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For the 1st inauguration, this book had been forgotten, so a copy was borrowed from a Masonic lodge |
a Bible
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Tennessee Williams set "The Glass Menagerie" in this Missouri city where he grew up |
St. Louis
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Country band appropriately named since their "home's in Alabama" |
[NOTE: Eric's score was adjusted from $3,500 to $3,200 at the beginning of this round without explanation.]
Alabama
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In 1977, he became 1st person to be both president of USSR & head of the Communist party |
Leonid Brezhnev
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Even though "nobody doesn't like" popsicles either, this company sold the division that makes them |
Sara Lee
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Another name for the poisonous water moccasin snake of the Southeast U.S. |
the cottonmouth
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It's said his administration had fewer fed. workers than he had slaves here, at his own plantation |
(Craig: What is Monticello?)
Mount Vernon
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Geo. B. Shaw's "Heartbreak House" was inspired by this author's "3 Sisters" & "Cherry Orchard" |
Chekhov
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Named for NYC borough, the R&B group has been a "Shining Star" in music for 20 years |
(Mary: What is the Manhattan Transfer?)
The Manhattans
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In 1959, posters of an actress in a bathing suit were painted over when this pope drove thru Rome |
John XXIII
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A new ad for a California hospital goes "Kidney stones? Who ya gotta call?..." These, of course |
[Audible chuckle from one member of the audience who apparently knows the response] ... (Alex: We've got a minute to go.)
Stonebusters
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In song, they were located "Down in Louisiana just a mile from Texarkana" |
(Mary: What are those [*]?)
old cotton fields back home
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This famous nickname 1st appeared in German on a U.S. calendar in 1778 |
"Father of His Country"
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Title of a Ferber-Kaufman play about struggling actresses, or where you'd bring them flowers |
Stage Door
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Folk trio that chose their name because Calypso music was in vogue when they formed |
the Kingston Trio
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Ironically, in the late '20s, the U.S. helped supervise elections in this Central American nation |
Nicaragua
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If you need bucks while basking on a beach in Brazil, just look for 1 of these new "banco movels" |
mobile banks
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1970 film in which Dets. Gravedigger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson expose bogus "back-to-Africa" scheme |
Cotton Comes to Harlem
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In 1774 & 1775, Washington was a delegate to the 1st & 2nd sessions of this body |
the Continental Congress
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Commedia dell'Arte sweetheart in the original Harlequin romances |
(Eric: I picked the wrong time not to be cautious. Uh...) [Laughter] (Eric: Who is Bip?) [Laughter] (Alex: Who is Bip? Marcel Marceau would love you, but, uh, the producers and the writers on Jeopardy! would not think too much of that.)
Colombine
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John Ford Coley & this "Britisher" teamed in the '70s & found "Love Is The Answer" |
England Dan
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On Aug. 30, 1914, the Germans made this capital the 1st major city bombed by airplane |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Paris
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This Colonial intellectual entered Harvard at age 12 & got his B.A. degree at 15 |
Cotton Mather
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This famous "speech" by Washington in 1796 was printed in a newspaper, not delivered publicly |
(Craig: What is Washington's farewell to his troops?)
Washington's farewell address
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Abbie Cabot tempts her stepson Eben beneath the trees in this O'Neill tragedy |
(Alex: Not fast enough, Eric.)
Desire Under the Elms
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"Almost Paradise", the love theme from "Footloose", was sung by Heart's Ann Wilson & this leading Loverboy |
Mike Reno
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Versions of biblical books in "modern translation with a Southern accent", by Clarence Jordan |
the Cotton Patch Versions
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