11 Jeopardy! Clues June 20, 2016
Here are 11 triple stumpers from the 6-20-2016 Jeopardy! match.
OFFICIAL STATE SYMBOLS ($1000) This state rock of Iowa has a name derived from Greek for ‘earthlike”
BEASTLY LIT ($400) “Willy the Champ” by Anthony Browne & “Me Cheeta” by James Lever
($1000) “Mumu” by Ivan Turgenov and “Big Red” by James Kjelgaard
THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 ($1200) No. 68: The Stones didn’t make the list, but this Maroon 5/Christina Aguilera pairing did
($1600) No. 100: He just got in the door with 1997’s “You Make Me Wanna…”
12-LETTER WORDS ($1200) “Rocky” term for putting up obstacles to delay the release of damaging information
($1600) An aquarium becomes this when it’s devoted to a certain specific creature
WORLD PIECE ($800) This system stretches west to east from Nanga Parbat to Namcha Barwa
($1200) The name of this earth layer that extends to about 60 miles in depth is from Greek for “stone ball”
($2000) Magma welling up from the Earth’s interior creates new crust at the bottom of the ocean and drives the movement of the continents according to the hypothesis called this alliterative spreading
IN THE ____ OF BATTLE ($1600) 1939-45 struggle in which allied destroyers & German U-boats disputed control of vital sea lanes: Battle of the ________
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