9 Jeopardy! Clues February 7, 2019
Here are 4 triple stumpers from the 2-7-2019 Jeopardy! match.
COUNTRY FACTS ($1000) In 2017 this country’s prime minister Haider Al-Abadi declared victory over the Islamic state
MARCH ON! ($1000) A 1930 march against a salt tax made its way to this sea on India’s west coast, where marchers scooped up salt
WORD RHYMES ($1200) Just seeing the mountain variety of this creature brings me happiness
THE GRAND TOUR ($1600) The 18th century excavations at these 2 ancient sites made Naples a must-stop
Bif got all the clues in EPIC POETRY:
($400) Virgil’s “Aeneid” relates the founding of Lavinium, a town near this more famous locale
($800) This ancient poem contains epic fights between Menelaus & Paris as well as Achilles & Hector
($1200) In the “Kalevala”, the national epic of this country, Ilmarinen the smith takes a sauna before he goes courting
($1600) Blake & Shelley saw this character as the real hero in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” & applauded his rebellion against tyranny
($2000) The shorter of the 2 great epic poems of ancient India, its title translates from Sanskrit as “Rama’s Exploits”
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