Statistics for Jeopardy #8444

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This quiz has been taken 36 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
IT'S LIGHT OUT	$200	Proverbially, "It's always darkest just before" this, but when you think about it... not really	dawn	62%
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$600	This Aberdeen, Washington local ran track & played drums in his school band before becoming the face of grunge	Kurt Cobain	62%
WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL?	$200	The "B" in G.B. Shaw	Bernard	57%
LAW SLAW	$1000	Prices go up or down based on the law of these 2 things regarding the amount of goods available versus the desire for them	supply & demand	57%
& AWAY WE GO!	$400	A visit to this New Jersey capital will include a look at the Douglass House, site of a council of war held by Washington in 1777	Trenton	57%
DOUBLE THAT T	$400	Not on time & hot espresso with steamed milk	late & latte	52%
& AWAY WE GO!	$600	Let's check out this temple complex in Cambodia, built by King Suryavarman II in the 1100s	Angkor Wat	48%
& AWAY WE GO!	$200	We'll get sporty in this nation with a 1964 Olympic site at Innsbruck & a Formula 1 race at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg	Austria	48%
LAW SLAW	$800	Sir Isaac Newton's 3 laws of this laid the foundation for classical mechanics	motion	48%
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$400	As a high schooler in Freehold, New Jersey, he played with a group called the Castiles	Bruce Springsteen	43%
IT'S LIGHT OUT	$600	In a 10-fight run from 1985 to '86, this heavyweight had 9 first-round knockouts; the 10th came in round 2	Mike Tyson	43%
LAW SLAW	$400	Rule by military authority, it was declared in Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871	martial law	38%
WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL?	$400	The "J" in J.K. Rowling	Joanne	33%
DOUBLE THAT T	$200	1.0567 quarts & scattered rubbish on the street	liter & litter	33%
& AWAY WE GO!	$800	Though this West African country has a word for "lion" in its name, it's the chimpanzees we're going there to see	Sierra Leone	33%
WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL?	$600	The "F" in F. Scott Fitzgerald	Francis	29%
LAW SLAW	$200	Under the law of this habitat, there are no rules & the strongest will win out	the law of the jungle	29%
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$200	We will always love this late, great singer who got her first record offer while still in high school	Whitney Houston	29%
THOMAS PAINE	$400	Paine apprenticed to his father for 7 years making these tight-fitting, shaping undergarments for women	corsets	24%
THOMAS PAINE	$1200	This Philadelphian met Paine in London & helped him emigrate to America by giving him letters of introduction	Ben Franklin	19%
WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL?	$800	The "B" in W.B. Yeats	Butler	19%
& AWAY WE GO!	$1000	We'll jet to the middle of a vast desert & find ourselves in this wealthy capital with a name meaning "a place of gardens"	Riyadh	19%
IT'S LIGHT OUT	$400	The electric industry uses the standard abbreviation POCBS, power outage caused by these rodents	squirrels	19%
TIME FOR SCIENCE	$800	The Supreme Court ruled you cannot patent natural genes, like the BRCA1 & BRCA2 ones named for this type of cancer	breast cancer	14%
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$1000	No fooling, this punk poet was voted her class clown	Patti Smith	14%
SCHOOL OF ROCK	$800	Though his life was tragically cut short, the legacy of this California kid, the first Chicano rock star, lives on	Ritchie Valens	14%
TIME FOR SCIENCE	$400	This large colorful mammal's heart rate was first recorded in 2019: as low as 2 bpm while diving, up to 37 bpm when coming up for air	the blue whale	14%
-OLOGIES	$800	The etymology of entomology reveals that it's the study of these creatures	insects	10%
DOUBLE THAT T	$800	Jumped forward from one foot to the other in ballet & jumped onto a 747 & took off	jetéd & jetted	10%
BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE	$400	According to this 1st gospel, at the moment of the crucifixion, bodies of saints came back to life & walked out of their graves	Matthew	10%
IT'S LIGHT OUT	$800	Hypnos was the Greek god of sleep; he was Hypnos' son who brought men their dreams, & maybe a way out of the Matrix as well	Morpheus	10%
BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE	$1600	King Saul gets a witch to summon this Hebrew prophet back to life for encouragement, but he only foretells doom for Saul	Samuel	10%
BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE	$800	Before bringing Jairus' daughter back to life, Jesus tells her weeping family she is not dead, but is only this	sleeping	10%
-OLOGIES	$400	Rhinology isn't the study of the Rhine River, but of this body part & its related diseases	the nose	10%
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING	$400	The land of Oz, before & after Dorothy dropped in	Wicked	10%
TIME FOR SCIENCE	$1600	Percival Lowell thought he saw these on the surface of Venus--some think it was a reflection of the blood vessels in his eye	canals	5%
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING	$1200	The small village of Anatevka in Russia	Fiddler on the Roof	5%
WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL?	$1000	The "S" in T.S. Eliot	Stearns	5%
-OLOGIES	$2000	From the Greek for "death", it's the study of death & dying	thanatology	5%
IT'S LIGHT OUT	$1000	How about some applause for this light-killing device that debuted in 1984, one of Time magazine's top 100 all-time gadgets	the Clapper	5%
THOMAS PAINE	$1600	A "Captain America" movie got its title by contrasting this Paine phrase meaning someone who only fights when it's pleasant outside	the summer soldier	5%
TIME FOR SCIENCE	$1200	Born hearing-impaired in 1653, Joseph Sauveur studied sound vibrations & coined this word for the science he pioneered	acoustics	0%
ARCHITECTS	$1600	Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Art in this, his native country, is a landmark of modern architecture	Brazil	0%
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING	$800	A junkyard on the night of the Jellicle Ball	Cats	0%
THOMAS PAINE	$800	Paine wrote, "I do not believe in" the Catholic or the Protestant creeds; "my own mind is my own" this	church	0%
-OLOGIES	$1200	Malacology is the study of mollusks; this is the specific study of mollusk shells	conchology	0%
LAW SLAW	$600	An office that monitors this law ensuring protection for authors' rights is part of the Library of Congress	copyright law	0%
ARCHITECTS	$1200	In the 1600s, Inigo Jones introduced town planning to London by creating this "Garden", considered London's first city square	Covent Garden	0%
DOUBLE THAT T	$1000	More attractive & a single-masted sailing vessel	cuter & cutter	0%
DOUBLE THAT T	$600	Bestowed excessive love & the line on which you sign	dotted doted	0%
BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE	$2000	Before he was taken up into heaven in a whirlwind, this prophet revived the son of a widow he was staying with	Elijah	0%
ARCHITECTS	$400	Pioneering California architect Julia Morgan designed several residences for this man, including his San Simeon Castle	Hearst	0%
TIME FOR SCIENCE	$2000	In addition to its acidity, one reason honey doesn't spoil is that an enzyme in bees helps produce this compound, H2O2, a germicide	hydrogen peroxide	0%
ARCHITECTS	$800	Here is this architect outside his famous pyramid	I.M. Pei	0%
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING	$2000	Mushnik's skid row florists	Little Shop of Horrors	0%
BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE	$1200	When Eutychus dies after falling out of a window listening to a sermon, the speaker, this apostle, brings him back to life	Paul	0%
-OLOGIES	$1600	It's the branch of criminology dealing with prison management & criminal rehabilitation	penology	0%
ARCHITECTS	$2000	Appropriately, this French-born man's grave at Arlington overlooks the city beyond, which he designed & laid out	Pierre L\'Enfant	0%
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING	$1600	In & around the royal palace in Bangkok in the 1860s	The King and I	0%
THOMAS PAINE	$2000	Paine defended the French Revolution in this work that was a response to Edmund Burke's hostile "Reflections"	the Rights of Man	0%
BOOK CHARACTERS	N/A	Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how"	Wilbur	0%