11 Jeopardy! Clues September 20, 2016
Here are 6 triple stumpers from the 9-20-2016 Jeopardy! match.
WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME ($600) To give support to an effort & a group of people attending to a V.I.P.
A WHITMAN SAMPLER ($800) “I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer” this (link to the poem it’s in)
($1000) I ____ myself, and sing myself (it’s the start of the same poem!)
OUT OF THE CRADLE ($1000) Some say ignore the noises; baby can get back to sleep without help, an ability known by this alliterative term
SEEN FROM ABOVE ($2000) The course of Botswana’s Okavango River can be described with this word, starting with an objective pronoun
“TEN”-LETTER WORDS ($1600) Shelley wrote “to defy power which seems” this, meaning unlimited
The FRIENDS category was pretty cool. The players got them all right.
($400) Then known as Lew Alcindor, this 7’2″ basketball star was a high school friend of not 7’2″ funnyman Billy Crystal
($800) Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was one of the closest friends of this “Little Tramp”
($1200) Mozart was close friends with this composer, who was Wolfgang’s senior by 23 years & was perhaps more of a “Papa” figure
($1600) Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of this college pal, later the 14th U.S. President
($2000) In 1961 this “J. Alfred Prufrock” poet became pen pals with Groucho; the 2 finally met just before the poet’s 1965 death
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