Jeopardy #8617

Episode broadcast Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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ROCK ART
$200
"Help" is a 2005 print by this man who played drums on "Help!" 40 years earlier
Ringo Starr
$400
Andy Warhol's cover for The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album featured one of these fruits with a peelable sticker
a banana
$600
Lithographs by this late disco queen include "Jazzman" & "Hard for the Money"
Donna Summer
$800
For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop
Lizzo
$1000
She's painted the covers for many of her own albums, including "Ladies of the Canyon" & "Both Sides Now"
Joni Mitchell
$400
A mysterious animal in France's famed Lascaux Cave is know as this, even though it has two horns, not one
unicorn
$800
The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago
charcoal
$1200
Rock art depicting an animal's skeleton & internal organs is said to be in this electromagnetic-named style
X-ray
$1600
Though arid today, Libya's Messak plateau in this desert has prehistoric images of hippos & crocodiles
the Sahara
$2000
A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings"
petroglyps
 
 
 
MEDICINE
$200
In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs
antibiotics
$400
The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this
diabetic
$600
Iatrogenic is the term for a medical problem caused by the act of one of these, with maybe a lawsuit as a consequence
a doctor
$800
A patient is often put on a ventilator in a procedure called endotracheal this -ation
intubation
$1000
Thomas Hodgkin's paper on "morbid appearances of the absorbent glands & spleen" described this type of cancer
Hodgkin\'s lymphoma
 
 
 
GAME CHANGERS
$200
A 15th century rule change transformed the weakest chess piece to this one, the strongest on the board
the queen
$400
In 1990 this classic card game was included as part of Windows 3.0, turning millions of casual computer users into gamers
solitaire
$600
In 1875 a British army lieutenant modified a form of pool to create this very British billiards game
snooker
$800
This card game scored with pegs on a board evolved from an earlier one called Noddy
cribbage
$1000
In 2019 season 10 of this online survival game ended with a giant asteroid blowing up its virtual island, leaving a black hole
Fortnite
 
 
 
FASHION
$200
Long flowy dresses are typical of boho fashion, boho being short for this
bohemian
$400
Often seen on the front of a hoodie, this type of pocket resembles a certain animal's pouch
a kangaroo pocket
$600
1980s fashion included wearing these accessories seen here outside the ballet studio
leg warmers
$800
This winter coat echoes the name of a deadly sushi fish
a puffer jacket (coat)
$1000
This portmanteau word is used of a casual clothes for exercise & for just hanging out
athleisure
 
 
 
AMAZON PRIME
$200
The Amazon River basin is home to stands of this "national" nut tree; the nuts are big in protein & the oil, big in shampoos
Brazil nuts
$400
Let this alliterative Amazon water creature light up your night... & despite its name, it's a knifefish
an electric eel
$600
Iquitos, the world's largest city that can't be reached by road, is on the Amazon in this nation on Chile's northern border
Peru
$800
Seen floating on the Amazon is Victoria amazonica, the largest one of these; its pads can be six feet wide
a water lily
$1000
The Casiquiare River connects 2 major river systems, the Amazon & this 1,300-mile one
the Orinoco
 
 
 
EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD
$200
A rule by royals; Saudi Arabia has an absolute one
monarchy
$400
Buzzfeed examined "Why" this synonym for damp "is the Worst Word Ever"
moist
$600
This group of animals includes squid as well as shellfish
mollusks
$800
Angora goat fabric
mohair
$1000
It's Spanish for "young guy"
muchacho
 
 
 
NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER
$400
Withdrawing support from those who have erred in the eyes of the world leads to this alliterative phenomenon
cancel culture
$800
Spectral phrase for the place to prepare food that is consumed elsewhere
a ghost kitchen
$1200
This peanut butter & marshmallow creme sandwich has been around for a long time, but only made it into Merriam-Webster's in 2021
a fluffernutter
$1600
It's the 4-letter abbreviation for the pleasant tingling sensation that starts on the scalp in response to certain stimuli
ASMR
$2000
This Danish concept comparable to coziness has become a U.S. trend; it includes good food, coffee & a warm place to gather
hygge
 
 
 
THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE
$400
In a movie sequel: "Yo, Adrian, I did it!"
Sylvester Stallone
$800
In 2018: "I am not king of all people. I am king of Wakanda"
Chadwick Boseman
$1200
To Tom Cruise: "Shut up, just shut up. You had me at hello"
Renée Zellweger
$1600
In 2005: "I wish I knew how to quit you"
Jake Gyllenhaal
$2000
Her in a 1950 classic: "I am big, it's the pictures that got small"
Gloria Swanson
 
 
 
I HAVE A PLAN
$400
G. Gordon Liddy's 1972 Gemstone plan included kidnapping & prostitutes; it was scaled back but a remaining part led to this scandal
Watergate
$800
In 1960 PM Ikeda planned to double Japan's national income by 1970, with annual this of 7.8%; it was 10% & income doubled early
GDP (annual growth)
$1200
Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan was to strangle the Confederacy by means of these efforts to stop up the enemy's ports
blockades
$1600
In 1990 the Shatalin plan for moving the USSR to a free market was too radical even for this reformer who ousted Shatalin
Gorbachev
$2000
The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man
(Pierre) L\'Enfant
 
 
 
HALLS OF FAME
$400
Seen here, this organization's General Assembly Hall accommodates nearly 200 delegations
the United Nations
$800
Teenaged Yo-Yo Ma must have practiced, practiced, practiced to play his debut recital here, May 6, 1971
Carnegie Hall
$1200
We'd like to reflect on the fact that the treaty ending World War I was signed in this room in the Palace of Versailles
the Hall of Mirrors
$1600
This temperance advocate took in battered women at Hatchet Hall, her Arkansas home
Carrie Nation
 
 
 
A CHRISTIE MYSTERY
$400
(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) A train that was snowbound in Turkey for 10 days in 1929 & the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby helped inspire the plot of this, one of Agatha Christie's greatest novels
Murder on the Orient Express
$800
(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Because she worked as a nurse & later as a pharmacy dispenser, Christie frequently used poison as the murder weapon in her writing--strychnine, cyanide, & very often this one, as it would have been easy to obtain in her day as rat poison
arsenic
$1200
(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels & 20 short stories featuring this woman & regretted making her so old at the outset; she would have been well over 100 by the time Christie finished writing about her
Miss Marple
$1600
(Will Poulter presents the clue.) This courtroom drama that hinges on the testimony of the mistress of the accused murderer had been adapted for stage & screen, & in 2014 was performed in an actual English coutrroom
Witness for the Prosecution
$2000
(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) The amateur sleuths featured in my adaptation of "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", Bobby Jones & Frankie Derwent, have a lot in common with the detectives Christie enjoyed writing about the most, the Beresfords--Tommy and his wife Prudence, nicknamed this, slang for a British coin
Tuppence
 
 
 
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS
N/A
The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast"
the Bermuda Triangle
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