Statistics for Jeopardy #8511

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This quiz has been taken 25 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$400	I have found it, it being this Greek word that means "I have found it!"	eureka	59%
ISLANDS OF EUROPE	$800	Enjoy the local wine on this country's island of Madeira	Portugal	59%
ISLANDS OF EUROPE	$400	You'll find plenty of small silver herring off the shores of this second-largest Italian island	Sardinia	59%
ISLANDS OF EUROPE	$1200	For its vital role in World War II, this Mediterranean island was awarded the George cross, not one of the crosses named for it	Malta	53%
COMPOSERS	$400	He had no idea the audience was applauding at an 1824 performance of his Ninth Symphony until a soloist had him face the crowd	Beethoven	41%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$600	French for "good journey", it's what you wish someone before they set off on a trip	bon voyage	41%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$1000	Let's give thanks in Japanese, this word	arigato	35%
WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	$1000	The oldest university in Scandinavia is in Uppsala, Sweden; the second oldest, in this capital a few hundred miles south	Copenhagen	35%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$800	This Spanish phrase literally means "until the view" & is used to mean "see you later"	hasta la vista	35%
WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	$200	Often ranked as Brazil's top institution of higher learning, it's abbreviated USP & it's absolutely free	University of São Paulo	35%
FAMOUS NAMES	$800	This pupil of Plato went on to found his own school, the Lyceum	Aristotle	29%
TIME	$400	A container sealed in Otta, Norway in 1912 & opened in 2012 is just one of many of these that turned out to hold nothing interesting	a time capsule	29%
FAMOUS NAMES	$400	Following a 3-year exile in Siberia, future dictator Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov took this last name	Lenin	29%
NOVEL QUOTES	$600	"I felt very still and very empty", she wrote in "The Bell Jar"	(Sylvia) Plath	29%
ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE	$400	Spatial disorientation that can produce dizziness & confusion	Vertigo	29%
WHAT "A" TEAM!	$400	The NBA's Hawks nest there	Atlanta	24%
WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	$600	Many French presidents have studied at Paris' elite Sciences Po, the Po short for this field	politics	24%
NOVEL QUOTES	$1000	"Everyone was angry with" this woman, the titular first wife of a Daphne du Maurier novel, "when she cut her" mass of dark hair	Rebecca	24%
ISLANDS OF EUROPE	$2000	Melos & Mykonos are among these "encircling islands" of southeast Greece	the Cyclades	24%
TIME	$800	I sentence you to this, meaning the 6 months you've already spent in jail--you're free, now get out of here	time served	24%
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY	$1200	Blaring threats through their inflatable proboscises, males of this largest seal species battle for breathing rights	an elephant seal	18%
WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	$400	Royal Roads University in this Canadian province has amazing views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca	British Columbia	18%
ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE	$800	2 railroad passengers whose lives become entangled	Strangers on a Train	18%
NOVEL QUOTES	$400	"'Toad Hall,' said the Toad proudly, 'is an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence"' is a line in this novel	The Wind in the Willows	18%
WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL	$800	As Dorothy walked through Oz, "now and then there came a deep" this sound "from some wild animal"	a growl	12%
ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE	$1600	A craft used to save passengers of a doomed marine vessel	a lifeboat	12%
FAMOUS NAMES	$2000	In his first period as Cuba's de facto leader in the 1930s, he was a respected reformer & is seen here on a visit to the United States	Batista	12%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$200	This German exclamation means "health"	gesundheit	12%
WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES	$800	Don't think you'll coast through this subject "for beginners" at ETH Zurich; Einstein flunked it	physics	12%
COMPOSERS	$1600	Some historians think it was Mozart who was jealous of	Salieri	12%
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY	$2000	A sperm whale glides under a canopy of the golden algae that gives this wide Mid-Atlantic sea its name	Sargasso	12%
WHAT "A" TEAM!	$200	Mike Trout has starred for this team since 2011	the Angels	12%
A PERSON, PLACE OR RING	$400	25,000 miles long & horseshoe-shaped, it burns burns burns in part due to eruptions of Mount Ruiz & Novarupta	the Ring of Fire	12%
WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL	$1200	This joint is found at the distal end of the radius	the wrist	12%
MYTHS & LEGENDS	N/A	This legendary place has been identified as being in Caerleon, Wales & in Winchester, England	Camelot	6%
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY	$400	This largest species of penguin can dive to more than 500 yards in the chilly waters of the raw sea	emperor penguin	6%
COMPOSERS	$1200	Per the estate, English-speaking countries may only produce this composer's "Porgy and Bess" with a Black cast	Gershwin	6%
FAMOUS NAMES	$1600	In 1922 this archaeologist sent a cable saying, "At last have made wonderful discovery in valley"	(Howard) Carter	6%
ISLANDS OF EUROPE	$1600	They're the biggest & second-biggest of Spain's Balearic Islands, as their names suggest	Mallorca & Menorca	6%
COMPOSERS	$2000	This Russian composed his "Pictures At An Exhibition" as a memorial tribute to an artist friend	Mussorgsky	6%
A PERSON, PLACE OR RING	$800	Tybee Island, Georgia is 20 minutes from the historic graciousness of this city	Savannah	6%
A PERSON, PLACE OR RING	$200	Dating back to the 13th century, the Fisherman's Ring is a papal seal depicting this saint as said fisherman	St. Peter	6%
COMPOSERS	$800	He was born near St. Petersburg in early June 1882; no wonder his music is rite for spring	Stravinsky	6%
WHAT "A" TEAM!	$600	They were N.L. champs in 2005 & A.L. champs in 2017	the Astros	6%
WHAT "A" TEAM!	$800	It was the full nickname of Connie Mack's 1901 Philly squad	the Athletics	6%
WHAT "A" TEAM!	$1000	This NHL squad rumbled into Colorado from Quebec in 1995	the Avalanche	6%
NOVEL QUOTES	$800	In this novel 17-year-old Augustus Waters introduces himself as having had "a little touch of osteosarcoma"	The Fault in Our Stars	6%
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY	$1600	The plastic & debris-strewn area known as the Great Pacific this covers 600,000 square miles between Hawaii & California	The Great Pacific Garbage Patch	6%
TIME	$1000	It's as far as you can see; preceded by "time", it's how long you need to meet your investing goals	the horizon	6%
ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE	$1200	Jimmy Stewart, a tourist in Morocco who didn't ask to find out about murder & secrets	The Man Who Knew Too Much	6%
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY	$800	A very brave cleaner shrimp gets a meal of parasites & dead skin from the mouth of one of these scary predators	a moray	0%
WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL	$400	It can be a sudden surprising event or an unkempt mass of hair	a shock	0%
TIME	$600	As opposed to a separate sub-dial, a second hand that goes from the center all around is this alliterative second hand	a sweep second hand	0%
WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL	$1600	"Bourbon and" this refers to a drink made with pure, iron-free water	branch	0%
A PERSON, PLACE OR RING	$600	"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic", this lawyer said at the Scopes trial	Darrow	0%
WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL	$2000	This 3-word motto honoring the Wright Brothers has appeared on North Carolina license plates since 1982	"First in Flight"	0%
A PERSON, PLACE OR RING	$1000	When water is low, minerals leave a so-called bathtub ring in lakes like this manmade one in Utah & Arizona named for an explorer	Lake Powell	0%
TIME	$200	In addition to its medical meaning, embolism is the insertion of a day in the calendar, most familiarly this day	leap day (February 29th)	0%
NOVEL QUOTES	$200	In this novel, Mark Watney recounts: "Ares 1 crew... came back heroes... Ares 2 did the same thing... Ares 3. Well, that was my mission"	The Martian	0%
FAMOUS NAMES	$1200	Akbar, who took the throne at 13 & reigned for nearly 50 years, is considered the greatest emperor of this Indian dynasty	the Mogul	0%
ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE	$2000	That he's dead, & many in a Vermont village think they're responsible	The Trouble with Harry	0%