Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (30 results returned)
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $400: Socrates spent his last hours in an Athenian jail awaiting a cup of this poison hemlock |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $800: For an "affront to religion & common decency", this famous lover was arrested in Venice in 1755 & imprisoned in the doge's palace Casanova |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $1600: This inventor who struggled to cash in on his vulcanization of rubber did time in debtor's prison in Philadelphia, Boston & Paris Goodyear |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $2000: In 1898 this "Gift of the Magi" author spent time in the pokey for embezzlement of bank funds O. Henry |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 he came up with a scheme regarding postal reply coupons & would later offer investors 50% interest in 45 days Ponzi |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $400: Irish author Brendan Behan was sentenced to 3 years in jail in 1940 for being a member of this outlawed group the IRA |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $800: For 4 years in the 1980s, Communist authorities jailed this playwright & later Czech president Václav Havel |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $1200: Accused of harming women & children, this French nobleman was jailed for 12 years beginning in 1777 the Marquis de Sade |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $1600: In 1846, as part of an act of protest against the U.S. war with Mexico, he spent a night in the Concord jail Thoreau |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $5,000 (Daily Double): He conceived his greatest novel while in prison for debt in Seville in 1597 Cervantes |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | OUT OF JAIL $200: Arrested in 1902 & exiled to Siberia, this future dictator was freed in 1917, after the czar's overthrow Stalin |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | OUT OF JAIL $400: Actress being arrested here in Cleveland in 1970 with suspicious pills later revealed to be just vitamins Jane Fonda |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | OUT OF JAIL $600: After about a year of incarceration, he was let out of jail in Poland in November of 1982 (Lech) Walesa |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | OUT OF JAIL $800: In 1971, President Nixon commuted this labor leader's 13-year jail sentence, & he was released Jimmy Hoffa |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | OUT OF JAIL $1000: This former professor & L.S.D. advocate escaped from a California jail in September of 1970 & lived on the run for years (Timothy) Leary |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | GO TO JAIL, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL $200: This prison takes its name from the New York town of Ossining, where it's located Sing Sing |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | GO TO JAIL, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL $400 (Daily Double): This saint whose feast day is Halloween shares his name with a prison; do they allow trick or treating there? San Quentin |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | GO TO JAIL, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL $400: This man did some of his important writing while in prison, including his Epistle to the Colossians Saint Paul |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | GO TO JAIL, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL $800: MacKinlay Kantor won a 1956 Pulitzer Prize for his book about this notorious Civil War prison Andersonville |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | GO TO JAIL, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL $1000: A prison in Florence, Colorado holds this man known as the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | GO TO JAIL $100: A forger might be thrown into the pen, which is short for this penitentiary |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | GO TO JAIL $200: Change 1 letter in jail & you get this form of release bail |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | GO TO JAIL $300: It's a group of convicts linked together to perform manual labor outside the prison a chain gang |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | GO TO JAIL $400: When you're confined to your own living quarters, you're "under" this house arrest |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | GO TO JAIL $500: This slang term for jail is also a bottled wine & juice drink cooler |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | JAIL $100: Calling it "Most Secure Prison", Guinness says tho 23 attempted to escape from Alcatraz, this many succeeded none |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | JAIL $200: This country's Kharkov Prison is said to be world's largest, accommodating 40,000 prisoners Soviet Union |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | JAIL $300: Unlucky Col. Klink was in charge of this prison camp housing "Hogan's Heroes" Stalag 13 |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | JAIL $400: In "Monopoly", if you pay to get out of jail, it costs this much $50 |
| #562, aired 1987-02-03 | JAIL $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following prison song, the 2nd-biggest hit of its singer's career: "Chain Gang" (by Sam Cooke) |
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