Statistics for Jeopardy #8486

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This quiz has been taken 44 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
CITY NICKNAMES	$400	Back when it was Constantinople, this Turkish city was known as "Second Rome"	Istanbul	83%
THIS ONE GOES TO 2011	$200	In December 2011 the last U.S. troops left this country, ending a war that began in 2003; they later returned to fight Isis	Iraq	78%
POTPOURRI	$400	In the Disney film he's alphabetically last of Snow White's seven dwarfs	Sneezy	70%
CITY NICKNAMES	$200	Oxford is called "The City of Dreaming Spires", while this other U.K. place is "The City of Perspiring Dreams"	Cambridge	65%
SPORTY ANAGRAMS	$400	He sometimes runs the football: FLAB HACK	halfback	57%
CITY NICKNAMES	$800	Once gently funned as "Brisvegas" for its anemic nightlife, it now prefers "Australia's New World City"	Brisbane	52%
BIOGRAPHIES	$200	"Empire State of Mind" tells how this man became a rap mogul	Jay-Z	52%
SPORTY ANAGRAMS	$800	Multi-gender tennis: EDIBLE MUD SOX	mixed doubles	48%
CITY NICKNAMES	$1000	With the hub airport & some of the most glorious beaches of the French Riviera, it's the "City of Angels"	Nice	43%
SPORTY ANAGRAMS	$200	Often unpopular on a diamond: IMPURE	the umpire	39%
POTPOURRI	$600	A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this	gaggle	35%
THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"	$400	Before "wicket" it refers to a muddy part on the cricket pitch, or any awkward problem	sticky	35%
MED. ABBREV.	$400	After a major surgery, you may end up in the ICU, which stands for this	the intensive care unit	35%
POTPOURRI	$200	The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this	hypertext	30%
THIS ONE GOES TO 2011	$400	From the early 1800s until 2011, these busy workers carried messages & assisted members in the House of Representatives	pages	30%
POTPOURRI	$800	This appetizer has flowered on the Outback Steakhouse menu since 1988--it accounts for 1 in 4 apps ordered there	the Bloomin\' Onion	26%
THIS ONE GOES TO 2011	$800	As this store chain closed, the CEO wrote, "My sincerest hope is that we remain in the hearts of readers for years to come"	Borders	22%
THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"	$200	You've been described as fastidious, so you're too this	finicky	22%
SPORTY ANAGRAMS	$600	A big shot in basketball: HERE TO RIP NET	three pointer	22%
THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"	$600	Your pasta has too much of the plant bulb Allium sativum, so it's overly this	garlicky	17%
CITY NICKNAMES	$600	Looking down Capitol Boulevard, you can see why this U.S. city--whose French-derived name means "wooded"--is the "City of Trees"	Boise	13%
THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"	$800	A fussy baby who cries excessively is often described this way	collicky	13%
MED. ABBREV.	$800	IDDM stands for this-dependent diabetes mellitus	insulin	13%
THIS ONE GOES TO 2011	$1000	His decades of rule ended in Egypt, & though bedridden, he went on trial for crimes including abuse of power	Mubarak	13%
MED. ABBREV.	$1200	In med speak, a heart attack is an M.I., this infarction	myocardial	13%
POTPOURRI	$1000	Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the songs in "Jesus Christ Superstar"; this man wrote the lyrics	Rice	13%
THIS ONE GOES TO 2011	$600	With a landing in July 2011, the 135-mission program using these came to an end	the Space Shuttles	13%
GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT	$400	On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware; the battle of this now-state capital was the next day	Trenton	13%
MED. ABBREV.	$1600	A blow to the head could cause TBI, short for this	a traumatic brain injury	9%
BIOGRAPHIES	$1000	"His Truth Is Marching On" tells about this late, great Georgia congressman & "the Power of Hope"	John Lewis	9%
BIOGRAPHIES	$800	"Radioactive... a Tale of Love & Fallout" is about the relationship between this couple with real chemistry	Marie & Pierre Curie	9%
IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE	$1600	Belladonna means "fair lady", but is actually a type of plant called "deadly" this	nightshade	9%
IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE	$400	Women fought for this, a word which is not derived from "pain", rather from the Latin for "to publicly show support"	suffrage	9%
MED. ABBREV.	$2000	P.E. is this type of blood clot in the lungs	a pulmonary embolism	4%
GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT	$800	Before he was president, George presided over this months-long meeting in the summer of 1787	Constitutional Convention	4%
BIOGRAPHIES	$400	"Hiding in Plain Sight" is the subtitle of Julia Sweig's biography of this first lady born in Karnack, Texas	(Lady Bird) Johnson	4%
BIOGRAPHIES	$600	Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" tells of this man who left the NFL for the Army & was killed in Afghanistan	(Pat) Tillman	4%
NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES	$800	In this Michael Ondaatje novel, a badly burned plane crash victim remembers a fateful love affair	The English Patient	4%
GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT	$1600	On May 28, 1754 Lt. Colonel George ordered an attack on the troops of Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, starting this conflict	the French and Indian War	4%
NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES	$1600	Meryl Streep starred in a film of this John Fowles novel	The French Lieutenant\'s Woman	4%
IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE	$1200	Noisome sounds like it offends the ears, but it means something offensive especially to this other sense organ	the nose	4%
NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES	$1200	This guy is the magnanimous title Greek in Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about living life to the fullest	Zorba	4%
TALK LIKE A FARMER	$1600	This unit of measure varies with its content: for wheat it's 60 pounds & for oats, 32	a bushel	0%
RECENT MOVIES	$400	It's what "The Meg" is in the Jason Statham aquatic actioner	a megalodon	0%
TALK LIKE A FARMER	$2000	Despite its name, it's not a frog relative, it's a microscopic worm such as an eelworm that may damage plant roots	a nematode	0%
GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT	$1200	A 1791 proclamation by President George ordered the first this of the District of Columbia; a young George would've done it himself	a survey	0%
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD	N/A	Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors	Austria	0%
TALK LIKE A FARMER	$400	2 main kinds of farming are subsistence farming & growing these alliterative items to sell	cash crops	0%
IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE	$2000	As a noun this word refers to a gallant mounted knight; as an adjective, it can mean disdainful or offhand	cavalier	0%
GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT	$2000	At 26 George married a woman with this last name of her first husband	Custis	0%
THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"	$1000	A list of "10 Most" this adjective "Auto Features" included "cabin perfume dispensers"	gimmicky	0%
RECENT MOVIES	$800	Anthony Ramos took over Lin-Manuel Miranda's singing bodega owner role in the film adaptation of this stage musical	In the Heights	0%
RECENT MOVIES	$2000	The 2020 film "Resistance" saw Jesse Eisenberg play this mime working for the French resistance	Marcel Marceau	0%
IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE	$800	From the Greek for "song", this type of "drama" sounds like it's really easygoing, but it features exaggerated emotion	melodrama	0%
RECENT MOVIES	$1600	This word/genre completes the title of a movie with Riz Ahmed as a drummer going deaf, "Sound of..."	Metal	0%
SPORTY ANAGRAMS	$1000	Olympic event with ropes & ribbons: CATCHY STRING SHIMMY	rhythmic gynmastics	0%
NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES	$2000	A home built by the VanHoebeek family gives this 2019 Ann Patchett bestseller its title	The Dutch House	0%
NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES	$400	A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel	The Maltese Falcon	0%
TALK LIKE A FARMER	$1200	Though it's not for tea & conversation, an area that may put the cows in a tandem or rotary setup is this activity's "parlor"	the milking parlor	0%
TALK LIKE A FARMER	$800	This 7-letter layer of earth used for cultivation usually contains more organic matter than the layers beneath it	topsoil	0%
RECENT MOVIES	$1200	Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote	Venom	0%