Statistics for Jeopardy #8460

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This quiz has been taken 26 times
The average score is 12 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD?	$400	It can come before "mass" in physics, or "care" in the hospital if your condition is serious	critical	75%
NOVELS SINCE 1900	$200	23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel	The Devil Wears Prada	63%
OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS	$200	A general term for seawater, it's also a way to prep your holiday turkey	brine	56%
SOUVENIR	$200	The Museum of the American Revolution sells a toy this instrument played by 2 marchers in the "Spirit of '76" painting	the drum	56%
ASH TREE	$200	For many years ash wood was the preferred material in making these for folks like Joe DiMaggio	baseball bats	50%
SOUVENIR	$600	You can get anything from scarves to keychains with the tartan of this, a Scottish family group--find your own	clan	50%
SOUVENIR	$800	You never saw this ox-like animal of Asia with a cold, did you? So try the nice warm Mongolian socks made from its wool	a yak	44%
OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS	$1000	Term for the Pacific Ocean zone that forms a band as long as the equator & has about 75% of Earth's active volcanoes	Ring of Fire	44%
TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS	$200	Moe Szyslak	The Simpsons	44%
TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS	$400	Patrick Star	SpongeBob SquarePants	38%
HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT?	$800	The stock market crashes; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre goes down; Trotsky gets exiled from Russia... man, that's a rough year	1929	31%
NOVELS SINCE 1900	$1000	Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel	All Quiet on the Western Front	31%
ASH TREE	$400	Planted before 1911, "Old Granddad" is a landmark ash tree in the shade-hungry city of Modesto in this state	California	31%
"G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE	$400	I'd love to visit some of its many islands, like Andros & Naxose	Greece	31%
ANCIENT SYMBOLS	$400	Found in pagan lore & sometimes linked with evil, a five-pointed star in a circle is called this	pentagram	31%
ASH TREE	$600	These priests of ancient Britain carried wands made of ash because of the wood's straight grain	(the) Druids	31%
HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT?	$1200	John Kerry is nominated for president; the Spirit Rover lands on Mars	2004	25%
WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD?	$1000	2 ships about to hit each other are said to be on this alliterative path, so get the life jackets ready	a collision course	25%
SOUVENIR	$1000	You can bring home the Czech crystal called this type of glass, named after a historical region where Prague is located	Bohemian	25%
WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD?	$200	Venture capital is aka this capital; others have an "aversion" to the 4-letter word	risk	25%
"G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE	$800	One of the 7 holy cities of Hinduism, Varanasi has shrines, temples & palaces along the banks of this river	the Ganges	25%
HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT?	$1600	The American Revolution ends; Washington Irving begins; Russia annexes Crimea, not for the last time	1783	19%
HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT?	$2000	Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell	1804	19%
OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS	$400	Seen here is a U.S. government global map of world these; red are the fastest	current	19%
"G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE	$1200	This historic city lies at the junction of the same-named lake & the Rhone River	Geneva	19%
"G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE	$2000	A huge legendary being is said to have created this causeway of basalt columns jutting into the sea from Northern Ireland	Giant\'s Causeway	19%
TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS	$600	Lovey Howell	Gilligan\'s Island	19%
SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE	$400	Stephen Stills suggested, "If you can't be with the one you love, honey" do this	""Love The One You\'re With"	19%
TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS	$1000	Jacksonville Jaguars fan Jason Mendoza	The Good Place	19%
WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD?	$600	This very unsafe word that can mean "traitorous" also starts with "tr"	treacherous	19%
OLD SYNONYMS	$800	Sunrist was this direction	east	13%
TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS	$800	Grandma Huang	Fresh Off the Boat	13%
"G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE	$1600	The majestic Alhambra is in this Spanish province	Granada	13%
NOVELS SINCE 1900	$400	"Texasville" & "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021	(Larry) McMurtry	13%
OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS	$800	Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index"	Niño	13%
ANCIENT SYMBOLS	$2000	Incorporating three stylized swords, the khanda is a symbol of this religion of the Indian subcontinent	Sikhism	13%
SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE	$1200	Tammy Wynette sang, "You'll have bad times, & he'll have good times", but you should still do this	"Stand By Your Man"	13%
HEY, WHAT YEAR IS IT?	$400	The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin	1865	6%
ANCIENT SYMBOLS	$1200	The merkaba symbol takes its name from a Hebrew word meaning this ancient battle transport	chariot	6%
OLD SYNONYMS	$1600	Syrup of soot & ninny-broth were 17th century words for this; go-juice & mud came later	coffee	6%
SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE	$1600	Therapists may chafe at this Melissa Manchester song that advises, "Just keep it inside & learn how to hide your feelings"	"Don\'t Cry Out Loud"	6%
OLD SYNONYMS	$1200	If you saw one of these, you might've called it a haunt, a shade or a wraith	ghost	6%
LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS	$800	Suzanne Valadon worked as this for Renoir & Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting her own works	model	6%
SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE	$2000	Corinne Bailey Rae says to be yourself: "Girl", do this, "Tell me your favorite song, you go ahead, let your hair down"	"Put Your Records On"	6%
SOUVENIR	$400	"The Golden Door" is a spinner ornament to remind you of this great American landmark	the Statue of Liberty	6%
NOVELS SINCE 1900	$800	There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White	The Sword in the Stone	6%
OLD SYNONYMS	$400	Ahoy! It's a cethegrande or spouter, this mammal	whale	6%
ASH TREE	$1000	In Norse myth, the squirrel Ratatoskr carries messages up & down this ash tree that supports the world	Yggdrasil	6%
LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM	N/A	In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series	a snake	0%
ANCIENT SYMBOLS	$800	The 8-armed cross has been associated in Christianity with this often earliest in life of the seven sacraments	baptism	0%
OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS	$600	Underneath all that sediment, the ocean floor is primarily made of the pillow type of this substance	basalt (lava)	0%
LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS	$400	Thomas Hovenden concentrated on everyday people like "The Village" this worker, a subject of 19th century poetry as well	blacksmith	0%
LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS	$1600	Jean Metzinger has been called the third artist in this movement & his 1912 treatise on it was one of the first	cubism	0%
NOVELS SINCE 1900	$600	The name of this realtor & Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster	(George) Babbitt	0%
WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD?	$800	It can refer to one who is fearful & lacking self-confidence, or a password that can be easily hacked	insecure (weak)	0%
LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS	$2000	Seen here, the work of Alphonse Legros may have influenced this man's most famous portrait; they were friends until an 1867 fight	(James) Whistler	0%
ASH TREE	$800	Ash trees are home to more than 500 species of these symbiotic organisms, including old man's beard	lichen	0%
OLD SYNONYMS	$2000	An erring star or a wanderer was one of these	planet	0%
ANCIENT SYMBOLS	$1600	The symbol seen here is a representation of this loud avian of Native American mythology	thunderbird	0%
LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS	$1200	Meindert Hobbema is best known for the 1689 work that has two of these optical points--one down the road & one in the sky	vanishing points	0%
SONGS THAT GIVE ADVICE	$800	John Mayer urged "fathers" to be good to these people; they "will love like you do"	(your) daughters	0%