9 Jeopardy! Clues October 29, 2019

Here are 9 triple stumpers from the 10-29-2019 Jeopardy! match.

A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ ($1000) This phrase about liberty in all 4 verses provides the title of a song by The Killers where it has a more ironic meaning

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY ($800) Palladium honors one of these space objects that’s named for Pallas Athena

TAKE “TEN” ($2000) The khayyam in Omar Khayyam means this profession

WOOD ($1600) A froe is a woodworking tool; coopers used curved froes to cut these pieces to form the sides of barrels

AMERICAN GOTHIC ($1200) Before he became an Oscar-winning composer, he brought a Gothic feel to ’90s hard rock

The players got all the clues in TONS OF FUN, except the ones marked with an asterisk (*):

($200) It’s estimated that some of these literally “terrible lizards”, stood about 50 feet tall & weighed as much as 85 tons
($400) Mostly copper & weighing just over a ton, it was cast for the Pennsylvania Statehouse in the 1750s
*($600) Buoys may be anchored in place with these that weigh 9 tons, a bit heavier than the same-named weight on a fishing line
($800) Daily Double on recap
*($1000) She’s a hefty 70,327 tons, 963 feet long, and is now a floating hotel in Dubai

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