Statistics for Jeopardy #8147

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This quiz has been taken 116 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
OFF TO THE LANDMARK	$800	UNESCO described this landmark, built in memory of a man's wife, as "the jewel of Muslim art in India"	the Taj Mahal	85%
OFF TO THE LANDMARK	$400	Hello, young lovers. Head over to this symbol of the Universal Exposition of 1889; the world's tallest structure then; iconic now	the Eiffel Tower	77%
PARTS OF SPEECH, DEFINED	$200	It is "often thought of as referring to persons (or) places"	a noun	73%
2020 ANNIVERSARIES	$400	400 years ago, it reached Plymouth carrying 102 passengers	the Mayflower	73%
SCI-POURRI	$200	Using one of these he built himself, in 1674 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek gave the first accurate description of red blood cells	a microscope	70%
2020 ANNIVERSARIES	$800	August marks the 30th anniversary of Iraq invading this country, leading to the Persian Gulf War	Kuwait	68%
BIOPIC SUBJECTS	$400	2011: "The Iron Lady"	Margaret Thatcher	68%
OFF TO THE LANDMARK	$200	It was one of the first bridges to use steel for cable wire! On N.Y.'s East River, it almost sells itself!	the Brooklyn Bridge	65%
BIOPIC SUBJECTS	$200	2019: "Harriet"	Harriet Tubman	64%
SCI-POURRI	$600	The optic nerve transmits impulses to the brain from the one million ganglion cells in this eye part	a retina	62%
2020 ANNIVERSARIES	$1200	In 2020 this composer's birth city of Bonn & surrounding areas are celebrating his 250th birthday all year long	Beethoven	62%
OFF TO THE LANDMARK	$1000	There are over 160 stories in Dubai, & this 2,717' building has every one of 'em! This building ...it'll make you say gee, wiz!	the Burj Khalifa	61%
BIOPIC SUBJECTS	$1000	2014: "The Theory of Everything"	Stephen Hawking	59%
MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS	$200	In battle you better follow the R.O.E., rules of this	engagement	56%
PARTS OF SPEECH, DEFINED	$800	They "typically express some relation of place, time, manner..."	adverb	53%
NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS	$400	The animal attraction series had "Purr" followed by these 4 letters	"fect""	53%
RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE	$400	Frommer's says some of the best souvenirs you can bring home from Russia are nesting dolls & bottles of this--cheers!	vodka	53%
SCI-POURRI	$400	The big rock that caused mass extinction 65 million years ago has the alliterative name the "Alvarez" this	an asteroid	52%
NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS	$1000	A "Twilight"-themed series included do this to "Me"	"Bite""	47%
2020 ANNIVERSARIES	$1600	Once part of Massachusetts, this state is celebrating its bicentennial	Maine	47%
SCI-POURRI	$1000	The 3 most basic types of clouds are stratus, cumulus & this high, wispy type with a name meaning "curl"	cirrus	45%
JUST A SAMPLE	$800	The Rolling Stones sued The Verve claiming too much of their song The Last Time" was used on this "Symphony"	"Bitter Sweet""	42%
PARTS OF SPEECH, DEFINED	$400	They are "distinguished...by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences"	conjunctions	41%
NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS	$200	Ahead of the new millennium, Necco offered the saying this many "Kisses" & this many "Hugs"	2,000	38%
NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS	$600	In 1999 this pair of 2-letter words, a "Clueless" movie quote, was kind of a mean choice	"As If""	38%
MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS	$600	Abbreviated DZ, it's the area where airborne troops, equipment or supplies are expected to land	a drop zone	36%
JUST A SAMPLE	$1600	Sections from "Straight To Hell" by The Clash play in this 3-letter rapper's "Paper Planes"	M.I.A.	36%
JUST A SAMPLE	$2000	Oh darlin', darlin'--Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" sampled some of this Ben E. King classic	"Stand By Me""	33%
""A"TONYM	$400	Of natural, like certain sweeteners	artificial	32%
PARTS OF SPEECH, DEFINED	$1000	They "typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship"	a preposition	30%
MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS	$1000	To some, G.I. means "government issue"; MacArthur thought it meant this "issue" & couldn't stand the term	general	30%
BIOPIC SUBJECTS	$800	On HBO: "Behind the Candelabra"	Liberace	30%
RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE	$800	In 1909, painter Boris Kustodiev captured a promenade and some merrymaking along this river	the Volga	30%
JUST A SAMPLE	$1200	Sampling Rick James' "Super Freak" worked out okay for this rapper, as his album went on to sell more than 10 million copies	MC Hammer	27%
2020 ANNIVERSARIES	$2000	February is the 200th birthday of this union general whose middle name honored a Shawnee chieftain	(William Tecumseh) Sherman	26%
""A"TONYM	$800	Of enemy, especially during wartime	ally	24%
SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT	$400	In this play Oberon says, "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"	A Midsummer Night\'s Dream	23%
JUST A SAMPLE	$400	My my my! It took 20 years for The Knack to notice that Run-DMC sampled this song on "It's Tricky"	"My Sharona""	21%
BIOPIC SUBJECTS	$600	2018: "On the Basis of Sex"	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	21%
MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS	$400	CPOs are these officers, but I don't think they are spiteful	a chief petty officer	17%
PARTS OF SPEECH, DEFINED	$600	They are a "class of words expressing emotion, distinguished...by their use in grammatical isolation"	an interjection	17%
WORLD CAPITALS	N/A	Sharing its name with another ancient city on the sea, this African capital is called "Bride of the Mediterranean"	Tripoli	17%
RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE	$1600	Russian for "self-boiler", these urns were traditionally used to heat water for tea & in 1989 were showcased on a series of stamps	a samovar	15%
MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS	$800	You can buy stuff at a PX, post exchange, or BX, this	the base exchange	15%
MARY: ME	$1200	& Here's to you, Mary Robinson, president of this European country from 1990 to 1997	Ireland	14%
SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT	$1200	Act II of this play ends with Cornwall saying, "'Tis a wild night. My Regan counsels well. Come out o' the storm"	King Lear	14%
SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT	$1600	Speaking to Viola in this play, Olivia says, "Love's night is noon"	Twelfth Night	14%
""A"TONYM	$1200	Of declare guilty in a court of law (6 letters)	acquit	12%
""A"TONYM	$1600	Of bedridden or unable to walk (10 letters)	ambulatory	9%
""A"TONYM	$2000	Of relating to the period after the biblical flood	antediluvian	9%
MARY: ME	$2000	Failing eyesight & eventual blindness forced this American-born artist to stop painting around 1914	Mary Cassatt	5%
MARY: ME	$800	"What's the 411?" She received a double Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress & Original Song for "Mudbound"	Mary J. Blige	5%
SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT	$800	"Romeo and Juliet": "Good night, good night!" these 5 words "that I shall say good night till it be morrow"	"Parting is such sweet sorrow""	5%
SCI-POURRI	$800	(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) This system, part of the circulatory one, returns fluid from tissues to the bloodstream and helps the body absorb fat	the lymphatic system	3%
RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE	$1200	Before leaving Russia in 1922, he designed some decorative panels for the Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow	Chagall	2%
OFF TO THE LANDMARK	$600	Nearly 1,400 feet of limestone awaits you when you enjoy this territory seen here	Gibraltar	2%
RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE	$2000	In this Stravinsky ballet, the title character gives Prince Ivan a magical feather after he captures & releases her	The Firebird	2%
NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS	$800	In 1998, between "Call me" & "Text me", came this 2-word phrase invoking now-outmoded telecommunications	"Fax Me" (**"Page Me")"	0%
MARY: ME	$1600	Mary Mapes Dodge is best remembered for her tale of this Dutch lad, illustrated here	Hans Brinker	0%
SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT	$2000	Marcellus asks this friend of Hamlet "to watch the minutes of this night, that if again this apparition come, he may...speak to it"	Horatio	0%
MARY: ME	$400	"Disclosing the Past" is the autobiography of this Mary who dug up some very old skulls	Mark Leakey	0%