Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (76 results returned)

#17, aired 2023-10-18OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $400: Austin Powers may be pop culture's greatest champion of this randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel shag
#8899, aired 2023-06-2212-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure
#8534, aired 2021-12-16MIRROR IMAGE WORDS $2000: An elite British secondary school & an item on a musical staff Eton & note
#8483, aired 2021-10-06DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS $800: This 4-letter British adjective means affectedly dainty or quaint twee
#8458, aired 2021-08-043-LETTER WORDS $1200: The British use this booze to mean "strange" rum
#8252, aired 2020-10-06WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton
#7894, aired 2018-12-27NEWER WORDS $1600: This word used to describe the "seismic" influx of young British voters was Oxford Dictionaries' 2017 word of the year youthquake
#7824, aired 2018-09-208-LETTER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall
#7744, aired 2018-04-19SNIPPETS FROM MY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS $1000: I leave you with the 1653 words of this British statesman: "You have sat too long here... in the name of God, go!" Oliver Cromwell
#7731, aired 2018-04-02WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $400: It's British for potato chip & American for bracing or invigorating weather crisp
#7723, aired 2018-03-215-LETTER WORDS $200: The British pronounce this office worker & account keeper to rhyme with "mark" clerk
#7593, aired 2017-09-20BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: In "The Rivals", Richard Brinsley Sheridan created this Mrs. whose bungling of words has made her immortal Mrs. Malaprop
#7522, aired 2017-05-02PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: It's a composite of 2 old, posh British universities Oxbridge
#7319, aired 2016-06-09BRITISH HISTORY $2000: Signaling change, Tony Blair ended his first speech as party leader with these 2 words, followed by "New Britain" New Labour
#7259, aired 2016-03-17ONE-VOWEL WORDS $800: Named for a British dentist, it's an artificial tube implanted in a blood vessel to keep it open a stent
#7110, aired 2015-07-102- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Verily, it's the archaic British term that's used nominatively as the plural of thou ye
#7045, aired 2015-04-10"MARK" YOUR WORDS $1200: When reporting a conversation, the British use single ones where we use double ones quotation marks
#6970, aired 2014-12-263-LETTER WORDS $600: This British ending to the alphabet ain't dead, baby zed
#6941, aired 2014-11-17DOUBLE "D" WORDS $800: Also called an offshore hake, this cod relative is often used in British fish & chips haddock
#6761, aired 2014-01-27"-LY" WORDS THAT AREN'T ADVERBS $800: This noun meaning a record of debt; in a British interjection, it's followed by -ho! tally
#6650, aired 2013-07-12COMPOUND WORDS $400: The British use this 9-letter word for what we call a vest waistcoat
#6412, aired 2012-07-03WORDS WITH FRIENDS $400: This document says of the British, "We must...hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends" the Declaration of Independence
#6364, aired 2012-04-263-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: The British borrowed this word for a table napkin from the French a serviette
#6320, aired 2012-02-24WEBSTER'S LAST WORDS $600: I: British comedian Eddie knows it's another word for the letter "Z" izzard
#6044, aired 2010-12-16CURSE WORDS $400: After Eliza Doolittle uttered this sanguine British word, it was termed "the Shavian adjective" bloody
#5969, aired 2010-07-22THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $200: 3-letter British term for a noisy quarrel a row
#5877, aired 2010-03-16BROKE-DOWN WORDS $600: My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth" frostbite
#5529, aired 2008-09-25CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR WORDS $1000: From the French for "to disguise", it was "dazzle painting" to the British navy in WWI camouflage
#5476, aired 2008-06-022-LETTER WORDS $1000: In British slang this word alone means thank you; 2 together means good-bye ta
#5296, aired 2007-09-246-LETTER WORDS $600: Harry Potter knows that this synonym for sorcerer is also a British slang term meaning "excellent" a wizard
#5295, aired 2007-09-21WORDS IN HISTORY $2000: It's a member of the British Conservative Party, m'lord a Tory
#5101, aired 2006-11-133-LETTER WORDS $1000: Manly first name of British plotter Fawkes & "Sesame Street" game-show host Smiley Guy
#4889, aired 2005-12-08THANKS $1000: This British naval commander's dying words were, "Thank God, I have done my duty" Nelson
#4656, aired 2004-11-29BRITISH FOOD WORDS $400: The starch in a British meal might be a "jacket", or baked, one of these a potato
#4656, aired 2004-11-29BRITISH FOOD WORDS $800: Jack the Ripper is Cockney rhyming slang for this breakfast favorite kippers
#4656, aired 2004-11-29BRITISH FOOD WORDS $1200: "Digestive biscuits" is British for these crackers we named after an American Graham crackers
#4656, aired 2004-11-29BRITISH FOOD WORDS $1600: John Bull uses maize flour; Uncle Sam, this 8-letter word cornmeal
#4656, aired 2004-11-29BRITISH FOOD WORDS $2000: A fruit's seeds become these in Britain, like Sherlock Holmes' case of the "Five Orange" ones pips
#4635, aired 2004-10-29"PH"UN WORDS $400: Models of this British motorcycle include the Tiger, Bonneville & Daytona 600 a Triumph
#4624, aired 2004-10-14"ICK"Y WORDS $600: Last name of the golfing great who was the first to twice win the British Open, Masters, PGA & U.S. Open (Jack) Nicklaus
#4581, aired 2004-07-059-LETTER WORDS $800: This British dependency is one of the southernmost points on the Iberian Peninsula Gibraltar
#4258, aired 2003-02-1920th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $1600: "So little done -- so much to do" were the 1902 last words of this British Empire bulider in Africa Cecil Rhodes
#4171, aired 2002-10-2110-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Seattle) Used in "Hamlet", it's the common British term for the vendor I'm buying from fishmonger
#4123, aired 2002-07-03EMPIRES $200: In 1936 George V's reported last words were "How is the Empire?--we presume he meant this one the British Empire
#4091, aired 2002-05-20ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The British call sausages baked in batter this creature "in the hole" toad
#3943, aired 2001-10-24WHAT WORDS SHOULD REALLY MEAN $800: This should mean a distant object, not an old British quarter-penny farthing
#3614, aired 2000-04-27COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $100: From their uniforms, British soldiers during the Revolutionary War were called these Redcoats
#3329, aired 1999-02-11FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: This turn of the century British sci-fi author's last words were "Go away...I'm all right"; he wasn't! H.G. Wells
#3214, aired 1998-07-16PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $600: This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell shrapnel
#3162, aired 1998-05-05COLLEGE WORDS $500: 3-letter term for the head of a British college or the head of a Mafia family Don
#3135, aired 1998-03-27WINNIE $2,200 (Daily Double): The 5 words that follow the lines spoken here in a June 18, 1940 speech: "If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say..." "this was their finest hour"
#3003, aired 1997-09-244-LETTER WORDS $300: During the American Revolution, this term referred to an American who favored the British side Tory
#2698, aired 1996-05-013-LETTER WORDS $100: A British bar pub
#2689, aired 1996-04-18BRITISH HODGEPODGE $500: A monument near Abbotsbury commemorates this man to whom Admiral Nelson spoke his dying words Sir Thomas Hardy
#2587, aired 1995-11-285-LETTER WORDS $200: Popular term for a British policeman, or a type of hairpin a Bobby
#2200, aired 1994-03-113-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the basic monetary unit of Laos, or British for a bed kip
#2111, aired 1993-11-08HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Killed at Trafalgar, this British commander's last words were "Thank God I have done my duty" Lord Nelson
#2064, aired 1993-07-22BRITISH WORDS $100: These rubber boots are called wellies for short wellingtons
#2064, aired 1993-07-22BRITISH WORDS $200: British theatregoers call it the interval intermission (*entr'acte)
#2064, aired 1993-07-22BRITISH WORDS $300: Order candy floss at an amusement park & you'll get this fluffy confection cotton candy
#2064, aired 1993-07-22BRITISH WORDS $400: Brits call this part of a car the silencer muffler
#2064, aired 1993-07-22BRITISH WORDS $500: The ancient name for this city was Mancunium & a person from it is still called a Mancunian Manchester
#1928, aired 1993-01-13BRITISH NOVELISTS $500: It only took about a year to write the half-million words in his work "The Outline of History" H.G. Wells
#1603, aired 1991-07-17WORD ORIGINS $1000: The British got the words schooner, scour & landscape from this language Dutch
#1500, aired 1991-02-22REVOLUTIONARY WORDS $600: In Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere advises, "If the British march tonight, hang" one of these "in the belfry arch" a lantern
#1384, aired 1990-09-136-LETTER WORDS $400: This word meaning a noisy uproar is a corruption of Bethlem, a British madhouse bedlam
#2, aired 1990-06-239-LETTER WORDS $400: A public officer who keeps the peace, or a British policeman of the lowest order constable
#1291, aired 1990-03-2611-LETTER WORDS $500: British weight system based on a pound equal to 453.59 grams or 16 ounces Avoirdupois
#1280, aired 1990-03-096-LETTER WORDS $300: The large hairpieces worn by British judges gave rise to this slang term for "important person" big wig
#1051, aired 1989-03-13REFERENCE BOOKS $500: In the preface to his 1747 dict., this British lexicographaer apologized to critics if he missed any words Samuel Johnson
#960, aired 1988-11-04BRITISH HISTORY $1,700 (Daily Double): In 1936 this king uttered his last words, "How is the Empire?" George V
#938, aired 1988-10-054-LETTER WORDS $400: To the British, when followed by "up", it's a verb meaning "to make a phone call" ring
#625, aired 1987-05-01"V" WORDS $400: British noble rank that is above a baron & below an earl a viscount
#324, aired 1985-12-05"WIND" WORDS $500: The British call them windcheaters windbreakers
#159, aired 1985-04-18LAST WORDS $1000: This British Restoration king's last concern was for his mistress: "Let not poor Nelly starve" Charles II
#57, aired 1984-11-273-LETTER WORDS $1000: Bathroom the British skip to the loo

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (8 results returned)

#8825, aired 2023-03-10INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange
#8806, aired 2023-02-13WORDS FROM WORLD WAR I: "Cistern" & "reservoir" were suggested names for a secret invention, but the British preferred this less clumsy monosyllable a tank
#8121, aired 2019-12-23BRITISH AUTHORS: In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious Roald Dahl
#7403, aired 2016-11-16FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS: In a British novel this young character's last words are, "Which is better--to have rules & agree, or to hunt & kill?" Piggy
#7083, aired 2015-06-03BRITISH CITIES: The name of this Southern city famous in literature is from words meaning "Kent people's stronghold" Canterbury
#6275, aired 2011-12-23POLITICAL WORDS: 16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led to this term for an item set aside for a specific purpose earmark
#4171, aired 2002-10-21PEOPLE: A British airport recently named for him features a logo with the words "Above Us Only Sky" John Lennon
#3160, aired 1998-05-01WORDS: Merrythought is an old, chiefly British term for this part of a chicken Wishbone

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