Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (10 results returned)

#3262, aired 1998-11-10ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS $200: In Sanskrit this speedy animal's name was chitraka, meaning "speckled" the cheetah
#3262, aired 1998-11-10ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS $400: Discovered & decimated in less than 200 years, its name is from the Portuguese for "foolish" Dodo
#3262, aired 1998-11-10ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS $800: The story goes Capt. Cook asked what that animal was & a local replied this, meaning "Don't understand" Kangaroo
#3262, aired 1998-11-10ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS $1000: This name for the spiny anteater is from the Greek for "viper"; it has a venom system Echidna
#3262, aired 1998-11-10ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS $1,200 (Daily Double): These colorful beetles were named in honor of the Virgin Mary ladybugs
#3224, aired 1998-09-17WORD ORIGINS $800: The name of this prehistoric reptile, the largest known flying animal, means "wing finger" Pterodactyl
#2952, aired 1997-06-03WORD ORIGINS $200: The name of this wild horse is from the Spanish word for a stray animal, "mesteno" mustang
#1174, aired 1989-10-12WORD ORIGINS $600: An unusually large person, animal or thing, from the name of the elephant exhibited by P.T. Barnum Jumbo
#978, aired 1988-11-30WORD ORIGINS $200: 1st animal alphabetically, its Afrikaans name comes from Dutch for "earth" & "little pig" aardvark
#6, aired 1984-09-17WORD ORIGINS $400: This Australian animal's name literally means "I don't know" kangaroo

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