Statistics for Jeopardy #8442

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This quiz has been taken 45 times
The average score is 15 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
2-LETTER WORDS	$200	Vamoose!	go	83%
OLD JOBS	$400	In "Mary Poppins", a fittingly sooty Dick Van Dyke sings "Chim Chim Cher-ee", a song about this jobe	a chimney sweep	78%
EVERYTHING IS ASSAM	$600	Assam's Kaziranga National Park is a reserve for the royal Bengal species of this big predator	a tiger	65%
2-LETTER WORDS	$600	Evil King clown tale	It	65%
EVERYTHING IS ASSAM	$400	Weaving is an important tradition in Assam, & many homes have one of these devices seen here	a loom	61%
"E" BOOKS	$400	There's a direction & a paradise in this double-"E" Steinbeck title	East of Eden	61%
YOU CAN'T	$400	...move this kind of big rock if it's on public property in the Colorado city of the same name; the municipal code says no	a boulder	57%
OLD JOBS	$1000	A rector is a university head; one letter different is this person from Latin "to read", who would read to factory workers	a lector	52%
OLD JOBS	$200	No longer needed because of computers, linotype operators made sure these things got to one's doorstep daily	newspapers	52%
EVERYTHING IS ASSAM	$200	The Indian state of Assam gives its name to a common type of this, & Assam grows lots of it	tea	52%
YOU CAN'T	$200	...buy more of the golden Kellogg's cereal named for this "Star Wars" droid; it was discontinued years ago	C-3PO	48%
2-LETTER WORDS	$800	22/7, approximately	pi	48%
EVERYTHING IS ASSAM	$800	Sericulture, the farming of these textile-producing creatures is a large part of the economy in Assam	silkworms	48%
2011: 10 YEARS AGO	$400	In May President Obama announced on live TV that this man had been killed in a U.S. military operation	Osama bin Laden	43%
YOU CAN'T	$600	...change gears in a manual transmission auto without first disengaging & then re-engaging this	the clutch	43%
OLD JOBS	$800	You used to be able to get a job as a pinsetter at one of these establishments	a bowling alley	39%
TUNE A FISH	$400	A video for this tune about an infant predatory fish & family has racked up more than 8 billion views on YouTube	"Baby Shark"	39%
2-LETTER WORDS	$400	Hamlet's first choice	be	39%
YOU CAN'T	$1000	...visit Swaziland any more; in 2018 it changed its name to this	Eswatini	39%
YOU CAN'T	$800	...go boating in Owens Lake near the California-Nevada border; it dried up in the 1920s after its water was sent to this city	Los Angeles	35%
"E" BOOKS	$200	It's the third entry in the "Twilight" saga	Eclipse	30%
"E" BOOKS	$600	Gail Carson Levine reimagined "Cinderella" with the heroine under a curse of obedience in this double-"E" title	Ella Enchanted	30%
TUNE A FISH	$200	This song by the B-52's says, "There goes a dogfish, chased by a catfish"	"Rock Lobster"	30%
TUNE A FISH	$600	This Oscar-winning tune from "The Little Mermaid" mentions "the trout rockin' out"	"Under The Sea"	30%
TUNE A FISH	$800	Ann & Nancy Wilson wrote about the sleazy side of the music industry in this fishy song	"Barracuda"	26%
"E" BOOKS	$800	A pistol-wielding panda adorns the cover of this bestseller about the importance of proper punctuation	Eats, Shoots & Leaves	26%
"E" BOOKS	$1000	The title heroine of this 1816 novel wrongly believes herself to be a gifted matchmaker	Emma	26%
OLD JOBS	$600	Back in the day, there was some heavy lifting for the guy with this job, also Val Kilmer's nickname in "Top Gun"	iceman	26%
SUN & MOON	$800	One of Harry Potter's friends at Hogwarts shares her first name with this Roman goddess of the Moon	Luna	26%
EVERYTHING IS ASSAM	$1000	These winds whose "season" begins in Assam in June have been known to cause devastation	monsoons	22%
SUN & MOON	$400	58 miles in diameter, Copernicus is one of the most prominent of these features on the Moon	a crater	17%
2-LETTER WORDS	$1000	The farming equivalent of Big Pharma is not Big Farm but big this	Ag	17%
TUNE A FISH	$1000	"Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea", says a No. 1 hit by this group with a different animal in its name	Three Dog Night	17%
2011: 10 YEARS AGO	$2000	Israel freed 1,027 prisoners in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit, 5 years a captive of this group that governs Gaza	Hamas	13%
LET'S GO TO THE BEACH	$800	On June 6, 1944 the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion climbed the cliffs of the beach code-named this	Omaha Beach	13%
OVER BUDGET	$400	A 2020 study found that each of these events since 1960 has gone over budget, averaging 172% & led by Montreal's 720%	the Olympics	13%
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS	$400	First popular in the U.S. in the 1960s, table soccer is also known by this 1-word name	foosball	9%
2011: 10 YEARS AGO	$1600	This Ohio Republican took over as Speaker of the House of Representatives	John Boehner	9%
2011: 10 YEARS AGO	$1200	Zuccotti Park in New York City's Financial District was the birthplace of this movement against economic inequality	Occupy Wall Street	9%
OVER BUDGET	$2000	Building in brick to replace facades, this network went $30 million over budget on new sets for "Eastenders"	the BBC	9%
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS	N/A	In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action	a mousetrap	4%
FICTIONAL BOOKS	$1200	"The First Time" & "Love Hurts" were books written by the murderous novelist that Sharon Stone played in this 1992 movie	Basic Instinct	4%
FICTIONAL BOOKS	$800	This Sarah Jessica Parker character wrote the books "Menhattan" & "A Single Life"	Carrie Bradshaw	4%
LET'S GO TO THE BEACH	$400	Just east of the city bearing its name, this beach is between Biscayne Bay & the Atlantic	Miami Beach	4%
LET'S GO TO THE BEACH	$2000	Between Fish Hoek & Cape Point, Boulders Beach gets all kinds of tourists in this country	South Africa	4%
FICTIONAL BOOKS	$400	The end of this musical sees the creation of "The Book of Arnold"	The Book of Mormon	4%
LET'S GO TO THE BEACH	$1200	Snorkelers at Trunk Bay off St. John in this U.S. territory can read plaques on the seafloor for info on what they see	the Virgin Islands	4%
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS	$2000	Hosteler is an archaic synonym for this person	an innkeeper	0%
SUN & MOON	$2000	In 5 billion years, out of hydrogen, the Sun will become this big, colorful type of star & start engulfing planets	a red giant	0%
SUN & MOON	$1200	A penumbra is the outer, lighter ring of one of these solar freckles	a sunspot	0%
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS	$1600	In retirement Sherlock Holmes devotes his time to this hobby	beekeeping	0%
LET'S GO TO THE BEACH	$1600	The beach Matthew Arnold was talking about must not have been this sunny spot on Barbados' south coast; it's no darkling plain	Dover Beach	0%
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS	$1200	It is said that "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of" this	happiness	0%
2011: 10 YEARS AGO	$800	A British royal wedding captured the world's attention as this pair got hitched in April	Kate Middleton & Prince William	0%
SUN & MOON	$1600	This Greek scholar with an Egyptian dynastic name devised his theory of the Sun revolving around the Earth around 150 A.D.	Ptolemy	0%
OVER BUDGET	$1200	"A Musical Web" was the original subtitle of this Broadway show that went millions over budget	Spider-Man	0%
FICTIONAL BOOKS	$1600	You can't book a room at this title Wes Anderson establishment, nor read the novel of the same title that appears in the film	The Grand Budapest Hotel	0%
OVER BUDGET	$800	The government of New South Wales held a lottery for 30 years to pay for this building whose budget went from $7 mil. to $102 mil.	the Sydney Opera House	0%
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS	$800	Delicious, here's a stack of the English type of this	toffee	0%
FICTIONAL BOOKS	$2000	This John Irving character wrote "Procrastination" & "Second Wind of the Cuckold"; mother Jenny wrote "A Sexual Suspect"	T.S. Garp	0%
OVER BUDGET	$1600	The 1858 $250,000 budget for the Old New York County Courthouse climbed to $12 million, much going into the pocket of this man	Tweed	0%