11 Jeopardy! Clues October 23, 2017
Here are 6 triple stumpers from the 10-23-2017 Jeopardy! match.
HISTORY, WITH SOUND EFFECTS ($800) On April 28, 1881 Billy the Kid escaped jail… but it was game over when this sheriff caught up with him a few months later.
SALT BAY ($400) Bulls Bay near Francis Marion National Forest in this state is a source for boutique bay salt
($1200) The Redwood City salt evaporation ponds seen here are just some of the many found in this Pacific Bay
VOCABULARY ($1200) “Bovine” term for the triangular frame at a locomotive’s front– a word we hope is never used literally
AN “L” OF A TEAM ($1600) It’s the gender-specific name of the University of Tennessee’s women’s teams
BIRDS OF A FEATHER ($800) This wandering high-flyer can have an 11-foot wingspan
The players got all these clues in 20TH CENTURY NOVELS:
($200) The number of missions Yossarian must fly to complete his service keeps going up in this satirical novel
($400) This Boris Pasternak novel concludes with an epilogue & “The Poems of” the main character
($600) Born with a very low IQ, Charlie Gordon undergoes surgery that increases his intelligence in this Daniel Keyes novel
($800) This novel about Scottish drug users is written in dialect like “Ma eyes burrow intae the back ay her heid”
($1000) “Go Tell It on the Mountain” about the 14-year-old son of a preacher, was this author’s first novel
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