Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (106 results returned)

#9001, aired 2023-12-25GETTING POSSESSIVE $800: One of these eponymous "rules" is that to conduct business, a quorum must be present Robert's Rules (of Order)
#8890, aired 2023-06-09EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $400: According to Charles' law, the volume occupied by an amount of this state of matter is proportional to its temperature gas
#8890, aired 2023-06-09EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $800: The temperature at which a mineral's magnetic properties change sharply is the "point" named for this 1890s physicist & husband Pierre Curie point
#8890, aired 2023-06-09EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $1200: Fitts' law of movement is used in human engineering, also called this, partly from Greek for "work" ergonomics
#8890, aired 2023-06-09EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $1600: The Drake equation, which estimates the number of advanced alien civilizations in our galaxy, was created as part of SETI, short for this search for extraterrestrial intelligence
#8890, aired 2023-06-09EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $2000: Born in 1815, this English math man gave us many eponymous things: algebra, logic, search & operators (George) Boole
#5, aired 2023-05-10EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $200: Challenges both professional & personal have played out at Seattle Grace Hospital on this series Grey's Anatomy
#5, aired 2023-05-10EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $400: From the '70s, it could have alternately been titled "Defazio & Feeney" Laverne & Shirley
#5, aired 2023-05-10EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $600: "The Germans" is an episode of this British comedy about running a hotel Fawlty Towers
#5, aired 2023-05-10EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $800: The title of this show, a continuation of "All in the Family", refers to a bar Archie Bunker's Place
#5, aired 2023-05-10EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $1000: Green Gables Farm on Prince Edward Island is home to this show's title character played by Amybeth McNulty Anne with an E
#1, aired 2023-05-08A REAL FONT OF KNOWLEDGE $2000: Last name of 18th century Italian printer Giambattista, who designed an eponymous font that has a distinct Q Bodoni
#8741, aired 2022-11-14AT THE MALL OF AMERICA $1000: Outdoor clothing & gear from this eponymous store out of Washington State Eddie Bauer
#8707, aired 2022-09-27CREDITS $800: The star of this show tossed her hat in the air in the opening credits of her eponymous series The Mary Tyler Moore Show
#8593, aired 2022-03-09EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS $800: The circle of Willis at the base of the brain joins several of these, like the carotid arteries
#8593, aired 2022-03-09EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS $1200: The crypts of Lieberkühn can be found in the duodenum, the first part of this tube out of the stomach small intestines
#8593, aired 2022-03-09EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS $1600: Located in the brain's frontal lobe, Broca's area has functions linked to this very human activity speech
#8593, aired 2022-03-09EPONYMOUS BODY PARTS $2000: Named for an Italian anatomist, the organ of Corti is a hearing receptor found in this spiral-shaped part of the inner ear the cochlea
#8576, aired 2022-02-14POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $600: It's the eponymous title of the 1988 collection of early hits by R.E.M. on I.R.S. Records Eponymous
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $400: It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy Confucius
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $1200: Strong nationalism & anti-labor policies were elements of this, named for a 1980s U.K. prime minister Thatcherism
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $1600: The philosophical & political "ism" named for this 15th & 16th century man reflects his characteristic unscrupulousness Machiavelli
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $2000: A controversial 18th century German physician created this early form of hypnotism mesmerism
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $5,000 (Daily Double): A 1950 L.A. Times column said the "defect of" this seemed to be the senator for whom it was named McCarthyism
#8443, aired 2021-07-14EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $400: Named for Reagan's press secretary & adopted in 1993, the Brady bill imposed a waiting period before purchasing these guns
#8443, aired 2021-07-14EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $800: Federal title this number of the education amendments of 1972 was renamed for Patsy Mink, a congresswoman who helped enact it Title IX
#8443, aired 2021-07-14EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $1200: The Lilly Ledbetter Act resets this time period whenever an employee receives a paycheck based on discriminatory pay the statute of limitations
#8443, aired 2021-07-14EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $1600: A star in Chaplin's "The Kid", he earned millions, but it got spent by others; a law named for him protects the earnings of minors Jackie Coogan
#8443, aired 2021-07-14EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION $2000: 1920's National Prohibition Act was named for this Minnesota congressman Volstead
#8440, aired 2021-07-09EPONYMOUS FOOD $200: In 1859 David Jack, a big landowner in this California town, began selling its white cheese under his name Monterey Jack
#8440, aired 2021-07-09EPONYMOUS FOOD $600: These Purim pastries are named for Haman, the bad guy of the holiday hamantaschen
#8440, aired 2021-07-09EPONYMOUS FOOD $800: Brothers by this name took a recipe for Illinois "trail-toffee" & turned it into a popular candy bar Heath
#8440, aired 2021-07-09EPONYMOUS FOOD $1000: A variety of this fruit was named for Ah Bing, a Chinese orchard foreman in Oregon a cherry
#8440, aired 2021-07-09EPONYMOUS FOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): John Montagu, 11th Earl of this, has opened restaurants in the U.S. bearing his yummy hereditary title Sandwich
#8326, aired 2021-02-01IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $1200: "Having the same name" homonym
#8282, aired 2020-11-17EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $400: If you know that E = mc2, you should know that this element, number 99, was first produced in nuclear blasts einsteinium
#8282, aired 2020-11-17EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $800: Last name of philosopher George, who gave his name to a California city that gave its name to an element Berkeley
#8282, aired 2020-11-17EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $1600: Seaborgium is named for Glenn, who discovered elements, won a Nobel Prize, helped found the Pac-12, & chaired the AEC, this the Atomic Energy Commission
#8282, aired 2020-11-17EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $2000: In 2010 the official naming of Cn was announced on February 19, the day this man was born in 1473 Copernicus
#8282, aired 2020-11-17EPONYMOUS ELEMENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This element is named for a Polish-born scientist & her husband curium
#7978, aired 2019-04-24WOMEN ON TV $200: She turned the world on with her smile as Laura Petrie & later, on her own eponymous shows Mary Tyler Moore
#7955, aired 2019-03-22STUFF ON STAMPS $1200: A 2-cent stamp shows this eponymous fruit actually thought to be a lemon-mandarin hybrid a Meyer lemon
#7873, aired 2018-11-28INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1858 this man invented an eponymous glass jar with a screw-on lid (John Landis) Mason
#7728, aired 2018-03-28PIPE SHOW $400: Seen here is an engraving of this god & his eponymous pipe Pan
#7721, aired 2018-03-19INFAMOUSLY EPONYMOUS $400: This Norwegian leader's name is so associated with "traitor" that it often isn't even capitalized Quisling
#7721, aired 2018-03-19INFAMOUSLY EPONYMOUS $600: The last man some 17th c. perps met was Jack Ketch, whose name became synonymous with this official job he did with zeal hangman (or executioner)
#7721, aired 2018-03-19INFAMOUSLY EPONYMOUS $800: This Italian American became synonymous with get-rich-quick scams Ponzi
#7721, aired 2018-03-19INFAMOUSLY EPONYMOUS $1000: Karl Hieronymus, this baron, told so many lies that his name is now associated with a tall-tale mental illness Munchausen
#7713, aired 2018-03-07LITERARY EPONYMS $2000: Casanova, Romeo & Don Juan are all synonyms for this eponymous seducer from a 1703 play Lothario
#7700, aired 2018-02-16EPONYMOUS BRANDS $200: William was the first name & "Boss" was the nickname of this man who made his name selling vacuum cleaners (William) Hoover
#7700, aired 2018-02-16EPONYMOUS BRANDS $400: The company of this pump inventor uses his last name, not his first; otherwise, you'd be hot-tubbing in your Candido Jacuzzi
#7700, aired 2018-02-16EPONYMOUS BRANDS $600: Linus, not Eli, was the first name of this Connecticut lock maven Yale
#7700, aired 2018-02-16EPONYMOUS BRANDS $800: British pottery maker Josiah, of this last name, was an abolitionist who produced a popular anti-slavery image Wedgwood
#7700, aired 2018-02-16EPONYMOUS BRANDS $1000: The "Father of the Modern Drugstore" was born Charles Rudolph this, with no 's on the end Walgreen
#7654, aired 2017-12-14NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $400: A beetle with middle femurs that look like bulging biceps was named for this Austrian-born actor Schwarzenegger
#7654, aired 2017-12-14NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $1200: In 2014 scientists discovered a new species of dinosaur & named it Zuul after a demon in this 1984 movie Ghostbusters
#7654, aired 2017-12-14NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $1600: A fossilized one of these reptiles was named for Terry Pratchett--his "Discworld" rides on the back of one a turtle
#7654, aired 2017-12-14NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $2000: A recently discovered dog-like carnivore from prehistoric Egypt was named for this canine-headed god Anubis
#7654, aired 2017-12-14NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $4,600 (Daily Double): John Cleese is "absurdly fond" of these Madagascar animals, works to conserve them & got one named for him lemurs
#7562, aired 2017-06-27OLD SCHOOL $800: Chartered 1693 by the eponymous pair William and Mary
#7381, aired 2016-10-17SAY "NE"THING $1600: Eponymous jacket with a stand-up collar Nehru
#7370, aired 2016-09-30EPONYMOUSLY YOURS $800: Around 1830 this man who created an eponymous cracker unveiled a high-fiber diet (Sylvester) Graham
#6765, aired 2014-01-31EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS $400: KRK is the code for this city's Pope John Paul II International Airport Kraków
#6765, aired 2014-01-31EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS $800: An airport named for this U.S. city also has Louis Armstrong in its name New Orleans
#6765, aired 2014-01-31EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS $1600: Franz Liszt Airport serves this European city of 1.7 million Budapest
#6765, aired 2014-01-31EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS $2000: In 1973 Israel's Lod Airport was renamed to honor him, the nation's first prime minister (David) Ben-Gurion
#6765, aired 2014-01-31EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS $5,200 (Daily Double): There's an Alexander the Great Airport in this former Yugoslav republic Macedonia
#6708, aired 2013-11-13AN EPONYMOUS CATEGORY $400: Used in the measurement of gravity, a gal is named for this Italian astronomer Galileo
#6708, aired 2013-11-13AN EPONYMOUS CATEGORY $800: A hotelier who died in 1918 gave us this adjective meaning high-class ritzy
#6708, aired 2013-11-13AN EPONYMOUS CATEGORY $1600: A libido enhancer, its name comes from the Greek goddess of love an aphrodisiac
#6708, aired 2013-11-13AN EPONYMOUS CATEGORY $2000: This adjective for "extremely harsh" is derived from the name of an ancient Athenian lawmaker draconian
#6708, aired 2013-11-13AN EPONYMOUS CATEGORY $2,400 (Daily Double): The name of these breeches is derived from a pseudonym used by Washington Irving for one of his works knickerbockers
#6416, aired 2012-07-09RACHEL $1600: She hosts an eponymous show on MSNBC Rachel Maddow
#5984, aired 2010-09-23ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $200: New Orleans bartender Henry Ramos invented the Ramos Fizz, made with cream, egg whites, lime juice & this liquor gin
#5984, aired 2010-09-23ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $400: This Kilmarnock grocer founded his eponymous red, black & blue label Scotch whisky brand in 1820 Johnnie Walker
#5984, aired 2010-09-23ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $600: The James who gave his nickname to this Kentucky bourbon brand was actually the founder's great-grandson Jim Beam
#5984, aired 2010-09-23ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $800: The real first name of the maker of this Tenn. whiskey was Jasper, but a "Jasper & Coke" just doesn't sound right Jack Daniels
#5984, aired 2010-09-23ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $1000: This popular spiced rum is named for a buccaneer who terrorized the Caribbean & ended up a governor of Jamaica Captain Morgan
#5335, aired 2007-11-16IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE $400: In 1912 he opened his eponymous clothing & shoe store in Freeport, Maine L.L. Bean
#5298, aired 2007-09-26THEY NAMED A FOOD FOR ME $1200: The raspberry sauce named for this opera singer may top many dishes, not just her eponymous peach dessert (Nellie) Melba
#5230, aired 2007-05-11WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this adjective that means the giving of one's name to something comes from the Greek for "giving name" eponymous
#5207, aired 2007-04-10EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $400: This Scottish engineer coined the term "horsepower", & a unit of power is named for him (James) Watt
#5207, aired 2007-04-10EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $800: Leave the driving to this German scientist who lent his name to a unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second (Heinrich) Hertz
#5207, aired 2007-04-10EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $1600: An electric current measuring device developed by Andre Ampere was named this after an Italian anatomist galvanometer
#5207, aired 2007-04-10EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $2000: The unit of magnetic flux abbreviated Mx was named for this physicist James Clerk Maxwell
#5207, aired 2007-04-10EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Nobel, Lise Meitner & this man are the 3 non-Nobel Prize-winning scientists who have chemical elements named for them Dmitri Mendeleev
#5088, aired 2006-10-25EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $400: The unit equal to 10 decibels is named for this inventor whose early career included teaching the deaf Alexander Graham Bell
#5088, aired 2006-10-25EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $800: On this Swedish astronomer's scale, zero represents the ice point & 100 is the steam point Celsius
#5088, aired 2006-10-25EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $1200: The principle that sound seems higher in pitch as it apporaches & lower as it recedes is called this man's effect Doppler
#5088, aired 2006-10-25EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the symbol Å on a monitor.) Named for a Swedish physicist & symbolized here, this tiny unit of measure is one ten-billionth of a meter--that's 254 million per inch an angstrom
#5088, aired 2006-10-25EPONYMOUS SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): A triangle, a theorem, a law & a computer language are named for this Frenchman Pascal
#5049, aired 2006-07-20WORD'S WORTH $1600: 8 letters, score 26: Eponymous adjective describing Sancho Panza's boss quixotic
#4955, aired 2006-03-10-ISMS $400: Eponymous term meaning biased devotion to a group, it sometimes follows "male" when used by feminists chauvinism
#4920, aired 2006-01-20EPONYMOUS INVENTIONS $400: Developed by a pair of Caltech scientists, it assigns a number to quantify the size of an earthquake the Richter scale
#4920, aired 2006-01-20EPONYMOUS INVENTIONS $800: In 1954, Boston Garden bought one of the 10 machines this "ice man" built that year Zamboni
#4920, aired 2006-01-20EPONYMOUS INVENTIONS $1200: Used in many products, it's a teflonized textile material through which perspiration can pass but liquid water can't Gore-Tex
#4920, aired 2006-01-20EPONYMOUS INVENTIONS $1600: Heard here, it was one of he earliest fully electronic musical intruments & was created c. 1920 by a Russian inventor the theremin
#4920, aired 2006-01-20EPONYMOUS INVENTIONS $2000: In 1917 John Browning designed the "BAR", which stood for this Browning Automatic Rifle
#4828, aired 2005-09-14EPONYMOUS $400: London Street named for a 17th C. diplomat; the Prime Minister Lives on it Downing
#4828, aired 2005-09-14EPONYMOUS $2000: In 1880 this British land agent in Ireland refused to lower his rents; as a result, he was isolated by protesters Charles Boycott
#4828, aired 2005-09-14EPONYMOUS $3,000 (Daily Double): The hypnotist villian in the 1894 novel "Trilby" gave us this word for one who controls another with evil intent svengali
#4453, aired 2004-01-07SITCOMS $1000: This Latino comedian stars as an assembly line worker in his eponymous sitcom George Lopez
#4394, aired 2003-10-16MR. BUSINESSMAN $800: The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company he founded in 1838 later became an eponymous line (Samuel) Cunard
#4385, aired 2003-10-03"Q"s $1000: This eponymous term refers to a traitor who aids an invading enemy by serving in a puppet government quisling
#4269, aired 2003-03-06LETHAL WEAPON $2000: In Washington, Ark. there's a replica of the smithy where these eponymous knives were first made in the 1830s Bowie knives
#1082, aired 1989-04-25DON KNOTTS $200: Don won 5 Emmys for "Best Supporting Actor" for his work on this TV series The Andy Griffith Show

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (3 results returned)

#8370, aired 2021-04-02EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel
#6923, aired 2014-10-22EPONYMOUS GEOGRAPHY: Named around 1616, it's the world's fifth-largest island & the largest named after a person Baffin Island
#6828, aired 2014-04-30ALBUM COVERS: This band used a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the cover of its eponymous debut album Led Zeppelin

Players (1 result returned)

Quinn Conway, a file clerk originally from Dana Point, California Season 25 player (2009-01-23).



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