Statistics for Jeopardy #8495

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
POPPING OUT POP CULTURE	$200	This "8 Mile" rapper, challenged to rhyme "orange": "I put my orange, 4-inch door hinge in storage & ate porridge"	Eminem	93%
WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME	$200	Belgium & 2 neighbors make up this 7-letter region, also a customs union begun in 1948	Benelux	60%
THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN	$800	An idiot string connects a pair of these woolen warmers to keep them from getting lost	mittens	60%
PEARLS OF WISDOM	$200	Macau is on the other side of the Pearl River estuary from this Chinese special administrative region	Hong Kong	53%
WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME	$1000	The "P" in Pakistan comes from this region,the name of a Pakistani province & a state of India	Punjab	53%
IT IS ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?	$200	I'm wearing a red & white striped shirt & I'm stuck in a kids' picture book... are you looking for me?	Waldo	53%
THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN	$400	A two-four is a 24-unit case of this	beer	47%
POPPING OUT POP CULTURE	$1000	"As much as I would love to watch you & your childhood karate rival duke it out", Amanda LaRusso of this Netflix show will pass, thanks	Cobra Kai	40%
PEARLS OF WISDOM	$600	He's the lead singer of Pearl Jam	Eddie Vedder	40%
WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME	$800	Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "Hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park	Jackson Hole	40%
WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME	$400	A star can become one of these, also the name of a 4-letter region that includes places like Arlington & Alexandria	nova	40%
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION	$1200	The Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is also named for this month	October	40%
POPPING OUT POP CULTURE	$600	2021 marks 10 years of Christina Perri's "Twilight" anthem that says, "I have loved you for" this long	a thousand years	33%
THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN	$200	Schlockey, a schoolyard game, is also called "box" this sport	hockey	33%
POPPING OUT POP CULTURE	$400	Chevy Chase said his home in this holiday film was Danny Glover's in "Lethal Weapon 2"; a blown-up toilet was still on the lawn	National Lampoon\'s Christmas Vacation	33%
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION	$2000	Early in the Arab Spring, this country's Jasmine Revolution was named for the country's national flower	Tunisia	33%
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION	$800	The Bulldozer Revolution is named for heavy machinery at the front of protests in this Serbian capital in 2000	Belgrade	27%
IT IS ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?	$800	I'm Roger Thornhill, an innocent guy being chased by shadowy forces in this 1959 Hitchcock film; now a plane's after me...!	North by Northwest	27%
PUZZLES & GAMES	$800	A worldwide craze for these puzzles began after a New Zealand man invented a computer program to generate the number grids	Sudoku	27%
THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN	$1000	The 10 of these are divided into the economically prosperous "have" type & the less affluent "have-not" type	the provinces	27%
PUZZLES & GAMES	$400	A fine-bladed marquetry tool is thought to have been used to create the first of these around 1760	a jigsaw puzzle	20%
CELLO	$400	When you think of a cello solo, you're probably thinking of this Baroque composer's cello prelude from around 1720	Bach	20%
IT IS ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?	$400	For heaven's sake, Tommy Tutone; my number's 867-5309; I'm this girl with the "number on the wall", so just call already	Jenny	20%
PEARLS OF WISDOM	$800	Nacre is another name for this iridescent substance	mother-of-pearl	20%
IT IS ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?	$1000	There are only two of me in a standard deck of cards; call us by our hyphenated name & we just might make your house full	a one-eyed jack	13%
CELLO	$600	The uncrowned king of the cello, David Popper has a work titled this, what you'd sing under the window of your beloved	a "Serenade"	13%
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION	$400	Myanmar's 2007 Saffron Revolution was named for the color of the robes of monks of this religion who participated	Buddhists	13%
WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME	$600	Tribeca in the Big Apple stands for the "triangle below" this street	Canal Street	13%
CELLO	$1000	Portrayed on film in "Hilary & Jackie", the life of this British cellist was cut short by ms at age 42	Jacqueline du Pré	13%
THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS	$800	The snobby lady Catherine de Bourgh & the treacherous John Dashwood	Jane Austen	13%
PEARLS OF WISDOM	$1000	"The Pearl", a story by this man, tells of a pearl diver named Kino	Steinbeck	13%
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION	$1600	Nearly 30 years after the 1989 one in Czechoslovakia, Armenia had its own revolution named for this soft fabric	velvet	13%
THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS	$400	The doomed Frances Earnshaw, mom of the less doomed Hareton Earnshaw	Emily Brontë	7%
META"FOR"S	$400	3-word phrase meaning something that nourishes careful cogitation	food for thought	7%
THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS	$1200	José Arcadio, so magically real, & Fermina Daza	(Gabriel García) Márquez	7%
PUZZLES & GAMES	$2000	White offers to let black capture a queenside pawn in this royal-sounding chess opening shown here	Queen\'s Gambit	7%
POPPING OUT POP CULTURE	$800	Alan Tudyk crash lands on Earth & his character assumes the form of local doctor Harry Vanderspeigle on this SYFY show	Resident Alien	7%
CELLO	$800	An excellent piece for the cello is "The Swan", from this work by Camille Saint-Saens	The Carnival of the Animals	7%
PLANETARY SCIENCE	$400	Mercury is one dense planet, with this interior section making up 55% of its volume vs. 16% for Earth	the core	7%
PUZZLES & GAMES	$1600	An '80s game similar to hangman designed to teach French vocabulary & spelling is named for this deadly implement	the guillotine	7%
CELLO	$200	This cellist founded a music collective called the Silkroad Ensemble, with whom he plays cello	Yo-Yo Ma	7%
THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN	$600	An Ontario resort region gives its name to the Muskoka this, typically made of slatted wood & resembling the Adirondack type	a chair	0%
META"FOR"S	$2000	Erasmus referred to Thomas More as "omnium horarum homo", this play title	A Man for All Seasons	0%
IT IS ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?	$600	Abducted & sealed away "In a sepulchre by the sea", I'm this lost love, sought for in a Poe poem	Annabel Lee	0%
PLANETARY SCIENCE	$2000	HD 209458b was the first planet discovered via this eclipse-like event where planets cross in front of stars	a transit	0%
ACTORS & ACCENTS	$400	Emma Stone says her accent in the 2021 movie named for this Disney villain is more 1940s movie actor than pure British	Cruella (de Vil)	0%
PUZZLES & GAMES	$1200	The puzzle alliteratively known as this man's "Revenge" adds extra rows & has no fixed center pieces	Erno Rubik (Rubik\'s Revenge)	0%
PLANETARY SCIENCE	$1600	In 1675 he discovered a division within Saturn's rings, which he declared to be made up of little moonlets	Giovanni Domenico Cassini	0%
ACTORS & ACCENTS	$2000	Before lending his voice to many Pixar projects, this New Englander did one of the few actual Boston accents on "Cheers"	(John) Ratzenberger	0%
ACTORS & ACCENTS	$1200	She mastered the tricky vowels of Delaware County, Pennsylvania as the title cop on "Mare of Easttown"	Kate Winslet	0%
ACTORS & ACCENTS	$800	Jonathan Groff from Lancaster, Pennsylvania worked up a posh English accent for this Broadway role in "Hamilton"	King George III	0%
THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS	$2000	Tralfamadorians & (God bless you,) Eliot Rosewater	Kurt Vonnegut	0%
ACTORS & ACCENTS	$1600	She got the feel of her Brooklyn accent in "The Wolf of Wall Street" by waving her nails around as if they were still wet from a manicure	Margot Robbie	0%
PEARLS OF WISDOM	$400	Fittingly, the Pearlmaster watch is part of this Rolex collection	Oyster	0%
THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS	$1600	Charles Lindbergh & Sophie Portnoy, a good smother... I mean a good mother!	Philip Roth	0%
PLANETARY SCIENCE	$1200	15 years before its official discovery, it was photographed in 1915 by Lowell Observatory, which didn't know what it was	Pluto	0%
META"FOR"S	$1600	This 1950s TV show had 4 women, each with a tale of woe, competing for the temporary royal title	Queen for a Day	0%
1970s TOP 40 HITS	N/A	Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit	"Roxanne"	0%
META"FOR"S	$800	Someone who's been cheated has been this, a metaphorical phrase involving a journey	taken for a ride	0%
META"FOR"S	$1200	If you "can't see" this, you're too involved in the details of a subject to understand the big picture	the forest for the trees	0%
PLANETARY SCIENCE	$800	Ancient astronomers finally realized Phosphorus, seen in the morning, & Hesperus, in the evening--both this planet	Venus	0%