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<em class="underline">STAR TREKm> In this "trek" role both Karl Urban & DeForest Kelley could have said, "Jim, I'm a doctor, not a game show response!"

"Bones" McCoy

"J" WHIZ This 1847 novel takes place mainly at Lowood Orphan Asylum & Thornfield Hall

"Jane Eyre"

(Final Jeopardy) 19th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous"

(Aaron) Burr

(Final Jeopardy) FROM MOVIE TO MUSICAL A play-within-a-play, called "Pretty Lady", suddenly needs a new leading lady in this ever-popular musical

42nd Street

(Final Jeopardy) THE OSCARS 3 actors, including Kim Hunter & Karl Malden, won Oscars for this film but Brando didn't

A Streetcar Named Desire

(Final Jeopardy) AMERICANA Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man

Abraham Lincoln

(Final Jeopardy) 80s SITCOM CHARACTERS Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable

Alex Keaton

(Final Jeopardy) THE EARTH On the line of latitude known as this, the sun doesn't rise on the winter solstice or set on the summer

Arctic Circle (or for people in the

1968 Former ambassador to Russia & Gov. of N.Y., he represented the U.S. at Vietnam peace talks

Averell Harriman

<em class="underline">MACBETHm> Peter O'Toole's Macbeth was called a cross between Vincent Price & this "Baby Jane" star

Bette Davis

"BLACK" OR "WHITE" This "Golden Girl" had her own show in 1958 & 1977 & in 1999 became part of the cast of "Ladies Man"

Betty White

"BLACK" OR "WHITE" Name shared by a Sauk chief famous for his war & a U.S. military helicopter

Black Hawk

(Final Jeopardy) THE NOBEL PRIZE The 1996 Chemistry Prize went to the discoverers of a 60-carbon atom molecule called this

Buckyball

(Final Jeopardy) NOTORIOUS Using the aliases James Ryan & Harry Place, they boarded a steamer for Argentina in February 1901

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

JANUARY 11, 1996 This ship belonging to Jacques Cousteau sank in a Singapore shipyard

Calypso

JANUARY 11, 1996 Many world leaders attended his funeral mass in Notre Dame Cathedral

Francois Mitterand

<em class="underline">MACBETHm> The Queen Mother grew up there, Princess Margaret was born in it, & Macbeth was Thane of it

Glamis

..."UM" He sculpted the head of Abraham Lincoln for the Capitol Rotunda & on Mt. Rushmore

Gutzon Borglum

<em class="underline">MACBETHm> "Macbeth"s 1st performance was in this palace, once home to Henry VIII , which caught fire in 1986

Hampton Court

1968 Nat'l guardsmen fought demonstrators at Chicago convention which nominated this man for Pres.

Hubert Humphrey

(Final Jeopardy) U.S. PRESIDENTS A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency

James A. Garfield

JANUARY 11, 1996 Ryutaro Hashimoto was sworn in as this country's 8th prime minister in 7 years

Japan

"J" WHIZ It's believed that the Virgin Mary died in this Middle Eastern city

Jerusalem

JANUARY 11, 1996 He was given a 4-year, $8 million contract to coach the Miami Dolphins

Jimmy Johnson

& GO TO "BED" In the Bible she was mom to Moses & Aaron

Jochebed

(Final Jeopardy) CANDY Bill Harmsen, who raised horses in Colo., happily founded this candy co. in 1949 to make money during the winter

Jolly Rancher

"J" WHIZ The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was one of the many churches built by this 6th century Byzantine emperor

Justinian I

"K" MART In December of 1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev became this -stan's first democratically elected president

Kazakhstan

"K" MART Called Durobrivae in ancient times, Rochester, England is found in this county where you'll also find Canterbury

Kent

"MORNING" SONGS In Great Britain, this Sheena Easton hit was called "9 to 5"

Morning Train

"MORNING" SONGS The curtain & the sun both rise on "Oklahoma!" with this song

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning<

1968 This 1968 film became last musical to win the Best Picture Oscar

Oliver!

(Final Jeopardy) AIRLINE HISTORY Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991

Pan Am

(Final Jeopardy) THE 20th CENTURY In 1916, his assassins included a prince and a grand duke

Rasputin

1968 Their assassinations occurred 63 days apart in 1968

Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King

(Final Jeopardy) THE SUPREME COURT The 1973 case Doe v. Bolton was decided with this more famous case

Roe v. Wade

"S"-OTERICA Peter Falk narrated this 1978 documentary in which hardened convicts frightened delinquent kids

Scared Straight

"S"-OTERICA (I'm NFL running back Shaun Alexander) I play in this city that's the farthest distance away from any other NFL city

Seattle

"ICK"Y WORDS The USA's top-selling candy bar, it added a peanut butter version in 1990

Snickers

1968 1968's "Prague Spring" didn't end in June but with this August event

Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

"T"ELEVISION Running for 5 years, it starred William Shatner as a hard-nosed veteran police officer

T.J. Hooker

"T"ELEVISION This offbeat series on E! provides a daily recap of funny chat show highlights

Talk Soup

"T"ELEVISION Co-hosted by John Davidson, it was ABC's response to NBC's "Real People"

That's Incredible!

(Final Jeopardy) BANDS This band's last surviving brother lives & records in St. Charles, Illinois, far from the ocean

The Beach Boys

"MORNING" SONGS Oscar-winning song from "The Poseidon Adventure", though few survived to feel hung over

The Morning After

"MORNING" SONGS For Tommy Edwards in '59, "she lived" here, while he "lived on the twilight side of the hill"

The Morning Side of the Mountain<

(Final Jeopardy) THE BRITISH THEATRE Richard Attenborough, who was in the original 1952 cast of this play, helped celebrate its performance No. 20,000 in 2000

The Mousetrap

"YO" ! Not only is it one of the most populous cities in the world, The Economist reports it's also the most expensive

Tokyo

"MORNING" SONGS On the charts for 16 weeks in '73, this was Diana Ross' 2nd longest-running top 40 hit

Touch Me in the Morning

"T"ELEVISION Reminiscent of "Highway to Heaven", this popular series stars Roma Downey & Della Reese

Touched by an Angel

<em class="underline">STAR TREKm> A decades-old mystery was solved in the 2009 movie when her first name was found to be Nyota, Swahili for "Star"

Uhura

<em class="underline">STAR TREKm> Transporter accidents will happen! Tuvok & Neelix merged into one being called "Tuvix" on this "Trek" incarnation

Voyager

<em class="underline">STAR TREKm> As Guinan, this actress got a good "view" of the Enterprise while tending bar

Whoopi Goldberg

"ART", FOR ART'S SAKE In Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, this figure encloses characters that represent the name of a sovereign

a cartouche

"ICK"Y WORDS Dickens had one "On the Hearth" & Disney had one narrate "Pinocchio"

a cricket

"K" MART In playing cards, it's another word for a jack

a knave

..."UM" As any "P.I." could tell you, it holds twice as much as the usual wine bottle

a magnum

(Final Jeopardy) ANAGRAMS Anagrams of each other, one is a synonym for home, the other the material it might be made of

abode and adobe

..."UM" It's a final demand or statement of conditions; don't make me give you one

an ultimatum

"ART", FOR ART'S SAKE Large-caliber weaponry operated by crews, such as cannons, howitzers & missile launchers

artillery

"ART", FOR ART'S SAKE Do come to my eco-friendly loft for cheese described by this 9-letter adjective, meaning with craft & by hand

artisinal

& GO TO "BED" Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope"

barbed wire

"BLACK" OR "WHITE" John Archibald Wheeler coined this term in the '60s for a collapsed star so dense, no light can escape it

black hole

& GO TO "BED" In math, it means raised to the third power

cubed

"DE" The French phrase for "of good disposition" gives us this synonym for suave

debonair

"DE" Scattered detritus, litter, trash

debris

"DE" Walnut & teak trees are classified as this, losing their leaves annually

deciduous

"DE" The IRS offers "Six facts about choosing the standard or itemized" these

deductions

& GO TO "BED" If you've been clubbed, you've been made unconscious; if you've been this, you've been made a knight

dubbed

"ICK"Y WORDS Beginning in the early 1970s, we were urged to do this to our Bic lighters

flick

..."UM" Hydrogen is the only chemical element that's lighter than this one

helium

"YO" ! During the Cretaceous period plesiosaurs & these "fish lizards" ruled the seas

ichthyosaurs

"J" WHIZ It's not a type of fruit spread, but a large extended campout for several Boy Scout troops together

jamboree

"J" WHIZ It's a trip taken by a public official at public expense, ostensibly for official business

junket

"K" MART Jewish "ravioli" served in soup

kreplach

"MIS"QUOTES In 1715 British pastor Isaac Watts wrote, "For Satan finds some" this "still for idle hands to do"

mischief

"MIS"QUOTES An Old English proverb says that it "loves company"

misery

"MIS"QUOTES Hermann Goering instructed the police, "Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make" these, "I will protect you"

mistakes

"MIS"QUOTES Emerson wrote, "Art is a jealous" this, "and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry... he makes a bad husband"

mistress

"MIS"QUOTES The Animals sang, "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, oh, Lord, please don't let me be" this

misunderstood

JANUARY 11, 1996 The shuttle Endeavour blasted off to retrieve a satellite containing these amphibians

newts

<em class="underline">MACBETHm> Of Lady Macbeth's 165 words in her sleepwalking scene, all but 20 have this number of syllables

one

"ICK"Y WORDS "Heat" suffered by infants in warm weather, causing a rash

prickly heat

"ART", FOR ART'S SAKE "Oe'r" these "we watched" the Star-Spangled Banner as it was "so gallantly streaming"

ramparts

& GO TO "BED" Kidded & teased (like Adam did to Eve, perhaps?)

ribbed

"ICK"Y WORDS Many of these human-powered 2-wheeled carts once widely used in Asia were built in the U.S.

rickshaws

..."UM" It's the clear, thin part of the blood that remains after clotting, & that's the "truth"

serum

"S"-OTERICA It's a low-level football "catch" made near the ground by a running player

shoestring catch

"S"-OTERICA Examples of this TV format include "Leave It to Beaver" & "The King of Queens"

sitcom

"S"-OTERICA Slang term for a left-handed boxer or fiddle player

southpaw

<em class="underline">STAR TREKm> This deadly "trek" enemy race was Bjorn to say what became their catchphrase: "Resistance is futile"

the Borg

(Final Jeopardy) GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES This common term originated in the early 1500s with the book "De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe"

the New World

(Final Jeopardy) CLASSIC KIDS STUFF This 1920s plaything still made today got its name in tribute to 2 famous men of the day: Marconi & Lindbergh

the Radio Flyer

<em class="underline">MACBETHm> Because it's a bad luck play, actors often avoid saying "Macbeth", using instead this geographical euphemism

the Scottish play

"BLACK" OR "WHITE" Famous landmark composed of chalk in the county of Kent in England

the White Cliffs of Dover

"ART", FOR ART'S SAKE Although many types of this edible plant are popular in Europe, the globe variety is mostly grown in the United States

the artichoke

"BLACK" OR "WHITE" People have asked why the whole airplane isn't made out of the same material as this "indestructible" device

the black box

"K" MART Ann Richards delivered this "address" at the 1988 Democratic National Convention

the keynote

"YO" ! To sing in the manner of cowboys or Swiss mountaineers

yodel

"YO" ! If you practice this discipline, we assume you can assume the lotus position

yoga


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