Statistics for Jeopardy #8434

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This quiz has been taken 35 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THE MOVIE IN QUESTION	$400	1937, starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: "Shall We ____"	Dance	86%
THE MOVIE IN QUESTION	$200	1993, starring a young Johnny Depp: "What's Eating Gilbert ____"	Grape	82%
NONFICTION	$200	Timothy Winegard's 2019 book about this insect is subtitled "A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator"	the mosquito	73%
LANDFORMS	$200	Down in Florida, Canaveral is one of these, from Old French for "head"	a cape	68%
"C" AS IN CAT	$200	Sadly, this fast spotted cat hasn't prospered--it's endangered	a cheetah	64%
14-LETTER WORDS	$200	In arithmetic this operation yields a product	multiplication	64%
LANDFORMS	$800	This word for a type of landform comes from Old Norse for "inlet"	a fjord	59%
"C" AS IN CAT	$400	The puma is also known as the catamount & this other "c"at	the cougar	45%
14-LETTER WORDS	$400	It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired	an understatement	36%
14-LETTER WORDS	$1000	In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences"	irreconcilable	36%
THE MOVIE IN QUESTION	$600	1977, starring Richard Pryor: "Which Way is ____?"	Up	36%
THE FIRST OF JULY	$1200	Sony introduced this portable item July 1, 1979	a Walkman	32%
BOSTON: NEWS CLUES	$200	(Hi, I'm David Wade.) In 1982, "Boston Magazine" named the Bull & Finch Pub in Beacon Hill the best neighborhood bar; it inspired this sitcom where everybody knew your name & in 1993, the cast gathered there, to celebrate the final episode	Cheers	32%
THE FIRST OF JULY	$400	Bring on the summer blockbusters! On July 1, 1984 the MPAA introduced this new alphanumeric movie rating	PG-13	32%
BOSTON: NEWS CLUES	$400	(Hi, I'm Kate Merrill.) In 1998, childhood friends Matt Damon & Ben Affleck won an Oscar for the screenplay of this film set at MIT & around Harvard where Damon originally began writing the script	Good Will Hunting	27%
NONFICTION	$400	In her book about this punctuation mark, Cecelia Watson wrote, "Big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink"	the semicolon	27%
LANDFORMS	$1000	Climbers, beware of these French-named fissures that score the surface of glaciers	a crevasse	23%
THE 3 "R"s	$1200	Framboise is the French name for this fruit	a raspberry	23%
"C" AS IN CAT	$600	Cats with this coat pattern caused by a genetic anomaly are almost always female	calico	23%
14-LETTER WORDS	$800	Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting"	gentrification	23%
THE MASKED MUSICIAN	$400	Gene Simmons says it takes him 2 hours to get into his makeup for this band; he said Paul Stanley takes 45 minutes but has less to do	Kiss	23%
BOSTON: NEWS CLUES	$600	(Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered	Brink\'s	18%
THE MASKED MUSICIAN	$1200	Why did this hitmaking duo that broke up in 2021 wear helmets? "Robots are exciting to people"	Daft Punk	18%
THE 3 "R"s	$1600	A transparent container for keeping reptiles indoors	a terrarium	14%
THE FIRST OF JULY	$800	This song officially became a national anthem July 1, 1980	"O Canada"	14%
THE MASKED MUSICIAN	$1600	This Broadway musical title character began haunting the Majestic on Jan. 26, 1988 & stuck around for a while	the Phantom of the Opera	14%
LANDFORMS	$600	Waves force water & air to spout through a rock fissure with this 8-letter name; here's one in Hawaii	a blowhole	9%
TRYING ON SOME GENES	$1200	Later suspected in doping, the gene therapy repoxygen was developed to treat this disease by increasing the red blood cell count	anemia	9%
"C" AS IN CAT	$800	Naturally, the breed known as this Rex was discovered on a farm in Cornwall, England	Cornish	9%
THE MASKED MUSICIAN	$800	Despite what he sang in "Glass Onion", he was the walrus playing piano in the "Magical Mystery Tour" film	(John) Lennon	9%
BOSTON: NEWS CLUES	$1000	(Hi, I'm Steve Burton.) John McCain is among the public officials who've been honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library with an award for leadership, named for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK	Profiles in Courage	9%
'TIS SHAKESPEARE	$400	John Dryden & his brother-in-law revised this tragedy so everybody (well, not Tybalt) lives happily ever after	Romeo and Juliet	9%
THE FIRST OF JULY	$2000	July 1, 1879 saw Charles Taze Russell publish the first edition of this Jehovah's witness magazine	The Watchtower	9%
TRYING ON SOME GENES	$2000	It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA	thymine	9%
TRYING ON SOME GENES	$400	TP53 is a gene that suppresses this, a mass of abnormal tissue growth; a mutated TP53 is linked with 50% of all cancers	tumors	9%
NONFICTION	$800	"The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making	Yemen	9%
THE 3 "R"s	$400	"The Turn of the Screw" has an "unreliable" one of these	a narrator	5%
INNOVATING WOMEN	$400	Polly Smith, Lisa Lindahl & Hinda Miller patented the first one of these garments "suitable for women runners"	a sports bra	5%
'TIS SHAKESPEARE	$2000	"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life	Cleopatra	5%
'TIS SHAKESPEARE	$1200	The rousing "Band of Brothers" speech in this play takes place before the Battle of Agincourt	Henry V	5%
NONFICTION	$600	"Over the Top" is a memoir by JVN, short for this grooming expert on Netflix's "Queer Eye"	Jonathan Van Ness	5%
14-LETTER WORDS	$600	In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose	reconnaissance	5%
'TIS SHAKESPEARE	$1600	In a bit of payback for all the female roles taken by men, in 1899, this French actress played Hamlet	Sarah Bernhardt	5%
'TIS SHAKESPEARE	$800	The movie "All is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613	the Globe Theatre	5%
RIVERS	N/A	In "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson said the most beautiful river on Earth is this one no longer in Virginia	the Ohio	5%
LANDFORMS	$400	The triangular shape of a spread-out deposit at the mouth of a stream gives it the name alluvial this	a delta (a fan)	0%
BOSTON: NEWS CLUES	$800	(Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes.) Local hero Pete Frates, the man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge, helped raise awareness & millions of dollars to fight this disease that claimed Lou Gehrig's life & sadly his own at 34	ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)	0%
THE 3 "R"s	$800	Adjective for a legal judgment made without basis in law	arbitrary	0%
THE 3 "R"s	$2000	The blood-brain this is made of tight capillary walls & reduces the danger of mercury poisoning	barrier	0%
INNOVATING WOMEN	$1200	Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd has created a lot of buzz since launching this dating app where women make the first move	Bumble	0%
INNOVATING WOMEN	$800	In the early 1900s Melitta Bentz used a piece of blotting paper to create this & then a company to make them	coffee filters	0%
THE MASKED MUSICIAN	$2000	Known for "Ghosts N Stuff", this Canadian DJ got some help with his distinctive "rodent" look from the Jim Henson Company	Deadmau5	0%
NONFICTION	$1000	This author's first major book was 1742's "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist"	Edmond Hoyle	0%
TRYING ON SOME GENES	$1600	An abnormal gene on chromosome 4 is the cause of this chorea or disease of the nervous system, described in 1872	Huntington\'s	0%
THE MOVIE IN QUESTION	$800	2000, set in the 1930s: "O ____ ,____ ____ ____?"	O Brother, Where Are Thou?	0%
INNOVATING WOMEN	$1600	Helping to develop medicines for gout, leukemia & malaria, Gertrude Elion was a pioneer in this 12-letter -ology	pharmacology	0%
TRYING ON SOME GENES	$800	This "re" adjective for a molecule of genetic material means it's been spliced together using DNA from different sources	recombinant	0%
INNOVATING WOMEN	$2000	Many early rock-and-rollers were influenced by the innovative gospel great known as Sister her	Rosetta (Tharpe)	0%
"C" AS IN CAT	$1000	Neofelis nebulosa is the scientific name of this leopard with a strikingly marked coat	the clouded leopard	0%
THE MOVIE IN QUESTION	$1000	1993, about the woman seen here; the 7-word title	What\'s Love Got to Do with It	0%