Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (75 results returned)
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $200: This urban area of about 37 million is also home to Shinjuku Station, the world's busiest train station Tokyo |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $400: This Chinese area of about 7.5 million has seen a drop in population accompanying a political crackdown Hong Kong |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $600: The biggest urban area in its country, this city has almost 3 times the people of No. 2 Medellín Bogotá |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $1000: In the city of 9.3 million, now named for this man, the War Remnants Museum was previously the Museum of Chinese & American War Crimes Ho Chi Minh City |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $3,200 (Daily Double): Due south of Egypt, this capital with about 6 million people began as an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $400: When planning a city from scratch, you'd probably start with this 4-letter plan showing streets & blocks a grid |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $1200: We'll need a few of these pedestrian overpasses, also a term for the route a plane takes a skyway |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $1600: Extremely small parks in cities are named for this clothing part a pocket park |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $2,000 (Daily Double): YIMBY stands for this, as some neighborhoods are okay with attracting affordable housing "Yes, in my backyard" |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a road on the monitor.) When roads, fences, or other human activity keeps animals from feeding or migrating, urban planners create these wildlife lanes, from the Latin "to run" a corridor |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $400: Portrayed by Sinatra on film, he runs the craps tables in the "Guys and Dolls" stories Nathan Detroit |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $800: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" chronicles a rollicking weekend for this gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $1200: A mysterious sack in a bank vault stirs greed in the Mark Twain tale "The Man that Corrupted" this town Hadleyburg |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $2000: In this Thomas Mann novella, a writer on a holiday in a cholera-stricken city grows infatuated with a boy Death in Venice |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): He sought his fortune in Yukon gold prospecting, but made it big as the USA's highest-paid writer Jack London |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $200: Paule Marshall's 1950s growing-up tale "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is set in this metropolis New York City |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $400: "Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" by S. Weir Mitchell is a novel about Colonial life mainly in this city Philadelphia |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $600: Life in this city where the 2 met fills much of Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" Paris |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $800: Filmed as "There Will Be Blood", Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" takes place in & around this West Coast city Los Angeles |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | URBAN LIT $1000: "The Stranger" by Albert Camus concerns a senseless murder in this North African burg Algiers |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | IN THE URBAN DICTIONARY $200: If you've put a scoratorium in place, you're trying to avoid hearing what happened in one of these a sporting event (football game accepted) |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | IN THE URBAN DICTIONARY $400: A carnevoyeur is one of these who derives pleasure from watching others eat meat a vegetarian |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | IN THE URBAN DICTIONARY $600: Failing to impress a woman you're attracted to can land you in this "zone" the friend zone |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | IN THE URBAN DICTIONARY $800: A "cough & call" is a technique to avoid this (going to) work |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | IN THE URBAN DICTIONARY $1000: "When an ethnic minority makes unfounded accusations", they're pulling this from the deck the race card |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $400: A "polarpoint presentation" is an office meeting in which the boss has adjusted this so no one will nap air conditioning (or temperature) |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $800: Drop 1 letter from the type of creature Sonic is in video games & you get this, one who monopolizes the aisle seat an edgehog |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $1200: "Jumping the couch" means to flip out like this guy who inspired the phrase on an "Oprah" appearance Tom Cruise |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $1600: "Froday" is the day you realize you need one of these a haircut |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $2000: "Fomo" stands for "fear of" this happening, because you know that party's going to be great missing out |
#5809, aired 2009-12-10 | URBAN DICTIONARY $400: The playoff type of this isn't just for athletes; It's also "grown by male college students during... finals week" a beard |
#5809, aired 2009-12-10 | URBAN DICTIONARY $800: It's one way to make use of an unwanted present; a usage example begins, "Grandma gave me a horrible sweater" regifting |
#5809, aired 2009-12-10 | URBAN DICTIONARY $1200: "Love and affection shared by two straight males" is this type of affair a bromance |
#5809, aired 2009-12-10 | URBAN DICTIONARY $1600: Title of a dy-no-mite '70s sitcom, it's said ironically about something not all that fun & "often used in a repetitive manner" good times |
#5809, aired 2009-12-10 | URBAN DICTIONARY $2000: Rhyming with "juiced", it's "to lose one's job because of one's blog", coined by blogger Heather Armstrong dooced |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | URBAN MOVIES $400: 1940, Jimmy Stewart woos Kate Hepburn: "The _____ Story" Philadelphia |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | URBAN MOVIES $800: 1984: Robin Williams defects: "_____ on the Hudson" Moscow |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | URBAN MOVIES $1200: 2008: Woody goes Euro: "Vicky Cristina _____" Barcelona |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | URBAN MOVIES $1600: 1990: A WWII flyby: "_____ Belle" Memphis |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | URBAN MOVIES $2000: 1990: Alec Baldwin's post-prison plight: "____ Blues" Miami |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | URBAN PLANNING $400: By order of the king, this innovation came to the streets of Paris in 1184 stone paving (sewer drains accepted) |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | URBAN PLANNING $800: Hippodamus of Miletus advocated this basic pattern of crisscrossing streets forming squares a grid |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | URBAN PLANNING $1200: Also preceding "glasses" & "knot", it's the type of accessory "flat" that may be encouraged to increase density a granny flat |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | URBAN PLANNING $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a plot design, and green space appears along the road curves.) In suburban planning, additional green space created by curved streets & houses with varying setbacks is called this 4-letter word, also a small, sheltered bay a cove |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | URBAN PLANNING $2000: STC, like the one in Hoboken, is short for this commission that aims to keep the city green, leafy & cool Shade Tree Commission |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $200: "Christmas Adam" is the day before this Christmas Eve |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $400: Wikidemia is any scholarly work that's passed off as original but in reality is culled from this site Wikipedia |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $600: We're not joshing when we tell you that "JK" stands for this just kidding |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $800: A vacation spent at home is this, rhyming with "vacation" a staycation |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $1000: urbandictionary says that this 3-letter word can mean a boyfriend or girlfriend or be a "word used to scare people" a boo |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | AN URBAN LEGEND SAYS... $200: ...this member of the Beatles died in a car accident & was replaced with a double named William Campbell Paul McCartney |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | AN URBAN LEGEND SAYS... $400: ...as an infant, Humphrey Bogart was the model for the trademark baby for this company's line of baby foods Gerber |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | AN URBAN LEGEND SAYS... $600: ...not only was this man's body frozen after his death, but it's stored under the Pirates of the Caribbean ride Walt Disney |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | AN URBAN LEGEND SAYS... $800: ...this former lead singer of Black Sabbath throws puppies into his concert audiences & won't play until they're all dead Ozzy Osbourne |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | AN URBAN LEGEND SAYS... $1000: ...this "neighborly" PBS host was a marine sniper with 150 kills & wore long sleeves on TV to cover up his many tattoos Mister Rogers |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $200: The first "L" in the Internet acronym "LOL" stands for this, as it does in "ROFL" laughing |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $400: Justin Timberlake got props from Urban Dictionary for describing Janet Jackson's woes as this 2-word term a wardrobe malfunction |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $600: Ace Frehley & Paul Stanley could tell you that "snog" means to do this kiss |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $800: An "ear worm" is slang for one of these that you can't get out of your head a song |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $1000: Though it sounds like a wading bird, this is an e-mail saying that you won't be able to attend Johnny's birthday party an e-gret |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | URBAN $400: This Australian city was founded in 1788 as a penal colony Sydney |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | URBAN $800: A downtown area of this major city is named for "the loop" formed by its elevated train tracks Chicago |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | URBAN $1200: In 930 A.D. Karmathian Muslim rebels stormed & destroyed this holy city, carrying off the sacred black stone Mecca |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | URBAN $1600: By the end of 1999 the transfer of the Bundestag back to Berlin from this city was largely complete Bonn |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | URBAN $2000: Site of a famous commando raid, it was the capital of Uganda until 1962 Entebbe |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE URBAN SCENE $200: Often, a route along a waterway isn't called a street or ave., but this, like Boston's Memorial & Storrow a drive |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE URBAN SCENE $400: Sodium vapor is a common type of these, which help prevent crime & traffic accidents streetlights |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE URBAN SCENE $600: A defining characteristic of a high rise is having this item perfected in the 19th century by Otis the elevator |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE URBAN SCENE $800: It opened in 1900, its first line running from Paris' Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot the Métro |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE URBAN SCENE $1000: She became a symbol of urban indifference when she was killed in 1964 in earshot of her Queens neighbors (Kitty) Genovese |
#3164, aired 1998-05-07 | URBAN MYTHS $100: It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers alligators |
#3164, aired 1998-05-07 | URBAN MYTHS $200: Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead Paul McCartney |
#3164, aired 1998-05-07 | URBAN MYTHS $300: My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept a kidney |
#3164, aired 1998-05-07 | URBAN MYTHS $400: Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date a hook |
#3164, aired 1998-05-07 | URBAN MYTHS $500: Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke Fred Grandy |
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