Statistics for Jeopardy #8449

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This quiz has been taken 54 times
The average score is 14 of 59

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
AROUND THE WORLD	$200	Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of Chiapas, the southernmost state in this nation	Mexico	83%
DOWN TO "RTH"	$200	It precedes Pole, Sea & Star	North	79%
AROUND THE WORLD	$600	Where's the beef? One place is this city of 1.6 million on Osaka Bay	Kobe	71%
DOWN TO "RTH"	$400	Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking	a hearth	63%
IT'S A TRAP!	$200	These literary siblings find a house with "a roof made of cake, & the windows were made of clear sugar" but ... it's a trap!	Hansel & Gretel	63%
IT'S A TRAP!	$400	Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second	the Venus flytrap	58%
AROUND THE WORLD	$400	These 2 largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of Italy	Sicily & Sardinia	50%
HOWARD'S END	$200	In 2015 this radio host ended his time judging "America's Got Talent"	Stern	50%
DOWN TO "RTH"	$600	Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upper one or the lower one?	a berth	46%
IT'S A TRAP!	$1000	The 2010 collapse of a gold & copper mine would end up trapping 33 workers for 69 days in this country	Chile	46%
3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES	$800	It can mean the self or conceit	ego	38%
DOWN TO "RTH"	$800	It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist	girth	38%
LIT BITS	$200	Emily Bronte paid 50 pounds to have this novel published in 1847	Wuthering Heights	38%
EYE-DEOLOGY	$800	Floaters & reduced peripheral vision can indicate that this membrane has become detached	the retina	33%
HOWARD'S END	$800	The very brief marriage of Henry VIII to this woman ended in 1542	Catherine Howard	29%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1000	Dagestan is between the Caspian Sea on its east & this independence-seeking Russian Republic to its west	Chechnya	29%
HOWARD'S END	$400	As of 2021 the once-vast empire of restaurants named for this Howard is down to a single one in Lake George, N.Y.	Howard Johnson	29%
MLB MASCOTS	$200	Wally the Green Monster & his sister Tessie	the Boston Red Sox	29%
IT'S A TRAP!	$800	In Greek myth Minos used the labyrinth designed by this man to imprison him & his son Icarus; the 2 escaped, at a price	Daedalus	25%
DOWN TO "RTH"	$1000	In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde	firth	25%
EYE-DEOLOGY	$400	Dehydration of this transparent eye part can cause vision changes; swab the lower lid to stimulate tears & hydrate it	the cornea	25%
3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES	$2000	It's an atom with a negative or positive charge	an ion	21%
HOWARD'S END	$1000	In 1939 it was Hodgkin's disease, not King Tut's curse, that did in this archaeologist	Carter	21%
EYE-DEOLOGY	$1600	The lens loses clearness with this eye disease noted for a gray-white film behind the pupil	cataracts	21%
EYE-DEOLOGY	$1200	Known by a 5-letter acronym, it's the most popular vision correction procedure performed in the United States	LASIK	21%
AROUND THE WORLD	$800	This ecologically vital region also called the Selva reaches its northern limits in Colombia & Venezuela	the Amazon rainforest	21%
LIT BITS	$800	It's Mary Norton's 1952 children's classic about a family living under the floorboards	The Borrowers	21%
MLB MASCOTS	$600	Ace, a colorful bird whose genus name is Cyanocitta	Toronto Blue Jays	21%
MLB MASCOTS	$400	A fuzzy green guy named Southpaw, born on the South Side	White Sox	21%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$1200	The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. P	a sundial	17%
3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES	$400	The wall seen here is covered in it	ivy	17%
MLB MASCOTS	$800	Billy, who measures 44 inches from the tip of his bill to the tip of his back fin	Marlins	17%
3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES	$1200	Physiologically speaking, it's plural for egg cells	ova	17%
EYE-DEOLOGY	$2000	The eyeballs may protrude abnormally in people with Graves disease, a disorder of this gland	thyroid	17%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$800	Ptolemy & Antigonus were generals of this man whose empire was divided up after his death in 323 B.C.	Alexander the Great	13%
MARK YOUR CALENDARS	$400	Introduced in 1582, this calendar wasn't adopted by the Brits until 1752 & by the Russians until 1918	Gregorian	13%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$2000	This queen of Egypt, Akhenaton's wife, was a symbol of fertility, bolstered by the 6 daughters she bore	Nefertiti	13%
MLB MASCOTS	$1000	A lime green parrot hatched in 1979	Pirates	13%
IT'S A TRAP!	$600	The now-heavily memed Admiral Ackbar discovers, "It's a trap!" in this 1983 film	Return of the Jedi	13%
SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!	$1200	555 passengers can fly comfortably aboard the A380 from this European manufacturer	Airbus	8%
LIT BITS	$400	A 12-line poem from 1913 ends with "but only God can make a" this	a tree	8%
3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES	$1600	Guy Picciotto & his band Rites of Spring pioneered this subgenre of alternative music	emo	8%
LIT BITS	$600	In the 1920s this novelist ran the University of Mississippi post office... until they made him quit	Faulkner	8%
HOWARD'S END	$600	Some cried fowl when this Marvel comic book hero flew away in 1979, but he would return	Howard the Duck	8%
MARK YOUR CALENDARS	$2000	North Korea uses the Juche calendar, counting from the birthdate of this man in 1912	Kim Il-sung	8%
MARK YOUR CALENDARS	$1200	Many of the days of the week bear the name of Germanic gods, but this one is from this name of a Roman deity	Saturday	8%
SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!	$800	The wingspan of the royal species of this seabird of the South Pacific can reach more than 10 feet	albatross	4%
1970s MOVIE SCENES	N/A	Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out	Alien	4%
SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!	$2000	2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent	Australia	4%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$1600	Secretary to emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & wrote "The 12" these rulers	Caesars	4%
"MM" POP	$800	Lionel Richie played some sax but also "ranked" as a singer for this hit-making R&B group	Commodores	4%
"MM" POP	$1600	This "planet-devouring" band went straight for "The Middle" in a 2001 tune	Jimmy Eat World	4%
"MM" POP	$2000	Till Lindemann is the frontman of this metal band that doubles the "M" of a U.S. Air Force base in Germany	Rammstein	4%
MARK YOUR CALENDARS	$1600	Messidor was the tenth month of the calendar associated with this event at the end of the 18th century	the French Revolution	4%
LIT BITS	$1000	This author, Harvard class of 1852, never exactly wore rags himself but loved the "to riches" part	Alger	0%
SOMETHING BIG IS COMING!	$1600	The term "juggernaut" comes from a massive vehicle pulled by thousands of pilgrims to honor this avatar of Vishnu	Jagannath (Krishna)	0%
"MM" POP	$400	This rap artist got his stage name due to his resemblance to a baseball home run king	MC Hammer	0%
MARK YOUR CALENDARS	$800	Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.	the creation of the Earth	0%
"MM" POP	$1200	First name of 1960s singers Roe & James	Tommy	0%