Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (67 results returned)

#8910, aired 2023-07-07HOTEL CALIFORNIA $1000: The historic Hotel Atwater on this island south of L.A. dates from the 1920s Santa Catalina
#8829, aired 2023-03-16U.S. ISLANDS $1200: It was William Wrigley Jr. & his vision that turned this Southern California island into a popular resort destination Catalina
#7, aired 2022-11-06FIRE ISLAND $400: In September 2020 it was a toasty 110 in this one of California's Channel Islands with Avalon as its only city Catalina
#8536, aired 2021-12-20SALE OF THE CENTURY $1600: 20th century: this businessman buys the island of Santa Catalina & brings the Cubs over for spring training Wrigley
#8533, aired 2021-12-15SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $600: In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island Catalina
#8290, aired 2020-11-27C AS IN "CAT" $800: Avalon is the only incorporated city on this resort island off the coast of Southern California Catalina
#8182, aired 2020-03-17U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: Here's this California island and its famous Art Deco casino, used not for gambling but as an event venue (Santa) Catalina
#7968, aired 2019-04-10"M.G." $800: Catalina Island has an 18-hole course for this mini golf
#7955, aired 2019-03-22U.S. ISLANDS $1600: This southern California island maintains a herd of free-roaming bison, the first one brought for a movie shoot in 1924 Catalina
#7683, aired 2018-01-24MISS NOMERS $200: In 1952 Catalina Swimsuits broke from Miss America & created this pageant, first called Miss United Nations Miss Universe
#7591, aired 2017-09-18ISLANDS $800: Near Santa Barbara, it's California's largest island; we don't know if there are banana slugs on it Santa Cruz
#7453, aired 2017-01-25U.S. ISLANDS $1000: For 3 decades, this California island's Avalon Ballroom has been home to the JazzTrax music festival Catalina
#7372, aired 2016-10-04IT'S THE CATALINA WINE MIXER $200: On the boat out to the island, I sipped champagne, both doux ("sweet") & sec (this opposite quality) dry
#7372, aired 2016-10-04IT'S THE CATALINA WINE MIXER $400: Next to where the helicopters were parked, I tasted a great white varietal fittingly called "Chenin" this blanc
#7372, aired 2016-10-04IT'S THE CATALINA WINE MIXER $600: After hearing my bawdy joke, my wife did this, also a synonym for the rosé she was drinking blush
#7372, aired 2016-10-04IT'S THE CATALINA WINE MIXER $800: I'd always called this red wine syrah, but the guy who was pouring said it's also called this shiraz
#7372, aired 2016-10-04IT'S THE CATALINA WINE MIXER $1000: The band played "The Longest Time" & I drank some Maestro, a blend made for this epic winemaker's 50th anniversary Robert Mondavi
#7214, aired 2016-01-14THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $800: In 1926 Zane Grey built an elaborate home on this island off Los Angeles, where he spent most of the rest of his life Catalina
#7079, aired 2015-05-28ISLANDS IN THE "C"s $400: An old song says, "26 miles across the sea" this island "is a-waitin' for me" Catalina
#7012, aired 2015-02-24ANIMAL PLANET $600: The Avalon Hairstreak butterfly: this island, part of Los Angeles County Catalina Island
#6570, aired 2013-03-22STATE SONG LYRICS $800: "I love you, Catalina, you are very dear to me, I love you, Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite" California
#5975, aired 2010-07-30YOU ARE THE JUAN $1600: Around 1542 explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered this island off L.A. & it's believed he's buried there too Catalina (Island)
#5935, aired 2010-06-04SURVIVAL AT SEA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Richard Van Pham, who originally set sail from Long Beach, heading for Catalina got blown just a bit off course, & after four months, ended up near this country Costa Rica
#5875, aired 2010-03-12CALIFORNIA $1200: In 1926 Zane Grey built a home on this island off Los Angeles where he spent most of the rest of his life Catalina Island
#5620, aired 2009-01-30ON CAMPUS $800: USC has a satellite campus on this island about 25 miles off L.A.'s coast Catalina
#5566, aired 2008-11-17WORLD LITERATURE $1000: This Norwegian was in his early 20s when he wrote his first play, "Catalina", in 1850 Ibsen
#5356, aired 2007-12-17GIRLY MOVIES $2000: For this 2004 film, Catalina Sandino Moreno was the first Best Actress Oscar nominee to speak all her lines in Spanish Maria, Full of Grace
#5311, aired 2007-10-15ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew visits with the bison at the Catalina Island Conservancy.) Catalina can't support large numbers of bison, so in 2004, about 100 of them were repatrioted to their ancestral home in this Mt. Rushmore state South Dakota
#5301, aired 2007-10-01SEA LIFE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the USC Wrigley Institute.) This type of lobster thrives in Catalina's waters, even though it's missing its more popular cousin's claws a spiny lobster
#5243, aired 2007-05-303 LITTLE LETTERS $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Catalina Island Conservancy.) Rampant use of this 3-letter insecticide lead to a hefty settlement for restorating the population of Catalina's bald eagles DDT
#5222, aired 2007-05-01ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew appears from the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island, CA.) Though thriving now, Catalina Island foxes were threatened in the '90s by the infectious disease marked by fever & catarrh known as canine this distemper
#5150, aired 2007-01-19MARINE LIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew Reports from Catalina Island.) The tiny pinchers that keep starfish free of algae are called pedicellaria, from the Latin for this body part the foot
#5150, aired 2007-01-19MARINE LIFE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Catalina Island.) When an octopus feeds on crab, it punctures the shell with one of these avian tools, injecting a poison & liquifying the meat the beak
#5150, aired 2007-01-19MARINE LIFE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Catalina Island.) The inner cavities of sea urchins contain 5 sets of invertebrate eggs, known by this 3-letter name roe
#5149, aired 2007-01-18STATE SONG LYRICS $200: "I love you Catalina--you are very dear to me, I love you Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite" California
#5092, aired 2006-10-31SCIENC"E" $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island, CA.) Pentaradial symmetry & hard, spiny skin are two major qualities of this phylum of creatures Echinodermata
#5079, aired 2006-10-12CATALINA $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from near a fountain on Catalina Island, CA.) In 1919 this chewing gum magnate bought Catalina & built it into a world-class resort (William) Wrigley
#5079, aired 2006-10-12CATALINA $800: Movies shot on Catalina include this 1935 Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Charles Laughton Mutiny on the Bounty
#5079, aired 2006-10-12CATALINA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a hillside on Catalina Island, CA.) One of Catalina's most famous residents was this author of "Riders of the Purple Sage", who built a home here in 1926 (Zane) Grey
#5079, aired 2006-10-12CATALINA $1600: Catalina had Southern Calif.'s first golf course; from 1931 to 1955 it hosted a tournament named for this Ga. great Bobby Jones
#5079, aired 2006-10-12CATALINA $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from on high on Catalina Island, CA.) Catalina's only city shares its name with this island of the King Arthur legends Avalon
#5064, aired 2006-09-21WHERE AM I? $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is waiting for me.) I'm on this California island of romance which, according to a Four Preps song, is "26 miles across the sea" (Santa) Catalina
#5055, aired 2006-07-28THE CHAMBER $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows us a hyperbaric chamber on Catalina Island, CA.) A hyperbaric chamber is also called this type of chamber, not because you relax, but because you return to normal pressure a decompression chamber
#4947, aired 2006-02-28ISLANDS $1200: Guernsey is one of Britain's islands called these; Santa Catalina is one of California's Channel Islands
#4861, aired 2005-10-31NEW WORLD EXPLORERS $2000: He discovered San Diego Bay & Catalina Island in 1542 & is said to be buried there Juan Cabrillo
#4633, aired 2004-10-27U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The Wrigley family owns much of this resort island 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles Catalina
#4092, aired 2002-05-21SHORE SHORTS $1600: This country has 2,600 miles on the Pacific & Punta Catalina on the Atlantic Chile
#4071, aired 2002-04-22GEOGRAPHY "B" $1200: A thoroughfare called the Ramblas connects the harbor & the Place de Catalina in this Spanish port Barcelona
#3753, aired 2000-12-20THE 1980s $200: On Nov. 29, 1981 this film actress drowned after falling from a yacht moored off Catalina Island Natalie Wood
#3389, aired 1999-05-06STRAY "CAT"S $200: This island once noted for its prison is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Alcatraz Island
#3073, aired 1997-12-31ISLANDS $1,500 (Daily Double): California's Santa Catalina Island, like the U.K.'s Guernsey, belongs to a group called this the Channel Islands
#2927, aired 1997-04-29TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: This resort island "26 Miles Across the Sea" from Los Angeles was once a haven for smugglers Catalina Island
#2439, aired 1995-03-23PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: This conquistador's enemies accused him of murdering his 1st wife, Catalina Xuarez Cortés
#2209, aired 1994-03-24U.S. ISLANDS $500: Chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. once owned this California island "twenty six miles across the sea" Catalina
#2015, aired 1993-05-14THE ENVIRONMENT $100: CA.'s Catalina Island has the 1st U.S. plant to do this to seawater for use by a residential community desalinate the water
#1884, aired 1992-11-12ISLANDS $800: This island off the coast of Southern California was named in honor of St. Catherine of Alexandria Santa Catalina
#1838, aired 1992-09-09COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: This university in Los Angeles supports a marine science center on Catalina Island USC (the University of Southern California)
#1582, aired 1991-06-18EXPLORERS $1000: In 1542 this Portuguese explorer became the 1st European to see San Diego Bay & Santa Catalina Island Cabrillo
#1329, aired 1990-05-17ISLANDS $600: Between 1921-51 the Cubs held spring training on this island owned by Wrigley near L.A. Catalina Island
#1227, aired 1989-12-26ISLANDS $400: Wm. Wrigley Jr. bought this island near L.A. in 1919 & then built a 22-room summer cottage there Santa Catalina Island
#1219, aired 1989-12-14ISLANDS $600: This group of islands off Southern California became a national park in 1980 the Channel Islands
#851, aired 1988-04-25WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200 (Daily Double): Title of the following, it's metric equivalent is 41.8, not 40, kilometers: "Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me / Santa Catalina, the island of romance / Romance, romance, romance / Water all around it everywhere..." "26 Miles"
#711, aired 1987-10-12SEA SONGS $100: You can get there sailing "40 kilometers in a leaky old boat, any old thing that will stay afloat" Santa Catalina
#442, aired 1986-05-20CHEWING GUM $400: Using gum profits, William Wrigley bought this southern California resort island Catalina Island
#316, aired 1985-11-25ISLANDS $600: According to The Four Preps, you can get there by sailing "40 kilometers in a leaky old boat" Catalina
#280, aired 1985-10-04ISLANDS $400 (Daily Double): 1st to claim Calif. gold said he found it on this island named for St. Catherine Santa Catalina
#8, aired 1984-09-19ISLANDS $400: The song "26 Miles Across The Sea" overshoots this island by 3 miles Catalina Island

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (4 results returned)

#5505, aired 2008-07-11BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs
#2991, aired 1997-09-08BRITISH ROYALTY: She was 6 years old & still known by the name Catalina when Columbus set sail for the New World Catherine of Aragon
#2373, aired 1994-12-21U.S. ISLANDS: Mount Ada on this island is named for the wife of chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Catalina Island
#2209, aired 1994-03-24LESSER-KNOWN NAMES: You're most likely to see the names Catalina Villalpando & Nicholas Brady together on one of these a $1 bill

Players (1 result returned)

Ana Catalina Posada, a graduate student from Hanover, New Hampshire Season 25 player (2009-06-02). First name pronounced like "AH-nah".



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