Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (57 results returned)

#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $400: Peter the Great introduced regular minting of this currency in silver & here he is, on one of his coins the ruble
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $800: In 2021 El Salvador's govt. made all businesses accept this as payment & introduced the digital "Chivo Wallet" bitcoin
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1200: Unemployment is supposed to fall as inflation rises & vice versa; under Pres. Ford, both rose & economists coined this word stagflation
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1600: Casa Loma, in this city, a financial center, was the passion of Henry Pellatt, who had to sell it when the Home Bank of Canada collapsed Toronto
#9028, aired 2024-01-31BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company
#4, aired 2023-05-09OVERWROUGHT HISTORY $1000: 1494: This business league is comin' apart, man! Ivan III nixed Novgorod from being one of its kontors, or trading posts the Hanseatic League
#8808, aired 2023-02-15ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $800: This cookie company was founded in 1937 by a Connecticut woman & named for her family's country home Pepperidge Farm
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $1600: In 2020 the Justice Dept. wound up its case against this Sackler Family opioid maker, which agreed to pay $8 billion in penalties Purdue (Pharma)
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $2000: In 1667 Londoner Nicholas Barbon set up the first office for this type of insurance fire insurance
#8517, aired 2021-11-23BUSINESS HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): This pair's first computer venture, Traf-O-Data for the Washington Roads Department, helped them launch a bigger company soon after Bill Gates & Paul Allen
#8436, aired 2021-07-05DRUNK HISTORY $400: Still in business today, Japan's Sudo Honke brewery has been turning rice & water into this since the 12th century sake
#7675, aired 2018-01-12OREGON $1000: Around 1836 Washington Irving wrote a history of this man's successful fur trading business in Oregon John Jacob Astor
#7053, aired 2015-04-22BUSINESS HISTORY $200: This restaurant chain opened in London in 1971; Eric Clapton's guitar became the first piece of memorabilia in 1979 the Hard Rock Cafe
#7053, aired 2015-04-22BUSINESS HISTORY $400: Back in 1896, an insurance company started telling us it had the reliability of this landmark Gibraltar
#7053, aired 2015-04-22BUSINESS HISTORY $600: In 1933 W.G. Peacock created this drink consisting of tomatoes, celery, carrots, spinach, watercress, beets, lettuce & parsley V8
#7053, aired 2015-04-22BUSINESS HISTORY $800: Ingvar Kamprad was 17 when he founded this company IKEA
#7053, aired 2015-04-22BUSINESS HISTORY $1000: In 1917 a cookware salesman began giving customers soapy steel-wool pads, which he later sold under this name S.O.S pads
#7040, aired 2015-04-03BIG BUSINESS $1600: In September 2014, in the largest IPO in history, investors said open sesame to this new stock from China Alibaba
#7009, aired 2015-02-19COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California) Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census and save taxpayers millions; They were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is, today, this three-letter business giant IBM
#6781, aired 2014-02-24THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The first transcontinental car trip was made by Horatio Nelson Jackson in this 1903 Winton at a time when America had few roads & little support for cars, so, whenever he had a breakdown & needed repairs, he would often have to rely on these workers that the automobile would soon put out of business blacksmiths
#6613, aired 2013-05-22BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 2012 this oil company agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history BP
#6429, aired 2012-07-26BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 2001 AOL & this communications giant completed a $164 billion merger, the largest in U.S. history Time Warner
#6076, aired 2011-01-31TREBEKS IN ART HISTORY $1000: Oh, Cousin Alain, you had no business in this man's "Impression, Sunrise"--probably why you didn't make the final cut (Claude) Monet
#5751, aired 2009-09-21TRANSPORTATION $2000: This motorcycle co. whose factory 100 years ago was "The Wigwam" is once again in business after a bumpy history Indian
#5744, aired 2009-07-23BUSINESS AS USUAL $400: In 1953 Marcel Bich formed a company to make these & wrote his name in business history pens
#5740, aired 2009-07-17HISTORY & HERSTORY $800: In 1776 she took over the family upholstering business; she also made flags for the Navy of Pennsylvania Betsy Ross
#5654, aired 2009-03-19A STORIED HISTORY $800: This author's "Noble House" follows the tea trading business in Hong Kong & China James Clavell
#5399, aired 2008-02-14TEENS IN HISTORY $1600: As a teen, this future inventor of the cotton gin had his own nail-making business Eli Whitney
#4292, aired 2003-04-08NYC BUSINESS HISTORY $200: The Baker's Local No. 338 formed between 1910 & 1915 was for an elite group of bakers of these "Jewish Donuts" bagels
#4292, aired 2003-04-08NYC BUSINESS HISTORY $400: First name of Mr. Handwerker, who opened a hot dog stand in Coney Island in 1916 Nathan
#4292, aired 2003-04-08NYC BUSINESS HISTORY $600: The IRT operated the first ones of these in NYC back in 1904 subway
#4292, aired 2003-04-08NYC BUSINESS HISTORY $800: Last name of siblings Daniel, John & Elisha, who took over dad's clothing store in 1850 Brooks
#4292, aired 2003-04-08NYC BUSINESS HISTORY $1000: George Dunlap joined up with this man in 1898 to publish books, left him in 1899, but came back in 1900 Alexander Grosset
#4191, aired 2002-11-18WORLD HISTORY $800: The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain Moors
#4050, aired 2002-03-22ALL BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): In October 2001 this company beat out Boeing for the largest defense contract in history, worth over $200 billion Lockheed
#3913, aired 2001-09-12MIND YOUR BUSINESS $500 (Daily Double): In 1952 Glen Bell was selling hot dogs & burgers; he then added these to the drive-in menu & the rest is history tacos
#3774, aired 2001-01-18AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $100: In 1864 this man joined his father-in-law Eberhard Anheuser in the brewing business Adolphus Busch
#3734, aired 2000-11-23THE HISTORY CHANNEL $400: Man whose earlier life is the subject here "His business ventures made him wealthy, free to pursue his experiments and inventions and to devote his life..." Benjamin Franklin
#2949, aired 1997-05-29BUSINESS BENCHMARKS $800: In 1992 this company acquired Security Pacific in the biggest bank merger in U.S. history BankAmerica (Bank of America)
#2886, aired 1997-03-03HISTORY $100: After years of construction, this canal finally opened for business August 15, 1914 Panama Canal
#2737, aired 1996-06-25BRITISH HISTORY 1982 $1000: This opera company known for its Gilbert & Sullivan shows went out of business in February D’Oyly Carte
#2468, aired 1995-05-03JOHNs IN HISTORY $400: Tired of the business, he sold all of his fur interests in 1834 (John Jacob) Astor
#2369, aired 1994-12-15BUSINESS HISTORY $100: Procter & Gamble owned this bleach company from 1957 to 1968 Clorox
#2369, aired 1994-12-15BUSINESS HISTORY $200: In 1880 he rented the third story of a building in Rochester, N.Y. to make his dry plates (George) Eastman
#2369, aired 1994-12-15BUSINESS HISTORY $300: This co. known for its yellow rental trucks began in 1933 with a 1931 black model a Ford truck Ryder
#2369, aired 1994-12-15BUSINESS HISTORY $400: In 1988 Ross Johnson tried to buy out this company & soon found barbarians at his gate (RJR) Nabisco
#2369, aired 1994-12-15BUSINESS HISTORY $500: H&R Block & Hallmark were both founded in this city Kansas City
#2281, aired 1994-07-04BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1,500 (Daily Double): This company's LaserJet printer, introduced in 1984, became the most successful product in its history Hewlett-Packard
#2051, aired 1993-07-05DUTCH BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Unilever's history includes Sunlight, the first of this product to be sold in single wrapped bars soap
#1242, aired 1990-01-16BUSINESS HISTORY $200: Facts on File reported a $215 million surplus after this L.A. event ended in 1984 Summer Olympics
#1242, aired 1990-01-16BUSINESS HISTORY $400: In 1971 the British government took over the former jet engine division of this car company Rolls Royce
#1242, aired 1990-01-16BUSINESS HISTORY $600: Founded in 1869 as a flour milling company it now owns Green Giant, Haagen-Dazs & Burger King Pillsbury
#1242, aired 1990-01-16BUSINESS HISTORY $800: In 1890 Congress passed this 1st antitrust act declaring combination in restraint of trade illegal Sherman Act
#1242, aired 1990-01-16BUSINESS HISTORY $1000: Colorful canine description for an agreement a worker signs promising not to join a union yellow-dog
#660, aired 1987-06-19BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Ford made history in 1914 by establishing this as standard length of work day 8
#95, aired 1985-01-18BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1980 this auto maker recorded the greatest loss in U.S. corporate history, $1.7 bil. Chrysler

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (11 results returned)

#8889, aired 2023-06-08BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam
#8343, aired 2021-02-24BUSINESS HISTORY: David McConnell's cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright Avon
#6984, aired 2015-01-15BUSINESS HISTORY: Found near Amsterdam in 2010, a 1606 stock certificate from this long-defunct company has been valued at $750,000 the Dutch East India Company
#6830, aired 2014-05-02BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1945 this product added a plaid design to its "snail" dispenser Scotch Tape
#6555, aired 2013-03-01BUSINESS HISTORY: In 1938 his company began installing instruments in U.S. homes to record the frequencies to which a radio was tuned A.C. Nielsen
#6278, aired 2011-12-28BUSINESS HISTORY: Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product the Edsel
#5453, aired 2008-04-30BUSINESS: In 1952 Glen Bell was selling burgers; he then added these to the drive-in menu for 19¢, & the rest is history tacos
#4666, aired 2004-12-13BUSINESS HISTORY: Last names of the 2 men, both engineers, who met & formed a partnership at England's Midland Hotel in May 1904 Rolls and Royce
#4467, aired 2004-01-27THE BUSINESS BOOKSHELF: F. Paul Pacult's "American Still Life" is the history of this over 200-year-old Kentucky company Jim Beam
#3822, aired 2001-03-27BUSINESS HISTORY: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people The British East India Company
#3221, aired 1998-09-141998 BUSINESS NEWS: The Silver Seraph, the 9th new model in its 92-year history, is its first built on a moving assembly line Rolls-Royce

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