Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (122 results returned)

#8990, aired 2023-12-08WORDS FROM ARABIC $1200: Originally a set of tables recording astronomical movements, today it can be an annual reference book of articles & events an almanac
#8940, aired 2023-09-29FURNITURE $1200: A little bird gave us this term for the space-saving furniture seen here nesting tables
#8793, aired 2023-01-25WE GRADE THAT H-PLUS $1000: A restaurant with tables on the sidewalk adds H to the menu for a word meaning to irritate by rubbing café & chafe
#8764, aired 2022-12-15TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $200: On "Seinfeld", Kramer wrote a book about this kind of table--it's also this kind of book & this kind of table a coffee table
#8764, aired 2022-12-15TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $400: In 2008 Nebraska's Supreme Court ruled use of this device violated the state constitution's ban on cruel & unusual punishment the electric chair
#8764, aired 2022-12-15TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $600: IKEA's Bekväm is this type of ladder: self-supporting, with a top cap connecting the front & rear rails a stepladder
#8764, aired 2022-12-15TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $800: Office chairs made by Knoll, founded in 1938, are an example of midmod design, short for this mid-century modern
#8764, aired 2022-12-15TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $1000: It means you verbally expressed an idea clearly; it also is this type of portable ladder with a series of locking hinges seen here articulate(d)
#8681, aired 2022-07-11TRIAL & ERA $1600: 1895 saw this writer initially suing for libel, but the tables turned & he was soon on the hook for "gross indecency" Oscar Wilde
#8645, aired 2022-05-20THE FARMER $600: Containing planting schedules & astronomical tables, it's been around since 1792 the Farmers' Almanac
#8603, aired 2022-03-23IT HAPPENED IN '22 $800: 1622: Mathematician William Oughtred puts 2 logarithmic tables side by side, inventing this calculating device a slide rule
#8406, aired 2021-05-24STARTS WITH SOMETHING YOU CAN RIDE $200: They help waiters in restaurants with resetting tables & other tasks a busboy
#8262, aired 2020-10-20SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $1,000 (Daily Double): In the early 1800s John Dalton made pioneering tables of this measure, though he gave 7 for oxygen's (15.999 is correct) atomic weight
#8260, aired 2020-10-16AROUND THE HOUSE $800: A little birdie told us it's the cozy name for the stackable tables seen here nesting tables
#8199, aired 2020-04-09WHERE YA GOIN' FOR SPRING BREAK? $400: Well, you're too young to drink in this city...can't hit the tables...but Lady Gaga Enigma is at Park MGM, so off we go! Las Vegas
#8009, aired 2019-06-06MACAU $400: This industry in Macau goes back to fan-tan tables of the 1850s gambling
#7929, aired 2019-02-14& WAIT TABLES $200: Put patrons in a good mood with an amuse-bouche, a small type of this course an appetizer
#7929, aired 2019-02-14& WAIT TABLES $400: We're out of the item you wanted, so it has been given this 2-digit designation--pick something else 86
#7929, aired 2019-02-14& WAIT TABLES $600: This French phrase means a complete meal with a set cost prix fixe
#7929, aired 2019-02-14& WAIT TABLES $800: You can bring your own wine, but we'll charge this fee, named for an element of the bottle corkage fee
#7929, aired 2019-02-14& WAIT TABLES $1000: This name for the waiter's tool seen here rhymes with "summer" a crumber
#7916, aired 2019-01-28BLACKJACK $400: The $5 blackjack tables are a lower-budget option at this double-talk casino opened in 1968 on the Vegas Strip Circus Circus
#7880, aired 2018-12-07PRO WRESTLING $600: A 2018 WWE PPV was "TLC: Tables, Ladders", these, which somehow end up being used as a weapon a lot; wait, isn't that illegal? chairs
#7836, aired 2018-10-08THE SHUSH DOCTRINE $1600: A sign on some restaurant tables, or a noncommunicative disposition reserved
#7801, aired 2018-07-09ANCIENT ROME $1600: The Laws of 12 Tables may have settled disputes between the wealthy patricians & this class of common people plebeians
#7700, aired 2018-02-16IN A HALL OF FAME $800: The Insurance HOF enshrined this British scientist, not for comet insurance, but his work on mortality tables Halley
#7699, aired 2018-02-15WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST? $400: It was created as a health food in the 19th c. & returned to tables as Heartland Natural Cereal in 1972 granola
#7611, aired 2017-10-16TECHNOLOGY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.) Seen here in a 2002 replica that's 7 feet high, 11 feet long & 5 tons, Difference Engine Number 2 was designed to remove human error from scientific tables; it was a groundbreaking computer concept by this British inventor back in the 1840s (Charles) Babbage
#7510, aired 2017-04-14SHALLOW THOUGHTS $400: Lord Kelvin built a computer to calculate tables of these in a harbor & predict them for any day & hour tides
#7467, aired 2017-02-14GET A JOB! $800: You can use "person" instead of "boy" in this word for one who clears tables busboy
#7458, aired 2017-02-01CASINO $2000: Table on which you'd find horn & field options; some casinos even offer 5x or 10x odds too! the craps tables
#7391, aired 2016-10-31ABBREVIATED REALITY SHOWS $400: The one where an angry Teresa literally turned the tables on a cast mate: "RHONJ" Real Housewives of New Jersey
#7383, aired 2016-10-19FURNITURE $800: To enlarge the surface of a tabletop, some tables have these that hang vertically when not in use leaves
#7246, aired 2016-02-29URBAN LITERATURE $400: Portrayed by Sinatra on film, he runs the craps tables in the "Guys and Dolls" stories Nathan Detroit
#7100, aired 2015-06-26ARITHMETIC $800: There are 7 tables with 3 kids & 4 adults at each table, making for this many people total 49
#7064, aired 2015-05-07THE WILD WEST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Deadwood, SD.) In 1876, "Wild" Bill Hickok moved to Deadwood & became a regular at the poker tables where, on August 2nd, he was shot by Jack McCall holding the dead-man's hand, reportedly a queen or a 9 & these four cards aces & 8s
#6940, aired 2014-11-14FURNITURE $1200: A little bird gave us this term for the space-saving furniture seen here nesting tables
#6912, aired 2014-10-07BIG STUFF $800: Oklahoma's Winstar World this establishment has 500,000 square feet & 88 tables Casino
#6870, aired 2014-06-27FURNITURE $1600: Mies Van Der Rohe designed tubular types of these & said it's almost harder than designing a building chairs
#6856, aired 2014-06-09STUPID ANSWERS $200: You must be at least 21 to play at Luxor Las Vegas' 38 tables for this game 21
#6716, aired 2013-11-25POTENT POE‑TABLES $400: "The Bells" features golden wedding bells & sledges with bells of this metal (might make a good Christmas carol) silver
#6716, aired 2013-11-25POTENT POE‑TABLES $800: This poem includes the line "much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly" "The Raven"
#6716, aired 2013-11-25POTENT POE‑TABLES $1200: "And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful" her Annabel Lee
#6716, aired 2013-11-25POTENT POE‑TABLES $1600: The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this detective story (The) Murders in the Rue Morgue
#6716, aired 2013-11-25POTENT POE‑TABLES $2000: The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hears a low, dull sound--"such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in" this cotton
#6659, aired 2013-07-25WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY $3,000 (Daily Double): I'm not leaving my office at this company until I finish putting together a set of our Klubbo nesting tables IKEA
#6546, aired 2013-02-18MICRO $200: The smallest one of these tables was etched on a hair that belonged to a chemistry professor a periodic table
#6526, aired 2013-01-21CONTENTS OF TABLES $400: This Middle Eastern salad is made of bulgur wheat, tomatoes, parsley, olive oil & lemon juice tabbouleh
#6526, aired 2013-01-21CONTENTS OF TABLES $800: This rich & creamy potato & leek soup is served cold & garnished with chives vichyssoise
#6526, aired 2013-01-21CONTENTS OF TABLES $1200: This type of crab, the pride of the Pacific coast, is named for a place in Washington State Dungeness
#6526, aired 2013-01-21CONTENTS OF TABLES $1600: The Brits call this pungent salad green "rocket" arugula
#6526, aired 2013-01-21CONTENTS OF TABLES $2000: Prosciutto is Italian ham; this is Italian bacon from the pork belly pancetta
#6487, aired 2012-11-27ANCIENT JERUSALEM $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us the model of ancient Jerusalem at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.) In Jesus' time three festivals a year brought thousands of pilgrims to the temple; those serving the throngs included these people, whose tables Jesus overturned the money changers
#6468, aired 2012-10-31ON THE JOB $400: Didier Jouvenet showed the rich & famous to their tables in this "masterly" job at NYC's La Grenouille maître d'
#6413, aired 2012-07-04HALLEY'S CATEGORY $2000: The development of these tables used in life insurance was influenced by mortality tables Halley made for the city of Breslau actuarial tables
#6412, aired 2012-07-03ON THE TURNTABLE $400: "Lethargic" name for the revolving turntable found on some kitchen tables Lazy Susan
#6369, aired 2012-05-03BARD GAMES $2000: In "Love's Labour's Lost", a character "plays at tables", an old term for this board game played with counters & dice backgammon
#6297, aired 2012-01-24YOU'LL NEED INSURANCE $600: These "tables" that take their name from the Latin for "record keeper" are used to evaluate life expectancies actuarial tables
#6266, aired 2011-12-12BILLIARDS $2000: In 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a Cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then the Brunswick Corporation
#6259, aired 2011-12-01FURNITURE $600: Useful little end tables & coffee tables are also called these "tables", so they may talk like foreigners accent tables
#6097, aired 2011-03-01THAT'S MY BUSINESS! $1600: I bus tables at Twin City Grill, one of the 50 restaurants in this Twin Cities shopping destination the Mall of America
#5974, aired 2010-07-29COMMANDERS AT WAR $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) In June 1950, North Korea launched a surprise attack deep into South Korea; the tables turned in September, when MacArthur's UN forces made a surprise landing at this port city Inchon
#5964, aired 2010-07-15MEASURE THIS, TREBEK! $1200: Sailors can use a basic sextant to measure this at local noon, then check navigation tables to calculate latitude the altitude of the sun
#5771, aired 2009-10-19TEA $400 (Daily Double): Because it's meant to be served on coffee tables, not dining room tables, it's the alternate 2-word name for afternoon tea low tea
#5490, aired 2008-06-20JEOPORTMANTEAU! $2000: Annual publication with tables & forecasts plus something out of place in time an almanachronism
#5363, aired 2007-12-26FICTIONAL BOOKS $200: This character on "Seinfeld" thought of "a coffee table book about coffee tables" that turned into a coffee table Kramer
#4880, aired 2005-11-25THE NEWSPAPER $1000: A certain mineral, or the type size used for sports stats & stock tables agate
#4747, aired 2005-04-05THEATRE $1600: This 1954 Terence Rattigan drama consists of 2 one-act plays: "Table by the Window" & "Table Number Seven" Separate Tables
#4625, aired 2004-10-15VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $400: Mondale's tables of worship Walter's altars
#4559, aired 2004-06-03EDUCATION $400: Common term for the system that emerged in the '60s to teach more mathematical concepts & fewer times tables the New Math
#4463, aired 2004-01-21AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Tray, parsons & coffee are types of these tables
#4405, aired 2003-10-31FACTORIES $1200: In 2002 a Guangzhou sporting goods company opened a factory to make 100,000 of these tables a year ping-pong tables
#4399, aired 2003-10-23MARINE SCIENCE $600: Computers can model these, neap type & all, so sailors don't have to rely totally on tables tides
#4359, aired 2003-07-10HMMM, I WONDER $600: A reader of these checks out the Line of Mars & Mount of Venus palms
#4309, aired 2003-05-01TV WORKPLACES $1000: Restaurant where Alice, Vera & "Kiss My Grits" Flo waited tables Mel's Diner
#4028, aired 2002-02-20PANCREAS, SPLEEN OR APPENDIX $800: It contains notes, charts, tables & lists appendix
#3767, aired 2001-01-09CLASSIC KIDDY LIT $200: Family name of the 3 billy goats who turned the tables on a troll Gruff
#3684, aired 2000-09-14DINING OUT $100: Founded in the 1930s, Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant became so popular this theme park grew up around it Knott's Berry Farm
#3553, aired 2000-02-02SEATTLE $300: In the early '60s this martial arts master waited tables at Seattle's Ruby Chow's Restaurant Bruce Lee
#3407, aired 1999-06-01BIOGRAPHIES $400: The tables were turned on this biographer when she became the subject of the unauthorized book "Poison Pen" Kitty Kelley
#3246, aired 1998-10-19TV NICKNAMES $1000: This actor turned the tables as "Venus Flytrap" Tim Reid
#3091, aired 1998-01-26ODDS $400: You can find the odds on your early death on these tables used by insurance companies Actuarial tables
#2990, aired 1997-09-05BORN IN THE '60s $300: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned Garry Kasparov
#2976, aired 1997-07-07TEXTILES $200: Tennis balls & pool tables are covered by this material made from wet woolen fibers Felt
#2920, aired 1997-04-18TRAVEL U.S.A. $100: Restaurants on this Massachusetts cape include the Impudent Oyster & Aesop's Tables Cape Cod
#2834, aired 1996-12-19TREES $1000: After Chippendale used this dark, rich wood for dining tables, its name became synonymous with them Mahogany
#2791, aired 1996-10-21THE SUPREME COURT $400: Tradition still has these types of pens placed daily on the counsel tables quill pens
#2779, aired 1996-10-03IDIOMS $400: To reverse positions & seize the advantage is "to turn" these on someone the tables
#2769, aired 1996-09-19ASIAN AMERICANS $600: Entrepreneur Rocky Aoki founded this Japanese steakhouse chain famous for its hibachi tables Benihana
#2726, aired 1996-06-10FOOD $400: When dining from one of these Scandinavian hors d'oeuvre tables, begin with the herring smorgasbord
#2444, aired 1995-03-30CLOTH & FABRIC $200: One of the most common uses for green baize is to cover these tables that have pockets in them pool tables
#2352, aired 1994-11-22BACK OF THE BOOK $600: In the back of a geometry book, you may find these lists of trigonometric ratios or square roots Tables
#2224, aired 1994-04-14COMMON BONDS $500: Card, round, periodic tables
#2178, aired 1994-02-09TEXTILES $200: Baize, a woolen or cotton material used chiefly to cover gaming tables, is usually dyed this color green
#2110, aired 1993-11-051876 $500: "Girls" began waiting tables at a Topeka Railroad Depot restaurant, the 1st of many owned by this man (Fred) Harvey
#2032, aired 1993-06-08FURNITURE $200: The gateleg style of this piece of furniture was introduced to Colonial America around 1650 tables
#2009, aired 1993-05-06TEXTBOOK TALK $500: Tables & technical material not included in the main text often appear in back as this section appendix
#2001, aired 1993-04-26OLD TESTAMENT $200: In Exodus 31:18 he was given "two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God" Moses
#2000, aired 1993-04-23CITY SONGS $500: This title precedes "Chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees" "April In Paris"
#1929, aired 1993-01-14TABLES $100: The ITTF holds a world championship in this sport, also called ping-pong, every 2 years table tennis
#1929, aired 1993-01-14TABLES $200: The name of this organization for folks with high IQs means "table" Mensa
#1929, aired 1993-01-14TABLES $300: The noble, or inert, gases constitute group O on this table the periodic table
#1929, aired 1993-01-14TABLES $400: This measure is equal to 15 milliliters a tablespoon
#1929, aired 1993-01-14TABLES $500: Alexander Woollcott & Harpo Marx were members of the Round Table that met at this NYC hotel the Algonquin
#1851, aired 1992-09-28THE BIBLE $100: In Exodus 24:12 God said to him, "I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments..." Moses
#1634, aired 1991-10-10DECORATIVE ARTS $100: Tables shaped like this equine footwear were popular in the late 18th century a horseshoe
#1569, aired 1991-05-30THE OSCARS $400: His role as a troubled ex-colonel in "Separate Tables" earned him the 1958 Best Actor Oscar David Niven
#1434, aired 1990-11-22THANKSGIVING $100: The broad-breasted white is the most common U.S. variety found on Thanksgiving tables turkey
#1274, aired 1990-03-01"TABLE"S $400: To reverse the situation & gain the upper hand Turn the Tables
#1267, aired 1990-02-20INSURANCE $500: Used in setting rates, the theory of this was developed by Blaise Pascal & Pierre de Fermat in the 1600s the theory of probability
#903, aired 1988-07-06GLASS $1000: Around 1930, a few glass tables were made by this French designer famed for his fine glass works René Lalique
#840, aired 1988-04-08THE SCENE IS SET $500: The parts of this Terence Rattigan play are titled "Table Number 7" & "Table by the Window" Separate Tables
#752, aired 1987-12-08AMERICAN POETRY $200: Sylvia Plath described these fungi as saying "We are shelves, we are tables, we are meek, we are edible" mushrooms
#733, aired 1987-11-11RECREATION $400: Though pool tables may vary in size, all have length in this proportion to width 2 to 1
#636, aired 1987-05-18ANTONYMS $400: Pair of action antonyms used for both dinner tables & typewriter tabs set & clear
#361, aired 1986-01-27"TABLE" TALK $600: In this 1958 film, Lancaster & Hayworth were at 1, David Niven at another, & Wendy Hiller at a 3rd Separate Tables
#361, aired 1986-01-27"TABLE" TALK $2,500 (Daily Double): The 1st line of "The Wiffenpoof Song" "To the tables down at Mory's"
#314, aired 1985-11-212ND CENTURY $800: "Handy Tables", "Harmonica", & "The Almagest" are among this astronomers surviving works Ptolemy
#300, aired 1985-11-01INTERIOR DECORATING $100: The use of tables comes from this ancient land, 'cause things fall off of pyramids Egypt
#297, aired 1985-10-29FURNITURE $400: Duncan Phyfe was a Scottish cabinetmaker known for his work in this country United States
#127, aired 1985-03-05FOODS $400: 18th C. English Earl who always had meat between bread brought to the gambling tables Earl of Sandwich
#78, aired 1984-12-26FOOD $200: Fruit grown in soggy soil that shows up on Thanksgiving tables cranberry

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (4 results returned)

#5078, aired 2006-10-11CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: In Act I he says, "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables" Hamlet
#3008, aired 1997-10-01AMERICANA: The first 24-hour 7-Eleven opened in 1963 in this city Las Vegas
#2969, aired 1997-06-26POETS: He had already published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" when Vachel Lindsay discovered him busing tables Langston Hughes
#1662, aired 1991-11-19PLAYS: This 1954 play is actually 2 one-acts, "Table by the Window" & "Table Number Seven" Separate Tables

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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Jim Stevens, a math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York "She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...



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