Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (54 results returned)

#9029, aired 2024-02-01RAP WORDS & PHRASES $200: An early citation for this term for jewelry goes back to a song featuring Lil Wayne bling
#8898, aired 2023-06-21-OLOGIES $1000: The history of words & the study of them, its own goes back to Greek for "true meanings" etymology
#8889, aired 2023-06-08SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977 gnarly
#4, aired 2023-05-09NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $1000: Company legend says Teddy Roosevelt praised Maxwell House coffee with these 5 words, a slogan they still use today good to the last drop
#8717, aired 2022-10-11OLD WORDS $800: This word for a time of extreme hunger & starvation dates at least as far back as the 1360s poem "Piers Plowman" famine
#8553, aired 2022-01-123 SHORT WORDS $600: The advice to let an unhappy baby do this, hard for many parents to follow, dates back to 1894 cry it out
#8394, aired 2021-05-0612-LETTER WORDS $1000: This word for a guy who stays home & takes care of kids & chores dates back to the 19th century, but then it was a fictional idea a househusband
#8121, aired 2019-12-23BIG WORDS $1600: Older than humongous, this 9-letter blended word for shockingly big goes back to WWII ginormous
#8110, aired 2019-12-06BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1954, Russian words meaning "committee for state security" got shortened to these 3 letters for an agency KGB
#8025, aired 2019-06-28IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1200: The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425 30 days hath September
#7894, aired 2018-12-27NEWER WORDS $1200: Dating back to the 1930s, Antifa is short for this anti-fascist
#7628, aired 2017-11-08WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1000: The name of this raccoon-like mammal of Central and South America goes back to an Indian word for "wolverine" kinkajou
#7178, aired 2015-11-252 WORDS $800: Per the OED this 2-word term for websites & apps that allow users to network dates back only to 2004 social media
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $200: In a movie, it's the narrative that supplies a character's past a backstory
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $400: One could be "rainy with a chance of hail" a forecast
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $600: What's called Obamacare is formally the Patient Protection & this type of Care Act Affordable
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $800: Type of workplace seen here a forge
#6778, aired 2014-02-19"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $1000: A screen behind the catcher in baseball, or a term for the catcher himself a backstop
#6629, aired 2013-06-13WAR OF WORDS $1200: This term that goes back to a word for "boy" or "youth" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry infantry
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $800: It's Latin for "of the back" & follows latissimus in the name of the broadest muscles of the back dorsi
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $1200: SBA is short for this association that helps those with a certain neural tube defect, the SB in its name spina bifida
#6529, aired 2013-01-24BACK WORDS $1600: The wearing of a brace & surgery are possible treatments for this common lateral curvature of the spine scoliosis
#6164, aired 2011-06-02MODERN WORDS $1000: The OED has citations back to 1994 for this type of urban man who is fastidious about his grooming & fashion a metrosexual
#5925, aired 2010-05-21FASHIONABLE WORDS $200: It's the animal name for a high-heeled shoe or a slipper with no back a mule
#5892, aired 2010-04-067-"L"ETTER WORDS $800: Old word for chronic pain in the lower back lumbago
#5855, aired 2010-02-12MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $400: The government's "Centers for" these 2 words "& Prevention" dates back to 1946 Disease Control
#4795, aired 2005-06-1010-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Travel to Springfield, Mass. & you can make a fast break for the Naismith Hall of Fame for this sport basketball
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $800: L1 through L5 refers to 5 vertebrae in the lower back, with the "L" standing for this lumbar
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $2000: These muscles of the upper back are named for their particular quadrilateral shape the rhomboid muscles (trapezius accepted)
#4638, aired 2004-11-045-LETTER WORDS $7,800 (Daily Double): It means in a particular area; put a hyphen in the middle & it helps you lose weight local
#3974, aired 2001-12-06WORDS FOR WORDS $1200: The verb "to typewrite" from "typewriter" is an example of this type of "formation" back-formation
#3955, aired 2001-11-09FORWARDS & BACK-WORDS $1000: The Greek god of love & having aches & pains Eros & sore
#3798, aired 2001-02-21"BACK" WORDS $300: In baseball, it's a barrier behind home plate, or slang for a catcher backstop
#3572, aired 2000-02-29WORDS FROM THE HEART $400: From the Latin for "to bring back to the heart" it is used today for "to copy sounds or images on tape" record
#3572, aired 2000-02-29WORDS FROM THE HEART $600 (Daily Double): A warm & friendly liqueur, it goes back to the Latin for "of the heart" cordial
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $100: Your spinal column, or what a coward lacks Backbone
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $200: Some people "can't see" it "for the trees" Forest
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $300: In the classic joke, it's the response to "Waiter, what is this fly doing in my soup?" The backstroke
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $400: It's the legal process by which a homeowner loses his rights to a property Foreclosure
#3422, aired 1999-06-22"FOR" WORDS & "BACK" WORDS $500: Trademark name for a laminated heat-resistant plastic used for counter tops & flooring Formica
#2492, aired 1995-06-06MALAYO- POLYNESIAN WORDS $200: Captain Cook brought back this word for "forbidden" from the South Pacific taboo
#2492, aired 1995-06-06MALAYO- POLYNESIAN WORDS $400 (Daily Double): This term for a small box that holds tea leaves goes back to a Malay weight of just over a pound a caddy
#2473, aired 1995-05-10WORDS FROM THE DUTCH $400: This term for one's supervisor at work goes back to a Dutch word for uncle boss
#2352, aired 1994-11-22BACK OF THE BOOK $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions Glossary
#2037, aired 1993-06-15FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Square dancers use this anglicized form of the French for "back to back" do-si-do
#1676, aired 1991-12-09ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Leo Durocher could tell you it's a synonym for back talk lip
#1637, aired 1991-10-1510-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a mound of earth or stone built to hold water back; London has 1 named for Victoria an embankment
#863, aired 1988-05-11SPORTING WORDS $200: For a football team, it's being sent back 5 yards, for a hockey player, being put in a box penalty
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $600: For a computer, it's a duplicate disk backup
#715, aired 1987-10-16"BACK" WORDS $1000: You can be indicted for doing this to tax returns backdate
#661, aired 1987-06-224-LETTER WORDS $400: A place for the spine, or the reverse side of a sign back
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $400: Daniel Boone, for example a backwoodsman
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $600: It can make a big impression on a careless catcher when he runs for a pop foul backstop
#272, aired 1985-09-24"BACK" WORDS $1000: German for twice-baked, it's as often gummed as chewed zwieback

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (6 results returned)

#8616, aired 2022-04-11WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax
#8200, aired 2020-04-10WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo
#7764, aired 2018-05-17SCHOOL SUPPLY WORDS: Adding "P" to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite or pencil lead plumbago
#6846, aired 2014-05-26TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator
#5016, aired 2006-06-05WORDS IN THE NEWS: This word for one who hangs around the corridors of power refers back to the corridors themselves lobbyist
#4561, aired 2004-06-07WORDS & PHRASES: Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution a think tank

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