Statistics for Jeopardy #8272

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This quiz has been taken 65 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH	$200	Talk about prime delivery! Each year, this river with depths up to 300' provides 20% of the fresh water entering the ocean	the Amazon	85%
AMERICAN NAMES	$200	After manually guiding the Eagle to the Moon, this first in command went on to get a Pres. Medal of Freedom that same year	Neil Armstrong	64%
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY	$600	2006: the Best Comedy Award took a trip to Scranton	The Office	61%
GESTURES	$200	A kids' book describes this gesture as "a special slap to celebrate when everything is going great"	a high five	55%
GESTURES	$400	This 2-word gesture can be summed up as "knocking knuckles"	a fist bump	48%
BOOKS' SUBTITLES	$400	Naturally, this animal is mentioned in the subtitle of "Moby-Dick"	a whale	48%
BEFORE & AFTER	$600	Symbol on the Israeli flag that sang "Let's Dance"	Star of David Bowie	48%
AMERICAN NAMES	$600	From 1985 to 1995 Wilma Mankiller was principal chief of this Native American nation based in Oklahoma	the Cherokee	45%
BEFORE & AFTER	$200	Russian empress who covers 95,000 square miles of water as a North American quintet	Catherine the Great Lakes	33%
BEFORE & AFTER	$800	Spielberg movie about an effort to save a World War II soldier who's also a 12-medal-winning U.S. Olympic swimmer	Saving Private Ryan Lochte	33%
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY	$200	2000: starring Eric & Debra	Will & Grace	33%
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY	$1000	1998: the doctor was in (& on the radio)	Frasier	27%
AMERICAN NAMES	$400	In 1971 the president pardoned this man with the provision that he stay out of union affairs until 1980	Jimmy Hoffa	27%
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY	$400	2017: your government at work	Veep	24%
GESTURES	$800	Some schools have advocated replacing clapping with this Fosse-esque gesture, which is sign language for applause	jazz hands	21%
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH	$800	The opening words to "America The Beautiful" were inspired by the view from this peak in the Rockies	Pikes Peak	21%
GESTURES	$1000	The pinkie & thumb extend & the other fingers curl to form a Hawaiian gesture for this 2-word phrase about relaxing, aka shaka	hang loose	18%
GESTURES	$600	The University of Texas at Austin uses this gesture, also a slogan	Hook \'em Horns	18%
BEFORE & AFTER	$400	Central Florida NBA team used by Prince Husain in "One Thousand & One Nights"	the Orlando Magic carpet	18%
WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT?	$600	Throw weight is the maximum payload of this, the "M" in ICBM	a missile	15%
1970: 50 YEARS AGO	$400	Both 27, this guitarist & Janis Joplin died of overdoses within weeks of each other in September & October	Jimi Hendrix	15%
ALBUMS	$400	This "colorful" singer has used an exclamation point in her name starting with her 2000 debut album "Can't Take Me Home"	P!nk	15%
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH	$1000	The world's deepest river, exceeding 700 feet at its max, it's also Africa's 2nd-longest river at 2,900 miles	the Congo River	15%
BOOKS' SUBTITLES	$1600	"A King's Story", the autobiography of this onetime monarch, is subtitled "The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor"	Edward VIII	12%
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH	$600	You can't miss it, it's the 14,400-foot mountain seen in the distance here	Mount Rainier	12%
ALBUMS	$1200	The cover of "Nevermind", a classic album from this band, featured a baby in a swimming pool reaching for some money	Nirvana	12%
BOOKS' SUBTITLES	$1200	Sort of Shakespearean fan fiction, Lisa Fiedler's novel "Dating Hamlet" is subtitled this woman's "Story"	Ophelia	12%
ALBUMS	$1600	In 2003 this rapper released the album "Get Rich or Die Tryin' "; the movie of the same name came 2 years later	50 Cent	9%
HEALTH OBSERVANCES	$400	Be a sweetheart on this date when national donor day is observed & consider giving the gift of life	February 14th	9%
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH	$400	In Colorado Mount Yale rises 14,200'; naturally, this "rival" mount that also got its name in 1869 had to be 200' taller	Mount Harvard	9%
ALBUMS	$800	The title of this Beatles album doesn't refer to a type of gun but rather to what a record does when being played	Revolver	9%
WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT?	$800	This boxing class just below heavyweight includes the name of a warship class just below battleship	cruiserweight	6%
1970: 50 YEARS AGO	$1200	National guardsmen shot & killed 4 people at a May protest at this Ohio university	Kent State	6%
BEFORE & AFTER	$1000	An NPR station's push for donations has this window for motorists at Burger King	pledge drive-thru	6%
1970: 50 YEARS AGO	$1600	After challenging King Hussein, this organization under Yasser Arafat was driven out of Jordan in "Black September"	the PLO	6%
WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT?	$200	In this job, a highway weigh station is called a "chicken coop" as you sit in a line hoping you don't exceed 80,000 pounds	truck driving	6%
BOOKS' SUBTITLES	$800	This Arthur C. Clarke sequel is subtitled "Odyssey Two"	2010	3%
COMPOUND WORDS	$400	A dactylogram is another word for this	a fingerprint	3%
COMPOUND WORDS	$1200	An old term for a jailer, in real estate it's a house that's move-in ready	a turnkey	3%
COMPOUND WORDS	$800	Used to clean clothes or to make music, it's the old-timey object seen here	a washboard	3%
A PIRATE'S LIFE	$400	A 1720s "General History of the Pyrates" spells this infamous "young" captain's last name with just one "D"	Captain Kidd	3%
1970: 50 YEARS AGO	$800	This Garry Trudeau comic strip debuted in 28 newspapers	Doonesbury	3%
HEALTH OBSERVANCES	$1600	January is the month to raise awareness of this sight-stealing disease caused by a buildup of pressure in the eye	glaucoma	3%
1970: 50 YEARS AGO	$2000	In November U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley went on trial for his role in this 1968 massacre	Mỹ Lai	3%
ALBUMS	$2000	"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is an album from this band whose name sounds like it's trying to comply with a radio transmission	Wilco	3%
COMPOUND WORDS	$1600	It's the designation of 4 U.S. states including Penn. & Mass. despite not having ties to the United Kingdom	a commonwealth	0%
AMERICAN NAMES	$1000	Passions were inflamed in the 1940s when this researcher published his findings on Americans' sex lives	(Alfred) Kinsey	0%
COMPOUND WORDS	$2000	It's a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts	a tenderfoot	0%
HEALTH OBSERVANCES	$1200	Wear your ribbon proudly, especially during April, to spread awareness of this condition	autism	0%
WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT?	$1000	This name for a type of pound is from the French for "goods of weight"	avoirdupois	0%
HEALTH OBSERVANCES	$800	Kicking off Memorial weekend, Don't Fry Day reminds us about sun safety to prevent this, basal or otherwise	carcinoma (skin cancer)	0%
AMERICAN NAMES	$800	The London Times mocked his mechanical reaper as "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow & a flying machine"	Cyrus McCormick	0%
EMMY'S BEST COMEDY	$800	2005: as the Barones bow out	Everybody Love Raymond	0%
A PIRATE'S LIFE	$800	In 1814 the British offered him $30,000 & a captaincy in the Royal Navy if he'd join them; he didn't say oui but turned on them	(Jean) Lafitte	0%
AFRICA	N/A	After the removal of the dictator, in 2011 3 broad colored stripes & 2 white symbols were restored to this country's flag	Libya	0%
A PIRATE'S LIFE	$1600	The Dread Pirate this, first name Bartholomew, was said to have captured more than 400 vessels in the early 1700s	Roberts	0%
A PIRATE'S LIFE	$1200	Proud to plunder the rich who plunder the poor, Black Sam Bellamy called himself this English forest guy of the sea	Robin Hood	0%
A PIRATE'S LIFE	$2000	16th century pirate Khidr, aka Barbarossa, took Algiers from the Spanish with the help of this empire	the Ottoman Empire	0%
WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT?	$400	An old system used to weigh precious stones & metals is called this, like an ancient city where the Greeks horsed around	troy (weight)	0%