9 Jeopardy! Clues May 29, 2018

Here are 4 triple stumpers from the 5-29-2018 Jeopardy! match.

“I” 4 ($600) A foot often written by a poet

DETAIL ($800) Number of white stripes on the current U.S. flag

A-1 ALPHANUMERICS 4U ($1600) The influenza pandemic of 1918 & 1919 was caused by this alphanumeric virus

($2000) Jay Leno: “Designed by Rolls-Royce, the Merlin engine earned its reputation as “the engine that won World War II” by giving unbeatable performance to Allied planes like the British Spitfire & this famous American fighter plane
$2000 Alphanumerics clue (Jeopardy! 5-29-18)

The players got all these clues in RETORTS:

($200) This “Greatest” boxer: “Superman don’t need no seat belt”; Flight attendant: “Superman don’t need no airplane”
($400) Challenged by a political rival, Sen. Fritz Hollings said, “I’ll take a drug test, if you’ll take” this mental “test”
($600) “May I kiss the hand that wrote ‘Ulysses’?” an admirer asked this man, who said “No–it did lots of other things too”
($800) Asked about a run for mayor, Ed Davis, head of this department in L.A. in the 1970s, said, “And give up all my power?”
($1000) Boswell quotes him, asked to compare 2 poets: “There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea”

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