Statistics for Jeopardy #8487

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 15 of 60

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND"	$200	10-letter term for illegally smuggled stuff	contraband	92%
ON BASE	$200	In 1958 this kid from Memphis traded in his blue suede shoes & got some Army issue ones at Arkansas' Fort Chaffee	Elvis Presley	92%
ON BASE	$400	Seen here, a soldier is taking in the view of Mount Rainier at Joint Base Lewis McChord in this state	Washington	75%
YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE	$600	Partly to keep the audience awake, he kept the Ed Sullivan Theater at 55 degrees when taping his late-night show that ended in 2015	David Letterman	67%
AT THE ORGAN	$600	This protein- & iron-rich chicken part in "chopped" form is also in a common rhetorical question	liver	67%
LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND"	$400	Printed cotton handkerchief used as headwear	a bandana	58%
& PLAYING TRIANGLE	$400	The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs	delta	58%
AT THE ORGAN	$200	It precedes "bean" in something you may enjoy & precedes "stone" in something you very much would not	kidney	58%
ON BASE	$600	John McCain was born on a U.S. military base near a strategic waterway in this country	Panama	58%
OUR LEAD SINGER	$400	Before Maroon 5, his high school band called Kara's Flowers appeared in an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210"	Adam Levine	50%
AT THE ORGAN	$400	It's the organ that's often contrasted with brawn	brain	50%
OUR LEAD SINGER	$600	Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong says Serena Williams, a superfan of this band, always requests they play "Disappearing Boy"	Green Day	50%
OUR LEAD SINGER	$200	Hosting "SNL", Carey Mulligan said she liked to call this band "My Husband & Sons", hubby Marcus being its lead singer	Mumford & Sons	50%
OUR LEAD SINGER	$1000	In 1984 Chris Cornell co-founded this band named after an art installation in Seattle	Soundgarden	50%
YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE	$800	A Haydn symphony is nicknamed "Miracle" after the tale that one of these fell & smashed in a miraculously empty audience area	a chandelier	42%
AT THE ORGAN	$800	Speak with one of these, also found in some snakes' mouths, & your intent is to deceive	a forked tongue	42%
OUR LEAD SINGER	$800	Here is this singer, who died far too young, far from home in Paris	Jim Morrison	42%
YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE	$400	Broadway theaters have at least 500 seats; off-Broadway ones tend to have 100 to 499 & these with a similar name, under 100	off-off Broadway	42%
JESUS GEOGRAPHY	$800	In Matthew 3 John the Baptist is reluctant to baptize Jesus in this river	the Jordan	42%
& PLAYING TRIANGLE	$600	Just like a boat, windmills like the ones seen here use a type of triangular sail with this 3-letter name	a jib	33%
LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND"	$800	This nickname for a slot machine that dates back to the 1930s sounds like someone who is about to rob you	a one-armed bandit	33%
JESUS GEOGRAPHY	$400	In Luke Chapter 2 verse 4, Joseph goes to this city where the baby Jesus makes his appearance a bit later	Bethlehem	33%
ON BASE	$1000	This Marine "Camp" outside of San Diego was used in TV shows like "Gomer Pyle" & "Baa Baa Black Sheep"	Pendleton	33%
& PLAYING TRIANGLE	$800	This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is	Pythagoras	33%
EUROPEAN HISTORY	$1200	King Gustav III of this country was shot at the opera house in 1792 & died 2 weeks later	Sweden	33%
LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND"	$600	It can be a movement propelled by sheer momentum or something that literally conveys musicians	a bandwagon	25%
& PLAYING TRIANGLE	$200	"The sum of any 2 sides of a triangle is equal to or greater than the 3rd side" means this is the short route between 2 points	a straight line	17%
EDUCATION FIRSTS	$2000	In 1761 Claude Bourgelat, who wrote "Sur la médecine des chevaux", set up the first school for this profession	a veterinarian	17%
EDUCATION FIRSTS	$400	Friedrich Froebel started the first of these schools in Germany in 1837 & started the day with merry songs	kindergarten	17%
EDUCATION FIRSTS	$1600	The USA's first public teacher training school evolved into Framingham State University in this state	Massachusetts	17%
YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE	$1000	Putting down hecklers 1765-style, this Virginia orator responded to cries of "treason" with "If this be treason, make the most of it"	Patrick Henry	17%
EUROPEAN HISTORY	$400	In medieval politics the Ghibellines supported the emperor; the Guelphs were loyal to the man with this title	the Pope	17%
EDUCATION FIRSTS	$1200	Golfer Terry Williams was the USA's first woman to receive one of these, from the University of Miami in 1973	a sports scholarship	8%
AT THE ORGAN	$1000	Synonyms for this word, also an organ, include vesicle, sac & pouch	bladder	8%
EDUCATION FIRSTS	$800	In 1783 Poland was the first country to ban this in schools; it's also banned in the country's constitution	corporal punishment	8%
& PLAYING TRIANGLE	$1000	In Pascal's triangle, any two numbers add up to the number below & between them; adding diagonally yields this man's sequence	Fibonacci	8%
JESUS GEOGRAPHY	$1600	From Hebrew for "oil press", this garden across the Kidron Valley is depicted here by Raphael	Gethsemane	8%
ON BASE	$800	In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before	Gus Grissom	8%
JESUS GEOGRAPHY	$1200	When Jesus was 12 he went to the festival of Passover in this city, as was the tradition of his parents	Jerusalem	8%
WHO DIRECTED IT?	$1200	1991's "Point Break", "Zero Dark Thirty"	Kathryn Bigelow	8%
EUROPEAN HISTORY	$800	In the mid-1800s Russia began building these routes with a 5-foot gauge, wider than the European standard	railways	8%
LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND"	$1000	Lewis Carroll's "frumious" creature	a bandersnatch	0%
IN- IS OUT	$800	An affirmative interjection loses "in-" & turns into this legal document	a deed	0%
IN- IS OUT	$1600	A thank you-less person loses "in-" to become this frame of metal bars	a grate	0%
WHO DIRECTED IT?	$800	"When They See Us", "A Wrinkle in Time", "Selma"	Ava DuVernay	0%
JESUS GEOGRAPHY	$2000	The Hebrew name Nahum gave us the name of this city where several of the disciples were chosen	Capernaum	0%
IN- IS OUT	$2000	A breathing verb loses "in-" & turns into this hearty word	hale	0%
PUBLISHING	N/A	Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books	Harper	0%
YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE	$200	David Copperfield had a standard magic trick where he made this happen to 13 audience members	he made them disappear	0%
MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG	$1200	Jonathan Safran Foer expanded his short story "The Very Rigid Search" into the novel "Everything is" this	Illuminated	0%
MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG	$800	This sci-fi great teamed with Robert Silverberg to expand his classic 1941 short story "Nightfall" into a 1990 novel	Isaac Asimov	0%
MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG	$400	This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV	Lassie	0%
WHO DIRECTED IT?	$2000	"Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dark Necessities", "Booksmart"	Olivia Wilde	0%
WHO DIRECTED IT?	$1600	"Wonder Woman", episodes of "Entourage" & "Arrested Development"	Patty Jenkins	0%
WHO DIRECTED IT?	$400	"Riding in Cars with Boys","Awakenings"	(Penny) Marshall	0%
MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG	$1600	"Big Creek Missile Agency", Homer Hickam's article about his childhood, became this book that became the movie "October Sky"	Rocket Boys	0%
EUROPEAN HISTORY	$2000	Though Pippin III founded this Frankish dynasty in 751, its name comes from the many Charleses who ruled it	the Carolingians	0%
MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG	$2000	First a short story, this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about 5 sisters who die young became a Sofia Coppola film	The Virgin Suicides	0%
EUROPEAN HISTORY	$1600	In 1240, Henry III had the central keep of the fortress seen here painted, giving rise to this 2-word name	the White Tower	0%
IN- IS OUT	$400	Remove "in-" from a word meaning keen perception to get this school cost	tuition	0%