Big Chuck Takes the Jeopardy Quiz (ANSWERS)

WORLD RELIGION
KRISHNA & RAMA ARE BOTH CONSIDERED AVATARS OF THIS HINDU GOD
Answer:  Who is Vishnu?

CABLE TV PERSONALITIES
THIS SCOTTISH- BORN CHEF IS KNOWN FOR HIS TV RANTS AT WEAKER RESTAURATEURS
Answer:  Who is Gordon Ramsay?

DYNASTY
NICHOLAS II WAS THE LAST RULING CZAR OF THIS ROYAL FAMILY
Answer: Who are the Romanovs?

WHAT A CHARACTER!
TOPSY & SIMON LEGREE ARE BOTH CHARACTERS IN THIS BESTSELLING NOVEL
Answer: What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

NEW TESTAMENT GEOGRAPHY
JOHN THE BAPTIST'S MINISTRY TOOK PLACE IN THE REGION AROUND THIS RIVER
Answer: What is the Jordan?

TOYS
IN 1903, WITH PRESIDENTIAL PERMISSION, MORRIS MICHTOM BEGAN MARKETING THESE TOYS
Answer: What are Teddy Bears?

WORD ORIGINS
THIS TERM FOR A PERSON WHO WORKS FOR VARIOUS EMPLOYERS COMES FROM KNIGHTS WHO SOLD THEIR SKILLS
Answer: What is Freelance?

TALE TELLERS
SHE'S THE FABLED TALE TELLER IN "THE THOUSAND & ONE NIGHTS"
Answer: Who is Scheherazade?

PHYSICS
REGARDING THIS DEVICE, ARCHIMEDES SAID, "GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND ON, AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH"
Answer: What is a lever?

ACTRESSES
IN 2008 SHE PLAYED DAISY, THE LIFELONG FRIEND OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Answer: Who is Cate Blanchett?

MOUNTAIN HIGH
THIS 14,700-FOOT PEAK IN THE SWISS ALPS IS FAMOUS FOR ITS SHAPE & THE DANGER OF ASCENDING IT
Answer: What is the Matterhorn?

U.S. PRESIDENTS
HE WAS PRESIDENT DURING THE WAR OF 1812
Answer: Who is James Madison?

SYMPHONIES
MOZART'S LAST & PERHAPS MOST POWERFUL SYMPHONY SHARES ITS NAME WITH THIS PLANET
Answer: What is Jupiter?

SPEAKING IN TONGUES
THIS LANGUAGE WAS INVENTED IN WARSAW IN 1887 BY DR. L.L. ZAMENHOF
Answer: What is Esperanto?

SPORTS STARS
IN THE 2007-'08 SEASON, THIS CLEVELAND CAVALIER TURNED 23 & AVERAGED 30 POINTS A GAME
Answer: Who is Lebron James?

HOMOPHONES
AN ARM BONE, OR AN ADJECTIVE MEANING "FUNNY"
Answer: What is humerus/humorous?

SCIENTISTS
NOW NAMED TO THE CABINET, STEVEN CHU WON A NOBEL FOR CAPTURING ATOMS WITH THESE LIGHT BEAMS
Answer: What are lasers?

MYTHOLOGY
HE OCCUPIED A CHAIR OVER WHICH THE "SWORD OF" HIM WAS SUSPENDED BY A SINGLE THREAD
Answer: Who is Damocles?

BOOKS BY REPORTERS
BUSH AT WAR, "PLAN OF ATTACK" & "STATE OF DENIAL" ARE BOOKS BY THIS FAMED JOURNALIST
Answer: Who is Bob Woodward?

VOCAL MUSIC
CECILIA BARTOLI HAS UNEARTHED & SUNG SEVERAL FORGOTTEN ARIAS BY THIS "FOUR SEASONS" COMPOSER
Answer: Who is Antonio Vivaldi?

BODIES OF WATER
IT'S THE SMALLEST & EASTERNMOST OF THE GREAT LAKES
Answer: What is Lake Ontario?

MEASURE IT
9 TEASPOONS EQUALS THIS MANY TABLESPOONS
Answer: What is 3?

WORLD LITERATURE
LOGICALLY, IT'S THE MIDDLE BOOK OF DANTE'S "DIVINE COMEDY"
Answer: What is Purgatory?

TRANSPORTATION
IN 1620 IT SAILED WEST FROM SOUTHAMPTON WITH CHRISTOPHER JONES AS CAPTAIN
Answer: What is the Mayflower?

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
ATOMIC NUMBER 98, THIS RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT IS THE ONLY ONE NAMED AFTER A U.S. STATE
Answer: What is Californium?

POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS
THIS MIDWEST STATE IS THE ONLY ONE WHOSE 2-LETTER POSTAL ABBREVIATION IS A PREPOSITION
Answer: What is Indiana?

CROSSWORD CLUES "P"
ATTORNEY-CLIENT BENEFIT (9 LETTERS)
Answer: What is privilege?

SHAKESPEARE
IT COMPLETES THE LINE "SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO..."
Answer: What is "A Summer's Day"?

THEATER
IN A 2008 REVIVAL OF THIS SHOW, THE SHARKS SING IN SPANISH
Answer: What is "West Side Story"?

ICE CREAM
THIS FLAVOR WAS INVENTED IN 1929 & NAMED IN PART TO REFLECT THE DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES AHEAD
Answer: What is Rocky Road?

SCULPTURE
SCULPTURES THAT ONCE ADORNED THE PARTHENON ARE KNOWN AS THESE, AFTER A BRITISH LORD
Answer: What are Elgin marbles?

LITERARY CHARACTERS
IN "GREAT EXPECTATIONS", THIS AGED LADY STILL WEARS HER WEDDING DRESS
Answer: Who is Miss Havisham?

HISTORIC BRITS
THE "YOUNG PRETENDER" TO THE BRITISH THRONE IN THE 1740s WAS ALSO KNOWN AS BONNIE PRINCE THIS
Answer: What is Charlie?

PHOTOGRAPHY
THIS FRENCHMAN LENT HIS NAME TO AN EARLY FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Answer: Who is Louis Daguerre?

AFRICA
IN LATIN, THE NAME OF THIS COUNTRY MEANS "PLACE OF FREEDOM"
Answer: What is Liberia?

RECENT BESTSELLERS
A NO. 1 BESTSELLER IN 2008 WAS THIS FEMALE MYSTERY AUTHOR'S "SCARPETTA"
Answer: Who is Patricia Cornell?

THE MOON
LATIN TERM FOR THE MOON'S "SEAS"; THE LARGEST IS ABOUT 750 MILES WIDE
Answer: What are Maria (or Mare)?

AFRICAN AMERICANS
BORN A SLAVE, SHE HELPED FREE OTHERS & WAS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN ON A U.S. POSTAGE STAMP
Answer: Who is Harriet Tubman?

THEATRICAL TERMS
AS AN ADJECTIVE, IT MEANS "TIMELY"; IN THE THEATER, IT'S TO SUPPLY AN ACTOR WITH A LINE
Answer: What is prompt?

RHYME TIME
JUST ONE RADIO ADVERTISING SONG
Answer: What is a single jingle?

U.S. CITIES
THE OREGON TRAIL & PONY EXPRESS ROUTE BOTH PASSED BY CASPER IN THIS STATE
Answer: What is Wyoming?

LITERARY FIRSTS
HIS "MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE" IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE THE WORLD'S FIRST DETECTIVE STORY
Answer: Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

ASIA
DURING THE SUI DYNASTY IT WAS REPAIRED 7 TIMES TO DEFEND AGAINST THE TUJUE
Answer: What is the Great Wall?

CONGRESS
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS THIS MANY MEMBERS
Answer: What is 435?

FILL IN THE ____
HALF ____ ALASKA
Answer: What is Baked?

BIOLOGY
THE INTESTINAL TRACT OF THESE INSECTS, AKA WHITE ANTS, CAN BREAK DOWN CELLULOSE
Answer: What are Termites?

ISLANDS
SMALLER THAN ONLY GREENLAND, IT'S THE WORLD'S SECOND-LARGEST ISLAND
Answer: What is New Guinea?

WRITERS
KAREN BLIXEN WROTE "OUT OF AFRICA" UNDER THIS NAME
Answer: What is Isak Dinesen?

RETAIL
HIT THE BULL'S-EYE & NAME THIS DISCOUNT RETAIL STORE FIRST OPENED BY THE DAYTON CO. IN 1962
Answer: What is Target?

SINGERS
THIS SINGER RENAMED HERSELF "SASHA FIERCE" FOR A 2008 DOUBLE ALBUM
Answer: Who is Beyonce?