12 Jeopardy! Clues July 18, 2016

Here are 7 triple stumpers from the 7-18-2016 Jeopardy! match.

SCIENCE ($400) A long pole helps a tightrope walker by increasing this tendency of the body to stay at rest

($800) Kids on a seesaw instinctively calculate this, the tendency of a force to produce rotation around an axis

($1000) Self-healing like the T-100, the “terminator” type of this macromolecule compound was discovered in 2013

FASHION ($1000) A 1980s trend was the backpack-style handbag that this designer made in a type of nylon she called pocone

PUT IT THERE ($2000) St. Stephen’s Green at the end of Grafton Street: this capital

PRES-POURRI ($2000) 19 Presidents had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives; he’s the most recent one

SOME MEAN RHYMES ($2000) This seaport of 200,000 is the commercial center of Northeast Scotland

Here are all the clues in the MAN-AGRAMS category. The players got them all except the $200 one, undoubtedly because they did not yet know that the anagram consisted of everything after the colon.

($200) A great playwright but: I am a weakish speller
($400) A physicist: elite brain nest
($600) A Hungarian composer: snazz flirt
($800) A 19th century president: run vibrant amen
($1000) He was full of ego: feuding drums
ANSWERS: show

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