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CELEBRITY RELATIVES | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Pam Dawber's famous father-in-law' | $500 | Tom Harmon | Jeopardy! | 1276 |
SPORTS TRIVIA | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'In 1989 this Canadian team won its 1st Stanley Cup' | $500 | Calgary Flames | Jeopardy! | 1276 |
SAY CHEESE | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'According to legend, it was created when a shepherd left a piece of cheese in a cave for several weeks' | $500 | Roquefort | Jeopardy! | 1276 |
EXPLORERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Born Giovanni Caboto, this Venetian did his exploring in the service of England' | $200 | John Cabot | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE HUMAN BODY | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'When this organ churns & makes perisstaltic waves, some people say it's "growling"' | $200 | Stomach | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'This clergyman who wrote "The Short History of New-England" in 1694 was the son of Increase Mather' | $200 | Cotton Mather | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
COMPOSERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'His sister Fanny Mendelssohn wrote some of the songs attributed to him' | $200 | Felix Mendelssohn | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE PLANETS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'As viewed from Earth, it's the brightest planet in the nighttime sky' | $200 | Venus | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
ANTIQUES | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Used as early as the 15th century, apostle spoons usually came in sets of this number' | $200 | 12 or 13 (if they included the Christ figure) | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
EXPLORERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'N.Y. observes a holiday honoring the 1524 discovery of N.Y. Harbor by this Italian navigator' | $400 | Giovanni Verrazano | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE HUMAN BODY | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'The oval window is a membrane forming one of the boundaries between the middle & the inner parts of this' | $400 | Ear | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'He wrote "Cadillac Jack" & "Lonesome Dove" after "Terms of Endearment"' | $400 | Larry McMurtry | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
COMPOSERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna' | $400 | Beethoven & Brahms | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE PLANETS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'In August 1989 it became the last planet encountered by Voyager 2' | $400 | Neptune | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
ANTIQUES | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Fireplace tool that consists of matching shaped boards, a metal nozzle & flexible leather sides' | $400 | Bellows | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
EXPLORERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Ponce de Leon was looking for it when he discovered Florida; some are still looking for it today' | $600 | Fountain of Youth | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE HUMAN BODY | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'They're also known as your zygomatic bones, & high ones are considered especially attractive' | $600 | Cheekbones | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name' | $600 | Herman Melville | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
COMPOSERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the "Pathetique"' | $1,200 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ("6th Symphony") | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE PLANETS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'The 4 largest moons of this planet are called Galilean satellites after Galileo, who saw them in 1610' | $600 | Jupiter | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
ANTIQUES | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'A method of joining 2 pieces of wood at right angles named for its resemblance to a bird's tail' | $600 | Dovetail | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
EXPLORERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'His 1497-98 voyage to India opened the 1st all-water trade route between Europe & Asia' | $800 | Vasco da Gama | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE HUMAN BODY | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'It's the tube that connects your nose & mouth with your larynx & esophagus' | $800 | Pharynx | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel about the adventures of Dean Moriarty & friends as they travel the U.S.' | $800 | "On The Road" | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
COMPOSERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'G. Strepponi sang in "Nabucco", the opera that made this composer famous, & later married him' | $800 | Giuseppe Verdi | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE PLANETS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'In 1971 Mariner 9 discovered a volcano on this planet rising 15 1/2 miles above the surface' | $800 | Mars | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
ANTIQUES | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'French for "Chinese Ornament", it refers to willow pattern china & some Chippendale furniture' | $800 | Chinoisserie | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
EXPLORERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Tho he didn't find the Northwest Passage, this Frenchman established France's claim to Canada' | $1000 | Jacques Cartier | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE HUMAN BODY | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'The ovaries are part of both the reproductive system & this system which produces hormones' | $1000 | Endocrine System | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'It was called "A Poem Of Walt Whitman, An American" before it was called this' | $1000 | "Song of Myself" | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
COMPOSERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'Mussorgsky once lived with this "Scheherazade" composer who re-edited "Boris Godunov" after his death' | $1000 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE PLANETS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'This remote planet orbits the sun at a 98 degree axis, almost lying on its side' | $1000 | Uranus | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
ANTIQUES | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />The kind of clock shown here, invented c. 1800 & named for the musical instrument it resembles:' | $1,000 | Banjo Clock | Double Jeopardy! | 1276 |
SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS | 1990-03-05T00:00:00 | 'He is introduced as "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"' | null | Marc Antony | Final Jeopardy! | 1276 |
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'After this early battle, Americans retreated over Charlestown Neck' | $200 | The Battle of Bunker Hill (or Breed\'s Hill) | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GAME SHOWS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'The first letter ever turned by Vanna White on this game show was a "T"' | $200 | Wheel of Fortune | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE ENVIRONMENT | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This "colorful" & controversial activist environmental group was formed in Canada in 1971' | $200 | Greenpeace | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE 50 STATES | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'The diatonic or "Cajun" accordion is the official musical instrument of this state' | $200 | Louisiana | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
PHRASES THAT SELL | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '"Obey your thirst" and drink this' | $200 | Sprite | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE "UNDER" WORLD | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Lingerie is a fancy word for it' | $200 | underwear | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'On the evening of April 18, 1775 Robert Newman displayed 2 lanterns in this Boston structure' | $400 | the Old North Church | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GAME SHOWS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'You might phone a friend on this game show hosted by Meredith Vieira' | $400 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE ENVIRONMENT | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1970 President Nixon created this government body that sets and enforces national pollution control standards' | $400 | the E.P.A. | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE 50 STATES | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This state's famous Derby at Churchill Downs is held annually on the first Saturday of May' | $400 | Kentucky | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
PHRASES THAT SELL | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '"Be all that you can be" in this military branch' | $400 | the Army | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE "UNDER" WORLD | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Abolitionist "railroad"' | $400 | underground | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1774 the owner of the Peggy Stewart was forced to burn his ship & its 2,000-pound cargo of this taxed item' | $600 | tea | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GAME SHOWS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In this "Street"-wise game show, you have to predict answers given by people on the street' | $600 | Street Smarts | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE ENVIRONMENT | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This triatomic allotrope of oxygen protects us from the full force of harmful ultraviolet rays' | $600 | ozone | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE 50 STATES | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'New Englanders refer to this state as "Down East"' | $600 | Maine | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
PHRASES THAT SELL | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This network says it's "The most trusted name in news"' | $600 | CNN | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE "UNDER" WORLD | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Vegetation growing beneath the trees in a forest' | $600 | underbrush | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'On September 23, 1779 he & his men successfully attacked a British convoy off Flamborough Head in the North Sea' | $800 | John Paul Jones | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GAME SHOWS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '9 celebrities in a tic-tac-toe-like grid help contestants score 3 in a row on this show' | $800 | Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE ENVIRONMENT | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'An animal fills an ecological one of these in a community, from the French for "nest"' | $800 | niche | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE 50 STATES | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'The name of this state comes from 2 Choctaw words that mean "red" & "people"' | $1,000 | Oklahoma | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
PHRASES THAT SELL | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This shipping company asks, "What can Brown do for you?"' | $800 | UPS | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE "UNDER" WORLD | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'The seaward pull away from shore after a wave has broken' | $800 | undertow | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'After the defeat at Yorktown, Gen. Charles O'Hara, acting for this man, gave his sword to the Americans' | $1000 | Cornwallis | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GAME SHOWS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Richard Karn hosts this game show where 2 clans match wits; survey says...' | $1000 | Family Feud | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE ENVIRONMENT | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In June 1992 over 100 heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro for this environmental "Summit"' | $1000 | the Earth Summit | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE 50 STATES | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'National Battlefield Parks include Manassas in Virginia & Kennesaw Mountain in this state' | $1000 | Georgia | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
PHRASES THAT SELL | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'It's the popular query in Verizon's TV ads' | $1000 | Can you hear me now? | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE "UNDER" WORLD | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'It means to weaken support for something or to unearth too little ore' | $1000 | undermine | Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1995 Alabama Gov. James Mocked evolution theory by imitating this type of animal whose name means "to imitate"' | $400 | an ape | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This TV "Friend" was a cheerleader at Mountain Brook High School in Alabama' | $400 | Courteney Cox | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
FAMOUS AMERICANS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'It was the pen name of beloved children's author Theodor Geisel' | $400 | Dr. Seuss | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GREEK MYTHOLOGY | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'The Judgement of Paris refers to the picking of a winner in one of these contests' | $400 | a beauty contest | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'We're not stringing you along: "El Retablo de Maese Pedro" is meant to be peformed by these toys' | $400 | puppets | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
LONG WORDS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1923 Lts. Macready & Kelly made the first nonstop flight of this 16-letter type, Long Island to San Diego' | $400 | transcontinental | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_07.mp3">"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... the production of the higher animals, directly follows."</a><br /><br />That was the final paragraph of a famous work by this man' | $800 | (Charles) Darwin | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This daughter of Francis Ford Coppola was an intern for fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in Paris' | $800 | Sofia Coppola | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
FAMOUS AMERICANS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1844 he succeeded Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormon Church' | $800 | Brigham Young | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GREEK MYTHOLOGY | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Ioalus, the son of Iphicles & Automedusa, helped this man, his uncle, with his labors' | $800 | Hercules | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'At the beginning of an 1893 opera, these little tykes are sent into the woods to pick strawberries' | $800 | Hansel & Gretel | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
LONG WORDS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew writes the names of the seven dwarfs on a blackboard.</a>) It's the re-ordering procedure that I'm implementing' | $800 | alphabetizing | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'He surprised many in 1996 when he told the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution was no mere hypothesis' | $1200 | Pope John Paul II | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'In 1991 Heather Tom was a teen when she debuted as Victor Newman's daughter on this CBS soap opera' | $1200 | The Young & the Restless | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
FAMOUS AMERICANS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew wearing goggles and parka stands before majestic mountains in the Sierra National Forest.</a>) The forested area behind me is named for this nature photographer and conservationist' | $1200 | Ansel Adams | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GREEK MYTHOLOGY | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Like father like son--Cronus deposed his father Uranus & this god deposed his father Cronus' | $1200 | Zeus | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'King Solomon is a character in "La Reine de Saba", an opera about the queen of this place' | $1200 | Sheba | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
LONG WORDS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Adjective for an act done without meaning to; legally, it's a type of manslaughter' | $1200 | involuntary | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Orderly people are bothered by the idea of thse random changes in genetic material helping evolution along' | $1,000 | mutations | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This "boulder" sized wrestler & movie star was a star football player at Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pa.' | $1600 | The Rock | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
FAMOUS AMERICANS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'At the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, one of his sewing machines won first prize' | $1600 | Singer | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GREEK MYTHOLOGY | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Athena gave Perseus one of these to use as a mirror against Medusa &, reflecting back, it was a good thing' | $1600 | a shield | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer's "Das Rheingold"' | $1600 | Richard Wagner | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
LONG WORDS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'This adjective from the Latin for "to boil" is used of a bubbly liquid or person' | $1600 | effervescent | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution & this opposite type of "science"' | $2000 | creationism | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'He was known as Chan Kong Sang in his native Hong Kong where he was a teenage stuntman & fight choreographer' | $2000 | Jackie Chan | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
FAMOUS AMERICANS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'He's the explorer seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> with a couple of his pals in 1909' | $2000 | Admiral Peary | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
GREEK MYTHOLOGY | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'With a name from the Greek for "form", he appeared to people in their dreams' | $2000 | Morpheus | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_25.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew blows an alphorn in front of a Tyrolean chalet.</a>) Appropriately, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_25.mp3">an alphorn call is imitated in the overture</a> to this 1829 Rossini opera' | $800 | William Tell | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
LONG WORDS | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'Among bodily noises, hiccup & burp are this type of word that imitates sound' | $2000 | an onomatopoeia | Double Jeopardy! | 4700 |
THE WORLD OF ART | 2005-01-28T00:00:00 | 'It's the room where you'll find the masterpiece that includes "The Flood" & "The Creation of Eve"' | null | the Sistine Chapel | Final Jeopardy! | 4700 |
ART & ARTISTS | 2012-01-11T00:00:00 | 'In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper"' | $200 | Pollock | Jeopardy! | 6288 |
TRAVEL | 2012-01-11T00:00:00 | 'This Rome landmark is 620 feet long by 513 wide-- plenty of room to run away from a wild beast' | $200 | the Colosseum | Jeopardy! | 6288 |
CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES | 2012-01-11T00:00:00 | 'The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song' | $200 | Leroy | Jeopardy! | 6288 |
CATHOLIC PRIESTS | 2012-01-11T00:00:00 | 'Served by priests, it may not exceed 18% alcohol' | $200 | communion wine | Jeopardy! | 6288 |
TITLE 9 | 2012-01-11T00:00:00 | 'Daniel Okrent: "Nine ___: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game"' | $200 | Innings | Jeopardy! | 6288 |
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