14 Jeopardy! Clues May 10, 2018
Here are 14 triple stumpers from the 5-10-2018 Jeopardy! match.
ALL EYES ($1600) Tiger-eye quartz is formed by the alteration of crocidolite, this type of fire-resistant fibrous mineral
($2000) When a tropical storm reaches hurricane strength, an eye appears in the storm’s outer layer made of these wool-like clouds, from Latin for “curl”
ON YOU ($200) Verruca is another word for this benign but contagious growth on the skin
($400) You’ll find your philtrum just below this organ
AN APPELLATION FOR THE TEACHER ($800) Scottish prof, Archie Roy, who researched haunted houses, got a movie-based alliterative tag– “The Glasgow” this
($2000) This 19th century educator became “The Schoolmaster of the Nation” for his “Readers” that sold more than 100 million copies
TV: WHO PLAYED ‘EM? ($1600) Oz on “Breaking In” & “Mr. Robot”
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY ($800) Just east of the Caspian Sea is the city-sized Tengiz supergiant one of these, part of Kazakhstan & part of Chevron
($1600) The lawless border region where Laos, Myanmar & Thailand meet has this “shapely” 2-word nickname
RHETORICAL DEVICES ($2000) The photo here showing 2 contrasting ideas is an example of this 13-letter rhetorical device, also used by Dickens when he wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
QUOTES ABOUT MUSIC ($2000) Pablo Casals compared this instrument to “a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time.”
FAST COMPANY ($1200) Kilian Journet has set multiple speed records in this, aka alpinism
($1600) Francois Gabart holds the record for doing this solo, just under 43 days– an average of 27.2 knots
($2000) (Read by Jay Leno) Back around WWI when you wanted to go fast, you put a big aircraft engine in a lightweight car; my 1915 Hispano-Suiza uses the same kind of aircraft V8 as the S.P.A.D. flown by this race-car driver & top-scoring U.S. ace of WWI
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