Statistics for Jeopardy #8437

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This quiz has been taken 42 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
AMERICANA	$600	Santa Monica's Pacific Park has a taco stand punningly named "Whac-a-" this 2-syllable Mexican sauce	mole	78%
CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES	$200	This country's Ravla Khempur stands in as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"	India	67%
CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES	$800	Macaulay Culkin cons his way into a room at the Plaza Hotel in this sequel	Home Alone 2	61%
USE YOUR TWO "I"s	$400	Save me some of this! Another word for cake frosting	icing	56%
AMERICANA	$400	El Yunque on this Caribbean island is the only tropical rain forest in the U.S. national forest system	Puerto Rico	56%
CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES	$400	In "Lost in Translation" , Bill Murray meets Scarlett Johansson high above this city in the Park Hyatt Hotel	Tokyo	50%
USE YOUR TWO "I"s	$200	It can mean a ghost or strong alcohol	a spirit	44%
STREET ART	$600	The foundation started by street artist Keith Haring seeks to promote awareness of this illness that Keith died of in 1990	AIDS	39%
RESISTING A REST	$200	Just my luck--the North American yellow-bellied sapsucker is this kind of bird, & its noisy headbanging is keeping me up	a woodpecker	39%
WOMEN WHO WRITE	$600	Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins covered 1920s murder trials & wrote this play about Roxie & Velma that became a musical	Chicago	33%
WOMEN WHO WRITE	$200	It's the first name shared by bestselling authors Hoffman, Walker & Munro	Alice	28%
USE YOUR TWO "I"s	$800	The Egyptian god Thoth was often depicted with the head of this bird	an ibis	28%
AMERICANA	$800	Unusually, one building of the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia is made of this flammable mineral	coal	28%
AMERICANA	$200	This hero of a folk ballad says, "If I can't beat this steam drill down, I'll die with this hammer in my hand!"	John Henry	22%
BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY	$800	Attractive, like Roy Orbison's "Woman"	pretty	22%
RESISTING A REST	$400	I'm trying to catch some ZZZs, but this feature on my alarm clock keeps telling me to wake up every 10 minutes	the snooze button	22%
USE YOUR TWO "I"s	$600	A period of intentionally staying awake to keep watch or to pray	vigil	22%
RESISTING A REST	$800	Machines making this "colorful" sound have been helping folks sleep since 1962, but mine isn't blocking out the jackhammers	white noise	22%
WOMEN WHO WRITE	$400	Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write the words to this patriotic anthem after climbing Pikes Peak	"America The Beautiful"	17%
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$1200	The Feast of St. Stephen, called Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries, is observed on this date	December 26th	17%
BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY	$400	As a noun, it's a monetary penalty paid to a court; as an adjective, it describes a pleasing look	fine	17%
WOMEN WHO WRITE	$800	Her husband Scott told an editor not to praise her novel "Save Me the Waltz" too highly, as it would not be good for her mental state	Zelda Fitzgerald	17%
STREET ART	$400	Shepard Fairey got in a protracted lawsuit with the A.P. over a poster he created from a photo they took of this man	Barack Obama	11%
USE YOUR TWO "I"s	$1000	After my bagpipes solo, I really had reason to say the catchphrase "everyone's a" this	critic	11%
THE HUMAN BODY	$400	The spleen & the thymus are part of the lymphatic system & this disease-fighting system	immune system	11%
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES	$400	This Doors frontman was "the Lizard King" as well as "Mr. Mojo Risin"', an anagram of his name	Jim Morrison	11%
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$400	Carnival in Rio takes place just before this holy season, a period of fasting before Easter	Lent	11%
A WORLD TO KISS	$1600	In this French pilgrimage city, many have kissed the stone in the cave where St. Bernadette had her vision	Lourdes	11%
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES	$800	Smokey Robinson said this "Let's Get It On" singer's Motown nickname was "Dad" because he "used to walk like an old man"	Marvin Gaye	11%
A WORLD TO KISS	$1200	In the 1930s newly single women were known to kiss the Washoe County courthouse pillars in this divorce-friendly Nevada city	Reno	11%
STREET ART	$800	Cities around the globe have pixel-style street art by Invader, whose name is inspired by this 1970s arcade game	Space Invaders	11%
BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY	$1600	Tall & shapely, resembling a marble artwork	statuesque	11%
STREET ART	$200	The Ecuador-born artist known as Lady Pink became famous for painting on these transports in New York City, 1979-1985	subway cars	11%
THE HUMAN BODY	$1200	This ligament, the ACL for short, prevents the tibia from moving too far forward when the leg is bent	anterior cruciate ligament	6%
BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY	$2000	This Spanish word for really beautiful can end in -mo or -ma; the Italian word sounds the same	bellisima	6%
RESISTING A REST	$600	I took too many NoDoz, an oral tablet of this alkaloid, & now there's no sleep for me	caffeine	6%
BEAUTIFUL VOCABULARY	$1200	It's the "D" word often found preceding "tones" regarding a melodious voice	dulcet	6%
STREET ART	$1000	This hip-hop artist got his 3-word name from his association with the Brooklyn street art crew the Fabulous 5	Fab 5 Freddy	6%
AMERICANA	$1000	The USA's oldest continuously operating one, this building has linked Hinsdale, N.H. with the world since it opened in 1816	post office	6%
A WORLD TO KISS	$800	Kissing this at a castle in County Cork will get you the gift of gab, or so they say	the Blarney Stone	6%
CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES	$600	This iconic San Diego hotel was a setting for "Some Like It Hot"	the Coronado	6%
THE HUMAN BODY	$800	Sometimes done to treat cysts, an oophorectomy is the removal of this body part	the ovaries	6%
AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860	$2000	Richard Allen was honored on a 2016 stamp, 200 years after he founded the church commonly known by these three initials	AME (African Methodist Episcopal)	0%
AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860	$400	In an 1843 speech Henry Garnet told slaves to consider "the shedding of" this for freedom; Frederick Douglass disagreed	blood	0%
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES	$2000	This Led Zeppelin drummer & wild man was "Bonzo"	Bonham	0%
RESISTING A REST	$1000	I'd love to get some shut-eye but these "equine" muscle spasms in my legs don't help, nor do my cries of agony	charley horse	0%
THE HUMAN BODY	$2000	The "dur" in epidural refers to this 2-word tough lining of the spinal cord & the brain	dura mater	0%
CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES	$1000	The secluded mansion where android Alicia Vikander is held captive is in this movie is really Norway's Juvet Landscape Hotel	Ex Machina	0%
AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860	$1600	In 1838, 272 slaves were sold to keep this D.C. Jesuit U. going; now a building is named for one of them, Isaac Hawkins	Georgetown	0%
WOMEN WHO WRITE	$1000	This activist & poet wrote "The New Colossus" to help raise money for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal	Lazarus	0%
AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860	$800	Dave the Potter engraved his work with poetry but not in part of the 1840s when this ability was extra dangerous for the enslaved	literacy	0%
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES	$1600	This "Solitary Man" who's rocked many a jumpsuit is also known as "The Jewish Elvis"	Neil Diamond	0%
THE HUMAN BODY	$1600	These wrist bones border a tunnel, through which a nerve runs	the carpals	0%
A WORLD TO KISS	$400	In Spanish churches, besamanos & besapiés are the customs of kissing these 2 parts of religious statues	the hands & the feet	0%
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES	$1200	The legendary Jerry Lee Lewis has this lethal nickname	"The Killer"	0%
AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860	$1200	The first African American to fight in this corps, John Martin helped capture 5 ships in a Revolutionary War attack	the Marine Corps	0%
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	N/A	In 2019 this public university attempted to trademark the word "the" for use on clothing & hats	(the) Ohio State University	0%
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$800	A Halloween tradition began in 1950 when trick-or-treaters in Philadelphia sent $17 to this organization	UNICEF	0%
A WORLD TO KISS	$2000	It's traditional at this venerable state university to streak across the space known as the Lawn & kiss the Homer statue	University of Virginia	0%
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$2000	In 1996 the NYC parade for this fall day was down to 15 blocks & a few spectators; in 2009 30,000 participants marched 34 blocks	Veterans Day	0%
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES	$1600	In Canada a royal birthday is celebrated on this day, the Monday preceding May 25	Victoria Day	0%