12 Jeopardy! Clues June 11, 2019

Here are 2 triple stumpers from the 6-11-2019 Jeopardy! match.

BIRTHPLACES ($2000) Cate Blanchett: This city on Port Phillip Bay

I’M ON THE MONEY ($2000) Indonesia’s 100,000 rupia note features Prime Minister Hatta & the first President, him. An airport is named for them, too.

$2000 Money clue (Jeopardy! 6-11-19)

The players got all the clues in WHAT HAPPENED?, except the last one (*):

($400) In WWI, the British navy tried to spot & damage U-boats by training seagulls to seek out these sticking out of the water
($800) In 1970 Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s greatest authors, staged a failed coup & then died in this ritual way
($1200) In 1918 a British aircraft dropped a note about this pilot’s funeral onto a German-held airfield
($1600) George Washington ordered excerpts from this man’s “The American Crisis” to be read to the troops
*($2000) In 1673 these 2 French explorers were disappointed to find that the Mississippi River doesn’t flow to the Pacific

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They got all the clues in FROM THE GERMAN, except the last one (*):

($400) You can take on of these high-speed, limited-access highways to get to the Schwarzwald
($800) You may have this German desire for travel, but snap out of it– there’s a game to play!
($1200) Originally used to describe water from Hesse, this word now just means carbonated water
($1600) This 6-letter word for garish & tawdry artwork is from a German word for “trash”
*($2000) The name of a mountain range plus a word for a long pole combine in this word for a climber’s staff

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