Wednesday Quiz Night: Jeopardy! Clues by DouglasLovesVixey

Champion(s):

ElendilPickle


Runner(s)-Up:

MattK
Ready. Fire. Aim.


Quiz Description

Tonight I will die down the difficulty. All 25 of these questions will be past Jeopardy! clues. NOTE: You do NOT have to answer in the form of a question. Have fun. :)

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Questions:

DESIGNER NAMES $1000: Her logo includes her first initial: ______ Burch

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Tory

JANE AUSTEN IN POP CULTURE $2000: She played a pre-fame Jane Austen in the 2007 film "Becoming Jane".

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Anne Hathaway

STARTS WITH "SCH" $1000: Excessively sentimental, like a soap opera.

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Schmaltzy

BE A SMART PATIENT $2000: Find out if this 6-syllable word that means "not to be taken with another thing" applies to any two of your prescriptions.

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Contraindicated

JIM-NASTICS $800: Jim Morrison's reptilian nickname.

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The Lizard King

PRETTY GOOD MODELS $1600: This pioneering microwave from Amana cost $495 when introduced -- pretty steep for 1967.

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Radarange

NATIONAL PEOPLE $800: Nobel Prize Winner Anatole.

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France

CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This Italian composer known for his Concerti Grossi, Opus 6, played violin, not mandolin.

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Corelli

IT HAPPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO $1600: Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first television image at the foot of this hill named for a means of communication.

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Telegraph Hill

CONSTELLATIONS $1000: The largest constellation, this "water serpent" covers 1303 square degrees of the sky.

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Hydra

DOCTORS $2000: This professor at the University of Arkansas medical school became head of the Arkansas department of health in 1987.

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Joycelyn Elders

GENESIS $1000: His 12-volume "A Study of History" probed the genesis, growth, and decline of the world's great civilizations.

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Arnold Toynbee

LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: This Sinclair Lewis title character is a real estate salesman who lives in the suburbs of the city of Zenith.

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George Babbitt

CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $1000: Stubborn (8)

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Obdurate

"M"EDICINE $2000: This heart valve connects the left atrium and the left ventricle.

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Mitral Valve

HORNS YOU CAN'T PLAY $1000: Old time slang term meaning to cheat or swindle.

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Hornswoggle

THE TACO BELL CANON IN "D" $1600: In 2015 Taco Bell partnered with this double "D" app, so tap your phone and a quesarito appears.

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DoorDash

WOMEN OF THE WORLD $800: This Norwegian beauty is noted for her work with Ingmar Bergman and for UNICEF.

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Liv Ullmann

FILM STARS $500: The drill instructor in "An Officer and a Gentlemen", he turned down an offer to play pro basketball.

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Louis Gossett Jr.

COMPOSERS $2000: The 9/11 tribute "On the Transmigration of Souls" is by this composer with the same name as a U.S. President.

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John Adams

LIMERICKS $1000: This one's from Ogden Nash. There was an old man of Calcutta, who coated his tonsils with butter, thus converting his snore, from a thunderous roar, to a soft oleaginous ______

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Mutter

BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER $2000: "Don't Cry Out Loud" singer & Beckham's 1992-2003 team remind us that "a mind is a terrible thing to waste".

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Melissa Manchester United Negro College Fund

"THE NEW YORK TIMES" ARTS $1200: The Times said a 2005 production of this Shaw play about a career woman was "intriguingly nuanced drama".

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Mrs. Warren's Profession

RENAISSANCE ART $2000: The Pyres of Vanity, the bonfires that destroyed works of art were lit by this monk, the Medici's most virulent enemy.

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Girolamo Savonarola

AN "I" $1000: Latin for "swaddling clothes", they're books printed before 1501, in the infancy of typography.

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Incunabula