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ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Add this letter to Jupiter's moon Io & you get an acronym that's a ground-floor stock offer for regular guys'
$800
P (IPO)
Jeopardy!
4985
RICHARD
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'He shot the famous photo of Nastassja Kinski & the serpent'
$800
Richard Avedon
Jeopardy!
4985
THE SECOND...
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'...to become Secretary of Homeland Security'
$800
Michael Chertoff
Jeopardy!
4985
ANCIENT TIMES
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Hetepheres was the mother of this Great Pyramid king; when her tomb was found, Mummy's mummy was missing'
$1000
Cheops
Jeopardy!
4985
SPORTS EVOLUTION
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'The 18th century Broughton rules were intended to lessen the brutality of this sport'
$1000
boxing
Jeopardy!
4985
A BUG'S LIFE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect'
$1000
a beetle
Jeopardy!
4985
ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Add this letter to star & get something harsh or grim'
$1000
K (stark)
Jeopardy!
4985
RICHARD
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'He was actually in prison when he wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"'
$1000
Richard Lovelace
Jeopardy!
4985
THE SECOND...
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'...Sherlock Holmes novel published'
$1000
The Sign of Four
Jeopardy!
4985
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'His second inaugural address began, "At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century..."'
$400
Bill Clinton
Double Jeopardy!
4985
"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Buenos Aires held back a sniffle when this Madonna hit went to No. 8 in 1997'
$400
"Don\'t Cry For Me Argentina"
Double Jeopardy!
4985
TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Beware Thornton Wilder's "The Ides of March" & this play where you'll find the phrase'
$400
Julius Caesar
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FOR THE FASHIONISTA
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Style.com stated that your spring 2006 wardrobe must include a baby-doll dress in the style of this decade'
$400
the \'60s
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FRANCE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Liberation & Le Petit Journal are leading ones of these in France'
$400
newspapers
Double Jeopardy!
4985
4-LETTER FRIENDS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'You were a fool to move that bishop! This 4-letter term in 3 moves'
$400
mate
Double Jeopardy!
4985
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Subpoenaed for documents in Burr's treason trial, he cited executive privilege; didn't work'
$800
Thomas Jefferson
Double Jeopardy!
4985
"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'It was Elvis' third No. 1 hit of 1956'
$800
"Don\'t Be Cruel"
Double Jeopardy!
4985
TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" as well as Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" come from this play'
$800
Macbeth
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FOR THE FASHIONISTA
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Of Elie Saab, Elie Saturn or Elie Subaru, the one who designed the gown Halle Berry wore when she won her Oscar'
$800
Elie Saab
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FRANCE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'With its team led by Zinedine Zidane, France won this prestigious contest in July 1998'
$800
the World Cup
Double Jeopardy!
4985
4-LETTER FRIENDS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'In "Jaws", it's what Roy Scheider threw overboard to lure the shark'
$800
chum
Double Jeopardy!
4985
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'His will gave a total of $110,000 to grandchildren Alexander & Melanie Eisenhower & Christopher Cox'
$3,000
(Richard) Nixon
Double Jeopardy!
4985
"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'No doubt you know this "Tragic Kingdom" tune was No. 1 for 16 weeks on the airplay chart in 1996 & '97'
$1200
"Don\'t Speak"
Double Jeopardy!
4985
TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" comes from a speech of Miranda's in this play'
$1200
The Tempest
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FOR THE FASHIONISTA
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'The sex-symbol look of films like "La Dolce Vita" has long insired Domenico Dolce & this partner'
$1200
Gabana
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FRANCE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'In 1992, 200 years after it was written, 40% of the French found it excessively bloody & 25% wanted it changed'
$3,000
the French National Anthem ("La Marseillaise")
Double Jeopardy!
4985
4-LETTER FRIENDS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'The first name of actress Sheedy, pronounced differently'
$1200
ally
Double Jeopardy!
4985
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey'
$1600
Wilson
Double Jeopardy!
4985
"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Elton John saw the light of the Top 5 with this song twice, in 1974 & 1992'
$1600
"Don\'t Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
Double Jeopardy!
4985
TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'This long-running Agatha Christie drama references the play-within-a-play in "Hamlet"'
$1600
The Mousetrap (A Mousetrap accepted)
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FOR THE FASHIONISTA
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Launched by her brother in the '90s, a fragrance called Blonde was inspired by this Italian designer's long blonde hair'
$1600
Donnatella Versace
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FRANCE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Just south of Champagne is this other potent potable-named region, a former duchy'
$1600
Burgundy
Double Jeopardy!
4985
4-LETTER FRIENDS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'A nobleman, or to look intently'
$1600
peer
Double Jeopardy!
4985
U.S. PRESIDENTS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'On June 28, 1919 he married Elizabeth Wallace'
$2000
Harry Truman
Double Jeopardy!
4985
"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'If you've given up, stop! & tell us this Tom Petty song that won the Best Special Effects MTV Music Video Award in '85'
$2000
"Don\'t Come Around Here No More"
Double Jeopardy!
4985
TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Peter Straub & Danielle Steel both came "Full Circle", spoken by Edmund in this Shakespearean tragedy'
$2000
King Lear
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FOR THE FASHIONISTA
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Flowing fabric defines this fashion house founded by Tanya Sarne; its name is a synonym for "phantom"'
$2000
Ghost
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FRANCE
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'"Jet" over to this largest Paris place, site of the guillotine during the French Revolution'
$2000
the Place de la Concorde
Double Jeopardy!
4985
4-LETTER FRIENDS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'The sport of rowing'
$2000
crew
Double Jeopardy!
4985
FAMOUS OBJECTS
2006-04-21T00:00:00
'Shah Jahan, Ranjit Singh & Queen Victoria all possessed a famous one whose name means "mountain of light"'
null
a diamond
Final Jeopardy!
4985
SLIM VOLUMES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This doctor's "Diet Revolution" promised weight loss with a high-protein/low-carb diet (pass the steaki)'
$200
Dr. Atkins
Jeopardy!
6287
STATE OF THE UNION
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This union state's 6th regiment was nicknamed the Minutemen; its 20th was the Harvard regiment'
$200
Massachusetts
Jeopardy!
6287
GOING TOO "FUR"
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'These electronic toys were a must-have item during the Christmas season of 1998'
$200
the Furby
Jeopardy!
6287
IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'The actual quote from this star of gangster films was "you dirty yellow-bellied rat!"'
$200
Jimmy Cagney
Jeopardy!
6287
JONATHAN SWIFTIES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'"He was a bold man that first ate" this bivalve mollusk'
$200
an oyster
Jeopardy!
6287
COMIC STRIPS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Aaugh! This comic strip character was torn between a summer camp flame named Peggy Jean & the little red-haired girl'
$200
Charlie Brown
Jeopardy!
6287
SLIM VOLUMES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Recent diet books: "The Paleo Diet" & "Neanderthin: Eat Like" one of these "to achieve a lean, strong, healthy body"'
$400
a Caveman
Jeopardy!
6287
STATE OF THE UNION
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'The westernmost states to stay loyal to the union were California & this one that had just been admitted in 1859'
$400
Oregon
Jeopardy!
6287
GOING TOO "FUR"
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Rolled up, like a flag or a boat's sails'
$400
furled
Jeopardy!
6287
IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Despite the opportunity, this November 1965 event in NYC did not result in a mini baby boom 9 months later'
$400
a blackout
Jeopardy!
6287
JONATHAN SWIFTIES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be" this'
$400
old
Jeopardy!
6287
COMIC STRIPS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Ack! In 2010 Ms. Guisewite said her "creative biological clock" was ticking & ended this strip after 34 years'
$400
Cathy
Jeopardy!
6287
SLIM VOLUMES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'You may want to enter this, a diet book & program by Barry Sears, who clarified with "Mastering" it'
$600
The Zone
Jeopardy!
6287
STATE OF THE UNION
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Turnabout is fair play--it seceded from a confederate state & joined the union in June 1863'
$600
West Virginia
Jeopardy!
6287
GOING TOO "FUR"
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'To provide & install housewares to a dwelling'
$600
furnish
Jeopardy!
6287
IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Contrary to popular belief <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2012-01-10_J_20.jpg" target="_blank">this</a> critter does not commit mass suicide in times of overpopulation'
$600
a lemming
Jeopardy!
6287
JONATHAN SWIFTIES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of" this--it's elementary, according to Strunk & White'
$600
style
Jeopardy!
6287
COMIC STRIPS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This Scott Adams title guy with a gravity-defying tie accidentally invented a death ray that interested North Korea'
$600
Dilbert
Jeopardy!
6287
SLIM VOLUMES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This chef followed up his "Now Eat This!" cookbook with "Now Eat This! Diet"'
$800
(Rocco) DiSpirito
Jeopardy!
6287
STATE OF THE UNION
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'A senator from this state said, "having been the first...to enter the union", it would be "the last to abandon it"'
$800
Delaware
Jeopardy!
6287
GOING TOO "FUR"
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'A smelter, for example'
$800
a furnace
Jeopardy!
6287
IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This exhaustive reference work first published in 1768 is not British: it has been American-owned for over 100 years'
$800
the Encyclopedia Britannica
Jeopardy!
6287
JONATHAN SWIFTIES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'These, made by parliament, "are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through"'
$800
laws
Jeopardy!
6287
COMIC STRIPS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Duke has been Gov. of American Samoa, GM of the Redskins & a lobbyist for the NRA in this comic strip'
$800
Doonesbury
Jeopardy!
6287
STATE OF THE UNION
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'It stayed in the union, but the confederacy also admitted it in 1861; it was in a "compromising" position, after all'
$1000
Missouri
Jeopardy!
6287
GOING TOO "FUR"
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Popular composition from around 1810 heard <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2012-01-10_J_05.mp3">here</a>'
$1000
Für Elise
Jeopardy!
6287
IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'It's not one large <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2012-01-10_J_22.wmv">bone</a> below the waist, it's five bones - the coccyx, the ilium, the ischium, the pubis and the sacrum.'
$1,200
the pelvis
Jeopardy!
6287
JONATHAN SWIFTIES
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'"A flea / hath smaller fleas that on him prey; / and these have smaller still to bite 'em; / and so proceed" this endless way'
$1000
ad infinitum
Jeopardy!
6287
COMIC STRIPS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'On December 8, 1980 Berkeley Breathed began his magnum opus with the debut of this strip'
$1000
Bloom County
Jeopardy!
6287
ARCHITECTURE
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'The caldarium, the tepidarium & the frigidarium were chambers in these, where olden Romans refreshed themselves'
$400
the baths
Double Jeopardy!
6287
SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'To cause to undergo combustion'
$400
burn
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MOTORCYCLE MAKERS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Time to get high on this hyphenated maker's hog, specifically the Fat Bob, which gets a fat 53 mpg on the highway'
$400
Harley-Davidson
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MISSING LINKS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Guilt by<br />____<br />Football'
$400
association
Double Jeopardy!
6287
PLATE TECTONICS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Formed by plate tectonics, these mid-ocean uplifts are actually underwater mountain chains'
$400
ridges
Double Jeopardy!
6287
COMICS STRIP
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This Monty Python stalwart went the full monty in "A Fish Called Wanda"'
$400
(John) Cleese
Double Jeopardy!
6287
ARCHITECTURE
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Virginia's Shirley plantation has a "hanging" one of these that climbs 3 stories without any visible means of support'
$800
a staircase
Double Jeopardy!
6287
SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'A light yellow-brown; perfect color for an envelope, I say'
$800
manila
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MOTORCYCLE MAKERS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Baseball's Ichiro must be aware that this maker's B-King is the "rowdy alter ego" to its Hayabusa'
$800
Suzuki
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MISSING LINKS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'A good<br />____<br />Havoc'
$800
cry
Double Jeopardy!
6287
PLATE TECTONICS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'In 2006 scientists argued that the westward trend of continents was due partly to these shifts in sea levels caused by the moon'
$800
the tides
Double Jeopardy!
6287
COMICS STRIP
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'In "Get Him to the Greek", this Brit took a trip in the buff in a toy car'
$800
Russell Brand
Double Jeopardy!
6287
ARCHITECTURE
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2012-01-10_DJ_18.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange.</a>) The six Corinthian columns of the New York Stock Exchange facade are among the reasons the building is considered a masterpiece of this architectural style that drew inspiration from Greek and Roman models.'
$4,000
neoclassic
Double Jeopardy!
6287
SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'You'll find one on any shoe'
$1200
sole
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MOTORCYCLE MAKERS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'"Let the good times roll" with this company's supersport cycle, the Ninja ZX-14'
$1200
Kawasaki
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MISSING LINKS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Mobile<br />____<br />Economics'
$1200
home
Double Jeopardy!
6287
COMICS STRIP
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Borat, played by this British comic, had a naked tussle with his portly Kazakh TV producer'
$1200
(Sacha Baron) Cohen
Double Jeopardy!
6287
ARCHITECTURE
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'This type of window that opens by means of a crank rhymes with a lower story of a building'
$1600
casement
Double Jeopardy!
6287
SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Almost half of north Americans have this kind of blood'
$1600
Type A
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MISSING LINKS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Curry<br />____<br />Keg'
$1600
powder
Double Jeopardy!
6287
COMICS STRIP
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Jason Segel's real-life split was the basis of his naked break-up with this 2008 title movie gal'
$1600
Sarah Marshall
Double Jeopardy!
6287
ARCHITECTURE
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'After WWI he became director of the Grand Ducal art school in Weimar; in 1925 he moved the school to Dessau'
$2000
Walter Gropius
Double Jeopardy!
6287
SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Is old-time ballplayer Yogi able to?'
$2000
Canberra
Double Jeopardy!
6287
MISSING LINKS
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Near<br />____<br />South Dakota pageant'
$2000
miss
Double Jeopardy!
6287
COMICS STRIP
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Ken Jeong bared all as crime lord Mr. Chow in this 2009 Vegas comedy'
$2000
The Hangover
Double Jeopardy!
6287
RULERS IN HISTORY
2012-01-10T00:00:00
'Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them'
null
Peter the Great
Final Jeopardy!
6287
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS
2010-05-28T00:00:00
'He won in 1955 for his novel "The Long Goodbye"'
$200
Raymond Chandler
Jeopardy!
5930
MOVIE TAG LINES
2010-05-28T00:00:00
'This film gave us "The holiest event of our time. Perfect for their return" (& Tom Hanks')'
$200
Angels and Demons
Jeopardy!
5930
PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO
2010-05-28T00:00:00
'A pet for my pet! This can spray its odoriferous musk accurately up to 12 feet; worry not! It'll stamp its feet to warn thee first'
$200
a skunk
Jeopardy!
5930
ASTRONOMY
2010-05-28T00:00:00
'A crossing of the celestial equator by the sun, it happens twice a year'
$200
an equinox
Jeopardy!
5930
SPELL CHECK HELL
2010-05-28T00:00:00
'Confound it! Spell check just changed chancre into this 14th c. author of some "Tales"'
$200
Chaucer
Jeopardy!
5930