Statistics for Jeopardy #8618

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This quiz has been taken 36 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
A REIGN OF ERROR	$200	The relentless execution of Protestant rebels earned this queen of England the nickname "Bloody" & the hatred of her people	Mary	94%
BOOK 'EM	$200	In 1897 this Bram Stoker horror novel was vastly outsold by another in the genre, "The Beetle", about a shape-shifting monster	Dracula	72%
A REIGN OF ERROR	$400	After having his mom & wife killed, this emperor was accused of starting a fire that devastated Rome; he blamed the Christians	Nero	72%
HOUSEHOLD INITIALS	$400	S.D.: It's time to change the batteries when they chirp	smoke detector	72%
HOUSEHOLD INITIALS	$200	P.L.: The one on the stove might go out occasionally	the pilot light	67%
A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115	$800	Feb. 6, 2022 began Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee, marking this many years on the throne	70	61%
AT THE MOVIES	$200	Ellen DeGeneres voiced this character in "Finding Nemo" & its sequel	Dory	56%
A REIGN OF ERROR	$800	After trying to buy Cortes off to stop an invasion, this Aztec emperor let the Spaniards into Tenochtitlan with no opposition	Montezuma	56%
A REIGN OF ERROR	$600	Britannica, on one of this czar's many errors: he "met the rising groundswell of popular unrest with intensified police repression"	Nicholas II	56%
HOUSEHOLD INITIALS	$1000	M.R.: It's a vestibule where you take off wet clothes	the mud room	56%
HOUSEHOLD INITIALS	$600	M.T.: Removal of it "under penalty of law" does not apply to the consumer	mattress tag	50%
A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115	$1000	In 1958 Crayola introduced its box of this many crayons, the first with sharpener included	64	44%
HOUSEHOLD INITIALS	$800	G.D.: The InSinkErator is a brand of this	garbage disposal	44%
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS	$200	In the 1980s this word lost favor to the gender-neutral flight attendant	stewardess	44%
AT THE MOVIES	$400	"May the odds be ever in your favor" is a line from this 2012 post-apocalyptic film	The Hunger Games	44%
CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT	$400	Scrantonicity	The Office	44%
A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115	$200	The sequence of triangular numbers goes 3, 6, this	10	39%
AT THE MOVIES	$600	In "Mary Poppins Returns", this actress took on the role of the magical nanny	Emily Blunt	28%
AT THE MOVIES	$1000	"Beavis & Butt-Head" creator Mike Judge wrote & directed this 1999 workplace comedy	Office Space	28%
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS	$1000	It's the aggrieved party that initiates a lawsuit	the plaintiff	28%
AROUND THE USA	$400	To see a rare stone beach on Washington Island, Wisconsin, you must brave Death's Door, a strait connecting Lake Michigan and this bay	Green Bay	17%
AROUND THE USA	$800	Head west on I-40 in New Mexico, & you can go from Acoma to Zuni, visiting two of the state's 19 of these centuries old Native American communities	pueblos	17%
BOOK 'EM	$400	A series of instructional books was launched in 1991 with the title this 3-letter computer acronym "for Dummies"	DOS	11%
BAT QUIZ	$1200	Bats navigate at night using this system of acoustic orientation that incorporates nature's version of radar	echolocation	11%
A REIGN OF ERROR	$1000	Part of what made him "unready" to be England's king was massacring Danish settlers in 1002, which spurred more invasions	Ethelred the Unready	11%
CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT	$1200	Jesse & the Rippers, led by Uncle Jesse Katsopolis	Full House	11%
AROUND THE USA	$1200	Incredible homes like Marble House, an imitation of Versailles, meant to be a temple of the arts, are in this Rhode Island city	Newport	11%
BAT QUIZ	$1600	Vampire bat bites threaten livestock not by making them the undead, but by spreading this disease caused by a lyssavirus	rabies	11%
A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115	$400	Numbers is this number book in the King James Bible	the 4th	11%
CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT	$800	Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, with Animal on drums	The Muppet Show	11%
BAT QUIZ	$400	Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera, meaning "hand"-this	wing	11%
A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115	$600	The proverbial "weakling" weighs this many pounds, though a Charles Atlas ad had it one pound less	98	6%
BAT QUIZ	$800	Nectar-feeding bats pollinate the flowers that grow on the tips of the organ pipe variety of this desert plant	a cactus	6%
OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH	$800	After an admiral bags on his beliefs, this film villain says, "I find your lack of faith disturbing" & forces the issue	Darth Vader	6%
OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH	$400	This Amherst woman wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see! / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency!"	Dickinson	6%
AT THE MOVIES	$800	Denzel Washington & Viola Davis reprised their Tony-winning roles in the 2016 movie version of this play	Fences	6%
WHAT THE LETTER SAYS	$800	In 1855 she wrote a friend in England apologizing for not writing sooner but the Crimean War wounded were keeping her busy	Florence Nightingale	6%
SINCERELY YOURS	$800	9-letter "cardiac" adjective for sincere apologies or sympathies	heartfelt	6%
SINCERELY YOURS	$400	In "Casablanca" Cuddles Sakall insists that the gambling at Rick's cafe is as this "as the day is long"	honest	6%
AROUND THE USA	$2000	Southwest of Tallahassee, this community got the same name as a Central American capital in 1909 when its people were excited about possible trade	Panama City	6%
SINCERELY YOURS	$1200	If I give you the straight scoop, I do this, the title of a 1966 Aaron Neville hit	"Tell It Like It Is"	6%
BAT QUIZ	$2000	Each year as many as 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats give birth at sites like Bracken Cave in this U.S. state	Texas	6%
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS	$600	In Spanish it's globo ocular	the eyeball	6%
BOOK 'EM	$600	In 2019 this Irma Rombauer book was fully revised & updated with 600 new recipes	the Joy of Cooking	6%
OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH	$2000	1 of the 2 Brits, a biologist & a political writer, in "The Four Horsemen of Atheism" with Americans Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris	(1 of) Christopher Hitchens (Richard Dawkins)	0%
BOOK 'EM	$800	African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this	a Sandwich	0%
CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT	$2000	The rapper Clark County	Atlanta	0%
CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT	$1600	Dingoes Ate My Baby, performing down at the Bronze	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	0%
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS	$800	This type of ornamentation is like lacework done with gold or silver	filigree	0%
SINCERELY YOURS	$2000	From the Latin, this word for sincere has a close relative, "genuine", & a "dis-" opposite	ingenuous	0%
WHAT THE LETTER SAYS	$2000	A 1496 letter authorizes him & his son Sebastian to sail for England & claim isles, regions & "provinces of heathen & infidels"	John Cabot	0%
WHAT THE LETTER SAYS	$1200	In 1964 he wrote from Mecca that he had prayed with white people whose belief in Allah had "removed the 'white' from their minds"	Malcolm X	0%
SINCERELY YOURS	$1600	It sounds like you just keep rising with this repetitive idiom that starts with "on the"	on the up-and-up	0%
WHAT THE LETTER SAYS	$1600	In 1639 he wrote to Lord Huygens about his paintings with the "greatest & most natural movement" & mentioning "I live on the Inner Amstel"	Rembrandt	0%
OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH	$1200	This "Derek" star tweeted atheists were fighting again "over who doesn't believe in any god the most... wait... that never happens"	Ricky Gervais	0%
BOOK 'EM	$1000	This James Redfield bestseller about an ancient manuscript that provides 9 key insights to life has been called "a spiritual classic"	The Celestine Prophecy	0%
AROUND THE USA	$1600	Seafood plus history mark this area, named for its location on Chesapeake Bay, birthplace of both Harriet Tubman & Frederick Douglass	the Eastern Shore	0%
OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH	$1600	In 1796 Samuel Miles, an elector for this political party, went "faithless" & voted against John Adams	the Federalists	0%
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS	$400	This seven-letter track & field moment seen here requires practice & teamwork	the handoff	0%
HISTORY	N/A	Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war"	the Seven Years War	0%
WHAT THE LETTER SAYS	$400	Thomas Jefferson's last public letter, 10 days before he died, says, sorry, too sick to attend the celebrations of its 50th anniversary	U.S. independence	0%