14 Jeopardy! Clues May 15, 2019

Here are 4 triple stumpers from the 5-15-2019 Jeopardy! match.

MORE THAN 1 MEANING ($800) It can mean to grow or sprout like a plant, or to engage in passive activity like kicking back & watching TV

GEOGRAPHIC SEVENS ($400) Belgium, Norway and 5 other nations all border this arm of the Atlantic

WOMEN AUTHORS ($1200) Most of the known works of this ancient Greek poet are fragments; her 28-line “Ode to Aphrodite” is an exception

ADD SOME CONSONANTS ($2000) Old MacDonald had this point in a planet’s orbit when it’s nearest to the sun: EIEIO

The players only got the $400 clue in MATH, TEACHERS:

($400) It’s the number of distinct digits that are used to represent numbers in a particular number system; you probably use 10
*($800) The equation A(B + C) = AB + AC shows that multiplication is this with respect to addition
*($1200) Math-minded cows might graze over this, the set of all the possible values that a function can take
*($1600) This kind of conic section is an open curve with 2 branches
*($2000) To describe the position of a point in 2 dimensions, you can use the distance from an origin point and the angle from an axis which are these paired coordinates with a chilly name

ANSWERS: show

The players got all the clues in TEACHERS IN SONG

($200) This hard-rocking group “Got it bad. Got it bad. Got it bad”. They’re “Hot for Teacher”
($400) A “young teacher” in this song from the Police has to endure “strong words in the staffroom”
($600) This rapper shows little respect in “My Name is…” where “my English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high”
($800) In the classic song “School’s Out”, this man mentions “no more teacher’s dirty looks”
($1000) “The teacher don’t know about how to deal with the student body”, is from this duo’s 1984 hit “Adult Education”

ANSWERS: show

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