Final Jeopardy: The Solar System (5-4-16)
Here are 11 triple stumpers from the 3rd quarter-final of the 2016 Teachers Tournament. The Scrambled Egg-Layers category were anagrams. Better hints would have helped out there.
IN THE D.C. AREA ($1000) 82-acre President’s Park is home each December to this tall attraction
TOYS ($1000) It get its lift in flight from the airfoil at its outer edge that’s known at the Morrison slope
SCRAMBLED EGG-LAYERS ($600) Soaring high: solar tabs
($800) Busy little breed: him grin dumb
($100) Surf’s up for this one: spread pin
WE LOVE YOU, MOM! ($400) Her song “The Best Day” is a love letter to her mom Andrea, who presented her with the ACM Milestone Award in 2015
U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($1200) Once called Derryfield, this largest New Hampshire city was renamed in 1810 for a British city
ROMAN AROUND ($1200) Transalpine Gaul was “Gaul across the Alps”; this Gaul was “Gaul on the near side of the Alps”
JUNG ($800) As commandant of a World War I internment camp, Jung took prisoners but not sides
($1200) It’s the opposite of simple: Jung first used this word for a cluster of emotionally charged thoughts in 1907
($2000) If you passed your “A.P.” classes, you know that Jung founded this school of study of the human mind
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Easy fj today… If you know your planets…….
Kinda surprised no one got it…..
Hannah and Ian are out.
45/61 here
Hannah, “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” by John Gray is an interesting book. Also, a big Frankie Avalon song hit “Venus.”
“Venus” was also a big hit for Bananarama in the 80s — not the same song, but both No. 1s
They named a crater after Anne Boleyn– made me wonder what they considered her fundamental contribution.
@vj, wasn’t she the mother of Queen Elizabeth I? Although her beheading was tragic she did go down in history as the mother of a queen or am I mistaken?
she was Elizabeth I’s mother, Jacob. If that was the criteria, there could be a lot more women named after craters for giving birth to people who made fundamental contributions, even men
@vj, I didn’t mean to imply that being the mother of a queen was her sole contribution. Her impact on the Reformation has been noted in history as well. You sound like you were not a fan of hers. Why not? Out of the thousands of female names used in connection with Venus you focused on hers. I was just curious.
I don’t have a bad opinion of her, Jacob. (I don’t think she deserved her fate) I was glancing through a few countries on that list I linked to and was just surprised to see her name on there.
I guess it is up to the individual country whose name they want to submit.
They named a crater after Julius Caesar’s mother (Aurelia). From what I see they named craters after every tom, dick and harry they could find.
LOL Maori. I nominate Whistler’s mother