Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (106 results returned)
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $200: A person who can get out of tight situations is one of these, the name of a 1920s escape artist Houdini |
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $400: 2 feuding families; can be the Montagues & the Capulets or the Hatfields & these McCoys |
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $600: You may be "read" this; England passed the original one back in 1714 to deal with noisy protests the riot act |
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $800: The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip Li'l Abner |
#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $1000: Being in the middle of things puts you at this, the point on the surface above the focus of an earthquake the epicenter |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $400: You're living in grand style if you have the "white" type of this strong-smelling underground fungus on your table truffle |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $800: The 19th century railroad sleeping car named for this man was a symbol of splendor equal to the finest hotel Pullman |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $1200: In 1909 this French jeweler opened a store on Fifth Ave. in New York City & briefly became owner of the Hope Diamond Pierre Cartier |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $2000: From the name of a Greek city home to fabulously wealthy inhabitants, this adjective means devoted to luxury sybaritic |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $4,000 (Daily Double): An ancient city on the Euphrates River known for its magnificence, today it can also mean a place of vice & corruption Babylon |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: Connoting corruption, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" comes from this play Hamlet |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: Man Friday, a devoted helper, originated as a character in this novel Robinson Crusoe |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This author originated "tilting at windmills", meaning fighting imaginary foes Cervantes |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: An idealized object of love, Beatrice was this poet's object of love & guide through paradise in "The Divine Comedy" Dante |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): The contradictory thought that some are more equal than others comes from a slogan in a satire by this man George Orwell |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $400: Someone dubbed a "White Rabbit" or a "10 o'clock scholar" must be chronically this late |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $800: Though never in the Olympics, Atalanta & Pheidippides are both often alluded to because of this quality of theirs swiftness (they were fast) |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $1200: Shadowed by Big Brother in "1984", this oppressive state is equated with totalitarianism Oceania |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $1600: The fabled Flying Dutchman & this novelist's Siddhartha both can be used as allusions for wandering (Hermann) Hesse |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | ALLUSIONS $2000: Like the Phoenix, this wounded "King" of Arthurian myth is associated with resurrection the Fisher King |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The name of this despot staring out from countless posters in "1984" today signifies government control Big Brother |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A 19th century character gives us this word for a penny-pincher scrooge |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1200: To be pulled into a weird, confusing environment is to go "down" this, just like Lewis Carroll's Alice the rabbit hole |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $2000: A community that is a hotbed of sex & drama, like the title town in a novel, film & TV soap opera of the 1950s & '60s Peyton Place |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $11,381 (Daily Double): Meaning extremely large, this adjective comes from the name of Rabelais' giant of a 16th century character gargantuan |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $200: A barbarous, ignorant era between the Roman Empire & medieval times, or any unsophisticated period the Dark Ages |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $400: Any very busy place, or this specific transport center at Park Avenue & 42nd Street Grand Central Station |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $600: Meaning a large amount of people used on a project, it comes from promos for a movie that boasted 125,000 extras a cast of thousands |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $800: Courtesy of Cervantes, to battle imaginary injustices is to tilt at these windmills |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLUSIONS $1000: Phrase for a deadly array, poised for action, also a prison term applied to the lineup of the 1927 Yankees murderers' row |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: The object of a prolonged quest is often referred to as this Christian cup of medieval legend the Holy Grail |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The British call this rainy day accessory a gamp, after a character in Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit" an umbrella |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: To attack imaginary enemies is to "tilt at" these, just like Don Quixote windmills |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: The term lotus-eater, referring to an indolent daydreamer, comes from this epic by Homer The Odyssey |
#6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: A children's story about a girl enamored with her footwear gives us this term for one who is virtuous in a smug manner Goody Two-Shoes |
#5424, aired 2008-03-20 | OPTICAL ALLUSIONS $200: Hope you studied this eye part that, at its maximum contraction in an adult, may be less than 1 mm in diameter the pupil |
#5424, aired 2008-03-20 | OPTICAL ALLUSIONS $400: We have an eye on you--now name the part of the eye highlighted here the iris |
#5424, aired 2008-03-20 | OPTICAL ALLUSIONS $600: Don't detach this, which is next to the choroid & changes light rays into neural signals the retina |
#5424, aired 2008-03-20 | OPTICAL ALLUSIONS $800: Drivers know the point where the optic nerve enters the eye has no rods or cones & goes by this 2-word term the blind spot |
#5424, aired 2008-03-20 | OPTICAL ALLUSIONS $1000: The sclera & this consist of tough tissues that make up the outer layer of the eyeball & give it strength the cornea |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $200: A person who can get out of tight situations is one of these, the name of a '20s escape artist a Houdini |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $400: 2 feuding families can be the Montagues & the Capulets or the Hatfields & these the McCoys |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $600: You may be "read" this; England passed the original one back in 1715 to deal with noisy protests the riot act |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $800: The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip Li'l Abner |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $1000: Being in the middle of things puts you at this, the point on the surface above the focus of an earthquake the epicenter |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: This object from Arthurian & Christian legend has come to mean the object of any difficult quest the Holy Grail |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: A type of nonsexual love is named for this Greek philosopher who discussed it in his "Symposium" platonic (or Plato) |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This term for an idyllic place can be checked out in the James Hilton work "Lost Horizon" Shangri-La |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: Jonathan Swift created Lilliputians; this author created Munchkins (Frank) Baum |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: "The shot heard round the world" was first heard in this man's "Concord Hymn" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
#3593, aired 2000-03-29 | VOCABULARY $600: These implied or indirect literary references are often made to Biblical or classical figures Allusions |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: A person who always looks busy for no apparent reason is compared to this Lewis Carroll rabbit The White Rabbit |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: A glamorized overestimation of oneself is called Bovarism in honor of this fictional heroine Madame Bovary |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: A broken-down old nag is called a Rosinante in honor of this Spanish character's scrawny horse Don Quixote |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A state of depression is called a Slough of Despond after a deep bog in this John Bunyan classic "Pilgrim's Progress" |
#2851, aired 1997-01-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1,100 (Daily Double): The title of the novel "Brave New World" comes from a line spoken by Miranda in this Shakespeare play "The Tempest" |
#2699, aired 1996-05-02 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: It brought Aladdin a genie & became a symbol for something that brings great wealth the lamp |
#2699, aired 1996-05-02 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: A person with unawakened potential may be compared to this heroine who slumbered for 100 years Sleeping Beauty |
#2699, aired 1996-05-02 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $300: When you mention this bird "of happiness", you're referring to a play by Maurice Maeterlinck the blue bird of happiness |
#2699, aired 1996-05-02 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The British call this rainy day accessory a gamp after Sarah Gamp, a Dickens character who carried one an umbrella |
#2699, aired 1996-05-02 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $500: Doublethink, the acceptance of 2 contradictory ideas, comes from this George Orwell novel 1984 |
#2603, aired 1995-12-20 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: The novel "1984" gave us the famous phrase "Big Brother is" doing this watching you |
#2603, aired 1995-12-20 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: Someone with a split personality may be described as this after a fictional medical man & his alter ego Jekyll & Hyde |
#2603, aired 1995-12-20 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: A long-missing man who turns up is called an Enoch Arden after a character created by this lord Tennyson |
#2603, aired 1995-12-20 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A scheming young woman is called a Becky Sharp after the social climbing heroine of this Thackeray novel Vanity Fair |
#2603, aired 1995-12-20 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: The name of Bill Sikes, a criminal in this novel, became a byword for a violent roughneck Oliver Twist |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: To fight imaginary enemies is to "tilt at" these structures, as Don Quixote did windmills |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: This hero of "Les Miserables" became the prototype of a poor man suffering social injustice Jean Valjean |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: The name of this father of Sir Galahad is a byword for romantic chivalry Sir Lancelot |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: A dashing suitor is a Lochinvar, after a hero who steals another's bride in this Scotsman's poem "Marmion" (Sir Walter) Scott |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: The name of this kingdom in "The Prisoner of Zenda" became a synonym for a fanciful, romantic place Ruritania |
#2503, aired 1995-06-21 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: A person who possesses unusual powers of deduction is called this, after a certain Mr. Holmes a Sherlock |
#2503, aired 1995-06-21 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: Narrow-minded people may be called these, after the tiny, petty people in "Gulliver's Travels" Lilliputians |
#2503, aired 1995-06-21 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: In "Pilgrim's Progress", worldly pleasures are sold at this fair, later the title of an 1848 novel Vanity Fair |
#2503, aired 1995-06-21 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: Cynical humor is called pantagruelism in honor of this Frenchman's novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (François) Rabelais |
#2431, aired 1995-03-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: The name of this Washington Irving sleepyhead came to symbolize a person who's out of step with the times Rip Van Winkle |
#2431, aired 1995-03-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: Ali Baba's 2-word command, it signifies something that brings about a desired result, as if by magic open sesame |
#2431, aired 1995-03-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: Uncouth boors have been called Yahoos ever since this 18th century satirist coined the term — think "fast" Jonathan Swift |
#2431, aired 1995-03-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: Someone who teaches crimes to others is called this, after the twisted old gang leader in "Oliver Twist" Fagin |
#2431, aired 1995-03-13 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: The title of O. Henry's book "Cabbages and Kings" comes from Lewis Carroll's poem about this duo the Walrus & the Carpenter |
#2331, aired 1994-10-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: In England a Cinderella dance is a dance party set to end at this time midnight |
#2331, aired 1994-10-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: An eternal optimist is a Micawber, a reference to Mr. Wilkins Micawber in this Dickens novel David Copperfield |
#2331, aired 1994-10-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: The name of this merciless master in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a byword for a brutal boss Simon Legree |
#2331, aired 1994-10-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: Dr. Pangloss in this Voltaire novel inspired the adj. Panglossian, which means extremely optimistic Candide |
#2331, aired 1994-10-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $2,500 (Daily Double): The names of these 2 wicked daughters of King Lear became synonymous with ungrateful children Regan & Goneril |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: Idealistic, compulsive impracticality is called quixotism in honor of this title character Don Quixote |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: Muscular men known for their valor & prowess are likened to this Edgar Rice Burroughs hero Tarzan |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $300: A swain enamored with the pursuit of love is called this, after the amorous young Mr. Montague Romeo |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: An unknown who achieves overnight success is compared to this heroine who wore fragile footwear Cinderella |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $500: Tartuffery, a synonym for hypocritical piety, was inspired by his 17th century play "Tartuffe" Moliere |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: You can refer to a devoted aide as a man this on any day of the week as Crusoe could have told you Friday |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The title of his nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" is synonymous with gibberish (Lewis) Carroll |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This novelist invented the kingdom of Shangri-La, & it became a synonym for utopia James Hilton |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $800: The adjective Shandian describes someone who behaves like this offbeat title character Tristram Shandy |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $1000: A braggart can be called a braggadocio after the name of a character in this poet's "Faerie Queene" Spenser |
#1576, aired 1991-06-10 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: This character mistook windmills for giants, hence the phrase "to tilt at windmills" Don Quixote |
#1576, aired 1991-06-10 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: Thackeray used the phrase "mad as a hatter" before this author popularized it Lewis Carroll |
#1576, aired 1991-06-10 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $300: A children's story about a girl proud of her footwear gave us this synonym for a goody goody goody two shoes |
#1576, aired 1991-06-10 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The title of this 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel comes from John Milton's poem, "Lycidas" Look Homeward, Angel |
#1576, aired 1991-06-10 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $500: The phrase "Ships that pass in the night" is from his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" Longfellow |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $100: A sweetheart is sometimes called a "Dulcinea" after a character in this novel Don Quixote |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $200: The expression "lotus-eater", referring to an indolent daydreamer, comes from this epic by Homer the Odyssey |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $300: "Glad Game" girl whose name has become a synonym for an irritatingly cheerful optimist Pollyanna |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The phrase "grown like Topsy" refers to an impish little girl in this 19th c. novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
#1479, aired 1991-01-24 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $500: The science fiction tale "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" took its title from his poem "Jabberwocky" Lewis Carroll |
#1281, aired 1990-03-12 | PLAYWRIGHTS $200: In 1899 he reinterpreted the story of Caesar & Cleopatra using modern allusions George Bernard Shaw |
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