Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (291 results returned)

#9083, aired 2024-04-17THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $4,800 (Daily Double): In June, take in the "white nights" of this city; after 19 hours of daylight, bridges across the Neva are raised at night so boats pass St. Petersburg
#9081, aired 2024-04-15BOATS $200: In 1956 Malcom McLean revolutionized shipping when he launched Ideal X, a ship with 50+ of these large boxes containers
#9081, aired 2024-04-15BOATS $400: The Cutty Sark was built in the 1860s not to carry scotch but this cargo from China to England as fast as possible tea
#9081, aired 2024-04-15BOATS $600: Now used as a ferry between N.Y. & Connecticut, the Cape Henlopen hit the beach in this French region in June 1944 Normandy
#9081, aired 2024-04-15BOATS $800: John Maxtone-Graham put the ship in scholarship in books on these posh boats like "Queen Mary 2: The Greatest" one "of Our Time" an ocean liner
#9081, aired 2024-04-15BOATS $1000: On Inle lake, about 6 hours from Naypyidaw in this country, fishermen row, row, row their boats with one leg wrapped around an oar Myanmar
#9064, aired 2024-03-21IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $2000: JFK said it's a Cape Cod saying & added, "and a partnership, by definition, serves both partners" a rising tide lifts all boats
#8933, aired 2023-09-20B MINUS $800: Sink the B off a group of ocean vessels & get this horse food oats (from boats)
#8905, aired 2023-06-30BUSINESS $800: This company known for its motor homes adventured into the sea, acquiring Chris-Craft boats in 2018 Winnebago
#10, aired 2023-05-15WHATEVER FLOATS $400: French gives us this 7-letter word for a flat-bottomed boat; it's also a type of floating bridge composed of a group of boats a pontoon
#8866, aired 2023-05-08THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: Vaka moana are traditional double-hulled these boats used to travel vast ocean distances catamarans (canoes)
#8849, aired 2023-04-13LETTER PERFECT $200: During World Wars I & II, German submarines were known as these boats U-boats
#8839, aired 2023-03-30A DEADLY WEAPON $800: During World War II U-boats improved these weapons from the G7a model, which left a trail of bubbles as it headed for its prey a torpedo
#8819, aired 2023-03-02TRANSPORT OVER THE AGES $400: Ancient longships are called the boats of these people who dominated northern European waters with them for centuries the Vikings
#13, aired 2023-02-02TRANSPORTATION $400: They're the special flat-bottom boats used in the canals of Venice a gondola
#10, aired 2023-01-12TRIANGLES $4,300 (Daily Double): A triangle roughly formed by Florida, Puerto Rico & this place is notorious for swallowing up boats & planes without a trace Bermuda
#8731, aired 2022-10-31STREETS OF AMERICA $400: This city's ritzy Newbury Street ends by the Public Garden, near the famed swan boats Boston
#8730, aired 2022-10-28YOU MOVE ME $1000: Olympic events include single, double & quadruple these, a word that originally meant oars & now also means the boats sculls
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SHIPS & BOATS $200: After decades of pushing other boats, the W.O. Decker, New York City's last wooden this, now hauls tourists around the harbor a tugboat
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SHIPS & BOATS $400: Made from a hollowed log, this type of canoe is named for the way the interior wood is removed by chipping & scraping a dugout
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SHIPS & BOATS $600: The name of this type of craft comes from an Inuit word meaning "small boat made of skins" kayak
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SHIPS & BOATS $800: In 1904 the Supreme Court said this type of boat is "a continuation of the highway from one side of the water... to the other" a ferry
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SHIPS & BOATS $1000: The world's largest cruise ship, this company's Wonder of the Seas, debuted in 2022 with a voyage from Florida to the Bahamas (of course) Royal Caribbean
#8693, aired 2022-07-27TRANSPORTATION $800: These alliterative & inflatable recreational vessels are long, narrow & often yellow banana boats
#8689, aired 2022-07-21CLOSING STATEMENTS $2000: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" The Great Gatsby
#8647, aired 2022-05-24WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1000: Germany's Magdeburg Water Bridge helps boats cross this river that begins & ends with the same vowel the Elbe River
#8625, aired 2022-04-22FIRSTS $400: In 1960 the U.S. launched the U.S.S. Enterprise, the first of these big boats that was nuclear powered an aircraft carrier
#8578, aired 2022-02-16NAVAL CONFLICT $1,200 (Daily Double): On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the Maddox, a U.S. destroyer, in this body of water the Gulf of Tonkin
#8575, aired 2022-02-11BOATS & SHIPS $200: The USS Pennsylvania was in drydock at this naval base on December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
#8575, aired 2022-02-11BOATS & SHIPS $400: John Quincy Adams argued the case of the Africans who had mutinied aboard this slave ship & won their freedom the Amistad
#8575, aired 2022-02-11BOATS & SHIPS $600: Tamil words for tie & wood give us the name of this type of twin-hulled boat a catamaran
#8575, aired 2022-02-11BOATS & SHIPS $1000: The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, it was launched in 1960 & was the 8th U.S. naval vessel to carry the name the Enterprise
#8575, aired 2022-02-11BOATS & SHIPS $3,400 (Daily Double): These boats in the lagoon at Boston's Public Garden were inspired by the opera "Lohengrin" & declared a Boston landmark the swan boats
#8493, aired 2021-10-20BOATS & SHIPS $200: Electric boats are taking off like electric cars & 30 of these speed units is a common performance benchmark knots
#8493, aired 2021-10-20BOATS & SHIPS $400: In 1943 the USS Kidd became the first U.S. Navy ship permitted to fly this feared flag the Jolly Roger
#8493, aired 2021-10-20BOATS & SHIPS $800: The USS Doyle didn't have a mutiny during World War II, but it later played this movie ship that did the Caine
#8493, aired 2021-10-20BOATS & SHIPS $1000: The 107-year-old steamboat Belle of Louisville offers lunch & dinner cruises as it paddles up & down this river the Ohio
#8493, aired 2021-10-20BOATS & SHIPS $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1854 Flying Cloud, this type of merchant ship, sailed from NYC to San Francisco in 89 days, a record that stood for 135 years a clipper
#8453, aired 2021-07-28IDIOMS MADE FANCY $200: All those things that enhance the buoyancy of your vessel whatever floats your boat
#8433, aired 2021-06-30MAGAZINES $1600: This magazine once known for featuring cars & boats has a breakthrough award for innovations like bacteria-powered batteries Popular Mechanics
#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
#8392, aired 2021-05-04BRITS IN BOATS $400: After being cast adrift by the rebellious crew of the Bounty, this captain & his men eventually made it to Indonesia Captain Bligh
#8392, aired 2021-05-04BRITS IN BOATS $800: The boat in which he & companions made an epic 800-mile Antarctic journey in 1916 is now at his alma mater, Dulwich College Shackleton
#8392, aired 2021-05-04BRITS IN BOATS $1200: This British force, which unlike the USA's is just one word, was founded in 1822 as 3 anti-smuggling services merged the coastguard
#8392, aired 2021-05-04BRITS IN BOATS $1600: In 2010 Philip Beale sailed around Africa in a replica of a vessel used by this renowned ancient seafaring people the Phoenicians
#8392, aired 2021-05-04BRITS IN BOATS $2000: A boating area on the the Thames gave Kenneth Grahame childhood memories he used in this book about Rat & Mole The Wind in the Willows
#8352, aired 2021-03-09SNAKES & LADDERS $1000: Many dive boats use open sided ladders so divers can go up & down while wearing these fins
#8352, aired 2021-03-09EUROPEAN CITIES $1600: Traditional boats for carrying a certain fortified wine, sail the Douro River, in what's known as the second city of this country Portugal
#8316, aired 2021-01-18HISTORICAL MARKERS $400: A marker says, "For nearly 100 years boats entered" this waterway "at nearby Lock 1, bringing work, tradition & fame" to Albany the Erie Canal
#8303, aired 2020-12-16BOATS & SHIPS $800: Sort of a floating palace in Edinburgh, the Britannia is the royal this fancy type of ship a yacht
#8303, aired 2020-12-16BOATS & SHIPS $1200: In 1915 a U-boat sank this British liner, sending nearly 1,200 souls to a watery grave the Lusitania
#8303, aired 2020-12-16BOATS & SHIPS $1600: The "P" in a PT boat stands for patrol; the "T" stands for this type of explosive weapon a torpedo
#8303, aired 2020-12-16BOATS & SHIPS $2000: This clipper ship that sailed from Australia to London 25 days faster than other ships is now a sailing museum in Greenwich, London the Cutty Sark
#8286, aired 2020-11-23A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $1600: Port de Saint-Tropez, on what's known as the "French" this, has berths for hundreds of boats the Riviera
#8273, aired 2020-11-04CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $1000: (Veronica Johnson presents from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Veronica Johnson from ABC7: the atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian displays boats, including a birchbark canoe of this people of Lake Superior, also known as the Ojibwe; many of their customs are depicted in "The Song of Hiawatha" the Anishinaabe (Chippewa)
#8263, aired 2020-10-21ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $800: Pier Luigi Nervi innovated the use of steel-reinforced this material for buildings, & he even built boats from it concrete
#8193, aired 2020-04-01DREAM BOATS $200: The Orca, from this 1974 book Jaws
#8193, aired 2020-04-01DREAM BOATS $400: The Revenge, captained by the Dread Pirate Roberts The Princess Bride
#8193, aired 2020-04-01DREAM BOATS $600: The Hispaniola, searching for booty Treasure Island
#8193, aired 2020-04-01DREAM BOATS $1000: The Nellie, a ship on the Thames upon which Marlow tells a tale featuring another ship the Heart of Darkness
#8193, aired 2020-04-01DREAM BOATS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Astraea, a Roman slave galley from an 1880 novel Ben-Hur
#8191, aired 2020-03-30UP THE RIVER $2000: Boats can travel up the Arkansas River from its mouth at this other river to Tulsa, Oklahoma the Mississippi
#8077, aired 2019-10-22BRIDGES GALORE! $2000: The Gateshead Millennium Bridge near Newcastle tilts sideways to let boats on this river pass the Tyne
#8056, aired 2019-09-23BOATS & SHIPS $400: This type of ship keeps winter channels clear; it's also an opening line to put people at ease when meeting for the first time icebreaker
#8056, aired 2019-09-23BOATS & SHIPS $1200: This British luxury liner made its maiden voyage in September 1907; 8 years later it was torpedoed & sank Lusitania
#8056, aired 2019-09-23BOATS & SHIPS $1600: The Cherokee were among those who traveled using the dugout type of this boat canoe
#8056, aired 2019-09-23BOATS & SHIPS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1851 this schooner won the Hundred Guinea Cup, the prize for a yacht race around the Isle of Wight America
#8056, aired 2019-09-23BOATS & SHIPS $2000: A September 1779 battle featured the British frigate Serapis & this American warship Bonhomme Richard
#8041, aired 2019-07-22HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $400: Large Durham boats for hauling iron were used by George Washington to cross this river in December 1776 Delaware
#8012, aired 2019-06-11WHAT HAPPENED? $400: In WWI, the British navy tried to spot & damage U-boats by training seagulls to seek out these sticking out of the water periscopes
#7977, aired 2019-04-23TALKING DEAD $400: From "Gatsby", "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" is on his grave F. Scott Fitzgerald
#7949, aired 2019-03-14ON THE MOVE $400: In the 1930s, maps and little weights called shrimp boats were used by the first en-route centers for ATC, short for this air traffic control
#7900, aired 2019-01-04GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $1000: Have the "muscle" to name these underwater sandbars that can damage boats shoals
#7893, aired 2018-12-26DEATH ON THE NILE $600: These 3-ton-plus river-dwelling mammals have ferocious bites & are known to upend boats hippopotamus
#7842, aired 2018-10-16WAR FARE $800: In 1918 U-boats cut food shipments to England, where even the king had this type of card allotting staples like milk & flour a ration card
#7839, aired 2018-10-11I NEED A HOBBY! $800: If you live in the UK, you can try gongoozling, staring at passing boats on these, like the Kennet & Avon one canals
#7836, aired 2018-10-08LET US FLOAT SOMETHING BY YOU $800: It's said that one of these "lifts all boats" a rising tide
#7829, aired 2018-09-27BANDITS $2000: Alliterative & appropriate nickname of Colton Harris-Moore, who stole planes, boats & cars, but not shoes the Barefoot Bandit
#7821, aired 2018-09-17SHOW BOATS $200: The S.S. Minnow, not long afloat Gilligan's Island
#7821, aired 2018-09-17SHOW BOATS $400: Sonny Crockett's boat, the St. Vitus Dance Miami Vice
#7821, aired 2018-09-17SHOW BOATS $600: A reality show debuting in 2005: A bunch of boats operating out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska the Deadliest Catch
#7821, aired 2018-09-17SHOW BOATS $800: The USS Nathan James, whose crew has survived a global pandemic The Last Ship
#7821, aired 2018-09-17SHOW BOATS $1000: The Pacific Princess, exciting & new in 1977 The Love Boat
#7797, aired 2018-07-03COASTAL TERMINOLOGY $1200: From the French for "throw", it's a structure extending from the shore, where boats can dock a jetty
#7772, aired 2018-05-29THE FOOD CHAIN $1000: These crustaceans don't just stick on boats--the Sacculina genus parasitizes crabs barnacles
#7759, aired 2018-05-10RHETORICAL DEVICES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents a photo of two boats.) The photo here showing two contrasting ideas is an example of this 13-letter rhetorical device, also used by Dickens when he wrote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" juxtaposition
#7745, aired 2018-04-20EXPLORERS $400: An entry in his log reads, "The people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships and in boats made from one log" Columbus
#7730, aired 2018-03-30IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: Subject of the museum that's an attraction in Sassnitz, Germany U-boats
#7688, aired 2018-01-31PUERTO RICO STRONG $2000: Written to protect ships from German U-boats, this 1920 act dealing with shipping was said to be hurting P.R.'s economy in 2017 Jones Act
#7665, aired 2017-12-29STAN LEE $200: (Stan Lee presents the clue.) In a Reddit Ask Me Anything I revealed that the superhero I would most like to be is this one, because he's rich, handsome, glamorous, the women love him & he's got boats & planes & an iron costume--man! Tony Stark
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BOATS & SHIPS $400: Here's the Flying Cloud, this type of speedy 19th century ship a clipper
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BOATS & SHIPS $800: During World War II, a group of these operating in the Atlantic was known as a wolf pack U-boats
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BOATS & SHIPS $1600: This Cunard liner was en route from New York to Fiume when it rescued 705 people from the Titanic's lifeboats the Carpathia
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BOATS & SHIPS $2000: This British battleship had nothing to fear when it was launched in 1906 but was obsolete by World War I the Dreadnought
#7628, aired 2017-11-08BOATS & SHIPS $3,400 (Daily Double): A pirogue is one type of this, a canoe made from one log a dugout canoe
#7546, aired 2017-06-05FAMILIAR PHRASES FLIPPED $800: Rising boats all a tide lifts a rising tide lifts all boats
#7511, aired 2017-04-17WORLD WAR II $400: U-boats surfacing to attack couldn't be detected by this pinging device the British called ASDIC sonar
#7491, aired 2017-03-20BARNACLE FIGHTING $400: To combat barnacles in the 18th c., the Brits began sheathing boats with this element, Cu on the periodic table copper
#7479, aired 2017-03-02BOATS & BOATING $200: To mark safe passage for boats entering a harbor, the channel is lined with these, red on the right, green on the left buoys
#7479, aired 2017-03-02BOATS & BOATING $400: Add "up" to this 2-masted boat & it becomes a condiment a ketch
#7479, aired 2017-03-02BOATS & BOATING $600: The name of this waterside facility that has docks & moorings for small boats is from the Italian for "seacoast" marina
#7479, aired 2017-03-02BOATS & BOATING $800: By law, all PFDs, short for these, made of balsa or cork were retired from service by March 1999 personal flotation devices
#7479, aired 2017-03-02BOATS & BOATING $1000: The last royal yacht of the UK, it was retired in 1997 & is now a tourist attraction in Edinburgh Britannia
#7461, aired 2017-02-06VENICE $400: To curb excessive decoration of these boats by nobles, Venice passed a law that kept them black a gondola
#7414, aired 2016-12-01THE AGE OF WHALING $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) After a whale was spotted, the crew pursued it in a boat like this; in 1820, sailors spent 3 harrowing months on their boats after the Essex was sunk by an 85-foot whale, inspiring this classic 1851 novel Moby Dick
#7348, aired 2016-07-20OUR GREAT COUNTRY $800: The swan boats featured in books like "The Trumpet of the Swan" are a popular attraction in this city Boston
#7342, aired 2016-07-12OF BOOKS & BOATS $200: Fame was fleecing for this captain of the mythological Argo Jason
#7342, aired 2016-07-12OF BOOKS & BOATS $400: Captain Hook's ship in "Peter Pan", it shares its name with a pirate banner the Jolly Roger
#7342, aired 2016-07-12OF BOOKS & BOATS $600: A storm sinks the freighter Tsimtsum, setting the title character adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in this novel Life of Pi
#7342, aired 2016-07-12OF BOOKS & BOATS $800: The Sealing schooner ghost is brutal Captain Wolf Larsen's ship in a 1904 tale by this man Jack London
#7342, aired 2016-07-12OF BOOKS & BOATS $1000: This ship takes a memorable title voyage in the third book in the Narnia series the Dawn Treader
#7326, aired 2016-06-20IN THE ____ OF BATTLE $2000: 1939-45 struggle in which Allied destroyers & German U-boats disputed control of vital sea lanes: Battle of the ____ Atlantic
#7298, aired 2016-05-11THE VIETNAM WAR ERA $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) The muddy waters of the Mekong were the site of many actions involving small U.S. Navy vessels formerly called patrol fast craft, but better known by this nickname made famous during the 2004 presidential election swift boats
#7280, aired 2016-04-15ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE $1600: It's the carrying of boats & supplies overland between 2 navigable bodies of water portage
#7241, aired 2016-02-22LABOR $2,600 (Daily Double): Among the other things made by members of this Michigan-based union are boats & jet engines the United Auto Workers
#7240, aired 2016-02-19LITERARY QUOTES $800: In this novel Rat tells Mole there is "absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats" Wind in the Willows
#7220, aired 2016-01-22STATE FISH $1600: This denizen of the deep, Florida's state saltwater fish, could give some boats a run for their money a sailfish
#6945, aired 2014-11-21I'M JUST A SAYING $2000: Be happy the rich are getting richer; as JFK often said, "A rising tide" does this lifts all boats
#6932, aired 2014-11-04TRADEMARKS $1000: It's Kawasaki's trademarked brand of 1- and 3-passenger boats that are ridden like motorcycles Jet Skis
#6861, aired 2014-06-16HONG KONG $1000: Some spending their whole lives on boats, Hong Kong's Tanka are called "sea" these, from the word "Egyptian" gypsies
#6830, aired 2014-05-02COHEN-CIDENTALLY $800: Heard here, he'll be turning 80 in 2014 "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river / You can hear the boats go by..." Leonard Cohen
#6722, aired 2013-12-03HOOK $1,200 (Daily Double): Used on fishing boats, this long pole with an iron hook is a homophone of a social blunder a gaff
#6709, aired 2013-11-14ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: This Mississippi port has been holding the blessing of the shrimp boats each spring since 1929 Biloxi
#6670, aired 2013-09-20IT TAKES ONE TO ROW ONE $800: These long, flat-bottomed boats with one standing oarsman ply the Grand Canal to the Doge's palace a gondola
#6651, aired 2013-07-15NATURAL WONDERS $1000: To see this wonder in Capri, tourists must lie down in row boats to get through the very small entrance the Blue Grotto
#6649, aired 2013-07-1119th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES $400: "The least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea" Moby-Dick
#6525, aired 2013-01-18WATERCRAFT $800: The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas offers rides in an authentic one of these Venetian canal boats a gondola
#6510, aired 2012-12-28TRANS "PO" TATION $1000: In 1952 Ambrose Weeres put a wooden platform on top of steel barrels to create the first of these boats a pontoon
#6488, aired 2012-11-28WITH MAORI $200: Waka taua are these boats that can be more than 100 feet long & hold 80 paddlers canoes
#6478, aired 2012-11-14F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $400: Scott's epitaph, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past", is from this novel The Great Gatsby
#6415, aired 2012-07-06SUB TITLES $800: Wolfgang Frank's "The Sea Wolves" is subtitled "The Story Of German" these submarines "At War" U-Boats
#6394, aired 2012-06-07ALMOST-FORGOTTEN WARS $3,000 (Daily Double): Warships rammed fishing boats in the 1975-76 "Cod War" between Britain & this usually peaceful Atlantic neighbor Iceland
#6343, aired 2012-03-28AUSSIES & THE SEA $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) Ken Warby wanted to break the world speed record for boats, so he built the "Spirit of Australia", a wooden type of this craft that makes little contact with the water; 288 miles per hour later, he had his record a hydroplane
#6314, aired 2012-02-16LAKES $1200: Although long landlocked, Bolivia maintains a navy with about 170 boats, many patrolling on this lake Lake Titicaca
#6305, aired 2012-02-03MUSEUMS $800: The Syracuse, N.Y. museum devoted to this 19th century waterway is in a building once used to weigh boats the Erie Canal
#6215, aired 2011-09-30THE U.S. COAST GUARD $1600: In WWII a major Coast Guard task was hunting these vessels, Hitler's main weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic U-boats
#6195, aired 2011-07-15LIFESAVING AT BONDI BEACH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a rescue boat off Bondi Beach.) Inflatable rescue boats are serious rescue tools, not bathtub toys, but here they're affectionately called "rubber" these duckies
#6126, aired 2011-04-11ANCIENT EGYPT $400: The Egyptians were the first known civilization to power boats using these, probably large leafy fronds on the bow sails
#6110, aired 2011-03-18HARD TO "PORT" $800: Lewis & Clark had to resort to this, carrying boats overland portage
#6077, aired 2011-02-01A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL... ERIE! $800: Another part of the plan: 83 of these, to move boats up & down the canal's natural elevations locks
#6027, aired 2010-11-23TEXT MESSAGES $400: A 1912 telegram: This "we are sinking fast. Passengers are being put into boats" the Titanic
#5998, aired 2010-10-13ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA $1000: (Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) Lifeless boats and rusted tanks that once held the precious oil are relics of Deception Island's past: from 1906 to 1931, it was a processing center for this brutal trade whaling
#5933, aired 2010-06-02WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): In March 1917 Wilson ordered the arming of U.S. merchant ships to defend them from these "wolves of the sea" U-boats
#5754, aired 2009-09-24YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $400: We need 3 hufflers, who excel in their ability to quickly move these through a series of locks ships (or boats)
#5551, aired 2008-10-27"E"ASY DOES IT $1600: Born in Norway, he patented the first practical outboard motor for boats (Ole) Evinrude
#5511, aired 2008-07-21THE NAVY SEALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on shore as 2 attack boats approach at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The Navy SEALs were created by this U.S. president who had been a small-unit naval commander & who knew what a small, tough force could do JFK
#5511, aired 2008-07-21THE NAVY SEALS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on shore as attack boats approach at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) High-speed boats help with what the legendary SEAL Richard "Shark Man" Marcinko calls "the 2 critical mission points": insertion & this opposite, from the Latin for "draw out" extraction
#5493, aired 2008-06-25ON THE BEACH IN RIO $800: Brazilians call this holiday eve "Reveillon"; that's when small boats are launched to honor the sea goddess Yemanja New Year's Eve
#5432, aired 2008-04-01LET'S RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE $400: Although this country's flag is square, during WWII a rectangular flag was adopted for its boats Switzerland
#5425, aired 2008-03-21SHIPS $2000: This type of ship was devised to counter vessels called torpedo boats, & the name originally followed "torpedo boat" a destroyer
#5397, aired 2008-02-12THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION $800: In 1807, after a trip up the Hudson, he wrote, "The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved" (Robert) Fulton
#5375, aired 2008-01-11HOT CROSS PUNS $400: It's what happened to the people on the dark purplish-red boats when they crashed near a deserted island They were marooned
#5137, aired 2007-01-02THE FABULOUS LIFE OF... $400: This New Yorker was all about the boats & trains & was worth $100 mil, easy; even had a university named for him in 1873 (Cornelius) Vanderbilt
#4961, aired 2006-03-20CLOSING THE BOOK $1200: Fitzgerald: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past" The Great Gatsby
#4836, aired 2005-09-26MEMORIES OF VIETNAM $400: John Kerry served on these boats in the Mekong Delta & a group of their "Veterans for Truth" opposed him in '04 swift boats
#4736, aired 2005-03-21I'LL HAVE A SUB TO GO $200: In WWII, Germany built more than 1,100 of these subs; more than half were sunk at sea U-boats
#4660, aired 2004-12-03ON THE GO $600: Scows & lighters are types of these flat-bottomed boats used in harbors barges
#4518, aired 2004-04-07ANIMALS, ANIMALS, ANIMALS $2000: An arctophile collects these toys teddy bears
#4462, aired 2004-01-20THE ARABS $1600: A traditional industry in Bahrain is building dhows, which are these boats
#4395, aired 2003-10-17SALMON FISHING $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Sitka, Alaska) The three main types of Alaskan salmon fishing boats are trollers, gillnetters & these, which use a gigantic net seiners
#4361, aired 2003-07-14BOATING $2000: This waterway that allows boats to avoid the open sea stretches from Boston to Brownsville, Texas Intracoastal Waterway
#4349, aired 2003-06-26JIMMY JAM $400: "Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads" is a 1992 box set retrospective by this singer Jimmy Buffett
#4274, aired 2003-03-13POP LIT $1200: Eric Carmen's "Boats Against the Current" flowed from the last line of this F. Scott Fitzgerald book "The Great Gatsby"
#4190, aired 2002-11-15GET A JOB! $1000: A wainwright is someone who builds or fixes these transports wagons
#4180, aired 2002-11-01LET'S VISIT BELIZE $800: The Belize Online website suggests these transparent boats "to snorkel without getting wet" glass-bottomed boats
#4139, aired 2002-09-05THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: John Glover & his marines, using borrowed boats rowed troops across this river on Christmas, 1776 the Delaware
#4078, aired 2002-05-01WATER TRANSPORTS $200: This term for the area where you sit in a kayak is more associated with planes than boats the cockpit
#4078, aired 2002-05-01WATER TRANSPORTS $800: These "fish" boats, seen here, became the most popular sailboats ever produced sunfish
#4061, aired 2002-04-08BOATS & SHIPS $200 (Daily Double): (Sarah is on a boat.) Ready to race? We are on this "patriotic" yacht that won Dennis Conner the America's Cup in 1987 Stars and Stripes
#4061, aired 2002-04-08BOATS & SHIPS $400: James Cameron used real footage of this sunken luxury liner in his 1997 movie the Titanic
#4061, aired 2002-04-08BOATS & SHIPS $800: In 1673 Marquette & Joliet traveled the Mississippi in these made of birchbark canoes
#4061, aired 2002-04-08BOATS & SHIPS $1200: This wooden sailing ship of the Far East sounds like a bunch of useless stuff a junk boat
#4061, aired 2002-04-08BOATS & SHIPS $2000: Henry Hudson & James Cook's expeditions each shuttled across the ocean on a ship called this Discovery
#3972, aired 2001-12-04EPITAPHS $800: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" -- The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
#3767, aired 2001-01-09NOW HEAR THIS! $400: Many military & commercial boats are now equipped with this device sonar
#3767, aired 2001-01-09AVIATION $1000: The name of this maker of the $40 million G-V corporate jet sounds more like it sells boats Gulfstream
#3510, aired 1999-12-03INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: In 1807 he wrote, "The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved" Robert Fulton
#3414, aired 1999-06-10AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Mary Higgins' Biblical boats Clark's arks
#3408, aired 1999-06-02ACCOUNTING EXAM $500: Junk bonds feature: A. low ceilings B. high interest C. Chinese boats High interest
#3305, aired 1999-01-08DON'T MISS THE BOAT $200: In the summer, tour boats carry Civil War buffs from Charleston City Marina to this island fort every day Fort Sumter
#3287, aired 1998-12-15LITTLE DOG $800: The Schipperke's name can be translated as "little captain", reflecting its role guarding these ships
#3200, aired 1998-06-26FUN THINGS TO DO $400: Boats made from beer cans sail by in the Beer Can Regatta, held in Darwin in this country Australia
#3127, aired 1998-03-17IN THE NIGHT $300: Action taken by coastal cities to prevent U-Boats from targeting the silhouettes of ships turning the lights out (or a blackout)
#3119, aired 1998-03-05WALKING THE DOG $500: The keeshond, a familiar sight on canal boats, is the national dog of this country Holland/Netherlands
#3095, aired 1998-01-30WORLD WAR II $600: Fishing & pleasure boats were part of the flotilla used in the May-June 1940 evacuation from this port Dunkirk
#3050, aired 1997-11-28THE 1960s $600: On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf the Gulf of Tonkin
#3040, aired 1997-11-14OUT THERE SPORTS $100: At the 1996 Olympics, Italy won 2 gold & 2 silver medals in these boats originated by Eskimos kayaks
#2974, aired 1997-07-03HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $800: Xerxes built a bridge of boats across it to invade Greece; Leander could have walked Hellespont
#2970, aired 1997-06-27ANNUAL EVENTS $200: During July's Feast of the Redeemer, musicians play in lighted boats along this Italian city's canals Venice
#2953, aired 1997-06-04TALL TALES $400: Annie Christmas, who unloaded boats in this Louisiana city, could carry a barrel of flour under each arm New Orleans
#2878, aired 1997-02-19TRANSPORTATION $400: These canal boats of Venice are traditionally painted black because of a 1562 ordinance gondolas
#2847, aired 1997-01-07EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $500: Thor Heyerdahl's 1969 & 1970 expeditions to cross the Atlantic in reed boats were named after this god Ra
#2816, aired 1996-11-25NATIONAL PARKS $100: At Flamingo in this Florida national park, moorings are available for those who bring their own boats Everglades National Park
#2798, aired 1996-10-3020th CENTURY HISTORY $400: In 1904 torpedo boats from this country attacked Russian ships near Port Arthur, Manchuria Japan
#2714, aired 1996-05-23PERU $800: Boats make regular crossings of this lake from Puno, Peru to Guaqui, Bolivia Lake Titicaca
#2669, aired 1996-03-21HISTORY $400: A skirmish over the theft of one of the Discovery's boats led to this explorer's murder in 1779 Captain James Cook
#2640, aired 1996-02-09ROMANTIC GETAWAYS $200: Maid of the Mist boats depart from the U.S. & Canadian sides at this site Niagara Falls
#2619, aired 1996-01-11MAMMALS $200: Collisions with boats are the largest identifiable cause of death of these gentle Florida sea cows Manatees
#2543, aired 1995-09-27SHIPS & BOATS $200: It's voyage was "naturally" chronicled in an 1839 book the Beagle
#2543, aired 1995-09-27SHIPS & BOATS $400: It was the first nuclear-powered submarine to sail under the North Pole the Nautilus
#2543, aired 1995-09-27SHIPS & BOATS $600: The Cutty Sark was built in 1869 to carry crates of this cargo from China tea
#2543, aired 1995-09-27SHIPS & BOATS $1,000 (Daily Double): Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki wa made of balsa; his Ra II was made of this material reeds (or papyrus)
#2543, aired 1995-09-27SHIPS & BOATS $1000: It was the name of Aristotle Onassis' famous yacht the Christina
#2540, aired 1995-09-22"TOP"s $400: These casual shoes with nonskid soles were designed especially for wear on boats topsiders
#2534, aired 1995-09-14TRANSPORTATION $100: Scows & lighters are types of these flat-bottomed, cargo-carrying boats barges
#2504, aired 1995-06-22WATERWAYS $200: Boats going to Rome can go up the Fiumicino, an artificial waterway in this river's delta the Tiber
#2460, aired 1995-04-21BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: Brunswick Corp. produces Mercruiser & Force engines & Quicksilver accessories for these vehicles boats
#2410, aired 1995-02-10BODIES OF WATER $1000: To make boats, local Indians use reeds from this South American lake 12,500 feet above sea level (Lake) Titicaca
#2387, aired 1995-01-10COMMON BONDS $500: Dream, sail, gravy boats
#2379, aired 1994-12-29U.S. RIVERS $1000: Boats can travel on this 1,000-mile-long river as far inland as Lewiston, Idaho the Snake River
#2373, aired 1994-12-21THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $200: Francesco Guardi's "View of the Rialto" includes lots of these Venetian boats gondolas
#2296, aired 1994-09-05JULY 4, 1994 $100: The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted over 3,000 refugees on boats from this country Haiti
#2256, aired 1994-05-30MUSEUMS $400: Material about the China Clipper flying boats is housed at the Treasure Island Museum in this California city San Francisco
#2255, aired 1994-05-27LODGING $500: Guests at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in this Mass. city enjoy riding the swan boats in the Public Gardens Boston
#2253, aired 1994-05-25SHIPS & BOATS $100: It's a large, square- ended, flat boat used to carry sand, coal or even garbage a barge (scow)
#2253, aired 1994-05-25SHIPS & BOATS $200: We wonder how many miles the Spanish got to one of these 16th century treasure ships a galleon
#2253, aired 1994-05-25SHIPS & BOATS $300: In this popular strategy game, it takes 5 direct hits to sink an aircraft carrier Battleship
#2253, aired 1994-05-25SHIPS & BOATS $400: It's a ship with no regular schedule that takes hauling jobs as it finds them a tramp
#2253, aired 1994-05-25SHIPS & BOATS $500: The term for this small boat that's often towed hails from Hindi a dinghy
#2220, aired 1994-04-08BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Fitzgerald ended this novel, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" The Great Gatsby
#2159, aired 1994-01-13MILITARY SLANG $400: These huge naval ships have been referred to as bird boats aircraft carriers
#2155, aired 1994-01-07TRANSPORTATION $400: Lighters are a type of these flat-bottomed cargo boats used chiefly in sheltered waters barges
#2140, aired 1993-12-17THE ERIE CANAL $200: These animals walked alongside the canal & pulled boats through it mules (or horses)
#2061, aired 1993-07-19WORLD FACTS $100: The earliest Ancient Egyptian boats were propelled by these; paddles & oars came later poles
#2034, aired 1993-06-10TRAVEL FLORIDA $400: Tourists get a "crystal" clear view of underwater life when they ride these boats in Silver Springs glass-bottomed boats
#1974, aired 1993-03-18BOATS & BOATING $200: Early versions of this Eskimo boat with an enclosed deck were made with seal or caribou skins a kayak
#1974, aired 1993-03-18BOATS & BOATING $400: The only yachts that won this race twice are Columbia, Intrepid & Courageous America's Cup
#1974, aired 1993-03-18BOATS & BOATING $600: Today most recreational boats are constructed of this material fiberglass
#1974, aired 1993-03-18BOATS & BOATING $800: An inflatable rubber life raft used by downed pilots, or a sailboat used off the coasts of India a dinghy
#1974, aired 1993-03-18BOATS & BOATING $1000: These small, flat-bottomed boats from the Orient have cabins with matted roofs a sampan
#1938, aired 1993-01-27BOATS & SHIPS $100: One of these boats designed to push & pull larger craft can move 10 to 20 barges at a single time a tugboat
#1938, aired 1993-01-27BOATS & SHIPS $200: For fishing & transportation, Indonesians commonly use an outrigger, a type of this boat a canoe
#1938, aired 1993-01-27BOATS & SHIPS $300: In 1959 Mamie Eisenhower christened the N.S. Savannah, the first merchant vessel powered by this nuclear power
#1938, aired 1993-01-27BOATS & SHIPS $400: According to Guinness, the most expensive one, the Abdul Aziz, belongs to the King of Saudi Arabia a yacht
#1938, aired 1993-01-27BOATS & SHIPS $500: Among the more famous of these swift sailing ships were the Flying Cloud & the Cutty Sark a clipper ship
#1894, aired 1992-11-26BOATS & BOATING $100: In 1673 Marquette & Joliet explored the Mississippi River in these boats made of birchbark canoes
#1894, aired 1992-11-26BOATS & BOATING $200: It goes back to 1851 when a U.S. schooner beat several British yachts around the Isle of Wight America's Cup
#1894, aired 1992-11-26BOATS & BOATING $300: This agency establishes rules of safety for motorboats, yachts & other recreational boats the Coast Guard
#1894, aired 1992-11-26BOATS & BOATING $400: The name of this complex that provides docking for small boats is Spanish for "seacoast" a marina
#1894, aired 1992-11-26BOATS & BOATING $500: About 1900 Enrico Forlanini built the 1st of these boats equipped with wings attached to the hull hydrofoil (hydroplane accepted)
#1860, aired 1992-10-09AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On October 30, 1941, one of this country's U-boats sank the U.S. destroyer Reuben James near Iceland Germany
#1780, aired 1992-05-01BOATS & SHIPS $100: Basic types of this ship include oil, ore-bulk-oil & liquefied-gas carrier tankers
#1780, aired 1992-05-01BOATS & SHIPS $200: In Venice, motorboats have largely replaced these vessels as the main means of transportation gondolas
#1780, aired 1992-05-01BOATS & SHIPS $300: In his "Travels", Marco Polo described these Chinese sailing ships, praising their system of bulkheads junks
#1780, aired 1992-05-01BOATS & SHIPS $400: The earliest form of this boat was a barge or raft pulled across a stream by ropes a ferry
#1780, aired 1992-05-01BOATS & SHIPS $500: This Scottish-named clipper, first launched in 1869, is now preserved in England as a museum the Cutty Sark
#1765, aired 1992-04-10PLANTS & TREES $100: Indians made boats from the bark of the paper or canoe variety of this tree birch
#1737, aired 1992-03-03TRANSPORTATION $100: The ancient Egyptians made these simple water craft from bundles of reeds tied together rafts
#1652, aired 1991-11-05TRANSPORTATION $400: One of man's earliest boats was this type of canoe made by hollowing out a log a dugout
#1616, aired 1991-09-16SILENT SCREEN STARS $100: He sold flowers in bar rooms, made toy boats, & gave dancing lessons, before becoming a "Little Tramp" Charlie Chaplin
#1606, aired 1991-09-02TRANSPORTATION $100: These flat-bottomed boats were specially designed to travel down early canals barges
#1534, aired 1991-04-11EUROPEAN RIVERS $800: Only small boats can navigate most of the 565-mile-long Ebro, this country's longest river Spain
#1457, aired 1990-12-2520th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On August 2nd, 1964, in this gulf, the destroyer Maddox fired at three North Vietnamese torpedo boats the Tonkin Gulf
#1394, aired 1990-09-27TRANSPORTATION $1000: Small flat-bottom boats with wedge-shaped prows common in Chinese rivers & harbors a sampan
#1383, aired 1990-09-12LIBRARIES $100: These vehicles used in library outreach programs can be trailers, trucks & even boats in Louisiana bayous bookmobiles
#1367, aired 1990-07-10NIAGARA FALLS $500: The tourist boats that go around the pool at the base of the falls are all named this the Maids of the Mist
#1345, aired 1990-06-08ODDS & ENDS $200: "I can't draw landscapes or boats...I draw naked women," says this actor known for his role as Columbo Peter Falk
#1168, aired 1989-10-04JEOPARDY! CATEGORIES $500: The words eke, nun, peep, kook & kayak have all appeared previously in this category palindromes
#1104, aired 1989-05-251981 $400 (Daily Double): Movie remake that gave us the following song, a Top 10 hit in 1981: "On the boats and on the planes / They're coming to America..." The Jazz Singer
#1086, aired 1989-05-01ANCIENT EGYPT $200: The Egyptians were the 1st to use these to power boats, saving the strokers from strokes sails
#1030, aired 1989-02-10BOATS & BOATING $200: A "marine parking lot", providing mooring for boats & facilities for supplies & repairs a marina
#1030, aired 1989-02-10BOATS & BOATING $400: It's an open, flat-bottomed boat with squared ends, or a kick in football a punt
#1030, aired 1989-02-10BOATS & BOATING $600: This vessel has wings called foils that allow it to rise out of the water at high speeds a hydrofoil
#1030, aired 1989-02-10BOATS & BOATING $800: Safe-water routes into & out of harbors are marked by buoys of these 2 colors green & red
#1030, aired 1989-02-10BOATS & BOATING $1000: This keelless Oriental boat having up to 5 masts is used for commerce & sometimes as a home a (Chinese) junk
#945, aired 1988-10-14SHIPS $200: Eskimos have large boats called umiaks or "women's boats" & these smaller ones meaning "men's boats" kayaks
#891, aired 1988-06-20U.S. CITIES $600: This oldest city in the U.S. was once the undisputed world leader in the building of shrimp boats St. Augustine, Florida
#890, aired 1988-06-17SHIPS $100: 15th century admiral Cheng Ho commanded a fleet of 62 of these boats, all over 500 feet long junks
#839, aired 1988-04-07QUESTIONABLE SONGS $1000: The song "Shrimp Boats" asks this question Why don't you hurry, hurry, hurry home?
#809, aired 1988-02-25TELEVISION $500: Decades apart, Darren McGavin & Ralph Waite both starred in TV series in which they lived on these vehicles sternwheelers, paddle boats, river boats
#804, aired 1988-02-18ANCIENT HISTORY $600: The earliest boats on the Nile were made of bundles of this reed lashed together with rope papyrus
#797, aired 1988-02-09AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The battling boats in "The Battle of the Ironclads" Merrimack & Monitor
#783, aired 1988-01-20MARINE BIOLOGY $800: The elongated body part for which this fish is named can penetrate whales & even boats a swordfish
#750, aired 1987-12-04WEATHER $800: Term for the alert broadcast to mariners warning of weather possibly hazardous to little boats small craft warning (small craft advisory)
#681, aired 1987-07-20SPORTING EVENTS $600: This port was the docking site for the boats in the 1987 America's Cup races Fremantle
#679, aired 1987-07-16TRANSPORTATION $500 (Daily Double): 2 of 3 modes of transportation that made up the title of a 1966 Dionne Warwick hit (2 of) boat & train (or plane)
#674, aired 1987-07-09ESKIMOS $400: Eskimo rolls are not something you eat but stunts performed in one of these boats a kayak
#603, aired 1987-04-01MYTHOLOGY $200: Thor Heyerdahl named the 2 papyrus boats in which he sailed the Atlantic for this Egyptian god Ra
#524, aired 1986-12-11'50s SONGS $400: In 1951, Jo Stafford announced "There's dancin' tonight" because these "is a-comin'" "Shrimp Boats"
#520, aired 1986-12-05TRANSPORTATION $1000: Pulled by mules, it's how Dickens traveled through Pennsylvania in march 1842 the canal boats
#481, aired 1986-10-13ENGLISH POETRY $1000: Robert Louis Stevenson concluded that they "shall bring my boats ashore" Other little children
#421, aired 1986-04-21ANIMALS $600: The "acorn" variety attach themselves to whales as well as whaling boats barnacles
#415, aired 1986-04-11BRIDGES $600: Term for boats which support floating bridges, or floats which support floating airplanes pontoons
#413, aired 1986-04-09STARTS WITH "A" $200: They go "aweigh" on boats in song anchors
#267, aired 1985-09-17TOYS & GAMES $300: The gyroscopes used to stabilize boats & planes are based on principle of this simple toy a top
#105, aired 1985-02-01SHIPS $800: In the Army, officer who provides supplies, but on ships, the petty officer who maintains the bridge the quartermaster
#65, aired 1984-12-07SOUTH AMERICA $200: Oceangoing boats can travel 2300 miles up this river to Iquitos, Peru the Amazon
#21, aired 1984-10-08BOATS $100: Venice's taxis gondolas
#21, aired 1984-10-08BOATS $200: A small boat used to move big boats tug
#21, aired 1984-10-08BOATS $300: A flat-bottomed boat propelled by a pole, or a 4th down football play punt
#16, aired 1984-10-01WORLD WAR I $1,000 (Daily Double): The German U-boats were this type of craft submarine

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)

#6429, aired 2012-07-26OPERA: The swan boats in Boston's Public Garden were inspired by this opera in which a swan pulls a boat on the Scheldt River Lohengrin
#1221, aired 1989-12-18FAMOUS NAMES: He said, "I saw a fleet of fishing boats, ...flew down...& yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland" Charles Lindbergh

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Grant Colvin, a bookseller and trivia host from Arnold, Maryland Season 26 player (2010-06-24).



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