12 Jeopardy! Clues February 19, 2018
Here are 12 triple stumpers from the 2-19-2018 Jeopardy! match.
MYSTERY & CRIME NOVELS ($200) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler of Caleb Carr’s “The Alienist” is this type of professional tracking a killer in 1896
($600) A fellow “tunnel rat” from this war may be the culprit LAPD detective Harry Bosch is looking for in “The Black Echo”
($800) When a boy falls to his death, “Smilla’s Sense of Now” in this Scandinavian country helps prove it was murder
“LADY” ($800) A vocal group got its name by adding “Black Mambazo” to this native town in South Africa
THE G8 ($1200) Nickname for one very interested in the engines of Fairlanes or Fokkers
MILITARY GAME PLANS ($2000) In late 1944 your 3rd U.S. Army will take Metz, then it’s ground & pound across the Saar River
IT’S ALL A MIRAGE ($1600) His “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” mentions watching a mirage as “the heat of Arabia came out like a drawn sword”
($2000) That’s no UFO! It’s the double mirage known as this, partly after an Arthurian enchantress
1970s MOVIES ($800) This not-at-all Christmasy film about demonic possession opened on December 26, 1973
REGION NAME’S THE SAME ($1600) Regions in Bolivia & Argentina & a university of California City share this name for a holy object
($2000) Areas in Morocco & this Mediterranean island country were named Rabat by Arabs.
THE “G” 8 ($2000) Referring to its powerful jaws used to crack seeds, the name of this finch is from the French for “large bill”
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