Statistics for Jeopardy #8162

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This quiz has been taken 187 times
The average score is 15 of 58

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
3-WORD CITIES	$200	Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain	Port-au-Prince	81%
3-WORD CITIES	$800	Once the capital of a Sinhalese kingdom, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is today the legislative capital of this island country	Sri Lanka	65%
CHEMISTRY	$400	It's the only chemical element that weighs less than helium	hydrogen	58%
BUCKETS	$200	In 1957 the first KFC bucket was designed by this founder's first franchisee, Pete Harman	Colonel Sanders	57%
3-WORD CITIES	$400	It's the full name of the English town nicknamed "The Home of the Bard"	Stratford-upon-Avon	56%
THE 20th CENTURY	$200	Stations using this sensing technology installed on Britain's coast in 1938 detected German bombers a few years later	radar	54%
ARCHITECTURE	$200	Tiny houses, usually 400 square feet or less, often have one of these open upper spaces for the bed	a loft	53%
SPEAKING VOLUMES	$400	"The Last Lion", a biography of this British PM, appeared in 3 volumes in 1983, 1988 & 2012	Churchill	51%
THE 20th CENTURY	$1000	In 1956 it was g'day for the Olympics held here, the first held in the Southern Hemisphere	Melbourne	46%
THE 20th CENTURY	$400	Formulated by the Allies at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, this organization was established in Geneva in 1920	League of Nations	41%
SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR	$800	TV personality formerly Sharon Arden, in 1982	Ozzy Osbourne	39%
RELIGIOUS IDIOMS	$1200	One who's nearing the end of life is knocking on this, as in a 1973 Bob Dylan song	heaven\'s door	38%
TV-POURRI	$800	"Everybody Dies" was the 2012 series finale of this Hugh Laurie show	House	38%
3-WORD CITIES	$600	This city was named in 1565 by the Portuguese, who mistook its bay for the entrance to a river	Rio de Janeiro	38%
3-WORD CITIES	$1000	In Arabic the name of this major port city & seat of Tanzania's government means "abode of peace"	Dar es Salaam	36%
SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR	$200	Christie Brinkley, in 1985	Billy Joel	35%
THAT USED TO HAPPEN?	$1200	"Duck &" this was actual 2-part advice in case of nuclear attack to 1950s kids from the Federal Civil Defense Administration	cover	34%
THAT USED TO HAPPEN?	$400	High car ownership, the interstate system & fear of strangers all led to the decline in this form of free highway travel	hitchhiking	34%
SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR	$400	Linda Eastman, in 1969	Paul McCartney	34%
CHEMISTRY	$800	Equal to the protons in its nucleus, this is 26 for iron	the atomic number	34%
CONTRONYMS	$800	You can do this to a meal by adding parsley or to a paycheck by deducting money	garnish	32%
TV-POURRI	$1200	There are Jawas, bounty droid IG-11 & Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon in this Disney+ show that debuted in 2019	The Mandalorian	32%
CONTRONYMS	$200	It can mean to take away a car or to get your car back	repossess	29%
CONTRONYMS	$600	When doing this to a regular tree, you remove branches; while doing it to a Christmas tree, you add ornaments	trim	27%
ARCHITECTURE	$600	Vital to holding up an arch is this block, top & center, that's placed last	a keystone	26%
""V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME	$1200	This scientist who worked with dogs also showed how the flow of the stomach's digestive juices is controlled by the vagus nerve	Pavlov	26%
ARCHITECTURE	$800	This British style of architecture was ushered in beginning with the reign of Henry VII	Tudor	26%
CONTRONYMS	$400	When you model, you do this to create a pose; for a stagehand, it means to take down a set	strike	25%
THAT USED TO HAPPEN?	$800	Quick cut and rough cut used to be literally true when this movie professional physically sliced up the film	an editor	24%
""V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME	$400	Name of the family that had a 300-year run of royal rule starting in 1613 with Czar Michael	Romanov	24%
BUCKETS	$400	In 1785 "Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" defined this phrase as "to die"	to kick the bucket	24%
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY	N/A	This West African country of 12 million doesn’t border the 1,200-mile-wide gulf of the same name	Guinea	22%
SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR	$600	Valerie Bertinelli, in 1981	Eddie Van Halen	21%
RELIGIOUS IDIOMS	$400	If you put up with a lot, you have "the patience of" this Old Testament man from the land of Uz	Job	21%
RELIGIOUS IDIOMS	$2000	Someone who descends quickly from public approval has undergone this religious-sounding tumble	a fall from grace	20%
BUCKETS	$800	Orchid bees fly into bucket orchids & deliver the materials that help in this reproductive process	pollination	20%
ARCHITECTURE	$400	Connecting buildings or parts of a house, this covered passage, open on the sides, is so named because it allows wind to pass through	a breezeway	19%
SPEAKING VOLUMES	$1600	After it was serialized in a magazine, his "Madame Bovary" was published in 2 volumes in 1857	Flaubert	18%
ARCHITECTURE	$1000	Renewed interest in the buildings of ancient Rome and Greece shows in this style of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello	Neoclassical	16%
RELIGIOUS IDIOMS	$800	A tornado is an example of this seemingly divinely caused event that can't be stopped by humans	an act of God	15%
BUCKETS	$1000	The BWE, or bucket-wheel this, is capable of moving 12,000 cubic meters of soil per hour	excavator	15%
THAT USED TO HAPPEN?	$2000	Big offices used to have pools of mostly female workers to do typing & this job of taking dictation in shorthand	stenography	12%
SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR	$1000	Shannon Tweed, finally, in 2011	Gene Simmons	11%
""V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME	$1600	You remember his brilliant pawn sacrifice on the 14th move of the 10th game of the 1995 match against Anand	Kasparov	11%
SPEAKING VOLUMES	$2000	In the 11 volumes of Will & Ariel Durant's "The Story of Civilization", "The Renaissance" is followed immediately by this "R" period	Reformation	10%
BUCKETS	$600	"The Bucket List" starred these 2 Oscar winners, known for playing God & Satan in other films	Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman	8%
CHEMISTRY	$1200	Another word for a state of matter, it precedes "transition" to describe a change of a substance such as from liquid to gas	phase	8%
THE 20th CENTURY	$800	In 1909 a toy company chose the slogan "Goodbye" to this other 2-word toy, "Hello, Billy Possum"	a teddy bear	7%
CONTRONYMS	$1000	As a verb, this piece of hardware can mean to affix something to the floor or to speed away, like in a race	bolt	7%
""V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME	$800	Due to the TB that would eventually kill him, this "Sea Gull" playwright moved to the resort of Yalta in 1899	Chekhov	7%
TV-POURRI	$2000	From 1984 to 1989, she was the Allie of "Kate & Allie", and we bet she could give you contestants a run for your money, too	Jane Curtin	7%
SPEAKING VOLUMES	$800	Here's a revelation--it's the seventh & "Last" book in the Narnia series	The Last Battle	7%
RELIGIOUS IDIOMS	$1600	Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor	a blessing in disguise	6%
TV-POURRI	$400	"A Million Little Pieces" is a tale of addiction & recovery; this ABC show is a drama featuring the Saville family	A Million Little Things	2%
TV-POURRI	$1600	This Skinnygirl made headlines recently when she announced she was leaving "The Real Housewives of New York City"	Bethenny Frankel	2%
THE 20th CENTURY	$600	Celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring was among Aug. 9, 1969 victims of the murderous gang controlled by this man	the (Charles) Manson family	1%
THAT USED TO HAPPEN?	$1600	With smoke-filled rooms & favorite sons, these used to be dramatic affairs but the last multi-ballot one was in 1952	nominating conventions for the parties	0%
SPEAKING VOLUMES	$1200	The most recent edition of this lexicon in book form was published in 20 volumes in 1989	the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED)	0%