Statistics for Jeopardy #8412

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This quiz has been taken 43 times
The average score is 12 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
PERU	$200	The presidential mansion in this capital city occupies the site where Pizarro's palace once stood	Lima	83%
NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS	$200	For oral hygiene, "C" the offerings from Crest & this brand that offers total SF whitening toothpaste	Colgate	79%
MAKING FETCH HAPPEN	$200	In nursery rhyme news, this pair were airlifted from a hill after one suffered a severe head injury fetching water	Jack & Jill	79%
PERU	$600	22,200-foot Mount Huascaran, the highest in Peru, is in the Cordillera Blanca range of these mountains	the Andes	71%
PERU	$400	In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom	the Amazon	63%
NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS	$600	Brands of dish soap with female names include Joy & this one that touts its use to clean wildlife affected by oil spills	Dawn	50%
ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN	$200	"The best laid schemes of ____ & men"	mice	50%
PERU	$1000	This lake that's 12,500 feet above sea level is on the border of Peru & Bolivia	Lake Titicaca	46%
SCIENTISTS	$400	I look at the world & I notice it's turning--thanks to this man who studied at the University of Krakow in the 1490s	Nicolaus Copernicus	46%
U.S. HISTORY	$1200	The first mass inoculation of children against this disease began in Pittsburgh in 1954	Polio	46%
PERU	$800	One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it was the capital of the Inca Empire when the Spanish arrived	Cuzco	42%
ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN	$600	"A sacred ____"	cow	38%
TV TITLE PAIRS	$600	Cindy Williams & Penny Marshall lived together & worked together on this sitcom	Laverne & Shirley	29%
MAKING FETCH HAPPEN	$600	In this movie, Regina says, "Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen. it's not going to happen"	Mean Girls	29%
SCIENTISTS	$600	We think of this Russian who became a professor of general chemistry in 1867, periodically	Mendeleev	29%
U.S. HISTORY	$400	A dynamite-filled wagon exploded in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on this NYC street in 1920	Wall Street	29%
TV TITLE PAIRS	$800	The backyard of these two title Disney TV characters was always the place to be for cool inventions & fun	Phineas & Ferb	25%
ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN	$400	"A ____ in a poke"	pig	25%
TV TITLE PAIRS	$200	This title pair of an animated favorite were a psychotic Chihuahua & a dimwitted cat	Ren & Stimpy	25%
NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS	$1000	Sealy mattresses started in Sealy, Texas in 1881; this other mattress brand introduced its Perfect Sleeper in 1931	Serta	25%
MAKING FETCH HAPPEN	$400	Punning on a rodent, it's a low-ranking employee who may fetch papers or dry cleaning	a gofer	21%
NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS	$400	These 2 paper towel brands start with "B" & end with "Y"	Bounty & Brawny	21%
SCIENTISTS	$800	Avi Loeb thinks a space object seen in 2017 & artistically depicted here comes from this 16-letter type of being, the title of his book	extraterrestrial	21%
MAKING FETCH HAPPEN	$800	Hercules' 11th labor was a fruit run to fetch these valuable items guarded by the Hesperides	golden apples	21%
NOT TO BE CONFUSED: HOUSEHOLD BRANDS	$800	Noxzema came out in 1914, just 3 years after the launch of this snowy white skin cream whose name also starts with "N"	Nivea	17%
U.S. HISTORY	$1600	The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened April 30, 1904 in this non-Louisiana city	St. Louis	17%
ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN	$1000	"One ____ does not make a summer"	swallow	17%
GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS	$400	"Hunger Games: Mockingjay" director Francis Lawrence won a Grammy for directing her "Bad Romance" video	Lady Gaga	13%
IMPORTED FROM ITALY	$1200	Any Pecorino cheese, like Pecorino Romano, comes from the milk of this animal	sheep	13%
IMPORTED FROM ITALY	$400	It's no surprise that Alba in Piedmont is the name of the town that this color truffle comes from	the white truffle	13%
IMPORTED FROM ITALY	$800	The San Marzano type of this is prized because it grows in the rich volcanic soil of Mount Vesuvius	tomatoes	13%
TV TITLE PAIRS	$400	NBC rebooted this sitcom whose title characters have the surnames Truman & Adler	Will & Grace	13%
IMPORTED FROM ITALY	$2000	This 7-letter red wine from Tuscany comes from a Sangiovese grape, but its quality varies quite a bit	Chianti	8%
TV TITLE PAIRS	$1000	They sometimes played dysfunctional couple Meegan & Andre on their Comedy Central series	Key & Peele	8%
AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG	$1600	At 16, she she was a teacher; by 19 she was married & a mother; she only began publishing books about prairie family life at age 65	Laura Ingalls Wilder	8%
AROUND THE WORLD	N/A	In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria	Madagascar	8%
AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG	$800	As a young man, he wrote action novels under the name John Lange, but would go on to write of re-created dinosaurs	Michael Crichton	8%
GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS	$1200	This actress was Grammy-worthy for directing "Quincy", a film about her father, a music legend	Rashida Jones	8%
GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS	$1600	Spike Jonze won for directing this Oscar winner dancing in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" video	Christopher Walken	4%
SCIENTISTS	$200	Ernest Rutherford wrote that this colleague for whom a "counter" is named "could count... for a whole night"	Hans Geiger	4%
AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG	$1200	This Polish author who wrote in English lived in exile in Russia as a child & went to sea as a teenager	Joseph Conrad	4%
QUOTATIONS	$1200	In "A Charlie Brown Christmas", Linus quotes this gospel's "Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy"	Luke	4%
MAKING FETCH HAPPEN	$1000	In "The Tempest", this ex-Duke of Milan says Caliban "does make our fire, fetch in our wood"	Prospero	4%
GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS	$800	"Eight Days A Week", a documentary about the Beatles, earned this "Apollo 13" director his first Grammy	Ron Howard	4%
U.S. HISTORY	$800	This body convened for the first time on March 4, 1789, but only 8 members--4 short of a quorum--showed up	the United States Senate	4%
IMPORTED FROM ITALY	$1600	Barene are salt marshes in this lagoon where Barena honey is made	the Venetian Lagoon	4%
WORDS OF WISDOM	$2000	It's "A" 6-letter noun meaning deftness, often in business	acumen	0%
QUOTATIONS	$2000	This missionary whose time was 1875-1965 said, "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always"	Albert Schweitzer	0%
SCIENTISTS	$1000	This French pioneer of studies in electricity got quite a shock when his father was guillotined in 1793	André-Marie Ampère	0%
AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG	$400	Langston Hughes attended this New York City Ivy League school & discovered Harlem, where he would help lead a renaissance	Columbia (University)	0%
ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN	$800	"As fine as ____'s hair"	frog	0%
QUOTATIONS	$1600	In "The Prophet", he wrote, "Work is love made visible"	Kahlil Gibran	0%
WORDS OF WISDOM	$400	Ralph Waldo Emerson was nicknamed this 4-letter wise person "of Concord"	Sage	0%
WORDS OF WISDOM	$1600	This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man	sapiens	0%
WORDS OF WISDOM	$1200	Often seen before "faire", this word creates a phrase meaning "knowing how to live" when it comes before "vivre"	savoir	0%
WORDS OF WISDOM	$800	Take the creature seen here, add one letter, & you have this word meaning "clever"	shrewd	0%
QUOTATIONS	$800	"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" is from the end of this brief but powerful speech	the Gettysburg Address	0%
U.S. HISTORY	$2000	On October 5, 1877 this Native people's Chief Joseph surrendered to pursuing U.S. soldiers	the Nez Perce	0%
QUOTATIONS	$400	The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this	the wind	0%
GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS	$2000	Peter Bogdanovich, director of "The Last Picture Show", won for "Runnin' Down a Dream", about this singer & his backing band	Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers)	0%
AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG	$2000	Born Chloe Wofford, she converted to Catholicism at age 12 & added the name 'Anthony to hers, from St. Anthony of Padua	Toni Morrison	0%