Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (197 results returned)

#8989, aired 2023-12-074 YOUR CONSIDERATION $600: For Christmas cards & bills alike, these got their new +4 format in 1983 ZIP Codes
#8936, aired 2023-09-25U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $200: HNL: Shaka, brah! Hawaii
#8936, aired 2023-09-25U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $400: LIT: A wee city in this state Arkansas
#8936, aired 2023-09-25U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $600: MGM: Not a studio, it's a southern thing Alabama
#8936, aired 2023-09-25U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $800: SAF: Get enchanted there New Mexico
#8936, aired 2023-09-25U.S. CAPITAL AIRPORT CODES $1000: BTR: It's on the Mississippi Louisiana
#8910, aired 2023-07-07BEHIND THE BOND $4,000 (Daily Double): The Spektor device in "From Russia with Love" is based on this German machine that Fleming tried to steal codes from during World War II the Enigma machine
#8904, aired 2023-06-29FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $200: Also used by texters, it's the "divine" 3-letter code for Namibia's Omega Airport OMG
#8904, aired 2023-06-29FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $400: Don't be angry--GRR gets you into this Michigan city Grand Rapids
#8904, aired 2023-06-29FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $600: This dessert is the code of St. Pete-Clearwater International & completes its rhyming website "fly2..." pie
#8904, aired 2023-06-29FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $800: Going straight to HEL? Then you're on a direct flight to this northern European country Finland
#8904, aired 2023-06-29FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES $1000: Complete your MBA by flying into the international airport of this Kenyan city Mombasa
#5, aired 2022-10-23BIOLOGY $1000: The 2 strands of this stuff that codes genetic information are said to resemble a twisted ladder DNA
#8584, aired 2022-02-24HODGEPODGE $800: This 2-letter abbreviation is alphabetically last among U.S. state postal codes WY
#8359, aired 2021-03-18STING $400: (Sting presents the clue.) My friend & colleague Shaggy & I shared the 2019 Best Reggae Album Grammy for "44/876"; the title came from our home country's dialing codes, 44 for mine, England, & 876 for this homeland of his Jamaica
#8302, aired 2020-12-15NOT GONNA THROW AWAY $600: The numbers found on products made from this material are called resin identification codes & are used to sort different types plastic
#8238, aired 2020-09-16THE NAVAJO $3,000 (Daily Double): The unique complexities of the Navajo language made it perfect for Native Americans working as these during World War II code talkers
#8132, aired 2020-01-07FUN WITH ZIP CODES $400: Remember the Alamo & this city whose ZIP Codes run from 78201 to 78299 San Antonio
#8132, aired 2020-01-07FUN WITH ZIP CODES $600: To promote the use of ZIP Codes, Ethel Merman recorded a jingle to the tune of this song from "Song of the South" "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
#8132, aired 2020-01-07FUN WITH ZIP CODES $800: Manhattan buildings with their own ZIP Codes include the Postum & Metlife buildings, both on the avenue with this scenic name Park Avenue
#8132, aired 2020-01-07FUN WITH ZIP CODES $1000: The ZIP Code 12345 in Schenectady, New York lights up this company that began operations there in 1892 General Electric
#8127, aired 2019-12-31WHERE AM I? $200: ( Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in a mailroom.) I'm with mail for ZIP Codes 60601 through 60827 at the United States Postal Services' main processing plant for this, the third most populous U.S. city Chicago
#8098, aired 2019-11-20I GOT RELIGION $2000: Often called Islamic law, it's broader than secular law codes & uses "recommended" & "disapproved", not "legal" & "illegal" Sharia law
#8016, aired 2019-06-17PUNCTUATION $1200: It was Ladislav Sutnar who put telephone area codes inside these parentheses
#7898, aired 2019-01-02USA $1600: Beginning with 99801, its zip codes are the highest of any state capital's Juneau, Alaska
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AIRPORT CODES $200: LGA LaGuardia
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AIRPORT CODES $400: CDG, non? Charles de Gaulle
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AIRPORT CODES $600: BOM, not MUM, serves this Asian city Mumbai (or Bombay)
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AIRPORT CODES $800: It makes me loco that this aeropuerto is MAD Madrid
#7894, aired 2018-12-27AIRPORT CODES $1000: BWI--these 2 cities are the B & the W Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
#7726, aired 2018-03-26AIRLINES $200: Airlines have codes like airports do; this foreign-based carrier is AF Air France
#7691, aired 2018-02-05FUN(?) WITH INTERNET COUNTRY CODES $200: This country is the BO in minculturas.gob.bo Bolivia
#7691, aired 2018-02-05FUN(?) WITH INTERNET COUNTRY CODES $400: There's diving info at naia.com.fj, this country Fiji
#7660, aired 2017-12-22AIRPORT CODES $200: LOL! that's the code for the field in Lovelock, up I-80 from Reno in this state Nevada
#7660, aired 2017-12-22AIRPORT CODES $400: When Bill the Cat says, "ACK!" , he may mean the airport on this Massachusetts island Nantucket
#7660, aired 2017-12-22AIRPORT CODES $600: Don't get confused by this airport's ORD abbreviation--it stands for the previous one, Orchard Field O'Hare
#7660, aired 2017-12-22AIRPORT CODES $800: Oh my God! The OMG belongs to Omega Airport in the Kavango region of this African nation Namibia
#7660, aired 2017-12-22AIRPORT CODES $1000: RMG, REO & FCO all serve cities or towns with this name, in Georgia, Oregon & Italy Rome
#7607, aired 2017-10-10THE NEWSPAPER GAME $400: This national paper color codes its sections; the Life section is in purple USA Today
#7434, aired 2016-12-294 YOUR CONSIDERATION $600: For Christmas cards & bills alike, these got their new +4 format in 1983 ZIP codes
#7402, aired 2016-11-15ONLINE LEARNING $400: Read about black codes & scalawags at the ushistory.org unit on this post-Civil War era Reconstruction
#7341, aired 2016-07-11HI, JULY! $400: These were first added to U.S. mail addresses July 1, 1963 ZIP codes
#7312, aired 2016-05-31U.S. AIRPORT CODES $400: SLC serves this state capital Salt Lake City
#7312, aired 2016-05-31U.S. AIRPORT CODES $800: The codes for the 2 airports in Queens, NYC are LGA & this JFK
#7312, aired 2016-05-31U.S. AIRPORT CODES $1200: Thurgood Marshall Airport has the code BWI, for these 2 cities "International" Baltimore & Washington
#7312, aired 2016-05-31U.S. AIRPORT CODES $1600: American Airlines' largest hub is the Texas airport with this code DFW
#7312, aired 2016-05-31U.S. AIRPORT CODES $2000: DTW serves this city; the airport's full name includes Wayne County Detroit
#7268, aired 2016-03-30HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $2,200 (Daily Double): One of the oldest known legal codes is this Babylonian one from around 1760 B.C. the Hammurabi code
#7199, aired 2015-12-24BIG IDEAS $1600: The "cultural" type of this "‑ism" says don't judge other societies by our standards because each has its own valid codes relativism
#6935, aired 2014-11-07THE REAGAN LIBRARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA..) This briefcase that goes everywhere the president goes, including here on Air Force One, contains the codes needed to order the Pentagon to launch atomic weapons; known as the president's emergency satchel, it's been nicknamed this sports term the nuclear football
#6930, aired 2014-10-31MEET YOUR ANCESTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Census Bureau map codes U.S. counties by the residents' most reported ancestry; most counties in Nebraska are coded as this, the most common U.S. ancestry from central Europe German
#6902, aired 2014-09-23THE 700 CLUB $2000: 702 & 775 are area codes in this state Nevada
#6876, aired 2014-07-07WHO KNOWS "C‑P‑R"? $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the study of secret writing, including codes & ciphers cryptography
#6796, aired 2014-03-17AIRPORT CODES $200: You'll find MOM in Moudjeria, Mauritania; this 3-letter code is over in Da Nang, Vietnam DAD
#6796, aired 2014-03-17AIRPORT CODES $400: This 3-letter code for Derby Field servicing Lovelock, Nevada could make you laugh out loud LOL
#6796, aired 2014-03-17AIRPORT CODES $600: FYI--FYI is an unofficial code standing for Fresno this national park International Yosemite
#6796, aired 2014-03-17AIRPORT CODES $800: Iowans can't be too thrilled that the airport for this city SUX Sioux City
#6796, aired 2014-03-17AIRPORT CODES $1000: A code for the airport in Ile Ouen, New Caledonia, or what we might have to give you if we don't have the $1,000 an IOU
#6558, aired 2013-03-06KNOW YOUR AREA CODES $400: 712 gets you Iowa, 412, Pennsylvania & 212, this state New York
#6558, aired 2013-03-06KNOW YOUR AREA CODES $800: 313 will call up this Great Lakes state's eastern edge; 616, its western Michigan
#6558, aired 2013-03-06KNOW YOUR AREA CODES $1200: For Buffalo dial 716; for this city of 2.6 million 100 miles away, dial 416 Toronto
#6558, aired 2013-03-06KNOW YOUR AREA CODES $1600: This state's 201 was the first area code to be used, in 1951 New Jersey
#6558, aired 2013-03-06KNOW YOUR AREA CODES $2000: Give Akron a jingle with this area code, the lowest sequential one 234
#6238, aired 2011-11-02AIRPORT CODES $200: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has the code DCA but is located in this state Virginia
#6238, aired 2011-11-02AIRPORT CODES $400: In 1966 London Airport was renamed this, which uses the code LHR Heathrow
#6238, aired 2011-11-02AIRPORT CODES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a Qantas flight simulator in Australia.) The Qantas A380 flight simulator has a training visual database of over 130 airports, naturally including Australia's busiest one, which goes by this 3-letter code SYD
#6238, aired 2011-11-02AIRPORT CODES $800: From the initials of the man it's named for, the larger of Paris' 2 airports has this 3-letter code CDG
#6238, aired 2011-11-02AIRPORT CODES $1000: Jorge Chavez International Airport has the 3-letter code LIM & is in this country Peru
#6091, aired 2011-02-21COMMON BONDS $400: ZIP, Morse, secret codes
#5837, aired 2010-01-19TOYS & GAMES $1000: Ms. Birdy will help if you adopt these plush pets with secret codes for use on the Internet Webkinz
#5831, aired 2010-01-11CODES $400: The first 5 digits in these represent the manufacturer; 16000 means General Mills a bar code
#5831, aired 2010-01-11CODES $800: In "A Christmas Story", the message Ralphie uncovers using his decoder says "Be sure to drink your" this Ovaltine
#5831, aired 2010-01-11CODES $1,000 (Daily Double): On Jan. 20, 2009 a military officer carrying these codes came to the inauguration with Bush & left with Obama the codes to release nuclear warheads
#5831, aired 2010-01-11CODES $1600: 1968's Nobel Prize in Medicine was for "interpretation of" this "code and its function in protein synthesis" the genetic code
#5831, aired 2010-01-11CODES $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some characters on the monitor.) In international Morse code, developed because of the limitations of American Morse code, the "U" is dot dot dash & a "U" with one of these marks is dot dot dash dash an umlaut
#5631, aired 2009-02-16SEINFELD $400: Hello, this character who said, "I'll tell you a little secret about ZIP codes--they're meaningless" Newman
#5583, aired 2008-12-10AIRLINE CODES $400: With a hub in Detroit: NW Northwest
#5583, aired 2008-12-10AIRLINE CODES $800: Down under: NZ Air New Zealand
#5583, aired 2008-12-10AIRLINE CODES $1200: From the Caribbean: JM Air Jamaica
#5583, aired 2008-12-10AIRLINE CODES $1600: Out of Asia: KE Korean Air
#5583, aired 2008-12-10AIRLINE CODES $2000: Demot Manion is CEO: EI Aer Lingus
#5478, aired 2008-06-04COMMON BONDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Codes, Songs, Southern Florida keys
#5382, aired 2008-01-22POSTAL POTPOURRI $400: Canadian postal codes use the format letter-number-letter number-letter-number; his is H0H 0H0 Santa Claus
#5236, aired 2007-05-21COMMUNICATION $1200: Police radio codes that start with this 2-digit number date back to the 1930s 10
#5169, aired 2007-02-15THREE OF A KIND $8,000 (Daily Double): Hammurabi, Morse, Napoleonic codes
#5137, aired 2007-01-02AIRLINE CODES $200: JL Japan Airlines
#5137, aired 2007-01-02AIRLINE CODES $400: KL KLM (Royal Dutch)
#5137, aired 2007-01-02AIRLINE CODES $600: AF Air France
#5137, aired 2007-01-02AIRLINE CODES $800: BA British Airways
#5137, aired 2007-01-02AIRLINE CODES $1000: MX Mexicana
#5134, aired 2006-12-28NUMERAL-OLOGY $200: In order to deliver mail more efficiently, the USPS added this many new digits to existing ZIP codes in 1983 four
#5113, aired 2006-11-29AIRPORT CODES $200: Get a real Rocky Mountain high here: DEN Denver
#5113, aired 2006-11-29AIRPORT CODES $400: Hopefully its code isn't an omen for your checked bags: MIA Miami
#5113, aired 2006-11-29AIRPORT CODES $600: It's actually in Virginia (though its full name says otherwise): IAD Dulles
#5113, aired 2006-11-29AIRPORT CODES $1,000 (Daily Double): It's named for Sen. Ted Stevens: ANC Anchorage
#5113, aired 2006-11-29AIRPORT CODES $1000: Its McNamara Terminal is also the Northwest Airlines World Gateway: DTW Detroit
#5013, aired 2006-05-31EMBRACE THE "ORB" $1600: In December 1991 he gave Yeltsin the nuclear codes Gorbachev
#4952, aired 2006-03-07AIRPORT I.D. CODES $200: Reserved for Navy airfields, "N" can't begin an identifier for a commercial airport, so this N.J. airport is EWR Newark
#4952, aired 2006-03-07AIRPORT I.D. CODES $400: You can understand why some residents of this Iowa city want to change their airport's designation, SUX Sioux City
#4952, aired 2006-03-07AIRPORT I.D. CODES $600: The Dade-Collier Training & Transition Airport, with the code TNT, is dynamite for this Southern city Miami
#4952, aired 2006-03-07AIRPORT I.D. CODES $800: Indianola, Miss. has an airport designated IDL; until 1963, IDL stood for the NYC airport then called this Idlewild
#4952, aired 2006-03-07AIRPORT I.D. CODES $1000: Reserved for commercial radio stations, K & W can't begin IDs, so "EYW" serves this southernmost city in the cont. U.S. Key West
#4922, aired 2006-01-24AIRLINES CODES $200: AA American Airlines
#4922, aired 2006-01-24AIRLINES CODES $400: DL Delta
#4922, aired 2006-01-24AIRLINES CODES $600: CO Continental
#4922, aired 2006-01-24AIRLINES CODES $800: QF Qantas
#4922, aired 2006-01-24AIRLINES CODES $1000: LH Lufthansa
#4654, aired 2004-11-25AIRPORT CODES $200: There's an Independence Brew Pub there: PHL Philadelphia
#4654, aired 2004-11-25AIRPORT CODES $400: Named for a politician: LGA LaGuardia
#4654, aired 2004-11-25AIRPORT CODES $600: A regional airport in Texas: ABI Abilene
#4654, aired 2004-11-25AIRPORT CODES $800: A friendly ghost town?: CPR Casper, Wyoming
#4654, aired 2004-11-25AIRPORT CODES $1000: It's in the Northeast: BGR Bangor, Maine
#4525, aired 2004-04-16CARRY ON $2000: The first woman carrier of the bag of nuclear codes known as this was appointed by Ronald Reagan "The Football"
#4446, aired 2003-12-29INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS $800: Cryptologists don't break into crypts, they devise & break these codes
#4357, aired 2003-07-08INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $400: In the U.S. Southwest: ABQ Albuquerque
#4357, aired 2003-07-08INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $800: Site of the International Court of Justice: HAG The Hague
#4357, aired 2003-07-08INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $1600: A "wine"y French seaport: BOD Bordeaux
#4357, aired 2003-07-08INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's way south: JNB Johannesburg, South Africa
#4357, aired 2003-07-08INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $2000: Oscar Mayer's favorite?: BLQ Bologna, Italy
#4270, aired 2003-03-07THE PHONE $1,000 (Daily Double): Its country code is 84; its city codes include 1 -- Colombo & 8 -- Kandy Sri Lanka
#4214, aired 2002-12-19INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $400: When you say BUD, you're referring to this Hungarian city's airport Budapest
#4214, aired 2002-12-19INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $800: Go away mad & you've left from this world capital's airport, code MAD Madrid
#4214, aired 2002-12-19INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $1200: The luck of the Irish is with you if you know SNN is this city Shannon
#4214, aired 2002-12-19INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $1600: In Spanish aca means "here" & if you land at ACA, you'll be here Acapulco
#4214, aired 2002-12-19INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CODES $3,000 (Daily Double): Landing at WLG, this city's airport, will set you south of the equator Wellington, New Zealand
#4196, aired 2002-11-25FACTS FROM ALMANACS $600: ZIP codes in this commonwealth run from 00601 in Adjuntas to 00698 for Yauco Puerto Rico
#4052, aired 2002-03-26NOTABLE NAMES $400: Before stepping down as Soviet president in 1991, he had to turn over the nuclear war codes Gorbachev
#4021, aired 2002-02-11CANADIAN PROVINCES $600: Postal codes in this province begin with "S" Saskatchewan
#4017, aired 2002-02-05STUFF THAT HAPPENED $2000: Ancient areas with legal codes include Greece with Draco's & this land with Hammurabi's Babylon
#3971, aired 2001-12-03INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES $400: It doesn't take a high I.Q. to figure out that .iq represents this nation Iraq
#3971, aired 2001-12-03INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES $800: Existing country codes range from .ac (Ascension Island) to .zw (this country) Zimbabwe
#3971, aired 2001-12-03INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES $1200: Keep quiet with .sh, the code for this south Atlantic island, a place of exile for Napoleon St. Helena
#3971, aired 2001-12-03INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES $1600: It's no B.S. that these islands in the West Indies are coded .bs the Bahamas
#3971, aired 2001-12-03INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CODES $2000: Tune in to .fm, the Federated States of this Micronesia
#3883, aired 2001-06-20AIRPORT CODES $100: Let freedom ring: PHL Philadelphia
#3883, aired 2001-06-20AIRPORT CODES $200: Odds are good you'll get here: LAS Las Vegas
#3883, aired 2001-06-20AIRPORT CODES $300: Still one of the busiest: ORD Chicago O'Hare
#3883, aired 2001-06-20AIRPORT CODES $400: A lovers' triangle: BDA Bermuda
#3883, aired 2001-06-20AIRPORT CODES $500: A capital place: IAD Dulles (Washington, D.C.)
#3874, aired 2001-06-07DECODE THE POSTAL CODES $100: Scar South Carolina & Arkansas
#3874, aired 2001-06-07DECODE THE POSTAL CODES $200: Vain Virginia & Indiana
#3874, aired 2001-06-07DECODE THE POSTAL CODES $300: Lame Louisiana & Maine
#3874, aired 2001-06-07DECODE THE POSTAL CODES $400: Hide Hawaii & Delaware
#3874, aired 2001-06-07DECODE THE POSTAL CODES $500: Wine Wisconsin & Nebraska
#3778, aired 2001-01-24HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 4 $400: Leading to new & better fire codes, the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire in this Midwest U.S. city killed over 500 Chicago
#3675, aired 2000-07-21BEEN THERE $100: ZIP codes beginning 007 won't get mail to James Bond but to this Caribbean commonwealth Puerto Rico
#3672, aired 2000-07-185 LETTER WORDS $500: The garment worn here, it follows "ZIP" in something the Postal Service wants you to use plus-fours
#3666, aired 2000-07-10FUN WITH AREA CODES $200: This 1982 Billy Joel hit is covered by 610 "Allentown"
#3666, aired 2000-07-10FUN WITH AREA CODES $400: With 207, it's all about -- the state abbreviated this way ME (Maine)
#3666, aired 2000-07-10FUN WITH AREA CODES $600: The number of Boeing's first Trijet; you'd use it to dial St. Petersburg, Florida on one of its airfones 727
#3666, aired 2000-07-10FUN WITH AREA CODES $800: Dial this badge number of Sgt. Friday before you call a number at Disneyland 714
#3666, aired 2000-07-10FUN WITH AREA CODES $1000: This area code goes "all around" Olympia, Bellingham & Vancouver 360
#3664, aired 2000-07-06COMMON BONDS $1000: Codes, songs, Southern Florida things with keys
#3638, aired 2000-05-31FUN WITH ZIP CODES $100: This California city also includes 90211 & 90212 Beverly Hills
#3638, aired 2000-05-31FUN WITH ZIP CODES $200: ZIP codes starting with 999 are in this state, in places like Ketchikan & Metlakatla Alaska
#3638, aired 2000-05-31FUN WITH ZIP CODES $300: This Virginia suburb where famous dead are remembered has the easily remembered code 22222 Arlington
#3638, aired 2000-05-31FUN WITH ZIP CODES $400: 50010 is found in the heartland, Ames in this state Iowa
#3638, aired 2000-05-31FUN WITH ZIP CODES $500: In the '90s the Spiegel Catalog warehouse moved to Groveport, Ohio 43125 from this city 60609 Chicago
#3622, aired 2000-05-09AIRPORT CODES $100: Near the Alps: ZRH Zurich
#3622, aired 2000-05-09AIRPORT CODES $200: In Africa: CAI Cairo
#3622, aired 2000-05-09AIRPORT CODES $300: In the Midwest: MKE Milwaukee
#3622, aired 2000-05-09AIRPORT CODES $400: On the Great Plains: OMA Omaha
#3622, aired 2000-05-09AIRPORT CODES $700 (Daily Double): A man's initials, CDG, stand for this city's airport Paris (Charles De Gaulle Airport)
#3561, aired 2000-02-14THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $900 (Daily Double): For his dealings with this man, Major John Andre concocted codes & used secret inks Benedict Arnold
#3534, aired 2000-01-06AIRPORT CODES $200: ATL Atlanta
#3534, aired 2000-01-06AIRPORT CODES $400: BRU Brussels
#3534, aired 2000-01-06AIRPORT CODES $600: In Scandinavia: CPH Copenhagen
#3534, aired 2000-01-06AIRPORT CODES $800: On the continent: ORY Paris (Orly)
#3534, aired 2000-01-06AIRPORT CODES $1000: In the Midwest: MSP Minneapolis-St. Paul
#2987, aired 1997-09-02BIG BOOKS $600: Building & penal are types of these collections of laws Codes
#2971, aired 1997-06-30CANADIAN CAVALCADE $1,000 (Daily Double): With 6, it's the province with the greatest number of area codes Ontario
#2934, aired 1997-05-08AIRPORT CODES $100: SYD Sydney
#2934, aired 1997-05-08AIRPORT CODES $200: AMS Amsterdam
#2934, aired 1997-05-08AIRPORT CODES $300: SVO, also known as Sheremetyevo Moscow
#2934, aired 1997-05-08AIRPORT CODES $400: DUS, in the FRG Dusseldorf (Germany)
#2934, aired 1997-05-08AIRPORT CODES $600 (Daily Double): MAN, 160 miles from LHR Manchester
#2809, aired 1996-11-14POTPOURRI $1000: New ones of these in 1996 include 847 for Illinois & 330 for Ohio area codes
#2678, aired 1996-04-03U.S.A. $500: In January 1995 the first U.S. area codes were allocated that didn't use either of these 2 center digits 0 or 1
#2496, aired 1995-06-12STARTS WITH "Z" $100: To expedite mail service, this numerical system was introduced in 1963 ZIP codes
#2178, aired 1994-02-09COMPUTERS $400: They're the sets of characters used as private access codes; hackers try to crack them passwords
#2136, aired 1993-12-13COMMON BONDS $100: Napoleonic, Morse, ZIP codes
#2012, aired 1993-05-11THE TELEPHONE $100: These include 213 for Los Angeles & 313 for Detroit area codes
#1664, aired 1991-11-21SLAVERY $400: Slaves in the South used these religious songs as codes to communicate plans for escape spirituals
#1647, aired 1991-10-29AREA CODES $100: The area code for this entire state is 602, whether you're calling Apache Junction or Yuma Arizona
#1647, aired 1991-10-29AREA CODES $200: In area it's the largest state that has just 1 area code: 907 Alaska
#1647, aired 1991-10-29AREA CODES $300: It's the area code for our offices at "Jeopardy!" 213
#1647, aired 1991-10-29AREA CODES $400: "The Bronx is up but the Battery's down" & this is the area code for both of them 212
#1647, aired 1991-10-29AREA CODES $500: If you want to call our nation's capital, this is the area code you need to know 202
#1322, aired 1990-05-08COMPUTERS $1000: The digits 0-9 & the letters A-Z are collectively known as this type of characters Alphanumeric
#1300, aired 1990-04-06ODD JOBS $300: A cryptographer doesn't break into tombs but breaks these codes
#1065, aired 1989-03-31U.S. STATES $400: State with the most telephone area codes California
#1026, aired 1989-02-06COMPUTERS $800: Using 400 computers, a team has broken down a 100-digit number into these, used as secret codes prime factors
#994, aired 1988-12-22OOPS! $400: Postal officials predicted by 1988 90% of 1st class mailers would be using these, but only 20% now do 9-digit zip codes
#878, aired 1988-06-01STARTS WITH "C" $800: The art of writing or deciphering secret codes cryptography (cryptology)
#763, aired 1987-12-23U.S. STATES $200: It makes sense that the state with the most area codes is this state with the most people California
#174, aired 1985-05-09U.S.A. $100: Number of digits in the "new" 1981 "zippier" ZIP codes 9
#149, aired 1985-04-04NEW YORK CITY $400: These Twin Towers are large enough to require two separate ZIP codes the World Trade Center

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (7 results returned)

#7237, aired 2016-02-16HISTORIC OBJECTS: Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, it was the centerpiece in a 1999 exhibition called "Cracking Codes" the Rosetta Stone
#5904, aired 2010-04-22TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINOLOGY: In 1992 New York got the first one: 917 an overlay area code
#4853, aired 2005-10-19AMERICANA: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a mail sorting counter at the post office.) In the '60s, to popularize a new system, the Post Office used ads of Ethel Merman singing this Disney movie tune "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
#4555, aired 2004-05-28THE INTERNET: Among 2-letter country codes in Internet addresses, "de" is Germany, "kh" is Cambodia & "es" is this country Spain (EspaƱa)
#3648, aired 2000-06-14AIRPORT CODES: The 3-letter code for this airport came from what was on the site before it -- Orchard Place O'Hare Airport, Chicago - ORD
#2943, aired 1997-05-21WORLD CAPITALS: Many homes in this city are heated by near-boiling water pumped in from hot springs at Nesjavellir Reykjavik, Iceland
#621, aired 1987-04-27CODES OF HONOR: As bushido was to 16th century samurai, this was to 12th century knights chivalry

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