Statistics for Jeopardy #8150

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This quiz has been taken 519 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
SYMBOLS	$800	Long a symbol of communism, this pair represents the union of worker & peasant	hammer and sickle	74%
SYMBOLS	$200	On the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle grasps this symbol of peace in its right talon	an olive branch	70%
SYMBOLS	$1000	Because of his days as a sailor, the founder of this department store used a red star as its symbol	Macy\'s	68%
@	$200	About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West	Cuba	67%
@	$400	No visit to Iceland would be complete without a visit to the "Bay of Smokes", this capital city founded around 874	Reykjavik	66%
""&"	$600	Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things	death & taxes	63%
SYMBOLS	$400	One symbolic representation of Christ is as the paschal type of this animal	a lamb	57%
>	$400	The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison	Orange is the New Black	57%
%	$400	The occupy Wall Street movement helped popularize the populist phrase "We are the" this	the 99%	56%
SPECIES NAMES	$400	Macropus rufus is this color kangaroo	red	54%
14-LETTER WORDS	$800	Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city	infrastructure	52%
14-LETTER WORDS	$400	The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one	capitalization	45%
%	$800	In the dystopian Netflix show "3%", kids in the slums of this largest Brazilian city are competing to join an offshore paradise	São Paulo	45%
%	$1000	The government contacts about 110,000 people to get this monthly figure, 3.6% for Oct. 2019	unemployment	44%
14-LETTER WORDS	$1600	If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones	farsightedness	39%
>	$600	In 2019 Jason Bateman won an Emmy for his direction of this series & Julia Garner won for playing Missouri local Ruth Langmore	Ozark	33%
""&"	$400	A classic reader featured "Fun with" these 2 siblings, along with their dog Spot	Dick & Jane	32%
@	$800	A small trading town until the 19th c., this city on the Huangpu River now has a pop. of 20+ million, kidnapped sailors aside	Shanghai	32%
%	$600	In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he's involved in on offense	the Houston Rockets	30%
SPECIES NAMES	$1200	The annuus in Helianthus annuus, the sunflower, implies it lives up to this number of years	one	29%
>	$1000	With superheroic effort at 2019's NAACP Image Awards, he bested Michael B. Jordan--again--as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture	(Chadwick) Boseman	28%
""&"	$800	It's the traditional name of the British dish seen here	bangers & mash	27%
14-LETTER WORDS	$1200	Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist	a paleontologist	24%
HISTORIC PLEAS	$400	In 1860, after anti-abolitionists broke up a meeting, this thinker & ex-slave delivered a plea for freedom of speech in Boston	(Frederick) Douglass	23%
>	$800	In 2019 the Grammy for Best Country Duo/ Group Performance went to "Tequila" by the duo of Dan + him	Shay	22%
SYMBOLS	$600	Gary Anderson designed 3 chasing arrows as the symbol for this; the negative space on the inside resembles a pine tree	recycling	21%
*	$800	A 2016 papal footnote caused a ruckus by saying some divorced Catholics can have "the help of" these, such as communion	the sacraments	21%
@	$600	This waterway extends 51 miles from Limón Bay to a second bay whose name would kinda give it away	the Panama Canal	19%
*	$1000	Gibbon's notes in "Decline and Fall of" this include a burn on an ancient historian, "Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense"	the Roman Empire	19%
LITERARY FESTIVALS	$2000	One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness"	(Joseph) Conrad	18%
@	$1000	What a pyramid scheme! The landmark here in this ancient Mayan city was dedicated to Kukulkan	Chichen Itza	17%
14-LETTER WORDS	$2000	Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example	interplanetary	17%
LITERARY FESTIVALS	$800	The Tennessee Williams & the Saints & Sinners LGBT Literary Festivals are both held in this southern city	New Orleans	17%
LITERARY FESTIVALS	$400	This California city is home to Litquake, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019	San Francisco	16%
REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES	$1200	I, this '90s figure skater, called 911 & gave mouth-to-mouth to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed in a bar in Portland	Tonya Harding	16%
SPECIES NAMES	$2000	The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth	a cyclops	15%
*	$600	You can get "Lost" in the footnotes & notes on the footnotes in "S.", a novel conceived by this sci-fi writer-director	J.J. Abrams	8%
WORLD TRANSPORTATION	$2000	In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals	Cape Town & Pretoria	6%
WORLD TRANSPORTATION	$1200	This U.S. interstate passes through 8 states on its 2,400+ mile journey from Santa Monica to Jacksonville	I-10	6%
REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES	$2000	Before playing Gibbs on "NCIS", he sledgehammered the window of a burning car & pulled 2 teens to safety	Mark Harmon	5%
*	$400	A footnote in Richard Feynman's Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars' beauty	poets	5%
LITERARY FESTIVALS	$1200	Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job	cowboy	4%
LITERARY FESTIVALS	$1600	Louisville's Gonzofest is not about Muppets; it celebrates the writing of this native son	Hunter Thompson	3%
FRENCH TOWNS	N/A	Legend says local farm wife Marie Harel & a priest from Brie created the famous product of this Normandy village	Camembert	2%
HISTORIC PLEAS	$1200	Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home	Nez Perce	2%
WORLD TRANSPORTATION	$1600	Carrying 5,000-plus passengers, one of the largest cruise liners, the "Harmony of the Seas" is operated by this company with a "C" name	Royal Caribbean	2%
HISTORIC PLEAS	$2000	He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year	Charles Guiteau	0%
HISTORIC PLEAS	$800	An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this	horseback ride naked through the town	0%
HISTORIC PLEAS	$1600	Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, "Be merciful and spare me"; Achilles kills him	King Priam (or "Pree-um")"	0%
SPECIES NAMES	$1600	Pandalus borealis, the deepwater prawn, is also known as this directional shrimp	northern (**north)	0%
""&"	$1000	In 1949 Billboard added this new music category to replace what had been called Race Records	R&B (Rhythm & Blues)	0%