Statistics for Jeopardy #8506

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 16 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
INVENTION	$200	Laundry tubs & sausage casing were part of Willem Kolff's WWII-era artificial this organ, precursor to the dialysis machine	a kidney	70%
GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS	$600	Chapter 1 of "Treasure Island" mentions this liquor in an old sea song	rum	70%
INVENTION	$400	In 1893 Marie Tucek invented an early version of this metallic support system in brassieres	underwire	60%
GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS	$400	It's the booze in common to a Moscow Mule & a Bloody Mary	vodka	60%
GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS	$800	This liqueur is distilled from wormwood, & an old word for wormwood gives it its name	absinthe	50%
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$200	Temporarily hoarse? You've got this amphibian condition	a frog in your throat	50%
FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC	$200	"But the biggest kick I ever got was doin' a thing called the chopping block"	crocodile rock	50%
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES	$200	In 1865 Peak XV got this new name to honor a British surveyor general of India	Mount Everest	50%
LEGAL "EE"	$800	A conditionally released prisoner	parolee	50%
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$800	Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase	the bee\'s knees	50%
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES	$1000	The polar section of this mountain range ends near the Kara Sea; the southern part, around Kazakhstan's border	the Urals	50%
FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC	$800	"And you can tell everybody this is all wrong"	your song	50%
LEGAL "EE"	$600	It's defined by the U.N. as one who can't return to their home country due "to a well-founded fear of being persecuted"	a refugee	40%
GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS	$200	A county in Kentucky gives this type of corn-based spirit its name	bourbon	40%
RUSSIANS	$2000	Born in St. Petersburg in 1846, he inherited his dad's small jewelry business at the eggs-act age of 24	Fabergé	40%
RUSSIANS	$800	Various bodyguard reports about this "Mad Monk" had him "very drunk", "dead drunk" & "overcome with drink"; I sense a theme	Rasputin	40%
7-LETTER WORDS	$800	A small hotel, or a payment to a retiree	a pension	30%
FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC	$400	"I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no, I'm a hired hand"	a rocket man	30%
LEGAL "EE"	$200	A reliable person who holds or administers the possessions of another, like a minor	a trustee	30%
LEGAL "EE"	$1000	This 6-letter word is a court's final judgment or decision	decree	30%
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$600	Also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, this dish means something very easy to do	duck soup	30%
7-LETTER WORDS	$400	What used to be called the pound sign is now known as this	hashtag	30%
THE CITY HAS FALLEN	$800	Luckily not permanently, Ramadi in Iraq to this would-be caliphate, May 2015	ISIS	30%
RUSSIANS	$1200	Come on, you've been conditioned to remember this physiologist wrote "Lectures on the Work of the Digestive Glands"	Pavlov	30%
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES	$800	Uranium City, where folks once mined just what you'd think, is in this middle one of Canada's prairie provinces	Saskatchewan	30%
INVENTION	$600	Working at Kodak in the 1970s, Steven Sasson invented this device that became the company's ruination	the digital camera	30%
INVENTION	$1000	Reading about this group's fate in 1840s California spurred Gail Borden to invent a dried meat biscuit, & then condensed milk	the Donner Party	30%
THE CITY HAS FALLEN	$400	This world capital to the British in August 1814	Washington, D.C.	30%
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES	$400	Prairie du Chien, this state's oldest settlement after Green Bay, was the site of the state's only battle in the War of 1812	Wisconsin	30%
MOVIE STARS	$1200	In "Interstellar", a character wishes he could see the collapsed star inside Gargantua, one of these	a black hole	20%
LEGAL "EE"	$400	An assurance that a contract will be executed or something given as security that it will be done	a guarantee	20%
7-LETTER WORDS	$2000	An early settler of a territory, or a U.S. space probe that was launched in 1958	a pioneer	20%
INVENTION	$800	Yoshitada Minami put an automatic turn-off on this kitchen device & in 4 years, half of Japanese homes had one	a rice cooker	20%
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$400	This phrase about a hidden enemy comes from Virgil, "Latet anguis in herba"	a snake in the grass	20%
RUSSIANS	$400	On Dec. 22, 1849 this author of "Crime & Punishment" was led before a firing squad, only to get a last-minute pardon from the czar	Dostoevsky	20%
WRITING THE GOVERNESS	$400	This title Austen character claims credit for the marriage of Mr. Weston to Miss Taylor, her former governess	Emma	20%
MOVIE STARS	$800	The Ceti Alpha star system is the scene of the action in the "Star Trek" film subtitled "The Wrath of" him	Khan	20%
FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC	$600	"And it seems to me you lived your life like a vandal who has sinned"	like a candle in the wind	20%
THE CITY HAS FALLEN	$2000	This anthem-inspiring city to the Allies, August 28, 1944	Marseille	20%
MOVIE STARS	$400	In "Avatar" the Alpha Centauri star system is where humans are mining on this moon	Pandora	20%
THE CITY HAS FALLEN	$1600	Caracas to this man's forces, Aug. 6, 1813	Simón Bolívar	20%
7-LETTER WORDS	$1200	Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver	a chalice	10%
7-LETTER WORDS	$1600	A traditional 15th anniversary gift is this, perhaps from Lalique	crystal	10%
MOVIE STARS	$1600	This off-limits "planet" in the title of a 1956 sci-fi classic is in orbit around Altair	Forbidden Planet	10%
WRITING THE GOVERNESS	$800	This author wrote about governesses in "The Turn of the Screw" & "What Maisie Knew"	(Henry) James	10%
FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC	$1000	"Get back, hognose bat, better get back to the woods"	honky cat	10%
RUSSIANS	$1600	In the 1960s this Russian-born man designed stained glass windows for Jerusalem's Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center	Marc Chagall	10%
MOVIE STARS	$2000	A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster	Men in Black	10%
WRITING THE GOVERNESS	$1200	Susan is a governess in "Hogfather", one of this author's "Discworld" novels	Pratchett	10%
THE CITY HAS FALLEN	$1200	In 222 B.C. Milan to these southerners	the Romans	10%
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES	$600	Kansas' Little House on the Prairie Museum was reconstructed from the descriptions of this woman	Wilder	10%
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$1000	The lifespans of creatures like Bubbles, said to be 60, may have given rise to this phrase, meaning "it's been a long time"	a donkey\'s age (donkey\'s year)	0%
WRITING THE GOVERNESS	$2000	In "Vanity Fair" sir Pitt Crawley proposes to this governess, but it turns out she's already married to his son Rawdon	Becky Sharp	0%
GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS	$1000	Whiskey & honey go into this Irish cream brand launched in 1979, a few years after rival Bailey's	Carolans	0%
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS	$1600	Landmarks in two states include the 155-year-old bridge connecting Covington, Kentucky to this city	Cincinnati	0%
WRITING THE GOVERNESS	$1600	A rich heir hires a governess for his daughter in Michel Faber's novel "The" this color "Petal & the White"	crimson	0%
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS	$1200	This architect's Taliesin & Taliesin West are both national historic landmarks	Frank Lloyd Wright	0%
NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY	N/A	He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name	(John Mercer) Langston	0%
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS	$2000	In 2021 the Massachusetts home where she laid the foundations for Christian Science was designated a national landmark	Mary Baker Eddy	0%
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS	$800	Temple Square in this state capital was designated a landmark in 1964	Salt Lake City	0%
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS	$400	On an alphabetical list of national historic landmarks in Texas, this symbol of the state's independence is first	the Alamo	0%