12 Jeopardy! Clues May 17, 2017
Here are 7 triple stumpers from the 5-17-2017 Jeopardy! match.
THE MAP OF CANADA ($200) Ontario’s Wasaga Beach is the world’s longest freshwater beach, 9 miles along Georgian Bay, an arm of this lake.
($800) This gulf named for the Norwegian who explored the area between 1903 & 1906 is at the western end of the NW Passage
WORD ORIGINS ($400) From the Middle Dutch word for “ship” comes this term for the captain of a small ship or boat
($1000) Bacteria comes from a Greek word meaning “small stick”‘ this related word goes back to the Greek for “small” & “life”
I NEED SOME TUDOR-ING ($1200) The Tudors claimed the British throne with a victory over this monarch at Bosworth Field
I GOT 3 As! ($1600) You fraud! You quack! You this 9-letter word!
($2000) It’s kind of a mashup of comradeship & bonhomie
The players got all the clues in MATH, NOW…, except the $1200 one.
($400) Give us an “A” in this 4-letter math word for the tip of a cone or a pyramid
($800) Arccos denotes the inverse of this trigonometric function
*($1200) It’s the square root of x2 – 6x + 9
Answer show
($1600) A quadrilateral with 2 adjacent sides of length “a” and 2 adjacent sides of length “b” gets this high-flying name from its familiar shape
($2000) Mathematicians use the letter i to represent the square root of -1, this “unit”
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