Jeopardy #8161

Episode broadcast Monday, February 17, 2020
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JACKAL
$200
The jackal was called this big cat's "provider": it was thought to assist on hunts
the lion
$400
Some jackals use mounds abandoned by these ant-like insects as dens to birth their pups
termites
$600
This African country gave its name to a canine that is also known as the Abyssinian wolf & the Simien jackal
Ethiopia
$800
This Russian airline has bred dog-jackal hybrids to sniff out explosives
Aeroflot
$1000
Jackals in Africa can transmit this disease AKA lyssa to dogs & other animals
rabies
 
 
 
HYDE
$200
The murderous Mr. Edward Hyde was created by this author
(Robert Louis) Stevenson
$400
Enacted by Congress in response to this 1973 Supreme Court case, the Hyde Amendment limits public funding for abortions
Roe v. Wade
$600
Founder of the Gaelic League, Douglas Hyde was also the first president of this republic
Ireland
$800
Anne Hyde was the mother of 2 British queens, Anne & this woman who married William III
Mary
$1000
An 1872 act of Parliament allowed anyone to talk in this "Corner" of London's Hyde Park
Speakers\' Corner
 
 
 
3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD
$200
Elizabeth Gilbert: "Pray"
Eat Pray Love
$400
Truman Capote: "Cold"
In Cold Blood
$600
Jojo Moyes: "Before"
Me Before You
$800
Dr.Seuss: "in"
Fox in Socks
$1000
W. Somerset Maugham: "Human"
Of Human Bondage
 
 
 
SURVIVOR
$200
(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The weather upped the stakes for "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X". The castaways had to be temporarily evacuated from their camps due to Zena, this tropical storm that can also be called a hurricane or a typhoon
cyclone
$400
(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) In 1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy formed a secret pact called the Triple this. On the first season of "Survivor", Richard formed a quadruple one with Sue, Rudy & Kelly in which the four voted as a bloc, a wildly successful strategy that set a precedent for the series
alliance
$600
(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) I knew that "Survivor" needed a catchphrase for when I snuffed out a torch at tribal council. It was actually executive producer Mark Burnett who inadvertently came up with this iconic 4-word phrase & the rest is TV history
"The tribe has spoken""
$800
(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends"
(Elisabeth) Hasselback
$1000
(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today
The Art of War
 
 
 
BEARD MAN
$200
A Guinness World Record, Hans Langseth's over 17-foot-long beard was eventually cut and donated to this D.C. institution
the Smithsonian
$400
In 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell of New York sent a letter urging him to "let your whiskers grow", & he did!
Lincoln
$600
By the time he died, still unshaven in 1923, his discovery, the X-ray, was an essential tool of medicine
Roentgen
$800
This bearded French physician published the first edition of "Centuries", containing his prophecies, in 1555
Nostradamus
$1000
Stop the presses. Here's an image of this bearded 15th century German inventor
Gutenberg
 
 
 
RHYME FIGHTER
$200
You "pull" one of these by staying up very late until that term paper is finally finished
an all-nighter
$400
Synonym for a rabble-rouser who fires up a mob
an inciter
$600
This item near a car's radio evolved into a 12-volt accessory charger
a cigarette lighter
$800
After 8 years in the job in Dallas, Mike Rawlings said, "A mayor needs to" be this, bringing folks together
a uniter
$1000
Anatomical term for someone who talks spitefully about an absent person
a backbiter
 
 
 
WORLD RIVERS
$400
In the 1540s Francisco de Orellana made the first known trip down its entire length
the Amazon
$800
Dusseldorf & Mainz are important cities on this river
the Rhine
$1200
The Thar Desert of Northwestern India stretches into Pakistan & this river's valley
the Indus
$1600
It's name means swiftly flowing river and it crosses the province of the same name, the northern and southern branches meeting near Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
$2000
Not the Seine but this river that enters the Atlantic south of Brittany is the longest in France
the Loire
 
 
 
ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs
$400
1790: "an act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States"
the Census
$800
1790: "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors"
Copyright
$1200
2001: "an act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world"
the Patriot Act
$1600
1965: "an act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes"
the Voting Rights Act
 
 
 
ENTERTAINMENT
$400
This song was written in 1908 & over 100 years later it's still sung during the seventh-inning stretch
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game""
$800
In the 1980s Cyndi Lauper & Wham! were among the artists who made their early U.S. TV appearances on this Dick Clark series
American Bandstand
$1200
In 2019 Aaron Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman for this "Breaking Bad" movie
El Camino
$1600
A resort area in the Catskills where many Jewish entertainers got their start had this alliterative nickname
the Borscht Belt
$2000
AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone
Birth of a Nation
 
 
 
THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE
$400
Adair, Iowa & Makanda, Illinois have put this cheerful symbol, big in the '70s, on their water towers
a smiley face
$800
For at least one day in December, the sun does not set south of this circle
the Antarctic
$1600
1989 film in which Keanu Reeves tells Alex Winter, "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K"
Bill & Ted\'s Excellent Adventure
$2000
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The path of any point on the smaller circle will trace the diameter of the larger circle as the smaller circle rolls inside, according to the theorem of this Polish astronomer and mathematician
Copernicus
 
 
 
ART SUBJECTS
$400
This Dutch artist often painted his beloved wife Saskia, who died in 1642 at age 29
Rembrandt
$800
Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son
Whistler
$1200
Teenaged ballerina Marie van Goethem was the model for his sculpture of the "Little Dancer"
Degas
$1600
Between 1971 & 1985 this artist painted Helga Testorf, his neighbor in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Andrew Wyeth
$2000
Jeanne Hébuterne had a slightly shorter neck than depicted in the works of her beau, this Italian painter
Modigliani
 
 
 
HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES
$400
The "Valley Isle" (4)
Maui
 
 
 
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
N/A
This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team including book & direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles
Waitress
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