Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (49 results returned)

#5, aired 2023-05-10DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $200: This agency was born in 1865 to combat counterfeiting, as at the Civil War's end, nearly 1/3 of currency in circulation was fake the Secret Service
#8854, aired 2023-04-20HISTORY $400: This was invented during the Han Dynasty, which built an efficient civil service that needed plenty for its bureaucrats to push paper
#8733, aired 2022-11-02NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $2000: In London, it's an area of government offices, & by extension the civil service; in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the prime minister's office Whitehall
#8503, aired 2021-11-03HISTORIC ILLINOIS $1200: Settling in Illinois, he founded his own detective agency & later headed the Union secret service during the Civil War (Allan) Pinkerton
#8060, aired 2019-09-27MUSEUM-PODGE $800: Wisconsin's National Railroad Museum has an exhibit on these porters: "from service to civil rights" Pullman car porters
#7868, aired 2018-11-21WACKY WEDNESDAY $1000: This "service" of public employees is rarely as cushy as for a Spanish functionary who didn't show up to work for 6 years the civil service
#7757, aired 2018-05-08GENIUS: PICASSO $1600: As a young man, Picasso lived in Catalonia with a friend, painting & avoiding service in this 1898 conflict the Spanish-American War
#7470, aired 2017-02-17GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This service goes back to 1862, when we needed a way to fund the Civil War the IRS
#7038, aired 2015-04-01THE CIVIL WAR YEARS $800: In the fall of 1861 this service delivered its last piece of mail the Pony Express
#6988, aired 2015-01-21"CIVIL" $400: The folks employed by the U.S. government taken collectively the civil service
#6917, aired 2014-10-1419th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: This president was a supporter of the Pendleton Civil Service Act Chester Arthur
#6512, aired 2013-01-01RANKS & TITLES $2000: The civil service of the Chinese empire had 9 grades of these officials mandarins
#6445, aired 2012-09-282-WORD RESPONSES $600: This 2-word term originally referred to the branch of the East India Co. run by staff not belonging to the military civil service
#6121, aired 2011-04-04NOT WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE $800: A courteous & respectful set of dishes & utensils, as for afternoon tea (5, 7) civil service
#6029, aired 2010-11-25STRONG WORDS $2000: Post-Civil War Republicans opposed to civil service reform were called these Stalwarts
#5797, aired 2009-11-24THE NEWSEUM $2000: (Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) A key moment in the Civil Rights era was a sit-in protest after four black students were refused service at an all-white F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in this North Carolina city Greensboro, North Carolina
#5605, aired 2009-01-09HAIKU TO THE CHIEF $1000: Shot within 4 months / Soon, civil service reform / Guiteau got his gun James Garfield
#4916, aired 2006-01-16CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Pentagon.) The service of these aviators honored here was a factor in leading President Truman to desegregate the military the Tuskegee Airmen
#4910, aired 2006-01-06EVENING NEWS 1893 $800: The nation listened as this man took on the topic of civil service reform in his second inaugural address Grover Cleveland
#4772, aired 2005-05-10CIVIL SERVANTS $800: Today the U.S Civil Service Commission is known as the OPM, or "Office of" this Personnel Management
#4772, aired 2005-05-10CIVIL SERVANTS $1200: Based on merit, the Civil Service replaced this "system" of job appointment that Andrew Jackson favored the spoils system
#4772, aired 2005-05-10CIVIL SERVANTS $2000: The U.S. Civil Service Commission was established as a result of this would-be civil servant shooting President Garfield (Charles) Guiteau
#4772, aired 2005-05-10CIVIL SERVANTS $3,200 (Daily Double): The UK's civil service is based on the bureaucracy of this company that existed from 1600 until 1858 the British East India Company
#4373, aired 2003-09-17CHINESE HISTORY $800: The Sui Dynasty cemented the system of exams to qualify for the coveted jobs in this service the civil service
#4343, aired 2003-06-18WILLIAM McKINLEY NEVER... $800: ...took Paxil for this type of "stress disorder", a possible result of his Civil War service Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
#4295, aired 2003-04-11GOVERNMENT WORK $400: As opposed to the armed service, this group handles the government's administrative functions the civil service
#4237, aired 2003-01-21BRITANNICA $2000: Running from Charing Cross to Parliament, this street has lent its name to the British civil service Whitehall
#4098, aired 2002-05-29PEACETIME HISTORY $600: Between 960 & 1279 China's Sung Dynasty developed a merit-based system for entry to this "service" civil service
#3774, aired 2001-01-18AMERICAN BEER HISTORY $400: Formed one year earlier, this "Service" began taxing beer at a dollar a barrel in 1862 to finance the Civil War Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
#3458, aired 1999-09-22CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: Before his Civil War service, this "bewhiskered" general invented & manufactured a breech-loading carbine Ambrose Burnside
#2946, aired 1997-05-26THE CIVIL WAR $600: This famous detective headed the Union secret service under McClellan Pinkerton
#2891, aired 1997-03-10CIVIL SERVICE $200: This term for the scholarly elite of the Sung dynasty's civil service came to mean any high official Mandarin
#2891, aired 1997-03-10CIVIL SERVICE $400: Under this 1966 law that opened government files to the public, civil servants' personnel files may be withheld Freedom of Information Act
#2891, aired 1997-03-10CIVIL SERVICE $600: In 1995 Pres. Clinton urged this 50-year-old organization to trim its bloated bureaucracy United Nations
#2891, aired 1997-03-10CIVIL SERVICE $800: In this "system" rampant in the 19th C., election winners filled the government with their supporters "Spoils" system
#2891, aired 1997-03-10CIVIL SERVICE $1000: This U.S. asst. Secretary of State was in the news in 1995, running the Balkan peace talks Richard Holbrooke
#2604, aired 1995-12-21THE CIVIL WAR $400: Of the 1,200 men awarded this for Civil War service, about 3/4 were later found ineligible under new rules the Congressional Medal of Honor
#2514, aired 1995-07-06GROVER CLEVELAND $300: During this war, Cleveland avoided service by hiring a substitute the Civil War
#2476, aired 1995-05-15U.S. GOVERNMENT $300: His 1881 assassination by an office-seeker spurred creation of a merit-based civil service Garfield
#2434, aired 1995-03-16THEATRE $400: William Gillette's play "Secret Service" is set in this Confederate capital at the close of the Civil War Richmond
#2238, aired 1994-05-04THE CIVIL WAR $200: In 1862 the Confederate Congress passed a bill exempting anyone owning 20 of these from military service slaves
#2227, aired 1994-04-19ESPIONAGE $1000: During the Civil War, this detective headed McClellan's Secret Service (Allan) Pinkerton
#2040, aired 1993-06-18POLITICAL TERMS $200: The Stalwarts of this political party opposed President Garfield's civil service reforms Republican
#1735, aired 1992-02-2819TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: William Gillette's plays "Held by the Enemy" & "Secret Service" were set in this war the Civil War
#12, aired 1990-09-01THE MYSTERIOUS EAST $2500: For some 2000 years these Chinese bureaucrats got their jobs by passing civil service tests the mandarins
#1315, aired 1990-04-27PLAY SETTINGS $200: William Gillette's 1895 spy drama "Secret Service" is set in Richmond at the end of this war the Civil War
#1183, aired 1989-10-25THE CIVIL WAR $200: In 1862 the Confederate Congress exempted those in charge more than 20 of these from army service slaves
#699, aired 1987-09-24HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1000: London Street synonymous with the British civil service, which has many offices there Whitehall
#486, aired 1986-10-20MEDALS & DECORATIONS $400: In 1802, he founded the Legion of Honor as a reward for civil & military service Napoleon

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (3 results returned)

#4806, aired 2005-06-27MILITARY MEN: Last name of the first father & son to be awarded medals of honor, for service in the Civil War & WWII respectively Arthur & Douglas MacArthur
#3758, aired 2000-12-27THE CIVIL WAR: For his service in the Civil War Congress made him General in Chief of the Armies Ulysses S. Grant
#881, aired 1988-06-06GOVERNMENT: The use of civil service examinations began over 1000 years ago in this country China

Players (1 result returned)

Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....



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