Jeopardy #8156

Episode broadcast Monday, February 10, 2020
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COUNTRY DROP A LETTER
$200
When a big Asian country loses its last vowel, it becomes this body part
chin (from China)
$400
A Nordic country loses its first letter & becomes this area away from the coast
inland (from Finland)
$600
Drop the fourth letter from an Iberian country & you get this general term for a distance
span (from Spain)
$800
Subtract a letter from a 4-letter African country & you get this man who behaves badly, especially to women
a cad (from Chad)
$1000
When a Mediterranean isle loses its last letter, it becomes this soda fountain drink
a malt (from Malta)
 
 
 
THE ILIAD
$200
Thought to contain material transmitted orally over centuries, the "Iliad" is attributed to this poet
Homer
$400
In book 3 Menelaus fights Paris, who ran off with this wife
Helen
$600
There's quite a bit of graphic violence, as when Patroclus kills a Trojan with this long weapon, then hauls him up on it like a fish
a spear
$800
The main character & the greatest Greek warrior, he leads the Myrmidons against the Trojans
Achilles
$1000
This Trojan warrior is saved by Aphrodite, or there might never have been that epic by Virgil
Aeneas
 
 
 
COUSIN EFFECT
$200
In 2011 this weatherman told "TODAY" show viewers he & Lenny Kravitz are cousins
Al Roker
$400
Jenny McCarthy's first cousin is this scene-stealing co-star of "Bridesmaids"
Melissa McCarthy
$600
In 2011 Gwyneth Paltrow said she'd never met this cousin & Arizona congresswoman, but her prayers were with her
Giffords
$1000
"The Man with the Golden Gun", Christopher Lee can thank this cousin for creating James Bond
(Ian) Fleming
 
 
 
THE REST OF THE SAYING
$200
Very alert: "bright-eyed &" this
bushy-tailed
$400
Important people: "movers & " these
shakers
$600
Completely settled: "cut &" this
dried
$800
With little hope of success: "on a wing &" this
a prayer
$1000
"All dressed up &" this problem
nowhere to go
 
 
 
NO BELL
$200
Let me give you a hand with a practical joke using a "joy" this
a buzzer
$400
The Motorola LS350 is this type of device also called a pager
a beeper
$600
Types of this attention getter are slide, train & wolf, but it's probably best not to employ the wolf one anymore
whistle
$800
In Greek myth, sailors resisted the calls of these sea nymphs by putting wax in their ears
sirens
$1000
Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz liked the sound of this on his yacht & used it when his team scored; the custom spread
a foghorn (a horn)
 
 
 
PRIZE
$200
midwestiiving.com posted a mouth-watering slideshow of 12 foods that won this prize at state fairs--mmm, butterscotch pie
a blue ribbon
$400
For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city. On winner's work is seen here
Rome
$600
Tata Steel of India was a 2008 winner of the Deming Prize in the field of TQM, total this management
quality
$800
The Abel Prize in this field is named for Niels Abel, famed for his work on the quintic function
math
$1000
Seen at the ceremony of the Breakthrough Prize for scientific discoveries are co-sponsors Mark Zuckerberg and this physician wife
(Priscilla) Chan
 
 
 
WINTRY READING
$400
In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens
mittens
$800
Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!
Siberia
$1200
The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel
Frozen 2
$1600
Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition
hypothermia
$2000
It's 1954 & tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these
Cedars
 
 
 
MEET YOUR WATERLOO
$400
When the Republic of Texas decided to move the government there in 1839, Waterloo, Texas got this new name
Austin
$800
For work on lasers, Donna Strickland of Ontario's University of Waterloo became the first woman Nobel laureate for this in 55 years
physics
$1200
In the 1890s a fossil one of these mammoth relatives was unearthed near Waterloo in DeKalb County, Indiana
a mastodon
 
 
 
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES
$400
Cameron Diaz sings & dances as the magical British nanny of Ben Stiller's desire
There\'s Something About Mary Poppins
$800
A holiday classic where an angel gets his wings & Roberto Benigni gets an Oscar
It\'s a Wonderful Life is Beautiful
$1200
Edward Norton tries to convince his brother Edward Furlong not to hate or join up with mutants like Wolverine
American History X Men
$1600
Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka
La La Land of the Lost
$2000
George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs
The Monuments Men in Black
 
 
 
SATURN
$400
Made up primarily of dust & ice, these of the planet Saturn are divided into 7 groups, A through G
the rings
$800
In an epic poem by Keats, Saturn turns for help in regaining his throne to this rather "hyper" other titan
Hyperion
$1200
In 1610 this man was the first to observe Saturn through a telescope
Galileo
$1600
Saturn has more than 60 moons, including this second-largest named for Zeus' mother
Rhea
$2000
Saturn was the Roman equivalent of this Greek father god
Kronos
 
 
 
PRESIDENTIAL HOMES
$400
(Sarah of the Clue Crews is in Massachusetts.) A national park in Massachusetts preserves the adjacent birthplaces of these two presidents--the first born in 1735, in that cottage, and second, born in 1767 in the other
John Adams & John Quincy Adams
$800
From 1955 until Jerry became president, the Ford family lived in a 4-bedroom Colonial in Alexandria in this state
Virginia
$1200
His hat hangs from an elk antler at Sagamore Hill, his Oyster Bay, New York home
Teddy Roosevelt
$1600
He wrote part of 1809's "History of New York" while staying in what would later be Martin Van Buren's home, Lindenwald
Washington Irving
$2000
Dead just 3 months after retiring, James K, Polk was buried at Polk Place in this state capital
Nashville
 
 
 
A UNIQUE SYNONYM
$400
It's between the toes & the heel
sole
$800
Lacking small fire-lighting sticks
matchless
$1200
Without a member of the House of Lords
peerless
$1600
Confinement in a separate prison cell by oneself
solitary
$2000
Unhitched
single
 
 
 
SPORTS TERMS
N/A
A member of the British Amateur Athletic Club wrote this 1867 set of 12 regulations whose name honors nobelman John Sholto Douglas
the 12 rules of Queensbury
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Nov 12, 2020
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