8 Jeopardy! Clues August 15, 2016
Here are 8 triple stumpers from the 8-15-2016 Jeopardy! match, a rerun of the 2015 College Championship Semi-Final No. 1 match from February 8, 2016.
COLLEGE TOWNS ($600) From 1936 until his death, Albert Einstein lived in a house on Mercer Street in this college town
AWARDS & HONORS ($200) It’s the common name for both an international yacht race & that race’s trophy, formerly the Hundred Guinea Cup
FICTION ($800) With fishy ladies carved into it, “The Mermaid” this furniture item is the title object of a Sue Monk Kidd novel
($1000) This 2009 follow-up to “The Da Vinci Code” sold over 1 million copies in e-book & hardcover editions on the first day
PENINSULAS ($1600) A peninsula in this 4-letter historic county separates the estuaries of the Thames & Medway Rivers
($2000) North America’s westernmost mainland point is Cape Prince of Wales on this Alaskan peninsula
ANTHROPOLOGY ($1600) Eugene Dubois traveled to the East Indies in search of early hominins; he struck paydirt on this island in 1891
STAMPS ($1600) The Coastal Birds postcard stamp set includes this wading bird that’s named for a prominent facial feature
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