Statistics for Jeopardy #8429

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This quiz has been taken 31 times
The average score is 20 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
3-RING CIRCUS	$400	The top 3 rings in its logo are blue, black & red; there are 2 more below	the Olympics	100%
3-RING CIRCUS	$200	Staples offers 3-ring these that help keep all your papers in order at school	binder	88%
THIS MEANS WAR!	$800	Legally, lifting a fist in a threatening way can be this; battery takes things to the next level	assault	81%
THIS MEANS WAR!	$200	A proverbial weight-loss phrase is this "of the bulge"	battle	81%
'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE	$400	Jim Harrison's Legends of the ____"	Fall	75%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$200	In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere	Nelson Mandela	75%
'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE	$800	Herman Raucher's "____ of '42"	Summer	75%
'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE	$600	Daniel Woodrell's "____ 's Bone"	Winter	75%
'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE	$1000	Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long ____"	Winter	75%
5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM	$400	This type of ice cream engenders debate about which flavor to eat last & some strange folks take all three in one spoonful	Neapolitan	69%
5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM	$600	This brand's first ice cream scoop shop was in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont	Ben & Jerry\'s	63%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$400	As this title pair, Newman & Redford did leap off a Colorado cliff... onto a mattress a few feet below	Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid	63%
'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE	$200	P.G. Wodehouse's "____ Fever"	Spring	63%
A SIDE OF CHILE	$200	This mountain range that began forming 200 million years ago takes up most of Chile's eastern border with Argentina	the Andes	56%
THIS MEANS WAR!	$400	A cornerback or safety goes after the quarterback sack when sent in on this defensive option	a blitz	50%
5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM	$800	This "stately" ice cream dish was originally cooked in the oven, but now blowtorches are used	Baked Alaska	50%
CHURCHILL SPEAKS	$400	In his first statement as prime minister, Winston Churchill said he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears &" this	sweat	50%
CHURCHILL SPEAKS	$800	In 1932 Winston quipped this European country was "armed to the teeth", but "pacifist to the core"	France	44%
3-RING CIRCUS	$800	The 3-ring canopy release system helps to make this risky pastime a bit less risky	skydiving	44%
BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC	$400	Kathleen Hanna wrote "Smells Like" this on a wall & Kurt Cobain used it in a song title not knowing it was a deodorant brand	Teen Spirit	44%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$1000	Played by Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Fifth Estate", he called the film "a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks"	Julian Assange	38%
CHURCHILL SPEAKS	$1200	"Darkest Hour" & "Dunkirk" highlight Churchill's speech that says, "We shall fighti n the hills; we shall never" do this	surrender	38%
A SIDE OF CHILE	$800	Not including polar regions, this Chilean desert is considered the world's driest	the Atacama	38%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$600	Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie	The Wolf of Wall Street	38%
MYTHOLOGY	$400	This dog who guarded the entrance to Hades is often described as having 3 heads & a serpent's tail	Cerberus	31%
3-RING CIRCUS	$1000	(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York.) The three rings circling the 1964 Unisphere here in Queens represents the three famous orbits at the time--the Telstar satellite, Yuri Gagarin's flight & this American's February 1962 mission	John Glenn	31%
THIS MEANS WAR!	$1000	This 5-letter word borrowed from French describes hand-fighting done by scores of people	melee	31%
A SIDE OF CHILE	$400	This capital on the Mapocho River endured an 8.8 earthquake in 2010	Santiago	31%
THIS MEANS WAR!	$600	To come into conflict, as the same-named "Train In Vain" band members certainly did	The Clash	31%
MYTHOLOGY	$800	In Norse myth, slain heroes chosen by Odin feasted & reveled in this great "hall"	Valhalla	31%
BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC	$2000	Mattel originally sued the band Aqua over this song, but eventually used it in commercials for the doll	"Barbie Girl"	25%
CHURCHILL SPEAKS	$1600	Referencing America's Secretary of State in 1953, Winston said, "Dull, duller," this last name	Dulles	25%
BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC	$1600	"Mercedes Benz" was the last song recorded by this woman before her untimely death in 1970	Janis Joplin	25%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$800	He has the same birthday--January 17--as Andy Kaufman, whom he portrayed in "Man on the Moon"	Jim Carrey	25%
A SIDE OF CHILE	$600	Kristine Tompkins, who gave land for five national parks, joins Chile's president in this region, also the outdoor company she ran	Patagonia	25%
MYTHOLOGY	$2000	A weaver by day & an unraveler by night, she kept suitors at bay during Odysseus' absence by never finishing her shroud	Penelope	25%
5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM	$200	Tom Carvel is famous for this type of ice cream created when truck problems caused his product to melt	soft serve	25%
A SIDE OF CHILE	$1000	In the 1970s this Chilean dictator used Dawson Island as a concentration camp for political adversaries	Pinochet	19%
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$400	In Russia, September 1 is Knowledge Day, when children return here	school	19%
3-RING CIRCUS	$600	"Thr33 Ringz" was a 2008 album from this master of Auto-Tune seen here	T-Pain	19%
MYTHOLOGY	$1600	The Egyptian sun god Re became identified with this god of Thebes & their names were joined together	Amun	13%
5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM	$1000	The Chicago mob had a bad temper when they destroyed this ice cream bar company's fleet for not paying protection in 1929	Good Humor	13%
BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC	$1200	Sales at this seafood restaurant chain spiked when it was mentioned in Beyoncé's song "Formation"	Red Lobster	13%
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$800	On Pitcairn Island, January 23 is celebrated as the date that this ship burned	the Bounty	13%
CHURCHILL SPEAKS	$2000	With his party voted out, Churchill said he couldn't accept this order after being given "the Order of the Boot"	the Order of the Garter	13%
BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC	$800	In a "Be smooth like Skippy" commercial, Skippy peanut butter uses this song where Bruno Mars mentions the brand	"Uptown Funk"	13%
MYTHOLOGY	$1200	An avid hunter, this handsome youth was killed by a wild boar	Adonis	6%
ENDS IN "A-D-O"	$400	It's also called a twister	a tornado	6%
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$1600	If you are on this Indonesian island around the Hindu new year, you may not be able to leave your hotel during Nyepi, the day of silence	Bali	6%
ENDS IN "A-D-O"	$1200	"Tequila Sunrise" is a track from this Eagles album that had an Old-West concept	Desperado	6%
ENDS IN "A-D-O"	$800	Borrowed from Spanish, it's a big fan or devotee of something, perhaps sports	aficionado	0%
ENDS IN "A-D-O"	$2000	A "Cask of" this sherry figures prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe tale	Amontillado	0%
OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS	$400	For its fossil, Alabama chose 70-foot Basilosaurus, now classified as this big marine mammal	a whale	0%
ENDS IN "A-D-O"	$1600	When you're out of touch or refuse to have contact with someone, you're this 13-letter word	incommunicado	0%
AMERICAN AUTHORS	N/A	"Camelot" , "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author	Mark Twain	0%
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$2000	In Europe, this magical holiday is celebrated the week of the June solstice	Midsummer	0%
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$1200	Celebrating unattached people, China's biggest shopping holiday is singles day, on this fall date with lots of 1s	November 11th	0%
OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS	$1600	Maryland goes big & small with its state dinosaur, a sauropod, & state fossil, a type of this shelled gastropod	snail	0%
OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS	$1200	The skull of a Triceratops, this state's fossil, is on display at the museum of geology in Rapid City	South Dakota	0%
OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS	$800	Alaska's fossil is of the mammoth & Michigan's is of this related tusked beast of the Pleistocene	the mastodon	0%
OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS	$2000	The official fossil of this state is a bivalve called Chesapecten jeffersonius	Virginia	0%