9 Jeopardy! Clues May 19, 2016
Here are 9 clues from the 5-19-2016 Jeopardy! match. All were answered correctly by one of the players.
THE AL FRANKEN DECADE ($400) On May 22, 1980 NAMCO began gobbling up the competition by releasing this video game
A COOK-OFF ($800) Prepare your paella, but don’t waste any of this yellowish spice, the most expensive in the world
($1000) For dessert you’ll be making Italian cheesecake with this, meaning “recooked” in Italian
SANTA ANNA ($400) In 1829 Santa Anna became a hero after putting an end to this country’s attempt to reclaim Mexico
POLITICAL MOVIES ($1600) “You can’t fight in here– this is the war room”, says President Merkin Muffley in this Kubrick film
CONSERVATIVE “Conserv”ative name for a music school; New York’s Julliard is a famed one
“LIB”ERAL ($2000) Term for the words to an opera; Venetian poet Lorenzo da Ponte wrote the one for Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”
($2000) Quincy Howe moderated a 1956 primary debate between Estes Kefauver & this eventual Dem. nominee
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