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Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (75 results returned)

#6991, aired 2015-01-26	CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $400: (Will Ripley delivers the clue.) Years before a 2011 disaster, a scientist here in Japan coined the term genpatsu-shinsai, genpatsu meaning nuclear plant & shinsai being this type of disaster sometimes accompanied by a tsunami an earthquake
#6991, aired 2015-01-26	CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $800: (Max Foster delivers the clue.) To keep up on events in London, it helps to have a bit o'knowledge of Cockney rhyming slang, like knowing that the "Baked Bean" is this local personage the Queen
#6991, aired 2015-01-26	CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $1200: Tomas Mosciatti of CNN Chile is known as the Chilean this long-time interviewer Larry King
#6991, aired 2015-01-26	CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $1600: CNN Arabic says ahlan wa sahlan ("welcome") from its base in this wealthy emirate's Media City Dubai
#6991, aired 2015-01-26	CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $2000: (Jim Bittermann delivers the clue.) Here in Paris this simple phrase, 2 rhyming 2-letter words, is very useful for saying "How's it going?", "I'm good", "Does that work for you?" & more ça va
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	CNN RELIGION $400: (CNN's Sumnima Udas delivers the clue.) The earliest reference to a city in the Delhi area appears in the Mahabharata, a basic text of this religion Hinduism
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	CNN RELIGION $1200: (CNN's Dan Rivers delivers the clue.) Krung Thep is the local name for Bangkok, but that's only the first two syllables of the full name which includes "City of Angels", "Residence of the Emerald" & this religious figure Buddha
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	CNN RELIGION $1600: The CNN series "God's Warriors" presented the Christian, Muslim & Jewish versions of this -ism that upholds the basics fundamentalism
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	CNN RELIGION $2000: (CNN's Sara Sidner delivers the clue.) Exciting archaeological finds such as clay seals & the names of biblical figures have been unearthed in this 3000-year-old part of Jerusalem known as the city of this biblical king David
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	CNN RELIGION $10,000 (Daily Double): A 2013 CNN special on him, "A Man of Many Firsts", included his newsmaking line "Who am I to judge?" Pope Francis
#6672, aired 2013-09-24	CNN ENVIRONMENT $200: (Sumnima Udas of CNN gives the clue from a boat in a river.) The pollution level of Delhi's Yamuna River more than doubled from 1993 to 2005; among the main culprits are these chemicals from the abundant agricultural land upriver pesticides
#6672, aired 2013-09-24	CNN ENVIRONMENT $400: (Anna Coren of CNN gives the clue from a hazy Beijing.) Beijing's air pollution has been somewhat improved thanks to more modern cars in the city, where a study has found a near doubling in ratio of carbon dioxide to this toxic product of inefficient combustion carbon monoxide
#6672, aired 2013-09-24	CNN ENVIRONMENT $600: A "Planet in Peril" CNN special hailed the reintroduction of wolves into this national park as an environmental success story Yellowstone
#6672, aired 2013-09-24	CNN ENVIRONMENT $800: (Ivan Watson of CNN gives the clue from Istanbul.) Overfishing & industrial phosphates from the Danube are 2 of the problems facing this sea; as the location of its only outflow Istanbul houses the headquarters of the commission to protect it against pollution the Black Sea
#6672, aired 2013-09-24	CNN ENVIRONMENT $1000: (Jim Bittermann of CNN gives the clue from Paris.) Here in Paris, technicians are drilling miles beneath the Earth's crust searching for hot water, which can be converted to this kind of energy to cleanly heat hundreds of homes geothermal
#6657, aired 2013-07-23	CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $400: (With the first clue, here is Jim Bittermann.) The streets around Paris were boiling like a cauldron as the storming of the Bastille in this year marked the beginning of the French Revolution 1789
#6657, aired 2013-07-23	CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $800: (Here is Anna Coren.) In June 1900 threatened foreigners were trapped in Beijing's Embassy District for more than 7 weeks before international relief forces rescued them during this Chinese rebellion the Boxer Rebellion
#6657, aired 2013-07-23	CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $1600: (Ivan Watson has the clue this time.) Here in Istanbul in 1908 the original "Young Turks" occupied the city as part of a revolution against a dictatorial one of these Ottoman Rulers a sultan
#6657, aired 2013-07-23	CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $2000: (With the last clue, here is Alex Zolbert.) Tokyo became Japan's capital in 1868 with the restoration of imperial power under the Emperor Meiji, ending the era of these rulers the Shoguns
#6657, aired 2013-07-23	CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $2,200 (Daily Double): (Here is Dan Rivers.) On June 24, 1932 here in Bangkok a group called the Promoters staged a bloodless coup which ended Thailand's absolute monarchy & led to this type of monarchy named for a document a constitutional monarchy
#6606, aired 2013-05-13	CNN TOURISM $400: (Here is CNN correspondent Ivan Watson.) Tradition holds an architect misheard a request for towers made of gold, or "altin", as "alti", or 6--so Istanbul's Blue Mosque was built with 6 of these minarets
#6606, aired 2013-05-13	CNN TOURISM $800: (Here's Anna Coren.) Beijing's Palace Museum was the imperial headquarters during the Ming & Qing Dynasties, when it got this name because it was off-limits to most citizens the Forbidden City
#6606, aired 2013-05-13	CNN TOURISM $1200: (Here's Jim Bittermann.) In 1940 German troops marched down this Paris avenue with a name in French that means "Elysian fields"; 4 years later, Allied troops paraded down it to mark the city's liberation Champs-Élysées
#6606, aired 2013-05-13	CNN TOURISM $1600: (Here's Alex Zolbert.) In 1612 Japan established a silver mint in this area, today Tokyo's most glamorous shopping district; in Japanese the name means "silver guild" Ginza
#6606, aired 2013-05-13	CNN TOURISM $2000: (Nick Robertson reads the clue.) More than 3 million people a year take in the view from Europe's largest Ferris wheel, now called the London Eye; when it opened to commemorate the year 2000, it was appropriately called this "Wheel" the Millennium Wheel
#5973, aired 2010-07-28	THIS IS CNN $200: (I'm Bill Schneider.) I'm in CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau, one of 37 bureaus including Bangkok & Buenos Aires, but the network's heart & headquarters is still in this city Atlanta, Georgia
#5973, aired 2010-07-28	THIS IS CNN $400: In 2010, this senior political correspondent began as anchor of the Sunday show "State of the Union" Candy Crowley
#5973, aired 2010-07-28	THIS IS CNN $600: This event that began in January 1991 brought worldwide attention to CNN the (First) Gulf War
#5973, aired 2010-07-28	THIS IS CNN $800: (I'm Wolf Blitzer.) On June 1, 1980, when an all-news channel was a far-out idea, CNN was launched & this man's name was the first one a news anchor spoke on CNN Jimmy Carter
#5973, aired 2010-07-28	THIS IS CNN $1000: (I'm Suzanne Malveaux.) Hurrican Katrina brought CNN its 10th of these prestigious electronic media awards named for a banker who never saw TV the Peabody Awards
#5691, aired 2009-05-11	THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $200: (I'm Suzanne Malveaux.) Pope Benedict's visit to the U.S. was extra festive: during his White House visit, he was serenaded with this 1893 song "Happy Birthday To You"
#5691, aired 2009-05-11	THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $400: Done to prevent repeat voting, the purple fingers were a symbol of the return of democracy to this country Iraq
#5691, aired 2009-05-11	THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $600: (I'm Anderson Cooper, anchor of A.C. 360.) In 2005, this craft put the Space Shuttle program back in flight after Columbia's tragedy 2 years earlier Discovery
#5691, aired 2009-05-11	THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $1,000 (Daily Double): The Doomsday Vault in Arctic Norway preserves these in case of a disaster affecting the world's food supply seeds
#5691, aired 2009-05-11	THE 21st CENTURY WITH CNN $1000: (I'm Campbell Brown.) The Democrats have adopted a 50-state strategy at the instigation of this DNC chairman & former presidential contender Howard Dean
#5534, aired 2008-10-02	CNN ON POLITICS $400: (I'm Anderson Cooper.) CNN's election team can often project winners based on these surveys of people who've just voted, but we don't do it in close races, & never before the voting is done exit polls
#5534, aired 2008-10-02	CNN ON POLITICS $800: (I'm Candy Crowley.) Obama won more states but Clinton won the bigger ones, so a long battle lay ahead after the results on February 5, 2008, known as this day Super Tuesday
#5534, aired 2008-10-02	CNN ON POLITICS $1200: (I'm Bill Schneider.) Add up the Republicans & the Democrats in the U.S. House for the 110th Congress & you get this total that's been standard for almost a century 435
#5534, aired 2008-10-02	CNN ON POLITICS $1600: (I'm Campbell Brown.) On March 4, 2008 John McCain clinched the GOP nomination with 4 primary wins including this vast state, where he made his victory remarks Texas
#5534, aired 2008-10-02	CNN ON POLITICS $2000: (I'm Wolf Blitzer.) Federal Election Commission rules for 2007-2008 put a limit of this much for an individual gift per candidate per election $2,300
#4775, aired 2005-05-13	CNN 25: PEOPLE $400: In 2000, CNN reported on the historic summit between South Korea's Kim Dae-jung and this North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
#4775, aired 2005-05-13	CNN 25: PEOPLE $800: This astronaut, seen here on the Challenger, later served on the presidential commission that investigated its explosion Sally Ride
#4775, aired 2005-05-13	CNN 25: PEOPLE $1200: (Hi, I'm Paula Zahn.) On my first day working for CNN, I reported live on the 9/11 attacks & interviewed this Jordanian king King Abdullah
#4775, aired 2005-05-13	CNN 25: PEOPLE $1600: She's the newsworthy woman heard here "I am very confident that I will be able to meet every standard that the Citadel has." Shannon Faulkner
#4775, aired 2005-05-13	CNN 25: PEOPLE $2000: In 1997 it was a boy, boy, boy, boy, girl, girl, girl for this Iowa woman, as she delivered septuplets (Bobbi) McCaughey
#4774, aired 2005-05-12	CNN 25: INTERNATIONAL NEWS $200: In 1989, one lone protestor halted a column of tanks as it advanced on this square Tiananmen Square
#4774, aired 2005-05-12	CNN 25: INTERNATIONAL NEWS $400: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360.) In 2002 I reported from this capital that U.S. allies had liberated the previous November Kabul
#4774, aired 2005-05-12	CNN 25: INTERNATIONAL NEWS $600: In 1997, we said "hello" to this sheep as CNN reported on her cloning by Scottish scientists Dolly
#4774, aired 2005-05-12	CNN 25: INTERNATIONAL NEWS $800: Held hostage in Lebanon, this AP correspondant was finally freed in 1991, ending his 7-year ordeal Terry Anderson
#4774, aired 2005-05-12	CNN 25: INTERNATIONAL NEWS $1000: Tragically in 1995, more than 200 people died in the country then called this during an outbreak of the Ebola virus Zaire
#4773, aired 2005-05-11	CNN 25: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $400: In 1987 the AIDS Quilt was displayed on the National Mall and this became the first drug approved by the FDA for AIDS AZT
#4773, aired 2005-05-11	CNN 25: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $800: (Hi, I'm CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.) I've reported on the threat of H5N1, better known as this potential pandemic transmitted by fowl the avian flu
#4773, aired 2005-05-11	CNN 25: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $1200: In 1991, 8 entered this replica of the Earth's ecosystem to test the feasibility of a self-contained space colony the Biosphere
#4773, aired 2005-05-11	CNN 25: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $1600: It's the alphanumeric problem that for many marred the celebration seen here the Y2K bug
#4773, aired 2005-05-11	CNN 25: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $2000: On Dec. 2, 1982, this surgeon, seen here, implanted the first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, into Barney Clark Dr. William DeVries
#4772, aired 2005-05-10	CNN 25: POTPOURRI $200: (Hi, I'm Christiane Amanpour of CNN.) Millions of people have come here to Vatican City to this basilica to present their final respects to Pope John Paul II St. Peter's
#4772, aired 2005-05-10	CNN 25: POTPOURRI $400: The man seen here was largely responsible for this hotly anticipated film, the top box office hit of 1999 Star Wars: Episode I
#4772, aired 2005-05-10	CNN 25: POTPOURRI $600: The activist seen here testified before the Senate in favor of research using the embryonic type of these stem cells
#4772, aired 2005-05-10	CNN 25: POTPOURRI $800: She made news in 1988 when she became the first woman to head a modern Muslim nation Benazir Bhutto
#4772, aired 2005-05-10	CNN 25: POTPOURRI $1000: The measure at issue here was ratified by 35 states, this many short of the number it needed 3
#4771, aired 2005-05-09	CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $400: This area was a toxic dump for over a decade before it was developed for homes & a school Love Canal
#4771, aired 2005-05-09	CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $800: A jury verdict handed down in this California valley city sparked the devastation seen here in Los Angeles more than 30 miles away Simi Valley
#4771, aired 2005-05-09	CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $1200: (Hi, I'm Nancy Grace with CNN Headline News.) As a former Fulton County prosecutor, I went to the scene in this city to cover the deadly shootings in the same courtroom where I prosecuted felony cases Atlanta
#4771, aired 2005-05-09	CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $1600: The Bay Area was hit by the quake whose aftermath is seen here, named for this mountain near the epicenter Loma Prieta
#4771, aired 2005-05-09	CNN 25: NATIONAL NEWS $2000: The lieutenant colonel seen here is about to testify about his time on this government body from 1981 to 1986 the NSC (the National Security Council)
#3303, aired 1999-01-06	CNN $100: Named for its Brooklyn-born host, this "live" interview show debuted on CNN in June 1985 Larry King Live
#3303, aired 1999-01-06	CNN $200: He & Robert Novak have worked together since 1963 & now co-anchor a CNN discussion program Rowland Evans
#3303, aired 1999-01-06	CNN $300: It's the territory where the ceremony seen here took place on the night of June 30 - July 1, 1997 Hong Kong
#3303, aired 1999-01-06	CNN $400: In 1997 CNN became the first U.S. news organization since 1969 with a permanent bureau in this country Cuba
#3303, aired 1999-01-06	CNN $500: Anchored by Lou Dobbs, it was TV's first nightly business newscast Moneyline
#3215, aired 1998-07-17	CNN $200: CNN has 32 of these offices, in places from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, & they're all "top-drawer" bureaus
#3215, aired 1998-07-17	CNN $400: Every half hour since 1982, this CNN network has updated America on news, sports, business & entertainment CNN Headline News
#3215, aired 1998-07-17	CNN $600: City where the footage seen here was shot in 1989: Berlin
#3215, aired 1998-07-17	CNN $800: After a tour as White House Chief of Staff, he became the "nunu" conservative voice on "Crossfire" John Sununu
#3215, aired 1998-07-17	CNN $1000: This group includes Robert Novak & Margaret Carlson; they "rumble" on weekends at 7:00 P.M. "The Capital Gang"

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