Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (112 results returned)

#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $200: The belief in the need to secure rights & opportunities for women equal to those of men feminism
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $400: Late 19th century movement that characterizes the work seen here Impressionism
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $600: It's the predominant religion of India Hinduism
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $800: The name of this severe, sometimes fatal form of food poisoning comes from the Latin for "sausage" botulism
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ISMs $1000: A division of a group into mutually antagonistic factions, like the Catholic Church in 1054 schism
#3, aired 2022-02-09SCIENTIFIC ISMs $400: Some plant roots exhibit "negative" this -ism, turning away from the source of light phototropism
#3, aired 2022-02-09SCIENTIFIC ISMs $800: It means walking on 2 legs & it first set our ancestors apart from apes 6 million or so years ago bipedalism
#3, aired 2022-02-09SCIENTIFIC ISMs $1200: Here's Dr. Pumpkinstein with a creation that exhibits this -ism giantism (or gigantism)
#3, aired 2022-02-09SCIENTIFIC ISMs $1600: It's the word for tremors & other movement issues associated with a certain disease, even if not caused by it parkinsonism
#3, aired 2022-02-09SCIENTIFIC ISMs $2000: The alligators at Louisiana's Audubon Zoo have this -ism, from the Greek for "white", a loss of melanin akin to albinism leucism
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $400: Mortalism believes that this dies with the body or lies unconscious until the resurrection the soul
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $800: It means the belief in only one god monotheism
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1200: This 19th century movement believed the dead could communicate with the living through mediums spiritualism
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $2000: The truth is always uncertain in this philosophy that takes its name from the Greek for "to consider" skepticism
#8560, aired 2022-01-21PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs $4,000 (Daily Double): This 5-letter philosophy popular with some of the founding fathers believes in a god, but one who stays out of human affairs deism
#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
#8416, aired 2021-06-07-ISMs $400: This economic -ism is also known as free enterprise capitalism
#8416, aired 2021-06-07-ISMs $800: An erroneous reference in time, like showing a German shepherd in the film "Gladiator" (the breed didn't exist yet) an anachronism
#8416, aired 2021-06-07-ISMs $1200: Saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow" is one of these, named for an Anglican clergyman a spoonerism
#8416, aired 2021-06-07-ISMs $2000: CAT scans can help diagnose pulmonary these -isms, obstructions of arteries an embolism
#8416, aired 2021-06-07-ISMs $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860 Zionism
#7813, aired 2018-07-25RELIGIOUS -ISMs $400: The 5th c. heresy Nestorianism held that he was 2 beings, 1 human & 1 divine, in a single body Jesus
#7813, aired 2018-07-25RELIGIOUS -ISMs $800: Wahhabism within Islam rejects modern versions of the faith & may call on the faithful to wage this on the impure jihad (or holy war)
#7813, aired 2018-07-25RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1,200 (Daily Double): The Tao in Taoism is usually translated into English as this 3-letter word the Way
#7813, aired 2018-07-25RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1200: Jansenism was a 17th c. movement within Catholicism that emphasized this condition of humankind--thanks a lot, Adam original sin
#7813, aired 2018-07-25RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1600: The first of the "4 noble truths" of Buddhism is dukkha, translated as all existence is this suffering
#7670, aired 2018-01-05-ISMS & -OLOGIES $400: Listen up! Otology is the study of this body part & its diseases the ear
#7670, aired 2018-01-05-ISMS & -OLOGIES $800: Extreme partiality to one's own country, gender or race, it may come from the name of a character in an 1830s play chauvinism
#7670, aired 2018-01-05-ISMS & -OLOGIES $1200: Steve Reich is a leader in this music style marked by simple & austere compositions minimalism
#7670, aired 2018-01-05-ISMS & -OLOGIES $2000: In April 2017 the G20 nations said they think this, intervention to defend a domestic industry, is damaging protectionism
#7670, aired 2018-01-05-ISMS & -OLOGIES $4,000 (Daily Double): 19th c. English physician John Snow's knowledge of chloroform & ether made him a master of this -ology anesthesiology
#7532, aired 2017-05-16-ISMS & -OLOGIES $400: This religious movement centered in Jamaica is based on the idea of an African Messiah Rastafarianism
#7532, aired 2017-05-16-ISMS & -OLOGIES $1200: John Pawson has used lots of empty space to become the father of this design -ism, as in the monastery here minimalism
#7532, aired 2017-05-16-ISMS & -OLOGIES $1600: This branch of zoology deals with amphibians as well as reptiles herpetology
#7532, aired 2017-05-16-ISMS & -OLOGIES $2000: This -ism favored by psychologist William James takes the view that what is useful is what is best pragmatism
#7532, aired 2017-05-16-ISMS & -OLOGIES $5,600 (Daily Double): The 2 similar-sounding words for the study of insects & the study of word origins entomology and etymology
#7056, aired 2015-04-27-ISMs $200: Renoir & Monet were part of the 1874 exhibition of this artistic movement Impressionism
#7056, aired 2015-04-27-ISMs $600: To keep an industry safe from foreign competition, the government might impose quotas or tariffs, examples of this -ism protectionism
#7056, aired 2015-04-27-ISMs $800: Novelist Israel Zangwill was an early leader of this back-to-Palestine movement Zionism
#7056, aired 2015-04-27-ISMs $1,000 (Daily Double): In the "Italian Encyclopedia", Mussolini defined it as repudiating pacifism fascism
#7056, aired 2015-04-27-ISMs $1000: Repeated or habitual relapse into crime recidivism
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $400: U.S. Regionalism produced the work seen here; this title object in the center was also a subject for Monet a haystack
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $800: Abstract expressionism has been called the first movement to develop independently in this country the United States
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $1200: The French movement Fauvism relied on bold use of these, such as jaune & pourpre colors
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $1600: In the 19th century Aestheticism said art exists to provide this, with no relation to society or morality beauty
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Seurat's painting of the "Circus Sideshow" uses this new Impressionist technique, featuring small dots & brush strokes that, from a distance, create blended color pointillism
#6035, aired 2010-12-03REGION-ISMS $200: An African proverb says, "it takes" one of these "to raise a child" a village
#6035, aired 2010-12-03REGION-ISMS $400: Monopoly has cards called this "chest" community
#6035, aired 2010-12-03REGION-ISMS $600: It's a city in Ohio or any of the states of the Swiss confederation Canton (or canton)
#6035, aired 2010-12-03REGION-ISMS $800: There's a Lake one in Cumbria, England: the federal one in Mexico is the seat of the national government district
#6035, aired 2010-12-03REGION-ISMS $1000: It can be a division of a hospital or a town; it's also a political subdivision of a parish in Louisiana a ward
#5928, aired 2010-05-26-ISMs $400: Communism & socialism are both types of this 12-letter system of group ownership collectivism
#5928, aired 2010-05-26-ISMs $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) The map of Africa in 1914 included Belgian, German, British & French territories--the result of imperialism & this 11-letter sister -ism colonialism
#5928, aired 2010-05-26-ISMs $1200: Deadly sounding word for the belief that everything's been decided so we must accept what's going to happen fatalism
#5928, aired 2010-05-26-ISMs $1600: The belief that all people deserve the same rights; the word comes from those revolutionary French egalitarianism
#5928, aired 2010-05-26-ISMs $2000: Freud's last major work was alliteratively titled "Moses and" this religious -ism monotheism
#5549, aired 2008-10-23-ISMS $200: You're likely to hear "You are getting very sleepy" from someone practicing this hypnotism
#5549, aired 2008-10-23-ISMS $400: Betty Friedan was frequently called "The Mother of" this 1960s & '70s movement feminism
#5549, aired 2008-10-23-ISMS $600: Anthropophagy, another term for this practice, can really leave your bad taste in my mouth cannibalism
#5549, aired 2008-10-23-ISMS $1000: Donald Judd & Robert Morris were important figures of this "scaled-down" art movement that began in the '60s Minimalism
#5549, aired 2008-10-23-ISMS $1,600 (Daily Double): Sometime in the 6th century B.C., Lao Tzu found "the Way" & founded this religion Taoism
#5330, aired 2007-11-09-ISMS $400: Jean-Paul Sartre was "the father of" this movement existentialism
#5330, aired 2007-11-09-ISMS $800: Peekaboo, if he's watching you through your window, draw your curtains; he's practicing this voyeurism
#5330, aired 2007-11-09-ISMS $1200: This Jewish movement that began in the late 1800s led to the establishment of Israel in 1948 Zionism
#5330, aired 2007-11-09-ISMS $1600: In this 15-letter form of government, the state exercises absolute control over all aspects of life totalitarianism
#5330, aired 2007-11-09-ISMS $2000: ...& you shall find that the mystic & guru Nanak founded this religion in the 1500s Sikhism
#4955, aired 2006-03-10-ISMS $400: Eponymous term meaning biased devotion to a group, it sometimes follows "male" when used by feminists chauvinism
#4955, aired 2006-03-10-ISMS $800: Part of many religions, it's the opposition to war & violence as means of settling disputes pacifism
#4955, aired 2006-03-10-ISMS $1600: Latin for "other" gave us this word meaning unselfish concern for others altruism
#4955, aired 2006-03-10-ISMS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew explains a symbol pictured on a screen.) A Roman symbol in which rods tied together meant unity led to the name of this ideology that glorifies the state fascism
#4955, aired 2006-03-10-ISMS $3,500 (Daily Double): The practices of some extreme Protestants of the Reformation era; or any moral strictness puritanism
#4913, aired 2006-01-11"BUSH"-ISMS $200: The young kids go wild for this song that takes place "so early in the morning" "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush"
#4913, aired 2006-01-11"BUSH"-ISMS $400: You might find this adventurous type of person at the controls of a Beech Staggerwing a bush pilot
#4913, aired 2006-01-11"BUSH"-ISMS $600: Curt Schilling called A-Rod's ball-punching move in the 2004 A.L. playoffs this type of play bush league
#4913, aired 2006-01-11"BUSH"-ISMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A 2004 anti-Dubya book by Jim Hightower was titled "Let's Stop" this evasive behavior Beating Around the Bush
#4913, aired 2006-01-11"BUSH"-ISMS $1000: The galago, a small primate of southern Africa, is also called this because of its human-like cry a bush baby
#4908, aired 2006-01-04YOU CAN QUOTE ME $800: He once said, "You have deliberately tasted two whole worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain" Reverend Spooner
#4745, aired 2005-04-01-ISMs $200: It can refer to activism for better products, or to a passion for purchasing consumerism
#4745, aired 2005-04-01-ISMs $400: An Italian law banning this political -ism is named for 1950s Premier Mario Scelba Fascism
#4745, aired 2005-04-01-ISMs $600: Said to Fan Chi around 500 B.C., "Love men" is a basic tenet of this philosophy Confucianism
#4745, aired 2005-04-01-ISMs $800: Saint-Simon was a founder of the "Christian" type of this, also a movement to redistribute property Socialism
#4745, aired 2005-04-01-ISMs $1000: Mascagni's operas use the technique of "Verismo", which in English is this -ism Realism
#4734, aired 2005-03-17ART -ISMs $200: After WWI, George Grosz & Max Beckmann found comfort in this country's Expressionism Germany
#4734, aired 2005-03-17ART -ISMs $400: Suprematism, made famous by Kazimir Malevich, was this country's first pure 20th century art movement Russia
#4734, aired 2005-03-17ART -ISMs $600: This "neo" 18th century style of Benjamin West developed after Herculaneum & Pompeii were excavated Neoclassicism
#4734, aired 2005-03-17ART -ISMs $800: This early 19th century movement encompassed the disparate styles of Goya, Delacroix, & Constable Romanticism
#4734, aired 2005-03-17ART -ISMs $1000: From the visual medium that influenced it, the art movement Super-realism is also called this "realism" Photorealism
#4497, aired 2004-03-09ISMs $200: The belief in the need to secure rights & opportunities for women equal to those of men feminism
#4497, aired 2004-03-09ISMs $400: Late 19th century movement that characterizes the work seen here Impressionism
#4497, aired 2004-03-09ISMs $600: News gathering & reporting; the University of Missouri had the USA's first school of it journalism
#4497, aired 2004-03-09ISMs $800: The name of this severe, sometimes fatal form of food poisoning comes from the Latin for "sausage" botulism
#4497, aired 2004-03-09ISMs $1000: A division of a group into mutually antagonistic factions, like the Catholic Church in 1054 schism
#3588, aired 2000-03-22ISMs $200: By definition, it's the ism practiced by a peeping Tom Voyeurism
#3588, aired 2000-03-22ISMs $400: This "rate" tells how many criminals leave prison & relapse into bad behavior Recidivism
#3588, aired 2000-03-22ISMs $800: From Greek for "The Inhabited World", it refers to the movement toward Christian unity Ecumenism
#3588, aired 2000-03-22ISMs $1000: As part of this Renaissance movement, Montaigne & Erasmus advocated individual reason Humanism
#3588, aired 2000-03-22ISMs $2,000 (Daily Double): Max Weber's best-known work is "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of" this economic system Capitalism
#3559, aired 2000-02-10ISMs $200: Copying your term paper directly out of an encyclopedia plagiarism
#3559, aired 2000-02-10ISMs $400: One of these can be "of fire" or by immersion in water during a religious rite Baptism
#3559, aired 2000-02-10ISMs $600: Ye gods! It's defined as the belief in more than one god Polytheism
#3559, aired 2000-02-10ISMs $800: Manorialism was the economic basis of this system of political & military obligation in the Middle Ages Feudalism
#3559, aired 2000-02-10ISMs $1000: From a word meaning "dot", it's the style exemplified by the painting seen here: Pointillism
#3013, aired 1997-10-08ISMs $200: This banishing of demons is part of Catholic baptism exorcism
#3013, aired 1997-10-08ISMs $400: In its strictest sense, it opposes violence even in self-defense pacifism
#3013, aired 1997-10-08ISMs $600: Critic Roger Fry coined this term for art like Cezanne's, which developed from a previous French style post-impressionism
#3013, aired 1997-10-08ISMs $800: Ain't is one of these words that ain't as appropriate in writing as in speaking colloquialism
#3013, aired 1997-10-08ISMs $1000: It's the practice of preparing for war by retreating to remote areas & storing food & weapons survivalism
#1443, aired 1990-12-05HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $400: Movie mogul known for his -isms, some of which were actually concocted by others Sam (Goldwyn)

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#5818, aired 2009-12-23-ISMS: This term for an economic system first appeared in English in Thackeray's "The Newcomes", about the rise of a family capitalism

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