Statistics for Jeopardy #8280

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This quiz has been taken 71 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
BREAD	$400	This long thin loaf of French bread has cleverly been called a French stick, though its name actually means "little rod"	a baguette	82%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$200	In 2005 80% of New Orleans was flooded by this cataclysm	Hurricane Katrina	82%
CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE	$200	"The One After Ross Says Rachel"	Friends	77%
ABANDONED PLACES	$200	The ancient town of Craco in this country's boot was abandoned after a 1980 earthquake	Italy	72%
BREAD	$800	Why do hamburger buns commonly feature these seeds, aka benne? No one seems to know	sesame seeds	69%
ABANDONED PLACES	$600	The Exclusion Zone created after this 1986 event covers some 1,600 square miles, & you should still keep out	Chernobyl	64%
ABANDONED PLACES	$800	Once a glamorous resort, Varosha on this island has been off-limits since 1974 fighting between Greeks & Turks	Cyprus	56%
37 IS HEAVEN	$200	37 degrees is normal human body temperature on this scale	Celsius	51%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$800	In 1951 Matthew Ridgway replaced this general as Allied Commander in the Far East	MacArthur	38%
ABANDONED PLACES	$400	Home to one of Japan's major mines for this fuel, Battleship Island was abandoned in the 1970s when the supply petered out	coal	36%
CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980	$400	Before running "The Office", he starred in school plays like "How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying"	Steve Carell	31%
ABANDONED PLACES	$1000	A station for hunting these at Grytviken on South Georgia has been abandoned for decades, & that's fine with us	whales	31%
BREAD	$1000	Italian breads include focaccia & this one whose name means "slipper"	ciabatta	28%
37 IS HEAVEN	$1000	According to legend, on his journey of conquest in 218 B.C. this man brought 37 elephants with him	Hannibal	26%
CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE	$400	"Edith Flips Her Wig"	All in the Family	23%
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	$800	In 1714 physicist Daniel Fahrenheit invented the first thermometer to use this liquid	mercury	23%
CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE	$1000	"The Lady in the Bottle"	I Dream of Jeannie	21%
BREAD	$200	The perfect foil for corned beef or pastrami at a Jewish deli is this bread traditionally made with caraway seeds	rye bread	21%
CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE	$600	"Opie & the Bully"	The Andy Griffith Show	21%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$600	In the 1930s the AFL expelled members of this group from its ranks; in 1955 the 2 organizations reunited	the CIO	21%
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	$1200	In 1986 Dr. Patricia Bath invented a device that safely uses one of these beams to remove cataracts in the eye	a laser	18%
CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE	$800	"Castaways Pictures Presents"	Gilligan\'s Island	18%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$1000	During the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, a tired and disorganized Continental Army was drilled into shape by this German Baron	(von) Steuben	18%
BREAD	$600	Gold miners in the Klondike got this nickname, after a bread they made	sourdough	15%
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	$400	On June 12, 1817 Baron von Drais went several miles demonstrating his 2-wheeled "running machine", an early version of this	bicycle	13%
37 IS HEAVEN	$600	This Texan was the USA's 37th vice president (& 36th president)	LBJ	13%
CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980	$800	His yearbook mentions he did varsity wrestling and varsity soccer, and his original last name was Mapother	Tom Cruise	13%
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	$1600	Laszlo & Gyorgy Biro of Hungary used a novel tip when making this easy-to-use implement in the 1930s	a ballpoint pen	10%
BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENTS	$800	A major royal residence until a 1512 fire, the Palace of Westminster is now home to these "Houses"	Parliament	10%
A NOVEL CATEGORY	$1200	In 1998 Iran declared it no longer sought Salman Rushdie's death over this novel	The Satanic Verses	10%
BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENTS	$400	Edward VII called this official London residence of the royal family "a sepulchre"	Buckingham Palace	8%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$400	First lady Helen Taft arranged the planting of hundreds of these trees along the Potomac River in Washington	(Japanese) cherry trees	8%
FROM B TO C	$400	One side in the Cold War was often called the "Eastern" this group	the bloc	8%
A NOVEL CATEGORY	$2000	This Donna Tartt bestseller begins, "While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years"	The Goldfinch	8%
BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENTS	$1200	Caernarfon Castle was used by Edward I in the 13th century when subduing this country, now part of the United Kingdom	Wales	8%
BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENTS	$2000	This castle on the River Dee where the royal family spends summers is lovingly called "The Highland Barn"	Balmoral	5%
FROM B TO C	$1200	This variety of pear is crisp & in season from September to April	Bosc	5%
37 IS HEAVEN	$800	The character of Rick Blaine in this classic movie is 37 years old	Casablanca	5%
CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980	$1600	She was on the fast track her senior year, winning the AAU Junior Olympics Pentathlon; in 1988 she would win the Olympics Heptathlon	Jackie Joyner-Kersee	5%
CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980	$1200	This future Oscar winner was valedictorian of her graduating class at the Lycée Français in Los Angeles	(Jodie) Foster	5%
U.S. MONUMENTS	N/A	More than 100 years after it was first proposed, this monument was dedicated by President Chester Arthur	the Washington Monument	5%
ANAGRAMS	$200	I seem to recall the old house having this room to store food over the winter	a cellar (from recall)	3%
ANAGRAMS	$800	In the southwest, a Native American abode was commonly made of this	adobe (from abode)	3%
CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980	$2000	At her Connecticut high school most of this lawyer and conservative media pundit's jabs were as a member of the fencing team	Ann Coulter	3%
FROM B TO C	$800	Pressure measured in millibars	barometric	3%
CRIME & PUNISHMENT	$1200	Nathuram Godse, who murdered this man in 1948 as he headed to a prayer meeting: death by hanging	Gandhi	3%
A NOVEL CATEGORY	$400	"Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author	James Patterson	3%
A NOVEL CATEGORY	$800	Larry McMurtry won high praise for this 1985 novel about an 1800s cattle drive from Texas to Montana	Lonesome Dove	3%
37 IS HEAVEN	$400	Casey Stengel played for the Dodgers & Giants but had his number 37 retired by these other 2 New York teams he managed	the Yankees & the Mets	3%
BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENTS	$1600	Originally a Saxon castle, this edifice overlooks the Thames River and is where several English monarchs are entombed	Windsor	3%
FROM B TO C	$1600	Religious territorial jurisdiction aka a diocese	a bishopric	0%
CRIME & PUNISHMENT	$800	In 2009 for securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, false filings with the SEC & other crimes: 150 years in prison for him	(Bernie) Madoff	0%
FROM B TO C	$2000	A legal opinion by all the judges of an appeals court, not just a smaller panel, is given "en" this, French for "bench"	en banc	0%
CRIME & PUNISHMENT	$1600	30-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames, in 1994, for tax evasion & this more serious crime: life without parole	espionage	0%
A NOVEL CATEGORY	$1600	E.M. Forster saw his first major success in 1910 with this novel named for a country estate	Howards End	0%
CRIME & PUNISHMENT	$2000	This Attorney General for his role in the Watergate scandal: ultimately 19 months in prison	John Mitchell	0%
ANAGRAMS	$1000	It was quite an ordeal getting to this Texas city	Laredo (from ordeal)	0%
CRIME & PUNISHMENT	$400	Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison	RFK (Robert Kennedy)	0%
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	$2000	Inspired as a boy by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926	(Robert) Goddard	0%
ANAGRAMS	$600	It's how the ladies got across the lake to the island	sailed (from ladies)	0%
ANAGRAMS	$400	This closed figure is integral to a branch of math	triangle (from integral)	0%