Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (47 results returned)

#9017, aired 2024-01-16WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Ancient geoglyphs of animals & figures, known by this name, were etched into the arid Pampa Colorada Plain of Peru more than 2,000 years ago the Nazca Lines
#23, aired 2024-01-02GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $1000: "As" + a Middle Eastern country = this ancient empire Assyria
#8926, aired 2023-09-11GREEK GEOGRAPHY $800: Thessaloniki is the capital city of Central this region, also the name of Philip II's ancient kingdom Macedonia
#8926, aired 2023-09-11GREEK GEOGRAPHY $2,600 (Daily Double): The setting of plays like "Oedipus" & "Antigone", this Greek city shares its name with a capital city of Ancient Egypt Thebes
#8900, aired 2023-06-23SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2000: This temple complex on the right bank of the Nile occupies part of the site of the ruins of ancient Thebes Karnak
#8815, aired 2023-02-24WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ancient Mesopotamia was the land "between rivers", these 2 to be exact the Tigris & the Euphrates
#8766, aired 2022-12-192, 3 OR 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ancient Mesopotamian city of 3500 B.C., in ruins today & known as Tell el-Muqayyar Ur
#8271, aired 2020-11-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: In ancient times this capital of Jordan was one of several settlements called Philadelphia Amman
#8204, aired 2020-04-16FRENCH GEOGRAPHY $2,400 (Daily Double): Rich in fossils, these 4-letter mountains shared with Switzerland gave their name to an ancient dino-heavy period the Jura Mountains
#8181, aired 2020-03-16NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The ancient capital of the legendary Tangun Dynasty that founded the Korean state; today it's a city of over 3 million Pyongyang
#8001, aired 2019-05-27POETIC GEOGRAPHY $1600: In "Sailing to" this ancient city today known as Istanbul, Yeats sought the comfort of past ages Byzantium
#7742, aired 2018-04-17HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $4,000 (Daily Double): The site of a temple to Apollo & an ancient oracle, this city was located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus Delphi
#7543, aired 2017-05-31JAPANESE GEOGRAPHY $1200: "Ku" is Japanese for 9; in ancient times, this island had 9 provinces--today, it has 7 prefectures Kyushu
#7130, aired 2015-09-18AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Dating back to the 700s B.C., the ruins of this ancient city can be found outside Tunis Carthage
#6147, aired 2011-05-10HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Stretching from the Taurus Mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, with its heart between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, is this ancient region, home to the world's first cities Mesopotamia
#6038, aired 2010-12-08EGYPTIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Home to an ancient wonder, it's Egypt's third-most populous city Giza
#5074, aired 2006-10-05"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $400: This ancient city is the capital of Greece Athens
#4827, aired 2005-09-13MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY $600: The name of this North African city means "three cities" & refers to the ancient cities of Oea, Sabrata & Leptis Major Tripoli
#4744, aired 2005-03-31U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The Salt Lake Valley was once a part of the basin of this ancient lake Lake Bonneville
#4456, aired 2004-01-12WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: In ancient times this city in Campania was called Neapolis Naples
#3792, aired 2001-02-13WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: In ancient times, this "mother" river of Russia was known as the Rha Volga
#3059, aired 1997-12-11SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $300: The area between the Uruguay & Parana Rivers, or the ancient region between the Tigris & Euphrates Mesopotamia
#2834, aired 1996-12-19WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan "King River" Indus
#2650, aired 1996-02-23BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: The modern term for this area on the east coast of the Mediterranean is from the ancient "Land of the Philistines" Palestine
#2649, aired 1996-02-22CARTOGRAPHY $600: This ancient Alexandrian's "Geography" was used by Renaissance mapmakers Ptolemy
#2600, aired 1995-12-15GEOGRAPHY $800: The ancient Babylonians lived in Mesopotamia. most of which now lies in this country Iraq
#2553, aired 1995-10-11WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Calpe was the ancient name for this rocky promontory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula Gibraltar
#2412, aired 1995-02-14WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: In ancient times, this Italian river was known as the Eridanus & the Padus the Po
#2193, aired 1994-03-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Just as its ancient Middle Eastern namesake lay between 2 rivers, so does this subregion of north Argentina Mesopotamia
#1849, aired 1992-09-24WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Jubayl, Lebanon is the site of this ancient city whose name gave us the word Bible Byblos
#1788, aired 1992-05-13WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The ancient land of Nubia was located mostly in what is now this country, not far from Khartoum Sudan
#1768, aired 1992-04-15U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: This largest Utah lake is a remnant of the ancient freshwater Lake Bonneville the Great Salt Lake
#1665, aired 1991-11-22WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: The ancient name of this Italian industrial city was Mediolanum Milan
#1416, aired 1990-10-29WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: Geographers still use this ancient name for the peninsula occupied by Spain & Portugal Iberia
#1270, aired 1990-02-23"B" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: The name of this great ancient city can be applied to any wicked & wealthy place Babylon
#1196, aired 1989-11-13ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY $200: Carthage has almost been destroyed; you can find what's left of it in a suburb of this Tunisian capital Tunis
#1196, aired 1989-11-13ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY $400: Cuzco, capital of the Incan empire, is still the capital of Cuzco province in this country Peru
#1196, aired 1989-11-13ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY $600: If you wanted to hang around at the site of Babylon's famous gardens, you'd now have to go to this country Iraq
#1196, aired 1989-11-13ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY $800: The Pale & what was beyond it referred to the medieval dominions of England in this country Ireland
#1196, aired 1989-11-13ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Alexander the Great led his troops as far east as the Hyphasis, now the Beas, river in this country India
#1102, aired 1989-05-23WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Ancient Egyptians never lived in this city near the Nile delta; Moslems founded it in 969 A.D. Cairo
#1084, aired 1989-04-27WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The ancient Mayan city of Uxmal is on this Mexican peninsula Yucatan
#1030, aired 1989-02-10GEOGRAPHY $1000: Alphabetically last of all the countries in the world, it was named for an ancient stone city Zimbabwe
#992, aired 1988-12-20WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: The whirlpool off Messina, Sicily, now called Galofalo, was known as this in ancient times Charybdis
#968, aired 1988-11-16"C" IN GEOGRAPHY $600: Ancient village in Mexico known for the temples and pyramids the Mayans made of brick and stone Chichen Itza
#737, aired 1987-11-17GEOGRAPHY $400: This Yugoslavian republic covers part of and shares its name with Alexander the Great's ancient home Macedonia
#61, aired 1984-12-03WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Africa's northernmost country, it was once site of ancient Carthaginian empire Tunisia

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#8964, aired 2023-11-02ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea the North Sea

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