Statistics for Jeopardy #8228

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This quiz has been taken 62 times
The average score is 13 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?	$200	1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes"	(Margaret) Thatcher	78%
POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?	$400	1992: "I didn't like it, and didn't inhale"	Bill Clinton	75%
"DE" PLUS 3	$600	The typically triangular mouth of a river	a delta	69%
"DE" PLUS 3	$800	My god, your god, any god	a deity	66%
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS	$400	For his novel "Inferno", Dan Brown drew on a poem by this Italian	Dante	66%
BOULDER DASH	$200	In this 1937 animated classic, the wicked queen tries to kill the title septet with a boulder, but it ends up backfiring	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	63%
"DE" PLUS 3	$200	Your first appearance on stage or screen	a debut	59%
POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?	$600	1848: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"	Marx	56%
BOULDER DASH	$400	He's been known to try & kill a certain roadrunner with boulders, but the big rocks usually end up coming his way	Wile E. Coyote	56%
POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?	$800	1950; "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party"	McCarthy	53%
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS	$600	After a fatal stabbing in this classic mystery, Hercule Poirot asks for "a plan of the Istanbul-Calais Coach"	Murder on the Orient Express	53%
IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?	$800	No--the bee variety of this is the world's smallest bird at only about 2 inches long	a hummingbird	50%
MUSTARD OR MAYO	$200	Hampton Creek, maker of "Just Mayo", convinced the FDA to let it keep the name, though J.M. doesn't contain these	eggs	44%
MUSTARD OR MAYO	$1000	This bulb is the key flavoring of the Provencal mayonnaise called aioli	garlic	44%
BOULDER DASH	$1000	In "The Princess Bride" this big guy, as Fezzik, dashes a big rock at Westley	Andre the Giant	41%
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS	$200	In Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries, "H is for" this killer crime	homicide	38%
IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?	$200	Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work	the Parthenon	38%
IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?	$400	No, but the 2-inch "Midnite Minichamp" version of this pocketknife comes with tools that perform 17 different functions	the Swiss Army knife	38%
"DE" PLUS 3	$400	A railway station, often a small and quaint one, as seen here	a depot	34%
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS	$800	Time magazine named this Gillian Flynn thriller one of the "10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s"	Gone Girl	34%
ABBREVIATIONS	$400	It's the "T" in the name of the international alliance abbreviated NATO	Treaty	34%
MUSTARD OR MAYO	$800	Combining mustard & fruit, Mostarda di Cremona is often compared to this vinegar & fruit condiment that accompanies curries	chutney	25%
MUSTARD OR MAYO	$400	A red flag that says "Since 1904" means you're using this mustard brand	French\'s	25%
BOULDER DASH	$800	In a 2018 animated sequel, this superhero patriarch has to dodge rocks & stuff while trying to thwart the Underminer	Mr. Incredible	25%
IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?	$600	Yes, & as the largest ships in the U.S. Navy, each is powered by 2 nuclear reactors & can displace 100,000 tons	an aircraft carrier	22%
OPERA & BALLET	$400	British choreographer Matthew Bourne took a different tactic when restaging this Tchaikovsky ballet	Swan Lake	16%
ABBREVIATIONS	$1600	A college student may consult with this helpful member of the faculty abbreviated AA	academic advisor	13%
POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?	$1000	1969: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"	Henry Kissinger	13%
OPERA & BALLET	$800	This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s	Madame Butterfly	13%
"DE" PLUS 3	$1000	Named for a city, it's a specific type of Dutch earthenware	Delft	9%
MYSTERIES & THRILLERS	$1000	A review for this Ruth Ware bestseller set at sea says it "just may do to cruise vacations what 'Jaws' did to ocean swimming"	The Woman in Cabin 10	9%
IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?	$1000	Yes, & the massive Three Gorges Dam generates 22,500 megawatts stretching 1.4 miles across this river	the Yangtze River	9%
BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY	$1200	In 1991 the IRA attacked John Major & his cabinet with mortar fire during a meeting at this address, Major's residence	10 Downing Street	6%
HOT STUFF!	$400	In the 1930s Solomon Harper invented the electric curlers now called "hot" these	rollers	6%
BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY	$400	After the completion of this feat of engineering in 1914, ships had an 8,000-nautical-mile shorter journey from N.Y. to Calif.	the Panama Canal	6%
HOT STUFF!	$1200	Regarded as one of the hottest of these, the Carolina reaper is rated at more than 1.6 million Scovilles	a pepper	3%
ABBREVIATIONS	$2000	In a car, SRS is this system that serves as a backup to seat belts; your airbag is one	a supplemental restraint system	3%
OPERA & BALLET	$1200	Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw	Billy the Kid	3%
BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY	$2000	In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean island & tourist destination; by December, most U.S. troops had left	Grenada	3%
EUROPEAN LANDMARKS	N/A	As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window...two dark and massive towers"	Notre-Dame	3%
BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY	$1600	This future world leader was wounded in his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister in 1959	Saddam Hussein	3%
FOUNTAINS	$800	Beginning in 1998, the fountains at this Las Vegas casino shoot 460 feet in the air & dance to various songs nightly	the Bellagio	3%
LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH	$1200	In a Venn diagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" and "B"	the intersection	3%
BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY	$800	In April 1946 this international org. formally gave up the ghost, though it did give a lot of its stuff to its replacement	the League of Nations	3%
HOT STUFF!	$800	A massive atmosphere produces an enormous greenhouse effect, making this second planet the hottest in the solar system	Venus	3%
OPERA & BALLET	$1600	Ramfis is the high priest in this opera	Aida	0%
LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH	$800	Conjure up this name for a grid in which the numbers add up to the same total in each column, row and main diagonal	a magic square	0%
FOUNTAINS	$1600	Fittingly, the Latona Fountain built by Louis XIV in Versailles was named for the mother of this Roman god	Apollo	0%
LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH	$2000	(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher	(Blaise) Pascal	0%
FOUNTAINS	$1200	This landmark Chicago fountain is named for a local steel family, not a London palace	Buckingham	0%
ABBREVIATIONS	$1200	Get there early if you hear FCFS, short for this	fist come, first served	0%
LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH	$400	It's what the symbol here means	greater than or equal to	0%
MUSTARD OR MAYO	$600	Best Foods & this other brand of mayonnaise have the same ingredients & the same blue bow on their labels	Hellmann\'s	0%
LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH	$1600	The symbol here is telling you to perform this calculus function	integration	0%
BOULDER DASH	$600	In this 1981 movie Indiana Jones gets covered in webs while outrunning a large rock	Raiders of the Lost Ark (*Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)	0%
OPERA & BALLET	$2000	The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice"	Rite of Spring	0%
FOUNTAINS	$400	Lotta's Fountain in this city became a meeting place for survivors of the 1906 quake & is still the site of commemorations	San Francisco	0%
HOT STUFF!	$1600	In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them	the book of Daniel	0%
HOT STUFF!	$2000	Scientists at CERN using this device have created perhaps the highest recorded temperature ever, 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit	the Large Hadron Collider	0%
FOUNTAINS	$2000	For centuries, barrels of water from this Roman fountain at the Palazzo Poli were sent across the Tiber to the Vatican	the Trevi Fountain	0%
ABBREVIATIONS	$800	When going on a journey, your ETA is this	your estimated time of arrival	0%