11 Jeopardy! Clues April 21, 2017
Here are 6 triple stumpers from the 4-21-2017 Jeopardy! match.
CROSSWORD CLUES “D” ($1000) The 10 Commandments (9 letters)
ANIMALS ON THE MAP ($1200) This river rises in New Mexico & flows into the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona
($1600) This island, known for it’s great wineries, is just a short hop by plane from Adelaide, Australia
($2000) Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede in this Tennessee town is billed as “the most fun place to eat in the Smokies”
THE ANCIENT WORLD ($400) More than 2,000 years ago, the Zhou Dynasty had this service, with couriers changing mounts regularly
IT’S ALL SAM-ANTICS ($2000) The last project he directed before his 1984 death wasn’t another western, but a music video for Julian Lennon
The players got all these clues in LITERATURE:
($200) Upton Sinclair refers to the Chicago stockyards as “Packingtown” in this 1906 novel
($400) She won a Pulitzer prize not for “My Antonia” but for another Nebraska novel, “One of Ours”
($600) His “Sevastopol Sketches” were based on the defense of Sevatopol in the Crimean War, in which he served
($800) The movie “Simon Birch” was adapted from John Irving’s novel “A Prayer for” him
($1000) At age 25 in 1774, young Goethe had a bestseller with “The Sorrows of” this young man
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