Statistics for Jeopardy #8465

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This quiz has been taken 27 times
The average score is 16 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
NO EGRETS	$400	This bird can beat its wings 70 times per second, but when it slows down, its body temperature can drop 50 degrees below its normal 104	a hummingbird	77%
EVENTS OF THE 1850s	$400	70 years after the highest peak in these mountains was 1st climbed, a group conquered 15,200' Dufourspitze, the second-highest	(the) Alps	77%
THINK BIG!	$600	With eight lanes for cars & two for trains, this Down Under city's iconic bridge seen here is one of the world's widest	Sydney	69%
NO EGRETS	$200	The peregrine this can really hit the gas going for prey, hitting 200-plus mph	a falcon	62%
THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY	$800	...of Schweppes & Dasani	Coca-Cola	62%
THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY	$200	...of WhatsApp & Beluga, a service that evolved into the Messenger app	Facebook	62%
THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN	$800	Chadwick worked up to 8 hours a day with a choreographer to get what he called "the groove" of this "Godfather of Soul"	James Brown	62%
EVENTS OF THE 1850s	$600	After this pal led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Frederick Douglass hightailed it out of the country to avoid questioning	John Brown	62%
THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY	$1000	...of Skype	Microsoft	62%
EVENTS OF THE 1850s	$1000	The president of the French republic declared himself this emperor III	Napoleon	62%
EVENTS OF THE 1850s	$800	Later the model for a musical character, Buddhist scholar Mongkut was crowned King Rama IV of the nation then called this	Siam	62%
THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY	$400	...of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Technical Services Company	Boeing	54%
THINK BIG!	$800	Stretching almost a mile, one of the longest railway platforms is at Gorakhpur Junction in this Indian state, the U.P.	Uttar Pradesh	54%
EVENTS OF THE 1850s	$200	Immortalized by Tennyson, this cavalry advance happened during the Crimean War in 1854	the Charge of the Light Brigade	46%
THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN	$200	As a student, Chadwick got into a theater program at Oxford but couldn't afford it; this man played "Equalizer" & footed the bill	(Denzel) Washington	38%
CANALS	$400	Running from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea, this country's Kiel Canal is 250 miles shorter than going around Jutland Peninsula	Germany	38%
THE PROUD PARENT COMPANY	$600	...of Band-Aid & Listerine, which cover up different things	Johnson & Johnson	38%
THINK BIG!	$1000	The tallest of these structures towers 870 feet over the Great Mosque of Algiers	minaret	38%
NO EGRETS	$600	This alliterative bird numbered between 3 & 5 billion in eastern North America in 1500 but was extinct by 1914	passenger pigeon	38%
NO EGRETS	$800	The brown type of this is Louisiana's state bird	pelican	38%
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"	$400	An argumentative dispute (7 letters)	quarrel	38%
THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN	$600	The L.A. Dodgers tweeted, "From playing legendary figures to becoming one, we'll never forget your iconic performance as" him	(Jackie) Robinson	31%
CANALS	$800	Noted for its orchid gardens, the Pacific port of Balboa sits at the southern end of this canal	(the) Panama Canal	31%
IDIOMS	$600	One theory says to flip this, meaning to change things around, came from rap battles; it's used in "8 Mile"	the script	31%
THINK BIG!	$400	As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character	Captain Underpants	23%
IDIOMS	$200	A-ha! Literally, I've caught you with your...	hand in the cookie jar	23%
HELEN, NOT OF TROY	$400	She won an Emmy in 2006 for playing Queen Elizabeth I & an Oscar in 2007 for playing Elizabeth II	(Helen) Mirren	23%
IDIOMS	$800	A jug does it; a sieve & an improbable story don't	hold water	23%
THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN	$1000	In 2018 at this HBCU, his D.C. alma mater, Chadwick told grads, "Your very existence is wrapped up in the things you are here to fulfill"	Howard University	23%
LOST	$400	Idiomatically, if you've "lost" these small spherical toys, you may be losing your mind	marbles	23%
NO EGRETS	$1000	The "P" is silent in the white-tailed this bird, but in courtship, a male's call is not; also, the red combs swell over its eyes	ptarmigan	23%
HELEN, NOT OF TROY	$800	In her unofficial anthem for the women's movement, she sang, "I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman"	Reddy	23%
NOVEL VOCABULARY	$800	The Oxford English Dictionary cites his novel "Christine" as the origin for "Shut your pie-hole"	(Stephen) King	23%
IDIOMS	$1000	In the 17th century it was a feather & a horse; today we use this idiom for one more burden you just can't take	the straw that broke the camel\'s back	23%
NOVEL VOCABULARY	$400	The trilby, a type of this, gets its name from an 1894 novel of that title	a hat	15%
THINK BIG!	$200	With almost 2 miles of paths, Longleat is the largest of these in Britain; allow about 2 hours	a maze	15%
CANALS	$1200	Buildings on the Prinsengracht Canal in this city include one with a secret annex	Amsterdam	15%
HELEN, NOT OF TROY	$1200	sisterhelen.org is the website of anti-capital punishment nun Helen Prejean, famous for this, her first book	Dead Man Walking	15%
CANALS	$2000	When the Erie Canal project began in 1817, it was derisively called this man's ditch; he was the governor who had promoted it	(DeWitt) Clinton	15%
IDIOMS	$400	The TV series "Entourage" got people changing plain old "hug" into this 3-word phrase	hug it out	15%
NOVEL VOCABULARY	$1200	This title heroine of a 1913 novel now means someone who's cheerful to the point of being irritating	Pollyanna	15%
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"	$1200	Scandinavian traitor (8 letters)	Quisling	15%
LOST	$800	Something overlooked has been "lost in" this, a term that originated in dealing cards	the shuffle	15%
NOVEL VOCABULARY	$2000	The title of this 1961 novel is shorthand for a no-win situation	Catch-22	8%
NOVEL VOCABULARY	$1600	Micawber, meaning an irresponsible optimist, comes from the name of a character in this Dickens novel	David Copperfield	8%
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"	$800	To haggle over a small detail (7 letters)	quibble	8%
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"	$1600	Not "Jeopardy! "-like, but puzzled (9 letters)	quizzical	8%
19th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN	N/A	2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020	(2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton	0%
FOUNDRY	$400	This hefty noisemaker from Whitechapel Foundry began tolling for Londoners in 1859	Big Ben	0%
FOUNDRY	$800	Around 4,000 years ago, the first foundries in Mesopotamia began producing this alloy	bronze	0%
HELEN, NOT OF TROY	$2000	Her staining technique set her apart from other abstract expressionists & influenced younger artists	Helen Frankenthaler	0%
HELEN, NOT OF TROY	$1600	This magazine editor lived a very cosmopolitan life	(Helen Gurley) Brown	0%
FOUNDRY	$2000	Seen here is a foundry creating steel via the process named for this Englishman	(Henry) Bessemer	0%
LOST	$1200	Art Fleming & Don Pardo were in the video for this Weird Al parody song	"I Lost On Jeopardy!"	0%
LOST	$1600	In "A Moveable Feast", Gertrude Stein is quoted as calling Hemingway & his ilk this, a term later used more broadly	Lost Generation	0%
FOUNDRY	$1200	Several different foundries worked for 4 months to build this ironclad that faced off against the Merrimack	Monitor	0%
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"	$2000	Term for a 40-to-49 year old (14 letters)	quadragenarian	0%
THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN	$400	As this film hero: "We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe"	T\'Challa (Black Panther)	0%
LOST	$2000	The biblical Asher & Zebulun were 2 of these that, despite the name, reached the Promised Land	the lost tribes of Israel	0%
CANALS	$1600	One of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Suez Canal connects these 2 bodies of water	the Mediterranean & the Red Sea	0%
FOUNDRY	$1600	Once one of the largest of its kind, the Gary Works in Indiana is still a functioning foundry of this corporation	U.S. Steel	0%