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OF A SALESMAN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'When dealing with a car salesman, know that the MSRP, short for this, doesn't include taxes & registration' | $800 | manufacturer\'s suggested retail price | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ARTHUR MILLER | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay for the 1961 film "The Misfits", this male superstar's last film' | $800 | Clark Gable | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
THE MISFITS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'He's the bawdy British TV misfit & comic genius seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_J_09.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>' | $1000 | Benny Hill | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ALL MY SONS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'This man whose surname means "hammer" counted Carloman & Pepin the Short as sons' | $1000 | Charles Martel | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
THE CRUCIBLE | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'A vertical crucible called a "skull" is used to make the gem called "cubic" this' | $1000 | zirconium | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
"DEATH" | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'It's the title of the famous 1793 work seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_J_20.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>' | $1000 | The Death of Jean-Paul Marat | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
OF A SALESMAN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'This 1992 presidential candidate sold IBM computers in Texas before starting his own company, EDS' | $1000 | Ross Perot | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ARTHUR MILLER | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" was his tragic tale of this title character' | $1000 | Willy Loman | Jeopardy! | 5419 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Brought to the U.S. in the 1930s, this movement's name is German for "pattern" or "shape"' | $400 | gestalt | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ON THE BIG SCREEN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Get some McLovin from this 2007 comedy that Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg began writing as 13-year-olds' | $400 | Superbad | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Steinway & Sons in New York.</a>) Today's keys are made of spruce, but the black keys & the whole body undergo staining to make them look like this traditional material' | $400 | ebony | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Galaga is an arcade game; Gallagher smashes this fruit, Citrullus lanatus, with the Sledge-O-Matic' | $400 | watermelon | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'This nation has been ruled by the Grimaldi royal family since the 14th century' | $400 | Monaco | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
4-LETTER VERBS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '"Like it or" do this, meaning take or endure it' | $400 | lump it | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Noted behavioral psychologist in the photo seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>' | $800 | (Ivan) Pavlov | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ON THE BIG SCREEN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Mais oui! In 2007 Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan headed to Paris, giving this film series trilogy status' | $800 | Rush Hour | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Steinway and Sons.</a>) It's the ten-letter term for the piano's diaphragm; it's made flexible enough to vibrate, but strong enough to handle a thousand pounds of force from over 200 strings' | $800 | soundboard | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Theodore Dreiser wrote "An American Tragedy"; Philip Roth, "The Great American" this' | $800 | Novel | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'This former Yugoslavian republic broke away from Serbia in 2006' | $800 | Montenegro | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
4-LETTER VERBS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '"And when two lovers woo they still say 'I love you' on that you can" do this' | $800 | rely | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'It took 8 years for this 1899 Freud work to sell the initial 600 copies printed, earning him about $250 in royalties' | $1200 | The Interpretation of Dreams | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ON THE BIG SCREEN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_24.jpg" target="_blank">Hey, I'm Mark McGrath.</a>) My band & I sang the song "Words To Me" in this 2002 movie about a hungry hyphenated Hanna-Barbera hound' | $1200 | Scooby-Doo | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah delivers the clue from Steinway & Sons' showroom.</a>) Steinway models include a baby grand, a parlor grand, & this one, just in case you're Alfred Brendel' | $1200 | concert grand | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'If you're vulpine, you're like a fox; if you're lying on your back with your face upward, you're in this position' | $1200 | supine | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'The largest country in area that ends in "O", it has a population of about 66 million' | $1200 | the Congo | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
4-LETTER VERBS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'To stop a leak or publicize a product' | $1200 | plug | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Known for his "box", he wrote "Walden Two", a 1948 fiction work about operant conditioning' | $1600 | B.F. Skinner | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ON THE BIG SCREEN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Kevin Costner's funeral kicks off this "big" 1983 film but sadly, Kevin couldn't make it; he got cut from the film in editing' | $1600 | The Big Chill | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_29.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah delivers the clue from Steinway & Sons' workshop.</a>) These stop the string from vibrating once the key is raised--each is carefully matched to a string' | $1600 | dampers | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Tarantino is a director; this is a rapid, whirling dance named for an Italian city' | $1600 | tarantella | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Open an atlas & discover that the Atlas Mountains traverse the length of this country' | $1600 | Morocco | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
4-LETTER VERBS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'It's said that "Horses sweat, men perspire, women" do this' | $1600 | glow | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'In 1935 he founded the Swiss Society for Practical Psychology & became its president' | $2000 | Carl Jung | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
ON THE BIG SCREEN | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Heard <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_26.mp3">here</a>, the "Wilhelm Scream" debuted in a 1951 film but has been used in over 120 others, notably in this 1977 sci fi pic' | $2000 | Star Wars | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_30.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah reports from Steinway's showroom.</a>) <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2008-03-13_DJ_30a.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> Polish pianist helped boost Steinway's reputation with tours of America in the 1890s, on one of which he played 107 concerts in 117 days' | $2000 | Ignace Jan Paderewski | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'The Coriolis effect is caused by the Earth's rotation; this is a Shakespeare play about Caius Marcius' | $2000 | Coriolanus | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'This small country is about 1/20th the size of NYC & its primary language is Italian' | $2,000 | San Marino | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
4-LETTER VERBS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'It means "to strongly encourage", & all its letters are found in the word encourage' | $2,000 | urge | Double Jeopardy! | 5419 |
AUTHORS | 2008-03-13T00:00:00 | 'Sherwood Anderson told him, write about what "you know... that little patch... in Mississippi where you started from"' | null | William Faulkner | Final Jeopardy! | 5419 |
NAME THE WORK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Cervantes:<br />"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember"' | $200 | Don Quixote | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
HEISMAN WINNERS | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Carson Palmer, Reggie Bush & Matt Leinart are a few of this school's recent winners' | $200 | the University of Southern California | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
I WANT TO RIDE THAT! | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'The Pitt Fall is a scary free fall ride at Kennywood, near this second-largest Pennsylvania city' | $200 | Pittsburgh | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
A HORSE IS A HORSE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'The Greek hero Bellerophon was crippled when he fell off this winged steed' | $200 | Pegasus | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
THE FORTUNE 500 | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'No. 242 on the list, this insurance co.'s $99.3 billion loss made it Fortune's biggest loser ever' | $200 | AIG | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
RHYMES WITH TRACK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'A pile of pancakes' | $200 | stack | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
NAME THE WORK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Verne:<br />"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner"' | $400 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
HEISMAN WINNERS | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Even though his team won the BCS Championship in 2009, this QB didn't win back-to-back Heismans' | $400 | Tim Tebow | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
I WANT TO RIDE THAT! | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'No tame little swing ride, the Starflyer in this Austrian city swings you as high as a 23-story building' | $400 | Vienna | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
A HORSE IS A HORSE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'A horse named Comanche survived this man's June 1876 "Last Stand"' | $400 | Custer | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
THE FORTUNE 500 | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Since the Fortune 500 list began in 1955, only Exxon, Wal-Mart & this now-troubled auto co. have held the top spot' | $400 | GM (General Motors) | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
RHYMES WITH TRACK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'A somewhat shapeless dress' | $400 | a sack | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
NAME THE WORK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Melville:<br />"Captain Vere was an exceptional character"' | $1,000 | Billy Budd | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
HEISMAN WINNERS | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Sam Bradford, the most recent winner of the Heisman, attended a university in this conference' | $600 | the Big 12 | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
I WANT TO RIDE THAT! | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Six Flags Great America unleashed a roller coaster named for this bat-tastic 2008 blockbuster' | $600 | The Dark Knight | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
A HORSE IS A HORSE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'The Lone Ranger rode Silver & this companion of his rode a horse named Scout' | $600 | Tonto | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
THE FORTUNE 500 | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Fortune's "Most Likely to Succeed" was this Internet search site at No. 119 with 35 different "buy" ratings' | $600 | Google | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
RHYMES WITH TRACK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'A knave who's a real card' | $600 | a jack | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
NAME THE WORK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Jack London:<br />"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind"' | $800 | The Sea Wolf | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
HEISMAN WINNERS | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'In 2006 Troy Smith joined Eddie George & back-to-back winner Archie Griffin as winners from this school' | $800 | Ohio State | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
I WANT TO RIDE THAT! | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'I may not know "Who Framed" this movie bunny, but I can ride his Car Toon Spin at Disneyland' | $800 | Roger Rabbit | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
A HORSE IS A HORSE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'In "The Lord of the Rings", Gandalf rides this horse that only he could tame' | $800 | Shadowfax | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
THE FORTUNE 500 | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'With 14,000 videos, the most watched Fortune 500 CEO on YouTube was this bespectacled chairman of the No. 35 company' | $800 | Bill Gates | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
RHYMES WITH TRACK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'The cry of a canvasback' | $800 | quack | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
NAME THE WORK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'O. Henry:<br />"Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present"' | $1000 | "The Gift of the Magi" | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
HEISMAN WINNERS | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'An award given for the best running back in college football is named for this 1948 Heisman winner from SMU' | $1000 | Doak Walker | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
I WANT TO RIDE THAT! | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Atlantis on this "heavenly" island in the Bahamas has a Lazy River Ride & a Mayan Temple Water Slide' | $1000 | Paradise Island | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
A HORSE IS A HORSE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Alexander the Great conquered much of the known world riding this stallion' | $1000 | Bucephalus | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
THE FORTUNE 500 | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'At No. 9, this printer-heavy co. from Palo Alto had the biggest payroll bump after acquiring 149,000 EDS workers' | $1000 | HP | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
RHYMES WITH TRACK | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'It's a titan in the trucking industry' | $1000 | Mack | Jeopardy! | 5686 |
WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Geronimo married the daughter of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">Cochise</a>, a great one of these, but was never one himself as he was thought too impulsive' | $400 | a chief | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TAYLOR, SWIFT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Taylor Lautner played Jacob Black in this 2008 vampire flick' | $400 | Twilight | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
PLANT LIFE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Carl Sandburg wrote, "I am" this most abundant type of flora; "I cover all"' | $400 | the grass | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
ART | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'In the 1300s Italy gave birth to this art movement that would eventually sweep across Europe' | $400 | the Renaissance | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TIME TO CONVERT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'It's the simplest fractional form of .75' | $400 | 3/4 | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
"V" IS FOR | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '...this word on a sign meaning there's still room at the inn' | $400 | vacancy | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_27a.jpg" target="_blank">Wyatt Earp</a> was part of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_27.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> sheriff-organized group sent out after Geronimo; it never caught sight of him' | $800 | a posse | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TAYLOR, SWIFT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '"Gossip Girl" Taylor Momsen was Cindy Lou Who in this holiday film' | $800 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
PLANT LIFE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'If someone insists your spruce is really a fir, show him that these pointy items are square, not flat' | $800 | needles | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
ART | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Seen in the painting <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_11.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>, this Dutch artist loved the color yellow' | $800 | van Gogh | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TIME TO CONVERT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'MMIX in Roman numerals gives us this year' | $800 | 2009 | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
"V" IS FOR | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '...this third-largest city of Spain, famous for its oranges' | $800 | Valencia | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Late in life, Geronimo got co-opted by the white power structure, even riding in this president's 1905 <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_28.wmv">inaugural</a> <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">parade</a>' | $1200 | Teddy Roosevelt | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TAYLOR, SWIFT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Taylor Kitsch is Gambit in this 2009 X-Men flick' | $1200 | Wolverine | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
PLANT LIFE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Club, reindeer & Spanish are called this but botanically are not true this' | $1200 | moss | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
ART | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'This artist used trowels, sticks & even basters to create some of his drip paintings, like "Cathedral"' | $4,000 | Jackson Pollock | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TIME TO CONVERT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '.001 grams is equal to one of these' | $1200 | a milligram | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
"V" IS FOR | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '...this pasta, thinner than spaghetti, whose name is Italian for "little worms"' | $1200 | vermicelli | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_29.jpg" target="_blank">Geronimo</a> was born in the 1820s to the Bedonkohe, the smallest band among the Chiricahua branch of this tribe' | $1600 | Apache | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TAYLOR, SWIFT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'This season 5 winner of "American Idol" is from Alabama' | $1600 | Taylor Hicks | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
PLANT LIFE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'It's the large floating leaf of a water lily' | $1600 | pad | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
ART | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_13.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a landscape on the monitor.</a>) To show distance, the artist creates a place on the horizon where two parallel lines seem to <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_13a.jpg" target="_blank">converge</a>, referred to by this 2-word term' | $1600 | the vanishing point | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TIME TO CONVERT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Multiply your liters by 1.0567 to get your amount of these units' | $1600 | a quart | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
"V" IS FOR | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '...this, like Paricutin in Mexico' | $1600 | volcano | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'Geronimo was inspired by the Dreamer, one of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-04_DJ_30.wmv">these</a> visionary healers or shamans, who was killed in 1881' | $2000 | a medicine man | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TAYLOR, SWIFT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'In a 2008 film he played Drillbit Taylor' | $2000 | Owen Wilson | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
PLANT LIFE | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'The spiny shrub ocotillo takes these as its habitat & is common in the Sonoran & Chihuahuan ones' | $2000 | a desert | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
ART | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'In 1865 he shocked Paris with "Olympia", his painting of a reclining nude' | $2000 | Édouard Manet | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
TIME TO CONVERT | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'You do the math: -40 degrees on the Fahrenheit temperature scale equals this on the Celsius scale' | $2,200 | -40 | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
"V" IS FOR | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | '...this everyday form of Latin spoken by the Romans; sounds crude but it wasn't' | $2000 | Vulgar | Double Jeopardy! | 5686 |
THE 50 STATES | 2009-05-04T00:00:00 | 'An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another' | null | Arkansas | Final Jeopardy! | 5686 |
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