Statistics for Jeopardy #8488

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This quiz has been taken 30 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
NAMES IN FASHION	$200	The tennis shirt is now called a polo shirt thanks to this American designer	Ralph Lauren	67%
THE SABBATH	$600	At a church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sacrament meeting, a young man may talk about 2 years away as one of these	a missionary	39%
LINCOLN, BLINKEN	$400	Soon after becoming Secy. of State in 2021, Antony Blinken had tough words at a meeting with diplomat Yang Jiechi of this country	China	33%
'80s TV	$400	In 1980 fans of this series had to wait 8 long months before they would learn "Who shot J.R."	Dallas	33%
HODGEPODGE	$400	Magyar is another name for these people, many of whom reside in a country known as the "Land of Magyars"	Hungarians	33%
HODGEPODGE	$200	Alfred Vail, this guy's assistant & partner, improved on his code for telegraphy	Morse	33%
PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY	$200	In this alliterative type of match, you need to touch your partner before you can be replaced in the ring	tag team	33%
FOOD FORWARD	$800	This doctor & health food pioneer developed Corn Flakes for his patients	Kellogg	28%
SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS	$400	This nephew-killing title monarch is off to a slow start courting Lady Anne, who calls him "thou lump of foul deformity"	Richard III	28%
NAMES IN FASHION	$400	Yves Saint Laurent's first boutique was called "Rive Gauche", French for this part of the Seine	the Left Bank	28%
DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY	$1200	Catalan is the primary language of Catalonia & this small Pyrenees nation	Andorra	22%
SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS	$800	In "The Comedy of Errors", Dromio describes Nell: "Hip to hip: she is spherical, like" this name of Shakespeare's venue	globe	22%
DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY	$400	It's the northernmost of the 4 main islands of Japan	Hokkaido	22%
NAMES IN FASHION	$800	Despite marrying into a newspaper family with a prize named for it, this designer's "Lilly" shift dress took only her first name	Pulitzer	22%
PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY	$600	This beastly term can describe a powerful embrace or a move where a wrestler grabs you	a bear hug	17%
"NOD"	$400	A worrisome mass of tissue in humans, or a nitrogen-fixing structure in soybeans	a nodule	17%
"NOD"	$1000	A meeting to resolve questions for a church	a synod	17%
THE SABBATH	$200	For decades, states have been dropping these colorful edicts; the Sunday shopping ban ended by North Dakota was among the last	blue laws	17%
'80s TV	$1600	Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly hit the streets as this title pair of detectives	Cagney & Lacey	17%
DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY	$1600	Randburg & Midrand are suburbs of this chief commercial city of South Africa	Johannesburg	17%
LINCOLN, BLINKEN	$1000	One of Lincoln's "gifts" for his last Christmas was this Georgia city, from General Sherman	Savannah	17%
'80s TV	$1200	"You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have" this sitcom	The Facts of Life	17%
"NOD"	$200	It's where Cain lived, a place for kids to go at bedtime or an oddly named Yorkshire village	the Land of Nod	17%
SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS	$1200	In "Henry IV, Part 1" Falstaff disses a hostess: "There's no more faith in thee, than in a stewed" one of these fruits	a prune	11%
TRIPLE RHYME TIME	$400	An extra trap for a rabbit relative	a spare hare snare	11%
DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY	$800	Moraine Lake is in this national park established in 1885 as Canada's very first	Banff	11%
PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY	$400	Maintaining kayfabe means not letting on that the match is this, the word that "kayfabe" possibly came from with the help of Pig Latin	fake	11%
'80s TV	$800	In 1981, some 30 million viewers tuned in to see Luke & Laura tie the knot on this daytime soap	General Hospital	11%
HODGEPODGE	$1000	This city is home to the University of Oklahoma & the National Severe Storms Laboratory	Norman	11%
NAMES IN FASHION	$1000	The Row & Elizabeth and James are fashion brands from these twin sisters	the Olsens	11%
DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY	$2000	The capital of a small Mediterranean island, it's where the Italian naval fleet surrendered to the Allies in 1943	Valetta	11%
"NOD"	$600	2-word phrase for a slight familiarity, enough to lower your chin in passing	a nodding acquaintance	6%
TRIPLE RHYME TIME	$1200	A frightening sprite from the flatlands of Kansas or Nebraska	a scary prairie fairy	6%
LINCOLN, BLINKEN	$600	In his second inaugural address, Lincoln called for peace "with malice toward none, with" this "for all"	charity	6%
SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS	$1600	King Lear tells this treacherous eldest daughter, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore"	Goneril	6%
FOOD FORWARD	$1200	Burger King uses this brand for its meatless Whopper	Impossible	6%
PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY	$800	Perhaps a play on "jobber", this Italian-sounding word is a wrestler hired to lose often; the Rock uses it as a synonym for loser	jabroni	6%
THE SABBATH	$400	Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dish cholent which can go on the stove Friday & cook until Saturday lunch	lighting a fire	6%
HODGEPODGE	$600	You may get allergy symptoms when you eat bananas or zucchini if you are allergic to this "weed" that causes hay fever	ragweed	6%
THE SABBATH	$800	NFLer Davion Taylor held onto his football dreams though this Christian faith kept him from playing high school football	Seventh-day Adventist	6%
TRIPLE RHYME TIME	$800	The highest limit on a pants tariff	the max slacks tax	6%
FOOD FORWARD	$2000	Around 1900 the same guy created Shredded Wheat & this Nabisco cracker of a rather similar texture	Triscuit	6%
FOOD FORWARD	$1600	A thick potato & leek soup was created by chef Louis Diat, who named it for this city in central France	Vichy	6%
'80s TV	$2000	All through the '80s kids "counted" on this PBS science series that featured the Bloodhound Gang	3-2-1 Contact	0%
"NOD"	$800	A flying creature of the cretaceous, seen here	a pteranodon	0%
STARS & STONES	$400	Invisible to the naked eye, the closest star to our sun is the dim Proxima Centauri, a "red" one of these	a red dwarf	0%
HODGEPODGE	$800	This flat Scottish cap usually has a pompom in the center	a tam (tam o\'shanter)	0%
STARS & STONES	$2000	Deneb, the "tail" of the swan in this constellation, forms the "Summer Triangle" with Vega & Altair	Cygnus	0%
LINCOLN, BLINKEN	$800	Antony Blinken worked with Joe Biden from 2002 to 2008 as Democratic staff director for this world-watching Senate committee	Foreign Relations	0%
STARS & STONES	$800	Fittingly, New Hampshire is a source of this stone; the Swenson Quarry produces tons of it for street curbing	granite	0%
PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY	$1000	The name of this masked Mexican wrestling is Spanish for "free fighting"	lucha libre	0%
FOOD FORWARD	$400	Gail Becker, mom of 2 boys who couldn't have gluten, started the Caulipower line by making this out of cauliflower	pizza crust	0%
STARS & STONES	$1600	You might surmise from its name that sandstone is this one of the 3 classifications of rock	sedimentary	0%
STARS & STONES	$1200	Aldebaran is the brightest star in this "bovine" constellation associated with a transformation made by Zeus	Taurus	0%
TRIPLE RHYME TIME	$1600	The cost to ship a really big wooden box, determined by how heavy it is	the crate freight rate	0%
THE SABBATH	$1000	Early Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday but Sunday was the day for this commemoration of the Last Supper	the Lord\'s Supper (Eucharist or Communion)	0%
TRIPLE RHYME TIME	$2000	The removed facial hair, now hallowed	the sheared beard revered	0%
SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS	$2000	A line in this play: "If Troy be not taken till" Ajax & Achilles "undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves"	Troilus and Cressida	0%
SPORTS LEGENDS	N/A	When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken"	Yogi Berra	0%