Statistics for Jeopardy #8501

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This quiz has been taken 27 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
ANATOMY CLASS	$200	Each of these organs has its own pleural cavity, not connected to the other	the lungs	64%
TRIPLE ALLITERATION	$400	Only around since the early 1990s, it takes you practically anywhere you want to go--on the Internet	the World Wide Web	57%
ANATOMY CLASS	$400	The orbital cavities contain these organs	the eyes	50%
TRIPLE ALLITERATION	$200	This pencil-&-paper game is also known as Xs & Os	tic-tac-toe	50%
KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES	$600	(Hi, I'm Nick Vasos.) In 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth, her hometown of Atchison, Kansas unveiled a 42,000-square foot earth work portrait of this globe-trotting heroine	Amelia Earhart	43%
THE MAN'S PEN NAME	$800	N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan	C.S. Lewis	43%
TRIPLE ALLITERATION	$800	Relationship of Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria	great-great-granddaughter	43%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$200	"The truth is out there"	The X-Files	43%
THE MAN'S PEN NAME	$200	"I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue"	Ben Franklin	36%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$800	"This tape will self-destruct in five seconds"	Mission: Impossible	36%
TRIPLE ALLITERATION	$600	The movie "A Christmas Story" used this canine phrase to up the ante in a big challenge	double dog dare	29%
ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER	$1600	On November 2, 1930 Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of this country	Ethiopia	29%
KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES	$800	(Hi, I'm Karli Ritter.) A highlight of the holiday season each year is the lighting of the mayor's 100-foot Christmas tree at Crown Center, opened in 1971 by the same Kansas City businessman who founded this card company	Hallmark	29%
THE MAN'S PEN NAME	$400	Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name	Lewis Carroll	29%
ANATOMY CLASS	$600	Cardiac & smooth are 2 main types of this tissue	muscle	29%
ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER	$800	After 10 years of construction, this waterway officially opened November 17, 1869	the Suez Canal	29%
2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH	$400	In a hopeful sense, a cloud is said to have one of these metallic features	a silver lining	21%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$1000	"Homey don't play that"	In Living Color	21%
KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES	$1000	(Hi, I'm Christel Bell.) In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O'Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige & Jackie Robinson	the Monarchs	21%
KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES	$400	(Hi, I'm Pat McGonigle.) Hollywood came to Kansas City to film a biopic starring Gary Sinese as this man; locations included Lee's Summit & of course, Independence	Truman	21%
KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES	$200	(Hi, I'm John Holt.) It was an exciting but sobering event in 2006 when Kansas City opened the USA's official museum of this event, with features for visitors to ponder like a field of 9,000 silk poppies	World War I	21%
TRIPLE ALLITERATION	$1000	One of this organization's missions is "calling out & addressing substandard marketplace behavior"	Better Business Bureau	14%
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS	$400	1997: Dirk Diggler, Rollergirl, Amber Waves	Boogie Nights	14%
THE MAN'S PEN NAME	$600	Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man	L. Frank Baum	14%
MISMATCHED PAIRS	$600	Arkansas capital & Jim Henson series featuring Red, Gobo & Boober	Little Rock & Fraggle Rock	14%
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS	$800	1970: Hot Lips, Trapper John, Painless Waldowski	MAS*H	14%
LET'S TAKE A TRIP	$1200	3 1/2-mile-long Nanjing Road is the main shopping street in this most populous Chinese city	Shanghai	14%
ANATOMY CLASS	$1000	The name of this bone that helps form the elbow is a Latin word for "elbow"	the ulna	14%
ANATOMY CLASS	$800	This long, slender fiber that projects from a nerve cell carries impulses away from the cell body	an axon	7%
FAMILY IS EVERYTHING	$400	Patented in 1835, it gave brass instruments a new largest family member	a tuba	7%
MISMATCHED PAIRS	$800	A nickname for the circus & a Tennessee state song	big top & "Rocky Top"	7%
LET'S TAKE A TRIP	$2000	Visit the megaliths of Carnac, then name your daughter after this region of Northwest France where you found them	Brittany	7%
2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH	$800	Brits use this "familial" name for the guy who brings presents every December	Father Christmas	7%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$400	"Suit up!"	How I Met Your Mother	7%
2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH	$1600	High levels of hGC & estrogen might be the cause of this malady that can actually strike pregnant women at any time of day	morning sickness	7%
FANTASTICAL CREATURES	$400	The Minotaur was the offspring of Cretan Queen Pasiphae & a white bull sent by this sea god	Poseidon	7%
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS	$1600	1992: Nice Guy Eddie, Mr. Orange, Mr. Brown	Reservoir Dogs	7%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$600	"Wubba lubba dub dub"	Rick and Morty	7%
ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER	$2000	On November 1, 1957 this 5-mile-long bridge opened to traffic, linking Michigan's Upper & Lower Peninsulas	the Mackinac Bridge	7%
THE MAN'S PEN NAME	$1000	A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker	Washington Irving	7%
FANTASTICAL CREATURES	$2000	The Talmud recounts how Adam was first created by God as one of these magical humanoids	a golem	0%
2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH	$1200	Meaning you're good at talking with others, this alliterative phrase begins with a plural word & ends with its singular form	a people person	0%
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS	$1200	1964: General "Buck" Turgidson, Colonel "Bat" Guano, Major "King" Kong	Doctor Strangelove	0%
1960s HISTORY	N/A	After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again	Eagle	0%
FANTASTICAL CREATURES	$800	Francois Rabelais wrote about the exploits of this voracious giant & his son Pantagruel	Gargantua	0%
MISMATCHED PAIRS	$1000	Scientist known for his study of light & actress who plays Maeve on "Westworld"	Isaac & Thandie Newton	0%
ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER	$400	He assumed the presidency November 22, 1963	Lyndon Baines Johnson	0%
MISMATCHED PAIRS	$400	Goose liver & Fat Tuesday	Mardi Gras & foie gras	0%
ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER	$1200	On Nov. 29, 1929 he commanded the first flight over the South Pole, for which he'd receive a promotion to rear admiral	(Richard) Byrd	0%
FANTASTICAL CREATURES	$1600	This sea monster Odysseus & his men must sail past has 6 heads	Scylla	0%
MISMATCHED PAIRS	$200	Place for your petrol & a reality show where Cuban & co. get pitched	Shark Tank gas tank	0%
FAMILY IS EVERYTHING	$800	The shell shape accounts for the name of the gastropod family Helicidae, including the common edible this	snail	0%
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS	$2000	1976: Coach Buttermaker, Ogilvie,Lupus	The Bad News Bears	0%
FAMILY IS EVERYTHING	$1200	Prominent Boston families like the Cabots & Winthrops have been dubbed with this collective name from a caste of India	the Brahmins	0%
FAMILY IS EVERYTHING	$1600	The black & yellow panels in the state flag seen here are a heraldic symbol of this family that founded Maryland	the Calverts	0%
FANTASTICAL CREATURES	$1200	George Langelaan wrote the Playboy magazine short story that inspired this film in which Seth Brundle transforms	"The Fly"	0%
FAMILY IS EVERYTHING	$2000	In 1478 the rival Pazzi family tried to overthrow this ruling family of an Italian city, including attacking them in a church	the Medici	0%
2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH	$2000	Home to wits like Dorothy Parker, the Algonquin Round Table had this other shapely name	the Vicious Circle	0%
LET'S TAKE A TRIP	$400	Shoot a selfie at this state's Rainbow Bridge, a natural stone arch with a 275-foot span & a height of 290 feet	Utah	0%
LET'S TAKE A TRIP	$800	If the "active" life is for you, climb one of these, like Mount Bromo in Indonesia or Mount Sakurajima in Japan	volcanoes	0%
LET'S TAKE A TRIP	$1600	Enjoy a performance by North America's longest-running ballet company, the Royal Ballet in this Manitoba city	Winnipeg	0%