Statistics for Jeopardy #8425

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This quiz has been taken 25 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
STOCK: MARKETS	$200	COST is the stock symbol for this company--don't overthink it	Costco	80%
SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE!	$200	Though they may have fluff, many vultures lack these on their heads & faces, perhaps to prevent bacterial infections from carrion	feathers	53%
CINEMAPOURRI	$200	The 2 turtles Sylvester Stallone had in "Creed 2" are the same turtles he had in this 1976 movie	Rocky	53%
BEFORE BEAUTY	$200	An open-mouthed scientific vessel, or a squeaky Muppet	beaker	40%
STOCK: MARKETS	$1000	Tesco Stores is listed on this city's stock market	London	40%
AGE	$800	Thanks to a 1386 treaty signed by Richard II & João I England's oldest ally is this country	Portugal	40%
SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE!	$800	Thriving in urban areas, these carnivores also called ringtails are really scavengers & willingly share food	raccoons	40%
AGE	$200	With a pass to Antonio brown in 2021, this quarterback became the oldest to throw a postseason touchdown	Tom Brady	40%
SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE!	$600	Animals that eat from the sea floor, like lobsters, are known as this hyphenated term, also an amoral opportunist	a bottom-feeder	33%
A SPENDY LITTLE WAR	$400	A short 1840s war with this country cost the U.S. an estimated $71 million, or around $3 billion today	Mexico	33%
CINEMAPOURRI	$800	In this film Bogie's character says that Katharine Hepburn's had "ten absurd ideas for my one"	The African Queen	33%
CINEMAPOURRI	$400	C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they're being dug from the dunes where they were left	The Ten Commandments	33%
STOCK: MARKETS	$600	This mega-retailer that joined the Dow Industrials in 1997 is near the bottom of the list alphabetically	Walmart	33%
BEFORE BEAUTY	$600	Here's an artist impression of one of these, an unconventional '50s cool cat	a beatnik	27%
A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS	$1200	In the U.S., Georgia borders Alabama; on its south, Georgia borders this country that also begins & ends with "A"	Armenia	27%
BEFORE BEAUTY	$1000	This name comes before "wind force scale" in a meteorological ranking system	Beaufort	27%
STOCK: MARKETS	$400	KR is the stock symbol for this major supermarket chain	Kroger	27%
SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE!	$1000	These dog-sized marsupials named for an Australian island can clean their plates--bones, fur & all	Tasmanian devils	27%
A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS	$400	Our Georgia is on the Atlantic; the country of Georgia is sandwiched between Turkey & Russia along this sea	the Black Sea	27%
BEFORE BEAUTY	$400	Stew on this! It's a hyphenated term for an accountant	a bean counter	20%
BEFORE BEAUTY	$800	In French, this 8-letter word means "a lot"	beaucoup	20%
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL	$600	Miss Lucy Westenra, the first victim in Great Britain	Dracula	20%
BIBLICAL ART	$800	Seen here on a 14th century German panel is Jesus, raising him from the dead	Lazarus	20%
A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS	$1600	Georgia's capital Atlanta is a sister city to this national capital of Georgia	Tbilisi	20%
BIBLICAL ART	$400	For the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted "The Fall of Man" & "The Expulsion from" this place	the Garden of Eden	20%
A SPENDY LITTLE WAR	$800	A 2010 congressional report estimated that this war cost the U.S. 1.1% of its 1899 GDP	the Spanish-American War	20%
CLOTH & FABRIC	$400	Tweed is a fabric that can be made with this basic weave that also starts with "tw"	twill	20%
CLOTH & FABRIC	$1600	The fleece of this llama & vicuna relative is prized & comes in almost 2 dozen natural colors	alpaca	13%
A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS	$800	Most of Georgia's Kolkhida lowland used to be a stagnant one of these; our Georgia has the Okefenokee one	a swamp	13%
CINEMAPOURRI	$1000	Here's this woman who won no fewer than eight Academy Awards for costume design	Edith Head	13%
A SPENDY LITTLE WAR	$1600	$350 billion is one estimate for what these 2 Mideast countries spent fighting each other from 1980 to 1988	Iran & Iraq	13%
A SPENDY LITTLE WAR	$1200	In 1975 the New York Times reported that China & the U.S.S.R. had given $7.5 billion in aid to this country, 40% for its military	North Vietnam	13%
A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS	$2000	In the U.S., the Blue Ridge Mountains reach into northern Georgia; in Europe this "Great" range is to the north	the Caucasus	13%
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL	$200	Catherine & Isabella Linton	Wuthering Heights	13%
AGE	$400	One of the oldest living organisms, the pando of Utah is a grove of quaking these trees	aspens	7%
CINEMAPOURRI	$600	Paige O'Hara & Robby Benson voiced the title pair of this Disney film	Beauty and the Beast	7%
CLOTH & FABRIC	$800	This light, crinkled fabric shares a name with a light, crinkly paper	crepe	7%
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL	$800	Raskolnikov	Crime and Punishment	7%
BIBLICAL ART	$1200	Tintoretto painted "The Conversion of Saint Paul" on his way to this city	Damascus	7%
DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS	$1200	This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law"	(David) Lynch	7%
DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS	$400	Dr. Lance Gentile started as a medical adviser on this Michael Crichton-created show & by 1995 was writing & winning Emmys for it	ER	7%
GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION	$800	GLC: relating to Celtic highlanders	Gaelic	7%
DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS	$1600	"Life on the Street" was the subtitle of this Baltimore-set cop show that won in 1993 for Tom Fontana	Homicide	7%
BIBLICAL ART	$1600	Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist's "Jacob's Ladder" was recovered in 2015 & sold at auction in 2020	Marc Chagall	7%
GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION	$1600	Z: a Greek liqueur	ouzo	7%
DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS	$800	In 2019 Jesse Armstrong won for this HBO show about the dysfunctional Roy family, running a media empire	Succession	7%
A SPENDY LITTLE WAR	$2000	Britain's victory in this 1754-1763 war nearly doubled the national debt	the French and Indian War	7%
STOCK: MARKETS	$800	WFM was once the stock symbol for this company, but Amazon bought it	Whole Foods	7%
CLOTH & FABRIC	$1200	Made from hemp or jute, it's the 6-letter type of canvas seen here	burlap	0%
GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION	$400	DCDS: shedding seasonally	deciduous	0%
BIBLICAL ART	$2000	Van Dyck depicted Jesus crowned with thorns in this painting whose name means "behold the man"	Ecce Homo	0%
FICTION	N/A	In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!"	(Franz) Kafka	0%
SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE!	$400	A 2013 study said these fish are more likely to scavenge than hunt when they are longer than 14 feet	great white sharks	0%
CLOTH & FABRIC	$2000	Threads of metal are woven into this 4-letter fabric with a French name	lamé	0%
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL	$1000	Bigger Thomas, a Black youth in Chicago	Native Son	0%
DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS	$2000	In 1994, all 5 nominees were for episodes of this police series set in the fictional 15th Precinct in Manhattan	NYPD Blue	0%
GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION	$2000	Bsqs: it's from the Latin for "compliant", perhaps to excess	obsequious	0%
GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION	$1200	VR: French term describing the overall lifework of a writer	oeuvre	0%
AGE	$1000	Some of the oldest paleolithic hand axes were found in this gorge near Serengeti National Park	Olduvai Gorge	0%
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL	$400	Percy Jackson, in his first novel	The Lightning Thief	0%
AGE	$600	This infamous Boston gangster was once the oldest fugitive to make the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list at age 69	Whitey Bulger	0%