12 Jeopardy! Clues December 2, 2016
Here are 7 triple stumpers from the 12-2-2016 Jeopardy! match.
THE PACHELBEL CANON IN D ($1000) The canon shows expert use of this technique in which composers use multiple melodies together
THE MOVIE/TV STAR ($1000) “9 to 5”, “Grace and Frankie”– both women, please.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE NOUNS ($1000) Termites & penguins both get collective with this collective name
PERFECT! ($2000) If you have no equal, you’re this, also the name of those sugar pellets used in cake decoration
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES ($2000) This site 90 miles east of Fresno was a WWII internment camp for Japanese Americans
HEALTH & MEDICINE ($800) From the Greek for “half skull”, it may progress through 4 stages: prodrome, aura, headache & postdrome
($2000) Healthy blood has plenty of red blood cells to carry oxygen to body tissues. If the number of cells is reduced causing weakness and fatigue, it may be an indication of this condition, from the Greek for “want of blood”
The contestants got all the clues in the REQUIRED READING category:
($200) Mary Mapes Dodge penned this guy, “or, The Silver Skates”; within her lifetime, the book appeared in more than 100 editions
($400) After leaving Rochester– the man, not the city– this Bronte title woman finds herself destitute & friendless
($600) The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world’s greatest pistol shot
($800) “T.S. Garp cried in the airplane that was bringing him home to be famous in his violent country”, penned this novelist
($1000) Though the play did not hit Broadway until 1946, “The Iceman Cometh” by him first cameth in 1939
Today’s Daily Doubles and more information on Final Jeopardy! on Fikkle Fame’s full Daily Jeopardy! Recap