Statistics for Jeopardy #8531

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This quiz has been taken 22 times
The average score is 7 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
PROFESSIONS	$200	This type of technician can follow audio, civil & aerospace	engineer	67%
HISTORIC AMERICANS	$200	An American lawyer & political activist, James Otis died in 1783 after he was struck by this	lightning	60%
19th CENTURY LIT	$200	This children's classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood	Pinocchio	60%
MODERN SHORTHAND	$800	You might post your C.V. on this website, L.I. for short	LinkedIn	47%
PROFESSIONS	$400	The Latin for "tree" gives us the name of this professional who may prune high limbs	arborist	33%
MODERN SHORTHAND	$200	Many have been getting business done WFH, this way	work from home	33%
LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY	$1200	It's the second-largest country in area in South America	Argentina	27%
PROFESSIONS	$800	In charge of the dining room, this job title usually ends in an apostrophe	maître d\'	27%
PROFESSIONS	$1000	There's a word for a quick race in the middle of this purveyor of men's furnishings	a haberdasher	20%
PROFESSIONS	$600	Walter Bagehot, "a Victorian who wrote on central banking, had this profession & edited the magazine of the same name	an economist	20%
LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY	$800	Almost all of this westernmost region of Mexico is separated from the rest of the country by the Sea of Cortez	Baja California	20%
CHEMISTRY	$400	To get this from brine, use the Dow process or insert 2 letters after the "br"	bromine	20%
LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY	$1600	Fed by many rivers like the Ramis & Coata & nestled between Andean ranges, this lake sits at 12,500 feet above sea level	Lake Titicaca	20%
BRITISH HUMOR	$200	This Monty Python film debates whether African or European swallows could carry coconuts to a temperate zone	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	20%
HISTORIC AMERICANS	$800	The leading physicist on the Manhattan project, in 1963 he would receive the Atomic Energy Commission's Enrico Fermi Award	Oppenheimer	20%
BRITISH HUMOR	$400	David Bowie sang about this man's "Extras" character: "chubby little loser... pathetic little fat man..."	Ricky Gervais	20%
LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY	$400	El Salvador's volcanoes include this one that has the same name as the capital & is about 7 miles away from it	San Salvador	20%
BRITISH HUMOR	$1000	Richard Ayoade, typing a distress email on this show: "Dear Sir/Madam ...fire! Help me!... Looking forward to hearing from you"	The IT Crowd	20%
BRITISH HUMOR	$600	In 2007 he co-created "Gavin & Stacey" but played Smithy rather than Gavin; these days, he stays up late late on CBS	Corden	13%
BRITISH HUMOR	$800	An exchange on this TV comedy: "I met someone"; "oh my god, that's amazing! What does he do?"; "He's a priest"	Fleabag	13%
MODERN SHORTHAND	$1000	Certain NBC PSAs were named this, which led to the acronym "TMYK"	the more you know	13%
19th CENTURY LIT	$400	The title of this Jules Verne tale refers to the distance traveled, not to how deep the characters go	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	13%
HISTORIC AMERICANS	$600	Nicknamed "The Angel of the Battlefield", she's the woman seen here; notice the emblem on her collar	Clara Barton	7%
GEMS & JEWELS	$400	Hawaii's state gem is black this, which is actually the skeleton of a marine creature	coral	7%
SIDEKICKS	$800	Shrek says of this sidekick's ability to talk, "Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick!"	Donkey	7%
MODERN SHORTHAND	$400	F.U.D. stands for fear, uncertainty & this; don't fall victim	doubt	7%
GEMS & JEWELS	$1600	These red stones are much less expensive than rubies	garnets	7%
CHEMISTRY	$1200	"Earth" used to refer to certain oxides; hence this term for samarium & friends	rare earth	7%
GEMS & JEWELS	$1200	An oblong one of these blue gems is in the center of the brooch Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria the day before they wed	sapphire	7%
GEMS & JEWELS	$2000	One of the more prized colors of topaz is named for this fortified Spanish wine	sherry	7%
SIDEKICKS	$400	Harry Shearer voices both Mr. Burns & this devoted executive assistant	Smithers	7%
HISTORIC AMERICANS	$400	Labor leader Eugene Debs ran for president 4 times as a candidate for this party, the last time in 1920, while he was in prison	the Socialist Party	7%
FOSSIL WORDS	$1000	"By" this "of force" derives from when the word meant a blow from a weapon	a dint	0%
FOSSIL WORDS	$200	Meaning reduced in amount or force, this past tense used to have an initial "A" & now shows up only before "breath"	bated	0%
FOSSIL WORDS	$600	From Old French for "good", this adjective meant good but now is mainly a companion to "companion"	boon	0%
CHEMISTRY	$800	In 1755 Joseph Black called it "fixed air"; today we call it a planetary problem	carbon dioxide	0%
CHEMISTRY	$1600	A 2021 Nobel Prize was awarded for developing organic versions of these substances that galvanize reactions	catalysts	0%
SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR	$1200	Insert some letters in "campus" to get this word meaning all askew	cattywampus	0%
MODERN SHORTHAND	$600	A text-driven computer RPG can be conducted in a virtual domain called an M.U.D., or multi-user this	dungeon	0%
19th CENTURY LIT	$1000	This German's 1803 drama "The Natural Daughter" was not a success, though Schiller liked it	Goethe	0%
LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT	$2000	This German's 1784 essay "What is Enlightenment?" told readers to "Dare to know!... have the courage to use your own understanding"	(Immanuel) Kant	0%
SIDEKICKS	$1600	Yvonne Orji plays Issa Rae's best friend on this HBO series	Insecure	0%
SIDEKICKS	$1200	In 1954 DC Comics debuted a series about "Superman's Pal", this copy boy-turned-cub reporter	Jimmy Olsen	0%
SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR	$400	A trademark of President Biden is using this old-timey word for nonsense or drivel	malarkey	0%
19th CENTURY LIT	$800	This writer of poems like "Dover Beach" also worked as an inspector of schools	Matthew Arnold	0%
SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR	$1600	In "Jabberwocky" this word describes the borogoves	mimsy	0%
LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY	$2000	The 80-mile-wide Mona Passage separates the Dominican Republic from this island	Puerto Rico	0%
KINGS & QUENS	N/A	Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland	Queen Anne	0%
LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT	$400	The 17th & 18th century era of the Enlightenment is also known as the "Age of" this	Reason	0%
HISTORIC AMERICANS	$1000	This Native American finished devising a Cherokee syllabary of 86 symbols around 1821	Sequoyah	0%
CHEMISTRY	$2000	He invented the flasks seen here to hold liquefied gases	(Sir James) Dewar	0%
LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT	$800	Enlightenment thinkers revived the concept of the human mind at birth as a blank slate to be written on, this 2-word Latin phrase	tabula rasa	0%
SIDEKICKS	$2000	Arthur Dent's pal, Ford Prefect is a reporter for this title publication of a sci-fi series	The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy	0%
19th CENTURY LIT	$600	Title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet read at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition in 1883	The New Colossus	0%
FOSSIL WORDS	$400	It meant a stake or a fence made of stakes; going beyond it meant leaving a protected area	the pale	0%
LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT	$1200	This concept of an actual or implicit agreement between rulers & the ruled gave a 1762 Rousseau work its title	The Social Contract	0%
GEMS & JEWELS	$800	An October birthstone is this one from the Sinhalese "turamali" with wider color variations than almost any other gem	tourmaline	0%
SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR	$800	Spelled beginning "uff" or "oof", this exclamation was brought by Norwegians to the Upper Midwest	uff da	0%
LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT	$1600	This "ism" of Jeremy Bentham said actions are right if they promote happiness	utilitarianism	0%
FOSSIL WORDS	$800	Once meaning to go, this 4-letter verb now mostly appears before phrases like "one's way"	wind	0%
SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR	$2000	This lonely alien brought "Pee-wee's Playhouse" to space so he could have playmates	Zyzzybalubah	0%