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MAD
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'What made this Mel Gibson character mad was outlaw bikers killing his wife & kid'
$400
Max
Jeopardy!
4278
SPORTS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(I'm Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett) This man was my coach for my first 11 seasons in the NFL'
$400
Tom Landry
Jeopardy!
4278
WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Theon's home of Smyrna is now called Izmir & is one of the chief seaports of this country of Asia Minor'
$400
Turkey
Jeopardy!
4278
"LESS" IS MORE
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'It's Southwest Airlines' name for the paper-free type of travel it introduced on all routes in January 1995'
$400
Ticketless
Jeopardy!
4278
VEGAS, BABY
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'A legendary weapon that emerged from a lake, or a Las Vegas hotel'
$400
Excalibur
Jeopardy!
4278
LANGUAGES
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Of Inka, Dinka or Doo, an actual language spoken in southern Sudan'
$600
Dinka
Jeopardy!
4278
MAD
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Back in the '60s Sue Kaufman wrote the "Diary of a Mad" this'
$600
Housewife
Jeopardy!
4278
SPORTS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'In 1994, at age 45, he became heavyweight boxing champ again & was the AP's Male Athlete of the Year'
$600
George Foreman
Jeopardy!
4278
WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Theon's greatest work, available on Amazon.com, has mathematics useful for understanding this "Republic" author'
$600
Plato
Jeopardy!
4278
"LESS" IS MORE
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Putting it before "Communism", Harry Truman popularized the use of this word meaning "atheistic"'
$600
godless
Jeopardy!
4278
VEGAS, BABY
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'The European playground seen here, or a Las Vegas hotel'
$600
Monte Carlo
Jeopardy!
4278
LANGUAGES
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'More than 375 languages & dialects are spoken in this country's Madhya Pradesh state'
$800
India
Jeopardy!
4278
MAD
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Clicking on the Encarta index entry of Mad Anthony will take you to this man'
$800
Anthony Wayne
Jeopardy!
4278
SPORTS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'He was director of athletics at NYC's Downtown Athletic Club from 1928 to 1936'
$800
John Heisman
Jeopardy!
4278
WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Writing on these, Theon covers, among others, the circular, oblong, prime & even ones'
$800
numbers
Jeopardy!
4278
"LESS" IS MORE
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(Video clue of a pair of glasses; text unavailable due to sound problems)'
$800
rimless
Jeopardy!
4278
VEGAS, BABY
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'The bird Phoenicopterus ruber roseus, or a Las Vegas hotel'
$2,000
Flamingo
Jeopardy!
4278
LANGUAGES
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Gaspar Karolyi's translation of the Bible in 1590 was influential in the development of this as a national language'
$1000
Hungarian
Jeopardy!
4278
MAD
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'The Cold War nuclear balance was known as "MAD", mutually assured this'
$1000
destruction
Jeopardy!
4278
SPORTS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'In the 1992-93 season this Pittsburgh Penguin missed 24 games but still won the NHL scoring title'
$1000
Mario Lemieux
Jeopardy!
4278
WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Theon seems to have lived at the same time that this Roman emperor was building his famous wall'
$1000
Hadrian
Jeopardy!
4278
"LESS" IS MORE
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Jean-Paul Belmondo is the cool criminal Michel in this French New Wave classic'
$1000
Breathless
Jeopardy!
4278
THE BLUE ANGELS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew riding in a Blue Angels jet) On takeoff, for a high-performance climb, pilots can experience six times the force of this'
$400
gravity
Double Jeopardy!
4278
TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'1980:<br />"Evita"'
$400
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Double Jeopardy!
4278
SPEECH! SPEECH!
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Subject of Daniel Webster's March 7, 1850 & Frederick Douglass' July 5, 1852 speeches'
$400
slavery
Double Jeopardy!
4278
FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'The Black Lung Program benefits those who worked as these, & their widows & their dependents'
$400
coal miners
Double Jeopardy!
4278
"A" PLUS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Iran & Pakistan both border this nation'
$400
Afghanistan
Double Jeopardy!
4278
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy March have crushes on Rupert Birkin & Gerald Crich in this D.H. Lawrence novel'
$400
Little Women in Love
Double Jeopardy!
4278
THE BLUE ANGELS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew on the tarmac) When the Blue Angels perform the formation known for this precious gem, the jets are only 12 inches apart'
$800
diamond
Double Jeopardy!
4278
TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'1993: <br />"The Who's Tommy"'
$800
Pete Townshend
Double Jeopardy!
4278
SPEECH! SPEECH!
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Nicholas Butler told Columbia grads, "An expert is one who knows more and more about" this and this'
$800
less and less
Double Jeopardy!
4278
FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'State with the highest average monthly food stamp benefit per person; at over $100, that's a lot of poi'
$800
Hawaii
Double Jeopardy!
4278
"A" PLUS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'When he launched the comic strip "Dilbert" in 1989, this man was an engineer working for Pacific Bell'
$800
Scott Adams
Double Jeopardy!
4278
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Daisy Miller & Natty Bumppo could have joined forces in a novel by this author'
$800
Henry James Fenimore Cooper
Double Jeopardy!
4278
THE BLUE ANGELS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew riding in a Blue Angels jet) With a ceiling of over 50,000 feet, the Blue Angels jets, FA-18s, are known by the name of this insect'
$1200
hornet
Double Jeopardy!
4278
TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'1973:<br />"A Little Night Music"'
$1200
Stpehen Sondheim
Double Jeopardy!
4278
SPEECH! SPEECH!
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'This onetime governor of Texas delivered the keynote speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention'
$1200
Ann Richards
Double Jeopardy!
4278
FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Perkins & Stafford Loans & Pell Grants are for these people'
$1,000
college students
Double Jeopardy!
4278
"A" PLUS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'In February 1999 several of these killed 38 people in the Austrian towns of Galtur & Valzur'
$1200
avalanches
Double Jeopardy!
4278
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Clym Yeobright comes back home & is killed by Bigger Thomas in this Thomas Hardy-Richard Wright work'
$2,000
Return of the Native Son
Double Jeopardy!
4278
THE BLUE ANGELS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew on the tarmac) Bearing the name of a Greek letter, this classic Blue Angels formation uses all 6 jets'
$1600
Delta
Double Jeopardy!
4278
TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'1950:<br />"South Pacific"'
$1600
Richard Rodgers
Double Jeopardy!
4278
SPEECH! SPEECH!
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'On July 19, 1988 he was out proclaiming "Keep hope alive"'
$1600
Jesse Jackson
Double Jeopardy!
4278
FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'The National School Lunch Program comes from this dept., also concerned with foot-and-mouth disease'
$1600
Agriculture
Double Jeopardy!
4278
"A" PLUS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'From Greek words meaning "to watch from both sides", it's a large open arena for public entertainments'
$1600
amphitheatre
Double Jeopardy!
4278
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'American ambulance driver Frederic Henry satirizes romantic ideas about war in this work by Hemingway & Shaw'
$1600
A Farewell to Arms and the Man
Double Jeopardy!
4278
THE BLUE ANGELS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew on the tarmac) Using only 5 planes, this formation pays tribute to fallen heroes & comrades'
$2000
Missing Man Formation
Double Jeopardy!
4278
TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'1949:<br />"Kiss Me, Kate"'
$2000
Cole Porter
Double Jeopardy!
4278
SPEECH! SPEECH!
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'In 1653 he told the Rump Parliament to get off its rump & "In the name of God, go!"'
$2000
Oliver Cromwell
Double Jeopardy!
4278
FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'This cabinet department operates over 160 hospitals & has guaranteed over 16 million loans'
$2000
Veterans Affairs
Double Jeopardy!
4278
"A" PLUS
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'It's the color mentioned in the second line of "America the Beautiful"'
$2000
amber
Double Jeopardy!
4278
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'The horror! The horror! Marlow travels up the Congo to find Kurtz & Rubashov in a totalitarian prison state'
$2000
Heart of Darkness at Noon
Double Jeopardy!
4278
ALL GOD'S CREATURES
2003-03-19T00:00:00
'Edison proposed a flying machine based on the flight of this creature, also the subject of a musical work'
null
bumblebee
Final Jeopardy!
4278
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'It's the Canadian province that borders Idaho'
$100
British Columbia
Jeopardy!
3403
YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The dwarf variety of this cold-blooded killer is seen here'
$100
Crocodile
Jeopardy!
3403
WORLD HISTORY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929'
$100
Admiral Richard Byrd
Jeopardy!
3403
FAIRY TALE FEMMES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'One of the few times she laughs in Wonderland is when she has to use a flamingo to play croquet'
$100
Alice
Jeopardy!
3403
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Any lab'
$100
Albany
Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Singer Tom Jones is the son of one of these workers; Loretta Lynn is famous for being the daughter of one'
$100
Coal miner
Jeopardy!
3403
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'One of the newer large cities in the world, it's located in the central plateau of Brazil'
$200
Brasilia
Jeopardy!
3403
YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'A river, a city & a hound all bear the name of this member of the deer family'
$200
Elk
Jeopardy!
3403
WORLD HISTORY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621'
$200
Tower of London
Jeopardy!
3403
FAIRY TALE FEMMES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'She ate the window pane of the witch's cottage'
$200
Gretel
Jeopardy!
3403
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Males'
$200
Salem
Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Tom hails from Pontypridd in this British Isles country'
$200
Wales
Jeopardy!
3403
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Since 1969 this Northern Ireland port city of 300,000 has been the site of violent religious conflict'
$300
Belfast
Jeopardy!
3403
YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The critter seen here (bulldog) is a symbol of this nation'
$300
Great Britain
Jeopardy!
3403
WORLD HISTORY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962'
$300
Algeria
Jeopardy!
3403
FAIRY TALE FEMMES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'She would have been popular in the '60s; she was always letting her hair down'
$300
Rapunzel
Jeopardy!
3403
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Proved nice'
$300
Providence
Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Tom played -- who else? -- himself on the "Marge Gets a Job" episode of this animated TV series in 1992'
$300
The Simpsons
Jeopardy!
3403
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This city located on the Rhine River became West Germany's capital in 1949'
$400
Bonn
Jeopardy!
3403
YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'These predatory birds are named for a place they might dwell'
$400
Barn owls
Jeopardy!
3403
WORLD HISTORY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea'
$400
Catherine the Great
Jeopardy!
3403
FAIRY TALE FEMMES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The Brothers Grimm gave no name for the miller's daughter who guessed the name of this little man'
$400
Rumpelstiltskin
Jeopardy!
3403
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Poke at'
$400
Topeka
Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Tom played -- who else? -- in this 1996 Tim Burton film about invaders from outer space'
$400
Mars Attacks!
Jeopardy!
3403
"B" IN GEOGRAPHY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'It's the capital of Catalonia'
$1,000
Barcelona
Jeopardy!
3403
YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'It's the genus & species of this animal<br />("caveman")'
$500
Homo sapiens
Jeopardy!
3403
WORLD HISTORY
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands'
$500
Vasco da Gama
Jeopardy!
3403
FAIRY TALE FEMMES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'He wrote a little about women: "The Little Match Girl", "The Little Mermaid"...'
$500
Hans Christian Andersen
Jeopardy!
3403
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'Leg hair'
$500
Raleigh
Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'It's not odd that this 1965 song is heard in the 1998 film "Little Voice"'
$500
"It\'s Not Unusual"
Jeopardy!
3403
PARISIANS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'When Lenin moved to Paris in 1908, he naturally settled on this bank of the Seine'
$200
Left Bank
Double Jeopardy!
3403
FRUIT
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The Bing & other sweet varieties of this fruit are self-sterile; they cannot pollinate themselves'
$200
Cherries
Double Jeopardy!
3403
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'"Amleto"'
$200
Hamlet
Double Jeopardy!
3403
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The French for "scandal" gave us the name of this high-kicking dance popular in music halls of the 19th century'
$200
Can-Can
Double Jeopardy!
3403
FILM FACTS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This TV star played a senator who had his "Hawkeye" on Meryl Streep in "The Seduction of Joe Tynan"'
$200
Alan Alda
Double Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'In book 13 country boy Tom arrives in this metropolis, where the climactic action takes place'
$200
London
Double Jeopardy!
3403
PARISIANS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'For speaking too "Candide"ly, he did time in the Bastille, but later lived in a mansion on Ile St-Louis'
$400
Voltaire
Double Jeopardy!
3403
FRUIT
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The Bartlett type of this fruit begins to ripen in summer; other varieties ripen later in the year'
$400
Pears
Double Jeopardy!
3403
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'"Il Mercante Di Venezia"'
$400
The Merchant of Venice
Double Jeopardy!
3403
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This phrase for taking a break from a long period of sitting goes back to 19th century baseball'
$400
Seventh-inning stretch
Double Jeopardy!
3403
FILM FACTS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This Beatle not only strarred in "Give My Regards to Broad Street", he wrote the screenplay & the score'
$400
Paul McCartney
Double Jeopardy!
3403
TOM JONES
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This author of the novel based the heroine, Sophia, on his beloved late wife'
$400
Henry Fielding
Double Jeopardy!
3403
PARISIANS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'The voice of this woman, born in Paris in 1915, evokes the city in songs like "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"'
$600
Edith Piaf
Double Jeopardy!
3403
FRUIT
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'This fruit often originates from peach seeds & peaches sometimes come from its seeds'
$600
Nectarines
Double Jeopardy!
3403
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'"Cordelia"'
$600
KIng Lear
Double Jeopardy!
3403
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'An illustrated "girl" & a variation on the martini are named for this U.S. artist'
$600
Charles Dana Gibson
Double Jeopardy!
3403
FILM FACTS
1999-05-26T00:00:00
'"Titanic" tied this 1959 film's record of 11 Oscars but didn't overtake it'
$600
Ben-Hur
Double Jeopardy!
3403