Statistics for Jeopardy #8504

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This quiz has been taken 20 times
The average score is 11 of 60

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE	$200	Like Rome, Edinburgh & Istanbul are known as cities of this many hills	7	80%
PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE	$800	These are the 3 prime numbers in the 40s	41, 43 & 47	60%
PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE	$600	The OED found the University of Buffalo was the first to use this number denoting an introductory course, in 1929	101	50%
INSTITUTIONS	$200	In 1985 a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found this vessel more than 12,000 feet underwater	the Titanic	50%
PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE	$1000	The treaties formally ending the American Revolution were signed in this year	1783	40%
PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE	$400	Idiomatically, it precedes "skidoo"	23	40%
DARK MATTER	$800	Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood	ebony	40%
ZOMBIETHON	$200	In 1998 this animated Great Dane & the gang explored new mysteries "on Zombie Island"	Scooby-Doo	40%
"ANTI" UP	$800	Carly Simon had a hit song about this feeling of excitement	anticipation	30%
"ANTI" UP	$400	In Italian cuisine, it's cold food you eat at the start of a meal	antipasto	30%
DARK MATTER	$1600	You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust	basalt	30%
RE-CHARTED	$400	Come on baby, and name this man seen here who had a No. 1 Hit with "The Twist" in 1960 & again in 1962	Chubby Checker	30%
EPONYMOUS-ISMs	$400	It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy	Confucius	30%
REGULAR VERBS	$1000	From the Latin for "price", it's what your new car's value does shortly after you drive off the lot	depreciate	30%
THAT'S OUR FACTORY	$1600	A "New" factory of the future in Massachusetts for its made-in-the-USA sneakers	New Balance	30%
INSTITUTIONS	$600	Raffles Institution is a co-educational school established back in 1823 in this city-state	Singapore	30%
ZOMBIETHON	$400	"Train to Busan" is set in this Asian country during a zombie outbreak there	South Korea	30%
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES	N/A	It's the only U.N. member state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language	Suriname	30%
DARK MATTER	$400	In the Harry Potter books, he's the dark lord	Voldemort	30%
REGULAR VERBS	$600	To beat with a strap, or what a party leader does to get votes lined up in Congress	whip	30%
"ANTI" UP	$2000	Term for two points on Earth such as the poles or such as Spain & New Zealand	antipodes	20%
RE-CHARTED	$1600	Seen here, this man had a hit twice with "Stand By Me", his signature song	Ben E. King	20%
INSTITUTIONS	$800	If you want to learn German, maybe your town has a branch of this institute founded in 1951 & named for a famous writer	Goethe	20%
19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS	$600	In 1870 Robert Fox' treatment on a segregated streetcar sparked protests & a boycott in this largest Kentucky city	Louisville	20%
CHARTED	$200	In the 1760s this pair worked to delineate a territorial boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania	Mason & Dixon	20%
CHARTED	$1000	His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances	Mercator	20%
19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS	$800	In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill	San Juan	20%
CHARTED	$800	Louis de Freycinet mapped much of this large Australian island due south of Melbourne	Tasmania	20%
CHARTED	$400	Scientists created the map seen here showing Challenger Deep in this deepest part of the Pacific	the Mariana Trench	20%
ZOMBIETHON	$600	Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series	The Walking Dead	20%
DARK MATTER	$2000	In the early 1800s Joseph Niépce created some of the first photos using one of these, Latin for "dark chamber"	a camera obscura	10%
REGULAR VERBS	$400	To cut a material to form something; you can do it to ski turns, meat & statues	carve	10%
19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS	$200	When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist	Frederick Douglass	10%
THAT'S OUR FACTORY	$1200	This beauty company whose name partly means "gold": the Lassigny plant north of Paris	L\'Oréal	10%
EPONYMOUS-ISMs	$1600	The philosophical & political "ism" named for this 15th & 16th century man reflects his characteristic unscrupulousness	Machiavelli	10%
EPONYMOUS-ISMs	$2000	A controversial 18th century German physician created this early form of hypnotism	mesmerism	10%
19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS	$400	In 1870, Hiram Revels was elected to the United States Senate from this state once represented by Jefferson Davis	Mississippi	10%
ZOMBIETHON	$1000	Seth Grahame-Smith wrote this send-up of Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	10%
REGULAR VERBS	$200	I'm here to certify it means to versify	rhyme	10%
OLD LITERATURE	$800	The Panchatantra animal fables were written in this ancient language of India & used to teach princes	Sanskrit	10%
EPONYMOUS-ISMs	$1200	Strong nationalism & anti-labor policies were elements of this, named for a 1980s U.K. prime minister	Thatcherism	10%
INSTITUTIONS	$400	A prestigious think tank, the Brookings Institution is headquartered in this city	Washington, D.C.	10%
OLD LITERATURE	$1200	This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy	Aeneas	0%
"ANTI" UP	$1200	It's the type of missile used against missiles in flight	anti-ballistic	0%
"ANTI" UP	$1600	It's one who studies ancient relics, or a type of bookstore dealing in old & rare volumes	antiquarian	0%
ZOMBIETHON	$800	In "Zombieland" he starred as himself & when asked if he had any regrets, said, "'Garfield,' maybe"	Bill Murray	0%
RE-CHARTED	$1200	Aerosmith did indeed "sing for the years" with this song, re-charting in 1976 when it hit No. 6; it charted again in 2018	"Dream On"	0%
OLD LITERATURE	$2000	In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar	Gilgamesh	0%
19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS	$1000	In 2020, this journalist seen here was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer citation for reporting on the era of lynching	Ida B. Wells	0%
THAT'S OUR FACTORY	$800	The Ocotillo campus making semiconductors in Chandler, Arizona	Intel	0%
INSTITUTIONS	$1000	Rice University's Institute for Public Policy bears the name of this man who was George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State	James A. Baker	0%
CHARTED	$600	In the 1840s this Army surveyor & future Republican presidential candidate mapped much of the American West	(John C.) Frémont	0%
RE-CHARTED	$2000	One of the many Prince songs that re-charted after his 2016 death was this opening track of "Purple Rain"	"Let\'s Go Crazy"	0%
EPONYMOUS-ISMs	$800	A 1950 L.A. Times column said the "defect of" this seemed to be the senator for whom it was named	McCarthyism	0%
RE-CHARTED	$800	Of course this novelty hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a hit for Halloween 1962, but why did it chart again in the summer of 1973?	"Monster Mash"	0%
DARK MATTER	$1200	This 14th century poet who gave his name to a type of sonnet is often credited with the term the Dark Ages	Petrarch	0%
REGULAR VERBS	$800	This mild word that can follow goal- & bar-means to offer formally for acceptance, like with a resignation	tender	0%
OLD LITERATURE	$1600	Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth	the Egyptian Book of the Dead	0%
THAT'S OUR FACTORY	$2000	The Akashi motorcycle plant, not far from the Good Times World Corporate Museum	the Kawasaki plant	0%
OLD LITERATURE	$400	Epinician odes, from the word Nike, include a series about this event, such as ones praising the boxer Diagoras	the Olympic Games	0%