This is a list of all the Jeopardy clues that either made me or lost
me money, along with the value of each. Since I won no cash in my third
game, the material from that game is not included here.
CORRECT RESPONSES
1. $100 -- SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES
You could say this comedy "Ends Well" -- Helena finally wins the
love of her husband Bertram
2. $100 -- VERMONTERS
This leader of the Green Mountain Boys did not live to see Vermont become
a state
3. $100 -- HEADS OF STATE
Prince Rainier III
4. $100 -- GEOLOGISTS
Abraham Gottlob Werner's neptunism theory claimed the earth was once covered
by this; he was wrong
- solutions to clues #1-4
5. $200 -- SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES
Though this comedy has Verona in its title, it ends in a forest on the frontiers
of Mantua
6. $200 -- VERMONTERS
This founding prophet of Mormanism was born in Sharon, Vermont, in 1805
7. $200 -- MEDICAL MILESTONES
In 1751, with Benjamin Franklin's help, the 1st hospital in the U.S. was
founded in this city
8. $200 -- FURNITURE
Gaboon is one of the blackest forms of this wood in use today
9. $200 -- HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
You can tour old homes in this city's Garden District & French Quarter
during its Spring Fiesta
10. $200 -- THE ODYSSEY
This woman, the cause of the Trojan War, gives Telemachus a rich robe for
his bride to wear
11. $200 -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
In July 1778 a fleet commanded by Admiral Charles d'Estaing reached America
from this country
12. $200 -- WOMEN AUTHORS
The vampire Lestat takes a journey through hell in her 1995 novel "Memnoch
the Devil"
13. $200 -- SPANISH CITIES
Over 2,100 feet above sea level, this city is one of Europe's highest capitals
14. $200 -- COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
This university has a medical branch in Galveston
15. $200 -- BIRDS
The homing or carrier type of this bird can fly at an average speed of 45
miles per hour
- solutions to clues #5-15
16. $300 -- ACTRESSES' FIRST FILMS
"The Outlaw"
17. $300 -- FURNITURE
From the name of a queen, it's the general term for English & American
furniture of the period 1840-1900
18. $300 -- THE ODYSSEY
This goddess of wisdom pleads with Zeus to release Odysseus from the embrace
of the nymph Calypso
19. $300 -- GEOLOGISTS
This country's highest peak, Mount Logan, is named for geologist Sir William
Logan
20. $300 -- TV WESTERNS
The theme to "Have Gun, Will Travel" called this character "a
knight without armor in a savage land"
- solutions to clues #16-20
21. $400 -- VERMONTERS
George Franklin Edmunds wrote most of this antitrust act of 1890
22. $400 -- TELEPHONE HISTORY
In 1980 Dial-It National Sports became the first service on this new area
code
23. $400 -- THE 1930s
This longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News became a UPI correspondent
in 1939
24. $400 -- HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
This "Camptown Races" composer's death is commemorated on January
13
25. $400 -- TV WESTERNS
This Ward Bond series started its trek in St. Joseph, Missouri, & headed
west to California
26. $400 -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This silversmith was accused of cowardice in the Penobscot Expedition but
was later cleared
27. $400 -- NOTABLE NAMES
She named her No. 5 perfume for her lucky number
- solutions to clues #21-27
28. $500 -- "X," "Y," AND "Z"
This Saint Francis was the "Apostle of the Indies"
29. $500 -- HEADS OF STATE
President Leonid D. Kuchma
30. $500 -- THE ODYSSEY
Moly, a flower, protects Odysseus from the charms of this enchantress
31. $500 -- GEOLOGISTS
It's Alfred Wegener's name for the single supercontinent that broke up into
Laurasia and Gondwanaland
- solutions to clues #28-31
32. $600 -- THE 1930s
Helen Keller brought the first of these Japanese dogs to the United States
in 1937
33. $600 -- POETS & POETRY
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, "Oh, better that her shattered
hulk should sink beneath the wave"
34. $600 -- SPANISH CITIES
Though born in Linares, guitarist Andres shared his name with this Spanish
city
35. $600 -- COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
This school's Urbana-Champaign campus is home to the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
- solutions to clues #32-35
36. $800 -- MEDICAL MILESTONES
In 1906 August von Wasserman developed a well-known test for this sexually
transmitted disease
37. $800 -- THE 1930s
He was appointed Conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930
38. $800 -- MIXED DRINKS
A basic gin rickey is gin, lime, & this non-potent potable
39. $800 -- POETS & POETRY
His "When the Frost is On the Punkin" was written for a series
in the Indianapolis Journal
40. $800 -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
In 1776 he wrote in "The Crisis," "Tyranny, like hell, is
not easily conquered"
41. $800 -- WOMEN AUTHORS
Her "Windy City Blues" is a collection of nine stories featuring
V.I. Warshawsky
42. $800 -- COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Well-known colleges of this university are King's, Churchill, & St.
John's
- solutions to clues #36-42
43. $1,000 -- THE 1930s
This author of "Anne of Green Gables" was awarded the Order of
the British Empire in 1935
44. $1,000 -- MIXED DRINKS
Using Scotch whisky turns a Manhattan into this drink
45. $1,000 -- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This commander of British forces resigned in 1778 following criticisms of
his inactivity
- solutions to clues #43-45
*DAILY DOUBLE* (day 1)
46. $2,000 -- MEDICAL MILESTONES
In 1982 William DeVries performed the 1st permanent artificial heart transplant
on this man
*DAILY DOUBLE* (day 2)
47. $2,000 -- HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
Originally, this holiday was celebrated on the last day of the Celtic year
*DAILY DOUBLE* (day 2)
48. $3,000 -- NOTABLE NAMES
St. Leo I, St. Gregory I, & St. Nicholas I were the only popes to share
this epithet
*DAILY DOUBLE* (day 2)
49 $4,000 -- COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
"The Rock" is the alumni magazine of this California college attended
by Richard Nixon
- solutions to clues #46-49
*FINAL JEOPARDY* (day 1)
50. $6,600 -- AMERICAN HISTORY
On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with
this one word
- solution
*FINAL JEOPARDY* (day 2)
51. $7,000 -- U.S. GOVERNMENT
On Jan. 1, 1996, this oldest government regulatory agency, established in
1887, closed
- solution
INCORRECT RESPONSES
52. -$200 -- TV WESTERNS
On "Bonanza," this character was the youngest of the Cartwright
Brothers
53. -$400 -- HEADS OF STATE
President Ernesto Perez Balladares
54. -$500 -- TELEPHONE HISTORY
In 1880 he invented the photophone, a device that sent messages through
the air on beams of light
55. -1,000 -- POETS & POETRY
He was descended from an Abyssinian prince, Peter the Great's godson
- solutions to clues #52-55
Total winnings: $42,400
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