12 Jeopardy! Clues July 21, 2016
Here are 8 triple stumpers from the 7-21-2016 Jeopardy! match.
THE 1970S ($1000) He was elected President of Egypt in 1970, leading his country until his death in 1981
TV CHARACTERS ($400) In 2015 fans mourned Yvonne Craig, who played this motorcycle-riding crimefighter on ’60s TV
PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES ($1000) In the 1930s, Wiley Post made record round-the-world flights in this Lockheed model with the same name as a 1970s Chevy
NEW TO THE OED ($600) He’s hot: “A pitcher with a very fast delivery” (Linking to Collins Dictionary where you don’t have to login to look it up)
HISTORICAL FICTION ($2000) This second wife of Napoleon is “The Second Empress” in Michelle Moran’s novel
MISCELLANEOUS ($1600) This “ordinal” term was created to refer to places once under Soviet control
ON BROADWAY ($1600) “The Sound of Music” & this 1957 Broadway show each have a song called “Maria”
($2000) “Long” after playwright Eugene O’Neill’s death, this tale of family dysfunction return to Broadway in 2016
Here are 4 clues from the POETS & POETRY category that the contestants answered correctly. The $400 clue was left on the board.
($200) This poem that sure is wocky ends, “All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe”
($600) Joyce Kilmer’s most famous work ends “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make” this
($800) In 1668 John Dryden became the first person to officially hold this royal writing position
($1000) Spawning the Romantic Movement, 1798’s “Lyrical Ballads” was penned by Wordsworth & this other poet
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