Saturday Special- JEOPARDY

[luckytrim]

Saturday Special- JEOPARDY

“The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.”
-Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd), Taxi

JEOPARDY- "by halves"
1. ($200)- nickname of Melissa Gilbert's character on "little house on the prairie"...
2. ($600)- a "half" this is a dive that includes a half backward somersault and ends facing the board...
3. ($1,000)- for thorium-234 it's about twenty-five days; for thorium-232, about 14 billion years...
DOUBLE JEOPARDY- "the 1890's"
4. ($400)- his psychoanalytic method of free association and his daughter Anna first saw the light in 1895...
5. ($1200)- in 1898, when this battleship blew up, Llewellyn powers was governing the state of the same name...
6. ($2000)- while doing cathode ray experiments in 1895, roentgen discovered these new and mysterious rays...
FINAL JEOPARDY- "famous gems"
7. when it was stolen in 1792, the hope diamond was part of this country's crown jewels...
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1. what is half-pint?
2. what is the (half) gainer?
3. what is half-life?
4. who is Sigmund Freud?
5. what is the "Maine"?
6. what are x-rays?
7. what is France?

[buckytom]

oh man! i got 'em all right except the french...

darn cheese eatin' surrender monkeys.

[luckytrim]

I WAS A LITTLE LUCKIER- I JUST SAW A PIECE ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL ON THE HOPE DIAMOND LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO!

[SizzlininIN]

well I mucked up......I scrolled down allt he way and was looking at the bottom portion thinking those were questions too before I even looked at the top questions.

I was like "what is a half-pint"?.......well heck I don't know. So I went to the next one and was stumped even more.....hee hee.

[Alix]

Missed the last two. Thanks for this one luckytrim.