Jeopardy #8151

Episode broadcast Monday, February 3, 2020
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WRITER'S TOOLBOX
$400
It's the overall emotion created by a work, or in grammar, a verb form like subjunctive or imperative
the mood
$600
It's the central message in a literary work; in music it precedes "and variations"
a theme
$800
Boom! Slam! Pow! are all examples of this, a word that imitates the sound it refers to
onomatopoeia
$1000
It's the omission of one or more words in a sentence & the marks, such as 3 dots, to represent it
an ellipses
 
 
 
STATE OF THE ESTATE
$400
The Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, AKA The House of the Seven Gables
Massachusetts
$600
The Pabst Mansion
Wisconsin
$800
Thomas Edison's Glenmont Estate
New Jersey
$1000
James Buchanan's Wheatland Estate
Pennsylvania
 
 
 
NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE
$400
Collectively, a jacket, a vest & pants all made from the same material & pattern
a three-piece suit
$600
Lucky multi-lobed sprout
a four-leaf clover
$800
One made by Colt starting in 1873 is Arizona's state firearm
.45
$1000
Musical score designation AKA a quaver
an eighth note
 
 
 
""P"OTPOURRI
$400
Krewes in New Orleans organize these for Mardi Gras & many build floats for them
a parade
$600
In the U.S. we're familiar with the food pyramid; China has a guide called a food this structure
pagoda
$800
A club for these people who always put things off has protested the War of 1812 & published "Last Month's Newsletter"
a procrastinator
$1000
If you're being this 11-letter word, you're condescending; if you're doing it, you're supporting a business
patronizing
 
 
 
HEAVEN & PARADISE
$200
It's a 9-letter place of temporary suffering & purification prior to entry into heaven
purgatory
$400
Achieving Nirvana in Buddhism releases the subject from this, the law that fate is based on your actions in life
karma
$600
Referenced in Revelation, Chapter 21 Verse 21 and depicted here, they are a proverbial entranceway into heaven
the Pearly Gates
$800
A place of drinking & merrymaking, this musician's green is a heaven for sailors & cavalrymen
Fiddler\'s Green
$1000
The celestial city mentioned in "The Pilgrim's Progress" is AKA the heavenly this real city
Jerusalem
 
 
 
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES
$200
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track and field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority
Jesse Owens
$400
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier and became the first African-American to win the French and U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 and 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event
Wimbledon
$600
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968
$800
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring and out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964. In the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this and became an example of Black Pride and defiance of the Establishment
Cassius Clay
$1000
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say Hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder. In a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest-living ballplayer
Willie Mays
 
 
 
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
$400
During the war Poland fought this country; the Polish king claimed to be its czar
Russia
$1200
This French cleric and politician got France into the war in part to prevent Hapsburg dominance
Cardinal Richelieu
$1600
Under the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus, this Nordic nation established itself as a major military power in the war
Sweden
$2000
The 1648 peace deal had Spain recognize the independence of this North Sea nation, ending both the Thirty & the Eighty Years' Wars
the Netherlands
 
 
 
TV NEWS SHOWS
$800
Since 2013, weekday afternoons on CNN have featured "The Lead" with this man
Jake Tapper
$1200
An NBC news crime show, or the listing of when & where a newspaper story was written
Dateline
$1600
Margaret Brennan moderates this CBS weekend news show in which public affairs are debated by a panel of specialists
Face the Nation
$2000
Before handing out justice on Fox News, she started one of the first domesic violence unit in a U.S. prosecutor's office
(Jeanine) Pirro
 
 
 
SCIENCE
$400
More than 90% of all creatures are considered this, meaning they have no spinal column
invertebrates
$800
It's a simple, fundamental synonym for alkaline
basic
$1200
William Wollaston discovered palladium & lent his name to Britain's highest award for this earth science
geology
$1600
An atom or molecule that has an unpaired electron is called by this "liberated" name & can damage your cells
a free radical
$2000
Grasshoppers undergo "incomplete" this transformation: the young look pretty much like adults but need to grow & add wings
metamorphosis
 
 
 
UNFILMED NOVELS
$400
Jerry Lewis was among those who desperately wanted to play him, J.D. Salinger's most famous character
Holden Caufield
$800
Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures" novel is still unfilmed, with juicy parts for both Kavalier & this other title guy
Clay
$1200
He refused offers to film "Foucault's Pendulum", perhaps because of his experience with the film of his first novel
(Umberto) Eco
$1600
Plenty of this author's works have made it to the screen, but "Blood Meridian"--not yet
Cormac McCarthy
$2000
Will Ferrell & John Belushi were considered to play Ignatius J. Reilly, but this novel is still unfilmed
A Confederacy of Dunces
 
 
 
COMPOUND WORDS
$400
This tool lends its name to a type of puzzle made with it
a jigsaw
$800
Outdoor public activity space for kids, often with a swing set
a playground
$1200
Epistaxis is the medical term for this injury for which you might need a tissue
a nosebleed
$1600
HMS Victory was this type of command vessel for Lord Horatio Nelson
a flagship
$2000
Getting to the core of things, the oldest & strongest part of a tree is the hard dark center called this
heartwood
 
 
 
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
$400
Should really go without saying: none of this Nobel stuff patented in 1867
dynamite
$800
Should go without saying part 2: none of these, whether of the fragmentation, smoke or stun variety
a grenade
$1200
None of this element used to disinfect pools & spas--relax, they'll use it at the resort!
chlorine
$1600
No booze above 70% alcohol, this proof
140
$2000
No to the Note7 model of this smartphone
Samsung
 
 
 
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY
N/A
This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species
DMZ (the demilitarized zone between North & South Korea)
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