AT THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE
THE ANCIENTS
JEOPARDY! IN POP CULTURE
IT HAPPENED IN '07
FIGHTIN' WORDS
200
'(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Twain owned one of the first telephones installed in a private home, but he once wished that all of us may eventually be gathered together in heaven, except for this man'
(Alexander Graham) Bell
200
'Demosthenes of Athens railed against Philip, "Not even a barbarian... a vile fellow of" this land'
Macedonia
200
'His "Rain Man" character Raymond Babbitt had to watch "Jeopardy!" at 5:00'
Dustin Hoffman
200
'1607:
This site
is settled in what would become the first permanent English colony in the New World'
Jamestown
200
'If you've been beaten senseless, someone's "knocked" this gooey roofing material "out of you"'
tar
400
'Twain & his wife bought their bed in this romantic city of canals (iconoclast Twain slept feet toward the headboard)'
Venice
400
'In 55 B.C. Cicero published "On" this type of person who may be described as silver-tongued'
an orator
400
'In his "Nightmares & Dreamscapes", he penned a short story about a disembodied finger bothering a "Jeopardy!" viewer'
Stephen King
400
'1707:
This prominent Japanese landmark erupts'
Mount Fuji
400
'This French term dates to the practice of knights assuming special names for battle'
nom de guerre
600
'(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Appropriately, Mark Twain resided here in Hartford while he worked on this 1889 novel about a Hartford man who travels back in time to medieval England'
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court
600
'He's the Greek shown here practicing his craft in a work by Raphael'
Euclid
600
'During a TV ad for this chain, a Chihuahua walking through a room paused to give a "Jeopardy!" response'
Taco Bell
600
'1507:
On the maps of Martin Waldseemuller, the New World is called this'
America
600
'This adjective that means "inclined to fight" comes from the same root as "pugilistic"'
pugnacious
800
'Among Twain's many guests was this creator of Uncle Remus whose stories Twain read to his daughters'
(Joel Chandler) Harris
800
'Paradoxically, Epimenides advised, "All Cretans are" these; the tricky part is, he was a Cretan himself'
liars
800
'"Jeopardy!" appears in the Kiefer Sutherland movie sharing part of its name with a game show--this city, "N.M."'
Truth or Consequences
800
'1307: On Friday the 13th of October, thousands of members of this order of knights are arrested in France'
the Knights Templar
800
'This adjective meaning "belligerent" or "eager to fight" comes from Latin for "pertaining to war"'
bellicose
1000
'(Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) The style of Mark Twain's home here in Hartford exemplifies this ornate age, also the title of a book Twain wrote with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner'
the Gilded Age
1000
'Like his boy, the wealthy father of the future Emperor Augustus was named Gaius this'
Octavius
1000
'To win enough money to "try to take over the world", one of this WB animated pair went on the show "Gyp-parody"'
Pinky & The Brain
1000
'1207:
This English king grants the city of Liverpool its first charter'
King John
1000
'In Cockney rhyming slang, a wife is "trouble and" this type of discord'
strife
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