Statistics for Jeopardy #8473

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This quiz has been taken 41 times
The average score is 14 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
AIR TRAVEL	$200	This airline launched its frequent-flyer AAdvantage program in 1981	American Airlines	74%
WHAT A WEEK!	$400	National Aviation Week takes place the week of August 19, the birthday of this younger & first airborne brother	Orville Wright	70%
WHAT A WEEK!	$200	The 31st of this month is the last day of Bat Week (of course)	October	65%
WORLD HISTORY	$2000	As a result of the Mau Mau movement against colonial rule, a state of emergency was called in this country in 1952	Kenya	57%
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS	$400	Your best time in a race is your PR, short for this	personal record	57%
NATIONAL PARK COUNTRIES	$200	Killarney National Park	Ireland	52%
AIR TRAVEL	$400	This happens to you figuratively when you lose your seat on an overbooked plane or literally when the drink cart hits your elbow	bumped	48%
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS	$800	The cosmetics brand e.l.f. is an acronym for these 3 areas where its products are used	eyes, lips, face	48%
MOVIE TIME	$200	This company made special volleyballs with its name on only one side for "Cast Away" so a face could be painted on it	Wilson	48%
AIR TRAVEL	$600	For years a sign painted on a roof in this Wisconsin city said "Welcome to Cleveland" to prank airline passengers	Milwaukee	43%
MOVIE TIME	$600	Marge Champion, the model for this title character of a 1937 Disney film, was briefly married to the animator who developed Goofy	Snow White	43%
NATIONAL PARK COUNTRIES	$1000	Serengeti National Park	Tanzania	43%
MOVIE TIME	$800	In this film, Morgan Freeman says the prison library should file "The Count of Monte Cristo" with the educational books	The Shawshank Redemption	43%
NATIONAL PARK COUNTRIES	$600	Lake District National Park	United Kingdom	43%
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS	$1000	When talking about dates, B.C.E. stands for this	Before Common Era	39%
WORLD HISTORY	$400	In 1582 the Gregorian one of these began to replace the Julian one	calendar	39%
NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES	$200	(Hi, I'm Bill Ritter.) You know, it's always hard to find parking around Manhattan, but on January 15, 2009, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger saved 155 lives with an emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in this river on the West Side	Hudson	39%
WORLD HISTORY	$800	Twice in the 1800s China & Britain went to war over this drug	opium	39%
WHAT A WEEK!	$1000	Late June brings Awareness Week for the big ants named for this occupation; they damage homes by removing wood for their nests	carpenter	30%
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS	$600	The CFPB, this Financial Protection Bureau, makes sure you are treated fairly by banks, lenders & financial companies	Consumer	30%
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS	$200	I am so sorry that I didn't RSPV to your party, RSVP meaning respondez, this polite phrase	s\'il vous plaît	30%
WHAT A WEEK!	$600	Once National Secretaries Week, the last full week in April is now called these "Professionals Week"	Administrative	26%
WHAT A WEEK!	$800	One sponsor of Banned Books Week, which opposes censorship & celebrates the right to read, is the ALA, short for this	the American Library Association	26%
MOVIE TIME	$400	1966's "The Silencers" was the first movie with a scene after these, a teaser for the next Matt Helm spy adventure	the credits	26%
NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES	$400	(Hi, I'm Lee Goldberg.) Literally stepping up to home plate after a grim medical diagnosis, on July 4, 1939, this Yankee said the following--"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”	(Lou) Gehrig	22%
__R__M	$400	Study all night for a test the next morning	cram	17%
NATIONAL PARK COUNTRIES	$800	Tikal National Park	Guatemala	17%
NATIONAL PARK COUNTRIES	$400	Masada National Park	Israel	17%
__R__M	$1200	It's what a British nanny pushes the baby in	pram	17%
INSPIRED CHARACTERS	$400	Sailor Alexander Selkirk was likely one of several inspirations for this 1719 shipwrecked character	Robinson Crusoe	17%
THE FACT OF THE MATTER	$400	Strong atomic bonds & rigid shapes are characteristics of this phase of matter	solid	17%
AIR TRAVEL	$800	In 2019, the biggest new terminal opening in the U.S. in a decade was celebrated at this city's airport with a second line parade	New Orleans	13%
__R__M	$2000	This city north of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad	Orem	13%
__R__M	$800	In an idiom it precedes "and proper"	prim	13%
NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES	$800	(Hi, I'm Ryan Field.) Extending from Manhattan's southern tip up Broadway to City Hall, the Canyon of Heroes has hosted many ticker tape parades, including one for the U.S. National Women's Team's huge win in this sport in 2019	soccer	13%
COMEDY ON TV	$1200	Betty White & Estelle Getty received Emmy nominations all 7 seasons this show was on the air	The Golden Girls	13%
__R__M	$1600	It can be a small amount of alcohol, or 1/8 of a fluid ounce	a dram	9%
MOVIE TIME	$1000	This legendary Italian composer was 87 when he finally won his first competitive Oscar for "The Hateful Eight"	(Ennio) Morricone	9%
AIR TRAVEL	$1000	Only the "B" in the middle of this airline's colorful name is capitalized in its logo	jetBlue	9%
NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES	$600	(Hi, I'm Sade Baderinwa.) As part of a New York city tradition that began in 1962, many movie stars, including James Earl Jones as Othello, & Meryl Streep in "Henry V", have interpreted the Bard as part of this project	Shakespeare in the Park	9%
COMEDY ON TV	$400	The parents of Stan & Kyle on this show are named after the parents of their creators, Trey & Matt	South Park	9%
NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES	$1000	(Hi, I'm Liz Cho.) In 1879, critics wondered if New Yorkers would go all the way up Fifth Avenue to the near wilderness of 50th Street after the May 25 formal opening of this Catholic church; turns out, New Yorkers would	St. Patrick\'s	9%
COMEDY ON TV	$1600	This '70s show was inspired by a New York Magazine article about workers on the night shift at a cab company	Taxi	9%
WORLD HISTORY	$1600	On November 9, 1918, Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed this new German republic; he later became its first chancellor	(the) Weimar (Republic)	9%
INSPIRED CHARACTERS	$2000	Samuel Clemens' own sweetheart Laura Hawkins was the inspiration for this "Tom Sawyer" character	(Becky) Thatcher	4%
COMEDY ON TV	$2000	This comedian made a huge Emmy debut in 2017, with acting, writing & directing nominations for "Atlanta"	Donald Glover	4%
INSPIRED CHARACTERS	$1200	Neal Cassady was called the "Adonis of Denver" by Allen Ginsberg & was the model for Dean Moriarty in this novel	On the Road	4%
ART & DESIGN	$1200	The National Company made the instruments he sings about in "Graceland"--"The Mississippi Delta was shining like National guitar"	(Paul) Simon	4%
COMEDY ON TV	$800	This host of "Full Frontal" was once part of an all-female sketch comedy troupe called the Atomic Fireballs	Samantha Bee	4%
LANDMARKS	N/A	96 miles in total during its 3-decade existence, the most well-known part of this was about the same length as an Olympic marathon	the Berlin Wall	4%
INSPIRED CHARACTERS	$800	Buck Mulligan, who routinely chides Stephen Dedalus in this novel, was based on James Joyce's pal Oliver St. John Gogarty	Ulysses	4%
ART & DESIGN	$400	In the 1930s Isamu Noguchi designed an early one of these for parents; the receiver was called "radio nurse"	a baby monitor	0%
ART & DESIGN	$2000	Two-word phrase for the color & the resinous material seen here; both words contain the same 3-letter sequence	black lacquer	0%
ART & DESIGN	$1600	The opening sequence for "Mystery!" on PBS was based on the work of this American illustrator of the appalling fates of children	(Edward) Gorey	0%
THE FACT OF THE MATTER	$800	Leptons & quarks are these basic particles that don't seem to be made up of smaller units of matter--it's...	elementary particles	0%
THE FACT OF THE MATTER	$2000	Found in 2012, it's been called the "God particle" because its discovery was thought to be key to understanding the structure of matter	Higgs boson	0%
THE FACT OF THE MATTER	$1600	All matter shares this physical property that keeps it from responding instantly to any attempt to change its state of motion	inertia	0%
INSPIRED CHARACTERS	$1600	-Leon Rom, a leader of King Leopold's Congo death squad, is thought by some to have inspired this 1902 Joseph Conrad character	Kurtz	0%
WORLD HISTORY	$1200	Between the Franco-Prussian War & WWI France went through a period of peace & prosperity called this, French for "beautiful era"	La Belle Époque	0%
THE FACT OF THE MATTER	$1200	In 1905 this first version of the theory of relativity postulated that matter & energy can be converted into each other	special	0%
ART & DESIGN	$800	In 1894 this American known for his Art Nouveau lamps created an iridescent glass he called Favril	Tiffany	0%