Statistics for Jeopardy #8151

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This quiz has been taken 54 times
The average score is 16 of 55

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
HEAVEN & PARADISE	$200	It's a 9-letter place of temporary suffering & purification prior to entry into heaven	purgatory	70%
""P"OTPOURRI	$800	A club for these people who always put things off has protested the War of 1812 & published "Last Month's Newsletter"	a procrastinator	64%
SCIENCE	$400	More than 90% of all creatures are considered this, meaning they have no spinal column	invertebrates	64%
COMPOUND WORDS	$800	Outdoor public activity space for kids, often with a swing set	a playground	61%
""P"OTPOURRI	$400	Krewes in New Orleans organize these for Mardi Gras & many build floats for them	a parade	58%
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR	$1600	Under the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus, this Nordic nation established itself as a major military power in the war	Sweden	55%
WRITER'S TOOLBOX	$600	It's the central message in a literary work; in music it precedes "and variations"	a theme	52%
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR	$400	During the war Poland fought this country; the Polish king claimed to be its czar	Russia	52%
WRITER'S TOOLBOX	$1000	It's the omission of one or more words in a sentence & the marks, such as 3 dots, to represent it	an ellipses	48%
WRITER'S TOOLBOX	$800	Boom! Slam! Pow! are all examples of this, a word that imitates the sound it refers to	onomatopoeia	48%
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES	$600	(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.	1968	45%
COMPOUND WORDS	$400	This tool lends its name to a type of puzzle made with it	a jigsaw	45%
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	$1200	None of this element used to disinfect pools & spas--relax, they'll use it at the resort!	chlorine	45%
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES	$200	(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track and field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority	Jesse Owens	45%
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES	$400	(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier and became the first African-American to win the French and U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 and 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event	Wimbledon	45%
NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE	$600	Lucky multi-lobed sprout	a four-leaf clover	42%
NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE	$400	Collectively, a jacket, a vest & pants all made from the same material & pattern	a three-piece suit	42%
HEAVEN & PARADISE	$400	Achieving Nirvana in Buddhism releases the subject from this, the law that fate is based on your actions in life	karma	42%
STATE OF THE ESTATE	$600	The Pabst Mansion	Wisconsin	39%
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES	$800	(Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Argubably "The Greatest" inside the ring and out, Muhammed Ali first won the heavyweight title by beating Sonny Liston in 1964. In the next few days, publicly adopting Islam, he changed from this and became an example of Black Pride and defiance of the Establishment	Cassius Clay	36%
SCIENCE	$2000	Grasshoppers undergo "incomplete" this transformation: the young look pretty much like adults but need to grow & add wings	metamorphosis	36%
COMPOUND WORDS	$1200	Epistaxis is the medical term for this injury for which you might need a tissue	a nosebleed	33%
SCIENCE	$800	It's a simple, fundamental synonym for alkaline	basic	33%
STATE OF THE ESTATE	$800	Thomas Edison's Glenmont Estate	New Jersey	33%
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	$400	Should really go without saying: none of this Nobel stuff patented in 1867	dynamite	30%
""P"OTPOURRI	$1000	If you're being this 11-letter word, you're condescending; if you're doing it, you're supporting a business	patronizing	30%
HEAVEN & PARADISE	$600	Referenced in Revelation, Chapter 21 Verse 21 and depicted here, they are a proverbial entranceway into heaven	the Pearly Gates	30%
SCIENCE	$1600	An atom or molecule that has an unpaired electron is called by this "liberated" name & can damage your cells	a free radical	27%
TV NEWS SHOWS	$1200	An NBC news crime show, or the listing of when & where a newspaper story was written	Dateline	27%
STATE OF THE ESTATE	$400	The Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, AKA The House of the Seven Gables	Massachusetts	27%
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES	$1000	(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Say Hey! This was used in the 1965 All Star Game by this Giant center fielder. In a 2016 85th birthday message, President Obama called him the greatest-living ballplayer	Willie Mays	27%
NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE	$800	One made by Colt starting in 1873 is Arizona's state firearm	.45	24%
SCIENCE	$1200	William Wollaston discovered palladium & lent his name to Britain's highest award for this earth science	geology	24%
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	$2000	No to the Note7 model of this smartphone	Samsung	24%
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	$1600	No booze above 70% alcohol, this proof	140	21%
""P"OTPOURRI	$600	In the U.S. we're familiar with the food pyramid; China has a guide called a food this structure	pagoda	21%
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR	$2000	The 1648 peace deal had Spain recognize the independence of this North Sea nation, ending both the Thirty & the Eighty Years' Wars	the Netherlands	21%
UNFILMED NOVELS	$1200	He refused offers to film "Foucault's Pendulum", perhaps because of his experience with the film of his first novel	(Umberto) Eco	18%
WRITER'S TOOLBOX	$400	It's the overall emotion created by a work, or in grammar, a verb form like subjunctive or imperative	the mood	15%
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU	$800	Should go without saying part 2: none of these, whether of the fragmentation, smoke or stun variety	a grenade	12%
UNFILMED NOVELS	$400	Jerry Lewis was among those who desperately wanted to play him, J.D. Salinger's most famous character	Holden Caufield	12%
STATE OF THE ESTATE	$1000	James Buchanan's Wheatland Estate	Pennsylvania	12%
UNFILMED NOVELS	$2000	Will Ferrell & John Belushi were considered to play Ignatius J. Reilly, but this novel is still unfilmed	A Confederacy of Dunces	9%
COMPOUND WORDS	$1600	HMS Victory was this type of command vessel for Lord Horatio Nelson	a flagship	9%
UNFILMED NOVELS	$800	Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures" novel is still unfilmed, with juicy parts for both Kavalier & this other title guy	Clay	9%
UNFILMED NOVELS	$1600	Plenty of this author's works have made it to the screen, but "Blood Meridian"--not yet	Cormac McCarthy	9%
NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE	$1000	Musical score designation AKA a quaver	an eighth note	6%
TV NEWS SHOWS	$1600	Margaret Brennan moderates this CBS weekend news show in which public affairs are debated by a panel of specialists	Face the Nation	6%
COMPOUND WORDS	$2000	Getting to the core of things, the oldest & strongest part of a tree is the hard dark center called this	heartwood	6%
TV NEWS SHOWS	$2000	Before handing out justice on Fox News, she started one of the first domesic violence unit in a U.S. prosecutor's office	(Jeanine) Pirro	6%
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR	$1200	This French cleric and politician got France into the war in part to prevent Hapsburg dominance	Cardinal Richelieu	3%
HEAVEN & PARADISE	$800	A place of drinking & merrymaking, this musician's green is a heaven for sailors & cavalrymen	Fiddler\'s Green	3%
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY	N/A	This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species	DMZ (the demilitarized zone between North & South Korea)	0%
TV NEWS SHOWS	$800	Since 2013, weekday afternoons on CNN have featured "The Lead" with this man	Jake Tapper	0%
HEAVEN & PARADISE	$1000	The celestial city mentioned in "The Pilgrim's Progress" is AKA the heavenly this real city	Jerusalem	0%