11 Jeopardy! Clues December 27, 2018
Here are 6 triple stumpers from the 12-27-2018 Jeopardy! match.
ON THE HEAVENLY BODY ($800) Caloris Montese, aka Heat’s Mountains on this planet
($1200) An asteroid— Don Juan & Cupid
($2000) A planetoid— Burney Crater, named for the little girl who named the planetoid
AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS ($2000) The 2nd and 3rd books in Faulkner’s trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first
NEWER WORDS ($2000) Originally a Twitter joke, a “milkshake” this fowl describes a viral darling whose dark past quickly appears
INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? ($800) George Clooney tries to kill, then tries to save Prince Nasir in this 2005 film about oil & greed
The player got all the clues in CONFUSING LYRICS except those marked with an asterisk (*)
($200) “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous” is a cryptic refrain from their “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
*($400) “Don’t touch me please, I cannot stand the way you tease”, warns this Soft Cell song, then a few “touch me, baby”s
($600) In this Stephen Foster song, “It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry, the sun so hot I froze to death”
($800) Borrowing from Hamlet, Nick Lowe sang, “you’ve gotta be cruel to be” this
*($1000) This “boozy” Oasis tune has the line “slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball”
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