Statistics for Jeopardy #8227

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This quiz has been taken 76 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
BIRDS OF PREY	$200	These birds of prey are largely nocturnal, but the snowy type often hunts by day	an owl	80%
HEAVEN OR HELL	$400	One of the sons of Cronus, this Greek god of the underworld has a name that also means the underworld	Hades	73%
HALL MONITOR	$600	This legend is alphabetically first among modern-era inductees at the International Boxing Hall of Fame	(Muhammad) Ali	67%
WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH	$200	A mounted soldier in armor who served a king or lord	a knight	60%
HEAVEN OR HELL	$600	The name of this Buddhist state of enlightenment comes from the Sanskrit for "extinction"	nirvana	60%
BIRDS OF PREY	$400	Found in South America, the harpy is a crested variety of this bird of prey with a wingspan that can reach seven feet	an eagle	58%
HALL MONITOR	$200	In 2019 Abby Wambach was inducted into the national hall of fame for this sport	soccer	53%
GOING ON VACATION	$200	This country's Amalfi Coast never fails to impress	Italy	51%
I'M FULL OF "N.V."	$200	If a motel is displaying this sign, keep driving	no vacancy	51%
BIRDS OF PREY	$600	The largest bird of prey is this Western Hemisphere vulture that can fly 18,000 feet high & weigh 30 pounds	the condor	38%
HALL MONITOR	$800	The Basketball Hall of Fame hosts a preseason college tournament named for this first play in a basketball game	a tip-off	36%
WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH	$800	This word usually comes before "out", meaning to barely manage a living	eke	36%
I'M FULL OF "N.V."	$800	This country officially merged with its southern neighbor July 2, 1976	North Vietnam	33%
HALL MONITOR	$1000	In 2019 Edgar Martinez & Harold Baines were elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame for playing this non-defensive position	designated hitter	31%
I'M FULL OF "N.V."	$400	The Sightmark Ghost Hunter Goggle Binoculars will give you this	night vision	31%
HALL MONITOR	$400	Lord Stanley & Georges Vezina were 2 of the first inductees into this sport's hall of fame in 1945	hockey	29%
I'M FULL OF "N.V."	$1000	The Mayacamas Mountains to the west and the Vaca Range to the east, enclose this fertile region of Northern California	Napa Valley	27%
BIRDS OF PREY	$1000	Reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour, this bird of prey is not only the world's fastest bird, it's also the world's fastest animal	the peregrine falcon	27%
HEAVEN OR HELL	$800	The line "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" is from this 17th century poem	Paradise Lost	24%
WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH	$600	"Over hill, over" this small valley--both landforms come from the Old English	a dale	22%
HEAVEN OR HELL	$200	A 2-word synonym for heaven, it's the "land" of Canaan in Genesis reserved for Abraham & his descendants	the Promised Land	22%
WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH	$1000	This geography term meaning a bend or a curve in a coastline sounds like sinking your teeth into something	bight	20%
GOING ON VACATION	$1000	This B&B island paradise northwest of Tahiti would be a perfect place for some R&R	Bora-Bora	20%
HEAVEN OR HELL	$1000	A famed Paris avenue bears the name of this blessed land where Greek heroes are sent in the afterlife	the Elysian Fields	18%
GOING ON VACATION	$400	Stop by this landmark & take in the amazing vista from Yavapai Point to the North Rim	the Grand Canyon	18%
THE HUMAN BODY	$1200	In the average adult male, this thighbone is about 19 inches long	the femur	16%
I'M FULL OF "N.V."	$600	The U.S. House of Representatives has 6 of these members, like Puerto Rico's resident commissioner	non-voting	13%
WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH	$400	This verb means to satisfy, especially one's thirst	slake	13%
THE HUMAN BODY	$800	In French le foie is this organ	the liver	13%
BIRDS OF PREY	$800	One of the only terrestrial birds of prey is this species whose name seems more suited for an office than its home in Africa	the secretary bird	13%
GOING ON VACATION	$800	Chile has a beautiful "district" of mountains & water that shares its name with this similar one in north England	the Lake District	11%
GOING ON VACATION	$600	Headed to Paris? Check out the Impressionist and Postimpressionist works at this museum in a former train station	the Musée d\'Orsay	11%
THE HUMAN BODY	$400	This clear, transplantable layer of the eye anterior to the lens is often compared to the crystal on a watch	the cornea	9%
DOCUMENTARIES	$1600	A 2011 documentary called this man "Against the World" explores the life of the troubled chess master	Fischer	7%
THE HUMAN BODY	$1600	Erythrocytes are your red blood cells & these are your white blood cells	leukocytes	7%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$400	This author of "The Good Earth" also wrote the heartwarming "Christmas Day in the Morning"	Pearl Buck	7%
DOCUMENTARIES	$800	Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" tells of the horrific bombing in 1963 of an African American church in this Alabama city	Birmingham	4%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$1200	In 1856 she published "Dred", in which she depicted the deterioration of a slave-holding society	Harriet Beecher Stowe	4%
BEFORE & AFTER	$1200	Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building	"Live And Let Die Hard"	4%
BEFORE & AFTER	$800	Historic New York City sports arena where Adam & Eve lived in the Bible	Madison Square Garden of Eden	4%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$800	She worked at a coffee shop in Toronto before writing dystopian fare	(Margaret) Atwood	4%
GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES	$1600	Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 asserted that this type of marriage is legal in all 50 states	same-sex marriage	4%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$1600	"The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-american woman	(Sandra) Cisneros	4%
BEFORE & AFTER	$400	U.S. executive mansion that's a legal confinement to one's own residence instead of prison	White House arrest	4%
THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY	$400	Woof! & meow! & maybe even ribbit? This Ivy League U. in upstate New York awarded the nation's first doctorate of veterinary medicine	Cornell	2%
GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES	$1200	In Marbury v. Madison, John Marshall criticized this sitting president for flouting the law	Jefferson	2%
BEFORE & AFTER	$1600	2012 male stripper cinematic saga that went on to be our 70th Secretary of State	Magic Mike Pompeo	2%
THE HUMAN BODY	$2000	(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Each hemisphere of the brain contains four lobes with different functions; your ability to process sounds, recognize words and understand them happens in this lobe, named for its location in relation to the size of the head	the temporal lobe	2%
GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES	$800	In Williams v. U.S. William O. Douglas warned of the police taking matters "in their own hands" & these "beastly" courts	a kangaroo court	0%
BEFORE & AFTER	$2000	1873 Jules Verne adventure novel that's an NBC soap opera on the air since 1965	Around the World in Eighty Days of Our Lives	0%
THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY	$800	I wouldn't look for this university founded in 1875 by a Mormon leader on many lists of top 10 party schools	BYU (Brigham Young)	0%
AMERICAN FIRSTS	N/A	John Ledyard, sailing on Captain Cook's last voyage in search of the NW Passage, was the 1st American to land at what are now these 2 states	Hawaii & Alaska	0%
DOCUMENTARIES	$2000	This 1994 documentary follows 2 inner-city Chicago kids who aspire to become pro basketball players	Hoop Dreams	0%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$2000	This Danish writer acquired her title by marrying her cousin Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a Swedish baron	Isak Dinesen	0%
GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES	$2000	Leading to the 11th Amendment, Chisholm v. Georgia was overseen by this first Chief Justice	Jay	0%
DOCUMENTARIES	$400	Aired on PBS in 1982, this filmmaker's first documentary told of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge	Ken Burns	0%
THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY	$1200	You could be like William Faulkner & get an Oxford education at this state school that opened in 1848	Ole Miss	0%
DOCUMENTARIES	$1200	In 2020 the Oscar for Best Documentary Short went to a film about "Learning to" do this fun activity "in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)"	skateboard	0%
GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES	$400	In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall wrote, "The power to" do this 3-letter verb "involves the power to destroy"	tax	0%
THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY	$1600	In 1884 this private university in New Orleans was renamed after the local merchant who gave the school its first endowment	Tulane	0%
THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY	$2000	The William F. Harrah College of Hospitality checks in at this school, a few blocks away from the action	UNLV	0%