11 Jeopardy! Clues August 12, 2016
Here are 6 triple stumpers from the 8-12-2016 Jeopardy! match, a rerun of the final match of the 2015 Tournament of Champions.
CABLE SHOWS ($1000) Dorian Gray & Dr. Frankenstein are among the characters who have stepped off the page & into this drama on Showtime
LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES ($800) When it comes to cutting expenses & finding deals to stay under budget, this superhero saves the day
HOW THE EAST WAS WON ($2000) Asian nomads had a “beef” with this wealthy merchant family that colonized the steppes in the 1500s & 1600s
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ($1200) James Clapper tells the President about moles & dead drops as National Director of this
($2000) An executive action delayed deportation for people brought to the U.S. as kids, known by this hopeful term
THE PERIODIC TABLE ($2000) Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaborated on the discovery of element number 116, which was even named livermorium; it was created by smashing atoms of curium, atomic number 96, with atoms of this element
The players knew all of these clues in WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS:
($200) Ezra Pound was a friend & mentor to him, arranging for the serialization of his “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
($400) This writer of “J’accuse” was friends with Paul Cezanne & encouraged him to pursue his art studies in Paris
($600) In “A Moveable Feast”, he says Gertrude Stein had been very cordial & friendly to him
($800) Charles Dickens & this “Vanity Fair” author were 19th century frenemies
($1000) Though close with this novelist, Edith Wharton said, “Don’t ask me what I think of ‘The Wings of the Dove”‘
Today’s Daily Doubles and more information on Final Jeopardy! on Fikkle Fame’s full Daily Jeopardy! Recap