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5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	$200	Synonym for dignity that's the term for a group of lions	a pride
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	I'D RATHER BE SKIING	$200	If you're a beginner, you might hippity-hop over to this smaller, gentler slope	a bunny hill
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	PARLEZ VOUS?	$200	If your mate from Marseilles says he's getting to LAX via "Sud-Ouest", pick him up at this carrier	Southwest
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s	$400	In 2008 David Gregory became moderator of this NBC Sunday morning news show	Meet the Press
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	MOVIES & TV	$400	Time magazine said this 2003 Pixar film was "the ultimate fish-out-of-water story"	Finding Nemo
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS	$400	Antioch, Bowling Green, Kent State	Ohio
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	$400	Like peas, whales & seals are in groups called these	pods
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	I'D RATHER BE SKIING	$400	Something you'd sprinkle on after a shower, it's also the term for soft, dry, freshly fallen snow	powder
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	PARLEZ VOUS?	$400	Duck, duck, l'oie; (l'oie of course referring to this other feathered friend)	a goose
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s	$600	Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers	Linux
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	MOVIES & TV	$600	Of his dialogue, this Han Solo actor said, "You can type this (stuff), George, but you sure can't say it"	Harrison Ford
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS	$600	DePaul, Wheaton, Northwestern	Illinois
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	$600	A crash is a group of these large horned mammals	rhinoceroses
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	I'D RATHER BE SKIING	$600	In California, a premier spot for skiing is this resort area that shares its name with a prehistoric elephant	Mammoth
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	PARLEZ VOUS?	$600	"Je ne sais pas" means this, but you still get credit if you phrase it in the form of a question	"I don't know"
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s	$800	The district of conservative rep. Patrick McHenry in this state includes Mooresville, a home of NASCAR	North Carolina
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	MOVIES & TV	$800	Tim Robbins played a public TV newsman in "Anchorman: The Legend of" him	Ron Burgundy
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS	$800	Wayne State, Kalamazoo College, Madonna University (it's Franciscan Catholic, not Material Girl)	Michigan
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	$800	It can be a pack of dogs, or a place to board them	a kennel
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	I'D RATHER BE SKIING	$1,200	In this type of race you have to zigzag between flags or other obstacles in proper order	a slalom
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	PARLEZ VOUS?	$800	When mom tells you to do something "Maintenant!", she means this	now
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s	$1,000	Elon Musk is now making rockets & electric cars; before that he co-founded & sold this electronic payment system	PayPal
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	MOVIES & TV	$1,000	We were frakkin' sad when this sci fi show had its series finale on March 20, 2009	Battlestar Galactica
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS	$1,000	Grambling, McNeese State, Southern	Louisiana
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	$1,000	A flock of these black birds is called a murder	crows
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	I'D RATHER BE SKIING	$1,000	Bumps or mounds of snow that accumulate on a slope are called these, like some very wealthy & powerful people	moguls
5,690	5/8/09	Jeopardy!	PARLEZ VOUS?	$1,000	"Huitieme" is French for this ordinal number	eighth
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	AMERICAN AUTHORS	$400	Her home Orchard House was the model for whre the March family lived in her most famous novel	Louisa May Alcott
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ALBUMS THAT ROCK	$400	"X&Y", "Parachutes"	Coldplay
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ANATOMY	$400	This cord that connects a fetus to the placenta contains 2 arteries & 1 vein	the umbillical cord
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	MATHEM-ATTACK!	$400	Che Guevara probably knew the political-sounding term for the root symbol seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>	radical
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	NAME THE DECADE	$400	The World Wide Web gets its first page	the 1990s
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	WORD ORIGINS	$400	This adjective meaning deceptive or sneaky is from the Latin de via, meaning "out of the way"	devious
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	AMERICAN AUTHORS	$800	During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders	Washington Irving
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ALBUMS THAT ROCK	$800	"American Idiot", "Dookie"	Green Day
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ANATOMY	$800	The human body has 3 types of these: skeletal, smooth & cardiac, a combination of skeletal & smooth	muscles
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	MATHEM-ATTACK!	$800	You should answer this one automatically: It's the property that says a = a	reflexive
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	NAME THE DECADE	$800	The first controlled nuclear chain reaction	the 1940s
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	WORD ORIGINS	$800	This New York island's name may come from the Algonquian word for "island"	Manhattan
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	AMERICAN AUTHORS	$1,200	Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well	John Cheever
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ALBUMS THAT ROCK	$1,200	"Master of Puppets", "Death Magnetic"	Metallica
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ANATOMY	$1,200	The talus fits between the ends of these 2 bones forming the ankle joint	the tibia & fibula
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	MATHEM-ATTACK!	$1,200	(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an array of numbers enclosed in brackets on the monitor.</a>) A set of numbers in rows and columns can be used in many ways--for example, to encrypt a code or create 3-D computer graphics; the set shares this name with a 1999 film	a matrix
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	NAME THE DECADE	$1,200	Khruschev's "Secret Speech" denounces Stalin	the 1950s
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	WORD ORIGINS	$4,800	This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for "to the left of the rising sun"	north
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	AMERICAN AUTHORS	$1,600	He stood 5'3" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006	(Truman) Capote
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ALBUMS THAT ROCK	$1,600	"In Your Honor", "The Color and the Shape"	Foo Fighters
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ANATOMY	$1,600	Humans have 33 vertebrae, 7 of them cervical, meaning they are in this part of the body	your neck
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	MATHEM-ATTACK!	$1,600	The symbol <i>i</i> is used to represent the imaginary square root of this number	-1
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	NAME THE DECADE	$1,800	George Orwell, 34 years dead, hits the bestseller list	the 1980s
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	WORD ORIGINS	$1,600	From the Latin for "much writing", it's another name for a lie detector test	a polygraph
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	AMERICAN AUTHORS	$2,000	He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959	Philip Roth
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ALBUMS THAT ROCK	$2,000	"Beggars Banquet", "Steel Wheels"	the Rolling Stones
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	ANATOMY	$2,000	The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance	the cerebellum
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	MATHEM-ATTACK!	$2,000	(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_30.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.</a>) Half the base times the height gives the area of a triangle; for a <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_30a.jpg" target="_blank">cylinder</a>, the area of the base times the height gives this measurement	volume
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	NAME THE DECADE	$2,000	Man first reaches the South Pole	the 1910s
5,690	5/8/09	Double Jeopardy!	WORD ORIGINS	$2,000	A type of ear implant to help the deaf, it's from the Greek for "snail"	cochlear
5,690	5/8/09	Final Jeopardy!	EUROPEAN HISTORY	null	He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing"	Henry VIII
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	AMERICAN EXPLORERS	$100	Edward Beale brought news of this 1848 discovery in California to the east coast	gold
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MEASURING DEVICES	$100	The amount of this in a solution can be measured by a saccharometer	sugar
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MYTHOLOGY	$100	Daedalus used this substance to fasten the wings to his back	wax
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	TELEVISION	$100	This Sunday night series is subtitled "The New Adventures of Superman"	Lois & Clark
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	ANNUAL EVENTS	$100	This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847	Utah
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$100	A complete donut center	whole hole
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	AMERICAN EXPLORERS	$200	Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable	Colorado
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MEASURING DEVICES	$200	The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer	the Sun
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MYTHOLOGY	$200	Cadmus planted these parts of a dragon to raise some troops	teeth
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	TELEVISION	$200	"Freddy's Nightmares", a horror anthology that debuted in 1988, was based on this movie series	Nightmare on Elm Street
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	ANNUAL EVENTS	$200	Monroe, near Snohomish in this state, is the site of the annual Evergreen State Fair	Washington
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$200	In a restaurant, it's a quartet's table request	for four
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	AMERICAN EXPLORERS	$300	Co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast	Lewis & Clark
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MEASURING DEVICES	$300	An odometer measures the distance covered by a vehicle & this device measures how far you've walked	a pedometer
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MYTHOLOGY	$300	The sister of Orestes, mourning became her	Electra
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	TELEVISION	$300	This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon	Hart to Hart
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	ANNUAL EVENTS	$300	Dog lovers look forward to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, held each February in this city	New York City
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$300	Contented performing kittens might be paid this way	per purr
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	AMERICAN EXPLORERS	$400	Jedediah Smith was a mountain man & explorer employed in this industry	fur trading
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MEASURING DEVICES	$400	A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs	the lungs
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MYTHOLOGY	$400	Zeus' father, Cronus, was one of this group of 12	Titans
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	TELEVISION	$600	Character seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1996-12-06_J_04.wmv">here</a>, his action-packed journeys are legendary:	Hercules (Kevin Sorbo)
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	ANNUAL EVENTS	$400	The Pendleton Roundup, an annual rodeo, takes place in Pendleton in this northwestern state	Oregon
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$400	A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn	gored gourd
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	AMERICAN EXPLORERS	$500	Senator Thomas Hart Benton's son-in-law was this "Pathfinder"	John C. Fr√©mont
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MEASURING DEVICES	$500	A nilometer measures the height of the water in this	the Nile River
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	MYTHOLOGY	$500	Leda laid 2 eggs: one with Helen & Pollux in it, the other containing Clytemnestra & him	Castor
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	TELEVISION	$500	Jack Wagner, formerly of "General Hospital", now plays Dr. Peter Burns on this Fox drama	Melrose Place
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	ANNUAL EVENTS	$500	The Tanglewood Music Festival is a summer highlight in Lenox in this New England state	Massachusetts
2,825	12/6/96	Jeopardy!	HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$500	Remained sedate	stayed staid
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	NOTABLE NONHUMANS	$200	This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian	Adolf Hitler
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	WORLD FACTS	$200	This isthmus connects North & South America	Isthmus of Panama
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	ART & ARTISTS	$200	He painted "Irises" & "Pink Roses" as well as "Sunflowers"	Vincent Van Gogh
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	BUSINESS & INDUSTRY	$200	It has over 9,700 tax preparation offices worldwide	H&R Block
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	HISTORY	$200	Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city	Athens
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	POETS	$200	On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress	Carl Sandburg
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	NOTABLE NONHUMANS	$400	In 1964 he lifted his beagles Him & Her by the ears on the White House lawn, provoking protest	Lyndon Johnson
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	WORLD FACTS	$400	A humid city, Rio de Janeiro lies just north of this tropic line	the Tropic of Capricorn
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	ART & ARTISTS	$400	This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912	Jackson Pollock
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	BUSINESS & INDUSTRY	$400	In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element	IBM
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	HISTORY	$400	Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands	Denmark
2,825	12/6/96	Double Jeopardy!	POETS	$400	Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King"	Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Jeopardy!

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

$200

Synonym for dignity that's the term for a group of lions

a pride

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

I'D RATHER BE SKIING

$200

If you're a beginner, you might hippity-hop over to this smaller, gentler slope

a bunny hill

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

PARLEZ VOUS?

$200

If your mate from Marseilles says he's getting to LAX via "Sud-Ouest", pick him up at this carrier

Southwest

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s

$400

In 2008 David Gregory became moderator of this NBC Sunday morning news show

Meet the Press

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

MOVIES & TV

$400

Time magazine said this 2003 Pixar film was "the ultimate fish-out-of-water story"

Finding Nemo

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS

$400

Antioch, Bowling Green, Kent State

Ohio

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

$400

Like peas, whales & seals are in groups called these

pods

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

I'D RATHER BE SKIING

$400

Something you'd sprinkle on after a shower, it's also the term for soft, dry, freshly fallen snow

powder

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

PARLEZ VOUS?

$400

Duck, duck, l'oie; (l'oie of course referring to this other feathered friend)

a goose

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s

$600

Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers

Linux

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

MOVIES & TV

$600

Of his dialogue, this Han Solo actor said, "You can type this (stuff), George, but you sure can't say it"

Harrison Ford

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS

$600

DePaul, Wheaton, Northwestern

Illinois

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

$600

A crash is a group of these large horned mammals

rhinoceroses

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

I'D RATHER BE SKIING

$600

In California, a premier spot for skiing is this resort area that shares its name with a prehistoric elephant

Mammoth

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

PARLEZ VOUS?

$600

"Je ne sais pas" means this, but you still get credit if you phrase it in the form of a question

"I don't know"

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s

$800

The district of conservative rep. Patrick McHenry in this state includes Mooresville, a home of NASCAR

North Carolina

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

MOVIES & TV

$800

Tim Robbins played a public TV newsman in "Anchorman: The Legend of" him

Ron Burgundy

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS

$800

Wayne State, Kalamazoo College, Madonna University (it's Franciscan Catholic, not Material Girl)

Michigan

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

$800

It can be a pack of dogs, or a place to board them

a kennel

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

I'D RATHER BE SKIING

$1,200

In this type of race you have to zigzag between flags or other obstacles in proper order

a slalom

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

PARLEZ VOUS?

$800

When mom tells you to do something "Maintenant!", she means this

now

5,690

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Jeopardy!

OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s

$1,000

Elon Musk is now making rockets & electric cars; before that he co-founded & sold this electronic payment system

PayPal

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

MOVIES & TV

$1,000

We were frakkin' sad when this sci fi show had its series finale on March 20, 2009

Battlestar Galactica

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS

$1,000

Grambling, McNeese State, Southern

Louisiana

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

$1,000

A flock of these black birds is called a murder

crows

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

I'D RATHER BE SKIING

$1,000

Bumps or mounds of snow that accumulate on a slope are called these, like some very wealthy & powerful people

moguls

5,690

5/8/09

Jeopardy!

PARLEZ VOUS?

$1,000

"Huitieme" is French for this ordinal number

eighth

5,690

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

$400

Her home Orchard House was the model for whre the March family lived in her most famous novel

Louisa May Alcott

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ALBUMS THAT ROCK

$400

"X&Y", "Parachutes"

Coldplay

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ANATOMY

$400

This cord that connects a fetus to the placenta contains 2 arteries & 1 vein

the umbillical cord

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

MATHEM-ATTACK!

$400

Che Guevara probably knew the political-sounding term for the root symbol seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_26.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>

radical

5,690

5/8/09

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NAME THE DECADE

$400

The World Wide Web gets its first page

the 1990s

5,690

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WORD ORIGINS

$400

This adjective meaning deceptive or sneaky is from the Latin de via, meaning "out of the way"

devious

5,690

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

$800

During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders

Washington Irving

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ALBUMS THAT ROCK

$800

"American Idiot", "Dookie"

Green Day

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ANATOMY

$800

The human body has 3 types of these: skeletal, smooth & cardiac, a combination of skeletal & smooth

muscles

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

MATHEM-ATTACK!

$800

You should answer this one automatically: It's the property that says a = a

reflexive

5,690

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NAME THE DECADE

$800

The first controlled nuclear chain reaction

the 1940s

5,690

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WORD ORIGINS

$800

This New York island's name may come from the Algonquian word for "island"

Manhattan

5,690

5/8/09

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

$1,200

Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well

John Cheever

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ALBUMS THAT ROCK

$1,200

"Master of Puppets", "Death Magnetic"

Metallica

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ANATOMY

$1,200

The talus fits between the ends of these 2 bones forming the ankle joint

the tibia & fibula

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

MATHEM-ATTACK!

$1,200

(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_28.jpg" target="_blank">Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an array of numbers enclosed in brackets on the monitor.</a>) A set of numbers in rows and columns can be used in many ways--for example, to encrypt a code or create 3-D computer graphics; the set shares this name with a 1999 film

a matrix

5,690

5/8/09

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NAME THE DECADE

$1,200

Khruschev's "Secret Speech" denounces Stalin

the 1950s

5,690

5/8/09

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WORD ORIGINS

$4,800

This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for "to the left of the rising sun"

north

5,690

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

$1,600

He stood 5'3" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006

(Truman) Capote

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ALBUMS THAT ROCK

$1,600

"In Your Honor", "The Color and the Shape"

Foo Fighters

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

ANATOMY

$1,600

Humans have 33 vertebrae, 7 of them cervical, meaning they are in this part of the body

your neck

5,690

5/8/09

Double Jeopardy!

MATHEM-ATTACK!

$1,600

The symbol <i>i</i> is used to represent the imaginary square root of this number

-1

5,690

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NAME THE DECADE

$1,800

George Orwell, 34 years dead, hits the bestseller list

the 1980s

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WORD ORIGINS

$1,600

From the Latin for "much writing", it's another name for a lie detector test

a polygraph

5,690

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

$2,000

He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959

Philip Roth

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Double Jeopardy!

ALBUMS THAT ROCK

$2,000

"Beggars Banquet", "Steel Wheels"

the Rolling Stones

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The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance

the cerebellum

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(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_30.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.</a>) Half the base times the height gives the area of a triangle; for a <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2009-05-08_DJ_30a.jpg" target="_blank">cylinder</a>, the area of the base times the height gives this measurement

volume

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Man first reaches the South Pole

the 1910s

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A type of ear implant to help the deaf, it's from the Greek for "snail"

cochlear

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He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing"

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Edward Beale brought news of this 1848 discovery in California to the east coast

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The amount of this in a solution can be measured by a saccharometer

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Daedalus used this substance to fasten the wings to his back

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This Sunday night series is subtitled "The New Adventures of Superman"

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This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847

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Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable

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The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer

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Cadmus planted these parts of a dragon to raise some troops

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"Freddy's Nightmares", a horror anthology that debuted in 1988, was based on this movie series

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Monroe, near Snohomish in this state, is the site of the annual Evergreen State Fair

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In a restaurant, it's a quartet's table request

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Co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast

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An odometer measures the distance covered by a vehicle & this device measures how far you've walked

a pedometer

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The sister of Orestes, mourning became her

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This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon

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Dog lovers look forward to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, held each February in this city

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Contented performing kittens might be paid this way

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Jedediah Smith was a mountain man & explorer employed in this industry

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A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs

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Zeus' father, Cronus, was one of this group of 12

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Character seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/1996-12-06_J_04.wmv">here</a>, his action-packed journeys are legendary:

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The Pendleton Roundup, an annual rodeo, takes place in Pendleton in this northwestern state

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A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn

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Senator Thomas Hart Benton's son-in-law was this "Pathfinder"

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A nilometer measures the height of the water in this

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Leda laid 2 eggs: one with Helen & Pollux in it, the other containing Clytemnestra & him

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Jack Wagner, formerly of "General Hospital", now plays Dr. Peter Burns on this Fox drama

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The Tanglewood Music Festival is a summer highlight in Lenox in this New England state

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Remained sedate

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This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian

Adolf Hitler

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This isthmus connects North & South America

Isthmus of Panama

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He painted "Irises" & "Pink Roses" as well as "Sunflowers"

Vincent Van Gogh

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It has over 9,700 tax preparation offices worldwide

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Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city

Athens

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On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress

Carl Sandburg

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In 1964 he lifted his beagles Him & Her by the ears on the White House lawn, provoking protest

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A humid city, Rio de Janeiro lies just north of this tropic line

the Tropic of Capricorn

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This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912

Jackson Pollock

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In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element

IBM

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Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands

Denmark

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Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King"

Alfred Lord Tennyson