Statistics for Jeopardy #8489

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This quiz has been taken 25 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE	$200	Dr. Crane, on the radio	Frasier	60%
THE 16th CENTURY	$200	Neither this Portuguese explorer nor his flagship the Trinidad completed his circumnavigation of the globe	Magellan	60%
THE 16th CENTURY	$800	In the 1540s he wrote, "Finally, we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the universe"	Copernicus	53%
VOTING USA	$600	(Here is Dr.Kate Rubins who has spent a total of 300 days in space.) Astronauts are able to vote from the ISS, including me in the 2016 election; my ballot was encrypted & transmitted to a county clerk in this city, where Mission Control is	Houston	53%
THE 16th CENTURY	$600	Pope Sixtus V promised Philip II one million golden ducats to support this fleet	the Spanish Armada	53%
TWISTER!	$400	Disaster on top of disaster: when one of these hit South Texas in 1967, its thunderstorms spun off more than 100 tornadoes	a hurricane	40%
OLD SLANG	$600	If someone said you had beetle-crushers, it meant big these body parts	feet	40%
OLD SLANG	$400	Barnacles & blinkers were these vision aids	glasses	40%
VOTING USA	$200	A bit under half the states offer SDR, short for same-day this, often Election Day	registration	40%
VOTING USA	$400	Oklahoma is among states to explicitly allow posting a photo of how you voted, commonly known as a "ballot" this	selfie	40%
OLD SLANG	$200	A young man living alone was "batching", from this noun	a bachelor	33%
MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE	$400	Mr. Payne, played by the funny Mr. Lawrence	Martin	33%
MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE	$1000	Ms. Findlay, Edith Bunker's cousin	Maude	33%
CONTAINERS	$400	The history of this jar dates to a patent filed on Nov. 30, 1858 for "improvement in screw-neck bottles"	a Mason jar	27%
CONTAINERS	$600	In chemistry, types of these containers include Florence, Schlenk & Erlenmeyer	flasks	27%
MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE	$800	Mr. Read, an 8-year-old aardvark	Arthur	20%
MURDER, HE WROTE	$800	In 1902 this novelist killed Sir Charles Baskerville in book form	Arthur Conan Doyle	20%
SONG OF MYSELF	$400	The answer is... in 2018 this K-pop band learned the "Answer: Love Myself"	BTS	20%
SONG OF MYSELF	$1600	She & the Blackhearts had a top 10 hit with "I Hate Myself For Loving You"	Joan Jett	20%
THIS IS N-P-R	$1200	The Recording Industry Association of America got this file-sharing service shut down in 2001	Napster	20%
VOTING USA	$1000	Saying it was no longer needed, in 2013 the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of this law & its federal oversight	the Voting Rights Act	20%
TWISTER!	$800	The long, narrow strip of the central U.S. plain seen here is known by this 2-word name	Tornado Alley	20%
VERBS	$1200	Disappears, like "The Lady" does in a Hitchcock film title	Vanishes	20%
CONTAINERS	$1000	The OED says this is a 2-word "box in which a young woman... collects articles... in the event of her marriage"	a hope chest	13%
SONG OF MYSELF	$2000	This 1997 Celine Dion hit was a cover of an Eric Carmen song	"All By Myself"	13%
MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE	$600	Mr. Berkman, a hit man who becomes Mr. Block, an actor	Barry	13%
GEO TRIOS	$400	Part of the Soviet Union until 1991, it's the largest of the 3 Baltic nations	Lithuania	13%
THIS IS N-P-R	$400	Let's catch a regatta at this Rhode Island city by Narragansett Bay	Newport	13%
VERBS	$400	When followed by "down", this clothing accessory means "to eat quickly"	scarf	13%
MURDER, HE WROTE	$1200	A real unsolved & brutal killing in 1947 Los Angeles haunts this "colorful" James Ellroy novel	The Black Dahlia	13%
TWISTER!	$1600	It's the alliterative 2-word term for the type of demonic little twister seen here	a dust devil	7%
THIS IS NPR	$400	Audie Cornish & Ailsa Chang are among the hosts of this afternoon news program	All Things Considered	7%
OLD SLANG	$800	A heavy drinker with a red nose was this naval bigwig "of the red"	an admiral	7%
CONTAINERS	$800	In 1954 neuroscientist John C. Lilly designed this tank to explore results of cutting off all external stimuli	a sensory deprivation tank	7%
SONG OF MYSELF	$800	A trip to a Japanese disco inspired this Billy Idol hit about "the floors of Tokyo"	"Dancing With Myself"	7%
TWISTER!	$1200	Tornadoes destroy wind speed instruments, so meteorologists use mobile radar named for this Austrian to get the same effect	Doppler	7%
GEO TRIOS	$1200	Brunei, Malaysia & this nation all have territory on the island of Borneo	Indonesia	7%
THE 16th CENTURY	$400	Seen here, he became Aztec emperor in 1502	Montezuma (II)	7%
THIS IS N-P-R	$1600	It means not affiliated with a political party	non partisan	7%
GEO TRIOS	$2000	Of South Africa's 3 capital cities, this administrative one is part of the municipality of Tshwane	Pretoria	7%
GEO TRIOS	$800	North Carolina's Research Triangle consists of 3 university cities: Durham, Chapel Hill & this home of NC State	Raleigh	7%
THIS IS NPR	$600	NPR's Planet Money reported $875 buys 2.5 million of these automated annoyances, maybe to sell you on renewing an auto warranty	robocalls	7%
SONG OF MYSELF	$1200	Seen here, she had a 2016 hit with "Hands To Myself"	Selena Gomez	7%
VOTING USA	$800	Bringing Sunday churchgoers to cast their votes after services is rhymingly called these "to the polls"	souls	7%
THIS IS NPR	$200	NPR teamed up with "Frontline" to report on how this industry failed to protect workers from black lung & "deadly dust"	the coal industry	7%
TWISTER!	$2000	April 3, 1974 saw 7 tornadoes from Alabama to Indiana max out at F5 on this scale of storm intensity	the Fujita Scale	7%
THE 16th CENTURY	$1000	The day that Henry VIII married Catherine Howard, July 28, 1540, this chief advisor to the king was executed	(Thomas) Cromwell	7%
GEO TRIOS	$1600	Qutang, Wu & Xiling are the trio of submerged valleys that gave this name to a dam completed in 2006	Three Gorges	7%
THIS IS NPR	$800	Hold on, hold on... no, we won't reveal the name of this NPR weekly quiz show that debuted in 1998 with Carl Kasell as its judge	Wait Wait... Don\'t Tell Me!	7%
THIS IS N-P-R	$800	It can mean "one who bites or pinches", as well as "a small boy"	a nipper	0%
THIS IS NPR	$1000	In April 2021 NPR's Fresh Air remembered this Apollo 11 hero who had just passed; he had called his solo Moon orbit "completely serene"	Collins	0%
VERBS	$2000	As a verb, this piece of furniture means "to express indirectly", as with a threat	couch	0%
VERBS	$1600	This 6-letter verb means "to shun", though it sounds like it means to chomp on something	eschew	0%
CONTAINERS	$200	As one word, it's a small, flat trunk found in barracks; as 2, it's a shoe retailer	footlocker (Foot Locker)	0%
THIS IS N-P-R	$2000	A DuPont scientist developed this synthetic rubber product in 1930	neoprene	0%
OLD SLANG	$1000	From a character in popular entertainment, a peck's this was a man who didn't obey social norms	Peck\'s Bad Boy	0%
MURDER, HE WROTE	$400	"The Case of the Lazy Lover" by Erle Stanley Gardner finds this defense lawyer dealing with a missing witness, forgery... & murder!	Perry Mason	0%
MURDER, HE WROTE	$1600	A body is found on a bridge in 1896 New York in this Caleb Carr novel whose title is an old term for a psychiatrist	The Alienist	0%
MURDER, HE WROTE	$2000	When it comes to hard-boiled murder & Frank Chambers icing a dame's husband, this 1934 James M. Cain novel always delivers	The Postman Always Rings Twice	0%
VERBS	$800	Railway job meaning to skillfully make sure of a certain outcome	to engineer	0%
U.S. HISTORY	N/A	On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these	(U.S.) senators	0%