Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (187 results returned)

#9029, aired 2024-02-01RAP WORDS & PHRASES $200: An early citation for this term for jewelry goes back to a song featuring Lil Wayne bling
#8911, aired 2023-07-10QUOTABLE BOOKS $400: In "Gone with the Wind", these 4 words finish the line "Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all..." tomorrow is another day
#8908, aired 2023-07-05OPPOSITES $1000: Regarding blood pressure, these 2 words that end with the same 6 letters refer to how the heart muscles relax & contract systolic & diastolic
#8907, aired 2023-07-04WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Note what the guys are carrying to identify this game, that dates back well over a century broomball
#8898, aired 2023-06-21-OLOGIES $1000: The history of words & the study of them, its own goes back to Greek for "true meanings" etymology
#8889, aired 2023-06-08SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977 gnarly
#8886, aired 2023-06-05THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left faster than light
#4, aired 2023-05-09NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $1000: Company legend says Teddy Roosevelt praised Maxwell House coffee with these 5 words, a slogan they still use today good to the last drop
#8833, aired 2023-03-224-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $600: The second half of a golf course is called this, 2 4-letter words the back nine
#8737, aired 2022-11-08POTPOURRI $1600: The name of this London airport goes back to Anglo-Saxon words meaning "goat farm" Gatwick
#8717, aired 2022-10-11OLD WORDS $800: This word for a time of extreme hunger & starvation dates at least as far back as the 1360s poem "Piers Plowman" famine
#8689, aired 2022-07-21COMPOUND WORDS $1200: The name of this illegally distilled liquor goes back to when it was made under the cover of darkness moonshine
#8653, aired 2022-06-019-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $800: If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type a mainframe
#8651, aired 2022-05-30PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables retroactive continuity
#8614, aired 2022-04-07PALINDROMIC WORDS $1000: It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship the poop
#8605, aired 2022-03-253-LETTER WORDS $400: The flowing back of a tide ebb
#8553, aired 2022-01-123 SHORT WORDS $600: The advice to let an unhappy baby do this, hard for many parents to follow, dates back to 1894 cry it out
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BROADWAY IS BACK $800: Kristin Chenoweth welcomed the audience at the reopening of "Wicked" with these 5 words, a line from "The Wizard of Oz" There's no place like home
#8512, aired 2021-11-16WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1200: A learned specialist in a branch of knowledge & a type of tooth at the back of the mouth scholar & molar
#8503, aired 2021-11-0310-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This game whose origins go back to ancient times is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles or points backgammon
#8394, aired 2021-05-0612-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea a househusband
#8393, aired 2021-05-05MOVIE RULES $2000: In "Scream", one of Randy's rules of surviving a horror film is to never say these 4 words--you won't return I'll be right back
#8351, aired 2021-03-08TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $1000: Sweathogs, school Welcome Back, Kotter
#8324, aired 2021-01-28WORDS & PHRASES $400: Back in 1937 a magazine complained about the cliche "Working hard or..." this phrase hardly working
#8198, aired 2020-04-08OLD HISTORY $800: Greek words meaning "people" & "rule" gave this form of government its name back in the 5th century B.C. democracy
#8163, aired 2020-02-194-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN "O" $200: A reflection of sound waves back to the listener an echo
#8142, aired 2020-01-21WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $400: This word meaning given to quick & unpredictable mood changes goes back to the Roman messenger god mercurial
#8121, aired 2019-12-23BIG WORDS $1600: Older than humongous, this 9-letter blended word for shockingly big goes back to WWII ginormous
#8110, aired 2019-12-06BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1954, Russian words meaning "committee for state security" got shortened to these 3 letters for an agency KGB
#8044, aired 2019-07-253-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment" a fly
#8041, aired 2019-07-22POETIC WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): Don't hold back, name this repeated line in a poem, also a verb meaning to hold back refrain
#8025, aired 2019-06-28IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1200: The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425 30 days hath September
#7971, aired 2019-04-15ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $1600: The back of the neck nape
#7903, aired 2019-01-09THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser was reissued nearly a century after it was published to add back 40,000 words Sister Carrie
#7894, aired 2018-12-27NEWER WORDS $1200: Dating back to the 1930s, Antifa is short for this anti-fascist
#7835, aired 2018-10-05ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: A burden can be this simian "on your back" a monkey
#7804, aired 2018-07-1210-LETTER "M" WORDS $800: Hark back to yesteryear to this old office machine being used here a mimeograph
#7785, aired 2018-06-15WORDS ABOUT WORDS $600: This 5-letter verb meaning "to express feeling", maybe on stage, is an example of a back-formation emote
#7769, aired 2018-05-24IN SO MANY WORDS $1600: 2 words: Beneath the Lincoln memorial on the back of a U.S. currency note five dollars
#7760, aired 2018-05-11ODD WORDS $400: If you're somnambulating, you're doing this; go back to bed! sleepwalking
#7628, aired 2017-11-08WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1000: The name of this raccoon-like mammal of Central and South America goes back to an Indian word for "wolverine" kinkajou
#7440, aired 2017-01-062-LETTER WORDS $600: When I say, "We'll be right back", it's the next thing viewers see an ad
#7403, aired 2016-11-16WHO FIRST SANG THOSE WORDS? $1000: "This is my fight song, take back my life song" Rachel Platten
#7255, aired 2016-03-11LITERARY CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS $400: "Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day" Scarlett O'Hara
#7255, aired 2016-03-11BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The ball is handed off, tossed back to the quarterback, then thrown downfield in this football play the flea flicker
#7188, aired 2015-12-09WORDS & PHRASES $400: Now synonymous with taking a brief break from a long period of sitting, it may date back to an 1882 baseball game the seventh-inning stretch
#7178, aired 2015-11-252 WORDS $800: Per the OED this 2-word term for websites & apps that allow users to network dates back only to 2004 social media
#7140, aired 2015-10-02"HIP" WORDS $800: A 2-person cutting tool, or to cause rapid & confusing back-&-forth changes a whipsaw
#7116, aired 2015-07-204-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This "mouth organ" dates back to an instrument called an aura harmonica
#7097, aired 2015-06-236-LETTER WORDS $1000: Lying on the back, face or front upward supine
#6970, aired 2014-12-26DOO-WOP $400: In The Coasters' biggest hit, these 3 words follow "Yakety Yak" don't talk back
#6863, aired 2014-06-18"BAN" $1600: To toss or throw back & forth, as in an exchange of words banter (or bandy)
#6854, aired 2014-06-05MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: One who comes back strong after adversity is said to rise from these, referring to the fabled phoenix ashes
#6843, aired 2014-05-21"KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $800: A thingamajig; its usage dates back 100 years a doohickey
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $200: In a movie, it's the narrative that supplies a character's past a backstory
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $400: One could be "rainy with a chance of hail" a forecast
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $600: What's called Obamacare is formally the Patient Protection & this type of Care Act Affordable
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $800: Type of workplace seen here a forge
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $1000: A screen behind the catcher in baseball, or a term for the catcher himself a backstop
#6759, aired 2014-01-23ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In this type of "march", your arms are pinioned behind your back frog march
#6629, aired 2013-06-13WAR OF WORDS $1200: This term that goes back to a word for "boy" or "youth" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry infantry
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $400: Between the vertebrae are these, which are mostly fibrocartilage & act as shock absorbers discs
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $800: It's Latin for "of the back" & follows latissimus in the name of the broadest muscles of the back dorsi
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $1200: SBA is short for this association that helps those with a certain neural tube defect, the SB in its name spina bifida
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $1600: The wearing of a brace & surgery are possible treatments for this common lateral curvature of the spine scoliosis
#6513, aired 2013-01-02PALINDROMIC WORDS $1600: One who brings another back to life; it follows "corpse" in the name of a cocktail reviver
#6400, aired 2012-06-153-LETTER WORDS $600: It's any of the bench-like seats with a fixed back arranged in rows in churches a pew
#6253, aired 2011-11-23SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea ebb
#6164, aired 2011-06-02MODERN WORDS $1000: The OED has citations back to 1994 for this type of urban man who is fastidious about his grooming & fashion a metrosexual
#6031, aired 2010-11-2910-LETTER WORDS $2000: In journalism it's more serious than a correction & means "we take the whole story back" a retraction
#5925, aired 2010-05-21FASHIONABLE WORDS $200: It's the animal name for a high-heeled shoe or a slipper with no back a mule
#5892, aired 2010-04-067-"L"ETTER WORDS $800: Old word for chronic pain in the lower back lumbago
#5855, aired 2010-02-12MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $400: The government's "Centers for" these 2 words "& Prevention" dates back to 1946 Disease Control
#5851, aired 2010-02-08THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The report's back from the lab; it's the science dealing with the detection of poisons toxicology
#5778, aired 2009-10-2811-LETTER WORDS $1000: To back up or confirm another person's version of events corroborate
#5736, aired 2009-07-13ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor problem that ruins something bigger is this insect "in the ointment" a fly
#5725, aired 2009-06-26ANIMAL WORDS $400: If you're plagued by one of these on your back, you've got problems, man, big problems a monkey
#5704, aired 2009-05-286-LETTER WORDS $400: A coward is said to have a yellow one down his back streak
#5646, aired 2009-03-09COMPOUND WORDS $200: Before a sports event, many have this type of party, where food & drink are served right from the back of the car a tailgate party
#5615, aired 2009-01-23FORWARDS & BACK WORDS $400: Many rodents of a particular type & Polaris rats & star
#5615, aired 2009-01-23FORWARDS & BACK WORDS $800: To beat with a whip & a sport you can club flog & golf
#5615, aired 2009-01-23FORWARDS & BACK WORDS $1200: To take a furtive glance & to retain possession peek & keep
#5615, aired 2009-01-23FORWARDS & BACK WORDS $1600: To boast & clothing brag & garb
#5615, aired 2009-01-23FORWARDS & BACK WORDS $2000: Shrek & "therefore" (follows "cogito") ogre & ergo
#5583, aired 2008-12-10"LETTER"-LETTER WORDS $600: "Dear Alex, mail this to 10 of your pals & make $1 ,000 or your mustache will grow back" is found in this type of communication a chain letter
#5517, aired 2008-09-09U.S. COINS $800: It should be easy to "home" in on this longest of the 10 words on the back of a current nickel Monticello
#5410, aired 2008-02-295-LETTER WORDS $400: This creature is gripping a bunch of stuff on the back of the U.S. dollar bill an eagle
#5324, aired 2007-11-019-LETTER WORDS $800: This identifying design pressed into some paper products dates back to late 13th century Italy watermark
#5321, aired 2007-10-295-LETTER WORDS $800: It can be a braid or plait of hair worn hanging down one's back a queue
#5253, aired 2007-06-13LEAGUES $200: Original members of this 4-word group included the Flash, Green Lantern & Wonder Woman Justice League of America
#4984, aired 2006-04-20( )-LETTER WORDS $800: (7) To approve a candidate, or sign the back of a check endorse
#4846, aired 2005-10-1010-LETTER WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): The only continent that fits the category Antarctica
#4795, aired 2005-06-1010-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Travel to Springfield, Mass. & you can make a fast break for the Naismith Hall of Fame for this sport basketball
#4785, aired 2005-05-27PALINDROMIC WORDS $800: In 1836 Congress adopted the first of these "rules" stopping itself from debating slavery gag
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $400: These masses of fibrocartilage between vertebrae serve as shock absorbers discs
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $800: L1 through L5 refers to 5 vertebrae in the lower back, with the "L" standing for this lumbar
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $1200: As its name implies, this type of anesthesia that eases labor pains is injected into a space outside the spinal cord epidural
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $1600: This triangular bone lies directly above the coccyx & joins with the hip bones to form the rear of the pelvis the sacrum
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $2000: These muscles of the upper back are named for their particular quadrilateral shape the rhomboid muscles (trapezius accepted)
#4698, aired 2005-01-26WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: "Mum's the word" dates back to his "Henry IV, Part 2": "Seal up your lips and give no words, but--mum" Shakespeare
#4638, aired 2004-11-045-LETTER WORDS $7,800 (Daily Double): It means in a particular area; put a hyphen in the middle & it helps you lose weight local
#4598, aired 2004-09-08BIG WORDS $800: This instrument, often attached to an inflatable cuff, is used to measure blood pressure a sphygmomanometer
#4457, aired 2004-01-13NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: (1996) Toni Braxton: "Put Back Together This Beating Organ Of Mine" "Un-Break My Heart"
#4404, aired 2003-10-30MISSION CONTROL $400: (Video of Cheryl at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) "Houston, we've had a problem" were the words this mission radioed back to Mission Control, April 13, 1970 Apollo 13
#4218, aired 2002-12-253-LETTER WORDS $600: In '60s Top 40 songs it preceded "Back", "Ready" & "Together" Get
#4175, aired 2002-10-25"BI" WORDS $800: In a classic late '40s Vittorio De Sica film, this is stolen from a man & he & his son begin a quest to get it back a bicycle
#3974, aired 2001-12-06WORDS FOR WORDS $1200: The verb "to typewrite" from "typewriter" is an example of this type of "formation" back-formation
#3955, aired 2001-11-09FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $200: A woodwind mouth part & a hoofed, ruminant mammal reed & deer
#3955, aired 2001-11-09FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $400: A heavenly body & long-tailed rodents star & rats
#3955, aired 2001-11-09FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $600: A starchy, tuberous root & the month it can be planted yam & May
#3955, aired 2001-11-09FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $800 (Daily Double): To arrange the video & audio of a film & the rise & fall of the ocean edit & tide
#3955, aired 2001-11-09FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $1000: The Greek god of love & having aches & pains Eros & sore
#3951, aired 2001-11-0512-LETTER WORDS $500: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is at Sea World.) To feed, beluga whales use this system where their sounds are reflected back to gauge distances echolocation
#3945, aired 2001-10-26THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $300: "Like a leaden knell the words came back at him: War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength" 1984
#3902, aired 2001-07-17ELVIS HITS IN OTHER WORDS $500: 1962: "Mail Back Towards The Dispatcher" "Return To Sender"
#3845, aired 2001-04-27TREE-LETTER WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): You're in this position if you've been knocked flat on your back supine
#3824, aired 2001-03-29ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A type of fish, or a short-on-top, long-in-back hairstyle that was big in the '80s Mullet
#3798, aired 2001-02-21"BACK" WORDS $100: This narrative device depicts earlier events in the chronology of a film, as seen in "Citizen Kane" a flashback
#3798, aired 2001-02-21"BACK" WORDS $200: It's the creature seen here diamondback rattlesnake
#3798, aired 2001-02-21"BACK" WORDS $300: In baseball, it's a barrier behind home plate, or slang for a catcher backstop
#3798, aired 2001-02-21"BACK" WORDS $400 (Daily Double): Paul McCartney wrote this 1968 song as a parody of the Beach Boys' style "Back In The U.S.S.R."
#3798, aired 2001-02-21"BACK" WORDS $500: It's an outdoor area of a movie studio, used to shoot exterior scenes a backlot
#3638, aired 2000-05-31IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Resembling H2O dripping down from one mallard's dorsal region like water off a duck's back
#3621, aired 2000-05-08"BACK" WORDS $100: It's a return to former popularity; John Travolta made one in "Pulp Fiction" a comeback
#3621, aired 2000-05-08"BACK" WORDS $200: Oddly, this group's album "Millennium" was released in 1999 Backstreet Boys
#3621, aired 2000-05-08"BACK" WORDS $300: Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly in this 1985 comedy Back to the Future
#3621, aired 2000-05-08"BACK" WORDS $400: This phrase, an acknowledgement of failure, implies that an architect or a designer must create new plans back to the drawing board
#3621, aired 2000-05-08"BACK" WORDS $500: This 1979 miniseries glimpsed at the private lives of 8 presidential families, as seen by their maids & butlers Backstairs at the White House
#3572, aired 2000-02-29WORDS FROM THE HEART $400: From the Latin for "to bring back to the heart" it is used today for "to copy sounds or images on tape" record
#3572, aired 2000-02-29WORDS FROM THE HEART $600 (Daily Double): A warm & friendly liqueur, it goes back to the Latin for "of the heart" cordial
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $100: Your spinal column, or what a coward lacks Backbone
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $200: Some people "can't see" it "for the trees" Forest
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $300: In the classic joke, it's the response to "Waiter, what is this fly doing in my soup?" The backstroke
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $400: It's the legal process by which a homeowner loses his rights to a property Foreclosure
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $500: Trademark name for a laminated heat-resistant plastic used for counter tops & flooring Formica
#3330, aired 1999-02-1212-LETTER WORDS $400: Books consulted by an author in preparing his own book often appear on this list at the back of the book Bibliography
#3277, aired 1998-12-01A FEW WORDS FROM WORDSWORTH $200: "...Nothing can bring back the hour of" this "In the grass, of glory in the flower" Splendor
#3245, aired 1998-10-16RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: It's the drink most commonly tossed back with "na zdorovie", "to your health" vodka
#2779, aired 1996-10-0313-LETTER WORDS $400: Asian doctor who will needle you back into good health acupuncturist
#2492, aired 1995-06-06MALAYO- POLYNESIAN WORDS $200: Captain Cook brought back this word for "forbidden" from the South Pacific taboo
#2492, aired 1995-06-06MALAYO- POLYNESIAN WORDS $400 (Daily Double): This term for a small box that holds tea leaves goes back to a Malay weight of just over a pound a caddy
#2473, aired 1995-05-10WORDS FROM THE DUTCH $400: This term for one's supervisor at work goes back to a Dutch word for uncle boss
#2473, aired 1995-05-10WORDS FROM THE DUTCH $800: I love to go a-wandering along the mountain trail with one of these on my back a knapsack
#2378, aired 1994-12-28FLAGS $400: Oliver Hazard Perry's flag bore this phrase uttered by James Lawrence in the War of 1812 "Don't Give Up the Ship"
#2352, aired 1994-11-22BACK OF THE BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions Glossary
#2175, aired 1994-02-043-LETTER WORDS $300: Often paired with to, it means "away" or "back" fro
#2078, aired 1993-09-223-LETTER WORDS $200: A long, fixed bench with a back that holds church ladies, men & kids pew
#2037, aired 1993-06-15FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Square dancers use this anglicized form of the French for "back to back" do-si-do
#1748, aired 1992-03-18SILLY SONGS $100: The 3 spoken words following "Yakety Yak..." don't talk back
#1676, aired 1991-12-09ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Leo Durocher could tell you it's a synonym for back talk lip
#1637, aired 1991-10-1510-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a mound of earth or stone built to hold water back; London has 1 named for Victoria an embankment
#1472, aired 1991-01-153-LETTER WORDS $200: The rim of a cup, or what you might bite to hold back your anger lip
#1187, aired 1989-10-315-LETTER WORDS $400: To kick back, or the title of a 1985 hit by Frankie goes to Hollywood relax
#1170, aired 1989-10-06ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: After feeding him or her, you pat a baby on the back to elicit this response burp
#1144, aired 1989-07-204-LETTER WORDS $400: To do this involves the respiratory muscles & may be caused by watching other do it yawn
#1037, aired 1989-02-21NEW WORDS $400: It's the money a corporation pays to buy back its own stock at inflated prices to avoid a takeover greenmail
#909, aired 1988-07-14TRANSITIVE VERBS $200: To list a book's key words, usually alphabetically in the back index
#863, aired 1988-05-11SPORTING WORDS $200: For a football team, it's being sent back 5 yards, for a hockey player, being put in a box penalty
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $200: To retreat from a political position, as though on a unicycle backpedal
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $500 (Daily Double): Common description of music like the following: background
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $600: For a computer, it's a duplicate disk backup
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $800: L.A.'s Century City stands on what was once this part of 20th Century-Fox backlot
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $1000: You can be indicted for doing this to tax returns backdate
#687, aired 1987-09-085-LETTER WORDS $200: Part of your book, or part of your back the spine
#679, aired 1987-07-16WORDS OF THE '80s $400: It's a set of rules by a company's board of directors to ward off unwanted mergers, not "Jaws" shark repellent
#661, aired 1987-06-224-LETTER WORDS $400: A place for the spine, or the reverse side of a sign back
#527, aired 1986-12-16"BACK" WORDS $200: The side of a racecourse opposite the homestretch the backstretch
#527, aired 1986-12-16"BACK" WORDS $400: Spinal pluck backbone
#527, aired 1986-12-16"BACK" WORDS $600: Consecutive, or a way adults measure 2 children back-to-back
#527, aired 1986-12-16"BACK" WORDS $800: A snarl on a fishing line, or sharling against socio-political changes backlash
#527, aired 1986-12-16"BACK" WORDS $1000: It's the wood at the rear of a hearth, or, more commonly, all those unperformed tasks a backlog
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $100: Muzak background music
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $200: Though he may ride in the rear of a limousine, Muhammad Ali doesn't take this to anyone a back seat
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $300: You do this to swim & stare at the stars at the same time the backstroke
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $400: Daniel Boone, for example a backwoodsman
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $500: Construction workers really dig this machine a backhoe
#469, aired 1986-09-255-LETTER WORDS $600: To summarize, or put the bottle top back on recap
#464, aired 1986-09-18WORDS OF THE '60s $100: State of having laid back vibes, colored "yellow" by Donovan mellow
#424, aired 1986-04-2411-LETTER WORDS $200: This type of fan goes back & forth oscillating
#346, aired 1986-01-06"F" WORDS $500: Projection bearing a tuft of hair on back of horse's leg above hoof a fetlock
#295, aired 1985-10-25IT'S LATIN TO ME $1000: Meaning "Whither goest thou?", the words that sent Peter back to Rome Quo vadis?
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $200: After a concert, it's where groupies go to get a glimpse of Michael, Bruce or Madonna backstage
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $400: An excessive inward curvature of the spine, or Old Dobbin's condition swayback
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $600: It can make a big impression on a careless catcher when he runs for a pop foul backstop
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $800: To slander the character of someone not present backstab (backbite)
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $1000: German for twice-baked, it's as often gummed as chewed zwieback
#265, aired 1985-09-1311-LETTER WORDS $300: From Latin "to flow back", it means to throw up regurgitate

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (10 results returned)

#8616, aired 2022-04-11WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax
#8368, aired 2021-03-31LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York)
#8200, aired 2020-04-10WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo
#7764, aired 2018-05-17SCHOOL SUPPLY WORDS: Adding "P" to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite or pencil lead plumbago
#6846, aired 2014-05-26TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator
#6788, aired 2014-03-054-LETTER WORDS: New research says this word that has become ubiquitous dates back to young men also called "macaronis" dude
#5325, aired 2007-11-02POETS: One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you" Sylvia Plath
#5055, aired 2006-07-28AMERICANA: A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother" Boys Town
#5016, aired 2006-06-05WORDS IN THE NEWS: This word for one who hangs around the corridors of power refers back to the corridors themselves lobbyist
#4561, aired 2004-06-07WORDS & PHRASES: Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution a think tank

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Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science originally from Chicago, Illinois 2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida 2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University 2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University 2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
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