Statistics for Jeopardy #8435

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This quiz has been taken 41 times
The average score is 13 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS	$200	Australia has six stars, including a Commonwealth one; this island nation to the southeast, just four	New Zealand	92%
REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS	$400	Compared to the Netherlands, this smaller Low country has a shorter flag with a different blue	Luxembourg	75%
3's COMPANY	$800	In 2011 this tech company launched Office 365	Microsoft	75%
REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS	$1000	Romania's flag dates to 1861; the flag of this 4-letter African nation dates to 1959, just before its independence from France	Chad	67%
PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL	$200	You forced yourself to do a difficult job, so yes, you had to "bite" this projectile but no, not literally	the bullet	63%
REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS	$600	The sea named for this nation separates it from Iceland more effectively than their flags, both with Danish roots	Norway	54%
3's COMPANY	$1000	In 2018 this company met its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 sedans in a week	Tesla	54%
PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL	$600	Studying for that test until dawn, you "burned" this timely 2-word phrase but probably not for real, as it's not 1855	the (mid)night oil	54%
3's COMPANY	$400	Big3 is a league that puts a twist on this sport, like scoring with 4-pointers	basketball	46%
REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS	$800	Indonesia's flag is longer than that of this country & Indonesia's colors don't represent the Grimaldi family	Monaco	46%
THE SHAPE OF THINGS	$600	This largest artery is said to resemble a candy cane	the aorta	46%
PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL	$1000	Using every means available, you "pulled out all" these, like pipe organists once did to get full volume	the stops	46%
PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL	$400	Though the cause had a lot of mass appeal, you only "jumped on" one of these conveyances proverbially	the bandwagon	42%
PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL	$800	A tailor using a certain number of yards of material to make a suit is one theory of being "dressed to" these	the nines	42%
FAMOUS NAMES	$200	A hoodlum named Frank Galluccio slashed him across his left cheek, earning him the nickname "Scarface"	Al Capone	38%
3's COMPANY	$200	The logo for this sweet spot incorporates the number 31 in the initials of the company	Baskin & Robbins	38%
FAMOUS NAMES	$400	This Italian's brother Bartholomew was also an explorer & was an expert chart maker	Columbus	33%
ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE	$400	For many decades until 1998, NHL games were officiated by just one	a referee	29%
THE SHAPE OF THINGS	$200	Very obviously, this building was named for its shape	the Pentagon	29%
FAMOUS NAMES	$600	His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890	Vincent van Gogh	29%
ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE	$800	The double-vowel spelling of this African-American festival matches the 7 principles it's based one	Kwanzaa	25%
3's COMPANY	$600	This "national" adhesive from 3M has been keeping things together since 1930	Scotch tape	25%
THE SHAPE OF THINGS	$800	It's the art of growing & trimming trees & shrubs into different shapes, often animals	topiary	25%
TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL	$400	Will Schuester & Sue Sylvester were on staff at William McKinley High in Lima, Ohio	Glee	21%
TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL	$800	Zack & A.C. roamed the halls of Bayside High in Palisades, California	Saved By the Bell	21%
KISS ME, KATE!	$1200	Spoiler alert: "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" ends with Matthew McConaughey kissing this actress	Kate Hudson	17%
THE ART OF THE LIMERICK	$400	This nursery rhyme about a rodent & a timepiece has been called an ancestor of the limerick	"Hickory Dickory Dock"	13%
CANADIANA	$400	The iconic Canadian department store nicknamed The Bay traces its history to this company founded in 1670	Hudson Bay	13%
OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492	$800	Perkin Warbeck was a pretender acclaimed by many as Richard, duke of this royal house that had recently been ousted in England	York	13%
THE SHAPE OF THINGS	$1000	When capitalized, this Greek letter looks like an upside down "V"	a lambda	8%
TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL	$600	Both on the Upper East Side, Constance Billard School for Girls & St. Jude's School for Boys	Gossip Girl	8%
OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492	$1600	Antonio de Nebrija dedicated his "Castilian Grammar" to this queen, having a busy year	Isabella	8%
THE SHAPE OF THINGS	$400	This singer's Purr & Meow! fragrances come in cat-shaped bottles	Katy Perry	8%
THE ART OF THE LIMERICK	$800	In Ranjit Bolt's book "A Lion Was Learning to" do this, the title Limerick continues, "in the Alps just outside Chamonix"	Ski	8%
WHAT A FUNGI	$400	These prized edible fungi come from the genus Tuber	truffles	8%
ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE	$2000	Likely from Portuguese words meaning "wine" & "garlic", it's a spicy hot Indian curry	vindaloo	8%
WHAT A FUNGI	$800	A fungus is the culprit in white nose syndrome, killing more than 6 million of these animals in North American caves	bats	4%
TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL	$200	Sunnydale High seems like hell & sits atop an actual hellmouth	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	4%
THE ART OF THE LIMERICK	$1200	A Lewis Carroll girl "grew...thinner & thinner / The reason was plain / She slept out in the rain / & was never allowed any" this	dinner	4%
KISS ME, KATE!	$2000	Kate Winslet kissed Jim Carrey in this film, but then she faded away	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	4%
FAMOUS NAMES	$800	The founder of China's Yuan Dynasty, he constructed a new capital city in 1267	Kublai Khan	4%
OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492	$1200	This Florentine gave us "Battle of the Centaurs", a relief now in Casa Buonarrotti	Michelangelo	4%
ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE	$1200	A vodka brand in a blue bottle that sounds quite celestial	Skyy	4%
OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492	$400	Long in ill health, Lorenzo the Magnificent of this family died in April at age 43, shortly after a meeting with Savonarola	the Medicis	4%
KISS ME, KATE!	$1600	On this series, Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck canoodled with Zak Adama & his brother Apollo	Battlestar Galactica	0%
CANADIANA	$2000	Almost 100 billion tons of seawater comes & goes daily in this top vote getter in a CBC poll to determine the 7 Wonders of Canada	Bay of Fundy	0%
WHAT A FUNGI	$1200	A type of rust that infects this beverage crop was discovered in Africa around 1870 & kept out of Brazil for a century	coffee	0%
ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE	$1600	This traditional musical instrument is also called a dronepipe	didgeridoo	0%
WHAT A FUNGI	$2000	LSD was created from this fungal disease of cereals known to create its own hallucinations	ergot	0%
CANADIANA	$1200	The pride of Cardston, Alberta, she played Ann Darrow in "King Kong"	Fay Wray	0%
HIT SONGS	N/A	Written in 1930, this song was a No.1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate	"Georgia On My Mind"	0%
OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492	$2000	In May hungry peasants called the bread & cheese folk briefly seized this Dutch city; you could call it a rage in...	Harlem	0%
THE ART OF THE LIMERICK	$1600	This prolific sci-fi & sci writer also produced "Lecherous Limericks" & a "Grossery" of limericks--we'll quote neither	Isaac Asimov	0%
THE ART OF THE LIMERICK	$2000	19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard"	Lear	0%
CANADIANA	$1600	Around the year 1000, the Vikings established a small camp on this large eastern island	Newfoundland	0%
FAMOUS NAMES	$1000	This ancient Greek wrote "Parallel Lives", paired biographies of famous Greeks & Romans	Plutarch	0%
KISS ME, KATE!	$800	On this spinoff of "Grey's Anatomy" Kate Walsh got some kissy face from fellow doc Taye Diggs	Private Practice	0%
WHAT A FUNGI	$1600	The giant type of this mushroom is named for the way it releases spores; it can contain 7 trillion	puffball	0%
KISS ME, KATE!	$400	Kate Mara kissed Sebastian Stan on his spacesuit helmet as he prepped to rescue Matt Damon in this film	The Martian	0%
TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL	$1000	Neptune High, where mysteries abounded	Veronica Mars	0%
CANADIANA	$800	Hog cholera prompted the founding of North America's oldest of these colleges, at the University of Guelph in Ontario	veterinary medicine	0%