Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (58 results returned)

#8775, aired 2022-12-30ALLITERATION $2000: In the 10th century Arab mathematician Abul-Wafa wrote about these, saying they're needed by businessmen who go into debt negative numbers
#8351, aired 2021-03-08THE BOURGEOISIE $400: This French word for "small" is used of small businessmen, civil servants & others aspiring to be haut-bourgeois petite
#7889, aired 2018-12-20RECENT EVENTS $400: In support of its fellow businessmen, Country Time brand paid fines kids got running unlicensed these stands lemonade
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: In 1873 this Prussian-American founded a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek in Colorado Coors
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $800: He incorporated his San Francisco company in 1890, the same year his XX waist overalls were given the lot number 501 Levi Strauss
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $1200: This banker preferred to be called by his middle name, Pierpont, which was his mother's maiden name J.P. Morgan
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $2000: When cigarette makers formed the American Tobacco Company in 1890, this North Carolinian became its first president James Buchanan Duke
#7463, aired 2017-02-0819th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): After selling his fur business in 1834, he devoted himself to real estate, building the world's biggest hotel in NYC John Jacob Astor
#7287, aired 2016-04-26MY COUNTRY $600: Businessmen Henri Nestle & Antoine de Patek & Adrien Philippe Switzerland
#7247, aired 2016-03-01COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: (Hi, I'm Zachary Quinto.) I studied drama at this Pittsburgh university named for 2 businessmen, the first U.S. college to grant degrees in drama Carnegie Mellon
#7131, aired 2015-09-21MONTANA $400: In November 1908 this organization of Christian businessmen placed their first bibles in a Montana hotel Gideon
#6555, aired 2013-03-01WINGS $400: Missouri businessmen financed Charles LIndbergh, allowing him to buy this plane in which he made history The Spirit of St. Louis
#6209, aired 2011-09-22DO YOU LIKE RUSSIAN HISTORY? $1200: Privatization in the 1990s gave power to the wealthy businessmen called these, from a term for government by the few oligarchs
#5901, aired 2010-04-1919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $200: In 1873 this dry goods salesman began selling his double X blue denim waist overalls (Levi) Strauss
#5901, aired 2010-04-1919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: By the time this Cleveland businessman retired in 1896, his company owned 3/4 of the USA's oil business (John D.) Rockefeller
#5901, aired 2010-04-1919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $600: In 1873 he bought an abandoned tannery on the banks of Clear Creek in Golden, Colo. & converted it into a brewery (Adolph) Coors
#5901, aired 2010-04-1919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $800: In 1898 Charles Seiberling borrowed $3,500 to start this company in Akron to produce bicycle & carriage tires Goodyear
#5901, aired 2010-04-1919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1873 he founded the J. Edgar Thomson works near Pittsburgh, naming the steel mill for the Penn. railroad president Carnegie
#5509, aired 2008-07-17EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In 1241 Hamburg & Lubeck businessmen formed an association that grew into this big league the Hanseatic League
#5279, aired 2007-07-19BE A SPORT $2000: In 1895 at a YMCA, this indoor sport was developed for businessmen who found basketball too vigorous volleyball
#4744, aired 2005-03-31EVERYDAY ITEMS $800: Businessmen in London's "The City" carry rolled-up black ones of these, also called bumbershoots umbrellas
#4668, aired 2004-12-15WE MEAN BUSINESS $200: In 1792 the NYSE was established when businessmen came to an agreement under a buttonwood tree on this street Wall Street
#4560, aired 2004-06-04BUSINESSMEN $200: His partnership with Alvah Roebuck began when he placed a classified ad looking for a watchmaker (Richard) Sears
#4560, aired 2004-06-04BUSINESSMEN $400: On Business Week's 2003 list of the 50 most generous philanthropists, he & wife Melinda ranked first Bill Gates
#4560, aired 2004-06-04BUSINESSMEN $600: In the 1890s he stopped selling baking powder to concentrate on a freebie he'd been giving away--chewing gum! (William) Wrigley
#4560, aired 2004-06-04BUSINESSMEN $800: Jeff Bezos, CEO of this giant online retailer, was Time's Person of the Year for 1999 Amazon.com
#4560, aired 2004-06-04BUSINESSMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1913 he spent some of those nickels & dimes to build in NYC what was then the world's tallest building Woolworth
#4525, aired 2004-04-16CARRY ON $1200: Businessmen carry these, though their name suggests they're specially designed for lawyers briefcases
#4054, aired 2002-03-28GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER $1000: Until the 1914 Clayton one of these acts, businessmen could create monopolies by buying stock in competing firms antitrust
#3919, aired 2001-09-20FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS $300: Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase "captains of" this to mean powerful businessmen industry
#3768, aired 2001-01-10"OLD" ENGLAND $500: They're worn by businessmen who want to be recognizable to their former classmates The old school tie
#3593, aired 2000-03-29NURSERY RHYME HEADLINES $100: These "3 Knavish Businessmen Discovered Together in Tub" The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker
#3550, aired 2000-01-28MIND YOUR BUSINESS $200: Turn-of-the-century businessmen like Vanderbilt & Rockefeller were known as "robber" these Barons
#3465, aired 1999-10-01BUSINESSMEN $200: In the 1920s businessman Marcus Loew combined 3 movie production companies to form this one MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
#3465, aired 1999-10-01BUSINESSMEN $400: His first mail order catalog in 1872 was 1 page thick Montgomery Ward
#3465, aired 1999-10-01BUSINESSMEN $600: In 1983 he sold his discount brokerage company to Bankamerica & in 1987 he bought it back again Charles Schwab
#3465, aired 1999-10-01BUSINESSMEN $800: At age 19 in 1984 he founded PCs Limited, selling souped-up IBMs from his dorm room Michael Dell
#3465, aired 1999-10-01BUSINESSMEN $1000: The Mirage was the first resort venture he built in Las Vegas; Treasure Island, his second Steve Wynn
#3136, aired 1998-03-30CLOTHES MAKE THE PERSON $200: Working men wear blue ones, businessmen wear white ones & clergymen wear reversed ones collars
#3024, aired 1997-10-23INSURRECTIONS $400: Robert Wilcox led a revolt against the 1887 "Bayonet Constitution" U.S. businessmen forced on these islands Hawaii
#2952, aired 1997-06-03WORD ORIGINS $800: In the late 1880s Americans borrowed this title for powerful businessmen from Japanese shoguns tycoons
#2706, aired 1996-05-13THE 17th CENTURY $200: In 1637 hundreds of businessmen were ruined when the market for these Dutch flowers collapsed tulips
#1853, aired 1992-09-30AVIATION $200: Businessmen of this city put up the money to make Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight possible St. Louis
#1534, aired 1991-04-11COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This Pittsburgh University, named for 2 businessmen, was the first college in the world to grant degrees in drama Carnegie Mellon
#1317, aired 1990-05-01AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $200: Accoridng to Forbes Magazine, Steven Spielberg made $70 million or so on this one videotape "E.T."
#1317, aired 1990-05-011980 $400: FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen ABSCAM
#1317, aired 1990-05-01AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $600: The 8 richest people in Delaware all belong to this family DuPont
#1317, aired 1990-05-01AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $800: In 1887 this man replaced Levi Abt as a partner with Max & Harry Hart & Marcus Marx Joseph Schaffner
#1317, aired 1990-05-01AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN $1000: In 1963 this Texas hobby store chain owner bought the Boston-based Radio Shack chain Charles Tandy
#1124, aired 1989-06-22MEDIUM & MESSAGE $1000: Dale Carnegie taught this & wrote a text on it for businessmen in 1926 public speaking
#719, aired 1987-10-22FAMOUS QUOTES $800: Defense Sec'y Charles Wilson's 1953 quote: "I thought what was good for the country was good for" them General Motors
#429, aired 1986-05-01MONEY $300: Most businessmen prefer to do risky deals with OPM, meaning this other people's money
#405, aired 1986-03-28BUSINESSMEN $100: Hollywood make-up man who introduced false eyelashes in 1919, lip gloss in 1930 & pan-cake in 1937 Max Factor
#405, aired 1986-03-28BUSINESSMEN $200: Soapmaker & his German son-in-law who took over a failing St. Louis brewery in 1860 Anheuser & Busch
#405, aired 1986-03-28BUSINESSMEN $300: Born in England in 1808, he originated the idea of arranged tours & travel agencies Thomas Cook
#405, aired 1986-03-28BUSINESSMEN $400: Former ambassador to the Court of St. James, he founded TV Guide Annenberg
#405, aired 1986-03-28BUSINESSMEN $500: In order to buy TV stations from Metromedia, Inc., this Aussie became a U.S. citizen Rupert Murdoch
#273, aired 1985-09-25MISSOURI $200: Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic was financed by businessmen from this city St. Louis

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (10 results returned)

#8456, aired 2021-08-02HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor
#7589, aired 2017-09-14BUSINESSMEN: The corporation of this British man got its name from his early inexperience in business Richard Branson
#7199, aired 2015-12-24AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind Armand Hammer
#7162, aired 2015-11-0320th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation Boeing
#7067, aired 2015-05-12BUSINESS: These 2 American businessmen are seen here in early 20th century photos Harley & Davidson
#6497, aired 2012-12-11BUSINESSMEN: Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink, Clank," this Think
#5205, aired 2007-04-0620th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: He published "Hunting, Fishing, and Camping" in 1942 & "My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant" in 1960 L.L. Bean
#4897, aired 2005-12-20AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: This man who died in 1984 remarked, "We're not in the hamburger business, we're in show business" Ray Kroc
#4799, aired 2005-06-16HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Tired of his fragile wares being smashed in transit, this man born in 1730 advocated British turnpike building Wedgwood
#3831, aired 2001-04-0919th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1859 he was knighted for offering his ships for service in the Crimean War Sir Samuel Cunard

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