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WORD ORIGINS
1998-02-24T00:00:00
'The -sex suffix on British placenames refers to this Germanic people'
$1,000
the Saxons
Double Jeopardy!
3112
FAMOUS VOYAGES
1998-02-24T00:00:00
'Capt. Robert Fitzroy of this ship argued that its scientific discoveries supported the Bible'
null
the Beagle
Final Jeopardy!
3112
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This title folk story guy steals a golden egg-laying hen, bags of gold & a golden harp; the "giant-cide" comes later'
$200
Jack
Jeopardy!
5431
THE MOVIES
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Jack Palance's character is described as "a saddlebag with eyes" in this 1991 comedy'
$200
City Slickers
Jeopardy!
5431
WEAPONRY
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Standard-issue weapons for stormtroopers in "Star Wars" included energy-bolt-firing pistols called these'
$200
blasters
Jeopardy!
5431
MEDICAL TALK
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This term refers to the painful inflammation of any of the fibrous structures that connect muscles to bones'
$200
tendinitis
Jeopardy!
5431
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'What a happy ending: this title orphan of a Dickens novel is adopted by Mr. Brownlow'
$200
Oliver Twist
Jeopardy!
5431
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Chips' aquatic partner<br />(4)'
$200
fish
Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Playing the pass line in craps, it's the winning number on the opening roll other than 7'
$400
11
Jeopardy!
5431
THE MOVIES
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-31_J_02.jpg" target="_blank">Drew Barrymore delivers the clue.</a>) In my film "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays the "Jeopardy! Think Music" written by this creator of "Jeopardy!"'
$400
Merv Griffin
Jeopardy!
5431
WEAPONRY
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'In the 1960s Nelson Mandela led the military group "Umkhonto we Sizwe", or this weapon "of the Nation"'
$400
Spear
Jeopardy!
5431
MEDICAL TALK
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'To test for visual acuity, the Snellen chart is designed to be read from this many feet away'
$400
20
Jeopardy!
5431
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper'
$400
the Headless Horseman
Jeopardy!
5431
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Honshu volcano<br />(4)'
$400
Fuji
Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Found in Southeast Asia, they're the smallest apes'
$600
gibbons
Jeopardy!
5431
THE MOVIES
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Irene Bedard, the speaking voice of this heroine in an animated Disney film, played her mother in "The New World"'
$1,000
Pocahontas
Jeopardy!
5431
WEAPONRY
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'The first 2 weapons Hamlet mentions in his "To be or not to be" soliloquy'
$600
slings & arrows
Jeopardy!
5431
MEDICAL TALK
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-31_J_16.wmv">Jimmy of the Clue Crew tends to a virtual patient at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr, a Harvard teaching hospital in Boston, MA.</a>) A dilated pupil indicates that a head injury may have led to an acute subdural this, where blood accumulates within the skull'
$600
a hematoma
Jeopardy!
5431
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'She is the narrator of "To Kill a Mockingbird"'
$600
Scout
Jeopardy!
5431
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Greek-letter group<br />(10)'
$600
fraternity
Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Pick up a GT from this car co. for a tidy $169,000, or maybe start out with a Focus for a more reasonable $13,715'
$800
Ford
Jeopardy!
5431
THE MOVIES
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-31_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.</a>) In the 2003 film "Pieces of April", I played an offbeat neighbor of this actress who had yet to meet & marry Tom Cruise'
$800
Katie Holmes
Jeopardy!
5431
WEAPONRY
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'In the missile called a "SAM", it's what the "A" stands for'
$800
air
Jeopardy!
5431
MEDICAL TALK
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'It begins, "I swear by Apollo physician and Asclepius..."'
$800
the hippocratic oath
Jeopardy!
5431
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story'
$800
McBoing-Boing
Jeopardy!
5431
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'A Mrs., in Munich<br />(4)'
$800
Frau
Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'The tuliptree, or "yellow" this, was planted by Washington at Mt. Vernon, & Daniel Boone used its wood in his canoe'
$1000
poplar
Jeopardy!
5431
THE MOVIES
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe sang about being "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" in this 1953 movie musical'
$1000
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jeopardy!
5431
WEAPONRY
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'The weapons that are "bursting" in line 5 of "The Star-Spangled Banner"'
$1000
bombs
Jeopardy!
5431
MEDICAL TALK
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Luteinizing hormone is one of the many produced by this cherry-shaped gland'
$1000
the pituitary
Jeopardy!
5431
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes'
$1000
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Jeopardy!
5431
CROSSWORD CLUES "F"
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'It's spoken in Hameenlinna & Hyvinkaa<br />(7)'
$1000
Finnish
Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This general, first in his class at West Point, ran for president in 2004'
$400
Wesley Clark
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TV PRODUCERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'The Fairmont in this city's Nob Hill was the exterior used for Aaron Spelling's "Hotel" TV series'
$400
San Francisco
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TOUGH BODIES OF WATER
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'St. George's Channel separates Wales from this country'
$400
Ireland
Double Jeopardy!
5431
HELLO, DELI!
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'I think I'll just have a nosh--a bagel, cream cheese & the Nova Scotia type of this'
$400
lox
Double Jeopardy!
5431
ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Caesar,<br />Antony,<br />Cicero, et al.'
$400
Romans
Double Jeopardy!
5431
IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'I see in my crystal ball that Bill Hewitt wrote a book about how to read these'
$400
tea leaves
Double Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This "old soldier" was a general at age 38; in 1930 at age 50, he was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army'
$800
MacArthur
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TV PRODUCERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'David Chase created this HBO series & wrote many of its episodes, like "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood"'
$800
The Sopranos
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TOUGH BODIES OF WATER
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Bristol Bay is an arm of this sea off Alaska'
$800
the Bering
Double Jeopardy!
5431
HELLO, DELI!
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'I'll have one of these "city" omelets stuffed with ham, onions & green peppers'
$800
a Denver omelette
Double Jeopardy!
5431
ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'In a 1971 song he "was a bullfrog"'
$800
Jeremiah
Double Jeopardy!
5431
IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'A tea room in Cambria, California is named for this kind of teapot cover--& it sells them, too'
$800
a cozy
Double Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'More than 540,000 men & women served under this general's command of the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf War of 1991'
$3,800
(Norman) Schwarzkopf
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TV PRODUCERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'He moved from "Melrose Place" to the east coast for "Central Park West" & "Sex & the City"'
$1200
Darren Star
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TOUGH BODIES OF WATER
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Rivers that flow into this sea include the Dnieper, Dniester & Danube'
$1200
the Black Sea
Double Jeopardy!
5431
HELLO, DELI!
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Someone pass me this noodle pudding filled with raisins & nuts'
$1200
kugel
Double Jeopardy!
5431
ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Hey, this, don't be "obscure"'
$1200
Jude
Double Jeopardy!
5431
IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This slang synonym for oil is mentioned in the theme song to "The Beverly Hillbillies"'
$1200
Texas tea
Double Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'The only place this general wouldn't "march" was to the presidency; he told the GOP "I will not accept if nominated" in 1884'
$1600
Sherman
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TV PRODUCERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'In 2003 this "Survivor" head honcho began conducting a search to give Donald Trump an apprentice'
$1600
Mark Burnett
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TOUGH BODIES OF WATER
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'The Uruguay River forms the border between Uruguay & Argentina & most of the border between Argentina & this country'
$1600
Brazil
Double Jeopardy!
5431
HELLO, DELI!
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'It's a good knight for one of these Jewish turnovers with a meat or potato filling'
$1600
a knish
Double Jeopardy!
5431
ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy'
$1600
Amos
Double Jeopardy!
5431
IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'When Lady Diana had doubts about marrying Prince Charles, she was told: Too late. "Your face is on" these cloth items'
$1600
tea towels
Double Jeopardy!
5431
GENERAL INFORMATION
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This Army general headed American-led forces during the initial combat phase of the Iraq War as it began in 2003'
$2000
Tommy Franks
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TV PRODUCERS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'He probably has another 6 or 7 "Law & Order" offshoots on his desk just waiting for network slots'
$2000
Dick Wolf
Double Jeopardy!
5431
TOUGH BODIES OF WATER
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'This Venezuelan lake is the only one of the world's 25 largest lakes whose elevation is sea level'
$2,000
Lake Maracaibo
Double Jeopardy!
5431
HELLO, DELI!
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Something smells fishy--must be this chopped fish patty mixed with crumbs & eggs & served cold in a jellied broth'
$2000
gefilte fish
Double Jeopardy!
5431
ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Few were "better than" this Mr. Cornell who founded the university in 1865'
$2000
Ezra
Double Jeopardy!
5431
IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'In 1975 the Perfumer's Workshop introduced a fragrance named for this flower'
$2000
a tea rose
Double Jeopardy!
5431
BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS
2008-03-31T00:00:00
'Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip'
null
John Glenn
Final Jeopardy!
5431
AMERICAN HISTORY
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration'
$200
Mormonism
Jeopardy!
5630
CABLE CHANNELS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'The Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" says, "You play the guitar on" this cable channel'
$200
MTV
Jeopardy!
5630
PROPHET SHARING
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Before he was a prophet, Smohalla gained fame as one of these alliterative Native American healers'
$200
a medicine man
Jeopardy!
5630
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in what is now Skopje, Macedonia in 1910'
$200
Mother Teresa
Jeopardy!
5630
SWEET!
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This slang term for coffee precedes "chip" in a Starbucks ice cream flavor'
$200
java
Jeopardy!
5630
"IND" THE KNOW
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This adjective refers to the original natives of any region'
$200
indigenous
Jeopardy!
5630
AMERICAN HISTORY
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this'
$400
democracy
Jeopardy!
5630
CABLE CHANNELS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This channel for women produces the original drama "Army Wives"'
$400
Lifetime
Jeopardy!
5630
PROPHET SHARING
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'In I Kings this fiery Biblical prophet won a contest with the prophets of Baal'
$400
Elijah
Jeopardy!
5630
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This British dame, Rudolf Nureyev's dance partner, was married to a Panamanian diplomat'
$400
Margot Fonteyn
Jeopardy!
5630
SWEET!
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky'
$400
butterscotch
Jeopardy!
5630
"IND" THE KNOW
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'The systematic teaching of beliefs to gain uncritical acceptance'
$400
indoctrination
Jeopardy!
5630
AMERICAN HISTORY
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration'
$600
busing
Jeopardy!
5630
CABLE CHANNELS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This channel shows films like "The Magnificent Seven" & original series like "Mad Men" & "Breaking Bad"'
$600
AMC
Jeopardy!
5630
PROPHET SHARING
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'The soothsayer Calchas told this king he had to offer up his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get winds to rise'
$600
Agamemnon
Jeopardy!
5630
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'She wrote her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", in exile soon after her uncle's assassination'
$600
Isabel Allende
Jeopardy!
5630
SWEET!
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'A confection called a kiss is baked this: sugar & stiffly beaten egg whites'
$600
meringue
Jeopardy!
5630
"IND" THE KNOW
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Punjab means "land of 5 rivers", & all 5 of the rivers eventually flow into this one'
$600
the Indus
Jeopardy!
5630
AMERICAN HISTORY
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent'
$800
Manifest Destiny
Jeopardy!
5630
CABLE CHANNELS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'You'll "find" that this channel features "Cash Cab" & "Dirty Jobs"'
$800
Discovery
Jeopardy!
5630
PROPHET SHARING
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Poems known as the "Gathas" are attributed to this ancient prophet & teacher who lived in eastern Iran'
$800
Zoroaster
Jeopardy!
5630
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This Norwegian beauty is noted for her work with Ingmar Bergman & with UNICEF'
$800
Liv Ullmann
Jeopardy!
5630
SWEET!
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'A red cake named for this smooth fabric is really a chocolate cake--food coloring gives it the distinctive color'
$800
velvet
Jeopardy!
5630
"IND" THE KNOW
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Insurance term meaning to protect against damage, loss or injury'
$800
indemnity
Jeopardy!
5630
AMERICAN HISTORY
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.'
$1000
the Alien & Sedition Acts
Jeopardy!
5630
CABLE CHANNELS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" & "Rescue Me"'
$1000
FX
Jeopardy!
5630
PROPHET SHARING
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'On the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo included some of these ancient oracle-like prophetesses'
$1000
sibyls
Jeopardy!
5630
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Under 5 feet tall & all of about 90 pounds, this frail French chanteuse was nicknamed the "Little Sparrow"'
$1000
(Edith) Piaf
Jeopardy!
5630
SWEET!
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Some pies have a top named for this garden structure'
$800
a lattice
Jeopardy!
5630
"IND" THE KNOW
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Also a term in logic, it's the process by which a magnetic field is ordered into poles'
$1000
induction
Jeopardy!
5630
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Sergey Korolyov was instrumental in the success of this first artificial satellite of the Earth'
$400
Sputnik
Double Jeopardy!
5630
CANADIAN FOOTBALL
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'One of the 8 teams in the CFL is the Stampeders, who play for this city in the Canadian Rockies'
$400
Calgary
Double Jeopardy!
5630
GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Guyana is divided into 3 regions: a highland, an inland forest & a coastal plain along this ocean'
$400
the Atlantic
Double Jeopardy!
5630
TURKISH LITERATURE
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'The poem called the "Garibnameh" contains 11,000 masnavi, which we know as these rhymed 2-line units of verse'
$400
couplets
Double Jeopardy!
5630
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'This first sign is a nocturnal animal; those born under it work best in quiet hours; oo, you dirty...'
$400
rat
Double Jeopardy!
5630
BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Unlike some, I like my women to be "cranio", this quality we also admire on "Jeopardy!"'
$400
intelligence
Double Jeopardy!
5630
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
2009-02-13T00:00:00
'Rehovot in this country has an institute named for Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, who synthesized acetone'
$800
Israel
Double Jeopardy!
5630