10 Jeopardy! Clues August 16, 2016
Here are 10 triple stumpers from the 8-16-2016 Jeopardy! match, a rerun of the second semi-final in the College Championship tournament that originally aired on February 9, 2016.
THE LEGEND & TRUTH OF SLEEPY HOLLOW ($800) As the exceedingly lank schoolmaster heads for the bridge near the story’s end, he “casts a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish… in a flash of fire and” this, but is disappointed (this links to a blog that has the whole category with responses)
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? ($600) Spectacled & American black
4-SYLLABLE WORDS ($1000) In math the product of any expression & its this is 1
GEEK OUT ($800) Use your hyperspace drive to jump from star to star in the gaming app FTL, which stands for this
($1000) Over 100,000 home computers are helping Stanford study protein assembly in the program called this@home
THE 2015 NOBEL PRIZES ($1600) The Peace prize went to the National Dialogue Quartet of this North African country
LEATHER ($800) Used on leather, this type of soap is named for an equestrian item
($1200) Ironically, Seth Boyden never legally protected his process to make the high-gloss leather with this name
Today’s Daily Doubles and more information on Final Jeopardy! on Fikkle Fame’s full Daily Jeopardy! Recap