Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (330 results returned)

#9056, aired 2024-03-11DOWN IN THE VALLEY $400: The "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" in this U.S. state was created by a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1912 Alaska
#25, aired 2024-01-16NAME THAT '90s HIT $300: Alanis Morissette: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" "Ironic"
#8934, aired 2023-09-21PAST HISTORY $600: In February 1846, over a thousand of these people began to trek west from Nauvoo, Illinois, eventually settling in Utah the Mormons
#8900, aired 2023-06-23I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1000: This man "made a deal with Napoleon: how'd you like to sell a mile or 2 (or 3, or a hundred, or a thousand)"? (Thomas) Jefferson
#8887, aired 2023-06-06QUOTABLE NOTABLES $200: A P.M.: "If the British Empire & its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour"' Churchill
#14, aired 2023-05-17NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $1600: Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Thousand Acres" was made into a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer Jane Smiley
#5, aired 2023-05-10MASTERING PASTRY WITH DOMINIQUE ANSEL $400: (Dominique Ansel reads.) It's not actually a thousand, despite the name, but usually three layers of puff pastry that are spread with cream & jam to make this dessert mille-feuille
#8864, aired 2023-05-04A BIBLE THUMPIN' $800: The jawbone of an ass is an unusual choice for a weapon, but this guy "slew a thousand men" with one in Judges 15 Samson
#8849, aired 2023-04-13FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1200: On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years Fry
#8843, aired 2023-04-05BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $1000: "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand" the Book of Daniel
#8831, aired 2023-03-20WALK, THE LINE $1200: Vanessa Carlton was nominated for 3 Grammys for her song that said, "You know I'd walk" this far to "just see you tonight" a thousand miles
#8728, aired 2022-10-26PEAKS & VALLEYS $600: Numerous fumaroles in a volcanic region of Alaska gave it the name Valley of the Ten Thousand these Smokes
#2, aired 2022-10-02CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $300 (Daily Double): Oddly, opossums are related to kangaroos, as both belong to this group of pouched mammals a marsupial
#8660, aired 2022-06-10JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS $400: In Austen novels the girls like a guy who has "four thousand" or "five thousand a year"--4 or 5,000 of these pounds
#8644, aired 2022-05-19IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $600: This "Thousand and One Nights" character gave his name to a type of paraffin lamp Aladdin
#8639, aired 2022-05-12MUSICALS BY LYRICS $1600: "Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure, measure a year?" Rent
#8592, aired 2022-03-0814-LETTER WORDS $2000: I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important aggrandizement
#8513, aired 2021-11-17IT'S HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1756 Voltaire wrote that this, which had lasted nearly a thousand years, was none of the 3 elements in its name the Holy Roman Empire
#8495, aired 2021-10-22POPPING OUT POP CULTURE $600: 2021 marks 10 years of Christina Perri's "Twilight" anthem that says, "I have loved you for" this long a thousand years
#8447, aired 2021-07-203 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS $2000: This wide-trunked African tree can live over a thousand years a baobab
#8445, aired 2021-07-16WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) At a 1934 Nuremberg rally, the Nazis proclaimed that this German empire would last a thousand years; but in 1945, U.S. troops helped put the finishing touches to it after little more than a decade the Third Reich
#8419, aired 2021-06-10RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Among Eliel Saarinen's prominent works is the railway station in this capital Helsinki
#8413, aired 2021-06-02"A" VOWEL $400: Lady fingers & thousand fingers are varieties of this fruit bananas
#8395, aired 2021-05-07WINDOWS & DOORS $400: You might say this type of window known for letting in lots of light "is worth a thousand words" a picture window
#8384, aired 2021-04-22MYTHOLOGICAL IDIOMS $2,500 (Daily Double): Meaning a very beautiful woman, this idiom refers to the fleet that went to war after Helen's abduction a face that launched a thousand ships
#8374, aired 2021-04-08BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $2000: This Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize winner about the inheritance of a large Iowa farm is a modern retelling of "King Lear" A Thousand Acres
#8332, aired 2021-02-09SQUID PRO QUO $800: As seen in cover art, the crew in this Jules Verne tale had to fight off the deadly tentacles of a nasty beast Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#8312, aired 2021-01-12"B" WEAR $1000: Khaled Hosseini conceived "A Thousand Splendid Suns" after seeing women wearing these during a trip to Afghanistan burkas
#8305, aired 2020-12-18CHINESE HISTORY $1600: Only a few thousand of the roughly 100,000 Communists survived the trek begun in 1934 & called this the Long March
#8279, aired 2020-11-12A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW $2000: Haze was visible on the East Coast after the 1912 eruption of the volcanic Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in this now state Alaska
#8242, aired 2020-09-22HODGEPODGE $200: An early depiction of a demon holding this customary farm implement is on a thousand-year-old high cross in County Louth, Ireland a pitchfork
#8214, aired 2020-04-30PAY RESPECTS $200: At his 2018 funeral his son said he was "The brightest of a thousand points of light" George Herbert Walker Bush
#8195, aired 2020-04-03ATLANTIS $1600: A stop in Atlantis is barely a blip on the itinerary in this 1870 Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#8157, aired 2020-02-11MAGIC IN LITERATURE $400: In Glen Cook's "Black Company" series, Soulcatcher flies around on one of these, just like in the "Thousand and One Nights" a magic carpet
#8147, aired 2020-01-28NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS $200: Ahead of the new millennium, Necco offered the saying this many "Kisses" & this many "Hugs" 2,000
#8140, aired 2020-01-17NUMBER THAT BOOK $600: By Khaled Hosseini: "A ___ Splendid Suns" A Thousand
#8121, aired 2019-12-23FIGURES OF SPEECHES $4,000 (Daily Double): From a 1988 speech by a presidential candidate. "A brilliant , diversity spread like stars, like" this 5-word phrase a thousand points of light
#8092, aired 2019-11-12MAMMALS $200: With only about a thousand living in China & Mongolia, the wild Bactrian species of this is critically endangered a camel
#8048, aired 2019-09-11CLASSICAL DANCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Jean-Baptiste Lully pioneered music for this dance whose name, from the Latin for "small", comes from its small, dainty steps a minuet
#8047, aired 2019-09-1036 TIMES THE FUN $1,000 (Daily Double): A famous series of prints by the Japanese artist Hokusai is called the "36 Views of" this landmark Mount Fuji
#7905, aired 2019-01-112 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PROVERB $800: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a..." single step
#7904, aired 2019-01-10NONFICTION $400: In the title of Joseph Campbell's study of world mythology, "The Hero" has this many faces a thousand
#7903, aired 2019-01-09THE VOYAGE OF A BEAGLE $200: As an ace in this war, Snoopy was "two thousand feet over St. Juvin...suddenly a Fokker triplane appeared" World War I
#7893, aired 2018-12-26"W"RITERS $1600: Jonathan Franzen eulogized this 3-named author as having "produced a thousand pages of world-class jest" David Foster Wallace
#7883, aired 2018-12-12A POP "UP" CATEGORY $1600: In 2018 Drake rapped about feeling this, "Hundred thousand on my head, it's disrespect" "Upset"
#7816, aired 2018-09-10LITERATURE $400: In this H.G. Wells classic, the narrator is "drawn on by the...Earth's fate" & sees it in "strides of a thousand years" The Time Machine
#7716, aired 2018-03-12THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $400: The fire at its top guided ships for over a thousand years the Lighthouse at Alexandria
#7687, aired 2018-01-30AIR FORCE BASE $1,000 (Daily Double): Since the 1950s the USAF & this air force have shared a base at Mildenhall in Suffolk the Royal Air Force (or RAF)
#7677, aired 2018-01-16ANCIENT TIMES $1600: Chariot races were held in this largest Roman stadium for almost a thousand years, the last being in 549 A.D. the Circus Maximus
#7670, aired 2018-01-05TAKE ME "DOWN" $200: 15,406... 15,405... 15,404... man, this is going to take a while a countdown
#7634, aired 2017-11-16GULP FICTION $400: In "Henry IV, Part 2", this knight says if he had a thousand sons, he'd teach them "to addict themselves" to wine Falstaff
#7618, aired 2017-10-25CANADIAN NATIONAL PARKS $1200: There are only 20 main islands in this park on the St. Lawrence but a lot more in its name Thousand Islands
#7588, aired 2017-09-13PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships.... sweet" her, "make me immortal with a kiss" Helen
#7582, aired 2017-07-25THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $1200: "We'll rule for a thousand years!", said this "sacred" empire in 800 A.D., "then 6 years more, & shuffle off in 1806" the Holy Roman empire
#7563, aired 2017-06-28PORTUGUESE HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Threatened by Napoleon, the Portuguese royal family fled to this colonial capital & stayed there for 13 years Rio de Janeiro
#7548, aired 2017-06-07PLAY DOUGH $800: In this show, Nathan Detroit needs a thousand bucks for the oldest established permanent floating crap game in N.Y. Guys and Dolls
#7542, aired 2017-05-30SEOUL MAN & WOMAN $800: Nam June Paik, called the inventor of this type of art, used a thousand-TV-set display at the 1988 Olympics video art
#7498, aired 2017-03-29OF THOUSANDS $400: In the Book of Revelation, an angel "laid hold on the dragon... which is" him "and bound him a thousand years" the devil
#7498, aired 2017-03-29OF THOUSANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): One thousand of these make up a micrometer a nanometer
#7498, aired 2017-03-29OF THOUSANDS $2000: Maxwell Anderson's play about a monarch of England was titled her "of the Thousand Days" Anne
#7444, aired 2017-01-12YOU'RE THE MAN! $1200: For his many roles, silent horror film actor Lon Chaney was "The Man of" these a Thousand Faces
#7436, aired 2017-01-02COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $1600: Jane Smiley redoes "King Lear" in Iowa: "A Thousand ____" Acres
#7427, aired 2016-12-20THE MUSICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $400: "Hello from the other side. I must have called a thousand times, to tell you I'm sorry" Adele
#7386, aired 2016-10-24HOUSE OF CARDS $2000: Its name meaning "a thousand milestones", this French racing game was introduced in the U.S. by Parker Brothers Mille Bornes
#7378, aired 2016-10-12MONEY SLANG $800: I can think of a thousand ways to say it means stately or majestic grand
#7359, aired 2016-09-15SCANDINAVIA $800: Some authorities include this "land of a thousand lakes" nation in Scandinavia, but others do not Finland
#7357, aired 2016-09-13NUMERICAL LIT $1200: It's the number of "Splendid Suns" in the title of Khaled Hosseini's 2007 novel of Afghanistan a thousand
#7351, aired 2016-07-25ANATOMICALLY TITLED LIT $2000: Joseph Campbell's landmark study of comparative mythology was titled "The Hero with" these a thousand faces
#7171, aired 2015-11-16LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE $1600: "The Mysterious Island" was a sequel to this 1870 submarine tale Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#7170, aired 2015-11-13FALLING OFF A LOG $400: Its purported thousand legs might not keep this arthropod from falling off the log where it lives a millipede
#7123, aired 2015-07-29PRESIDENTS' SPEECHES: ONE WORD OFF $1000: George H.W. Bush: "A thousand points of purchase, of all the community organizations... doing good" light
#7108, aired 2015-07-08FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS $200: We'll pony up if you know there are about 100 of these islands about 100 miles north of mainland Scotland the Shetlands
#7108, aired 2015-07-08FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS $400: In 1993 this southern borough voted to secede from New York City, but the state legislature did not approve Staten Island
#7108, aired 2015-07-08FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS $800: This Greek island, site of a famous mythical homecoming, has also been known as Thiaki Ithaca
#7108, aired 2015-07-08FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS $1000: A turning point in WWII's Pacific campaign, this island is 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu Midway
#7108, aired 2015-07-08FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS $2,400 (Daily Double): A part of this island that's on the Susquehanna hit 4,000 degrees in a hurry in 1979 Three Mile Island
#6995, aired 2015-01-30BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the JFK administration is called this many "Days" A Thousand
#6984, aired 2015-01-15ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $400: (Aladdin emerges from a beaded curtain to deliver the clue.) "Arabian Nights", the title of Aladdin's opening number, refers to the folk tale collection also known as this many "Nights" the thousand and one
#6982, aired 2015-01-13A REAL MYSTERY $200: "The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line" is an original mystery novel starring this detective played by Kristen Bell Veronica Mars
#6888, aired 2014-07-23HITS & MISSES $1600: From the "Breaking Dawn, Part 1" soundtrack: "A Thousand Years" (Christina) Perri
#6881, aired 2014-07-14THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $800: Judges 15: he "said, with the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson
#6868, aired 2014-06-25CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $600: It's defined as a church averaging more than 2,000 worshipers a week; Joel Osteen's in Houston gets 40some thousand a megachurch
#6852, aired 2014-06-03SUN OF A BOOK $1200: Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" explores the last 30 years in this Asian nation Afghanistan
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $800: Attending the 1867 Paris World's Fair, Jules Verne became fascinated with a navy exhibit on a submersible & wrote this novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#6796, aired 2014-03-17THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $200: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "Of all the monarchs you've known, who was the most impressive?" "That's easy. It's this Russian empress who was born in 1729. She had such great legs! And, boy, what a way with horses" Catherine (the Great)
#6796, aired 2014-03-17THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "What was your most annoying job?" "Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'" Chaucer
#6778, aired 2014-02-19RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $1000: A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book A Thousand Acres
#6732, aired 2013-12-17DID YOU GET MY LETTER? $3,000 (Daily Double): "Twenty thousand pounds sterling I think will be a cheap purchase" for West Point, he wrote to Major Andre July 15, 1780 Benedict Arnold
#6707, aired 2013-11-12NUMBER, PLEASE $800: Number of hertz in a gigahertz a billion
#6703, aired 2013-11-06BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This song includes the line "a thousand pages give or take a few, I'll be writing more in a week or two" "Paperback Writer"
#6658, aired 2013-07-24FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $800: Joseph Campbell: "The Hero with a Thousand ___" Faces
#6629, aired 2013-06-13AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $1600: "I choose to be a... New Hampshire farmer with an income in cash of say a thousand (from...a publisher in New York City)" Robert Frost
#6614, aired 2013-05-23BOOKS BY THE NUMBER $2000: Khaled Hosseini: "A ____ Splendid Suns" Thousand
#6598, aired 2013-05-01PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS $200: 1992: this many "Acres" A Thousand
#6596, aired 2013-04-29SCIENCE IS A 7-LETTER WORD $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew steps on a carpet and taps a metal table.) We all know what it feels like to get shocked... & though the tension of the spark contains several thousand volts... it's harmless due to its small amount of this 7-letter word current (amperes accepted)
#6562, aired 2013-03-12THE QUOTABLE MARK TWAIN $1000: "It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables...and some good morals... and upward of a thousand lies" the Bible
#6560, aired 2013-03-08WORDS WITH A DOUBLE L $800: A geographical feature, such as the one "of Ten Thousand Smokes" in a volcanic area of Alaska valley
#6468, aired 2012-10-31THINKING $400: Lao-Tzu wrote that "The journey of a thousand miles commenced with a single" one of these a footstep (or a step)
#6433, aired 2012-08-01LANDMARKS $800 (Daily Double): Here's a riddle: part of the beard of this great statue at Giza is now on display at the British Museum the Great Sphinx
#6431, aired 2012-07-30BIG STUFF $400: Some of these Halloween gourds have tipped the scales at a thousand pounds or more jack o'lanterns (or pumpkins)
#6422, aired 2012-07-17ARTHUR $2000: A decade after his JFK book "A Thousand Days", this historian wrote "Robert Kennedy and his times" (Arthur) Schlesinger(, Jr.)
#6400, aired 2012-06-15____ OF ____ $1600: If your sample is 1 thousand people in a population of 1 million, your poll has this of 3.1% a margin of error
#6362, aired 2012-04-24A BYZANTINE CATEGORY $5,000 (Daily Double): After enduring for more than a thousand years, the Byzantine Empire finally fell to this one in 1453 the Ottoman Empire
#6339, aired 2012-03-22HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN $800: After killing this outlaw, Pat Garrett wrote a book to "correct the thousand false statements" in the press Billy the Kid
#6286, aired 2012-01-09A BUCKET LIST $800: Taste a thousand-dollar bottle of wine from this chateau bought by a Rothschild in 1868 (Chateau) Lafite
#6286, aired 2012-01-09THE SEA AROUND US $2000: This is a measure of certain minerals in the water; for the deep waters of the Dead Sea, it's about 332 parts per thousand salinity
#6245, aired 2011-11-11RUSSIA THEN & NOW $800: On Sept. 1, 2004 terrorists from this breakaway republic took more than a thousand hostages at a school in Beslan Chechnya
#6207, aired 2011-09-20EARLY MAN $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a small statue at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) This 35-thousand-year-old figurine known as the Lion Man, the oldest known human statue, is made from the ivory of this animal that went from endangered to extinct thousands of years ago the Woolly Mammoth
#6188, aired 2011-07-06WHAT WILL YOU BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? $800: Eventually I'll bloom into one of these, with a thousand seeds or so a sunflower
#6175, aired 2011-06-17CINCO DE MAYO $1600: This numeric mayo-based dressing gets its name from a group of landmasses in the St. Lawrence River Thousand Island dressing
#6170, aired 2011-06-10A THOUSAND $800: Numeric title for an Arabian folktale collection that originated in the 9th century 1,001 Nights
#6170, aired 2011-06-10A THOUSAND $1200: A volcanic region within Alaska's Katmai National Park is designated "The Valley of Ten Thousand" these Smokes
#6170, aired 2011-06-10A THOUSAND $1,600 (Daily Double): Before the Soviet tanks rolled in, a manifesto called the "Two Thousand Words" urged protest in this country in 1968 Czechoslovakia
#6170, aired 2011-06-10A THOUSAND $2000: This thinker published the bestsellers "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" & "The Power of Myth" (Joseph) Campbell
#6146, aired 2011-05-09SPELLING BEES $400: This honeybee can lay a thousand or more eggs a day Q-U-E-E-N
#6121, aired 2011-04-04FACE BOOK $400: According to Christopher Marlowe, hers was "The face that launched a thousand ships" Helen of Troy
#6109, aired 2011-03-17YOU ARE SO OUTTA HERE $1000: In 1986 this Philippine woman left more than a thousand pairs of shoes behind when she fled to Hawaii Imelda Marcos
#6070, aired 2011-01-21CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Mahler's Eighth is nicknamed the Symphony of this large number, for the host of musicians needed to perform it a Thousand
#6057, aired 2011-01-04MARXISMS $1200: Film in which Groucho asks, "Wouldn't it be simpler if you just put the stateroom in the trunk?" A Night at the Opera
#6021, aired 2010-11-15PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $800: Attributed to Lao-tzu, it "begins with a single step" a journey of a thousand miles
#5960, aired 2010-07-09PREFIXES $1200: It it lived up to the milli-part of its name, a millipede with have this many feet a thousand
#5921, aired 2010-05-17MASADA $1200: (Alex reports from Masada, Israel.) The thousand defenders were able to survive for two years because they had more than a dozen of these defensive assets--collectors of water from the Latin for "box" cisterns
#5912, aired 2010-05-04PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $600: One of these "is worth a thousand words" a picture
#5909, aired 2010-04-29WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $200: It's the year in which the photo seen here was taken 1929
#5909, aired 2010-04-29WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $400: An 1870 photo tells the sad story of how this plains animal was hunted to near extinction the bison
#5909, aired 2010-04-29WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $600: The children seen here are practicing the Cold War drill known by this 3-word term duck and cover
#5909, aired 2010-04-29WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $800: The photo seen here, taken from one of these planes, triggered an international crisis in 1962 a U2
#5909, aired 2010-04-29WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS $1000: He's seen here in 1979 kissing the president of East Germany on the country's 30th anniversary Brezhnev
#5843, aired 2010-01-27THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: At her July 17, 1793 execution, this Girondist sympathizer said, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand" Charlotte Corday
#5788, aired 2009-11-11CLASSIC LIT $400: Captain Nemo takes Pierre Aronnax on a yearlong submarine voyage in this Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#5719, aired 2009-06-18THE BRITISH ARE DIFFERENT $200: A 1 followed by 9 zeroes is this term in the U.S.; the Brits call that number "a thousand million" a billion
#5673, aired 2009-04-15ARTHUR-IAN AUTHORS $1600: He won a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Days", his book on the JFK presidency Schlesinger
#5652, aired 2009-03-17BUGS $400: As a defensive mechanism, some of these "thousand-legged worms" exude hydrogen cyanide fluid a millipede
#5593, aired 2008-12-24"OAK" LAND $2000: Connecticut has this specific tree on its state quarter the Charter Oak
#5585, aired 2008-12-12GREECE IS THE WORD $200: When Greece gained indep. in 1829, this city had only a few thousand people; 4 years later, it became the capital Athens
#5557, aired 2008-11-04NOVEL ALLITERATION $2000: This word completes Khaled Hosseini's title "A Thousand Splendid..." Suns
#5487, aired 2008-06-17"TWO""THOUSAND" & "EIGHT" $200: Be grateful for what you have, because "a bird in the hand is worth" this two in the bush
#5487, aired 2008-06-17"TWO""THOUSAND" & "EIGHT" $1000: This Jane Smiley farmland novel was adapted into a movie starring Jessica Lange & Michelle Pfeiffer A Thousand Acres
#5459, aired 2008-05-08PRODUCT PLACEMENT $1600: This alphanumeric lubricant is "the can with a thousand uses" WD-40
#5436, aired 2008-04-07MAN-AGRAMS $1200: A thousand faces, only one name: HONEY CLAN Lon Chaney
#5434, aired 2008-04-03WHO MIGHT HAVE SAID IT? $400: From Homer's Iliad: "I know they all think I'm a hottie, but I can't believe they launched a thousand ships" Helen of Troy
#5419, aired 2008-03-13MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Steinway and Sons.) It's the ten-letter term for the piano's diaphragm; it's made flexible enough to vibrate, but strong enough to handle a thousand pounds of force from over 200 strings soundboard
#5410, aired 2008-02-29TRADING PLACES $600: Located on this continent, the Kanem-Bornu Empire lasted a thousand years by being a center of trade Africa
#5371, aired 2008-01-07THE BARD WRITES $7,000 (Daily Double): When Mistress Page receives a love letter from Falstaff in this play, she asks, "How shall I be revenged on him?" The Merry Wives of Windsor
#5367, aired 2008-01-01RECENT FICTION $2000: "A Thousand Splendid Suns", Khaled Hosseini's follow-up to "The Kite Runner", is also mainly set in this country Afghanistan
#5246, aired 2007-06-04MUSIC $400: You can get the Mahler "Symphony of a Thousand" with the London Philharmonic Orch. & London Philharmonic this Choir
#5236, aired 2007-05-21GIVE WAR AND PEACE A CHANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): In "War and Peace", this man is described as the Antichrist scourging Europe Napoleon
#5230, aired 2007-05-11THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: At her execution, she declared, "I killed one man to save a hundred thousand" (Charlotte) Corday
#5180, aired 2007-03-02TAKE A WOK ON THE WILD SIDE $600: Despite their name, these pungent Chinese eggs are preserved in lime, ash & salt underground for about 100 days hundred-year-old eggs (or thousand-year-old eggs)
#5126, aired 2006-12-18PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Title length of time in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s 1966 prize-winner subtitled "John F. Kennedy in the White House" A Thousand Days
#5107, aired 2006-11-21HARPS & HARPERS $800: Of 7, 47 or 147, the number of strings on a modern pedal harp 47
#5101, aired 2006-11-13NOTABLE NAMES $1600: At his death in 1931, this Jersey boy had more than a thousand patents to his name Thomas Edison
#5075, aired 2006-10-06BIBLE HEROES $1000: In Judges he said, "With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson
#5031, aired 2006-06-26MUSICAL NUMBERS $1600: Wilson Pickett: "Land Of __ Dances" A Thousand
#5015, aired 2006-06-02ISN'T IT ICONIC? $2000: This "Hero With a Thousand Faces" author co-wrote 1974's "The Mythic Image", which explored iconography Joseph Campbell
#4995, aired 2006-05-05CAT $400: Now endangered, these fast felines were once common in India where a Mogal emperor kept a thousand of them as hunting cats cheetah
#4955, aired 2006-03-10TOM SWIFTIES $2000: When Tom yelled, "Neigh! Neigh! A thousand times neigh!" it was in this rough way, as if he had a sore throat hoarsely
#4941, aired 2006-02-20THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Birmingham, AL in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.) It took three tries, but finally, several thousand crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 on a Civil Rights march from Selma to this state capital Montgomery
#4936, aired 2006-02-13NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800: Inducted in 1973, he "earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including... the phonograph" Edison
#4923, aired 2006-01-25HITTING A HOMER $400: Hers was the face that launched a thousand ships Helen of Troy
#4921, aired 2006-01-23CAPITAL "K"s $800: In the movie with the same name as this city, Olivier says, "The Nile must taste of blood for a thousand miles" Khartoum
#4900, aired 2005-12-23KEEPING UP APPEARANCES $2000: At Santa Fe's Ten Thousand Waves Spa, have a geisha-style facial, featuring the droppings of this "nocturnal" bird a nightingale
#4895, aired 2005-12-16ROAD TO RHODE ISLAND $1000: Before the Europeans, a few thousand of these Indians lived on the Rhode Island bay that shares their name Narragansett
#4826, aired 2005-09-12POETIC LINES $800: In a famous poem, this character asks, "If I can rid your town of rats will you give me a thousand guilders?" the Pied Piper
#4826, aired 2005-09-12UNIVERSITY LATIN CLASS $4,200 (Daily Double): Truthfully, it's Harvard's 1-word Latin motto "Veritas"
#4824, aired 2005-07-21SEEING THE LIGHT $400: "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" is a 1956 book about the men who built the first one of these the atomic bomb
#4816, aired 2005-07-11GLASS $1600: The name of millefiori, a decorative glass often used for paperweights, means "glass of a thousand" these flowers
#4782, aired 2005-05-24HAUTE COUTURE $1000: Haute handbags are the speciality of this woman who was born Judith Peto in Budapest Judith Leiber
#4755, aired 2005-04-15RELIGIOUS MATTERS $1,203 (Daily Double): Construction on Borobudur, a temple of this religion on Java, was begun in 750 A.D. & took 92 years to complete Buddhism
#4736, aired 2005-03-21I'LL HAVE A SUB TO GO $800: A supposed sea creature, actually a sub, sinks Professor Pierre Aronnax' boat in this classic 19th century tale Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by Jules Verne)
#4695, aired 2005-01-21HISTORIC SIGNATURE SONGS $1600: Sen. Joseph McCarthy: "The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud" is this title Beatles guy "The Fool On The Hill"
#4688, aired 2005-01-12"DRESS"ED $200: Green Goddess or Thousand Island a (salad) dressing
#4677, aired 2004-12-28ONWARD CHRISTIAN SLATER $800: 2001: Christian & Kevin Costner dress like Elvis to rob a casino Three Thousand Miles to Graceland
#4656, aired 2004-11-29CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This Austrian composer's Symphony No. 8 is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand" (Gustav) Mahler
#4623, aired 2004-10-134X4 $200: Take an archaic version of a second person pronoun & add beach grains to make this number thousand
#4617, aired 2004-10-05A BYZANTINE CATEGORY $400: At over 4 miles in length, a wall built in the 400s kept this capital safe for a thousand years Constantinople
#4607, aired 2004-09-21BIG SCREEN BIOS $1600: "Man of a Thousand Faces" Lon Chaney, Sr.
#4562, aired 2004-06-08QUOTATIONS $400: Poet F.W. Bourdillon wrote, "The night has a thousand" of these, "and the day but one" eyes
#4552, aired 2004-05-25SCIENTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Swedish botanist was the first to use the Mars & Venus symbols to represent male & female Linnaeus
#4515, aired 2004-04-02IT'S ALPHANUMERIC $1000: It's "The Can with a Thousand Uses" & among them are removing stuck gum & adhesives, & lubricating parts WD-40
#4500, aired 2004-03-12LITERARY TRANSLATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): A really "deep" book: "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#4493, aired 2004-03-03A THOUSAND SOMETHING $200: At 1,864 square miles, it's much bigger than its neighbor Tobago Trinidad
#4493, aired 2004-03-03A THOUSAND SOMETHING $400: His term as U.S. president was just 1,036 days John F. Kennedy
#4493, aired 2004-03-03A THOUSAND SOMETHING $800: To travel at a speed of 1,037 miles per hour just stand on the Earth anywhere along this the Equator
#4493, aired 2004-03-03A THOUSAND SOMETHING $1,000 (Daily Double): There are mille six cent soixante-cinq steps to the top of this famous landmark the Eiffel Tower
#4493, aired 2004-03-03A THOUSAND SOMETHING $1000: It's the number inscribed on Plymouth Rock 1620
#4459, aired 2004-01-15NUMERICAL PHRASES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Rome) It's the literal translation of the grateful Italian phrase "mille grazie" a thousand thanks
#4451, aired 2004-01-05DO I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE? $600: In 1984, with a thousand bucks & a dream, he founded the computer company named for himself Michael Dell
#4433, aired 2003-12-10CHURCHILL SPEAKS! $1000: "If the British Empire & its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say" this "This was their finest hour"
#4420, aired 2003-11-21GRAPHIC NOVELS $400: Eric Shanower's "A Thousand Ships", a graphic novel about this war, opens with the story of Paris kidnapping Helen the Trojan War
#4390, aired 2003-10-10HEY, VERNE! $800: A giant sea monster turns out to be a submarine in this 1870 Verne tale Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#4362, aired 2003-07-15"TH"AT'S THAT! $800: With ketchup, mayo & relish, you can make a simple version of this salad dressing Thousand Island
#4357, aired 2003-07-08GLASS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Colored pieces bundled together create this type of design, Italian for "thousand flowers" millefiori
#4309, aired 2003-05-01THAT'S SO CLICHE! $600: I told the private investigator that one of these "is worth a thousand words" a picture
#4296, aired 2003-04-14OF BABYLON $1,000 (Daily Double): Following the capture of King Nabonidus in 539 B.C., this empire completed its conquest of Babylon the Persian Empire
#4296, aired 2003-04-1410-LETTER "W"ORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the breed of dog seen here in a photo by William Wegman Weimaraner
#4282, aired 2003-03-25THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1000: This Chinese philosopher, not Confucius, wrote, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step" Lao-tzu
#4268, aired 2003-03-05QUOTATIONS $1200: Of Homer's lovely Helen, it was asked, "Was this the face that" did this launched a thousand ships
#4255, aired 2003-02-14KJPY HIT RADIO $400: KJPY is sponsoring an in-store appearance by this young lady & we know you'd "Walk a Thousand Miles" to be there Vanessa Carlton
#4200, aired 2002-11-29"MAN"LY MOVIES $2000: 1941: Featuring Lon Chaney Jr. The Wolf Man
#4182, aired 2002-11-05GOLD & SILVER $400: It sounds like a thousand million, but it's an overall term for gold considered in mass rather than in value bullion
#4180, aired 2002-11-01TRICKY NUMBERS $1000: If you were to spell out the numbers, it's how far you'd have to go before using the letter A one thousand
#4174, aired 2002-10-24CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This Austrian's 1910 8th Symphony is also known as "Symphony of a Thousand" for the number needed to perform it Gustav Mahler
#4173, aired 2002-10-23THE LETTER G $800: In slang terms, a G refers to this amount of money thousand
#4064, aired 2002-04-11BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $400: "A Thousand Days" JFK
#4056, aired 2002-04-01MONEY PROBLEMS $400: Total number of pennies in $10 million one blllion
#4037, aired 2002-03-05TV STARS ON BROADWAY $2,000 (Daily Double): You could say that playing Murray in the 2001 revival of "A Thousand Clowns" was this actor's "Magnum" opus Tom Selleck
#4037, aired 2002-03-05ARTHUR-IAN LEGENDS $2000: It shouldn't take you "a thousand days" to come up with this shared name of father & son U.S. historians Arthur Schlesinger
#4027, aired 2002-02-19AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: We're guessing she was all grins when she won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for her "A Thousand Acres" Jane Smiley
#4013, aired 2002-01-30"THOU" $400: Hey Verne, in 1870 you told a tale of this many leagues twenty thousand
#4013, aired 2002-01-30"THOU" $800: Myriad means this number, so that means Minnesota is the land of a myriad of lakes ten thousand
#4013, aired 2002-01-30"THOU" $1200: At the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Dan Jansen won a gold in this speed-skating distance one thousand meters
#4013, aired 2002-01-30"THOU" $2000: In Roman numerals, a V with a line on top is this number five thousand
#3989, aired 2001-12-27WHAT'S THE BUG IDEA? $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew with a creature on his hand.) Similar to the centipede this segmented arthropod can probably count to a thousand all by itself millipede
#3972, aired 2001-12-04WISDOM FROM WALDEN $1600: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at" this the roots
#3971, aired 2001-12-03BILL SHAKESPEARE, P.I. $400: This title guy thinks his wife's cheatin'; says "She with Cassio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed" Othello
#3952, aired 2001-11-06SONG LYRICS $300: Donna Summer: "Dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall" "Hot Stuff"
#3946, aired 2001-10-29EGGS-ACTLY $800: Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while thousand/hundred-year-old eggs
#3934, aired 2001-10-11METHODISM $200: An important part of services, they include "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" hymns
#3903, aired 2001-07-18JUST PLANE GEOMETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): The word geometry means to "measure" this the world, the earth (the land)
#3796, aired 2001-02-19THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: The Chamber Music Society of this "Center" put the Times "in a millennial mood" with a "Thousand Years of Love" Lincoln Center
#3785, aired 2001-02-02BEFORE & AFTER $800: She had a face that could launch a thousand ships, or stir teen hearts in "A Summer Place" Helen of Troy Donahue
#3682, aired 2000-09-1220th CENTURY NICKNAMES $800: Cinema's "Man of A Thousand Faces" Lon Chaney
#3679, aired 2000-09-07'90s MOVIES $400: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh & this actress are squabbling sisters in 1997's "A Thousand Acres" Jessica Lange
#3623, aired 2000-05-10PLAY STATION $800: He wrote, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Christopher Marlowe
#3616, aired 2000-05-01FAMOUS FEMALES $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1999 the thousand-megawati smile of Megawati Sukarnoputri helped make her vice president of this country Indonesia
#3595, aired 2000-03-31BIBLICAL DONKEYS $100: Donkey part Samson used to slay a thousand men Jawbone (of an ass)
#3505, aired 1999-11-26THE BIG VALLEY $1000: Only a few of the fumaroles in this state's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes discovered in 1916 are still fuming Alaska
#3394, aired 1999-05-13THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $300: This "thousand-footer" would be popular at a shoe store for invertebrate arthropods Millipede
#3323, aired 1999-02-03C IS FOR... $300: Chaney, an actor known as "The Man of a Thousand" these Faces
#3309, aired 1999-01-14NO PLAIN JANE $600: She's the prize-winning author of "Moo" & "A Thousand Acres" Jane Smiley
#3252, aired 1998-10-27CLOWNING AROUND $500: This "Born Yesterday" star co-wrote the title tune for the 1965 film "A Thousand Clowns" Judy Holliday
#3227, aired 1998-09-22NONFICTION $400: "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" is a classic work on mythology by this author Joseph Campbell
#3205, aired 1998-07-03IT'S SANDY! $500: She won Tonys for her performances in "A Thousand Clowns" & "Any Wednesday" Sandy Dennis
#3164, aired 1998-05-07LIFE $400: Many think that a few hundred thousand years ago, Homo erectus evolved into this taxonomic group Homo sapiens
#3137, aired 1998-03-31ODD WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: An explosion rated a megaton is equal to this many tons of TNT a million
#3135, aired 1998-03-27WINNIE $2,200 (Daily Double): The 5 words that follow the lines spoken here in a June 18, 1940 speech: "If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say..." "this was their finest hour"
#3106, aired 1998-02-16GERTRUDE STEIN SAYS... $500: She said of this city, "There is no there there" Oakland, California
#3078, aired 1998-01-07MYTHOLOGY $200: She had the "face that launched a thousand ships"; sounds painful! Helen of Troy
#3054, aired 1997-12-04TAKING YOUR "Q" $1000: Some of these objects are the size of one solar system, but brighter than a thousand galaxies Quasars
#3016, aired 1997-10-13U.S. CITIES $400: In 1806, 100 years after its founding on the Rio Grande, this New Mexico city had only a few thousand people Albuquerque
#3007, aired 1997-09-30"C" IN HISTORY $200: Plutarch wrote of this queen, "Plato admits four sorts of flattery, but she had a thousand" Cleopatra
#3007, aired 1997-09-30"C" IN HISTORY $600: A civil war known as The War of a Thousand Days broke out in this South American country in 1899 Colombia
#2961, aired 1997-06-16HISTORY $500: "The Thousand" was a novel written by this Italian guerrilla leader based on his 1860 Sicilian expedition Giuseppe Garibaldi
#2756, aired 1996-09-02BODIES OF WATER $200: This South American river has more than a thousand known tributaries the Amazon
#2752, aired 1996-07-16ASTRONOMY $200: Any point on the Earth's equator moves at a thousand miles per hour; any point on this largest planet's, at 22,000 miles per hour Jupiter
#2688, aired 1996-04-17LITERARY WOMEN $1000: She won a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Acres" & in 1995 made the bestseller list with "Moo" (Jane) Smiley
#2634, aired 1996-02-01FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Pierre Aronnax is the narrator of this 1870 Jules Verne tale about a submarine Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#2561, aired 1995-10-23CAKES & PASTRY $300: Mille-feuille is a delicate pastry whose name means this many leaves a thousand
#2535, aired 1995-09-15TWAIN $100: Twain claimed it was easy to give up this habit, saying "I've done it a thousand times" smoking
#2502, aired 1995-06-20POETRY $1,500 (Daily Double): Tennyson had a thousand copies of this poem printed for "the brave soldiers at Sebastopol" "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
#2497, aired 1995-06-13AWARDS $1000: This author has won Pulitzer Prizes for "The Age of Jackson" & "A Thousand Days" (Arthur) Schlesinger (Jr.)
#2413, aired 1995-02-15BUGS $400: A ground-level nest of these "colorful" wasps may hold several thousand of them, so be careful yellowjackets
#2345, aired 1994-11-11U.S. PRESIDENTS $600: "A Thousand Days" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. is an account of his administration (John) Kennedy
#2334, aired 1994-10-27LANGUAGES $2,000 (Daily Double): There are still a few thousand speakers of Welsh in areas of Patagonia in this country Argentina
#2316, aired 1994-10-03THE BIBLE $400: He said, "With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson
#2288, aired 1994-07-13WORLD CAPITALS $400: Tusenfryd, whose name means "a thousand delights", is an amusement park in this Norwegian city Oslo
#2283, aired 1994-07-06BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote an epic 1967 novel called this many "Years of Solitude" One Hundred
#2274, aired 1994-06-23LITERATURE $600: "...Five thousand years agone, there were pilgrims walking to the celestial city" is a line from this work Pilgrim's Progress
#2240, aired 1994-05-06NOTABLE WOMEN $200: Speechwriter Peggy Noonan coined this president's famous phrase "A thousand points of light" Bush
#2230, aired 1994-04-22LANGUAGES $800: The chukchi language is spoken by only a few thousand in the NE part of this Russian region Siberia
#2108, aired 1993-11-03LAND OF ____ $1000: A nickname for Minnesota, or the source of Hamm's beer The Land of Sky Blue Waters
#2035, aired 1993-06-11NICKNAMES $800: "Thespian" nickname of bank robber Willie Sutton, who was known for his disguises "the Actor"
#1987, aired 1993-04-06WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $200: She had "the face that launched a thousand ships" Helen of Troy
#1973, aired 1993-03-17BOOKS & ARTHURS $1000: A special assistant to JFK, this historian later wrote "A Thousand Days" about him (Arthur) Schlesinger (Jr.)
#1946, aired 1993-02-08BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $600: In this final New Testament book, Satan is bound for a thousand years Revelation
#1929, aired 1993-01-14POETRY $400: "The night has a thousand eyes, the day but one...the mind has a thousand eyes, and" this organ "but one" the heart
#1748, aired 1992-03-18MYTHOLOGY $300: The number of Greek ships that went to Troy to get Helen back a thousand
#1733, aired 1992-02-26LITERATURE $200: This Verne novel's submarine was assembled on a desert island but lost off the coast of Norway Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (*the Nautilus)
#1685, aired 1991-12-20JULES VERNE $100: This 1869 novel's 16th chapter is titled "A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#1663, aired 1991-11-20GOULASH $500: In 1966 this Harvard professor won a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Days", his book on JFK's administration (Arthur) Schlesinger (Jr.)
#1662, aired 1991-11-19DESIGN $400: A "millefleurs" pattern doesn't have to depict this many flowers, but that's what its name means a thousand
#1622, aired 1991-09-24WORLD WAR II $1,000 (Daily Double): He wrote "Any Bonds Today?" for the U.S. war bond drive as well as the following: Irving Berlin
#1614, aired 1991-09-12WORLD LITERATURE $200: A scientist who escapes the clutches of Captain Nemo narrates this 1870 tale by Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
#1614, aired 1991-09-12THE BIBLE $400: Samson used this part of an ass to kill a thousand Philistines at Lehi the jawbone
#1614, aired 1991-09-12INDIANA $400: William Henry Harrison & a thousand troops defeated the Shawnee Indians in an 1811 battle near this river the Tippecanoe
#1602, aired 1991-07-16REX HARRISON $500: Rex won a Tony for his 1948 performance in this regal role in "Anne of the Thousand Days" Henry VIII
#1579, aired 1991-06-13BROADWAY LYRICS $400: In "Flower Drum Song", this many miracles "are happening ev'ry day" a hundred million miracles
#1558, aired 1991-05-15ANATOMICAL QUOTES $400: Francis Bourdillon wrote, "The night has a thousand of" these "and the day, but one" Eyes
#1551, aired 1991-05-06CLICHÉS $100: One of these "is worth a thousand words", which is why we have Video Daily Doubles a picture
#1496, aired 1991-02-18THE 1970s $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1976, for the 1st time in a decade, the U.S. issued money in this denomination the $2 bill
#1440, aired 1990-11-30POETS $400: In "Maid's Metamorphosis" John Lilly wrote, "Night hath a thousand" of these eyes
#1392, aired 1990-09-25WEIGHTS & MEASURES $3,000 (Daily Double): The word for this distance is from the Latin for "a thousand paces" a mile
#1391, aired 1990-09-24NUMERICAL PHRASES $200: Per the book's title, Captain Nemo covered a distance of 60,000 miles in this Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#1362, aired 1990-07-03AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days", JFK's story (Arthur) Schlesinger
#1316, aired 1990-04-30SONGS BY THE NUMBERS $100: According to a 1962 Bobby Vee hit, "The night has" this many eyes a thousand
#1213, aired 1989-12-06FAMOUS QUOTES $400: Christopher Marlowe asked of her, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships...?" Helen of Troy
#1123, aired 1989-06-211966 $500: Arthur Schlesinger's history of the Kennedy administration that won a Pulitzer in 1966 A Thousand Days
#1089, aired 1989-05-04"L" WORDS $400: At the '88 GOP convention George Bush spoke of "A thousand points of" this light
#1032, aired 1989-02-14WHAT'S IN A NAME $500: The face of this Greek "light" launched a thousand ships Helen
#1026, aired 1989-02-06GUINNESS ANIMAL RECORDS $300: Some of these arthropods have as many as 750 legs, not a thousand as their name implies a millipede
#1016, aired 1989-01-23SALAD $500: This salad dressing was named for a region shared by New York state & Ontario Thousand Island
#1005, aired 1989-01-061978 $100: When chosen in 1978, he became the 1st Pope in a thousand years whose name was followed by "I" John Paul I
#979, aired 1988-12-01DID YOU NOTICE? $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 American League teams with a mascot but no letters on its caps (1 of) the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays or Baltimore Orioles
#947, aired 1988-10-18FAMOUS QUOTES $300: In "Maides Metamorphosis", 16th century author John Lyly wrote this "hath a thousand eyes" the night
#943, aired 1988-10-12BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Called the "Man of a Thousand Voices", his autobiography is titled "That's Not All, Folks" Mel Blanc
#921, aired 1988-09-12WORDY SONGS $300: "Artistic" 1st line of Bread's hit, "If" If a picture paints a thousand words
#898, aired 1988-06-29"MAN"LY MOVIES $300: Film biography of silent screen star Lon Chaney Man of a Thousand Faces
#870, aired 1988-05-20COMPOSERS $1000: Due to the huge number of performers required, his 8th symphony was dubbed "Symphony of a Thousand" (Gustav) Mahler
#822, aired 1988-03-15CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: His "Symphony of a Thousand", scored for 1,000 musicians, has only 2 movements Gustav Mahler
#815, aired 1988-03-04MUSICAL MILES $500: At the end of this song, Shep & the Limelights said, "I'm not a thousand miles away" "Daddy's Home"
#772, aired 1988-01-05TIME $600: Total, in years, of a millennium, a century, a decade & a year 1,111
#701, aired 1987-09-28CULTS $800: Many American cults are millenarian, which means they are based on this religious prophecy a thousand year reign of Christ when he returns
#668, aired 1987-07-01CANADIAN ACTORS $1000: Born a Montreal bus driver's daughter, she was nominated for an Oscar for "Anne of a Thousand Days" Geneviève Bujold
#660, aired 1987-06-19IN OTHER WORDS... $400: One graphic impression equals 103 groups of sounds with meaning one picture is worth a thousand words
#654, aired 1987-06-11COMPLETE THE QUOTE $100: "Was this the face that launched..." a thousand ships
#618, aired 1987-04-22TECHNOLOGY $200: On a single digit LED readout, number shown when all 7 LEDs are lit 8
#596, aired 1987-03-23FACES $300: It was said her face, rather than a champagne bottle, "launched a thousand ships" Helen of Troy
#567, aired 1987-02-10"SAND" $600: 103 a thousand
#565, aired 1987-02-06TIME $1000: Book on the Kennedy administration that won Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a Pulitzer Prize A Thousand Days
#556, aired 1987-01-26HOLLYWOOD $800: One of the "12 Angry Men", he won an Oscar for "A Thousand Clowns" Martin Balsam
#526, aired 1986-12-15FOOTBALL $1000: With reserves called up for the Berlin crisis, pros had to receive these to receive these in '61 weekend passes
#515, aired 1986-11-28JR. & SR. $200: Little monster Creighton changed his name to this to match his "Dad of a thousand faces" Lon Chaney, Jr.
#489, aired 1986-10-23POETIC QUOTES $300: Marlowe called hers "the face that launched a thousand ships" Helen of Troy
#436, aired 1986-05-12WORD ORIGINS $200 (Daily Double): Dressing made of mayonnaise & catsup or chili sauce is called this, because it orig. contained caviar Russian
#408, aired 1986-04-02DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $100: A thousand years a millennium
#402, aired 1986-03-25MUSICAL NIGHTS $100: For Bobby Vee in 1963. the night had this many eyes a thousand
#386, aired 1986-03-03CONNECTICUT $1,000 (Daily Double): Though much more is grown in N.C. & Ky., it's also Connecticut's leading field crop tobacco
#381, aired 1986-02-24HODGEPODGE $200: A colony of several thousand prairie dogs, or Grover's Corners a town
#306, aired 1985-11-1119TH CENTURY NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): Captain Nemo “dies” in both these Jules Verne novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island
#295, aired 1985-10-25NUMBERS $100: Number of meters in one kilometer a thousand
#285, aired 1985-10-11DEPARTMENT STORES $1,100 (Daily Double): Loaning money to a young auto maker got this Detroit store owner a car named for him J.L. Hudson
#270, aired 1985-09-20NUMBERS IN SONG $100: According to Bobby Vee, the night has this many eyes a thousand
#264, aired 1985-09-12U.S. HISTORY $1000: What Gertrude Stein termed the rootless young Americans who flocked to Eur. after WWI the Lost Generation
#263, aired 1985-09-11THE 1700s $1000: Year the U.S. Congress met for the 1st time under the Constitution 1789
#186, aired 1985-05-277 WONDERS $800: This ancient wonder guided ships for a thousand years before being toppled by an earthquake the Lighthouse at Alexandria
#86, aired 1985-01-07CARDS & DICE $3,200 (Daily Double): Its World Championship is "The Bermuda Bowl" bridge
#67, aired 1984-12-11ALPHABET SOUP $1000: In music, the seventh tone in the diatonic scale of C B (or ti)
#63, aired 1984-12-05MATHEMATICS $800: Total meters in a hectometer 100
#60, aired 1984-11-30HISTORY $1000: Length of time between Napoleon's return from Elba & his final defeat 100 days

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (10 results returned)

#8, aired 2023-05-12FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput
#8866, aired 2023-05-08NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES: This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib A Thousand Splendid Suns
#8782, aired 2023-01-10CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS: In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times Scheherazade
#8760, aired 2022-12-091970s MOVIES: A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience Monty Python and the Holy Grail
#8065, aired 2019-10-04WORLD LITERATURE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700 One Thousand and One Nights
#7621, aired 2017-10-3019th CENTURY LITERATURE: This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for "sailor" & a captain whose name is Latin for "no one" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#5537, aired 2008-10-07EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken Jules Verne
#5391, aired 2008-02-04BRITISH ACTORS: The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor Rex Harrison
#5155, aired 2007-01-26ANIMALS: The world's largest invertebrate, it plays a prominent part in an 1870 French novel & a 1954 film the giant squid
#4138, aired 2002-09-04NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS: Moving several times, the first was originally P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome Madison Square Garden

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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California "He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
Chris Long, a human resources director from Thousand Oaks, California Season 29 player (2013-05-24).
Rebecca Baird, a college history teacher from Thousand Oaks, California Season 30 player (2014-04-11).
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Rich Rosenlof, a sales representative from Sacramento, California Season 18 3-time champion: $80,800 + $2,000. Alex erroneously reported Rich's...
Gregg Luchs, an attorney from Thousand Oaks, California Season 17 player (2001-03-21). Gregg won $50,000 on Who Wants to...
Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia 2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan 2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House "In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina 2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...



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