Statistics for Jeopardy #8557

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This quiz has been taken 25 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
MEDICAL HISTORY	$200	Daniel Fahrenheit invented an alcohol one of these in 1709 & the mercury one 5 years later	a thermometer	69%
MEDICAL HISTORY	$600	In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic	penicillin	69%
YOU PLAYED YOURSELF	$800	David Bowie judged the walkoff between male models played by Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson in this comedy	Zoolander	44%
I WANT 2 B	$1000	It is both a scarf bought in Moscow & a grandmother who might wear one	babushka	38%
YOU PLAYED YOURSELF	$1000	Keep up! In "Ocean's 12" she played Tess, who in a meta turn, faked being her to help in a heist	Julia Roberts	38%
NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY	$200	Hey, this Ivy League school, what exit? It moved from Elizabeth to Newark before finding its final home in 1756	Princeton	38%
I WANT 2 B	$200	Poor Bart Simpson has been writing on one after school for over 30 years	a blackboard	31%
INTERNATIONAL CARS	$1600	Tata Motors is this Asian nation's largest auto company	India	31%
MEDICAL HISTORY	$1000	Ernst Gräfenberg developed this birth control device that's inserted into the uterus	an IUD	25%
A PART OF IT	$400	Google is this to Alphabet, this being one company owned by another	a subsidiary	25%
I WANT 2 B	$800	This modern jazz style originated in the 1940s	bebop	25%
YOU PLAYED YOURSELF	$400	Felicity Huffman lent her talents to "FJBA" ("Felicity Huffman's Booty Academy"), a TV show within this animated "equine" TV show	BoJack Horseman	25%
INTERNATIONAL CARS	$400	This Italian company took over Chrysler in 2009	Fiat	25%
YOU PLAYED YOURSELF	$200	Told "My dad died about 2 years ago", this man with "Curb" appeal says, "Don't you think the sorry window has closed on that?"	Larry David	25%
THE MUPPET MOVIE	$600	Saldana & Kazan, acting the parts	Zoe	25%
A PART OF IT	$200	Vodka, cranberry juice, lime juice, triple sec & an orange twist! How worldly, or rather, how this, the name of the drink	a cosmopolitan	19%
NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY	$800	You can land on St. James Place, Pacific Avenue or Vermont Avenue in this oceanfront resort city	Atlantic City	19%
MEDICAL HISTORY	$400	It took a while for people to become "stuck on" this brand introduced in 1921, because initially they were 18" long	Band-Aid	19%
THE MUPPET MOVIE	$800	Blyleven & Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball	Bert	19%
NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY	$600	This singer who is Jersey all the way brought Richie Sambora into his self-named band	Bon Jovi	19%
DEEP CUTS	$800	"Viva La Vida" was the title track for this band in 2008; the album also featured a visit to "Cemeteries Of London"	Coldplay	19%
THE MUPPET MOVIE	$400	Hello, Cleveland! & Hello, anti-tax activist Norquist too!	Grover	19%
MURALS	$400	Following his & daughter Gianna's tragic deaths in 2020, dozens of murals in tribute showed up all around Los Angeles	Kobe Bryant	19%
INTERNATIONAL CARS	$800	The 300 SL model from this German automaker featured gull-wing doors	Mercedes	19%
THE MUPPET MOVIE	$200	Architect of lyrics Hammerstein & man of architecture Niemeyer	Oscar	19%
WORLD HISTORY	$1200	In the 1950s riots broke out between the Tamils & Sinhalese after Sinhala was made this country's sole official language	Sri Lanka	19%
A PART OF IT	$600	Brayan Villarreal threw just 4 pitches for this A.L. team led by David Ortiz in 2013 but got a World Series ring anyway	the Red Sox	19%
I WANT 2 B	$400	This word for brief praise on a book cover like "Jillian Turbo-Smythe is a master of suspense!" dates back to 1907	a blurb	13%
ESCAPIST LITERATURE	$400	"The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams is the fact-based story of escaping Stalag Luft III, this type of place	a POW camp	13%
THE MUPPET MOVIE	$1000	World War II journalist Pyle & "Ghostbuster" Hudson	Ernie	13%
WORLD HISTORY	$800	During a forced exile, he wrote "The Prince" & began his "Discourses on Livy"	Machiavelli	13%
A PART OF IT	$800	The parts of this lowest section of your brain are the midbrain, the pons & the medulla oblongata	the brain stem	13%
DEEP CUTS	$1600	"Some Unholy War" is waged on "Back To Black" by this soulful British singer	Amy Winehouse	6%
WORLD HISTORY	$400	The Latin for fief, a vassal's domain, gave this political & social system of Europe's middle ages its name	feudalism	6%
ESCAPIST LITERATURE	$800	10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city	Florence	6%
YOU PLAYED YOURSELF	$600	Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal	Jean-Claude Van Damme	6%
MURALS	$2000	A fresco uncovered in Pompeii shows her being seduced by what appears to be a swan	Leda	6%
MURALS	$1600	Boogie on over to the Barnes Foundation to see the work called "The Dance" by this French leader of the Fauvist movement	Matisse	6%
NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY	$1000	In 2021 he became the first Democrat re-elected Jersey's gov. since Brendan Byrne in 1977; maybe an arena will be named for him	Phil Murphy	6%
7-LETTER ANAGRAMS	$400	A term for any snake & a tense in grammar	serpent & present	6%
MURALS	$800	Thomas Hart Benton's "Independence and the Opening of the West" adorns the lobby of this man's Independence, Missouri library	Truman	6%
I WANT 2 B	$600	A child's toy, or a showy trinket that's of little actual use	a bauble	0%
ESCAPIST LITERATURE	$2000	The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court	0%
7-LETTER ANAGRAMS	$800	Made someone aware of danger & changed something	alerted & altered	0%
INTERNATIONAL CARS	$2000	This car was first imported to the U.S. in the 1980s; the factory that made them was destroyed by NATO bombing in 1999	a Yugo	0%
DEEP CUTS	$400	Would you spin your chair for this country star's "You'll Always Be Beautiful", off the "Hillbilly Bone" EP?	Blake Shelton	0%
7-LETTER ANAGRAMS	$2000	A building for a legislature & having to do with vision	capitol & optical	0%
DEEP CUTS	$2000	Of course "Motherboard" was part of this duo's "Random Access Memories"	Daft Punk	0%
INTERNATIONAL CARS	$1200	Japan's Nissan Corp. phased out this brand in 1981, then brought it back in 2012	Datsun	0%
MURALS	$1200	Relocated to Washington, D.C., Marvin Beerbohm's "Automotive Industry" mural was originally created for a public library in this city	Detroit	0%
7-LETTER ANAGRAMS	$1600	Something that can cause itchy eyes & a place to view art	gallery & allergy	0%
DEEP CUTS	$1200	Discover "Exactly How I Feel" on "Cuz I Love You" by this rap & R&B singer who needs but one name	Lizzo	0%
ESCAPIST LITERATURE	$1600	In "Great Expectations" , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch is revealed to be this character's benefactor	Pip	0%
MEDICAL HISTORY	$800	An 1880s medical publication talked about Louis Pasteur's treatment for this	rabies	0%
WORLD HISTORY	$1600	This 12th century warrior who battled the Crusaders was known as "The Chivalrous Saracen"	Saladin	0%
WORLD HISTORY	$2000	The first great land battle of the Hundred Years' War was the 1346 battle of this village in northern France	the Battle of Crécy	0%
NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY	$400	Traffic is tricky on this bridge across the Hudson from Jersey to New York, so a lower deck with 6 more lanes was finished in 1962	the George Washington Bridge	0%
AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD	N/A	France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673	the Molière Award	0%
A PART OF IT	$1000	The wide-open middle part of a barn is called this, like the central spot in a church where worshippers gather	the nave	0%
ESCAPIST LITERATURE	$1200	George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel	Uncle Tom\'s Cabin	0%
7-LETTER ANAGRAMS	$1200	Using too many words & to watch	verbose & observe	0%