Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (86 results returned)

#8992, aired 2023-12-12SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y $400: A minor argument; I'm sorry, honey a tiff
#8982, aired 2023-11-28A CAPITAL IDEA? $400: Her father Francis says at about age 3 she heard him in a long argument & said, "Cut" Sofia Coppola
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FROM "B" TO "F" $800: It can describe an argument without flaws & beyond criticism, or a vehicle impervious to gunfire bulletproof
#8930, aired 2023-09-15FROM "B" TO "F" $1200: It can mean an argument or conflict; Steven Yeun & Ali Wong get into one in a Netflix series a beef
#4, aired 2023-05-09YOU SPEAK LATIN, RIGHT? $800: This type of argument is directed against a person, not the facts in dispute ad hominem
#2, aired 2023-05-08SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $2000: Sounding like a word from taxonomy, this word describes an argument that looks true on the surface, but isn't specious
#8850, aired 2023-04-14YOU LOSE $1000: This Mets manager, Ol' Casey, lost an argument on Marv Throneberry not touching 1st during a triple; turns out Marv missed 2nd too (Casey) Stengel
#8847, aired 2023-04-11ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $1000: To reinforce a viewpoint, idiomatically as in "you need to" this structural support "your argument with hard facts" buttress
#8814, aired 2023-02-23POST-GRADUATION $200: Idiomatically, you do this "at straws" in making a feeble argument grasp
#8686, aired 2022-07-18"THE" END $600: To fancy up an argument with big words, or to array with garments to clothe
#8607, aired 2022-03-29IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $2000: From a 2013 Supreme Court argument--Justice: You want us to create a gray area; Professor: The opposite, I'm asking you to draw this draw a bright line
#8602, aired 2022-03-221860s AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): In the House in 1868, radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens began the closing argument against this man Andrew Johnson
#8594, aired 2022-03-10GOOD FOR THE STEW $400: An ongoing argument, as in "I've got a ____ with you" beef
#10, aired 2022-02-1510-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective for a defective argument begins with one of the 4 seasons fallacious
#3, aired 2022-02-09A FEW FINAL WORDS $1200: 9-letter word for an attorney's closing argument to a jury to get their point across summation
#8415, aired 2021-06-04AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: An argument with her mother over money matters inspired this jazz great's lyrics to "God Bless The Child" Billie Holiday
#8402, aired 2021-05-18I'M ON A BOAT! $600: You're in a big argument with someone when you're "at" these, also posts found on 19th century whaling boats loggerheads
#8347, aired 2021-03-02UP RISING $1000: When "up" is rising to the front of a serving of liquor, now we have the gist of an argument shot & upshot
#8342, aired 2021-02-23TV SHOW QUOTES $1000: An argument vs. naming a tech co. "Pied Piper"--that's "a predatory flautist who murders children in a cave" Silicon Valley
#8291, aired 2020-11-30HAVING AN ARGUMENT $400: "My car has started every day. So my car will start today" is an example of this type of argument, the counterpart of deductive inductive
#8291, aired 2020-11-30HAVING AN ARGUMENT $1200: To do this to "the question" is a logical error in argument, but now it's often used to mean simply "bring up the question" to beg
#8291, aired 2020-11-30HAVING AN ARGUMENT $1600: An argument a fortiori, from Latin for this comparative word, is like "If turtles are slow, turtles in molasses must also be slow" stronger
#8291, aired 2020-11-30HAVING AN ARGUMENT $2000: This Latin phrase once meant arguing by appealing to someone's personal feelings; now it means an irrelevant personal attack ad hominem
#8291, aired 2020-11-30HAVING AN ARGUMENT $6,000 (Daily Double): Senator, 2 minutes for this segment of a debate, to attack elements of the prior argument such as its assumptions or its relevance a rebuttal
#8196, aired 2020-04-06COLLEGE ETYMOLOGY $1000: This word for a class of student derives from a word for a fallacious argument sophomore
#7990, aired 2019-05-10TRYING TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1735 John Peter Zenger was acquitted of this using the argument that printing the truth was not illegal libel
#7927, aired 2019-02-12FINAL JEOPARDY $400: Each side's lawyer makes this argument as a final statement to a jury closing
#7908, aired 2019-01-16SIGH... POLI SCI $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1994 Harrison Ford film title was part of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s argument about limitations to free speech Clear and Present Danger
#7903, aired 2019-01-09CHARLES DARWIN $400: Darwin called this 1859 work "one long argument" The Origin of Species
#7878, aired 2018-12-05"Q"-PID $1000: I don't want to argue, but it's a minor argument over something small a quibble
#7737, aired 2018-04-10PRE-REC $400: A counter-argument a rebuttal
#7645, aired 2017-12-01MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE $1600: Despite its title, this saint's "Summa Contra Gentiles" was partly meant as an argument against Jews St. Thomas Aquinas
#7574, aired 2017-07-13ARGUMENT $200: According to Plutarch, an argument over who had seen more vultures led Romulus to kill him Remus
#7574, aired 2017-07-13ARGUMENT $400: Thomas Paine wrote, "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and" this title Common Sense
#7574, aired 2017-07-13ARGUMENT $800: An argument for the separation of political powers was put forth by this future president in The Federalist No. 51 Madison
#7574, aired 2017-07-13ARGUMENT $1000: In 1713 the fight over who invented calculus was submitted to this society; unluckily for Leibniz, Newton was its president the Royal Society
#7574, aired 2017-07-13ARGUMENT $2,000 (Daily Double): An 1860 debate at Oxford between Bishop Samuel Wilberforce & biologist Thomas Huxley centered on this book The Origin of Species
#7532, aired 2017-05-16YOU'RE SO POSSESSIVE! $1000: 2-word term for one who defends an unpopular cause for the sake of argument devil's advocate
#7430, aired 2016-12-23IT'S OVER $1000: A closing argument in a courtroom is also called this, from the Latin for "highest" summation
#7360, aired 2016-09-16THEATRE TITLE DUOS $400: A dice game argument leaves one dead on Catfish Row & intrigue aplenty for this Gershwin pair Porgy & Bess
#7147, aired 2015-10-13SURE "SHOT" $800: The result, or the gist as of an argument the upshot
#7009, aired 2015-02-19TRANSLATE THE AUSTRALIAN, MATE $800: No need for a "barney"; we're all friends here an argument
#6936, aired 2014-11-10THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $400: (I'm Ross Douthat.) I started as a Times op-ed columnist in 2009 with a provocative argument that the 2008 race would have been a clearer choice if this man from Wyoming had been the GOP nominee for president Dick Cheney
#6898, aired 2014-09-17PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING $800: This Nobel-winning existentialist said, "existence precedes essence", but the essence of my argument is he no longer exists (Jean-Paul) Sartre
#6898, aired 2014-09-17THE SUPREME COURT $2,600 (Daily Double): (Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) A lot more people got to know what we sounded like on December 11, 2000, when the oral argument in this case became the first one released for same-day broadcast Bush v. Gore
#6858, aired 2014-06-112-"TO"-2 $2000: A severe, witty reply that counters a first speaker's argument a retort
#6794, aired 2014-03-13FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: This "man" is an irrelevant but convenient object to a attack in an argument a straw man
#6770, aired 2014-02-07"DUM" IT UP $2000: 3-word Latin phrase meaning to refute an argument by showing that its consequences are nonsensical reductio ad absurdum
#6767, aired 2014-02-04THIS IS THE END $600: In logic it's a result inferred from the premises of an argument a conclusion
#6740, aired 2013-12-27FUN WITH ACRONYMS $600: This Canadian city's international film festival becomes an argument when it's in its acronym form Toronto
#6685, aired 2013-10-11PLEAS $1000: This word comes before "pleading" to mean an argument that blatantly favors only one side of a case special pleading
#6510, aired 2012-12-28WHAT DEGREE DID THEY GET? $1200: 1986: Elena Kagan gets no argument from Harvard a J.D.
#6414, aired 2012-07-05"B" RIGHT $1000: Slang for a baseball argument, or an edible plant of the genus rheum rhubarb
#6309, aired 2012-02-09"OH" MY! $1600: Logically connected or consistent; it describes a good argument coherent
#6276, aired 2011-12-26FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Someone who takes the opposite side of an argument for argument's sake is "advocatus diaboli", or this Devil's advocate
#6210, aired 2011-09-23SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y $600: A minor argument; I'm sorry, honey a tiff
#6127, aired 2011-04-12A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: Her father Francis says at about age 3 she heard him in a long argument & said, "Cut!" Sofia Coppola
#5994, aired 2010-10-07FOOD WORDS $800: It's an argument, maybe over whether "it's what's for dinner" beef
#5943, aired 2010-06-16PHILOSOPHERS $800: The argument that the mind at birth is a blank slate is "key" to his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" John Locke
#5817, aired 2009-12-22"CON"SARNIT $200: It means to yield or admit, perhaps to a point of argument concede
#5774, aired 2009-10-22RHYME TIME $1000: A refuting argument regarding the reusable space vehicle a Shuttle rebuttal
#5151, aired 2007-01-22SAINTS $2000: Anselm of Canterbury is famous for his "ontological argument" for this the existence of God
#4854, aired 2005-10-20CHEESE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents in front of metal shelves stocked with cheese in Wisconsin.) This cheese making stage, also called ripening, can be as simple as keeping the cheese in a cooler until the flavors have matured aging
#4610, aired 2004-09-24FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: A statement that has nothing to do with the argument at hand, this Latin term literally means "it does not follow" non-sequitur
#4575, aired 2004-06-25VULTURE CULTURE $600: According to legend, an argument over who had seen more vultures led to him killing Remus Romulus
#4488, aired 2004-02-25WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1200: Latin for "cross", it's the critical point or feature of an argument crux
#4399, aired 2003-10-23FINISH YOUR MAIN COURSE $200: Finish your "squab": an argument squabble
#4235, aired 2003-01-17WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: These 2 words meaning "a line of objects" & "an argument", are homographs, spelled alike but said differently row & row
#4183, aired 2002-11-0618th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200: In "The Federalist" No. 51, this future president put forth an argument for the separation of powers James Madison
#3890, aired 2001-06-29GEE "Q" $200: An angry argument or dispute between 2 or more people a quarrel
#3887, aired 2001-06-26COULD IT BE... SATAN? $600: It's a person who argues an unpopular cause for the sake of argument a devil's advocate
#3405, aired 1999-05-28BIBLICAL MADNESS $600: When Balaam went astray, he got into an argument with one of these animals donkey/ass
#3358, aired 1999-03-24"AD"JECTIVES $1000: Latin term for a type of argument based on emotion or on another person's character ad hominem
#3294, aired 1998-12-24WORD PLAY $800: KISS + E K A M ---------------------------------- Something people do after an argument or two things you associate with Gene Simmons kiss & make up
#3260, aired 1998-11-06THE MAP OF EUROPE $200: Of Norway, Sweden & Denmark, this one is the largest in area Sweden
#3225, aired 1998-09-18LOGIC $400: A shape in a Venn diagram, or an adjective for an argument whose conclusion assumes its premises Circular argument
#3167, aired 1998-05-12ASTROLOGY $500: People born under this sign like to weigh all sides of an argument, as if they had a pair of scales Libra
#2936, aired 1997-05-12LOGIC $400: In this type of argument, as opposed to an inductive one, premises lead to a necessary conclusion Deductive
#2936, aired 1997-05-12LOGIC $1000: An example of this type of argument is: All dogs bark. George is a dog. Therefore George barks. Syllogism
#2705, aired 1996-05-10MATH $600: In geometry this logical argument showing a statement is true can be direct or indirect a proof
#2695, aired 1996-04-26ISAAC NEWTON $3,000 (Daily Double): Newton engaged in a protracted argument with Leibniz over which of them invented this branch of math calculus
#2192, aired 1994-03-01ANIMAL PHRASES $400: A person who takes both sides in an argument is said to "run with the hare" & "hunt with" these dogs a hound
#1441, aired 1990-12-03MYTHOLOGY $100: In an argument about building Rome, he killed Remus Romulus
#694, aired 1987-09-17ANTONYMS $500 (Daily Double): Sides of an argument that can be taken by non-amateurs & prisoners pro & con
#463, aired 1986-09-17BOYS IN SONG $800: In a 1959 #1 hit, Billy was killed by him over an argument about a game of craps Stagger Lee
#373, aired 1986-02-12THE LAW $500: Not necessarily short, it's a written argument or summary of a case a brief

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#3388, aired 1999-05-05WORLD LITERATURE: A war described in this 1726 novel began over an argument about how to crack open an egg "Gulliver's Travels"

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