Jeopardy #8149

Episode broadcast Thursday, January 30, 2020
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BOOTS
$200
A verb meaning "to walk in water" is in this alternate name for a fisherman's rubber hip boots
waders
$400
Chukka boots are said to get their name from a period in this sport
polo
$600
Chelsea boots are also called this music group's boots since they popularized them in the 1960s
The Beatles
$800
Familial name for the women's lace-up boots in imitation of a 19th century style
granny boots
$1000
You put these spiky plates on your hiking boots if you don't want to slip in the ice or snow
crampons
 
 
 
THE WORLD OF THE 1800s
$200
Based on a comment by the czar, this declining empire begun by Turkish tribes was known as "The Sick Man of Europe"
the Ottoman Empire
$400
She wrote a letter to Napoleon asking if she could join him at Elba but she died in 1814 before hearing that just couldn't happen
Josephine
$600
Mocked by other docs, Ignaz Semmelweis used antisepsis to vastly reduce women's death rate during this event
childbirth
$800
This translation of certain plates was published in 1830; a much, much different version came to Broadway in 2011
the Book of Mormon
$1000
In 1845 this 2-word phrase describing the inevitable expansion of U.S. territory was first used regarding Texas' annexation
Manifest Destiny
 
 
 
STOP IT!
$200
You can do this to your dog or your "enthusiasm"
curb
$400
To fire from a job, or to attempt to kill Sarah Connor, onscreen
terminate
$600
To refuse to proceed, or a pitcher's faux pas
balk
$800
Legally, sending a this & this letter notifies someone of their misconduct & orders them to cut it out, pronto
cease & desist
$1000
To not say anything impulsively, or another word for a song's chorus
refrain
 
 
 
WEBSITES
$200
(Sarah of Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.) Federal funding covers only about 2/3 of the Smithsonian's expenses, so to ready Neil Armstrong's space suit for Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, the Air and Space Museum raised more than $500,000 via a "Reboot the Suit" campaign on this community funding website
Kickstarter
$400
Kenneth Lerer helped found this website to provide a liberal counterpart to the Drudge Report
The Huffington Post
$600
wordpress.com says, "Everyone has a point of view" & their site is "the world's greatest" tool to create these online journals
blogs
$800
To give a more personalized listening experience, this website uses its music genome project
Pandora
$1000
Alexis Ohanian was still a student at UVA when he doodled what became the alien mascot for this website that he co-founded
Reddit
 
 
 
AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON
$200
Novelist Henry & playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys
Miller
$400
Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys
Wolfe
$600
Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie
Collins
$800
E.B., T.H. & Australian Nobelist Patrick
White
$1000
Henry & Helen, who both wrote about title characters with the last name Jones
Fielding
 
 
 
BIG PLAY IN THE TEAM'S SUPER BOWL WIN
$200
2012: Mario Manningham makes an amazing 38-yard tiptoeing catch & beats the Pats
the New York Giants
$600
1986: William "The Refrigerator" Perry ices the win with a 1-yard TD rumble
the Bears
 
 
 
REBOOTS
$400
Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Wiig were out to stop an otherworldly invasion of NYC in this 2016 film reboot
Ghostbusters
$800
Eric Carter had Jack Bauer's very big shoes to fill on the reboot called this: "Legacy"
24
$1200
Jay Hernandez wears Hawaiian shirts as the title P.I. on this CBS reboot
Magnum P.I.
$1600
Liam Neeson was Hannibal Smith & Quinton "Rampage" Jackson was B.A. Baracus when this TV series was rebooted as a movie
The A-Team
$2000
He took on the role of Spock when "Star Trek" jumped to the big screen in the 21st century
(Zachary) Quinto
 
 
 
CAPITAL ISLANDS
$400
Backed by the Blue Mountains, Kingston is the capital of this island country
Jamaica
$800
This city on Luzon became the Philippine national capital in 1946, took a break & was reinstated in 1976
Manila
$1200
The Caribbean capital city of St. John's is not on Barbuda but on this paired island
Antigua
$1600
The capital, Cockburn Town, is on Grand Turk in this island group
Turks and Caicos
$2000
This European capital is spread across the islands of Zealand & Amager
Copenhagen
 
 
 
THAT'S POLITICS
$400
In his political campaigns, Robert Francis O'Rourke has used this childhood nickname
Beto
$800
In a 2008 presidential ad, Chuck Norris gave Huck facts & this governor gave Chuck facts
(Mike) Huckabee
$1200
This avian term for an office holder of limited power dates back to the 18th century
a lame duck
$1600
Pennsylvania's 7th district, shaped like "Goofy kicking Donald Duck", got nixed by a court in 2018 for going too far in this process
gerrymandering
$2000
The word "oppo", short for this 2-word term, really took off in the 1992 presidential campaign
opposition research
 
 
 
Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL
$400
It's a place to find dumbbells
a gym
$800
It replaces "your" in the Lord's Prayer
thy
$1200
British clergyman Charles Wesley was a notable writer of these
hymns
$1600
It's a short-tailed feline of European forests
a lynx
$2000
It's a fluid-filled sac under the skin
a cyst
 
 
 
MEDICAL PROCEDURES
$400
This procedure involves the removal of a small piece of tissue for microscopic analysis
a biopsy
$800
Aka a lumbar puncture, this procedure is used to diagnose such problems as polio & meningitis
a spinal tap
$1200
Body fat is vacuumed out of tissues below the epidermis in this elective cosmetic surgery
liposuction
$1600
Cross hatching is shading a drawing; this is checking recipient-donor compatibility for a blood transfusion
cross-matching
$2000
A keratoplasty is another name for one of these eye part transplants
cornea
 
 
 
WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE?
$400
"I am innocent of the blood of this just person"
Pontius Pilate
$800
"Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"
Solomon
$1200
"Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground"
Paul (Saul)
$1600
"Let me die with the Philistines"
Samson
$2000
"Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God"
Gabriel
 
 
 
ADVERTISING & MUSIC
N/A
In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a southern state in a tourism campaign
"Sweet Home Alabama""
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