11 Jeopardy! Clues October 23, 2019
Here are 6 triple stumpers from the 10-23-2019 Jeopardy! match.
SPORTS ALL IN THE FAMILY ($600) She followed her dad into the ring (image), and since retiring, has become a TV personality and healthy lifestyle advocate
($1000) Last name of brother and sister Reggie and Cheryl, who are seen here; both are in the Basketball Hall of Fame
I BLESS THE RAINS ($200) Between a primary & secondary one of these in the sky is a region called Alexander’s dark band
DOWN IN AFRICA ($800) “C” starts the name of this nation, highlighted here (image) on the Gulf of Guinea
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ($2000) State-owned & known by this 5-letter name for short, Mexico’s largest company is this oil concern
ODD WORDS ($1600) It sounds like a geometric figure, but this 7-letter word means resembling the walking dead
The players got all the clues in A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON, except the $1200 one (*):
($400) “Hail to thee, monarch of African mountains”, begins Bayard Taylor’s verse about this peak
($800) Bessie Rayner Parkes described this Scottish region as “hills that were born of ages… like monuments to mighty gods”
*($1200) Longfellow’s line “On the shores of Gitche Gumee” from “The Song of Hiawatha” refers to this Great Lake
($1600) Switzerland’s “Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face”, mused this poet in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
($2000) George Prentice’s poem “Lookout Mountain” recounts the 1863 battle for this Tennessee city
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