Statistics for Jeopardy #8427

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This quiz has been taken 26 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
BOROUGH WATCH	$200	Kevin James rules: "King of ____"	Queens	93%
BOROUGH WATCH	$400	J. Lo charms the room: "Maid in ____"	Manhattan	87%
BOROUGH WATCH	$800	De Niro's directorial debut: "A ____ Tale"	Bronx	67%
BOROUGH WATCH	$1000	Eddie Murphy sinks his teeth into a role: "Vampire in ____"	Brooklyn	60%
BOROUGH WATCH	$600	Steve Buscemi & Bill Burr are firefighters: "The King of ____ ____"	Staten Island	53%
"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC	$1000	A set of rules to be followed in computer calculations, it comes from the name of a 9th century mathematician	algorithm	47%
YOU GIVE ME FEMA	$400	FEMA & the U.S. Geological Survey are 2 of the 4 groups in the Natl. Hazards Reduction program for this type of disaster	earthquake	47%
PSYCHOLOGY	$400	According to Freudian theory, the libido originates in this one of the 3 divisions of the psyche	the id	47%
"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC	$400	It's from Arabic for "calendar" & the first one printed in America was "for New England for the year 1639"	an almanac	40%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1200	Latvia is wedged in the middle of these two other Baltic republics	Estonia & Lithuania	40%
YOU GIVE ME FEMA	$600	5,000 FEMA employees were deployed in the wake of this storm that made landfall in New Jersey Oct. 29, 2012	Hurricane Sandy	40%
IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION	$400	One big difference between this 1963 Pierre Boulle novel & the film version--no half-buried Statue of Liberty at the end	Planet of the Apes	40%
FOOD TALK	$600	Served hot or chilled, it's the 4-letter name for Japanese buckwheat noodles	soba	40%
MUSIC HISTORY	$400	In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis	Suez	40%
AROUND THE WORLD	$400	Referring to semi-arid bush country, it's the term for remote & largely uninhabited interior regions of Australia	the Outback	40%
"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC	$200	It's a small recess in a wall or room	an alcove	33%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1600	The Iguacu Falls extend for nearly 2 miles along the border between Brazil & this other nation	Argentina	33%
PSYCHOLOGY	$200	Carl Jung popularized the use of these 2 terms to refer to outgoing & shy personality types	introvert & extrovert	33%
PSYCHOLOGY	$800	For his studies in the early 20th century, this Russian scientist is considered the pioneer of classical conditioning	Pavlov	33%
YOU GIVE ME FEMA	$200	Let's start with the basics: FEMA is an acronym for this government organization	the Federal Emergency Management Agency	33%
IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION	$200	"The Tributes" is part I of this 2008 book by Suzanne Collins	The Hunger Games	33%
"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC	$800	This plant is widely cultivated as feed, but can also be found growing wild	alfalfa	27%
YOU GIVE ME FEMA	$1000	FEMA warns, "While" these dikes "can help reduce the risk of flooding... they do not eliminate the risk"	levees	27%
FOOD TALK	$400	The flambe dessert called Bananas Foster was created at Brennan's Restaurant in this city in the 1950s	New Orleans	27%
FOOD TALK	$1000	A popular Thai dish, it's bite-sized skewered pieces of meat usually served with peanut sauce	satay	27%
FOOD TALK	$800	Any way you slice it, this iconic brand with its colorful balloons on the wrapper celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021	Wonder Bread	27%
PLAYING IN TRAFFIC	$800	In the U.K. a Pegasus crossing has a sign showing this animal & allows it to cross with pedestrians	a horse	13%
"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC	$600	It will neutralize an acid & it's from Arabic for "the ashes"	alkaline	13%
PLAYING IN TRAFFIC	$400	The traffic warning sign for playgrounds features this piece of equipment, with one kid higher than the other	a see-saw	13%
MUSIC HISTORY	$800	A Grateful Dead song plays fast & loose with the story of this heroic train engineer who died in 1900	Casey Jones	13%
MUSIC HISTORY	$1600	"The water took its victim's name", goes a Vampire Weekend song about this English explorer who was set adrift by his crew in Canada	Henry Hudson	13%
YOU GIVE ME FEMA	$800	FEMA declared major disasters due to wildfires in these 2 neighboring western states about a month apart in 2020	Oregon & California	13%
MUSIC HISTORY	$2000	Tom Russell's "Tonight We Ride" recounts General Pershing's 1916-17 pursuit of this Mexican guerrilla leader	Pancho Villa	13%
AROUND THE WORLD	$2000	The fourth-most populous of the British Isles is this holiday isle off the south coast of England	the Isle of Wight	13%
PSYCHOLOGY	$1000	In psychoanalysis, this term refers to a patient projecting emotions from a previous relationship onto the therapist	transference	13%
MUSIC HISTORY	$1200	A "Hamilton" number about the defeat of Adams & Burr is titled "The Election Of" this year	1800	7%
PLAYING IN TRAFFIC	$2000	A sleeping policeman is British slang for this traffic-slowing road feature	a speed bump	7%
C.G., I	$1200	You know I fronted Gnarls Barkley & coached on "The Voice", but did you know I sang backup on "Waterfalls"?	CeeLo Green	7%
C.G., I	$2000	In the 1970s I had a giant hit with the song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"	Crystal Gayle	7%
PLAYING IN TRAFFIC	$1200	In 2018, a German town where this rock star was once stationed, honored him on pedestrian lights	Elvis Presley	7%
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS	$1200	Adenoid as a descriptor refers to these, like the salivary ones	glands	7%
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS	$800	Connubial refers to these unions	marriages	7%
IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION	$600	The only graphic novel on Time magazine's list of 100 Best Novels of All Time was this one featuring Rorschach	Watchmen	7%
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS	$400	While you're looking out one of these, contemplate that the word fenestral refers to them	windows	7%
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS	$1600	Something described as sidereal is like one of these faraway things	a star	0%
SCULPTURE & STATUES	$1600	Sri Lanka boasts a 37-foot tall statue of this religious figure carved from a single block of limestone	Buddha	0%
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS	$2000	Cretaceous pertains to this soft rock	chalk	0%
C.G., I	$1600	I played Count Rugen & yes, I know your name is Inigo Montoya!	Christopher Guest	0%
C.G., I	$400	I can't believe a 1930s MGM casting director said, "My ears made me look like a giant sugar bowl"	Clark Gable	0%
C.G., I	$800	TriStar showed me a reported $600,000 for "Jerry Maguire"	Cuba Gooding Jr.	0%
AROUND THE WORLD	$800	This "diabolical" landmark climbs 1,200 feet above the Belle Fourche River Valley in the Black Hills	Devils Tower	0%
IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION	$1000	Ursula K. Le Guin delighted audiences with her tales of Ged, a wizard of this archipelago	Earthsea	0%
PSYCHOLOGY	$600	From the Greek for "under the ribs", it's the one-word alternate name for illness anxiety disorder	hypochondria	0%
SCULPTURE & STATUES	$800	Several cities have Lorenzo Quinn's hurricane-inspired sculptures of this not-so-maternal figure hurling a globe	Mother Nature	0%
FOOD TALK	$200	November 6th is National these Day; pass 'em around	nachos	0%
IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION	$800	Artificial intelligence has become self-aware & is not pleased in Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth & I Must" do this	scream	0%
SCULPTURE & STATUES	$400	Want to see a pair of Nikes almost 2,000 years old? Visit the Athens museum named for this hill	the Acropolis	0%
19th CENTURY LITERARY CREATURES	N/A	The author said the name of this 10-letter creature in his poem meant "the result of much excited discussion"	the Jabberwock	0%
SCULPTURE & STATUES	$2000	The only work to which Michelangelo signed his name is this sculpture today in St. Peter's	the Pietà	0%
SCULPTURE & STATUES	$1200	Statues of Dizzy Dean & Ozzie Smith are outside the stadium of this Major League Baseball team	the St. Louis Cardinals	0%
PLAYING IN TRAFFIC	$1600	To reduce congestion, if this ends in 1 or 2, you can't drive in parts of Manila on Monday	your license plate	0%