & last atomic bomb used during the war'
$2000
Fat Man
Double Jeopardy!
6294
THE LIVING PLANET
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'The April 2009 issue of Science magazine reported that cows were the first livestock animal to have this "mapped"'
$2000
their genome
Double Jeopardy!
6294
ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin'
$2000
Battlestar Galactica
Double Jeopardy!
6294
4 N
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'Inopportune or untimely, like the title "woman" in a Dominick Dunne novel'
$2000
inconvenient
Double Jeopardy!
6294
SPORTS & THE MOVIES
2012-01-19T00:00:00
'When asked for a home address in "The Blues Bros." Elwood gives 1060 W. Addison St., the home of this facility'
null
Wrigley Field
Final Jeopardy!
6294
WARNER BROS.
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'In May 1999 her Warners talk show was hit with a $2.5 million judgment after one guest killed another'
$100
Jenny Jones
Jeopardy!
3461
AMERICAN HISTORY
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'In 1791 this Treasury Secretary issued his "Report On Manufactures", a critique of American industry'
$100
Alexander Hamilton
Jeopardy!
3461
MORTAL MATTERS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'In NYC June 14, 1999 it was "Dead Man Riding", as it took hours to notice a passenger on one of these wasn't just sleeping'
$100
Subway
Jeopardy!
3461
BIRDS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Only the adelie & emperor species of this bird actually breed in Antarctica'
$100
Penguin
Jeopardy!
3461
LEVITICUS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'This tribe that gives the book its English name is only mentioned in one passage'
$100
Levites
Jeopardy!
3461
AUTHORS' RHYME TIME
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Sir Walter's saucepans'
$100
Scott\'s pots
Jeopardy!
3461
WARNER BROS.
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'You can tour the Warner Bros. lot online, or in person in this San Fernando Valley city'
$200
Burbank
Jeopardy!
3461
AMERICAN HISTORY
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885'
$200
Charleston
Jeopardy!
3461
MORTAL MATTERS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Willie, the animal Wiarton, Canada used for this celebration, died Jan. 31, 1999, 2 days before his next appearance'
$200
Groundhog Day
Jeopardy!
3461
BIRDS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'This bird seen here is the provincial bird of Prince Edward Island'
$200
Blue jay
Jeopardy!
3461
LEVITICUS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'God bans mean pranks in 19:14, "Thou shalt not... put a stumbling block before" these people'
$200
The blind
Jeopardy!
3461
AUTHORS' RHYME TIME
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Stoker's sheeplings'
$200
Bram\'s lambs
Jeopardy!
3461
WARNER BROS.
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Former mortuary entrepreneur Steve Ross negotiated Warners' 1989 merger with this publisher'
$300
Time
Jeopardy!
3461
AMERICAN HISTORY
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'In 1698, after an absence of 15 years, he returned to the colony named for his father'
$300
William Penn
Jeopardy!
3461
MORTAL MATTERS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'When Dallas sent out this annual tax form to 13,000 city employees, it marked them dead'
$300
W-2
Jeopardy!
3461
BIRDS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'The racing homer breed of this domestic bird was developed in Belgium, the traditional home of the sport'
$300
Pigeon
Jeopardy!
3461
LEVITICUS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Chapters 4, 6, 8 & 12 begin, "And the Lord spake unto" him'
$1,000
Moses
Jeopardy!
3461
AUTHORS' RHYME TIME
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Spillane's love-bites'
$300
Mickey\'s hickeys
Jeopardy!
3461
WARNER BROS.
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Movies found their voice in this 1927 Warner Bros. film'
$400
The Jazz Singer
Jeopardy!
3461
AMERICAN HISTORY
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston's Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams'
$400
Daniel Webster
Jeopardy!
3461
MORTAL MATTERS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'This saint's remains were in a box atop a wardrobe for 6 years before being redisplayed February 14, 1999'
$400
Saint Valentine
Jeopardy!
3461
BIRDS
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'In captivitiy, these wading birds are fed carotenoid pigments to keep the plumage color they have in the wild'
$400
Flamingo
Jeopardy!
3461
AUTHORS' RHYME TIME
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Anne's bad habits'
$400
Rice\'s vices
Jeopardy!
3461
WARNER BROS.
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'He outlasted his brothers Sam, Albert & Harry in the company, finally selling out in 1967'
$500
Jack Warner
Jeopardy!
3461
AMERICAN HISTORY
1999-09-27T00:00:00
'Completed in 1856, California's first railroad ran 22 miles between Sacramento & this prison city'
$500
Folsom
Jeopardy!
3461