Jeopardy #8687

Episode broadcast Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES
$200
(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) At San Diego’s Grant Hotel back in 1970, sci-fi master Ray Bradbury & superhero artist Jack Kirby, greeted the 300 fans who attended the first of these; now, it’s an annual event drawing more than 130,000 each year
Comic-Con
$400
(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) On April 8, 2004, the Padres beat the Giants in the first Major League game at this ball park, a centerpiece of San Diego’s newly revitalized downtown
Petco
$600
(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures
Dr. Seuss
$800
(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1969, the U.S. Navy opened its Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program at Air Station Miramar, better known as this school that inspired a 1986 movie title
TOPGUN
$1000
(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In February 1983, Queen Elizabeth visited San Diego, stopping in Balboa Park to unveil a statue of William Shakespeare at this theater, named for the historic one in London where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed
the Globe
 
 
 
CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS
$200
"I'm strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach" is sung by this hero
Popeye
$400
He "will sleep till noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park"
Yogi Bear
$600
"More than meets the eye", they're "robots in disguise"
Transformers
$800
"Grab your backpack! Let's go! Jump in! Vámonos!!" says her theme
Dora the Explorer
$1000
"Come join the Warner Brothers & the Warner Sister, Dot! Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot"
the Animaniacs
 
 
 
20th CENTURY AMERICA
$200
In 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy provoked televised hearings after accusing the army of "coddling" these people
communists
$400
Tragically, on January 28, 1986 this exploded 73 seconds after liftoff
the Challenger
$600
Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917
Mount St. Helens
$800
In 1925, this high school teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom
Scopes
$1000
In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South
Woolworth\'s
 
 
 
HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS
$200
Of the zonkey seen here
a zebra & a donkey
$400
Of the cattalo
a cow & a buffalo
$600
Of the small & energetic dog called a Chiweenie
a Chihuahua & a dachshund
$800
Of the large but gentle dog called a Daniff
a Great Dane & a mastiff
$1000
Of the Huarizo, these 2 domesticated South American camelids
a llama & an alpaca
 
 
 
"LOCK"
$200
Notice the placement of this type of storage unit by each bed in the barracks
a footlocker
$400
To move together in unison as if connected is to "march in" this
lockstep
$600
The Western species of
a hemlock
$800
An Allen charge can be read to try to coax a verdict out of this type of jury
deadlocked
$1000
Synonym for a wizard or a conjurer
a warlock
 
 
 
KEY
$200
It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key observed "the rockets' red glare"
Fort McHenry
$400
The painting seen here depicts Christ giving the keys to heaven to this saint
Saint Peter
$600
In this TV series, Keegan-Michael key stumbles upon a magical town in which everyone acts like they are in a musical
Schmigadoon!
$800
This ornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here's the house that's now named in his honor
Audubon
$1000
This community service & leadership organization has Key Club International, for high school students
Kiwanis International
 
 
 
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS
$400
Noted for its wooded gorges, Snowdonia National Park is found mostly in this U.K. country's Gwynedd County
Wales
$800
India's Sundarbans National Park is part of a reserve for this endangered feline
a tiger
$1200
A sanctuary for moose, elk & bison, a Saskatchewan national park bears the name of this 19th century royal husband
Prince Albert
$1600
Urho Kekkonen National Park in this nation is illuminated in summer by the midnight sun
Finland
$2000
This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebok antelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas
South Africa
 
 
 
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR
$400
The 2019 horror thriller"Us"
Jordan Peele
$800
2003's "Lost in Translation"
Sofia Coppola
$1200
The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler
Frank Capra
$1600
The 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe installment "Eternals"
Chloé Zhao
$2000
1960's "La Dolce Vita"
Fellini
 
 
 
LET'S BUILD A HOUSE
$400
The hand railings on a stair or balcony can be called a balustrade or this, which you might slide down
a banister
$800
You can buy a finder to locate these vertical interior pieces of wall framing, which is helpful when hanging your Picasso
studs
$1200
If you're renovating, be careful before taking out one of these walls named for the extra weight it supports
load-bearing
$1600
An inward angle where two sloping roof sections meet is known by this geographic name
a valley
$2000
"C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end
a cantilever
 
 
 
POSSESSIVE LIT
$400
"Some Pig" is one of the messages that shows up in the title object of this 1952 novel
Charlotte\'s Web
$800
In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil
Gulliver\'s Travels
$1200
This Frank McCourt Pulitzer winner became a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson as the author's mother
Angela\'s Ashes
$1600
Aslan gives animals the ability to talk in this book in which Narnia is created
The Magician\'s Nephew
$2000
This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark
All the King\'s Men
 
 
 
UNDER QUARANTINE
$400
To prevent 14th c. epidemics, some ships arriving in Europe had to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, this many days before landing
40
$800
With disease threatening NYC in 1738, the city set up a quarantine at Bedloe's Island, today home to this landmark
the Statue of Liberty
$1200
A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown
Philadelphia
$1600
Numbers 5 mandated that the Israelites isolate anyone with the skin affliction the King James Bible calls this
leprosy
$2000
Plague arrived by ship at this French Mediterranean port in 1720 & despite an immediate quarantine, half the city perished
Marseille
 
 
 
WORD ORIGINS
$400
This word for a political aspirant comes from Latin for "white", the color of their togas in ancient Rome
candidate
$800
This formal jacket is named for a New York country club where it was popularized in the 1880s
a tuxedo
$1200
Before it meant a record player, it referred to a symbol representing a sound
a phonograph
$1600
This dog breed gets its name from the German for "nose" or "muzzle"
Schnauzer
$2000
Now a way to get out of something, it was originally a window in a castle wall for archers to shoot through
loophole
 
 
 
OPERA
N/A
An aria from this opera says, "Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh"
Pagliacci
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