Statistics for Jeopardy #8416

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This quiz has been taken 52 times
The average score is 12 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
LANDMARKS	$200	This suspension bridge links San Francisco & Marin County	the Golden Gate Bridge	93%
TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES	$200	Here's a twist--in 2019, the top name for boys was this, like Dickens' young Mr. Twist	Oliver	78%
HEIR GUITAR	$200	The Hard Rock Hotel in Tulsa featured guitars signed by Miley Cyrus & this man, her father	Billy Ray Cyrus	63%
LANDMARKS	$600	In its own country, it's known as Wan-li Chang cheng	the Great Wall of China	63%
HEIR GUITAR	$800	This Jamaican singer taught his son Ziggy how to play guitar & drums & by age 10, Ziggy was sitting in on recording sessions	Bob Marley	59%
LANDMARKS	$400	Recent research suggests segments of this British landmark were moved 150 miles from Wales--quite a job	Stonehenge	59%
SOME GOOD NEWS	$400	Looking for a Jigglypuff on this app craze led a pair of players to "go" save a wounded puppy--awwww...	Pokémon Go	56%
HEIR GUITAR	$400	Playing with this Beatles's son Dhani, Paul McCartney repeated the line, "It looks like he stayed young and we all got old"	(George) Harrison	52%
BRING IT "ON"	$200	In the mid-1990s CALCampus became one of the first schools to offer real-time college courses this way	online	52%
SOME GOOD NEWS	$200	In 2020 this Canadian province purchased a hotel in the capital of Victoria to house its homeless population	British Columbia	48%
TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES	$600	While Freya is on the rise, this name shared by Blunt & Mortimer dropped a few notches	Emily	48%
BRING IT "ON"	$400	It means the beginning of, often in regards to an illness	onset	48%
TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES	$800	"How sweet the sound" of this name meaning a divine favor or blessing	Grace	44%
BRING IT "ON"	$800	It's a synonym for observer or spectator	onlooker	37%
BRING IT "ON"	$600	In the title of a hymn, it precedes "Christian Soldiers"	Onward	37%
HEIR GUITAR	$600	Daughter Rosanne played guitar & duetted with this country legend on "September When It Comes"	Johnny Cash	33%
LANDMARKS	$800	Commissioned to celebrate France's military victories, it stands smack in the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle	the Arc de Triomphe	33%
TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES	$400	Popular floral names include Rose, Lily & this one, like the flower seen here	Daisy	30%
HEIR GUITAR	$1000	This famous Jr. of country music sang "Waylon's Guitar", but that instrument was bought by Keith Urban	Hank Williams Jr.	26%
BRING IT "ON"	$1000	This 10-letter word is used for the process of orienting & integrating a new employee into a company	onboarding	22%
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES	$600	July 30, 1898: This ex-Prussian prime minister sinks into destiny	Otto von Bismarck	19%
SOME GOOD NEWS	$800	A therapy dog named Moose got an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine from this school based in Blacksburg	Virginia Tech	19%
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES	$800	Nov. 2, 1865: It's a bouncing baby future president in Corsica, Ohio & like so many newborns, he gets the middle name Gamaliel	Warren Harding	19%
-ISMs	$400	This economic -ism is also known as free enterprise	capitalism	15%
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES	$200	Sept. 22, 1776: The British take the life of this American spy at what is now the corner of 66th & 3rd in Manhattan	Nathan Hale	15%
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES	$400	Oct. 20, 1632: This future architect is born in England & within a few years, probably begins to design buildings on the floor	Christopher Wren	11%
HISTORY BEFORE 1738	$400	From 1229 to 1241 Ogodei expanded the Mongol Empire as the son & successor of this mane	Genghis Khan	11%
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	$400	The Caribbean has lost more than 50% of these structures due to problems like overfishing, pollution & thermal stress	(coral) reefs	7%
IT'S HYPHENATED	$400	It describes a person who's anywhere from 45 to 65	middle-aged	7%
TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES	$1000	This boy's name popular in Wales belonged to Welsh national hero Glendower	Owen	7%
SOME GOOD NEWS	$1000	A city in Costa Rica has given citizenship to bees due to this role they play in the ecosystem	pollinators	7%
CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING	$400	Mark Twain's memoir "Life on" it tells tales of one of America's great rivers	the Mississippi	7%
HISTORY BEFORE 1738	$800	Meaning "lily flower" , this emblem was adopted by French kings more than 900 years ago	a fleur-de-lis	4%
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	$2000	In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago	a horse	4%
-ISMs	$800	An erroneous reference in time, like showing a German shepherd in the film "Gladiator" (the breed didn't exist yet)	an anachronism	4%
IT'S HYPHENATED	$1600	It's the familial relationship of Peter Sarsgaard to Jake Gyllenhaal	brother-in-law	4%
HISTORY BEFORE 1738	$1600	This restored king of Great Britain reigned during the great plague & Great Fire that struck London in the 1660s	Charles II	4%
HISTORY BEFORE 1738	$1200	La Malinche was a native woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who translated for & advised this conquistador	Hernán Cortés	4%
U.K. TV	$800	"Match of the Day" presents interviews & highlights from this British soccer league	the Premier League	4%
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	$1200	A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter"	10,000 steps	0%
IT'S HYPHENATED	$2000	This French name of the deadly pit viper seen here refers to the shape of its head	a fer-de-lance	0%
SOME GOOD NEWS	$600	In 2020, a pygmy one of these--an endangered species--was born at the San Diego Zoo for the first time in over 30 years	a hippo (a pygmy hippopotamus)	0%
HISTORY BEFORE 1738	$2000	Beginning in 1168 Calixtus III ruled as one of these in opposition to Alexander III	an antipope	0%
-ISMs	$2000	CAT scans can help diagnose pulmonary these -isms, obstructions of arteries	an embolism	0%
U.K. TV	$1200	She hosted a British version of "The Weakest Link" before doing one in the States-- Goodbye!	Anne Robinson	0%
-ISMs	$1200	Saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow" is one of these, named for an Anglican clergyman	a spoonerism	0%
CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING	$1200	Whistle a happy tune & name this Pierre Boulle World War II P.O.W. novel that was made into an Oscar-winning film	Bridge on the River Kwai	0%
U.K. TV	$1600	In season one of this series, Olivia Colman investigated a boy's murder in a seaside town	Broadchurch	0%
U.K. TV	$2000	Jack Davenport & Sarah Alexander were 2 of the 6 stars of this Britcom, a sort of U.K. version of "Friends"	Coupling	0%
CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING	$2000	4 men on a canoe trip in this James Dickey novel fight to survive the wild Cahulawassee River & scary locals	Deliverance	0%
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	$800	Topped a year-round ski slope, CopenHill is a waste-to-energy plant in this European nation	Denmark	0%
U.K. TV	$400	Jodie Whittaker first took on the title role of this series in a special 2017 episode	Doctor Who	0%
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES	$1000	August 8, 1866: He is born to sharecropper parents in Maryland; the North Pole awaits	Matthew Henson	0%
IT'S HYPHENATED	$1200	It lines certain shells, like the abalone, seen here	mother-of-pearl	0%
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	$1600	In 1893 this genius made a copper egg stand on end by using his rotating magnetic field device to rapidly spin it	Nikola Tesla	0%
CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING	$1600	Alan Moorehead published histories of these 2 main branches of the world's longest river	the Blue Nile & the White Nile	0%
CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING	$800	Jonathan Schneer's history of this river includes an account of the 1215 negotiation of the Magna Carta on its banks	the Thames	0%
LANDMARKS	$1000	A surveyor named this monolith for a south Australian prime minister; its Aboriginal name has no direct English translation	Uluru (Ayers Rock)	0%
GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES	N/A	In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams	Vivien Leigh	0%
IT'S HYPHENATED	$800	Adjective for carpeting that covers the entire floor	wall-to-wall	0%
-ISMs	$1600	(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860	Zionism	0%