Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (68 results returned)

#9015, aired 2024-01-12DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $1000: In this Asian country, the Phi Phi islands are an island group between Phuket & the Straits of Malacca Thailand
#8869, aired 2023-05-11ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The city of Daejeon is known as "South Korea's" this high-tech area near San Francisco Silicon Valley
#8869, aired 2023-05-11ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Draining much of the Nagano & Niigata prefectures, Japan's longest river, the Shinano, is found on this island Honshu
#8869, aired 2023-05-11ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: This river flows 2,700 miles from northwest China to the South China Sea & forms part of the border between Thailand & Laos the Mekong
#8869, aired 2023-05-11ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Now known as the Moluccas, these islands of Indonesia were so-named for the cloves & nutmeg cultivated there the Spice Islands
#8869, aired 2023-05-11ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: Lahore is the capital of this Pakistani province next to India Punjab
#8737, aired 2022-11-08LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY $800: One of the last "Parts Unknown" that Anthony Bourdain took us to was this remote Asian "Land of the Thunder Dragon" Bhutan
#8689, aired 2022-07-21ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Extending more than 1,500 miles, these mountains separate the Indian subcontinent from the remainder of Asia Himalayas
#8689, aired 2022-07-21ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Lebanon is tucked into what would be the coast of this country & separated from it by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains Syria
#8689, aired 2022-07-21ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: About 3/4 of Mongolia is made up of the forest, desert, mountain & grass types of these plains steppes
#8689, aired 2022-07-21ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Long, skinny Lake Balkhash extends over nearly 400 miles of the eastern part of this country Kazakhstan
#8689, aired 2022-07-21ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Laccadive Sea separates the Maldives & this other island country from the Asian mainland Sri Lanka
#8450, aired 2021-07-23LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Bernard Cornwell's low-born soldier has his first adventure in "Sharpe's Tiger", which takes place in this Asian land during British rule India
#7891, aired 2018-12-24ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Himalayas border the southern end of the vast plateau of this Chinese region Tibet
#7891, aired 2018-12-24ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: In 2018, with ISIS pushed out, rail service re-started from Fallujah to this capital city Baghdad
#7891, aired 2018-12-24ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Like Hong Kong in 1997, this special administrative region & gambling mecca was returned to China in 1999 Macau
#7891, aired 2018-12-24ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Vientiane, capital of this country, is found just northeast of the Mekong River Laos
#7891, aired 2018-12-24ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The Camotes sea is a small sea lying between the islands of Cebu & Leyte in this republic the Philippines
#7867, aired 2018-11-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Japan's highest mountain, this dormant volcano rises to 12,300 feet Mt. Fuji
#7867, aired 2018-11-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1990 this nation invaded Kuwait, its smaller neighbor to the south, sparking the first Persian Gulf War Iraq
#7867, aired 2018-11-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Cebu & Leyte are just two of the more than 7,000 islands that make up this Asian nation the Philippines
#7867, aired 2018-11-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: According to the CIA World Factbook, these are the 2 largest cities in China by population Beijing and Shanghai
#7867, aired 2018-11-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): 5 countries including Azerbaijan & Russia border this large "Sea" that's really a lake the Caspian Sea
#7759, aired 2018-05-10ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Temple of Buddha's Tooth is found in this island nation off India Sri Lanka
#7759, aired 2018-05-10ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Just east of the Caspian Sea is the city-sized Tengiz supergiant one of these, part of Kazakhstan & part of Chevron oil field
#7759, aired 2018-05-10ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: With 260 million, mostly Muslim, it's the world's fourth-most populous country Indonesia
#7759, aired 2018-05-10ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: The lawless border region where Laos, Myanmar & Thailand meet has this "shapely" 2-word nickname the Golden Triangle
#7759, aired 2018-05-10ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,500 (Daily Double): A large region of Turkey, also known as Asia Minor, is called this, from the Greek for "east" Anatolia
#7628, aired 2017-11-08REDUNDANT GEOGRAPHY $800: East East (Asian country) East Timor
#7567, aired 2017-07-04ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Hokkaido & this Japanese island are separated by only about 12 miles across the Tsugaru Strait Honshu
#7567, aired 2017-07-04ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: About a mile off the mainland, Iran's Qeshm Island is the largest in this strait the Strait of Hormuz
#7567, aired 2017-07-04ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Mu Us Desert in north central China lies within a bend of this long river the Yellow River
#7567, aired 2017-07-04ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: You'll find Muscat, capital of this Arab country, on the gulf of this Arab country Oman
#7567, aired 2017-07-04ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This country's highest mountain, Kinabalu, rises 13,435 feet in the state of Sabah on Borneo Malaysia
#7236, aired 2016-02-15GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE $2000: 2 nations share the 220-mile-wide delta of this Asian river the Ganges River
#6790, aired 2014-03-07ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Khongoryn Els, or "Singing Dunes", are a popular tourist destination in this Central Asian desert the Gobi
#6790, aired 2014-03-07ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: This Russian lake, the world's deepest, plunges to 5,315 feet Lake Baikal
#6790, aired 2014-03-07ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: This sultanate borders Saudi Arabia in the Rub Al Khali Desert Oman
#6790, aired 2014-03-07ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings Colombo
#6790, aired 2014-03-07ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This smallest Chinese province in area consists mostly of one island in the Gulf of Tonkin Hainan
#6708, aired 2013-11-13"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 2,000 years ago, under Tigran the Great, this country's empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea; today, it's one of the smallest countries on the Asian mainland Armenia
#5664, aired 2009-04-02ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): This region in the northeast, also called Tungpei, or "the northeast", is a "candidate" for having China's best forests Manchuria
#5664, aired 2009-04-02ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This capital city lies on the Han River, about 22 miles east of Inchon Seoul
#5664, aired 2009-04-02ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: This peninsula extends from the Isthmus of Kra in southern Thailand to the Johor Strait the Malay Peninsula
#5664, aired 2009-04-02ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: This "gem" of a river becomes a 20-mile-wide estuary between Hong Kong & Macao the Pearl River
#5664, aired 2009-04-02ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This country forms the entire shoreline of the Sea of Marmara Turkey
#5577, aired 2008-12-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Soc Trang & Can Tho are in the south of this Asian nation Vietnam
#5074, aired 2006-10-05"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Kabul is the capital of this Asian country Afghanistan
#4933, aired 2006-02-08WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: This Asian nation seen here on the map has one of the world's largest populations India
#4312, aired 2003-05-06TOUGH GEOGRAPHY $800: It precedes "kush", which means "killer", in the name of a central Asian mountain range Hindu
#4245, aired 2003-01-31"B" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: The British looted this Asian capital in 1860, bringing back a dog breed bearing its old name Beijing
#2879, aired 1997-02-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $200: In 1923 Angora, now called Ankara, succeeded this city as its country's capital Istanbul
#2879, aired 1997-02-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Island that's home to the picturesque Mount Fujiyama Honshu
#2879, aired 1997-02-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $600: These 2 largest rivers of the Asian portion of the Mideast flow to the Persian Gulf Tigris & Euphrates
#2879, aired 1997-02-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: During the rainy season the Mekong backs into the Tonle Sap, flooding the central part of this country Cambodia
#2879, aired 1997-02-20ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 countries bordering Afghanistan whose names also end in "stan" (2 of 4) Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan
#2569, aired 1995-11-02WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: At 27,824 feet, Mount Makalu in this Asian range is the fifth-highest mountain in the world the Himalayas
#2518, aired 1995-07-12WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1965 Singapore separated from this Southeast Asian nation Malaysia
#2264, aired 1994-06-09WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: With a population of over 3.5 million, Pusan is this Asian country's second- largest city South Korea
#2123, aired 1993-11-24GEOGRAPHY $1000: This Canadian province proportionally has more people of Asian descent than any other British Columbia
#2063, aired 1993-07-21GEOGRAPHY $600: The Bosporus Bridge links the European & Asian parts of this city Istanbul
#1857, aired 1992-10-06WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The Nafud & Rub' al Khali deserts occupy this Asian peninsula Arabian
#1684, aired 1991-12-19WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: This Asian desert became widely known through the writings of Marco Polo in the 13th century the Gobi
#1193, aired 1989-11-08GEOGRAPHY $600: This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile Siberia
#617, aired 1987-04-21WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The only Southeast Asian country with any part lying south of the Equator Indonesia
#539, aired 1987-01-01GEOGRAPHY $1000: Asia Minor, the westernmost Asian peninsula, is almost wholly occupied by this country Turkey
#287, aired 1985-10-15GEOGRAPHY $200: There are nearly 13,000 people per square mile in this S.E. Asian British colony Hong Kong
#134, aired 1985-03-14GEOGRAPHY $100: Asian country with Seoul Korea

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (3 results returned)

#8151, aired 2020-02-03ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species DMZ (the demilitarized zone between North & South Korea)
#7612, aired 2017-10-17ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea & the Persian Gulf Iran
#6196, aired 2011-07-18WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3 China

Players (1 result returned)

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