Statistics for Jeopardy #8529

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This quiz has been taken 22 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN	$200	A neutral zone separates Spain from this territory & peninsula, a gateway to the Med that always knows how to rock	Gibraltar	69%
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN	$400	Stretch your legs for a walk around this entire country; okay, its area is about 500 acres, but still...! Then hit its casino	Monaco	69%
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN	$600	Let's check out the 88-foot Pompey's Pillar, dedicated around 297 A.D. in this Egyptian city, but we're a tad late on its lighthouse	Alexandria	62%
ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW	$200	Dangle & hoop are types of these but I like your choice of chandelier	earrings	62%
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN	$1000	Enjoy the days & knights of this nation in the Central Med composed of 5 islands including Cominotto	Malta	54%
PROF TALK	$200	Profs definitely want good "P.R.". this process by which academic experts referee papers	peer review	54%
PROF TALK	$1000	In 1880 Harvard became the first to grant these marvelously restful paid leaves of absence	sabbatical	54%
PROF TALK	$400	Remember grad school & getting the yearly payment called this--appropriately, from Latin for "alms"?	stipend	54%
IN RECENT YEARS	$400	The 2016 Summer Olympics were held in this South American city	Rio	46%
ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW	$600	The Donnersmarck emerald & diamond this, a semi-circular crown, went for $12.7 million in 2011 & it would set off your eyes	a tiara	38%
IN RECENT YEARS	$800	In 2010 Apple released this tablet & sold more than 3 million in the first 80 days	iPad	38%
ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW	$400	You profs once wore this flat-topped cap; now you see it on celebrating soon-to-be ex-students once or twice a year	a mortarboard	31%
WHAT DOES IT PREVENT?	$1000	Ladybugs & lacewings: these garden menaces also known as plant lice	aphids	31%
IN RECENT YEARS	$1200	David Cameron is seen here with this home secretary, his successor as prime minister	Theresa May	31%
WHAT DOES IT PREVENT?	$200	Higher-octane gasoline: this "kn"oise, partner of the dreaded pinging	knocking	23%
WHAT DOES IT PREVENT?	$400	Bounce dryer sheets, symbolized by a tee shirt & a lightning bolt	static cling	23%
COLLEGE SPORTS	$200	In 2021 LSU's men's team claimed the outdoor track & field NCAA title, aided by Terrance Laird's time of 10.05 in this event	the 100 meter	23%
AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN	$800	This citv can be said to be twice on the Mediterranean coast; one as a world capital, the other in Lebanon	Tripoli	23%
IN RECENT YEARS	$2000	In 2018 it was reported that this British firm had accessed the personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users	Cambridge Analytica	15%
LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES	$200	"Thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!"; he should've cut bait & run, as his harpoon issues got much worse the next day	(Captain) Ahab	15%
DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA	$400	It's a Mads Mads Mads Mads Mikkelsen world; the doctor will eat you now	Hannibal	15%
STATE SONGS	$800	With words by King David Kalakaua, its state song urges, "Be loyal to your chief"	Hawaii	15%
WHAT DOES IT PREVENT?	$800	A living trust: this court procedure to carry out the terms of a will	probate	15%
IN RECENT YEARS	$1600	In 2015 this disease also known as German measles was declared eradicated in the Americas	rubella	15%
STATE SONGS	$400	Lyrics from this Louisiana state song include "You make me happy when skies are gray"	"You Are My Sunshine"	15%
SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D	$800	To arrest a criminal suspect	apprehend	8%
ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW	$1000	Let's go one this hat seen here over the line, & chef up something delicious	a toque	8%
DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA	$1200	Simon & Daphne, streaming steamily; episodes included "The Duke & I" & "Art of the Swoon"	Bridgerton	8%
SCIENCE VOCABULARY	$800	Atoms share a pair of electrons in this type of chemical bond	covalent	8%
SCIENCE VOCABULARY	$1200	"Specific" this is the ratio of a substance's density to that of a standard substance, often water	gravity	8%
WHAT DOES IT PREVENT?	$600	The compound levonorgestrel, in products like Mirena	pregnancy	8%
YIDDISH THEATER	$2000	To Marlon Brando, "Stella" also meant this woman from a Yiddish theater dynasty, the teacher who changed his life	Stella Adler	8%
DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA	$1600	Catherine, dressing to empress; we're stanning Fanning	The Great	8%
COLLEGE SPORTS	$600	Winners of this prestigious honor introduced in 1935 include Steve Spurrier, Barry Sanders & Jameis Winston	the Heisman Trophy	8%
LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES	$800	He makes the mistake of trusting O'Brien, which leads to a harsh re-education at the Ministry of Love	Winston (Smith)	8%
SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D	$1200	In 2021 4 astronauts landed in the Gulf of Mexico in the USA's first nighttime one of these since 1968	a (crewed) splashdown	0%
PROF TALK	$600	A PhD candidate who's finished all the coursework but not that last bit of writing is an ABD, this	all but dissertation	0%
SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D	$400	A son or daughter by marriage	a stepchild	0%
LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES	$400	James, don't break up a family's baseball game & try to kill this girl! Edward will be mad & it just won't end well for you!	Bella Swan	0%
SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D	$1600	Squid & octopuses are members of this class of marine mollusks	cephalopods	0%
COLLEGE SPORTS	$400	With stars like Maya Moore, the Huskies of this U. have won over 90% of their games & 11 national titles in women's basketball since '95	Connecticut (UConn)	0%
SCIENCE VOCABULARY	$400	From a word meaning "insect", it's the study of bugs	entymology	0%
SCIENCE VOCABULARY	$1600	In physics, a body at rest is in "static" this if all the forces acting on it cancel each other out	equilibrium	0%
PROF TALK	$800	This word for a group of associated professors can also mean a natural power or ability	faculty	0%
LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES	$600	She a) married Roger Chillingworth & b) didn't just head off for Europe with Dimmesdale as soon as she heard the word "prison"	Hester Prynne	0%
YIDDISH THEATER	$800	A surprise New York hit in 2018 was a Yiddish-language "Fiddler on the Roof"; this song becomes "Ven Ikh Bin A Rotshild"	"If I Were A Rich Man"	0%
YIDDISH THEATER	$400	David Moishele is an aging wealthy merchant with problematic children in the 1892 play "The Yiddish" this Shakespeare tragedy	King Lear	0%
ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW	$800	Spikes of hair framing the face are called these spikes in tribute to a lady of the harbor	liberty spikes	0%
LIT CHARACTERS' BAD CHOICES	$1000	True love wins out, but he wasn't smart to let his friend Mr. Darcy talk him into leaving Jane Bennet in the lurch	Mr. Charles Bingley	0%
STATE SONGS	$1200	This state has an official song & several honorary ones including "Live Free Or Die" & "The Old Man Of The Mountain"	New Hampshire	0%
SCIENCE VOCABULARY	$2000	This slow wobbling of the Earth's axis of rotation completes a cycle every 26,000 years or so	precession	0%
YIDDISH THEATER	$1200	Yiddish theater's beginnings are associated with this Jewish holiday involving dressing up in costume	Purim	0%
YIDDISH THEATER	$1600	The play "Chantzhe in Amerika" is about a woman wanting to learn this modern skill; "How I Learned to" do it is a non-Yiddish play	she wanted to drive	0%
STATE SONGS	$2000	One of Colorado's state songs is where these wildflowers grow	the columbines	0%
1950s PUBLIC WORKS	N/A	Dubbed "The Greatest Construction Show on Earth", when completed it connected Minnesota to Montreal	the St. Lawrence Seaway	0%
COLLEGE SPORTS	$1000	Mia Hamm won 4 national soccer titles with this southern school	the University of North Carolina	0%
STATE SONGS	$1600	The state song of Indiana is titled "On The Banks Of" this river "Far Away"	the Wabash	0%
DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA	$800	On since 2010 but cast job security? Iffy; Michael Rooker was Norman Reedus' brother, remember that?	The Walking Dead	0%
SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D	$2000	These sacred writings of Hinduism explain the fundamental tenets of the religion	Upanishads	0%
DESCRIBING THE TV DRAMA	$2000	An island resort is not quite paradise; Jennifer Coolidge deals with the ashes of a relationship	White Lotus	0%
COLLEGE SPORTS	$800	"On", this Big Ten school! coached by "Miracle on Ice" team member Mark Johnson, the women's hockey team won the 2021 NCAA title	Wisconsin	0%