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1982
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'He had the dynamite idea to launch a new television network known as TNT'
|
$100
|
Ted Turner
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
PLANTS & TREES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The potato didn't originate in Ireland but in the valleys of this South American mountain chain'
|
$100
|
Andes
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'41 years after "On The Waterfront", he played Johnny Depp's therapist in 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco"'
|
$100
|
Marlon Brando
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
HAITI
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This Haitian religion combines elements of Roman Catholicism & West African tribal religions'
|
$100
|
Voodoo
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
POT LUCK
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The American Weekly Mercury, founded in this Penn. city in 1719, was the first colonial paper outside Boston'
|
$100
|
Philadelphia
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
"Z" ABBREVIATIONS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Z.Hr.; it's time to go'
|
$100
|
Zero
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
1982
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Journey Into Imagination was an original attraction at this Disney World theme park that opened in 1982'
|
$200
|
Epcot
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
PLANTS & TREES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The cochineal insect, the source of a red dye, feeds on the prickly pear type of this plant'
|
$200
|
Cactus
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'James Cromwell, Farmer Hoggett in this 1995 film, is the son of John Cromwell, who directed "Algiers" in 1938'
|
$200
|
"Babe"
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
HAITI
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Haiti is part of Hispaniola, a corrupted form of Espanola, the name he gave to the island'
|
$200
|
Christopher Columbus
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
POT LUCK
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The U.S. pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal was one of these Buckminster Fuller structures'
|
$200
|
Geodesic Dome
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
"Z" ABBREVIATIONS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The Z in ZIP code is short for this'
|
$200
|
Zone (Improvement Plan)
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
1982
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'At 65, Ashby Harper became the oldest to swim this body of water; Gertrude Ederle must have been impressed'
|
$300
|
The English Channel
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
PLANTS & TREES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The hard wood of this tree is used for knife handles & black piano keys'
|
$300
|
Ebony
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Alan Rickman played sensible Col. Brandon in "Sense And Sensibility" & this "mad monk" in an HBO film'
|
$300
|
Rasputin
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
HAITI
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This South American liberator spent time as an exile in Haiti'
|
$300
|
Simon Bolivar
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
POT LUCK
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Since 1907 about 3 million fossils have been extracted from this Los Angeles site'
|
$300
|
La Brea Tar Pits
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
"Z" ABBREVIATIONS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.'
|
$300
|
Zechariah
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
1982
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'More than 80 human skeletons were discovered in the ruins of this city near Pompeii'
|
$400
|
Herculaneum
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
PLANTS & TREES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The name of this yellow narcissus comes from the Latin juncus, meaning "rush"'
|
$400
|
Jonquil
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'A telekinetic teenager on the TV series "Misfits of Science", she now stars as Monica in "Friends"'
|
$400
|
Courteney Cox
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
HAITI
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This orator & abolitionist was U.S. minister to Haiti 1889-1891'
|
$400
|
Frederick Douglass
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
POT LUCK
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This Greek who supposedly sought an honest man was influenced by the less cynical Antisthenes'
|
$400
|
Diogenes
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
"Z" ABBREVIATIONS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency'
|
$400
|
Zloty
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
1982
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city'
|
$500
|
Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
PLANTS & TREES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Members of this "colorful" flower family include the Sweet William & the carnation'
|
$500
|
Pinks
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Joan Allen earned an Oscar nomination for playing this famous woman in a 1995 film'
|
$500
|
Pat Nixon
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
HAITI
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Made governor-general for life in January 1804, he declared himself emperor in September'
|
$500
|
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jean Jacques I)
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
POT LUCK
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The title of this opera by Pietro Mascagni means "rustic chivalry"'
|
$500
|
Cavalleria rusticana
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
"Z" ABBREVIATIONS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z'
|
$500
|
Zn & Zr (Zinc & Zirconium)
|
Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
MYTHOLOGY
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This Titan who held up the heavens was the father of the Pleiades'
|
$200
|
Atlas
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
U.S. MUSEUMS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The Museum of Westward Expansion is located under the Gateway Arch in this city'
|
$200
|
St. Louis
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE MIDDLE AGES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'From 618 to 907 China was ruled by this dynasty whose name sounds like a breakfast drink'
|
$200
|
Tang
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Tom Sawyer takes the blame when this girl, his sweetheart, tears the schoolmaster's book'
|
$200
|
Becky Thatcher
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE SUN
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The sun completes one revolution around the center of this galaxy every 225 million years'
|
$200
|
Milky Way
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
TV NEWS NAMES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'In 1987 she visited China for the first time & interviewed several of her relatives for a special report'
|
$200
|
Connie Chung
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
MYTHOLOGY
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'As the god of this type of weather, Jupiter had the epithet Pluvius'
|
$400
|
Rain
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
U.S. MUSEUMS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The B&O Museum in this city has many examples of full-sized railroad equipment'
|
$400
|
Baltimore
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE MIDDLE AGES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'In 813 he personally crowned his son Louis as Holy Roman Emperor'
|
$400
|
Charlemagne
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'In "Wuthering Heights", Catherine Earnshaw spurns this man & marries Edgar Linton instead'
|
$400
|
Heathcliff
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE SUN
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The photosphere, the sun's visible surface, measures about 5800 degrees on this "absolute" temperature scale'
|
$400
|
Kelvin
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
TV NEWS NAMES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'On Dec. 13, 1989 this newswoman gave birth to her first child, Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger'
|
$400
|
Maria Shriver
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
MYTHOLOGY
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The winged horse Pegasus arose from the blood of this Gorgon when Perseus cut off her head'
|
$600
|
Medusa
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
U.S. MUSEUMS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This Alaskan oil city's museum has a display of the effects of the big oil spill of March 1989'
|
$600
|
Valdez
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE MIDDLE AGES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'In 995 Olaf Tryggvesson became the first Christian king of this country'
|
$600
|
Norway
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This Melville title character's last words are "God Bless Captain Vere!"'
|
$600
|
Billy Budd
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE SUN
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'More than 95% of the sun's mass consists of these 2 elements'
|
$2,100
|
Hydrogen & Helium
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
TV NEWS NAMES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Steve Kmetko is letter perfect as the host of this show biz-oriented cable network's "News Daily"'
|
$600
|
E!
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
MYTHOLOGY
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Athena promised him wisdom & victory in all battles if he judged her the fairest goddess'
|
$800
|
Paris
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
U.S. MUSEUMS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This 38th president's museum displays a selection of bicentennial items'
|
$2,000
|
Gerald Ford
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE MIDDLE AGES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'In 1094 this Spanish warrior captured Valencia from the Moors'
|
$800
|
El Cid
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'When Count Vronsky's love for her seems to fade, she throws herself under a train'
|
$800
|
Anna Karenina
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE SUN
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This outermost layer of the sun produces the solar wind'
|
$800
|
Corona
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
TV NEWS NAMES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Now the "Today" show's co-anchor, she once produced the CNN news & information show "Take Two"'
|
$800
|
Katie Couric
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
MYTHOLOGY
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Though her name was Greek for "strangler", this riddler usually ate her victims or threw them from her rock'
|
$1000
|
The Sphinx
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
U.S. MUSEUMS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'The Fogg, Busch-Reisinger & Arthur M. Sackler Art Museums belong to this New England university'
|
$1000
|
Harvard
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE MIDDLE AGES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'These societies for craftsmen & merchants originated in western Europe in the 11th century'
|
$1000
|
Guilds
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'Joan Durbeyfield is the mother of this Thomas Hardy title character'
|
$1000
|
Tess (of the d\'Urbervilles)
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
THE SUN
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'After becoming a red giant, the sun will probably shrink to the size of the Earth as one of these'
|
$1000
|
White Dwarf
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
TV NEWS NAMES
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'He won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Vietnam War before he covered the Gulf War for CNN'
|
$1000
|
Peter Arnett
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
EUROPEAN CAPITALS
| 1996-12-18T00:00:00 |
'This city was named for a Byzantine church'
| null |
Sofia, Bulgaria
|
Final Jeopardy!
|
2833
|
WRITERS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'In 1836 he marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm, for whom it is thought he wrote "Annabel Lee"'
|
$200
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
NEW COACHING SIGNS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Rubbing my nose is the signal to add the cayenne type of this to the barbecue sauce'
|
$200
|
pepper
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
INSECTS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'A maggot is a fly in this stage of metamorphosis'
|
$200
|
larva
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TV TEENS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'The son of 2 vampires, Connor is (not surprisingly) a sullen teen on this drama'
|
$200
|
Angel
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TALLEST, LONGEST, WIDEST, DEEPEST
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'It's the tallest living creature with wings'
|
$200
|
ostrich
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
DOUBLE TALK
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'In kids' jokes, it precedes "Who's there?"'
|
$200
|
Knock knock
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
WRITERS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'A poem on the death of Philip II's wife was one of the earliest works by this "Don Quixote" author'
|
$400
|
Cervantes
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
NEW COACHING SIGNS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Kicking at the dirt should tell you to use this 3-letter garden tool with a thin, flat blade to get rid of weeds'
|
$400
|
hoe
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
INSECTS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'The eggs of the Anopheles genus of this insect can float on the surface of ponds'
|
$400
|
mosquito
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TV TEENS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Kristin Kreuk plays Lana Lang, the untouchable girl next door, on this WB series'
|
$400
|
Smallville
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TALLEST, LONGEST, WIDEST, DEEPEST
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'This river reaches its widest point, about 4 miles, near Clinton, Iowa'
|
$400
|
Mississippi River
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
DOUBLE TALK
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'In the familiar nursery rhyme, this "pumpkin-eater had a wife and couldn't keep her"'
|
$400
|
Peter Peter
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
WRITERS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Enjoying some fishing near Havana, Cuba, he's the writer seen here'
|
$1,400
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
NEW COACHING SIGNS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'When I crook my finger, use the chaingun on the hellish hordes in this game introduced by ID Software in 1993'
|
$600
|
Doom
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
INSECTS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'This pious carnivore's name is from the Greek for "prophet" or "seer"'
|
$600
|
praying mantis
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TV TEENS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Elisha Cuthbert plays the oft-kidnapped teenage daughter of Kiefer Sutherland on this TV thriller'
|
$600
|
24
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TALLEST, LONGEST, WIDEST, DEEPEST
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'The widest possible split in bowling is between these 2 pins in the back row'
|
$600
|
7 & 10
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
DOUBLE TALK
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'In a 2002 movie Sandra Bullock comes to know her mother a little better with help from this "sisterhood"'
|
$600
|
Ya-Ya
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
WRITERS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'This "Tender is the Night" author was one of the many writers who had a crack at the script for "Gone with the Wind"'
|
$800
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
NEW COACHING SIGNS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'When I blink 5 times, move this chess piece forward 5 spaces from its starting point in the corner'
|
$800
|
rook
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
INSECTS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'The coat of this "hairy ursine" caterpillar of tiger moths is said to forecast the severity of the coming winter'
|
$800
|
woolly bear
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TV TEENS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Camille Winbush, seen here, is Vanessa, the teen who's always questioning her uncle's authority on this comedy'
|
$800
|
The Bernie Mac Show
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TALLEST, LONGEST, WIDEST, DEEPEST
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'One of the 3 states with 13 letters in their names'
|
$800
|
(1 of 3) Massachusetts, North Carolina or South Carolina
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
DOUBLE TALK
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'In a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it precedes "everywhere, nor any drop to drink"'
|
$800
|
Water water
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
WRITERS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'He knew firsthand about "Crime and Punishment"; he spent 4 years in a Siberian prison labor camp'
|
$1000
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
NEW COACHING SIGNS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Appropriately, twisting my hair around around my finger would be the signal for this body-building exercise'
|
$1000
|
curling
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
INSECTS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'This citrus pest was discovered in Florida in 1929; in the 1980s it reappeared in both Florida & California'
|
$1000
|
Mediterranean fruit fly
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TV TEENS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'15-year-old Meg yearns to be a dancer on "American Bandstand" on this '60s-set series'
|
$1000
|
American Dreams
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
TALLEST, LONGEST, WIDEST, DEEPEST
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'At about 25,000 feet down, the Cayman Trench is the deepest part of this sea'
|
$1000
|
Caribbean Sea
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
DOUBLE TALK
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Tourism is a major source of income on this French Polynesian island that's about 160 miles northwest of Tahiti'
|
$1000
|
Bora Bora
|
Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
1776
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'The new Spanish viceroy of Rio de la Plata had its capital in this Argentine city'
|
$400
|
Buenos Aires
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
POTPOURRI
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling'
|
$400
|
exclamation mark
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'This city's name means "The Meadows", though "The Slot Machines" is more descriptive'
|
$400
|
Las Vegas
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
MOVIE DUDES SPEAK
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'2000:<br />"I must stop Christmas from coming...but how?"'
|
$400
|
the Grinch
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
YOU GLOW!
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'4-word adjectival phrase that's used as a synonym for "phosphorescent"'
|
$400
|
glow-in-the-dark
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
OXYMORONS
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Can't make up your mind? Then let's just leave it at a "definite" this'
|
$400
|
maybe
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
1776
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'Completes the first sentence of Thomas Paine's first "Crisis" pamphlet, "These are the times that..."'
|
$800
|
try men\'s souls
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
POTPOURRI
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from a skating rink in New York City) This famed NYC complex is home to NBC, Radio City Music Hall &, of course, the skating rink'
|
$800
|
Rockefeller Center
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
|
U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES
| 2003-02-11T00:00:00 |
'It's nicknamed the "Alamo City"'
|
$800
|
San Antonio
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4252
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