Statistics for Jeopardy #8530

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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
TEXTING SHORTHAND	$200	Too funny! LMSO, I'm "laughing" these garments "off"	socks	85%
TEXTING SHORTHAND	$800	Put down your phone & go outside! All this texting is CWOT, a "complete" this	waste of time	85%
TEXTING SHORTHAND	$1000	That was WTMI, meaning this, a lot more facts than I needed	way too much information	77%
YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN	$200	This Philly duo--2 guys, 1 mustache--hit No. 1 in 1982 with "I Can't Go For That"	Hall & Oates	62%
YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN	$400	This ex-Commodore sailed to the top of the charts in 1983 with "All Night Long"	(Lionel) Richie	62%
TEXTING SHORTHAND	$400	DHYB, "don't" do this, meaning something is not likely to happen anytime soon	hold your breath	54%
HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT?	$400	"Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love"	Juliet	54%
HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT?	$800	"'Tis not to male me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds me well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well"	Othello	46%
HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT?	$200	"Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: but Brutus says he was ambitious"	Mark Antony	38%
ORGAN RECITAL	$400	The largest internal organ in humans, it destroys old red blood cells	the liver	38%
U.S. GEOGRAPHY	$200	The Pecos River is a major tributary of this river that it empties into in Texas	the Rio Grande	38%
U.S. GEOGRAPHY	$400	It's about 130 miles long & in July 2021, it reached about 130 degrees	Death Valley	31%
HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT?	$1000	"I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today instead of him"	King Richard III	31%
WINTER HOLIDAYS	$200	A February holiday commemorates the Buddha reaching the final state of this goal of the Buddhist path	nirvana	31%
YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN	$800	You can always right your ship with "Hey Nineteen" & "Deacon Blues" by this jazzy soft-rock band	Steely Dan	31%
ORGAN RECITAL	$1200	Producing & secreting hormones, the hypothalamus is part of this organ	the brain	31%
ORGAN RECITAL	$800	Each of these has a hilum, the point where the bronchi enter	the lungs	31%
TEXTING SHORTHAND	$600	.02,this amount of opinion I'm sharing	two cents	31%
WINTER HOLIDAYS	$800	The Jewish festival of trees, Tu Bishvat includes eating fruit, like this one that according to tradition has 613 red seeds	a pomegranate	23%
FAMOUS PROFESSORS	$800	In 1979 Stephen Hawking was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at this university	Cambridge	23%
"EX"AM TIME	$400	5-letter verb meaning to put forth effort	exert	23%
U.S. GEOGRAPHY	$600	The Three Sisters in Oregon is a trio of volcanic peaks in this mountain range	the Cascades	23%
WINTER HOLIDAYS	$400	Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day	the Epiphany	23%
FAMOUS PROFESSORS	$400	Teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati, was one further step for this man	Armstrong	15%
U.S. GEOGRAPHY	$800	In the 1800s this Michigan island was the headquarters for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company	Mackinac	15%
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS	$400	M.I.T.'s domed Maclaurin Building is where this actor works as a janitor in a 1997 film	(Matt) Damon	15%
FAMOUS PROFESSORS	$1600	Math professor John Nash, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, was the subject of this Oscar-winning film	A Beautiful Mind	8%
FAMOUS PROFESSORS	$1200	This man, who rose to fame in the 1950s, taught poetry at Brooklyn College from 1986 to 1997	(Allen) Ginsberg	8%
YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN	$600	M is for moonlight, as in "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck, as well as this xylophone with an unexpected--& amazing!--solo	a marimba	8%
GOING MEDIEVAL	$400	Weapons made of this steel named for a Syrian city were highly prized by medieval knights	Damascus steel	8%
GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW	$600	Biggest to smallest: Uno, tarot, pinochle	decks	8%
GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW	$400	By era of popularity: rolltop, tanker, standing	desks	8%
GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW	$200	East to west by birthplace: Holliday, Rivers, Severinsen	Docs	8%
"EX"AM TIME	$800	Archaeologists learn to do this, from Latin for "hollow out"	excavate	8%
YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN	$1000	Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title, "building castles in the sky", this title again, "you & I"	"Just The Two Of Us"	8%
WINTER HOLIDAYS	$1000	On December 13 Scandinavians celebrate this female saint; young girls wear white & wear lighted wreaths on their heads	Lucia	8%
ORGAN RECITAL	$1600	The outer cortex of these paired organs contains follicles & oocytes	ovaries	8%
WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL	$1600	Try this city, where the iconic Hallgrímskirkja Church can be seen for miles	Reykjavik	8%
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS	$2000	2 films shot at Notre Dame were "Knute Rockne: All American" & this one starring Sean Astin as an unlikely football player	Rudy	8%
"EX"AM TIME	$1200	It's an unofficial name for Britain's treasury	the Exchequer	8%
WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL	$1200	Follow in Darwin's footsteps & study the wildlife on these islands also called the Archipiélago de Colón	the Galápagos	8%
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS	$800	This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School	The Paper Chase	8%
U.S. GEOGRAPHY	$1000	This region of foothills between the Appalachians & the Atlantic coastal plain is named for a similar area in Italy	the Piedmont	8%
GOING MEDIEVAL	$800	In the 6th century Dionysius Exiguus began using this system with a 2-word Latin name to date things since Christ's birth	Anno Domini	0%
WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL	$400	Head to Kyoto, where you can visit this type of forest	bamboo	0%
HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT?	$600	"I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island"	Caliban	0%
GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW	$1000	In construction order: Afsluit, NIeuwebildt, Omring	dikes	0%
GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW	$800	In royal succession: Cambridge, Sussex, York	Dukes	0%
"EX"AM TIME	$1600	A Latin word, this old-timey stage direction means it's time for 2 or more characters to exit a scene	exuent	0%
WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL	$800	Go to Nicaragua & help build a house through this global nonprofit founded in 1976	Habitat for Humanity	0%
GOING MEDIEVAL	$1200	Before he became a monk & she became a nun, these medieval lovers had a son named Astrolabe	Heloise & Abelard	0%
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS	$1600	Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers"	Hidden Figures	0%
WHERE TO GO ON SABBATICAL	$2000	To Canada to visit some of the national parks including Banff in Alberta & this larger, adjoining park to the north	Jasper	0%
FAMOUS PROFESSORS	$2000	"Nine Nasty Words" is a 2021 book by this man, who teaches linguistics at Columbia & hosts the podcast "Lexicon Valley"	John McWhorter	0%
19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS	N/A	She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels	(Mary) Shelley	0%
GOING MEDIEVAL	$1600	In the 14th century this Italian poet lost the love of his life, Laura, to the black death	Petrarch	0%
WINTER HOLIDAYS	$600	Celebrated Dec. 23, Festivus includes "the airing of" these; "I got a lot of problems with you people! Now, you're gonna hear about it"	the airing of grievances	0%
GOING MEDIEVAL	$2000	In medieval times this order of monks translated medical texts in their library at Monte Cassino in Italy	the Benedictines	0%
"EX"AM TIME	$2000	In physics this principle means no 2 particles in an atom can share the same set of quantum numbers	the (Pauli) exclusion principle	0%
ORGAN RECITAL	$2000	The jejunum, part of this organ, gets its name from the Latin for "fasting" because it was often found empty after death	the small intestine	0%
BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS	$1200	Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin cities campus	the University of Minnesota	0%