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CANADIAN FOOTBALL | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Unlike the NFL, a CFL team gets this many downs in a series to advance the ball 10 yards' | $800 | three | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Located at the mouth of the Demerara River, it's the capital & largest city' | $800 | Georgetown | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
TURKISH LITERATURE | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'A religious kaside poem praised God, this man or his son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph' | $800 | Muhammad | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'This wascally sign whose years include 1951 & 1999 shows bravery against high odds & is rarely be-Fudd-led' | $800 | a rabbit | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Forget about him, he met someone down at Ipanema Beach & now he's "apaixonado", this condition' | $800 | in love | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'In the mid-18th c. Mikhail Lomonosov became the first scientist to record the freezing of this liquid metal' | $1200 | mercury | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CANADIAN FOOTBALL | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'French for "red", it's the term used for the point that is scored if a punt goes out of the end zone untouched' | $1200 | rouge | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Spectacular waterfalls in Guyana include one named for a British king of this name, who ruled 1901-10' | $1200 | Edward | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
TURKISH LITERATURE | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this "youthful" group's 1908 revolution' | $1200 | the Young Turks | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'This sign for 2006 shows devotion to family; aren't you a good sign? Yes you are! Good sign!' | $1200 | the dog | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Cousin Fred said he was Napoleon last night; I'm afraid he might be "maluco", this' | $1200 | crazy | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Lev Landau won a 1962 Nobel Prize for working in low-temperature physics, also known as this' | $1600 | cryogenics | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CANADIAN FOOTBALL | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'This former Boston College & New England Patriots QB was the CFL's most outstanding player 6 times' | $1600 | Doug Flutie | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'One of Guyana's largest cities, it's also an old name for New York City' | $3,000 | New Amsterdam | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
TURKISH LITERATURE | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird' | $1600 | Hawk | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | '1967 folks "flock" to this sign that represents the essence of the Yin, the feminine passive principle' | $1600 | the sheep | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'If you want another drink, hand over some "grana", this; I'm not covering for you anymore after last night' | $1600 | money | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-02-13_DJ_20.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on the monitor.</a>) In devising the periodic table, Mendeleev laid out the elements in rows & columns to show the different relationships when read each way; he's said to have been inspired by a version of this card game' | $2000 | solitaire | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CANADIAN FOOTBALL | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'The Alouettes play their home games at Molson Stadium on the campus of this Montreal university' | $2000 | McGill | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Guyana has had a long-standing border dispute with this small country to its southeast' | $2000 | Suriname | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
TURKISH LITERATURE | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'Seyid Imadeddin Nesimi wrote 2 of these poetry collections, also a word from Turkish for a couch' | $2000 | divan | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'The only 2-letter sign, it represents solid dependability, method & routine' | $2,500 | the ox | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'That very blond guy you met at carnival is called an "alemao", literally a man from this country' | $2000 | Germany | Double Jeopardy! | 5630 |
CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS | 2009-02-13T00:00:00 | 'The parents of this 1942 film character are an unnamed mother & a father known as "the great prince of the forest"' | null | Bambi | Final Jeopardy! | 5630 |
THE BIG BANGLADESH | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Over 80% of those in Bangladesh follow this religion' | $200 | Islam | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
WHO'S THE MRS.? | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Mrs. Brad Pitt' | $200 | Jennifer Aniston | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
TRANSPORTATION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The twin rotor type of this has 2 main rotors going in opposite directions, so it doesn't need a tail rotor' | $200 | a helicopter | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
MYTHELLANEOUS | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe' | $200 | a flood | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-07-23_J_16.wmv">Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.</a>) Spoken by about 9 million people worldwide it's the Scandinavian language I'm speaking' | $200 | Swedish | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
BIRD HUNTING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The stars of the movie "Network" include Faye Dunaway, Beatrice Straight & Peter Finch' | $200 | a finch | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE BIG BANGLADESH | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'About two-thirds of all Bangladeshis work in agriculture, mostly farming this product' | $400 | rice | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
WHO'S THE MRS.? | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Mrs. Tim McGraw' | $400 | Faith Hill | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
TRANSPORTATION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'There are no knife or spoon varieties of these vehicles used in warehouses to raise & carry merchandise' | $400 | forklifts | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
MYTHELLANEOUS | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Lotis, later turned into the lotus tree, was one of these female spirits of nature' | $400 | a nymph | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | '"Namaste" is a greeting in this official language of India used by over a quarter of a billion speakers' | $400 | Hindi | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
BIRD HUNTING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'One of the cardinal rules of e-mail listed on insiderreports.com is to turn off your Caps-Lock' | $400 | a cardinal | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE BIG BANGLADESH | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The green on the flag of Bangladesh represents its lush vegetation; the red circle in the middle is this' | $600 | the sun | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
WHO'S THE MRS.? | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Mrs. James Carville' | $600 | (Mary) Matalin | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
TRANSPORTATION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The U.S. U-2, first built in the 1950s, was an airplane; the German U-1, first built in the 1910s, was one of these' | $600 | a submarine | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
MYTHELLANEOUS | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'In Zuni myth, a kachina named Paiyatemu attracted these colorfully winged insects when she played the flute' | $600 | butterflies | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The official language of Niger, it's a remnant of its colonial times' | $600 | French | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
BIRD HUNTING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'At NYU, Martin Scorsese taught future filmmakers Spike Lee & Oliver Stone' | $600 | a martin | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE BIG BANGLADESH | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'After India was partitioned in 1947, what would later become Bangladesh was the "East" part of this country' | $800 | Pakistan | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
WHO'S THE MRS.? | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Mrs. Maury Povich' | $800 | Connie Chung | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
TRANSPORTATION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'In 1994 the trip across this body of water was cut from a little more than an hour to about 35 minutes' | $600 | the English Channel | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
MYTHELLANEOUS | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This goddess after whom a major city in Greece is named sprang from the head of Zeus' | $800 | Athena | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The official language of Andorra, it's the second-most spoken language in Spain' | $800 | Catalan | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
BIRD HUNTING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The third rail in a subway system is the one with the juice & should be avoided like a touchy subject' | $800 | a rail | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE BIG BANGLADESH | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'In the 1960s, Louis Kahn designed the Parliament building <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-07-23_J_25.jpg" target="_blank">seen here</a> in this capital' | $1000 | Dhaka | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
WHO'S THE MRS.? | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Mrs. Blake Edwards' | $1000 | Julie Andrews | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
TRANSPORTATION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state' | $1000 | a battleship | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
MYTHELLANEOUS | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach & kill the chimera' | $1000 | Pegasus | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala is a well-known writer in this language of the Incas' | $1000 | Quechua | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
BIRD HUNTING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The Academy of Pro Players Power Hitting Baseball Camp can help you with bat speed, bunting & hitting the curve' | $1000 | a bunting | Jeopardy! | 4595 |
OSCARS OF THE '70s | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'No relation to the Lakers' center, she's the youngest ever to win a Supporting Actress Oscar' | $400 | Tatum O\'Neal | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE STING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Most bar recipes for the stinger call for the white version of this potent potable, not the green' | $400 | crème de menthe | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
"ROCK"Y | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | '"SF Sorrow" by The Pretty Things was the first of these works; "Tommy" came soon after' | $400 | a rock opera | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE GODFATHER | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This S.F. Giant, Barry Bonds' godfather, got his nickname from his unique greetings to fans' | $400 | Say Hey Willie Mays | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
DEAR JUNTA | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Shortly after the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega controlled the junta that ruled this country' | $400 | Panama | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'From Old French, its [sic] what we call the person who runs the roulette table' | $400 | croupier | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
OSCARS OF THE '70s | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Colorful actor <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-07-23_DJ_02.jpg" target="_blank">seen here</a> who won Best Supporting Actor in 1973' | $800 | Joel Grey | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE STING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel' | $800 | Dune | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
"ROCK"Y | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'National Guard troops escorted black students to class in this southern state capital in August 1959' | $800 | Little Rock | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE GODFATHER | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'After the death of his mother, this future poet was taken in by his godfather John Allan in 1811' | $800 | (Edgar Allan) Poe | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
DEAR JUNTA | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The "Juntas Provinciales" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion' | $6,200 | Napoleon (Bonaparte) | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Campari & Pernod are good options for this pre-meal potent potable' | $800 | apéritif | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
OSCARS OF THE '70s | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Of Jack Nicholson's 5 nominations in the 1970s, this was the only movie for which he won' | $1200 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE STING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The creature known as this "false" arachnid has venomous pincers & no tail' | $1200 | a scorpion | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
"ROCK"Y | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades' | $1200 | the Dome of the Rock | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE GODFATHER | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'He was the royal godfather to the son of French playwright Moliere' | $1200 | King Louis XIV | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
DEAR JUNTA | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This former priest was ousted in Feb. 2004, even after a U.S.-brokered deal in 1994 with the Haitian junta kept him in power' | $1200 | Aristide | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
OSCARS OF THE '70s | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'For her portrayal of Greta Ohlsson in a 1974 mystery, this legendary actress scored her third Oscar' | $10,000 | Ingrid Bergman | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE STING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'The WNBA team belonging to this southern city is known as The Sting' | $1600 | Charlotte | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
"ROCK"Y | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater' | $1600 | rock salt | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE GODFATHER | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'After a mock funeral for this counterculture icon, his goddaughter, Winona Ryder, moved in with him' | $1600 | Timothy Leary | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
DEAR JUNTA | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'After the junta released activist Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest, Japan restored aid to this country' | $1600 | Burma (or Myanmar) | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'A homophone for the French word for "wheel", you need a good one to make gumbo' | $1600 | a roux | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
OSCARS OF THE '70s | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This son of a famous French impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975' | $2000 | Jean Renoir | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE STING | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This famous FBI sting derived its name from one its fictitious enterprises, Abdul Enterprises' | $2000 | Abscam | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
"ROCK"Y | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This peninsula in the borough of Queens is one of the principal resort areas for New Yorkers' | $2000 | Rockaway Beach (or Peninsula) | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE GODFATHER | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'This British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize in 1950 was the godchild of John Stuart Mill' | $2000 | Bertrand Russell | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
DEAR JUNTA | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'In 1998 Nigerian-led forces captured Freetown, ousting the junta that controlled this African country' | $2000 | Sierra Leone | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | 'From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need' | $2000 | triage | Double Jeopardy! | 4595 |
SHAKESPEARE | 2004-07-23T00:00:00 | '2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage' | null | (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III | Final Jeopardy! | 4595 |
5-LETTER CAPITALS | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | '12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city' | $100 | Paris | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
SPORTS | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'This Florida-born women's great who retired in 1989 wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on tennis' | $100 | Chris Evert | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'Probably the biggest big game the Clovis culture went after 11,200 years ago, it was woolly' | $100 | Mammoth | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
20th CENTURY INVENTION | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | '3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products' | $100 | Scotch tape | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
ON THE MOVE | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice' | $100 | Gondolas | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
DOUBLE TALK | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'In the familiar jokes, it precedes "Who's there?"' | $100 | Knock Knock | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
5-LETTER CAPITALS | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza' | $200 | Cairo | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
SPORTS | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy' | $200 | Doug Flutie | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a "thrower" for it' | $200 | Spear | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
20th CENTURY INVENTION | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle' | $200 | Clothes dryer | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
ON THE MOVE | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'In 1980 the U.S. government loaned this auto company $1.5 billion; the loans were repaid within 3 years' | $200 | Chrysler | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
DOUBLE TALK | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior "I understand & will obey"' | $200 | Aye-Aye | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
5-LETTER CAPITALS | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port' | $300 | Hanoi | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
SPORTS | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'Babe Ruth's father once operated a saloon on what is now center field in this Baltimore ballpark' | $300 | Oriole Park at Camden Yards | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area' | $300 | Navajo | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
20th CENTURY INVENTION | 1998-07-16T00:00:00 | 'In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile' | $300 | Transmission | Jeopardy! | 3214 |
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