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JERSEY GIRLS | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'This "Fudge"-tastic children's author was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey' | $1600 | Judy Blume | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
RUSSIAN | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'To get around underground, the letter seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-11_DJ_05.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> stands for this word' | $1600 | metro | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
STRING THEORY 201 | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'String theory is part of this "P" branch of physics that studies eensy little items' | $1600 | particle | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
LIBRARIES | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Among this San Marino, California library's exhibits are a 15th century manuscript of "The Canterbury Tales" & a Gutenberg Bible' | $2000 | the Huntington Library | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
THE HOUND OF MUSIC | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Three word slogan that accompanied the RCA Victor advertisement seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-10-11_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>' | $2000 | His Master\'s Voice | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
PLAY ADJECTIVES | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Howard Sackler's "The ____ ____ Hope"' | $2000 | The Great White Hope | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
JERSEY GIRLS | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Governor of New Jersey form 1994 to 2001, she appointed the state's first female Attorney General' | $4,000 | Christine Whitman | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
RUSSIAN | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Russian word for a home like Novo-Ogarevo, Vladimir Putin's forest retreat near Moscow' | $2000 | a dacha | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
STRING THEORY 201 | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Bosonic string theory has only bosons & none of these particles named for physicist Enrico' | $2000 | fermions | Double Jeopardy! | 5996 |
PRISONS | 2010-10-11T00:00:00 | 'Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here' | null | the Tower of London | Final Jeopardy! | 5996 |
RUSSIA | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In the July 3, 1996 runoff, he defeated Gennadi Zyuganov' | $100 | Boris Yeltsin | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ACTORS & ACTRESSES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This "Alien" actress starred in her long-time pal Christopher Durang's 1996 play "Sex and Longing"' | $100 | Sigourney Weaver | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BIOGRAPHIES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | '"Rare Air" is a photo biography of this basketball star' | $100 | Michael Jordan | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BUSINESS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'The tires on Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" were made by this former competitor of Goodyear' | $100 | B.F. Goodrich | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This "Messiah" composer's first job was as a church organist in Halle, Germany, at age 17' | $100 | Georg Handel | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
PROVERBS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | '"You can't make a silk purse" out of this' | $100 | a sow\'s ear | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
RUSSIA | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1996 this Russian newspaper stopped publishing after 84 years' | $200 | Pravda | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ACTORS & ACTRESSES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Don't blink--or you'll miss Richard Dreyfuss in this 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel' | $200 | Valley of the Dolls | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BIOGRAPHIES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This actor-director is the subject of David Thomson's biography "Rosebud"' | $200 | Orson Welles | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BUSINESS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1866, William A. Breyer started the company that's now the oldest national producer of this' | $200 | ice cream | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | '"Variations on a Theme by Haydn" was this "lullaby" composer's first major work for full orchestra' | $200 | Johannes Brahms | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
PROVERBS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | '"Imitation is the sincerest form of" it, but beware, it "corrupts both the receiver and the giver"' | $200 | flattery | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
RUSSIA | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In April of 1996, Russian rockets killed Dzhokhar Dudayev, this breakaway republic's leader' | $300 | Chechnya | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ACTORS & ACTRESSES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This "Seinfeld" co-star became a Broadway star at age 23 in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Merrily we Roll Along"' | $300 | Jason Alexander | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BIOGRAPHIES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | '"Shalom, Friend" tells of "The Life and Legacy" of this slain Israeli leader' | $300 | Yitzhak Rabin | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BUSINESS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This San Francisco-based clothing company's full name includes "De Corps"' | $300 | Esprit | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1977, his "Immortal Beloved" was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant' | $300 | Beethoven | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
PROVERBS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'It's where you should "never tell tales"' | $300 | out of school | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
RUSSIA | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Abbreviated CIS, it replaced the USSR' | $400 | Commonwealth of Independent States | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ACTORS & ACTRESSES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'John Mahoney, who plays Martin Crane on this sitcom, was born in England; he moved to the U.S. when he was 19' | $400 | Frasier | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BIOGRAPHIES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | '"The Education of a Woman" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun tells of this feminist and famous Ms' | $400 | Gloria Steinem | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BUSINESS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'From 1875 to 1989, this New York company's name included "Glassworks"' | $400 | Corning | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth' | $400 | Franz Liszt | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
PROVERBS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'The saying "Strike while the iron is hot" originally alluded to this profession' | $400 | blacksmith | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
RUSSIA | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'They're the colors of the three stripes on the Russian flag' | $500 | red, white, and blue | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ACTORS & ACTRESSES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Professional name used by the actress seen here during her film career; it's different from her married name (clip from "Hellcats of the Navy")' | $1,000 | Nancy Davis | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BIOGRAPHIES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Known for his "Compleat Angler", he also wrote a biography of his friend, writer John Donne' | $500 | Izaak Walton | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
BUSINESS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This Warner-Lambert product contains retsyn, a finely homogenized vegetable oil' | $500 | Certs | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'He composed his "Leningrad Symphony" during the World War II siege of Leningrad' | $500 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
PROVERBS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'These two things "wait for no man"' | $500 | time and tide | Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE SUPREME COURT | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Justices Butler, Van DeVanter, Sutherland, and McReynolds opposed this president's "New Deal"' | $200 | F.D. Roosevelt | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
LANGUAGES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This Scandinavian language changed "aa" to a circle-topped "a", making it closer to Swedish and Norwegian' | $200 | Danish | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
SCIENTISTS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1633 this astronomer was found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy"' | $200 | Galileo | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE CIVIL WAR | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Union pay department officers wore the M1840, one of these weapons that featured a straight 31" all-gilt blade' | $200 | Sword | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
POETRY | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In stanza three of "The Star Spangled Banner", he mocks "The hireling and slave" who doubt America's victory' | $200 | Francis Scott Key | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ODDS & ENDS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This city's Hartsfield International overtook O'Hare as the world's busiest airport even before the Summer Olympics' | $200 | Atlanta | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE SUPREME COURT | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This president called his 1953 appointment of Earl Warren "the biggest damn' fool mistake I ever made"' | $400 | Eisenhower | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
LANGUAGES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'All of the Romance languages have their roots in this language' | $400 | Latin | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
SCIENTISTS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"' | $400 | George Washington Carver | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE CIVIL WAR | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'On May 29, 1865, he issued a general amnesty for most rebels; the rich and those with high ranks weren't included' | $400 | Andrew Johnson | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
POETRY | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Poe said this maiden "lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me"' | $400 | Annabel Lee | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ODDS & ENDS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'For about $200 a whack, you can spend the night at the Fall River MA home of this alleged murderess' | $400 | Lizzie Borden | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE SUPREME COURT | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1995 two justices rejected The Citadel's appeal of an order to admit her' | $600 | Shannon Faulkner | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
LANGUAGES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Balinese is spoken on several islands of this country' | $600 | Indonesia | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
SCIENTISTS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'The symbol "J" as a unit of energy honors this physicist' | $600 | Joule | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE CIVIL WAR | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In June of 1861, Dorothea Dix was appointed to supervise the female ones of these' | $600 | nurses | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
POETRY | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Originally, he didn't want his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published' | $600 | Gray | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ODDS & ENDS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'They're the two main ingredients in a Cape Codder cocktail' | $600 | cranberry juice and vodka | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE SUPREME COURT | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'He served as Chief Justice the longest; 34 years from 1801-1835' | $800 | John Marshall | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
LANGUAGES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Hungarians call their official language this' | $800 | Magyar | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
SCIENTISTS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In 1791 this Italian published the results of his experiments in "animal electricity"' | $800 | Luigi Galvani | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE CIVIL WAR | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'In the Gettysburg campaign, Lee's forces were along Seminary Ridge and the federal forces along this ridge' | $800 | Cemetery Ridge | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
POETRY | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'His series "Bells and Pomegranates" included "Pippa Passes" and "My Last Duchess"' | $800 | Robert Browning | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ODDS & ENDS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Muhammad received the first of the Koran's revelations during this holy month' | $800 | Ramadan | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE SUPREME COURT | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'After the 1987 rejection of this man's nomination to the court, Anthony Kennedy filled Powell's seat' | $1,500 | Robert Bork | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
LANGUAGES | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Punjabi is spoken by about half of all households in this country' | $1000 | Pakistan | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
SCIENTISTS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'His 1637 "Discours de la methode" prefaced a series of essays on optics, meteorology, and geometry' | $2,500 | Rene Descartes | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
THE CIVIL WAR | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'Hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, he resigned November 1, 1861, as head of the Union army' | $1000 | Winfield Scott | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
POETRY | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'This poet to whom T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Wasteland" ended up in a mental institution' | $1000 | Ezra Pound | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
ODDS & ENDS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'It's the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg' | $1000 | the fibula | Double Jeopardy! | 2818 |
RIVERS | 1996-11-27T00:00:00 | 'It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon"' | null | the Nile | Final Jeopardy! | 2818 |
SCIENCE & NATURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'In June 1991 weightlessness experiments were conducted on about 2,500 jellyfish aboard this' | $200 | the Space Shuttle | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
RUN, RUN, RUN | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'If you want to hit this type of "contained" home run, you probably will need to run really fast' | $200 | an inside-the-park home run | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
MILITARY SLANG | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'This 2-word term, also a movie title, is slang for Navy Fighter Weapons School' | $200 | Top Gun | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCULPTURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic' | $200 | the Mayo Clinic | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
BUSINESS BUDDIES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'S. Duncan Black & this partner filed a patent for a drill in 1914' | $200 | Decker | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
COMMON SIMILES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'If you're scared, you might be "shaking like" this botanical item' | $200 | a leaf | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCIENCE & NATURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'The ARS, an agency of this U.S. government department, is looking to develop better bio-insecticides' | $400 | the Department of Agriculture | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
RUN, RUN, RUN | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'In 1925 N.Y. Journal-American writer Bill Corum first called the Kentucky Derby the "run for" these' | $400 | the roses | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
MILITARY SLANG | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | '"Angels" is slang for this measurement of height, in thousands of feet' | $400 | altitude | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCULPTURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'This country's 12th century sculptor Unkei is known for his wooden statues carved for Buddhist temples' | $400 | Japan | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
BUSINESS BUDDIES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'This maker of optical products borrowed money from his good friend Henry Lomb, but it turned out okay' | $400 | Bausch | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
COMMON SIMILES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Adjective found before "as leather" & "as nails"' | $400 | tough | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCIENCE & NATURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Despite the fierce appearance of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-11-24_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> plated beast, scientists believe it to have been an herbivore' | $600 | a Stegosaurus | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
RUN, RUN, RUN | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Due to an increase of endorphins in the brain, it's a state of euphoria experienced by exercisers' | $600 | runner\'s high | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
MILITARY SLANG | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | '"SAR" stands for this, the effort to extract a downed aircrew in a combat zone' | $1,300 | search and rescue | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCULPTURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Bartolommeo Ammannati designed this city's Fountain of Neptune & the courtyard of the Pitti Palace' | $600 | Florence | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
BUSINESS BUDDIES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Book publisher Henry Houghton made this guy his partner' | $600 | (George) Mifflin | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
COMMON SIMILES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'This ichthyological simile might apply to someone spending too much time at the bar' | $600 | drinking like a fish | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCIENCE & NATURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Platinum, atomic number 78, is worth more than this other metal, atomic number 79' | $800 | gold | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
RUN, RUN, RUN | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'This 2-word hoops term is an offensive rush to beat the defense to the hoop' | $800 | a fast break | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
MILITARY SLANG | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'A "polliwog" has never crossed this geographic line while aboard ship' | $800 | the equator | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCULPTURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'An art museum on Madison Avenue is named for this sculptress who created the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C.' | $800 | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
BUSINESS BUDDIES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Postage meter inventor Arthur Pitney merged his company with that of this entrepreneur' | $800 | (Walter) Bowes | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
COMMON SIMILES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'Ironically, something incomprehensible is said to be "as clear as" this 3-letter word' | $800 | mud | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCIENCE & NATURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'In 2009 a new hominid skeleton dubbed Ardi was aged at 4.4 million years, predating this other "girly" find by 1 mil. years' | $1000 | Lucy | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
RUN, RUN, RUN | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'In the modern pentathlon, athletes go 3,000 meters in this hyphenated type of running' | $1000 | cross-country | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
MILITARY SLANG | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'A "ROAD" scholar is "retired on" this (coasting until actual retirement)' | $1000 | active duty | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
SCULPTURE | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'This English sculptor made one of his reclining figures for the 1951 Festival of Britain' | $1000 | Henry Moore | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
BUSINESS BUDDIES | 2009-11-24T00:00:00 | 'A crossword puzzle book started it all for Richard L. Simon & this publishing partner' | $1000 | Schuster | Jeopardy! | 5797 |
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