Statistics for Jeopardy #8447

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

Answer Stats

Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
INTERNET BUSINESSES	$200	Today the largest online retailer in the U.S., when it began in 1995, it sold only books	Amazon	100%
GEOGRAPHY	$400	By area the second-largest country in Africa is the Democratic Republic of this	the Congo	100%
HOMONYMS	$600	The tilt of an aircraft when turning & the land alongside a river	bank	71%
GEOGRAPHY	$600	At only about 250 feet, this tiny state has the lowest high point of any country in Europe	Vatican City	71%
HOMONYMS	$400	Track of turbulence behind a boat & to cease to sleep	wake	71%
HOMONYMS	$200	A serving dish & to throw towards the pins	bowl	64%
HOMONYMS	$800	A lively folk dance & a cylinder on which film is wound	a reel	57%
GEOGRAPHY	$800	With "Singing Sands" & a crescent-shaped lake, the oasis of Dunhuang is where Asia's Taklamakan desert meets this one	the Gobi	57%
INTERNET BUSINESSES	$800	This search engine began as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"	Yahoo!	57%
1876	$400	3 years after its benefactor's death, this Baltimore university opened its doors	Johns Hopkins	43%
1876	$600	After an expedition was sent to subdue Native Americans led by Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse, this battle ensued on June 25	Little Bighorn	36%
A BORING CATEGORY	$800	This 2-word dental procedure for pulp damage starts with clearing bad tissue using a drill--or even faster, a laser	a root canal	29%
A BORING CATEGORY	$600	In "There Will Be Blood", this actor uses a straw analogy regarding oil drilling: "I... drink... your... milkshake!"	Daniel Day-Lewis	29%
1876	$800	On August 2 Wild Bill Hickok played his last hand in this town in the Dakota Territory	Deadwood	29%
A BORING CATEGORY	$400	The emerald ash borer, a bark-eating type of this insect, has killed 40 million trees just in Michigan	a beetle	21%
TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES	$1200	"Bachelor Party", "The Wedding", "How Lily Stole Christmas"	How I Met Your Mother	21%
INTERNET BUSINESSES	$600	William Shatner has been a longtime advertising pitchman for this site that helps find discounts for travel	Priceline	21%
GEOGRAPHY	$200	The widest part of this river seen here is 18 miles at its mouth between Whitstable & Foulness Point	the Thames	21%
1876	$200	In 1876 the Centennial Exposition opened in Philadelphia & this "Centennial State" joined the Union	Colorado	14%
TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES	$400	"Lorelai's First Cotillion", "That Damn Donna Reed"	Gilmore Girls	14%
1876	$1000	Alexander Graham Bell beat this rival by just a few hours in filing a patent for the telephone	Gray	14%
POETRY	$800	Sara Teasdale mentions Lesbos in her poem named for this other female poet	Sappho	14%
INTERNET BUSINESSES	$400	This combo of 2 satellite radio companies owns the Internet music service Pandora	SiriusXM	14%
3 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS	$1200	A long passage or hallway from which entrances lead into rooms	a corridor	7%
A BORING CATEGORY	$1000	One of the many uses of this drilling tool is making the hole to go ice fishing	an auger	7%
WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS	$200	Kids will love this cartoon bison whose name honors the actor who plays the movies' Hulk	Mark Buffalo	7%
POETRY	$1600	This Chicago poet wrote that "The fog comes on little cat feet"	Sandburg	7%
TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES	$1600	"Old Friends", "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia"	The Golden Girls	7%
3 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS	$2000	This wide-trunked African tree can live over a thousand years	a baobab	0%
HOMONYMS	$1000	A sharp protruding edge & a fit of emotion, like a crying one	a jag	0%
AMERICAN NICKNAMES	$400	Arkansas columnist Paul Greenberg first used the nickname "Slick Willie" for this man in 1980	Bill Clinton	0%
A BORING CATEGORY	$200	This "colorful" company says its GC1800 cordless drill's "keyless chuck makes bit changing a breeze"	Black+Decker	0%
WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS	$400	This very tall, talkative African gray bird is a tribute to a comic seen on "Everybody Loves Raymond" & "Single Parents"	Brad Parrot	0%
COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS	$2000	Winning a 1945 Pulitzer for music put an "Appalachian Spring" in this composer's step	Copland	0%
AMERICAN NICKNAMES	$800	"The Great Orator" was a nickname for this 19th century New Hampshire-born congressman, senator & Secretary of State	Daniel Webster	0%
POETRY	$2000	A sonnet by John Donne begins with these 4 words & continues, "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful"	Death be not proud	0%
COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS	$1200	In 1609 he presented his eight-powered telescope to the Venetian Senate; he got life tenure & doubled his salary	Galileo	0%
3 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS	$800	From an innocent type of person who could be duped with little effort, this adjective means easily fooled or deceived	gullible	0%
POETRY	$1200	Eliot's poem about these title men says, "We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw"	Hollow Men	0%
AMERICAN NICKNAMES	$1200	Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling"	Jack London	0%
WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS	$600	Based on the actor who was trying to forget Sarah Marshall, he's the same kind of dog as Snoopy	Jason Beagle	0%
AMERICAN NICKNAMES	$2000	Legendary folks blues singer & guitarist Huddie Ledbetter, seen here, was better known by this nickname	Lead Belly	0%
INTERNET BUSINESSES	$1000	Robert Shapiro co-founded this online law service for wills, incorporating & other needs	legalzoom.com	0%
3 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS	$400	The moment a rocket leaves the launchpad	liftoff	0%
AMERICAN NICKNAMES	$1600	The 1930s politician known as "Kingfish" was also known as the "Dictator of" this state	Louisiana	0%
TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES	$800	"For Immediate Release", "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"	Mad Men	0%
GEOGRAPHY	$1000	This pair of "larger" & "smaller" islands are in a group about 100 miles off the east coast of Spain	Mallorca & Minorca	0%
COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS	$1600	Dan Flavin was a pioneer of this art style whose name says it tries to do more with less	minimalism	0%
POETRY	$400	This poet wrote "Adonais" on the death of his friend John Keats	Percy Bysshe Shelley	0%
PARTS OF THE OCEANS	$400	As plant life there can get sunlight, the epipelagic zone is where this biological process happens	photosynthesis	0%
WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS	$1000	Play with the first name of TV's Randall Pearson to get this new cartoon icon, a bird such as a mynah	Starling K. Brown	0%
3 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS	$1600	This adjective means "equivalent", as in "Sir, the accusation you have made is ____ to libel!"	tantamount	0%
PARTS OF THE OCEANS	$800	Near the Antillean Arc, the Milwaukee Depth is the deepest point in this ocean	the Atlantic	0%
PARTS OF THE OCEANS	$2000	Galveston Bay is an example of this type of body of water where saltwater meets fresh	the estuary	0%
PARTS OF THE OCEANS	$1600	The Agulhas & East Madagascar Currents flow in this ocean	the Indian Ocean	0%
COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS	$400	In 1916 George Washington Carver published "How to Grow" this: "and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption"	the peanut	0%
WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS	$800	The star of "Justified" needs to get a trunk & tusks to become this character	Timothy Elephant	0%
PARTS OF THE OCEANS	$1200	Depressions called "deep-sea" these usually form where tectonic plates meet	trenches	0%
COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS	$800	You're listening to the most famous work of this Italian Baroque composer	Vivaldi	0%
TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES	$2000	"Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship", "She Was Killed by Space Junk"	Watchmen	0%
THE 20th CENTURY	N/A	The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea	Yalta	0%