Statistics for Jeopardy #8420

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This quiz has been taken 78 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
VOLCANO CITY USA	$200	This Oregon city has an extinct volcano within city limits, 630-foot Mount Tabor	Portland	74%
GROUPS OF 12	$400	This nation is last alphabetically of the 12 independent mainland countries of South America	Venezuela	72%
VOLCANO CITY USA	$800	Erupting several times in 1992, Mount Spurr has dumped ash on & remains a threat to this largest Alaska city	Anchorage	64%
NAME CALLING	$200	Due to his New Deal spending, some called the president Franklin Deficit Roosevelt instead of using this middle name	Delano	60%
NAME CALLING	$800	Using the old family name, Winston Churchill referred to this world leader as "Herr Schicklgruber"	Hitler	51%
VOLCANO CITY USA	$400	Jackson Volcano, under the capital of this southern state, erupted 75 million years ago & formed a dome on which the city sits today	Mississippi	49%
EDUCATION	$200	In 2020 the most common apps used by schools for remote learning included Microsoft Teams & this one founded by Eric Yuan	Zoom	47%
GROUPS OF 12	$800	Of the 12 signs of the zodiac, it's the only one represented by an arachnid	Scorpio	43%
EDUCATION	$400	ESL programs, short for this, got a big push in Florida in the 1960s as Cubans fled their country	English as a second language	36%
NAME CALLING	$600	France's fifth king with this name, the last Carolingian monarch, was "The Do-Nothing", & that's saying something	Louis	36%
NAME CALLING	$400	This Roman emperor was called "Biberius" due to his noted love of drinking	Tiberius	32%
VOLCANO CITY USA	$1000	This "gem" is an extinct volcanic cone with a summit that overlooks Honolulu	Diamond Head	28%
GROUPS OF 12	$600	Pauly Shore plays a loser who becomes this spokesman for a group of 12 in "Jury Duty"	the foreman	28%
ALSO A DOG BREED	$200	Type of nose that's short, broad & somewhat turned up	pug	23%
ALSO A DOG BREED	$600	Manny Pacquiao's occupation; while also true, congressman does not fit the category	boxer	21%
VOLCANO CITY USA	$600	Just east of the Valles Caldera, this New Mexico City & national lab site helped create a different type of explosion in WWII	Los Alamos	21%
ALSO A DOG BREED	$400	Swimming Olympian Mark	Spitz	21%
1930s LITERATURE	$400	In a classic story for children, this title bull ignores the matador & enjoys smelling flowers	Ferdinand	19%
NOTABLE WOMEN	$400	In 1939 she became the first 20th century Mexican artist to have a painting bought by the Louvre	Frida Kahlo	19%
BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS	$600	In 1973 & 1974 this California Angels pitcher hurled a total of 750 strikeouts, the most ever in 2 straight years	Nolan Ryan	19%
BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS	$400	During his career he had a record 14,053 official at-bats; maybe that's why he's also the career hits leader	Pete Rose	19%
NAME CALLING	$1000	Mystic & royal companion Grigori Novykh received this nickname, Russian for "debauched one"	Rasputin	19%
BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS	$800	He is the only player in MLB history to walk more than 200 times in one season; he got 232 free passes in 2004	Barry Bonds	17%
ALSO A DOG BREED	$800	A clothes size once meant for the heavier-than-average boy	husky	17%
EDUCATION	$1000	To get into a school accredited by the American Bar Association, be prepared to take the entrance exam with this acronym	LSAT	17%
SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES	$1200	There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness	savvy	13%
SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES	$400	The NAGC is the National Association for these children, which means they're smart, not that they got a lot of Christmas presents	gifted	11%
NOTABLE WOMEN	$800	Before this woman moved to Montgomery, she helped her husband Raymond defend the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s	Rosa Parks	11%
SCIENCE	$1200	Types of joints in the body include hinge, saddle & "ball &" this	socket	11%
SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES	$1600	From the French for "right", you're skillful in mind or body if you're deemed it	adroit	9%
GHOST	$400	Ghosts are said to live in a "sea of trees" at the base of this Japanese volcano, as do moles, deer & black bears	Mount Fuji	9%
SCIENCE	$800	Castor canadensis is the scientific name for this aquatic rodent	a beaver	6%
GEOGRAPHY WORDS	N/A	From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag	an enclave	6%
1930s LITERATURE	$1200	A soldier is horribly wounded in the WWI novel he "Got His Gun", published 2 days after World War II began	Johnny	6%
SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES	$800	This word for a skillful veteran can also mean well-flavored with paprika or cumin	seasoned	6%
1930s LITERATURE	$800	In this Pearl Buck novel, Wang betrays his wife O-Lan for another woman	The Good Earth	6%
BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS	$1000	With Negro League stats now part of Major League history, this slugger may claim the title of "last .400 hitter"	Josh Gibson	4%
GHOST	$800	Named for its white fur, the northern ghost bat feeds mostly on these nocturnal lepidopterans	moths	4%
GROUPS OF 12	$200	Now used by many groups as an aid to rehabilitation, the twelve-step program started with this organization	AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)	2%
SCIENCE	$2000	The nuclear research organization CERN has made this stuff & kept it around for 15 minutes, leading to fears of Armageddon	antimatter	2%
SCIENCE	$400	This scientific instrument records P waves, S waves & surface waves	a seismograph	2%
SCIENCE	$1600	On weather maps, isobars are lines that join areas of equal measures of this	(atmospheric) pressure	2%
GROUPS OF 12	$1000	In song, the 12 days of Christmas gifts include this gift on the eighth day	eight maids a-milking	2%
SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES	$2000	Latin for "easy" gives us this 6-letter adjective for a display of smooth skill	facile	2%
ALSO A DOG BREED	$1000	Nationality-wise it would describe the wonderful Vitus Bering or the super Jorn Utzon	great Dane	2%
GHOST	$1600	Near its western border with Algeria, this large African country is home to Idinen, a fortress that's said to be haunted	Libya	2%
BUSTERS	$400	In a stunning 1990 upset, Buster Douglas knocked out this heavyweight boxing champ	Mike Tyson	2%
BUSTERS	$800	Prince Buster was a leader in this 3-letter Caribbean music style	ska	2%
BUSTERS	$1200	Catcher Buster Posey helped this team win World Series championships in 2010, 2012 & 2014	the San Francisco Giants	2%
EDUCATION	$800	This 2-word term has been defined as tools that help to make an issue or lesson clearer	visual aids	2%
1930s LITERATURE	$2000	Her novella "Anthem" is set in a future where people live without freedom in collectives	Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosembaum)	0%
NOTABLE WOMEN	$1200	Asked about how she hit the ball so far in golf, this multi-sport wonder said she just loosened her girdle & let it fly	Babe (Didrikson) Zaharias	0%
BUSTERS	$2000	It's the 2-word alliterative name of the 1895 Frederic Remington sculpture seen here	Bronco Buster	0%
NOTABLE WOMEN	$1600	This 3-named woman has been called America's Historian-in-Chief	Doris Kearns Goodwin	0%
NOTABLE WOMEN	$2000	A 2021 biography says this first female doctor in the U.S. was originally admitted to medical school as a joke	(Elizabeth) Blackwell	0%
GHOST	$1200	This superhero has a flaming skull & sold his soul to a demon	Ghost Rider	0%
BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS	$200	This legendary Braves slugger who's first on the all-time RBI list with 2,297 passed away in 2021	Hank Aaron (Hammerin\' Hank)	0%
EDUCATION	$600	A counterpart of the Rhodes Scholarship, Kennedy Scholarships enable British citizens to study at these 2 Boston-area schools	Harvard & MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	0%
1930s LITERATURE	$1600	After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel	Lost Horizon	0%
BUSTERS	$1600	Buster Keaton made his film debut in this portly silent comic's 1917 2-reeler "The Butcher Boy"	(Roscoe) "Fatty" Arbuckle	0%
GHOST	$2000	"Ghost shirts" that were supposed to protect believers were part of this 19th century Native American movement	the Ghost Dance movement	0%