Statistics for Jeopardy #8492

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This quiz has been taken 29 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES	$200	Despite lackluster sales of the Chevy Bolt, this company had a 2020 value of more than $35 billion	General Motors	69%
FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES	$400	Sales of these, 55% of Apple's total sales, fell 14% in 2019; never fear, the company's still worth $2 trillion	iPhones	56%
ANNUS HORRIBILIS	$400	In 1666 the fire that would devastate this city began at the home of the king's baker on Pudding Lane	London	56%
WORLD GEOGRAPHY	$400	The Libyan Desert is a portion of this much larger desert	the Sahara	56%
WORLD GEOGRAPHY	$800	Greek & Turkish are the principal languages of this Mediterranean island nation	Cyprus	50%
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS	$200	Instead of income tax, you have to pay a Central Perk Tab in the Monopoly edition based on this TV show	Friends	50%
ANNUS HORRIBILIS	$200	In 1348 this "colorful" pandemic killed half the population of Florence, Italy & spread through North Africa	the Black Death	50%
FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES	$800	This home improvement retailer with a possessive name is valued in excess of $110 billion	Lowe\'s	44%
ANNUS HORRIBILIS	$600	"Black Thursday" saw panic selling on Oct. 24 of this year, leading to "Black Monday" & "Black Tuesday" & dark days in the USA	1929	31%
PART OF DARKNESS	$200	It can be a fairly crucial piece of office furniture	desk	31%
5 BURROS	$400	This melancholy donkey whose tail is attached by a nail debuted in a 1926 story	Eeyore	31%
POLITICAL NICKNAMES	$400	Jowly Winston Churchill was nicknamed the "British" this, a breed of dog he owned	Bulldog	25%
5 BURROS	$600	In a book by Marguerite Henry, Brighty is a burro who roams the high cliffs of this Arizona landmark	the Grand Canyon	25%
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS	$1000	Triforce, hookshot & Hylian shield are tokens in the edition based on this video game franchise	The Legend of Zelda	25%
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS	$800	Players need to protect "Baby Yoda" from imperial enemies in Monopoly "Star Wars" this edition	The Mandalorian	25%
ANNUS HORRIBILIS	$800	In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott's trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history	the South Pole	25%
ANNUS HORRIBILIS	$1000	Called "The Civil War's Bloodiest Day", Sept. 17 of this year saw the Battle of Antietam, with 23,000 casualties	1862	19%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$400	The 1960s gave us acid rock; the acid was this	LSD	19%
WORLD GEOGRAPHY	$1200	A 2010 agreement between Russia & this country splits control of the Barents Sea nearly in half	Norway	19%
5 BURROS	$200	"The Little Donkey" is one of the many tales collected by these brothers in the early 1800s	the Brothers Grimm	19%
FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES	$1000	This petroleum company abbreviated VLO is VLO'd at more than $22 billion	Valero	19%
FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES	$600	O say can you see the $121 billion in revenue of this for-profit health federation that operates Blue Cross & Blue Shield	Anthem	13%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$800	It first meant a movie, then a script for one, then starting in the 1930s was used in Academy Award categories	a screenplay	13%
DID I MISS ANYTHING?	$400	He returned to Venice from the East in 1295, having missed the rule of 2 doges	Marco Polo	13%
PART OF DARKNESS	$400	Became submerged & hit the bottom	sank	13%
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS	$600	In the "Simpsons" edition, properties up for sale include Disco Stu's & this convenience store	the Kwik-E-Mart	13%
DID I MISS ANYTHING?	$1200	Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda fought WWII in this country until the 1970s, when he left the jungle & surrendered to President Marcos	the Philippines	13%
NEW YORK CITY	$400	Take a selfie with the Statue of Liberty aboard this 25-minute ride to the St. George Terminal across New York Harbor	the Staten Island Ferry	13%
NEW YORK CITY	$600	thrillist.com named this Brooklyn "burg" the world's No. 1 hipster neighborhood	Williamsburg	13%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$1200	Hyphenated word for someone with an outdated view on the shape of our planet	a flat-Earther	6%
DID I MISS ANYTHING?	$800	For union activism, George Loveless was sent from his English village to this distant place in 1834, but in 1837 was able to return	Australia	6%
HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM	$2000	1979: Malcolm McDowell as this depraved Roman ruler	Caligula	6%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$1600	Muriel Dowding started the cosmetics company Beauty Without this, helping inspire the adjective this-free	Cruelty	6%
"F" IN SCIENCE	$400	It's part of a flower's stamen, or a thin wire inside a light bulb	filament	6%
HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM	$800	2006: this actor as Idi Amin	Forest Whitaker	6%
"F" IN SCIENCE	$800	CH2O is the chemical formula for this strong-smelling gas used in preservatives	formaldehyde	6%
HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM	$400	2019: Cynthia Erivo as this "conductor"	Harriet Tubman	6%
WORLD GEOGRAPHY	$2000	The alliterative lion of this Swiss city commemorates Swiss Guards who died in the French Revolution	Lucerne	6%
PART OF DARKNESS	$600	Elated or eager, or more California colloquially... really cool, dude!	rad	6%
POLITICAL NICKNAMES	$800	In 2019 Lori Lightfoot took over as mayor of Chicago from this man, "Rahmbo"	Rahm Emanuel	6%
PART OF DARKNESS	$1000	To tear clothing in anger	rend	6%
HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM	$1200	2018: this actress as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots	Saoirse Ronan	6%
NEW YORK CITY	$800	Keens Steakhouse displays thousands of clay pipes used by patrons like Buffalo Bill, Babe Ruth & this Rough Rider & N.Y. native	Teddy Roosevelt	6%
WORLD GEOGRAPHY	$1600	Around 1979 this Mexican state on the Pacific dropped "Norte" from its name	Baja	0%
5 BURROS	$800	In the book of Numbers, both an angel & the animal itself ask this man why he's beating up on his donkey	Balaam	0%
"F" IN SCIENCE	$1600	About 60% of the Earth's crust is made up of this group of glassy minerals	feldspar	0%
HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM	$1600	2020: Charles Dance as this tycoon in "Mank"	Hearst	0%
MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS	$400	You might land on Bike Share or Week-Long Meditation Retreat in "Monopoly for" these folks born between 1981 & 1996	Mililennials	0%
DID I MISS ANYTHING?	$2000	Bronislaw Malinowski did anthropological fieldwork for 2 years near this 2nd largest island, but WWI was still on when he was done	New Guinea	0%
5 BURROS	$1000	In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the mischievous Puck gives this poor weaver the head of an ass	(Nick) Bottom	0%
POLITICAL NICKNAMES	$1200	"Snarlin' Arlen" was the nickname of Arlen Specter, a long-time senator from this state	Pennsylvania	0%
POLITICAL NICKNAMES	$2000	Harkening back to the Ottoman Empire, "Sultan" is the nickname critics have given this current head of state	President Erdoğan or Turkey	0%
"F" IN SCIENCE	$2000	In the 1940s he developed an improved theory of quantum electrodynamics	Richard Feynman	0%
DID I MISS ANYTHING?	$1600	Maybe worried he'd been forgotten, on his return to England after a long time crusading, he had himself re-crowned in 1194	Richard I (Lionheart)	0%
NEW YORK CITY	$1000	You can hitch a ride or just take a bus to this Queens beach, New York City's only legal surfing spot	Rockaway	0%
PART OF DARKNESS	$800	Prince Buster was a star in this Jamaican music style	ska	0%
20th CENTURY ENGLISH	$2000	Coined around 1960, it's the dull, conformist town where the opposites of beatniks & hippies live	Squaresville	0%
POLITICAL NICKNAMES	$1600	This senator remembered in history for a series of debates was nicknamed "The Little Giant"	(Stephen A.) Douglas	0%
"F" IN SCIENCE	$1200	The lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid may briefly ignite is called this	the flash point	0%
NEW YORK CITY	$200	Gary Muhrcke, winner of the 1st race up 1,576 stairs of the Empire State Bldg. in 1978, was also the 1st to win this NYC event in 1970	the New York City Marathon	0%
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS	N/A	He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine	Thomas Harris	0%