Statistics for Jeopardy #8426

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This quiz has been taken 70 times
The average score is 12 of 58

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THE OLYMPIC FLAME	$200	In 1992 there was a dramatic lighting by Paralympian Antonio Rebollo, who shot a flaming this	arrow	83%
PLAIN-NAMED MALADIES	$200	The injury called this fruit "hand" is on the rise--use a cutting board when making guacamole!	avocado	76%
SOME RANDOM INFO	$400	This country's flag has 5 stars for the 5 lands of the United Provinces of Central America; conveniently, they form an "H"	Honduras	76%
PLAIN-NAMED MALADIES	$600	Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is also known as Grinch syndrome because this organ is too small	the heart	68%
THE OLYMPIC FLAME	$400	In 2012 this soccer star stylishly transported the torch up the Thames in a speedboat	Beckham	61%
THE OLYMPIC FLAME	$600	In 1956 on a flight from Singapore to Jakarta, the Olympic torch crossed this for the first time	the equator	59%
YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP	$400	This desert stretches more than 3,000 miles from Mauritania to Sudan	the Sahara	41%
PLAIN-NAMED MALADIES	$800	A type of glossitis, "geographic" this sense organ gives it a map-like appearance	tongue	39%
MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD	$1000	Adam Sandler takes out Drew Barrymore over & over (2004)	"First"	37%
A BRIEF HISTORY	$600	"Lifeboat No. 8" by Elizabeth Kaye recounts this disaster in 70 pages from the point of view of a group of survivors	the Titanic	34%
MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD	$200	Henry Fonda & a jury decide a fate(1957)	"Angry"	32%
MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD	$800	Hilary Swank hits like a girl--a really, really powerful girl (2004)	"Dollar"	32%
SOME RANDOM INFO	$200	Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline	Dracula	32%
MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD	$600	Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989)	"Poets"	32%
A BRIEF HISTORY	$400	Boris Fausto's "Concise History of" this nation covers 500 years, starting with the arrival of the Portuguese	Brazil	29%
OF "TIME"	$200	Aye, it means connected with the sea or nautical activities	maritime	29%
PLAIN-NAMED MALADIES	$400	Cercarial dermatitis, this type of athlete's "itch", is not caused by chlorine but by a parasite	swimmer\'s	29%
PLAIN-NAMED MALADIES	$1000	Similar to carpal tunnel syndrome, "baby" this joint affects the parents, not the baby	wrist	27%
MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD	$400	O'shea Jackson Jr. plays Ice Cube (his dad) (2015)	"Outta"	20%
SOME RANDOM INFO	$1000	This app that took a wild ride in 2021 with stocks like AMC Theatres was formed in 2015 to democratize investing	Robinhood	20%
POP CULTURE	$1200	In 2020 the plastic crown worn by this "Big Poppa" rapper in his final photo shoot sold at auction for nearly $600,000	the Notorious B.I.G.	20%
POP CULTURE	$400	In 2020 this character was back in "Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime..."	Borat	17%
QUITE A PARADOX	$400	Olbers' paradox is the fact that the night sky is dark; why don't these light it up?	stars	17%
POP CULTURE	$800	Seen Anya-Taylor Joy helped make this miniseries one of streaming TV's most successful	The Queen\'s Gambit	17%
YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP	$1200	We believe you'll be "Abel" to name this sea between Australia & New Zealand that covers nearly a million square miles in area	the Tasman Sea	17%
A BRIEF HISTORY	$1000	Jonathan Clements' "Brief History of" this group asks, were they "the last pagans or the first modern Europeans?"	the Vikings	17%
YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP	$2000	Ontario is on the eastern border of this Canadian province that boasts Brandon & Flin Flon	Manitoba	15%
SOME RANDOM INFO	$600	The last person to receive a pension from this war died in 2020; the 90-year-old woman's dad changed sides midway through	the American Civil War	15%
POP CULTURE	$1600	Watch out, William! Prince Harry said one of his favorite films is this 1994 Disney cartoon with a royal sibling usurper	The Lion King	15%
QUITE A PARADOX	$800	The liar paradox begins with a contradictory statement: the given "sentence is" this	false	12%
OF "TIME"	$400	In this system, employees choose the hours they wish to work as long as it totals a full day	flex time	12%
OF "TIME"	$800	It begins at midnight at 0 degrees longitude & includes a place name	Greenwich Mean Time	12%
A BRIEF HISTORY	$200	To make it more accessible, Stephen Hawking followed up "A Brief History of Time" with this even more concise version	A Briefer History of Time	10%
OF "TIME"	$600	Louis Chauvin & Thomas Turpin were pioneers of this syncopated forerunner of jazz	ragtime	10%
SOME RANDOM INFO	$800	Bruce Peterson's horrific 1967 crash of Northrop's M2-F2 was in this 1970s TV series opening; Peterson survived, but without bionics	The Six Million Dollar Man	10%
A BRIEF HISTORY	$800	Pruning away some of its regal glamour, "My Kingdom for a Horse" is a capsule of this British conflict	the War of the Roses	10%
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS	$1600	Kurt Vonnegut said his Purple Heart was not for surviving the firebombing of this German city but for frostbite	Dresden	7%
FAMILIAR PHRASES	$400	Temperature-based phrase for information that's just been printed in a newspaper	hot off the presses	7%
QUITE A PARADOX	$1600	"No one does wrong voluntarily" is one of the paradoxes this man attributed to Socrates	Plato	7%
YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP	$1600	Extending from the Arctic coast to the Kazakhstan border, this Russian mountain range goes north/south for about 1,500 miles	the Urals	7%
QUITE A PARADOX	$1200	One of Zeno's paradoxes involves Achilles racing this animal (which had a head start)	a tortoise	5%
FAMILIAR PHRASES	$800	Longtime Philly DJ Jerry Blavat helped popularize this "explosive" rhyming phrase for something good out of the old days	blast from the past	5%
QUITE A PARADOX	$2000	William Stanley Jevons' 19th century paradox stated if you increase this fuel's efficiency, consumption of it will rise	coal	5%
AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS	$1200	The title refers to a high-flying rocket in this third Ian Fleming James Bond novel	Moonraker	5%
AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS	$800	In this third John Grisham thriller, 2 Supreme Court justices are killed & a journalist helps a law student on the run	The Pelican Brief	5%
OF "TIME"	$1000	2-word term referring to a period before recorded history; in law, a claim dating from then needs no proof	time immemorial	5%
POP CULTURE	$2000	Scandal sang, "Shooting at the walls of heartache, bang bang, I am" this	warrior	5%
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS	$800	Future Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth received the medal after an RPG took down this she was piloting in Iraq in 2004	a helicopter	2%
AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS	$2000	Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men	castrati	2%
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS	$1200	He is the only U.S. president to have received the medal	John F. Kennedy	2%
FAMILIAR PHRASES	$1600	Travis McGee observes, "People who become" these "in their own time usually have very little time left"	legends	2%
REFERENCE BOOKS	N/A	Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion"	(Noah) Webster	2%
AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS	$1600	Marine officer & disciplinarian dad Bull Meecham in this third book by Pat Conroy calls himself this, the novel's title	The Great Santini	2%
YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP	$800	To sail from the Bahamas to the U.S. mainland, you cross these straits	the Straits of Florida	2%
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS	$400	World War I Sergeant Stubby, who warned soldiers of gas attacks, is seen here with his medals & of course, these around his neck	dog tags	0%
FAMILIAR PHRASES	$2000	Shakespeare put "cry" before this word, an order to soldiers to start looting & pillaging	havoc	0%
FAMILIAR PHRASES	$1200	To the phrase "Safe as" these little creatures, James Thurber added "under a cookstove"	kittens	0%
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS	$2000	Rod Serling was awarded a Purple Heart & this country's liberation medal for his efforts in places like Leyte	the Philippines	0%