Jeopardy Quotes Quiz Answers

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$200:

“O, Susanna! O, don’t you cry for me, I’ve come from Alabama with my” this
BANJO ON MY KNEE
Soliciting business in California in 2013, this Texas governor said Austin is poised to be the “next Silicon Valley”
RICK PERRY

$400:

Radio reporter Herbert Morrison cried, “oh, the humanity!” about this May 6, 1937 disaster
TITANIC
When this apostle saw Jesus walking on water, he said, “Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water”
PETER
“Using stats the way we read them, we’ll find value in players that nobody else can see”
MONEYBALL (film)
If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s going to be a fake hit”
ARGO (film)
A proverb states that these “are the windows to the soul”
EYES
“One day” this Daniel Defoe title character “was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man’s… foot on the shore”
“ROBINSON CRUSOE” (novel)
The first words he spoke on the telephone were “Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you”
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
“The least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea”
“MOBY-DICK” (novel)
About this queen, Shakespeare wrote, “age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety”
CLEOPATRA
Rudy Giuliani after 9/11: these “are broken, but they continue to beat, and the spirit of our city has never been stronger”
HEARTS
This 1848 manifesto’s theory “may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property”
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

$600:

Pontius Pilate “took water, and washed” these “before the multitude”, saying he was innocent of the blood of Jesus
HANDS

$800:

According to Steve Jobs, “it’s more fun to be a pirate than to join” this military force
NAVY
To King Hezekiah, “Thus saith the lord, set thine” this “in order, for thou shalt die, and not live”
HOUSE
“All my life I’ve been waiting for someone & when I find her, she’s…she’s a fish”
“SPLASH” (film)
“I am Merida, and I’ll be shooting for my own hand”
“BRAVE” (film)
2 Corinthians says this apostle escaped Damascus: “through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall”
ST. PAUL
Harry Potter’s best friend, he’s described as “tall, thing and gangling, with freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose”
RON WEASLEY
Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, “Can we all get along?”
RODNEY KING
“I shall be your Beth still, to love and help you more than ever. you must take my place, Jo”
“LITTLE WOMEN” (novel)
Betty Friedan wrote, “to keep… life-giving ties alive…is our” this, the opposite of Ponce de Leon’s legendary quest
FOUNTAIN OF AGE
A World War II slogan said these “sink ships”
LOOSE LIPS
In 1868 he remarked, “Let them impeach and be damned”
ANDREW JOHNSON

$1000:

In 1839 this Kentuckian told the Senate, “I’d rather be right than be president”
HENRY CLAY

$1200:

Jenny Joseph’s “warning”: “When I am an old woman I shall wear” this color “with a red hat”
PURPLE
“Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed” this “with her already in his heart”
ADULTERY
“You’re 5-feet nothin’, 100 & nothin’…& you’re …gonna walk outta here with a degree from the U. of Notre Dame
“RUDY” (film)
In “Farewell My Lovely”, he wrote one woman was “a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window”
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Emily Bronte said it was “the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling”
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
In 2005 he urged Stanford’s graduating class, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”
STEVE JOBS
“Miss Havisham was alone. ‘Well?’ said she, fixing her eyes upon me. ‘I hope you want nothing? You’ll get nothing”‘
“GREAT EXPECTATIONS” (novel)
A Clairol slogan proclaimed, “you’re not getting older, you’re” doing this
GETTING BETTER

$1600:

Per Sarah Palin, it’s “the difference between a hockey mom & a pit bull”
LIPSTICK
You’re one of those a cappella girls. I’m one of those a cappella boys & we’re gonna have a-ca children”
PITCH PERFECT
Chapter 15 of this novel reports that one day Lara “went out and did not come back. She…probably died somewhere”
“DR. ZHIVAGO” (novel)
“Mr. Earnshaw was sitting by the fire, deadly sick; his evil genius, almost as…ghastly, leant against the chimney”
“WUTHERING HEIGHTS” (novel)
In this novel, Oscar Wilde wrote, “the tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
“THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY”

$2000:

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name” this
EMMANUEL
“No one’s ever been loved so much by the people. Don’t waste that power”
“LINCOLN” (film)
But soft! In “Romeo and Juliet”, this question precedes “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”
”WHAT LIGHT THROUGH YONDER WINDOW BREAKS”
Kurt Vonnegut begins this 1969 novel by writing, “All this happened, more or less”
In April 1970 this mission commander informed “Houston, we’ve had a problem”
JIM LOVELL
“Marianne… could only exclaim, in the anguish of her heart, ‘Oh! Elinor, I am miserable indeed”‘
“SENSE AND SENSIBILITY” (novel)
This 19th century English poet penned the line “grow old along with me, the best is yet to be”
ROBERT BROWNING

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$1000: De Gaulle warned JFK that America would step “into a bottomless military and political quagmire” in this place
VIETNAM
$1200: This 1897 work includes the line “a great nose indicates a great man”
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
$2000: At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Reagan gave “Mr. Gorbachev” this 4-word challenge
“TEAR DOWN THIS WALL.”
$2000: “In the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels” is from this Proust work
“A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST”
$2600: “Why are you here then?” “Because I bloody well stammer!”
“THE KING’S SPEECH” (film)
$3000: Year in which a U. S. president remarked, “this is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation”
1968
$3,000: A major theme of Ecclesiastes is stated in the second verse of the book: “All is” this
VANITY