Jeopardy #8228

Episode broadcast Wednesday, June 3, 2020
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POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?
$200
1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes"
(Margaret) Thatcher
$400
1992: "I didn't like it, and didn't inhale"
Bill Clinton
$600
1848: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"
Marx
$800
1950; "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party"
McCarthy
$1000
1969: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"
Henry Kissinger
 
 
 
BOULDER DASH
$200
In this 1937 animated classic, the wicked queen tries to kill the title septet with a boulder, but it ends up backfiring
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
$400
He's been known to try & kill a certain roadrunner with boulders, but the big rocks usually end up coming his way
Wile E. Coyote
$600
In this 1981 movie Indiana Jones gets covered in webs while outrunning a large rock
Raiders of the Lost Ark (*Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)
$800
In a 2018 animated sequel, this superhero patriarch has to dodge rocks & stuff while trying to thwart the Underminer
Mr. Incredible
$1000
In "The Princess Bride" this big guy, as Fezzik, dashes a big rock at Westley
Andre the Giant
 
 
 
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS
$200
In Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries, "H is for" this killer crime
homicide
$400
For his novel "Inferno", Dan Brown drew on a poem by this Italian
Dante
$600
After a fatal stabbing in this classic mystery, Hercule Poirot asks for "a plan of the Istanbul-Calais Coach"
Murder on the Orient Express
$800
Time magazine named this Gillian Flynn thriller one of the "10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s"
Gone Girl
$1000
A review for this Ruth Ware bestseller set at sea says it "just may do to cruise vacations what 'Jaws' did to ocean swimming"
The Woman in Cabin 10
 
 
 
MUSTARD OR MAYO
$200
Hampton Creek, maker of "Just Mayo", convinced the FDA to let it keep the name, though J.M. doesn't contain these
eggs
$400
A red flag that says "Since 1904" means you're using this mustard brand
French\'s
$600
Best Foods & this other brand of mayonnaise have the same ingredients & the same blue bow on their labels
Hellmann\'s
$800
Combining mustard & fruit, Mostarda di Cremona is often compared to this vinegar & fruit condiment that accompanies curries
chutney
$1000
This bulb is the key flavoring of the Provencal mayonnaise called aioli
garlic
 
 
 
IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?
$200
Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work
the Parthenon
$400
No, but the 2-inch "Midnite Minichamp" version of this pocketknife comes with tools that perform 17 different functions
the Swiss Army knife
$600
Yes, & as the largest ships in the U.S. Navy, each is powered by 2 nuclear reactors & can displace 100,000 tons
an aircraft carrier
$800
No--the bee variety of this is the world's smallest bird at only about 2 inches long
a hummingbird
$1000
Yes, & the massive Three Gorges Dam generates 22,500 megawatts stretching 1.4 miles across this river
the Yangtze River
 
 
 
"DE" PLUS 3
$200
Your first appearance on stage or screen
a debut
$400
A railway station, often a small and quaint one, as seen here
a depot
$600
The typically triangular mouth of a river
a delta
$800
My god, your god, any god
a deity
$1000
Named for a city, it's a specific type of Dutch earthenware
Delft
 
 
 
LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH
$400
It's what the symbol here means
greater than or equal to
$800
Conjure up this name for a grid in which the numbers add up to the same total in each column, row and main diagonal
a magic square
$1200
In a Venn diagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" and "B"
the intersection
$1600
The symbol here is telling you to perform this calculus function
integration
$2000
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher
(Blaise) Pascal
 
 
 
ABBREVIATIONS
$400
It's the "T" in the name of the international alliance abbreviated NATO
Treaty
$800
When going on a journey, your ETA is this
your estimated time of arrival
$1200
Get there early if you hear FCFS, short for this
fist come, first served
$1600
A college student may consult with this helpful member of the faculty abbreviated AA
academic advisor
$2000
In a car, SRS is this system that serves as a backup to seat belts; your airbag is one
a supplemental restraint system
 
 
 
OPERA & BALLET
$400
British choreographer Matthew Bourne took a different tactic when restaging this Tchaikovsky ballet
Swan Lake
$800
This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s
Madame Butterfly
$1200
Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw
Billy the Kid
$1600
Ramfis is the high priest in this opera
Aida
$2000
The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice"
Rite of Spring
 
 
 
BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY
$400
After the completion of this feat of engineering in 1914, ships had an 8,000-nautical-mile shorter journey from N.Y. to Calif.
the Panama Canal
$800
In April 1946 this international org. formally gave up the ghost, though it did give a lot of its stuff to its replacement
the League of Nations
$1200
In 1991 the IRA attacked John Major & his cabinet with mortar fire during a meeting at this address, Major's residence
10 Downing Street
$1600
This future world leader was wounded in his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister in 1959
Saddam Hussein
$2000
In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean island & tourist destination; by December, most U.S. troops had left
Grenada
 
 
 
HOT STUFF!
$400
In the 1930s Solomon Harper invented the electric curlers now called "hot" these
rollers
$800
A massive atmosphere produces an enormous greenhouse effect, making this second planet the hottest in the solar system
Venus
$1200
Regarded as one of the hottest of these, the Carolina reaper is rated at more than 1.6 million Scovilles
a pepper
$1600
In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them
the book of Daniel
$2000
Scientists at CERN using this device have created perhaps the highest recorded temperature ever, 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit
the Large Hadron Collider
 
 
 
FOUNTAINS
$400
Lotta's Fountain in this city became a meeting place for survivors of the 1906 quake & is still the site of commemorations
San Francisco
$800
Beginning in 1998, the fountains at this Las Vegas casino shoot 460 feet in the air & dance to various songs nightly
the Bellagio
$1200
This landmark Chicago fountain is named for a local steel family, not a London palace
Buckingham
$1600
Fittingly, the Latona Fountain built by Louis XIV in Versailles was named for the mother of this Roman god
Apollo
$2000
For centuries, barrels of water from this Roman fountain at the Palazzo Poli were sent across the Tiber to the Vatican
the Trevi Fountain
 
 
 
EUROPEAN LANDMARKS
N/A
As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window...two dark and massive towers"
Notre-Dame
3 Comments
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Level 45
Oct 20, 2020
Um... we can't see the math symbols referenced.
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Level 41
May 2, 2024
First come first served, not fist
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Level 41
May 2, 2024
First come first served, not fist