|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This city in Virginia was named for 2 men, William Newce & Christopher Newport |
Newport News
|
|
|
In the Grimm version, the bit of apple is dislodged from her throat when the prince's men shake her coffin |
(Claude: What is Sleeping Beauty?)
Snow White
|
|
|
The lammergeier drops large bones onto rocks in order to eat this |
the marrow
|
|
|
For some 3000 years, this Egyptian structure was the world's largest building |
(Steve: What is the Pyramid?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
the Great Pyramid of Cheops
|
|
|
British Commonwealth forces suffered over 200,000 casualties at Gallipoli in this war |
World War I
|
|
|
According to a popular saying, supreme happiness is being there |
seventh heaven
|
|
|
To lure German capital to finance Northern Pacific Railway, Edwinton, N.D. was renamed this |
Bismarck
|
|
|
Dying in bed, he shot an arrow out the window, saying he was to be buried where it landed |
Robin Hood
|
|
|
Falcons used in falconry wear jesses, which are leather straps attached to this part of the bird |
(Fred: What are its eyes?) (Steve: What's its head?) ... (Alex: We've got a minute to go.)
the legs
|
|
|
Term for the distance between 2 floors of a building |
a story
|
|
|
In 1976, Sec'y of State Kissinger tried to negotiate an end to the guerilla war in this African nation |
(Fred: What is Angola?) (Claude: What is Ethiopia?)
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
|
|
|
In Catholic tradition, her 7 joys were matched by her 7 sorrows |
Mary
|
|
|
This oldest city in the U.S. was once the undisputed world leader in the building of shrimp boats |
St. Augustine, Florida
|
|
|
The part of an Englishman Jack's giant uses to make his bread |
his bones
|
|
|
New World vultures lack this ability because, unlike most birds, they ha\ve no syrinx |
(Claude: They have no voice, they cannot [*].) [Steve said both options.] ... (Alex: Claude, you forgot, of course, in Double Jeopardy! you forgot to phrase it in the form of a question and we cannot allow you any leeway in this round.)
they cannot call (or sing)
|
|
|
The 3 Greek orders refer not to takeout from Nick's Cafe but to styles of these supports |
columns
|
|
|
Spanning the 16th & 17th centuries, the 80 Years War led to this Low Country's independence from Spain |
the Netherlands
|
|
|
Commemoration or celebration of an event that occurred 7 years earlier |
a septennial
|
|
|
Frontier Days, featuring world's oldest annual rodeo, are the pride of July for this Wyoming town |
Cheyenne, Wyoming
|
|
|
It ends "Will you wake him? No, not I; for if I do, he'll be sure to cry" |
(Claude: Who's Wee Willie Winkie?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Little Boy Blue
|
|
|
|
The staircase as a decorative feature was 1st used in English mansions of this period starting around 1558 |
the Tudor period (Elizabethan)
|
|
|
In 1965, during this Caribbean country's civil war, Marines were sent in to protect Amer. interests |
the Dominican Republic
|
|
|
As a member of the 1936 Fordham football team, Vince Lombardi was one of this stony septet |
(Steve: What are the Seven Stones of Granite?)
the Seven Blocks of Granite
|
|
|
This city is 1 of world's largest cattle markets & home to the Strategic Air Command |
Omaha, Nebraska
|
|
|
|
|
Italians scorned this northern European style of cathedral architecture, linking it with a barbarian tribe |
Gothic
|
|
|
Ceding its interests in Libya, this empire ended its war with Italy in 1912 |
(Fred: Uh, that would be Abyssinian? What is Abyssinian?) ... (Alex: Turkey.)
the Ottoman Empire
|
|
|
Based on the conflict between Oedipus' 2 sons, it's one of Aeschylus' later plays |
Seven Against Thebes
|
|