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This Belgian man first came to the isolated settlement of Kalaupapa in 1873, the same year that this Norwegian physician made a related discovery

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Who are Father Damien and (Gerhard Armauer) Hansen?

WORLD CAPITALS Five national capitals, four on islands and one on the southern coast of West Africa, begin with these four letters. What is Port? (Port-au-Prince, Port Moresby, Port of Spain, Porto-Novo, and Port Vila: capitals of Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Benin, and Vanuatu res...

PHOTOGRAPHY Florence Thompson and three of her daughters are seen here in 1979, 43 years after they were captured in a famous image by this photographer https://i.imgur.com/qIRv1jT.png close-up of Florence: https://i.imgur.com/IEGpzyC.png Who is Dorothea Lange? the original image: https://i.imgur.co...

What's the longest FJ clue ever? Probably this one from the last game of the 2016 Power Players Week, at 157 characters in length: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci6dgC3UgAA2VNg?format=jpg&name=small [EDITED TO ADD] That FJ was presented by D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser, who read the clue from a card; the ...

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In March 1934, the Academy Award for Outstanding Production went to this film with an equine name, just two months before the Kentucky Derby was won by a horse with that same name

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What is Cavalcade? (which ultimately comes from Vulgar Latin caballus, meaning "horse")

opusthepenguin wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:43 pm

Great guess by Bob and Eric except for the missing two letters, which of course they realized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

Bob even threw in two extra letters in order to satisfy that part of the clue!

Leslie and Eric both doubled up $10K in the QF round to earn wildcards from an equal position. And Bob won his QF with $20,000. I wonder if there have been any other competing trios (besides Scott Weiss, Jamey Kirby, and Anders Martinson) whose members finished their previous games with an identica...

Back to the previous game 6793 it was funny to see Alec, Bart & Carol for an A-B-C left to right. I would guess cheezguyty could find other instances of that specific alphabetical line-up. [...] September 6, 1989 - Alan vs. Bob vs. Charlie June 8, 2009 - Andrew vs. Baltazar vs. Cindy December 22, 2...

Before & After appeared as a category first on Wheel in 1989, and on J! on 4/1/97 (the Pat Sajak-hosted episode), as has been mentioned here a bunch. Since then, however, it is apparently the most common recurring category type to appear on J! ("recurring category type" here refers to things like "...

Is anyone able to check an original recording of this episode? The text in the image that was shown with the Pocahontas clue on tonight's broadcast is completely different from what is transcribed on the Archive and I'm curious if there was an edit. [EDIT: Thanks Mark, you're the best! :)] Wayne Bra...

theFJguy wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:11 am

Jodie Foster: 8300+8300=16600 ($16,600 to charity)

As Jodie was being announced as the winner, her score display changed to $21,600, and that is what Alex said that her charity would be receiving.

Was there a week with only four celebrity games? In addition to a Power Players Week and the Celebrity Invitational, Season 14 had three themed celebrity games scattered seemingly at random among the regular episodes. Season 15 had six more of these theme nights; the first two aired as lead-ins to ...

"In Jeopardy!'s eighth season, 1992, we aired the first...." Close, Alex's writers. Oh, so very close. But this episode, at least according to the database, is October...firmly in season 9. Unless, perhaps, they decided to air a week of repeats about 6-7 weeks into the season, and the shows origina...

I watched for the Forrest Bounce like Alex said to do. Rather disappointingly, I saw only one instance of it during the entire game: Clue 13 in DJ, when Chuck goes to the FRUIT & VEGETABLES category after having previously selected the top clue in THE BIBLE By my reckoning, every other clue selectio...

Sorry, I can see how my wording was ambiguous. The correct dates are February 14 to 25, 1994 (per many contemporary newspaper articles and the Archive's Collected Finals page).

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:51 pm

I added 2/14/94: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6768

All of the '94 Teen games in the Archive need to be moved back one week (the Prizes page has the wrong dates as well).

Thank you for your continued contributions to the site!

floridagator wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:02 am

Seven games that ended

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In a three way tie at zero

9/11/1984
4/8/1985
7/9/1991 (sr tournament)
3/2/1998 (celebrity)
6/12/1998 (only two iplayers n FJ)
2/7/2013 (teen tournament)
1/18/2016

You're still missing one: November 13, 1996.

For cheezguyty: Was the $500-$500-$500 to open play rare or fairly common in this game: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6751 without the inclusion of a DD played in the first five clues? or if $1000 across the board the same way in new games happens a lot? That happens far less often ...

US PRESIDENTS The only president to serve less than four full years in each of two separate terms Who was FDR? (First term was Mar 4, 1933 to Jan 20, 1937 due to passage of the 20th amendment, and died during his fourth term) My guess was McKinley, thinking that his first term was one day shorter t...