Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (221 results returned)

#9055, aired 2024-03-08LEFTOVERS $600: Partly from Greek for "horse", it was an oval track for horse & chariot races in ancient Greece the hippodrome
#8999, aired 2023-12-21PHILOSOPHY $2000: Attributed to this mathematician & philosopher of ancient Greece is the observation that "all things are numbers" Pythagoras
#8840, aired 2023-03-31ANCIENT VIPs $2000: One of Plato's 7 wise men of Greece, this statesman who reformed Athens' laws laid the foundations for democracy Solon
#9, aired 2023-01-05SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $200: These were first recorded in Greece in 776 B.C. & Greece led the medal standings with 1 as Coroebus of Elis won the only event the Olympics
#8721, aired 2022-10-17AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $600: "O" is for this unfriendly word; in ancient Greece, it was a way to vote you out of the community ostracize
#8672, aired 2022-06-28ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: The classical age often refers to the time of these 2 ancient Western civilizations Greece & Rome
#8406, aired 2021-05-24NON-ITALIAN ROMAN EMPEROR $800: Maximinus Thrax got his heavy metal name because he was born in this ancient region spanning Greece, Turkey & Bulgaria Thrace
#8348, aired 2021-03-03TOUGH TALK $2000: A tough guy from ancient Greece, or a synonym for spare or frugal Spartan
#8317, aired 2021-01-19ANCIENT MONUMENTS & RUINS $1200: Located on a slope of the Acropolis is one of Greece's oldest theaters, dedicated to this god of wine Dionysus
#8265, aired 2020-10-23HISTORIC OBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): For more than a century, Greece has asked Britain for the return of the Elgin Marbles, mostly taken from this ancient temple the Parthenon
#8256, aired 2020-10-12ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 279 B.C. the Celts attacked this sacred site in Greece on the slope of Mount Parnassus; should have seen that coming the Oracle at Delphi
#8248, aired 2020-09-30THEATER TIME $400: Time to head to ancient Greece for the Sophocles play about this king of Thebes who gets a revelation that Rex his life Oedipus
#8184, aired 2020-03-19THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $400: As in ancient times, the first Modern Olympics, held in this country in 1896, had only male participants Greece
#8173, aired 2020-03-04ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $800: In ancient Greece, an agalma was a work of art dedicated to one of these a god
#8173, aired 2020-03-04ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $1600: From words meaning "city of the dead", it was a large cemetery in ancient Greece Necropolis
#8162, aired 2020-02-18ARCHITECTURE $1000: Renewed interest in the buildings of ancient Rome and Greece shows in this style of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Neoclassical
#8153, aired 2020-02-05ON THE MEDITERRANEAN $1600: The ancient city of Carthage is in this country that borders Algeria & the Mediterranean Tunisia
#8139, aired 2020-01-16COINAGE $400: This country chose the image of an owl from an ancient 4-drachma coin to use on its 1-euro coin Greece
#8134, aired 2020-01-09FROM THE GREEK $800: An absolute ruler; in ancient Greece it was one who seized power illegally a tyrant
#8116, aired 2019-12-16C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1600: Newsflash, 338 B.C.! I'm hearing Philip II, ruler of this land, has taken Greece & I, for one, welcome our new overlord Macedonia
#8115, aired 2019-12-13AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) While Greece is the southernmost country of the Balkan Peninsula, the southernmost part of mainland Greece is this other peninsula where ancient Sparta was located the Peloponnesian
#8065, aired 2019-10-045-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece Doric & Ionic
#8060, aired 2019-09-27SOME STERN WORDS $1200: This word referring to stern discipline comes from a city-state of ancient Greece Spartan
#8001, aired 2019-05-27THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) In ancient Greece, this father of medicine recommended honey as a cure for everything, from thirst & pain to fevers & ulcers Hippocrates
#7952, aired 2019-03-19HATS INCREDIBLE $600: The petasos was a wide-brimmed hat of ancient Greece; the name is also applied to the winged hat of this god Hermes
#7948, aired 2019-03-13ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: This textured plaster used in ancient Greece & Aztec Mexico may not provide much insulation but is a great fire resister stucco
#7809, aired 2018-07-19O'BOY $400: A story from ancient Greece was the basis for Eugene O'Neill's trilogy "Mourning Becomes" her Electra
#7809, aired 2018-07-19WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land Egypt
#7735, aired 2018-04-06ANCIENT STUFF $200: In the 5th century B.C., Xerxes, the king of this empire, invaded Greece & occupied Athens Persia
#7717, aired 2018-03-13POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY $1600: In ancient Greece if you weren't a slave or a woman you could be this, polites a citizen
#7642, aired 2017-11-28PICK A PLANET $200: In ancient Greece it was called Apollo Mercury
#7558, aired 2017-06-21HISTORICAL FICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): "Gates of Fire" is an epic novel of this epic battle of ancient Greece Thermopylae
#7501, aired 2017-04-03TIME SPANS $600: In ancient Greece this was the 4-year span between athletic games the Olympiad
#7477, aired 2017-02-28ANCIENT BATTLES $2000: It was Cor vs. Cor when this most northerly of the Ionian islands took on Corinth in ancient Greece's first naval battle Corfu (or Corcyra)
#7467, aired 2017-02-14STUDYING ABROAD $600: Your time in Greece would of course include a visit to this ancient temple the Parthenon
#7424, aired 2016-12-15ODD WORDS $1000: In ancient Greece a hoplite was one of these a foot soldier (infantryman)
#7289, aired 2016-04-28ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $400: In "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes, women of Greece withhold their favors to force a peace between these 2 cities Athens & Sparta
#7289, aired 2016-04-28ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $1600: The prototypical open-air performance space of ancient Greece is called "the Theater of" this fertility god Dionysus
#7004, aired 2015-02-12A HISTORY LESSON $1600: Athens was the chief city of this ancient district of Greece Attica
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $400: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth Socrates
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $800: Infantrymen carried a 3'-diameter one of these made of wood or stiff leather faced with bronze shield
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $1600: The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C. Peloponnesian War
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $2000: The group will shun you if you don't know this punishment, banishment without losing property ostracism
#6951, aired 2014-12-01ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Olympic Games began in 776 B.C., took a long break & reappeared in 1896 in this country Greece
#6921, aired 2014-10-20THE BALKANS $1200: There was an ancient kingdom of this name; its western part is today a country of the same name bordering Greece Macedonia
#6839, aired 2014-05-15SOUNDS LIKE A NEW ELEMENT! $2000: Post-dinner convivial meeting for drinking & intellectual conversation in ancient Greece symposium
#6606, aired 2013-05-13YOU DID BAD $1,000 (Daily Double): This term for exclusion from a group goes back to temporary banishment in ancient Greece ostracism
#6574, aired 2013-03-28FATHER FIGURES $1000: "The Father of History", this ancient Greek wrote a 9-volume work on the wars between Greece & Persia Herodotus
#6564, aired 2013-03-14SOUNDS LIKE A TECH BRAND $1000: A famous one in ancient Greece bathed in the Castalian Spring before speaking Oracle
#6513, aired 2013-01-02BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $1600: "The most famous mathematician and inventor of Ancient Greece" Archimedes
#6392, aired 2012-06-05MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, & of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates
#6322, aired 2012-02-28WORKS OF ART $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out figures in a painting depicting ancient Greece.) In "The School of Athens", Raphael depicted many of the great thinkers of ancient Greece, including Pythagoras, Socrates, & these two philosophers, teacher & student Plato & Aristotle
#6249, aired 2011-11-17THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $200: Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece the Huns
#6217, aired 2011-10-04ANCIENT GREECE $400: When he sacked Thebes in 335 B.C., he ordered that the house in which Pindar the poet once lived be saved Alexander
#6217, aired 2011-10-04ANCIENT GREECE $800: The Helots were the unfree peasants of this militaristic city-state Sparta
#6217, aired 2011-10-04ANCIENT GREECE $1200: The Odeon of Pericles, one of the first of these to have a permanent roof, had terrible acoustics a theater
#6217, aired 2011-10-04ANCIENT GREECE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Mediterranean region.) Legend says Zeus released two eagles, one from the east, & one the west; they met at the site of this ancient city, then considered the center of the world Delphi
#6217, aired 2011-10-04ANCIENT GREECE $2000: Despite the Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C., this war picked up again & continued for another 11 years the Peloponnesian War
#6117, aired 2011-03-29ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $400: "Helvetia" is still inscribed on this mountainous country's currency & stamps Switzerland
#6111, aired 2011-03-21AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $600: Breaking news 479 B.C.: Greece has beaten the remaining forces of this Xerxes-led empire! Let's party! the Persian Empire
#5960, aired 2010-07-09THOUGHT FOR FOOD $1600: A New Jersey diner sold a 50-pound burger named for this home of ancient Greece's gods Olympus
#5949, aired 2010-06-24ANCIENT TIMES $600: In ancient Greece they came in 3 architectural styles & were made of stone drums stacked & joined with pegs columns
#5900, aired 2010-04-16THE SHIELD $1000: Hoplites, ancient warriors of Thebes & other parts of this land, got their name from a shield called the hoplon Greece
#5897, aired 2010-04-13"MY" BABY $2000: Agamemnon was from this region that was an important center in ancient Greece Mycenae
#5585, aired 2008-12-12GREECE IS THE WORD $600: This ancient capital of Laconia, fabled for its military, was at one time the most powerful ancient Greek city-state Sparta
#5474, aired 2008-05-29ARCHITECTURE $400: To us it's the space at the top of a house; in Ancient Greece it was an architectural order named for Athens' region an attic
#5140, aired 2007-01-05GREECE $1600: Home to the ancient ruined Minoan palace of Knossos, it's Greece's largest island Crete
#5088, aired 2006-10-25"OCK"-TOBER $800: Poisonous herb of the parsley family that was used in executions in Ancient Greece hemlock
#5074, aired 2006-10-05"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $400: This ancient city is the capital of Greece Athens
#5043, aired 2006-07-12ANCIENT GREECE $400: Thucydides, though from this city, tried to be fair to Sparta in narrating the Peloponnesian War Athens
#5043, aired 2006-07-12ANCIENT GREECE $800: Theophrastus followed this man's teachings in physics & metaphysics & followed him as the Lyceum's head Aristotle
#5043, aired 2006-07-12ANCIENT GREECE $1200: The most economically important tree, a branch from it symbolized the birth of a boy an olive
#5043, aired 2006-07-12ANCIENT GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): The modern men's discus weighs 4.4 pounds; the ones found at this site in Greece's Elis Valley weighed up to 9 pounds Olympia
#5043, aired 2006-07-12ANCIENT GREECE $2000: The name of this wise lawgiver of around 600 B.C. has come to mean any legislator Solon
#5027, aired 2006-06-20ANCIENT TIMES $1000: The Epigoni were the sons of the "7 against" this city who later succeeded where their dads had failed Thebes
#4951, aired 2006-03-06ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the ruins of the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) The ancient Greek special effect of a deity lowered from a crane was called this, meaning "god from the machine" deus ex machina
#4881, aired 2005-11-28SET UP THE "PIN"S $2000: The chief lyric poet of Ancient Greece, he's famous for his triumphal odes Pindar
#4877, aired 2005-11-22ALSO A STATE CAPITAL $2000: Plain where games were played in ancient Greece Olympia
#4817, aired 2005-07-12I'M FEELING CONFLICTED $6,000 (Daily Double): 431-404 B.C.: In ancient Greece the Peloponnesian War
#4798, aired 2005-06-15GIMME MY HUNCHBACK $1200: The 2003 musical "The Fabulist" tells the tale of this hunchbacked slave of Ancient Greece who told tales of his own Aesop
#4782, aired 2005-05-24ISTHMUS IN MAY $2000: This ancient city commanded the SW end of the isthmus between the Peloponnesus & the rest of Greece Corinth
#4776, aired 2005-05-16OLIVE ME $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew wanders through an ancient olive pressery on Naxos, Greece.) Cold-pressed olive oil is naturally low in this, & is classified by its ascending level of it acid
#4763, aired 2005-04-27LITERARY GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Greece: "I'm at the Temple of Demeter on Naxos.") In the "Works and Days", this ancient poet wrote of the importance of praying to Demeter if you want crops to flourish Hesiod
#4730, aired 2005-03-11ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) More than 2,000 years after this Aristophanes comedy debuted here in Athens, A musical version hopped onto Broadway The Frogs
#4730, aired 2005-03-11ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) When this man introduced his play "Medea" in a contest held here at the Theater of Dionysus in 431 B.C., he came in last Euripides
#4730, aired 2005-03-11ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) Legend tells us that here on stage at the Theater of Dionysus, this man became known as the world's first actor Thespis
#4728, aired 2005-03-09ANCIENT STRUCTURES $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Athens, Greece, overlooking the Acropolis.) This great Athenian leader launched construction on the Acropolis, partly to boost employment Pericles
#4728, aired 2005-03-09ANCIENT STRUCTURES $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports alongside ruins on Naxos, Greece.) On Naxos, archaelogists have restored the temple dedicated to this Greek goddess of agriculture Demeter
#4652, aired 2004-11-23GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.) Built in the 400s B.C., the temple of Athena, known as the Parthenon, is the greatest example of this ancient architectural style doric
#4581, aired 2004-07-05THE GOD SQUAD $800: A son of either Hermes or Dionysus, Priapus was a fertility god of this civilization Ancient Greece
#4259, aired 2003-02-20ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 5th century B.C. this building in Athens replaced the Temple of Zeus at Olympia as the largest building in Greece the Parthenon
#4259, aired 2003-02-20ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $2000: Even back in Ancient Greece the entertainment industry loved franchises; in 418 B.C. he wrote "Clouds II" Aristophanes
#4211, aired 2002-12-16POETRY $600: The works of ancient Greece's Pindar include this type of poem in praise of victories in the Olympic Games ode
#4082, aired 2002-05-07GREECE $800: Baron de Coubertin's heart is buried in this city, home to the ancient version of the modern games he founded Olympia
#4017, aired 2002-02-05STUFF THAT HAPPENED $2000: Ancient areas with legal codes include Greece with Draco's & this land with Hammurabi's Babylon
#3963, aired 2001-11-21GREECE $500: The excavated ancient palace of Knossos can be seen when visiting this large Greek island Crete
#3911, aired 2001-09-10EXPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In ancient times, the most famous export of the Phoenician town of Byblos to Greece was this material papyrus
#3835, aired 2001-04-134 SCORE $1,200 (Daily Double): The 4 chief ones in ancient Greece were Aeolus' children Eurus, Notus, Zephyrus & Boreas Winds
#3799, aired 2001-02-22"T"HEATER $200: This synonym for "actor" is taken from the name of a real actor of ancient Greece thespian (from Thespis)
#3748, aired 2000-12-13ARISTOTLE SAYS... $800: "The basis of" this type of state, which began in ancient Greece, "is liberty" Democracy
#3707, aired 2000-10-17WOMEN'S RITES $400: In ancient Greece wild times were had by maenads, devotees of this wine god Dionysus
#3700, aired 2000-10-06A COUNTRY IN EUROPE $200: Most ruins of the civilizations of the ancient Spartans & Athenians can be found in this European nation Greece
#3670, aired 2000-07-14ANCIENT GREECE $100: Aristotle's prescription for women in this condition was to avoid too much salt & wine pregnant
#3670, aired 2000-07-14ANCIENT GREECE $200: It was the standard wear for the men & boys exercising in the gymnasium nudity
#3670, aired 2000-07-14ANCIENT GREECE $300: Originally 6 obols equaled one of these coins a drachma
#3670, aired 2000-07-14ANCIENT GREECE $400: In ancient Greece this oil was used as a food, fuel, lubricant & in place of soap olive oil
#3670, aired 2000-07-14ANCIENT GREECE $500: In 548 B.C. the Temple of Apollo burned down in this oracular city, sponsor of the Pythian Games Delphi
#3641, aired 2000-06-05TO THE NINES $1000: These 9 goddesses of ancient Greece were sometimes called the Pierides like their home in the Pieria Muses
#3474, aired 1999-10-14ANCIENT GREECE $200: Among the Greek city-states, it was the only one that had a standing army Sparta
#3474, aired 1999-10-14ANCIENT GREECE $400: In 490 B.C. Pheidippides ran the 25 miles from this battle site to Athens with news of victory over the Persians Marathon
#3474, aired 1999-10-14ANCIENT GREECE $600: This seat of the most celebrated oracle of ancient Greece was considered the center of the universe Delphi
#3474, aired 1999-10-14ANCIENT GREECE $800: In 594 B.C. this Athenian statesman drew up a code of law Solon
#3474, aired 1999-10-14ANCIENT GREECE $1000: The name of this ancient mountain pass on Greece's east coast means "hot gates" Thermopylae
#3304, aired 1999-01-07TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: If you're in this country in the summer, you can see ancient plays performed at the theater of Epidaurus Greece
#3258, aired 1998-11-04ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks were using rods as money until they appropriated the idea of these from the Lydians coins
#3258, aired 1998-11-04ANCIENT GREECE $200: Xanthippe's husband, he had his own "method" of asking questions Socrates
#3258, aired 1998-11-04ANCIENT GREECE $300: Hesiod said this group of nine goddesses met him on Mt. Helicon & breathed the gift of song into him the muses
#3258, aired 1998-11-04ANCIENT GREECE $400: These federations included Achaean, Delian & Amphictyonic--no National or American leagues
#3258, aired 1998-11-04ANCIENT GREECE $500: A Hoplite was a soldier named for his hoplon, one of these that was round, heavy & made of wood & bronze a shield
#3167, aired 1998-05-12OH, THE HUMANITIES! $200: The humanities' origins include this ancient civilization's training of boys for citizenship in the polis Greece
#3074, aired 1998-01-01ANCIENT GREECE $200: The cynics revered this hero whose 12 labors were an example of a moral victory & self-liberation Hercules
#3074, aired 1998-01-01ANCIENT GREECE $400: Spartan leader Lysander defeated this rival Greek city & established the government of the thirty tyrants over it Athens
#3074, aired 1998-01-01ANCIENT GREECE $800: In the 1870s the first monument archaeologists dug out at this site was the Temple of Zeus Olympia
#3074, aired 1998-01-01ANCIENT GREECE $1000: Archimedes was from this Sicilian city, in his time the greatest Greek city in the west Syracuse
#3074, aired 1998-01-01ANCIENT GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): Protagoras is famous for the quote this "is the measure of all things" man
#3061, aired 1997-12-15SCRIBES $200: Scribes in ancient Greece were usually educated members of this servile group Slaves
#2990, aired 1997-09-05"PARA"GRAPHS $400: A professional dinner guest in ancient Greece, or a tick Parasite
#2906, aired 1997-03-31ANCIENT GREECE $100: Heraclitus believed that this, not earth, air, or water, was the primordial source of matter Fire
#2906, aired 1997-03-31ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury of 500 men on a vote of 280 to 220 Socrates
#2906, aired 1997-03-31ANCIENT GREECE $300: At about 1,000 square miles, twice as big as L.A., it was the largest city-state of ancient Greece Athens
#2906, aired 1997-03-31ANCIENT GREECE $400: The stadium for the Pythian Games was located on Mt. Parnassus, near this oracle site Delphi
#2906, aired 1997-03-31ANCIENT GREECE $500: Aritstophanes' first 10 plays were produced during this war Peloponnesian War
#2894, aired 1997-03-13REVERSE-A-WORD $400: In ancient Greece seeing this god was a sight for sore lovers' eyes Eros (sore)
#2880, aired 1997-02-21ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 146 B.C. what's now Greece was conquered by this western Mediterranean power Rome
#2880, aired 1997-02-21ANCIENT GREECE $400: Around 430 this large temple on the Acropolis was converted into a Christian church Parthenon
#2880, aired 1997-02-21ANCIENT GREECE $600: This city-state's men were required to eat in the soldiers' barracks until age 60 Sparta
#2880, aired 1997-02-21ANCIENT GREECE $800: This civilization flourished on Crete beginning around 1900 B.C. Minoan
#2880, aired 1997-02-21ANCIENT GREECE $1000: This plain northeast of Athens was the site of the Athenians' victory over the Persian army in 490 B.C. Marathon
#2820, aired 1996-11-29ISLANDS $200: Delos, the smallest of this country's Cyclades Islands, was a shrine to Apollo in ancient times Greece
#2724, aired 1996-06-06HOMOPHONES $1000: A bowl used in ancient Greece for mixing wine, or a bowl-shaped depression on the moon krater / crater
#2563, aired 1995-10-25ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 373 B.C. an earthquake destroyed the temple of Apollo at this site famous for its Oracle Delphi
#2563, aired 1995-10-25ANCIENT GREECE $400: This warlike city-state conquered Messenia in the 8th century B.C. Sparta
#2563, aired 1995-10-25ANCIENT GREECE $600: In the comedies of Aristophanes, this dramatic group had 24 members the chorus
#2563, aired 1995-10-25ANCIENT GREECE $800: The largest land battle of this war took place during the 6-year Peace of Nicias the Peloponnesian War
#2563, aired 1995-10-25ANCIENT GREECE $1000: This greatest Greek orator was already 30 when he made his first major speech before the Assembly Demosthenes
#2560, aired 1995-10-20TRANSPORTATION $100: In ancient Greece, these vehicles were used for Olympic racing chariots
#2501, aired 1995-06-19WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: In ancient Greece this measurement was equal to 2 spans or 6 palms cubit
#2409, aired 1995-02-09ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In Periclean Greece, Athens was the leading power at sea & this city-state, the strongest on land Sparta
#2373, aired 1994-12-21WORLD THEATRE $400: What we know about phylakes -- improvised plays from this ancient civilization -- comes from vase paintings Greece
#2172, aired 1994-02-01THE "I"s HAVE IT $500: A dialect spoken in ancient Greece, or an order of classical architecture Ionic
#2167, aired 1994-01-25ANCIENT HISTORY $200: There were 2 ancient cities of Thebes. 1 in Greece & 1 here Egypt
#2129, aired 1993-12-02ANCIENT ATHENIANS $3,000 (Daily Double): This man whose law code replaced Draco's was called one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece Solon
#2116, aired 1993-11-15MONEY $400: In ancient Greece, it took 6 obols to equal one of these Drachma
#2099, aired 1993-10-21ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This Macedonian king conquered Greece by winning the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. Philip
#2028, aired 1993-06-02ART $600: This substance is melted & used as a binder for encaustic painting, which was popular in ancient Greece wax
#1977, aired 1993-03-23FASHION HISTORY $500: A rectangular mantle called a himation was fashionable in this ancient civilization Greece
#1889, aired 1992-11-19THEATRE $200: The great "Dionysia" was this ancient civilization's most important drama festival Greece
#1754, aired 1992-03-26VOCABULARY $400: A natural or acquired ability or a unit of weight & money, used in ancient Greece talent
#1672, aired 1991-12-03ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks first used black & white pebbles to make these floor designs; tile came later mosaics
#1672, aired 1991-12-03ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Odeon of Pericles was the first roofed one of these designed for its acoustics a theater
#1672, aired 1991-12-03ANCIENT GREECE $300: The Greek "alpha" & "beta" came from their "aleph" & "beth" the Hebrew alphabet
#1672, aired 1991-12-03ANCIENT GREECE $400: In the "Apology" Plato had him defending himself on charges of corrupting the youth Socrates
#1672, aired 1991-12-03ANCIENT GREECE $900 (Daily Double): Hipparchus used this form of math to work out the distances between the Sun, Moon & Earth trigonometry
#1655, aired 1991-11-08PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: The ancient Roman playwright Terence based all his comedies on plays from this country Greece
#1624, aired 1991-09-26ANCIENT GREECE $200: In the 5th C. BC Athens headed the Delian & this militaristic city, the Peloponnesian League Sparta
#1624, aired 1991-09-26ANCIENT GREECE $400: When the Roman Empire split in two in 395 A.D., Greece remained in the half called this Byzantium
#1624, aired 1991-09-26ANCIENT GREECE $600: Mathematician & philosopher who discovered the intervals in an octave & probably played a mean triangle Pythagoras
#1624, aired 1991-09-26ANCIENT GREECE $800: The possession of Amazon Queen Hippolyta that is captured by Hercules her girdle
#1624, aired 1991-09-26ANCIENT GREECE $1000: In the 4th century BC it was thought if this creature of Asklepios licked your eyes it might cure blindness a snake
#1616, aired 1991-09-16CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: In ancient Greece, lyric poetry was usually sung to the accompaniment of this stringed instrument a lyre
#1576, aired 1991-06-10BIRDS $400: In ancient Greece, this bird was associated with Athena, the goddess of wisdom the owl
#1550, aired 1991-05-03INTERIOR DESIGN $800: The Regency & Empire Styles revived the use of the Klismos, a typical chair of this ancient civilization Greece
#1547, aired 1991-04-30DESIGN $400: This stringed instrument of ancient Greece was a popular decorative motif during the Empire period lyre
#1525, aired 1991-03-29ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Hellenistic period in Ancient Greek art began with his conquests Alexander the Great
#1525, aired 1991-03-29ANCIENT GREECE $400: The serfs of this warlike city-state were called Helots Sparta
#1525, aired 1991-03-29ANCIENT GREECE $600: This unit of currency was first worth 6 iron cooking spits the drachma
#1525, aired 1991-03-29ANCIENT GREECE $800: Greek literature is said to have begun with this poet Homer
#1525, aired 1991-03-29ANCIENT GREECE $1,200 (Daily Double): The Greeks defended this pass, whose name means "hot gates", against the Celts as well as the Persians Thermopylae
#1430, aired 1990-11-16HISTORY $800: In ancient Greece, Athens had its Delian League of city-states while Sparta had this league the Peloponnesian League
#13, aired 1990-09-08THEATER HISTORY $1000: In Ancient Greece plays about these goat-legged men were performed after a trilogy of tragedies satyrs
#1363, aired 1990-07-04ANCIENT GREECE $200: Both the Olympics & the Nemean Games were held in his honor Zeus
#1363, aired 1990-07-04ANCIENT GREECE $400: The Anchor Atlas of World History calls these 2 epics "the primer of Greek youth" The Iliad and The Odyssey
#1363, aired 1990-07-04ANCIENT GREECE $600: It's said he wandered around Athens during the day with a lamp looking for an honest man Diogenes
#1363, aired 1990-07-04ANCIENT GREECE $800: Found around 900 B.C., it became a military state some 300 years later Sparta
#1363, aired 1990-07-04ANCIENT GREECE $1000: The Greeks didn't call themselves Greeks but these Hellenes
#2, aired 1990-06-239-LETTER WORDS $1000: In ancient Greece, a politician who championed the masses; now it's one who plays on people's emotions demagogue
#1355, aired 1990-06-22ANCIENT HISTORY $600: The Romans called this country Helvetia & established garrisons & colonies at Nyon, Augst & Avenches Switzerland
#1353, aired 1990-06-20FASHION $200: In ancient times the women of this country wore the peplos, a tunic secured at the waist by a girdle Greece
#1255, aired 1990-02-02ANCIENT GREECE $100: Carrying news of a Greek victory, Pheidippides ran from this plain to Athens, about 23 miles Marathon
#1255, aired 1990-02-02ANCIENT GREECE $200: When he conquered Thebes, he destroyed every house but the one the poet Pindar had lived in Alexander the Great
#1255, aired 1990-02-02ANCIENT GREECE $300: The Greeks considered this site of the oracles the "Omphalus" or navel of the world Delphi
#1255, aired 1990-02-02ANCIENT GREECE $400: It's very likely that Sophocles & Socrates attended the dedication of this temple in 438 B.C. the Parthenon (the Temple of Athena)
#1255, aired 1990-02-02ANCIENT GREECE $500: According to Collier's Ency., in the 7th cent. this city-state won most of the recorded Olympic victories Sparta
#1192, aired 1989-11-07ANCIENT HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): 2 famous cities, one in Greece, the other a capital of ancient Egypt, were both named this Thebes
#1189, aired 1989-11-02GREECE $200: Ancient Greeks believed this mountain, Greece's highest point, was the home of the gods Olympus
#1189, aired 1989-11-02DANCE $400: Considered an innovator of modern dance, she revived the dancing barefoot style of ancient Greece Isadora Duncan
#1185, aired 1989-10-27PLAYWRIGHTS $400: A freed slave named Terence was one of the greatest comic playwrights of this ancient civilization Rome
#1020, aired 1989-01-27BIRDS $300: Associated with love as far back as ancient Greece it has since become a symbol of peace dove
#977, aired 1988-11-29THE OLYMPICS $500: This took place on Aug. 23, 1988 at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece the lighting of the Olympic torch
#955, aired 1988-10-28POTENT POTABLES $100: Invented in ancient Greece, the wine press was more productive than this time-honored method stomping by the feet
#899, aired 1988-06-30FASHION HISTORY $200: In ancient times this country popularized a loose, flowing tunic called the "chiton" Greece
#649, aired 1987-06-04WORD ORIGINS $500: A pandering politician, though in ancient Greece this person championed the common people demagogue
#598, aired 1987-03-25ANCIENT WORLDS $400: 1st civilization to use concrete widely as a building material, including the Pantheon dome (the) Roman(s)
#431, aired 1986-05-05THEATER $200: Ancient Mediterranean civilization where most theater performers were slaves Rome
#413, aired 1986-04-09THE OLYMPICS $200: In Ancient Greece, the penalty if they were caught watching the games was being pushed off a cliff women
#365, aired 1986-01-31ANCIENT HISTORY $400: "I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world," said this philosopher Socrates
#365, aired 1986-01-31ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: About 600 B.C., it became the most sacred shrine in Greece temple at Delphi
#307, aired 1985-11-12HERBS & SPICES $100: “Aroma” was the word for spices in this ancient civilization Greek (Greece)
#303, aired 1985-11-06PLANTS $1000: This very expensive spice produces a yellow dye which was once the royal color of ancient Greece saffron
#276, aired 1985-09-30ANCIENT TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Along with Argos & Thebes, they made up the 4 earliest city-states of ancient Greece Athens and Sparta
#270, aired 1985-09-20ASTRONOMY $400: Since ancient Greece, their brightness has been measured in magnitude stars
#185, aired 1985-05-24ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Zoroastrianism was the religion of this ancient empire the Persian Empire
#115, aired 1985-02-15ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Homer's homeland Greece
#105, aired 1985-02-01ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Winner of the Peloponnesian war Sparta
#101, aired 1985-01-28GREECE $100: Central hill of ancient Athens, it survived many wars but is now endangered by smog the Acropolis
#58, aired 1984-11-28ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Greeks' word for world or Sagan's word for universe cosmos
#58, aired 1984-11-28ANCIENT GREECE $400: "Amazing" home of the Minotaur the Maze (or the Labyrinth)
#58, aired 1984-11-28ANCIENT GREECE $600: City-state ruled by Pericles Athens
#58, aired 1984-11-28ANCIENT GREECE $800: The name of poetry with a lyre accompaniment lyric poetry
#58, aired 1984-11-28ANCIENT GREECE $1000: Founder of "Lyceum", his students walked with him as he taught Aristotle

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (6 results returned)

#8032, aired 2019-07-09ANCIENT TIMES: In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C. Leonidas
#4995, aired 2006-05-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant
#4957, aired 2006-03-14WORD ORIGINS: The word "toxic" comes from the ancient Greek for this weapon an arrow
#4906, aired 2006-01-02ANCIENT BIOGRAPHERS: Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures Plutarch
#3185, aired 1998-06-05ANCIENT GREECE: The Greeks had 4 national festivals: the Nemean Games, the Pythian Games, the Isthmian Games & these the Olympic Games
#1252, aired 1990-01-30EUROPE: 2 of the 3 countries which today share the region of ancient Macedonia (2 of) Bulgaria, Greece & Yugoslavia

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