Statistics for Jeopardy #8510

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 12 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
GOOD DEEDS	$200	48 hours after Smoky Mountain wildfires devastated Tennessee homes in 2016, she worked beyond 9 to 5 to create her My People Fund to help	Dolly Parton	73%
GOOD DEEDS	$600	The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation hopes to cure injuries to this body part "by advancing innovative research"	the spine	64%
AROUND THE HOUSE	$200	Beginning & ending with the same letter, this word for the floor in front of the fireplace can also refer to your home	hearth	55%
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS	$400	Tuna	tuna	55%
200 YEARS AGO	$200	Some surmise that arsenic in the wallpaper contributed to this leader's death on the island of St. Helena in 1821	Napoleon	45%
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS	$200	Nucleus	nuclei	45%
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT	$400	In 2013 a statue of this civil rights icon, appearing as she did on the bus that day in 1955, was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol	Parks	45%
20th CENTURY FICTION	$200	This novel could have been called "2 1/2 Days in the Life of Holden Caulfield"	The Catcher in the Rye	45%
20th CENTURY FICTION	$800	Alice Walker began this novel, "You better not never tell nobody but God"	The Color Purple	45%
DISNEY+	$400	Take a fly-through of "Star Wars" vehicles like this iconic ship. "You're all clear, kid!"; now let's respond correctly and go home	the Millennium Falcon	45%
MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS	$800	2002: "Lose Yourself"	8 Mile	36%
AROUND THE HOUSE	$600	Not installed in new homes anymore, if one of these burns out in the "box" for them, grab an Edison base type	a fuse	36%
MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS	$1200	1987: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life", sung by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes	Dirty Dancing	36%
GOOD DEEDS	$800	Adoptions & a targeted spaying & neutering program are ways that Paws Chicago is able to maintain this 2-word policy	no kill	36%
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS	$800	Runner-up	runners-up	36%
GOOD DEEDS	$400	David Rubenstein gave the National Archives a print of this document struck from an 1823 copper engraving plate; hands off, Nic Cage!	the Declaration of Independence	36%
20th CENTURY FICTION	$400	William Peter Blatty really turned heads with this 1971 bestseller	The Exorcist	36%
AROUND THE HOUSE	$800	Similar to crown molding, this architectural ornamentation seen here, also starts with the letter "C"	a cornice	27%
20th CENTURY FICTION	$600	You might say young Charlie McGee lit up this 1980 Stephen King novel	Firestarter	27%
200 YEARS AGO	$400	In 1821 a Spanish viceroy signed a treaty giving this New World country its independence	Mexico	27%
AROUND THE HOUSE	$1000	One of the original rooms in Clue, it's a greenhouse that's usually attached to the main structure	the Conservatory	27%
DISNEY+	$800	It's Hanks for the memory, but Josh Peck is now the first half of the title in this show, a reboot of a 1989 detective film	Turner & Hooch	27%
DISNEY+	$600	Pixar's "Dog Days" is set in the backyard of the pooch introduced in this 2009 film	Up	27%
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS	$600	Tableau--just the last letter, please	X	27%
MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS	$400	2018: "Shallow", co-written by Lady Gaga	A Star is Born	18%
TRAIN STATIONS	$1200	Liège, in this country, got a futuristic new station in 2009 to accommodate high-speed trains	Belgium	18%
TRAIN STATIONS	$400	In 2014 Waverley Station in this capital was adorned with quotes from Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novel it's named for	Edinburgh	18%
200 YEARS AGO	$600	In 1821 this future president served briefly as Florida's governor; he'd fought there in the War of 1812	Jackson	18%
GOOD DEEDS	$1000	Your donations let this children's research hospital in Tennessee promise "No family receives a bill from" it	St. Jude	18%
TRAIN STATIONS	$800	Paris' largest gare, or train station, is the one that's in this part of the city & has that as its name	the Gare du Nord	18%
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT	$800	JFK praised this 1963 demonstration that drew about 250,000 participants & culminated at the Lincoln Memorial	the March on Washington	18%
DISNEY+	$1000	A hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza is a legend of this people; a "National Geographic" documentary digs up the "Buried Truth"	the Mayans	18%
"A" IN SCIENCE	$1200	It's the rate at which velocity changes over time	acceleration	9%
DISNEY+	$200	Miss Minutes has the task of explaining the multiverse to this Marvel antihero who meets, let's say, unexpected variants of himself	a Loki	9%
20th CENTURY FICTION	$1000	This novel has been described as "the final, notoriously obscure, wondrously perplexing work of James Joyce"	Finnegans Wake	9%
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	$400	As well as short catchy songs used in ads, they're the metal disks in the frame of a tambourine	jingles	9%
"A" IN SCIENCE	$2000	Here's an up-close image of this pollen-bearing part of a hibiscus	the anther	9%
MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS	$1600	1972: "The Morning After", from this disaster film	The Poseidon Adventure	9%
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	$1200	Stradivarius also made these; about a dozen survive, & the one seen here has been offered by Sotheby's for $45 million	violas	9%
AROUND THE HOUSE	$400	This type of bathtub seen here is named for its formidable appendages	a clawfoot bathtub	0%
200 YEARS AGO	$800	Noah Webster helped found this Massachusetts liberal arts college in 1821	Amherst	0%
"A" IN SCIENCE	$800	The name of this class of animals means "double life"	amphibian	0%
"A" IN SCIENCE	$1600	In physics it's the distance from the center line of a wave to the top of the crest	amplitude	0%
SYNONYMS	$800	A Sibyl is a female prophet or one of these, from the Latin for to pray or to speak	an oracle	0%
"A" IN SCIENCE	$400	Our immune systems produce these proteins to fight off disease	antibodies	0%
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	$2000	Unlike the curved ones, this type of saxophone heard here is usually straight & looks like a clarinet	a soprano sax	0%
SYNONYMS	$1200	This synonym for "crowd" is related to the German for "pressure"	a throng	0%
MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS	$2000	"Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938"	Broadcast	0%
SYNONYMS	$2000	Severe, harsh & cruel are synonyms for this adjective that comes from the name of a Greek lawgiver	Draconian	0%
200 YEARS AGO	$1000	Later to be America's first homegrown saint, she wrote before her 1821 passing, "I'll be wild Betsy to the last"	(Elizabeth Ann) Seton	0%
AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS	$1000	Genus	genera	0%
TRAIN STATIONS	$2000	The elaborate Dunedin New Zealand Station got designer George Troop the alliterative nickname, this tasty treat, "George"	Gingerbread George	0%
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	$1600	Francois Couperin composed for this instrument superseded by the piano & taught Louis XIV's children to play it	harpsichord	0%
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT	$1200	As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court	Marshall	0%
TRAIN STATIONS	$1600	Now in mid-renovation, this historic Baltimore station has the same name as a NYC station that was famously demolished	Penn Station	0%
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT	$1600	One of the original "Big Four" civil rights groups, CORE, founded in 1942, stands for the Congress of this	Racial Equality	0%
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS	$800	Expert oboe players also become experts at crowing & scraping these	reeds	0%
SYNONYMS	$400	These office supplies are a synonym for basics, as in basic goods	staples	0%
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT	$2000	Seen here is this numerical group plus their NAACP adviser who integrated Arkansas' Central High School in 1957	the Little Rock Nine	0%
CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS	N/A	"The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare	(Tom) Stoppard	0%
SYNONYMS	$1600	This animal is a synonym for evasive or sneaky as it was thought to suck out the contents of an egg while leaving the shell intact	weasel	0%