Statistics for Jeopardy #8418

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This quiz has been taken 26 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THE U.K. IN THE 1980s	$200	This PM was re-elected by a landslide in 1983 & her Conservative Party used its majority to usher in wide changes	(Margaret) Thatcher	76%
NATIONAL FLOWERS	$400	Turkey's national flower is this one also prominently associated with a Western European country	the tulip	71%
THE WIRE	$400	On March 7, 1876 he was granted one of the most valuable patents ever--a method of transmitting sound over a wire	(Alexander Graham) Bell	65%
THE WIRE	$200	Nicknamed the devil's hatband, this fencing material was introduced to Texas in the 1870s	barbed wire	65%
THE U.K. IN THE 1980s	$800	Michael Fagan broke into this residence & spent 10 minutes chatting with the Queen before being arrested	Buckingham Palace	65%
SILENT-LETTER WORDS	$200	A dorsal prominence of a finger joint	a knuckle	47%
LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU	$800	In a recent ad Chipotle asked if one of these handheld items could change the world	a burrito	41%
THE "A" LIST	$400	On July 20, 1969 he said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed"	(Neil) Armstrong	41%
SILENT-LETTER WORDS	$600	The Romans called it dies Mercurii, the day of Mercury	Wednesday	41%
SILENT-LETTER WORDS	$800	It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h	height	35%
LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU	$400	For decades, Cocoa Puffs cereal has been repped by Sonny, this type of bird	a cuckoo	29%
THE WIRE	$600	Thanks to the book & film "Mommie Dearest", we know that Joan Crawford had a real aversion to these wire objects	hangers	29%
NATIONAL FLOWERS	$800	Tunisia's national flower is this fragrant white one, also the name of a revolution that started there in 2010	jasmine	29%
THE WIRE	$800	On HBO's "The Wire", this state's Governor Robert Ehrlich had a cameo as a security guard	Maryland	29%
THE U.K. IN THE 1980s	$1000	A hunger strike at Maze Prison in this U.K. country resulted in 10 deaths & widespread unrest	Northern Ireland	29%
THE TONY AWARDS	$1000	This crooner has won 18 Grammy awards--the first in 1963 & the most recent in 2015	Tony Bennett	29%
THE U.K. IN THE 1980s	$600	The Brits exported New Wave bands like this "Wishing" & "Space Age Love Song" group whose singer had a wing-style haircut	A Flock of Seagulls	24%
LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU	$1000	Dean Winters has been wrecking people's days as "Mayhem" in ads for this company	Allstate	24%
SILENT-LETTER WORDS	$400	From Latin for "to climb", it means to rise, as in a dirigible	ascend	24%
LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU	$600	Seen here, Milana Vayntrub is keen to get you to try the services of this telecommunications giant	AT&T	24%
THE TONY AWARDS	$800	In 2002, when he was a senior at Eastern Illinois University, this QB won the NCAA's Walter Payton Award	Tony Romo	24%
NATIONAL FLOWERS	$600	The Holy Ghost variety of one of these exotic tropical plants is Panama's national flower	an orchid	18%
THE TONY AWARDS	$200	He won Emmys for his portrayal of Tony Sopranop	(James) Gandolfini	18%
THE WIRE	$1000	Born in Germany in 1905, Karl was the patriarch of this family famous for its high-wire act	the Wallendas	18%
PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE	$400	The GPO insists you call people from this state "Hoosiers"	Indiana	12%
SILENT-LETTER WORDS	$1000	It can follow bush, Delian or fantasy	league	12%
TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES	$2000	Oh, brother! After some analysis, David Hyde Pierce takes 4 Emmys	Niles Crane	12%
NATIONAL FLOWERS	$1000	A Spanish national flower is this one whose name comes from the Latin for "flesh"	the carnation	12%
POETIC BOOK TITLES	$2000	The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture	The Wasteland	12%
THE TONY AWARDS	$400	He garnered an Emmy as the fastidious Felix	Tony Randall	12%
THE "A" LIST	$2000	This great dramatist fought in & may have been wounded at the Battle of Marathon	Aeschylus	6%
POETIC BOOK TITLES	$400	For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele	A Farewell to Arms	6%
THE "A" LIST	$1600	The first female president of the Philippines, she brought democracy back after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos	Corazon Aquino	6%
ADDITIVES	$1600	The W.H.O. suggests face masks made with polypropylene, which has this water-repelling adjective that means "afraid of water"	hydrophobic	6%
BODY WORDS	$400	This 3-letter region from the waist to the knees on humans only exists when one is seated	lap	6%
BODY WORDS	$1600	This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head	patella	6%
THE TONY AWARDS	$600	Tony Shalhoub won a 2019 Emmy for playing the dad of Midge, the title woman on this show	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	6%
PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE	$800	Wyoming adds these 3 letters to get the word for a resident, who now sounds like a mineral	Wyomingite	6%
PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE	$1600	2 of the 3 states whose final "S" becomes an "N" to describe their residents	(2 of ) Texas, Kansas & Arkansas	0%
TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES	$1200	Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men	Alan Harper	0%
POETIC BOOK TITLES	$800	E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel	A Passage to India	0%
BODY WORDS	$800	Aorta comes from the Greek for "great" this other "A" word	artery	0%
ADDITIVES	$2000	An emulsifier is an additive that encourages this process in which particles mix but don't dissolve	a suspension	0%
BODY WORDS	$1200	This ridge over your eyes can also refer to the expression of your face	brow	0%
THE "A" LIST	$1200	Seen here sketching, he doesn't look especially kooky or spooky	Charles Addams	0%
TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES	$1600	Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon"	Chip Baskets	0%
TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES	$800	Julie Bowen, relating to her relatives	Claire Dunphy	0%
PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE	$1200	This word for someone from New Haven or New Britain rhymes with "butter"	Connecticutter	0%
ADDITIVES	$400	These additives like Red No. 2 come with FD&C in front of their name	dyes (food colorings)	0%
BODY WORDS	$2000	Iambs are metrical these	feet	0%
PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE	$2000	Residents of this state are to be called this state "Residents" to differentiate from the native population	Hawaii	0%
LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU	$200	If you check out the design on what the pitchman for this company is wearing, you'll see the two initials of the company	Little Caesars	0%
ADDITIVES	$1200	This substance, seen here, that's added to beer & milkshakes, comes from cereal grain that's allowed to undergo germination	malt (malt barley)	0%
ADDITIVES	$800	STP has a fuel additive that boosts this, from the Latin for "eight"	octane	0%
1960s SONGS	N/A	In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit	Otis Redding	0%
THE "A" LIST	$800	This medieval monk had an out-of-wedlock child with Heloise	(Peter) Abelard	0%
POETIC BOOK TITLES	$1600	From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title	Remembrance of Things Past	0%
TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES	$400	Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing D.C. politics really, really dirty	Selina Meyer	0%
THE U.K. IN THE 1980s	$400	In 1987 a conference of this entity voted by a huge majority for the ordination of women	the Church of England (the Anglican Communion)	0%
POETIC BOOK TITLES	$1200	"Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas	The Dying of the Light	0%
NATIONAL FLOWERS	$200	Belgium chose this symbol of remembrance	the (red) poppy	0%