11 Jeopardy! Clues October 20, 2016
Here are 11 triple stumpers from the 10-20-2016 Jeopardy! match.
HERE COMES THE SUN ($1000) From the Greek for “light” comes this visible layer of the sun, some 300 miles thick
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE ($200) In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates City of Ur to found a new nation
($400) Acts 9 is about a journey to this city by Saul, later Paul, that doesn’t turn out as planned
WAR STARS ($600) Agu is a child soldier in an African civil war in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU ($1000) Robert Schumann called this man’s 1807 fourth symphony “a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants”
HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS ($2000) June 22, 1611: Make sure mutineers don’t set me & my son adrift in the bay named for me; uh-oh
A BETTE MIDLER MEDLEY ($800) In 2017 Bette is set to star in a Broadway revival of this musical in which she’ll play the matchmaking Mrs. Levi
SENATE COMMITTEES ($1200) Reviewing Medicare on an “almost annual basis”, this committee deals with “matters relating to older Americans
PREFECTURES OF JAPAN ($1200) The Karate Kid’s teacher might know the name of this prefecture of Honshu that forms Sendai Bay
8-LETTER WORDS ($1200) This synonym for sophisticated comes from the French for “of good lineage”
BOOKS BY MEN ($1200) The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page
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