Statistics for Words for Jail

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Like a jail, but usually longer term	Prison	91%
A dark underground jail often found in a castle	Dungeon	83%
Your body has an estimated 37.2 trillion of them	Cell	80%
Where misbehaving students have to stay after school	Detention	78%
Another word for the above, "pen" for short	Penitentiary	78%
Remote Siberian outpost for Soviet detainees	Gulag	69%
Person who closes a door heavily	Slammer	65%
Jail on a ship	Brig	53%
Back in the day, smoking one of these could land you inside	Joint	53%
Old-fashioned British spelling of "jail"	Gaol	46%
The sound of jail doors closing	Clink	44%
A cylindrical aluminum container	Can	43%
Jail for animals	Pound	38%
They're not saying "who's cow"	Hoosegow	13%
An enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts. Or, a military jail.	Stockade	13%
Like someone with a long index finger or maybe a porcupine	Pokey	12%
Jail with 4 sides, not necessarily at right angles (British or Australian)	Quod	10%