Statistics for Jeopardy #8275

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This quiz has been taken 55 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
FOXES	$600	Writing about foxes? It's required that you use the adjective "bushy" to describe this body part	the tail	87%
DID YOU KNOW?	$400	Take it slow! This rain forest tree-dwelling mammal can take weeks to digest a meal & can hold its breath longer than a dolphin	a sloth	81%
FOXES	$200	Related to dogs & wolves, foxes are part of this scientific family	canine	77%
DID YOU KNOW?	$600	1980s Russia traded subs & other ships for this red, white & blue soda brand, said to briefly make it 1 of the world's largest navies	Pepsi	77%
FOXES	$1000	Only about 15 inches long, the fennec is the world's smallest fox & lives in this largest desert of Africa	the Sahara	71%
ONE-WORD SONG TITLES	$200	This No. 1 hit by Rihanna includes the apt lyric "let it rain"	"Umbrella"	68%
DID YOU KNOW?	$200	The OED dates the first recorded use of this letter to mean "kiss" back to a 1763 British letter	X	68%
ONE-WORD SONG TITLES	$800	A song by Sia says, "I'm gonna swing from the" this, the song's title	"Chandelier"	65%
DID YOU KNOW?	$1000	Snoop Dogg tried to rent this entire Eur. nation, Vaduz & all, for a video shoot; doable? Yes, but Snoop didn't give enough notice	Liechtenstein	58%
ONE-WORD SONG TITLES	$1000	Though quoted, the songwriters of "Eye Of The Tiger" didn't get credit on this No. 1 hit by Katy Perry	"Roar"	58%
ONE-WORD SONG TITLES	$400	Lorde topped the charts with this song, her first single	"Royals"	58%
ONE-WORD SONG TITLES	$600	Elaborate hand gestures are part of the dance that Madonna brought to the mainstream with this 1990 No. 1 hit	"Vogue"	58%
LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND	$200	Things go south when they go here "in a handbasket"	hell	52%
LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND	$400	A football running play, or when a plane's tracking is given to another control center	a handoff	45%
"A_D" VERBS	$600	Turned away one's eyes, from the Latin for "to turn"	averted	45%
FOXES	$800	This species, also known as the common fox, is the most widely distributed carnivore on land	the red fox	42%
"A_D" VERBS	$800	Aided or assisted, specifically in the commission of a crime	abetted	39%
U.S. HISTORY	$1200	The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this country January 3, 1961	Cuba	39%
PROSE BY BROS	$200	Jacob & Wilhelm, who gave us "Snow White" & "The Golden Goose"	the Brothers Grimm	39%
"A_D" VERBS	$400	Spirited someone away, likely illegally	abducted	35%
LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND	$600	I heard it this way, directly from the original source	firsthand	35%
"A_D" VERBS	$200	Shortened a word	abbreviated	32%
LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND	$800	Proverbially, "Close only counts in" this game "& hand grenades"	horseshoes	32%
U.S. HISTORY	$400	In 1824 women walked off the job at a Rhode Island textile mill in what's considered America's first factory this	a strike	29%
FOXES	$400	Term for a cozy room in your house, or a cozy fox burrow	a den	23%
U.S. HISTORY	$800	The Senate didn't ratify the Treaty of Versailles, so this G.O.P. president proclaimed peace between the U.S. & Germany in 1921	Harding	23%
THEY DID IT	$400	Won a fourth term as German chancellor in 2017	(Angela) Merkel	19%
WHAT'S THE GOSSIP?	$800	The name of the tabloid website & TV show TMZ refers to a 30-mile zone centering on this major city	Los Angeles	19%
U.S. HISTORY	$2000	The 1970s oil crisis made this project inevitable; much of its construction was elevated out of worry for wildlife and permafrost	the Alaska Pipeline	16%
U.S. HISTORY	$1600	This 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania was prompted by a tax on liquor	the Whiskey Rebellion	16%
"A_D" VERBS	$1000	Played piano at the soprano recital	accompanied	13%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$400	"Giving me a glance of annoyance" was replaced by "giving me the" this smelly phrase	a stink eye	13%
PROSE BY BROS	$800	Henry, "Roderick Hudson" in 1876; William, "Essays in Radical Empiricism", published posthumously in 1912	James	13%
PROSE BY BROS	$1000	Frank, the 2005 memoir "Teacher Man"; Malachy, who wrote "A Couple of Blaguards" with his brother	McCourt	13%
THEY DID IT	$800	Brought a team of nurses to the Crimean War on a mail boat	Nightingale	13%
PROSE BY BROS	$400	Rod, short story collections as well as "The Twilight Zone"; Richard, "The President's Plane is Missing"	Serling	13%
WHAT'S THE GOSSIP?	$2000	Famous feuding gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood were Louella Parsons & this alliterative lady	Hedda Hopper	10%
WHAT'S THE GOSSIP?	$1200	This word also used for gossip is a drinking fountain aboard ship	a scuttlebutt	6%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$1200	Borrowed from Italian & spelled all kinds of ways in English, it means "do you get me?"	capisce	6%
DID YOU KNOW?	$800	The generic name for this cloth bag comes from the same-named Belgian town where it was first made, though the E & L can get reversed	duffel	6%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$800	A twist on Defoe, "Girl" or "Gal" this for a female assistant was big pre-World War II	Friday	6%
WHAT'S THE GOSSIP?	$1600	In 1977 Rupert Murdoch launched a gossip column originally found at & named for this page of the New York Post	Page Six	6%
GO WEST	$400	A stroll west over the Vltava River on the Charles bBidge takes you from this capital's Old Town to the Mala Strana	Prague	6%
GO WEST	$800	Go due west on land from Newfoundland & Labrador to this large province	Quebec	6%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$2000	The medium was in its infancy in the 1930s when this word came along to mean "looking good on TV"	telegenic	6%
PROSE BY BROS	$600	Twins Matt & Ross, Emmy-nominated for writing "Chapter Nine: The Gate" for the television show "Stranger Things"	the Duffer Brothers	6%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$1600	The OED defines it as a tune that stays in your mind "especially to the point of irritation "	an earworm	3%
GO WEST	$1200	Head west from Toulouse to reach the Franco-Spanish "country" named for this people who have a unique language	Basque	3%
THEY DID IT	$1200	Won a coin flip with David Packard for top billing	Hewlett	3%
THEY DID IT	$2000	Wrote "The Normal Heart", fought for AIDS research	(Larry) Kramer	3%
LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND	$1000	The ends are left hanging in this long necktie that uses a slipknot	a four-in-hand	0%
YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN	$2000	This actor, not Peter Boyle, is the title character in "Young Frankenstein"	Gene Wilder	0%
YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN	$1200	"The Young" this character "Chronicles" TV series featured the adventurer in his pre-college & pre-movie days	Indiana Jones	0%
YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN	$1600	This actor shakes up the Vatican as Pius XIII, "The Young Pope" in the title of an HBO series	Jude Law	0%
GO WEST	$1600	Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well	Lesotho	0%
YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN	$800	In "Young Mr." this man, Henry Fonda plays an up-&-coming Illinois attorney	Lincoln	0%
THEY DID IT	$1600	In 1839 he showed his photos to the French Academy of Sciences	(Louis) Daguerre	0%
GO WEST	$2000	The ferry from Wellington on New Zealand's North Island to Picton on the south one goes west across this strait	the Cook Strait	0%
WHAT'S THE GOSSIP?	$400	In the 1950s the New York Evening this newspaper became a tabloid & "National" , eventually moving to Florida	the Enquierer	0%
FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS	N/A	In French, this fairy tale character is La Petite Poucette, in Spanish, Pulgarcita & in English, this	Thumbelina	0%
YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN	$400	In a 1985 film the "Young" this character fences against Moriarty in boarding school	Young Sherlock Holmes	0%