Statistics for Jeopardy #8485

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This quiz has been taken 28 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
OCTOBER	$200	An important October campaign is this disease awareness month with fundraisers & other pink-themed events	breast cancer	89%
OCTOBER	$600	The second Monday in October is celebrated as this day in Canada; ours comes a few weeks later	Thanksgiving	89%
WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE	$800	Most of Virginia's southern border lies along this state	North Carolina	72%
WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE	$1000	Kansas is directly north of this state	Oklahoma	72%
WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE	$200	Utah sits directly atop this state	Arizona	61%
WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE	$600	A big chunk of South Dakota is upstairs from it	Nebraska	50%
SURVIVING PROHIBITION	$600	In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended	Miller	44%
TALES OF HORROR	$400	"Horror" is in the title of this book in which the Lutz family learned that, sometimes, buying a murder home isn't worth it	The Amityville Horror	44%
SURVIVING PROHIBITION	$800	This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company & sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today	Coors	39%
SURVIVING PROHIBITION	$400	Unable to brew, Pabst started making Pabst-ett, a Velveeta-like cheese; eventually this competitor sued	Kraft	33%
WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE	$400	Vermont is north of the western part of this state	Massachusetts	33%
ACTOR-MOGULS	$800	Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, combines these 2 Sandler movie titles	Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison	28%
ACTOR-MOGULS	$600	If you love the TV shows "Mannix" & "Mission: Impossible", thank this comedic actress & her Desilu Studios for producing them	(Lucille) Ball	28%
OCTOBER	$400	Test your "metal" in the world championship of this mega-endurance event held in October in Hawaii	Ironman Triathlon	22%
ACTOR-MOGULS	$200	Co-created by this actress, MTM ruled the tube with shows like "Hill Street Blues" & "Newhart"	Mary Tyler Moore	22%
SURVIVING PROHIBITION	$200	Many breweries tried making this rhyming product, like Schlitz Famo, with less than .5% alcohol content	near beer	22%
TECHNOLOGY	$400	The 2 gases that make up the "plasma" in a plasma TV are usually these 2, Ne & Xe	neon & xenon	22%
TALES OF HORROR	$1000	Malorie takes her kids on a terrifying, blindfolded river trip in this Josh Malerman novel	Bird Box	17%
THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE	$400	In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time	Columbus	17%
SURVIVING PROHIBITION	$1000	Many breweries struggled but got by selling beer ingredients like syrup made from this, sprouted barley grains	malt	17%
OCTOBER	$800	Gandhi's birthday, October 2 is observed as the international day of this philosophy of his, also known as Satyagraha	non-violence	17%
NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE!	$1600	This fossilized resin has one of the lowest densities among gems & it will often float in salt water	amber	11%
NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE!	$2000	Weighing in at 2.75 tons, the Empress of Uruguay is an almost 11-foot tall geode of this purple quartz	amethyst	11%
ACTOR-MOGULS	$400	Will Ferrell co-created this website where people could vote whether video clips were humorous or not	Funny or Die	11%
THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE	$1600	After World War I, upon the demise of this dynasty that ruled there, Vienna's Court Opera was renamed the State Opera	Habsburg	11%
TALES OF HORROR	$800	Luke is the future heir of this Shirley Jackson title place; sadly for Luke, that title includes "The Haunting of..."	Hill House	11%
4,4	$800	If you can easily determine someone's feelings, you can read him or her like this	open book	11%
NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE!	$400	Blue topaz is often created by exposing it to this--the gamma type works especially well	radiation	11%
OCTOBER	$1000	In Catholic tradition, October is the month to celebrate this set of prayers recited with an accompanying physical aid	rosaries	11%
I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U"	$400	From Latin for "further", it means deliberately hidden, like some motives	ulterior	11%
I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U"	$2000	This Japanese word for a type of flavor entered English in the early 1960s	umami	11%
I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U"	$1600	It's what you call those dots over a German vowel	umlaut	11%
ACTOR-MOGULS	$1000	Said about this studio founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford & others: "Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum"	United Artists	11%
NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE!	$1200	Dust & ash from a volcano in this state were used to create a new green type of gem called helenite	Washington	11%
4,4	$200	The fur of this wild canine seen here can be brownish, but it can also be indicative of its name	a gray wolf	6%
TECHNOLOGY	$1200	Pumping is the process of raising electrons to a higher energy state when creating one of these beams	a laser	6%
PARDON MY FRENCHMAN	$400	President Émile Loubet pardoned this wrongly accused Jewish military officer in September 1899	(Alfred) Dreyfus	6%
PARDON MY FRENCHMAN	$1600	In 1964 France amnestied many of those who had committed crimes in opposition to this African country's independence	Algeria	6%
TALES OF HORROR	$200	The kids of Kettle Springs are menaced not by "Scarecrow in a Cornfield" but worse, this smiley creature "In a Cornfield"	clown	6%
4,4	$600	Similar to seltzer, it's carbonated water used as a mixer	club soda	6%
THE FLYING...	$2000	In song, "He floats through the air, with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on" this	flying trapeze	6%
TECHNOLOGY	$800	Jetronic increased power & mileage in 1967 as the first workable electronic system for this auto process, sending the gas to the engine	fuel injection	6%
THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE	$1200	This opera house opened in Milan in 1778 with a performance of "Europa Recognized" by Salieri	La Scala	6%
PARDON MY FRENCHMAN	$2000	Thanks to his sturdy cell, Ludger Sylbaris survived the 1902 volcanic ruin of Saint-Pierre on this Caribbean island & was later pardoned	Martinique	6%
4,4	$400	A great American tradition: throw some clothes in the Chevelle, crank some tunes & go off on this, also a 2000 film	road trip	6%
THE FLYING...	$1600	In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun"	(Sally) Field	6%
THE FLYING...	$1200	Known as "The Flying Tomato", this snowboarder won his first Olympic halfpipe gold in 2006	(Shaun) White	6%
THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE	$800	In addition to many operas, Paris' Palais Garnier hosted a very wicked villain in this 1910 Gaston Leroux novel	The Phantom of the Opera	6%
THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE	$2000	In 1973 Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first opera performed at this opera house very far south of Russia	the Sydney Opera House	6%
I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U"	$1200	This adjective comes from Latin for "navel"	umbilical	6%
TECHNOLOGY	$1600	Elisha Otis' invention of the "safety" this led to its regular use for passengers	elevator	0%
THE FLYING...	$400	The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized	football	0%
TECHNOLOGY	$2000	First patented in 1952, center pivot devices used for this agricultural task caused the green circles seen from planes	irrigation	0%
NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE!	$800	In 1976 a large ruby was carved into a 4-pound replica of this historic American object, crack & all	Liberty Bell	0%
PARDON MY FRENCHMAN	$1200	Bernard Boursicot was pardoned in 1987, shortly before the debut of this play inspired by his affair with an opera singer/spy	M. Butterfly	0%
PARDON MY FRENCHMAN	$800	Pardoned in 1952, Henry Coston, one of these Nazi helpers, embarrassed France by living another 49 years	part of the Vichy government (a Vichy collaborator)	0%
TALES OF HORROR	$600	It's the title vocation of Herbert West in a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft tale, & he needs fresh corpses to do it to	reanimator	0%
THE FLYING...	$800	We're not sure if this Bullwinkle pal is biologically a flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) or a regular gray squirrel who can fly	Rocky	0%
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE	N/A	British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked	(the) duck-bill(ed) platypus	0%
I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U"	$800	The Declaration of Independence says we all have certain these rights	unalienable right	0%
4,4	$1000	"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?", asks Shelley's "Ode to" this	West Wind	0%