| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $400: (!) In this book "He took every present! Pop guns... bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checker-boards! Tricycles! Popcorn! and Plums!" How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $800: (,)
It's the 1950 title trio that's part of the "Chronicles of Narnia" the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $1200: (?) This phrase completes the bestselling Erma Bombeck title "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing" here... in the Pits |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $1600: (,)
It's Susanna Kaysen's memoir of 2 years at McLean Psychiatric Hospital, starting when she was just 18 Girl, Interrupted |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho! |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PUNCTUATION $400: It marks an ending; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, even puts one at the end of her signature a period |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PUNCTUATION $800: The "air" version of these usually signals that a speaker is being sarcastic quotes |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PUNCTUATION $1200: It was Ladislav Sutnar who put telephone area codes inside these parentheses |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PUNCTUATION $1600: Commas separate phrases in a series; when the phrases contain commas, separate using these semicolons |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PUNCTUATION $2000: An em one is longer than an en one dash |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | PUNCTUATION $400: AKA a virgule, it often comes between "actress" & "model" a slash |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | PUNCTUATION $800: One theory is that it began as the Latin abbreviation QO a question mark |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | PUNCTUATION $1200: Square ones are a way to say "this isn't part of the text" brackets |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | PUNCTUATION $1600: Scare ones are a way to say "so-called" quotes |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | PUNCTUATION $2000: In Spanish "ay caramba" is preceded by an upside-down one of these exclamation point |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? $400: You fill these out to participate in an NCAA hoops March Madness pool (purely for fun, with no betting, of course) brackets |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? $600: An NHL game has at least 3 of these that are 20 minutes apiece periods |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? $800: It can mean something shaped like a star asterisk |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? $1000: Preceding "off", it means "to hurry away"; preceding "down", it means "to write hastily dash |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | PUNCTUATION $400: Read all about me at www.jeopardy.com this punctuation mark showguide_bioalex.php forward slash |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | PUNCTUATION $800: Distinct from parentheses, these are used around editorial insertions that clarify a text, like "sic" brackets |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | PUNCTUATION $1200: Independent clauses within a sentence can be separated with a conjunction or with this a semicolon |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | PUNCTUATION $1,400 (Daily Double): Suspension points is another term for this indication of a pause an ellipsis |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | PUNCTUATION $1600: An "Oxford" or "series" this is the one before "and" in a series of items a comma |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | PUNCTUATION MARKS $100: In printing this punctuation mark is also known as a full stop period |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | PUNCTUATION MARKS $200: They enclose the exact words of a speaker quotation marks |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | PUNCTUATION MARKS $300: It's the strongest mark we have to indicate emotional emphasis at the end of a sentence exclamation point |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | PUNCTUATION MARKS $400: Compound words are sometimes joined together by this punctuation mark hyphen |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | PUNCTUATION MARKS $500: You'll commonly find this mark before a list or after a business letter's salutation colon |
