Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (65 results returned)

#8460, aired 2021-08-06NOVELS SINCE 1900 $200: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel The Devil Wears Prada
#8460, aired 2021-08-06NOVELS SINCE 1900 $400: "Texasville" & "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021 (Larry) McMurtry
#8460, aired 2021-08-06NOVELS SINCE 1900 $600: The name of this realtor & Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster (George) Babbitt
#8460, aired 2021-08-06NOVELS SINCE 1900 $800: There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White The Sword in the Stone
#8460, aired 2021-08-06NOVELS SINCE 1900 $1000: Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front
#8372, aired 2021-04-06THE WORLD IN 1900 $200: The governor of this "Bluegrass State" was killed; the sec. of state would do 8 years for the crime, get pardoned & serve in Congress Kentucky
#8372, aired 2021-04-06THE WORLD IN 1900 $400: This type of rigid airship hit nearly 20 mph during its first flight on July 2 near Friedrichshafen, Germany the Zeppelin
#8372, aired 2021-04-06THE WORLD IN 1900 $600: The Trades Union Congress established what is now this major British political party the Labour Party
#8372, aired 2021-04-06THE WORLD IN 1900 $800: Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" premiered in this capital but ruling Russia had big problems with the patriotism within Helsinki
#8372, aired 2021-04-06THE WORLD IN 1900 $1,400 (Daily Double): Aug. 14 saw 19,000 international troops capture Beijing to quell the uprising of this secret society of "fighters" the Boxers
#7632, aired 2017-11-14FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $200: Mr. Christian, oh the time has come, to name this designer whose 1940s "New Look" made shoulders less NFL-like Dior
#7632, aired 2017-11-14FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $400: Spreading their "wings", '20s women known as these wore hems at (gasp!) knee level, with bobbed hair under a cloche flappers
#7632, aired 2017-11-14FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $600: It's the rhyming '40s ensemble seen here a zoot suit
#7632, aired 2017-11-14FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $800: In the 1930s this rigid undergarment spawned a lighter-weight elastic variety, the girdle a corset
#7632, aired 2017-11-14FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $1000: Get your knickers in a twist or really get 'em baggy like these numeric golfing pants of the '20s plus fours
#7368, aired 2016-09-28AMERICA SINCE 1900 $200: In 1961 these "Rides" across the Deep South protested segregation in interstate transportation Freedom Rides
#7368, aired 2016-09-28AMERICA SINCE 1900 $400: FDR dedicated the 1,450-foot-wide Bonneville one of these in 1937, pushing a button to start the first generator a hydroelectric plant (or dam)
#7368, aired 2016-09-28AMERICA SINCE 1900 $600: On Sept. 26, 1971 Nixon greeted this man in Anchorage, the first meeting of a U.S. president & a Japanese monarch Hirohito
#7368, aired 2016-09-28AMERICA SINCE 1900 $800: In 1927, this lawyer wrote "The Prohibition Mania"--can you "Scopes out" who he is? (Clarence) Darrow
#7368, aired 2016-09-28AMERICA SINCE 1900 $1000: This 1920s scandal erupted when Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leased govt. oil fields to private individuals Teapot Dome
#6575, aired 2013-03-29NATIONS' LEADERS IN 1900 $400: Nicholas II Russia
#6575, aired 2013-03-29NATIONS' LEADERS IN 1900 $800: Queen Wilhelmina the Netherlands
#6575, aired 2013-03-29NATIONS' LEADERS IN 1900 $1200: An empire: Sultan Abdulhamid II the Ottoman Empire
#6575, aired 2013-03-29NATIONS' LEADERS IN 1900 $1600: Porfiro Diaz Mexico
#6575, aired 2013-03-29NATIONS' LEADERS IN 1900 $2000: Wilhelm II, German Kaiser & king of this former state Prussia
#5878, aired 2010-03-171900 EVENTS $400: Life becomes a jungle in his 1900 work "Lord Jim" Joseph Conrad
#5878, aired 2010-03-171900 EVENTS $1200: His "Interpretation of Dreams" went from a vision to a reality (Sigmund) Freud
#5878, aired 2010-03-171900 EVENTS $1600: 2 years after imposing martial law, King Umberto I of this country was assassinated by an anarchist Italy
#5878, aired 2010-03-171900 EVENTS $2000: A constant is named for this physicist who in 1900 postulated that energy is radiated in quanta Max Planck
#5878, aired 2010-03-171900 EVENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This future state became a possession in 1898 & a territory in 1900 Hawaii
#5784, aired 2009-11-05THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $400: (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reads the clue.) This great American who used his pen to help make us independent was also the first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
#5784, aired 2009-11-05THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $800: On Nov. 18, 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for doing this; she refused to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty" voting
#5784, aired 2009-11-05THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $1200: 15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed setting an end to the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson beat the British at this city New Orleans
#5784, aired 2009-11-05THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1857 the Supreme Court denied this slave his freedom, bringing the U.S. closer to Civil War Dred Scott
#5784, aired 2009-11-05THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $1600: The Mohawk Trail became less important after this waterway was completed in 1825 the Erie Canal
#3790, aired 2001-02-091900 $100: The U.S. Navy bought the first modern one of these, which used gasoline on the surface & electricity below a submarine
#3790, aired 2001-02-091900 $200: Unlike 2000, 1900 wasn't one of these, so Thursday, March 1 followed Wednesday, Feb. 28 a leap year
#3790, aired 2001-02-091900 $300: One of these natural disasters killed 6,000 people on the Texas coast a hurricane
#3790, aired 2001-02-091900 $400: Victor Emmanuel began a 46-year rule over this country, whose people thought his name was Vittorio Emanuele Italy
#3790, aired 2001-02-091900 $500: Probably slapping & cursing, Walter Reed identified this insect as the cause of yellow fever a mosquito
#3434, aired 1999-07-081900 $200: He published "The Interpretation of Dreams" Sigmund Freud
#3434, aired 1999-07-081900 $400: His first airship took flight near Friedrichshafen, Germany on July 2, 1900 Ferdinand von Zeppelin
#3434, aired 1999-07-081900 $600: The Boxers were rebelling in China & the British were fighting this group in South Africa Boers
#3434, aired 1999-07-081900 $800: In February Dwight F. Davis donated a silver cup to this sport Tennis
#3434, aired 1999-07-081900 $900 (Daily Double): The Populists met in May 1900 in South Dakota to nominate this man for president William Jennings Bryan
#3311, aired 1999-01-18AMERICA SINCE 1900 $100: In 1941, after the National Labor Relations Act, Henry Ford had to accept these groups in his factories unions
#3311, aired 1999-01-18AMERICA SINCE 1900 $200: On Oct. 20, 1997 the Justice Dept. filed a petition accusing this high-tech company of anticompetitive acts Microsoft
#3311, aired 1999-01-18AMERICA SINCE 1900 $300: Approved in the 1950s, this compound has been added to the drinking water of about half of the U.S. population fluoride
#3311, aired 1999-01-18AMERICA SINCE 1900 $400: In 1971 the Senate turned over a new leaf & got its first females in this job, including Ellen McConnell pages
#3311, aired 1999-01-18AMERICA SINCE 1900 $500: These towns, like the one seen here, were named for a 1950s builder Levittowns
#2458, aired 1995-04-191900 $100: In a demonstration of his talent, he "escaped" from London's Scotland Yard in 1900 Houdini
#2458, aired 1995-04-191900 $200: The Boxer Rebellion rocked China & this company introduced its Brownie box camera Eastman Kodak
#2458, aired 1995-04-191900 $300: This country's Umberto I was assassinated & his son Victor Emmanuel III succeeded him Italy
#2458, aired 1995-04-191900 $400: While digging on this island archaeologist Arthur Evans discovered the palace of Knossos Crete
#2458, aired 1995-04-191900 $500: Stories of 1900 featuring young girls included Baum's "Wizard of Oz" & her "Claudine a L'Ecole" Colette
#1059, aired 1989-03-231900 $200: This company's Brownie box camera was introduced in the U.S. in 1900 Kodak
#1059, aired 1989-03-231900 $400: Coubertin, who conceived the modern Olympics, had the 1900 games held here, in his hometown Paris
#1059, aired 1989-03-231900 $600: This oldest member of the British royal family was born in 1900 the Queen Mother
#1059, aired 1989-03-231900 $800: The children's book, published in 1900, had the word "wonderful" in its title, but the 1939 MGM musical didn't The Wizard of Oz
#1059, aired 1989-03-231900 $1000: He lost the presidential race to McKinley for the 2nd time in a row William Jennings Bryan
#519, aired 1986-12-041900 $100: This Viennese psychoanalyst slipped "Interpretation of Dreams" into print Sigmund Freud
#519, aired 1986-12-041900 $200: This count made his 1st trials of the gas-filled lighter-than-air vehicle which was later named for him Count (Ferdinand von) Zeppelin
#519, aired 1986-12-041900 $300: This future state was organized as a territory & Sanford Dole appointed 1st governor Hawaii
#519, aired 1986-12-041900 $400: Real life engineer of Cannonball Express who died in spectacular train wreck Casey Jones
#519, aired 1986-12-041900 $500: In Rome, this composer premiered "Tosca" Puccini

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