Statistics for Jeopardy #8569

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This quiz has been taken 29 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THE 20th CENTURY	$200	Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning	Princess Diana	100%
FOR NAUGHT	$400	This brand name of lighters that uses a flame logo can mean "zero" in slang	Zippo	64%
FOR NAUGHT	$200	Decades after this word for "nothing" appeared, "squat" was added to the end	diddly	50%
FOR NAUGHT	$600	When someone responds to a question with "Nunya", it's a shortening of this phrase	none of your business	50%
IT WAS ALL PURPLE	$400	First instituted in 1782, it has "For Military Merit" on its reverse side	the Purple Heart	50%
IT'S A NATIONAL THING	$600	Roland-Garros has hosted this event since 1928	the French Open	43%
THE MUSIC "MAN"	$2000	Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band	Manfred Mann	36%
IT WAS ALL PURPLE	$200	Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties" in what became this song	"America The Beautiful"	29%
THE MUSIC "MAN"	$1600	He topped the charts 3 times in the '70s; "Copacabana" only went to No. 8	Barry Manilow	29%
IT'S A NATIONAL THING	$200	Deriving from a game called halma--Greek for "jump"--this board game is played on a 6-pointed star	Chinese checkers	29%
IT WAS ALL PURPLE	$600	Apollonia Kotero & Morris Day both got to use their first names for their characters in this 1984 flick	Purple Rain	29%
THE 20th CENTURY	$600	Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in in this year at the tail end of the baby boom	1961	21%
THE MUSIC "MAN"	$400	Singer Gregg & guitarslinger Duane were the siblings who gave this "Ramblin' Man" band its name	The Allman Brothers	21%
TRIBUTARIES	$400	The Missouri flows into it	the Mississippi	21%
LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE	$1200	When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing	Abraham	14%
LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE	$400	Jesus is laughed at when he says, "The maid is not" this, "but sleepeth"; then "the maid arose"	dead	14%
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES	$200	"Horton Hears a Ham"	Horton Hears a Who! & Green Eggs and Ham	14%
THE MUSIC "MAN"	$800	This Wu-Tang Clan man is also half of a duo with Redman	Method Man	14%
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES	$600	"Pride and Sensibility"	Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility	14%
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS	$800	Meaning "stick to your own area", it can apply to highway driving but was also influenced by football kickoff coverage	stay in your lane	14%
DATING THE REALITY SHOW	$200	Trista Rehn, Andi Dorfman & Katie Thurston have each held this title role... & dare we say, responsibility!	the Bachelorette	14%
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS	$1200	Tangled wires led to the 19th c. phrase this type of "telegraph"; eventually, this became the way you hear a rumor	the grapevine	14%
TRIBUTARIES	$2000	The Allier & the Nièvre are joined with this river, famous for its valley	the Loire	14%
TRIBUTARIES	$1600	The Tha, the Ou & the Ngum are part of its flow	the Mekong	14%
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES	$400	"The Runaway Brief"	The Runaway Jury & The Pelican Brief	14%
IT'S A NATIONAL THING	$400	The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis de Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group	the Spanish Armada	14%
DATING THE REALITY SHOW	$600	Somehow, TLC built a hit show called this that's centered on a time length established by the USA's K-1 visa program	90 Day Fiancé	7%
IT'S A NATIONAL THING	$800	Don't you love playing with toys? Toy dogs, that is, like this breed here whose name comes from an island	a Maltese	7%
THE EXILE FILES	$1600	Exiled to Switzerland in 1919, Charles I, also known as Charles IV, was the last ruler of this dual monarchy	Austria-Hungary	7%
THE EXILE FILES	$800	Renouncing his American citizenship years earlier, this chess master died in exile in Iceland in 2008	Bobby Fischer	7%
DATING THE REALITY SHOW	$1000	Punning on a vodka drink, MTV's "Ex" here has reality stars trying to find new love while dealing with past lovers	Ex on the Beach	7%
LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE	$1600	Be patient like this man, who was told "at destruction & famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts"	Job	7%
DATING THE REALITY SHOW	$800	"Will You Marry Me?" was episode 2 of this Lachey-hosted show where couples got engaged before meeting face-to-face	Love is Blind	7%
DATING THE REALITY SHOW	$400	Head to Casa Amor to see if singles in bathing suits become soulmates after a solid few days on this show "USA"	Love Island	7%
IT WAS ALL PURPLE	$800	In the 1890s purple became an official color for this entire Illinois university, not just the sports teams	Northwestern	7%
THE 20th CENTURY	$800	The invasion of Kuwait prompted this Allied operation to free it from Iraqi occupation	Operation Desert Storm	7%
TRIBUTARIES	$800	The Madeira & the Xingu are among its 1,100 tributaries	the Amazon	7%
THE EXILE FILES	$400	These Louisiana natives are believed to be descended from the French exiles of Acadia	the Cajun	7%
TRIBUTARIES	$1200	The Klondike River is a tributary of this one	the Yukon	7%
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS	$400	I'm going to get a taste of your profits--not a lot, just to do this, as in the photo here	wet my beak	7%
LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE	$800	Ecclesiastes 10 informs us "A feast is made for laughter &" this beverage "maketh merry"	wine	7%
ROCKS & MINERALS	$1600	4.4 billion-year-old deposits have been found of this end-of-the-alphabet mineral, a December birthstone	zircon	7%
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS	$1600	Nowadays, people say "(whatever they're really good at) is my" this word; for Johnny Storm, it's actually pyrokinesis	a superpower	0%
FOR NAUGHT	$1000	Yiddish for "goat droppings" morphed into this word for "B"arely anything	bupkes	0%
IT'S A NATIONAL THING	$1000	Taken from the lean, tender eye of the loin, this smoked breakfast meat comes in cylindrical chunks	Canadian bacon	0%
THE EXILE FILES	$1200	José Martí, nationai hero of this country, probably should have stayed longer in the U.S.; he returned in 1895 & died in battle	Cuba	0%
FAMOUS AMERICANS	N/A	He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him	Dwight Eisenhower	0%
ROCKS & MINERALS	$400	Weathering, abrasion & corrosion are all forms of this natural process by which rock is broken down	erosion	0%
THE 20th CENTURY	$1000	In 1948 John Costello became Irish prime minister, the first from this party whose name means "Gaelic family"	Fine Gael	0%
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES	$1000	"God Bless You, Mr. Cradle"	God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater & Cat\'s Cradle	0%
FOR NAUGHT	$800	Remove these 2 letters from the Latin word for "nothing" to get "nil"	I & H	0%
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES	$800	"Love in the Time of Solitude"	Love in the Time of Cholera & The Hundred Years of Solitude	0%
THE MUSIC "MAN"	$1200	This Grammy-winning indie pop band was formed in Alaska, not the Iberian country in its name	Portugal. The Man	0%
ROCKS & MINERALS	$800	This mineral was called krystallos by the ancient Greeks & is primarily silicon dioxide	quartz	0%
IT WAS ALL PURPLE	$1000	In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted a house in an historic area of San Antonio purple	(Sandra) Cisneros	0%
ROCKS & MINERALS	$1200	Cementation is the last stage in the formation of this type of rock made from accumulated deposits	sedimentary	0%
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS	$2000	Veterans "benefits" include this, to be given by the V.A. if the evidence for & against the claim is about equal	the benefit of the doubt	0%
THE 20th CENTURY	$400	At the Olympic games in Stockholm, Jim Thorpe won gold medals in both of these track & field multi-events	the decathlon & the pentathlon	0%
LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE	$2000	"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this, later an Edith Wharton title	the house of mirth	0%
ROCKS & MINERALS	$2000	Meaning "stone ball" this rocky 60-mile outer layer of the Earth consists of the crust & the upper part of the mantle	the lithosphere	0%
THE EXILE FILES	$2000	During his exile in England in the 1720s, this French writer & philosopher met, among others, Alexander Pope & Jonathan Swift	Voltaire	0%