10 Jeopardy! Clues May 6, 2019
Here are 10 triple stumpers from the 5-6-2019 Jeopardy! match.
PARENTHETICAL SONGS ($400) Rihanna: “(In the World)”
GEOGRAPHY ($1000) Within a former province of South Africa, you’ll find the name of this river on its southern edge
CLICHES ($800) A paper entitling the bearer to food, or a source of financial support, as in “that rich wife is his _ _“
IOWA IN ENTERTAINMENT ($1200) Iowa native Fred Grandy played Gopher on this TV show for 9 years & later was a U.S. Rep. from the state
THE PLANETS ($800) It was the first planet discovered in modern times; William Herschel thought it was a comet when he first saw it
ARCHAEOLOGY ($1600) Before massive digging began, Sir Arthur Evans bought the site of this Minoan city on the island of Crete
($2000) The body of this 2000-year-old man was discovered in a bog in Denmark in 1950
BALLOONS ($1600) An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year
($2000) In 1783 these brothers sent a sheep, a duck & a rooster aloft in a hot-air balloon over Versailles
THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY ($1600) WWI leaders didn’t learn from the terrible effect of these weapons, like the maxim, in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
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