13 Jeopardy! Clues December 8, 2016
Here are 13 triple stumpers from the 12-8-2016 Jeopardy! match.
THAT’S COLD, MAN ($800) It’s slang for an isolation cell in prison; Alaska was “Seward’s”
($1000) To coagulate or curdle, it also means to change from a fluid state to a solid one by cooling
WHOSE BILLBOARD HIT? ($400) “Brilliant Disguise”, 1987
($600) “Try”, 2013
($800) “Rich Girl”, 1977
($1000) “Rich Girl”, 2005
LET’S VISIT THE SOUTH ($1000) From 1943 to 1974 this Nashville auditorium was the home of the Grand Ole Opry
PHILOSOPHY ($2000) This adjective means “required”; in philosophy it describes a statement true in any possible case, like 2 + 2 = 4
HISTORIC AMERICANS ($1600) In an 1896 speech William Jennings Bryan said, “You shall not crucify mankind upon” this
POTENT QUOTABLES ($400) William Lampton described this state as “Where the corn is full of kernels and the colonels full of corn”
($1200) In “Treasure Island”, the captain claims he is “a plain man”; this drink “and bacon and eggs is what I want”
($2000) Mickey Spillane wrote that this private eye drinks “beer because I can’t spell cognac”
BRIDGE-POURRI ($2000) Think about who won the Battle of Austerlitz & you’ll know the 19th century Austerlitz Bridge crosses this river
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