Statistics for Jeopardy #8480

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 13 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
1871--150 YEARS AGO	$200	In Brooklyn this impresario opened his circus, calling it a traveling museum, menagerie, caravan & hippodrome	(P.T.) Barnum	85%
GERUNDS	$200	Julia Child called the book titled "Joy of" this "a fundamental resource"	Cooking	69%
1871--150 YEARS AGO	$400	William Woods Holden of North Carolina became the USA's first governor removed from office via this process	impeachment	69%
SOME FUN AND GAMES	$800	Based on a Mongol attack on Japan in 1274, "Ghost of Tshushima" has you battle as one of these & struggle to live to their code	a samurai	62%
SOME FUN AND GAMES	$400	You open an imaginary curtain to indicate the category is a play title in this game; first word...!	Charades	62%
CITIES OF IRELAND	$400	The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey	Dublin	62%
GERUNDS	$600	A recital of a literary work, or a service performed by a psychic	a reading	54%
1871--150 YEARS AGO	$600	March 21 saw the first meeting of a united Germany's Reichstag, or parliament, with this man as the first chancellor	Bismarck	54%
SOME FUN AND GAMES	$600	The heads of 4 amphibious ungulates gobble up marbles in this Hasbro game	Hungry Hungry Hippos	54%
1871--150 YEARS AGO	$1000	This performance space that seats more than 5,000 was opened by Queen Victoria	Royal Albert Hall	46%
GERUNDS	$800	Freefalling & the canopy ride are segments of this activity	skydiving	46%
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE	$200	2018: "Ant-Man and the ____ "	Wasp	46%
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE	$1000	1958, remade in 1986: "The ____"	Fly	38%
GERUNDS	$400	Of all sad words of tongue or sign, the saddest are "We no longer validate" this	parking	38%
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE	$800	2002, desert battles in the ancient world: "The ____ King"	Scorpion	38%
THE BANDS THEY FRONTED	$400	David Lee Roth	Van Halen	38%
CITIES OF IRELAND	$800	Galway is home to a national theater dedicated to works in the language called Irish this	Gaelic	31%
THE BANDS THEY FRONTED	$800	Since the '70s & right through today: Belinda Carlisle	Go-Go\'s	31%
SPIN CYCLE	$1000	Labs use this machine that spins fluids to do your hematocrit, or blood analysis	centrifuge	23%
THE BANDS THEY FRONTED	$1200	Until they broke up in 1980: Robert Plant	Led Zeppelin	23%
THE BANDS THEY FRONTED	$2000	As a teen: Ricky Martin	Menudo	23%
SOME FUN AND GAMES	$1000	A "red snake" bet in this wheel game winds through 3 columns from 1 to 34	roulette	23%
SPIN CYCLE	$600	A story says Babe Ruth's eyesight was so good he could read the label on one of these records of his day named for its RPM	78	15%
CITIES OF IRELAND	$2000	A town called Drogheda sits on this river that lends its name to a decisive 1690 battle	Boyne	15%
NAME CALLING	$400	This man adapted Charles Barbier's night writing code into a writing system for the blind	Braille	15%
NAME CALLING	$1200	Creator of TV's "Fargo", Noah Hawley won this mystery award named for a certain Poe-et	Edgar	15%
SPIN CYCLE	$400	A spin is named for Denise Biellmann, a Swiss star in this sport	figure skating	15%
THE BANDS THEY FRONTED	$1600	Before launching a solo country career: Darius Rucker	Hootie & the Blowfish	15%
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE	$600	1938, a Disney "Silly Symphony": "____ and the Flame"	Moth	15%
FOR YOUR REFERENCE	$200	"Cyrus, epirus, papyrus, virus" is an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of these	Rhymes	15%
FOR YOUR REFERENCE	$800	He divided the contents of his first thesaurus into 6 classes, just as his hero Linnaeus had done with animals	Roget	15%
WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE	$400	2018: "The Girl in ____ ____ ____"	the Spider\'s Web	15%
CITIES OF IRELAND	$1200	It was a long way to this city for the English King John, who built a castle there when he was governor	Tipperary	15%
NAME CALLING	$800	This large Howitzer was named for the woman who once owned the Krupp Armaments Company	Big Bertha	8%
SCIENCE	$1600	Astronomers recently found a cluster of these cosmic bodies & think their collisions were the source of gravitational waves	black holes	8%
THAT'S A BIG BOOK	$1600	There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work	Bleak House	8%
ALLITERATION	$800	Drew Brees, who didn't put on pads until high school, started an organization to promote this coed, non-contact game	flag football	8%
THAT'S A BIG BOOK	$400	If you're not a fan of long, long fiction, this 1862 Victor Hugo work will make you... what's the word... unhappy? Wretched?	Les Misérables	8%
THAT'S A BIG BOOK	$800	"Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines	Paradise Lost	8%
SPIN CYCLE	$800	In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 in a row of these	pirouettes	8%
SPIN CYCLE	$200	You'll also need handsticks if you're buying these to spin in your juggling act, as Senor Wences did	plates	8%
ALLITERATION	$400	This kids' game, this kids' game, send a response right over by knowing it's a team line-breaking game	Red Rover	8%
SCIENCE	$400	Stannite is a sulfide ore of copper, iron & this metal	tin	8%
GERUNDS	$1000	Involving papers to be kept as a record, it's the process of delivering claims to a court	a filing	0%
THAT'S A BIG BOOK	$1200	Might seem that way, but it won't take a hundred years to read this 1974 James Michener bestseller about the American West	Centennial	0%
SOME FUN AND GAMES	$200	In blackjack this alliterative phrase means betting your original amount again & getting just one more card	doubling (double) down	0%
FOR YOUR REFERENCE	$1000	"Do not break sentences in two" & "use the active voice" were among William Strunk's original these title principles	Elements of Style	0%
1871--150 YEARS AGO	$800	This reporter for the New York Herald seen here made his way to Lake Tanganyika & a memorable encounter	(Henry Morton) Stanley	0%
NAME CALLING	$1600	Around 1860 this man blazed a trail from Kansas & established a trading post in Oklahoma Territory	Jesse Chisholm	0%
FOR YOUR REFERENCE	$400	John was the first name of this Massachusetts bookseller who published his first volume of quotations in 1855	(John) Bartlett	0%
NAME CALLING	$2000	Disraeli was among those who called this man's carriages "the gondolas of London"	(Joseph) Hansom	0%
ALLITERATION	$1600	The middle horse has this condition, kind of the opposite of bow-legged	knock-knee	0%
THAT'S A BIG BOOK	$2000	Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin'	Le Morte d\'Arthur	0%
ALLITERATION	$1200	To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold"	make merry	0%
SCIENCE	$800	For butterflies, the pupa is the third stage in this process	metamorphosis	0%
SCIENCE	$1200	Also called thrombocytes, these cell fragments found in the blood are involved in clotting	platelets	0%
SCIENCE	$2000	It's the common term for animals of the order Lagomorpha	rabbits	0%
AMERICAN HISTORY	N/A	The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil	San Francisco	0%
ALLITERATION	$2000	A folktale tells of a hungry man who convinces people he can make a tasty pot of this, then gets them to add actual food	stone soup	0%
CITIES OF IRELAND	$1600	Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal	Waterford	0%
FOR YOUR REFERENCE	$600	The first book with this repetitive title was published in London in 1849; today it's followed by "in Dentistry", among many others	Who\'s Who	0%