Statistics for Jeopardy #8532

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This quiz has been taken 40 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
SUCCULENTS	$200	The vera or "true" type of this succulent is pretty & medicinal	aloe	84%
LET'S TALK REVOLUTION	$400	The 1978-79 revolution in this country is also called the Islamic Revolution	Iran	56%
ALLITEROCKERS	$200	In 1987 this trio that fought for the right to party had the first rap album to top the Billboard charts	the Beastie Boys	52%
SUCCULENTS	$400	This succulent that gives us tequila also provides a syrup for a natural sweetener	agave	48%
AN INSTRUCTOR	$600	In 1984 there was a new Barbie doll: instructor of this type of heart-healthy exercises	aerobics	36%
SUCCULENTS	$800	This desert tree was named for its resemblance to a biblical leader pointing the way to the promised land	Joshua tree	36%
AN INSTRUCTOR	$800	Martin Cove is best known for playing this type of Japanese-named instructor	a sensei	32%
ALLITEROCKERS	$400	This band's hits include "Everlong" & "Times Like These"	the Foo Fighters	32%
AN AD JUNKED	$600	The last TV ad for cigarettes to play in the U.S., for Virginia Slims, aired January 1, 1971 on this man's late night talk show	(Johnny) Carson	28%
POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.	$1600	& here's to you, this character who seduces Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"	Mrs. Robinson	28%
AN AD JUNKED	$200	An ad for cold medicine showing a partially bare Mickey Rooney was pulled before it aired during this February 2005 event	the Super Bowl	28%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$400	She modeled 3 of the sisters in "Little Women" on her own siblings & Jo March after herself	Alcott	24%
AN AD JUNKED	$1000	This automaker had an ad for its F-Type sports car banned for encouraging "irresponsible driving"	Jaguar	24%
AN AD JUNKED	$800	Ads blocked on Facebook include those for weapons, spyware & this financial service for those newly arrested	bail bonds	20%
LET'S TALK REVOLUTION	$800	This "splendid" adjective precedes "Revolution" in the name of the 1688 regime change that brought William & Mary to the throne	Glorious	20%
DIFFERS BY A LETTER	$400	The 15th day of March in Rome & a thought	ides & idea	20%
POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.	$1200	Rami Malek won an Emmy for playing Elliot Alderson, a vigilante hacker, on this series	Mr. Robot	20%
SUCCULENTS	$600	Nopales are the edible leaf pads of this alliterative cactus	the prickly pear	20%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$1200	She dedicated her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", "To my mother and the memory of her mother"	Amy Tan	16%
LET'S TALK REVOLUTION	$2000	Pancho Villa was ambushed & killed in 1923; this even-later-in-the-alphabet Mexican revolutionary, in 1919	Emiliano Zapata	16%
LET'S TALK REVOLUTION	$1600	Imre Nagy, this country's premier, was executed for his role in its 1956 anticommunist revolution	Hungary	16%
16th CENTURY ARTS	$1200	This portrait by Leonardo was never delivered to the subject & was sold to the king of France around 1520	the Mona Lisa	16%
U.S. COUNTIES	$200	Washington's most populous county has this 4-letter name, just like a "Dome" once in the state	King	12%
A LECTURER	$200	Einstein lectured that this enjoys "esteem above all other sciences" because "its laws are... certain & indisputable"	mathematics	12%
AN AD JUNKED	$400	L'Oréal & Lancôme ads have been junked because of the misleading overuse of this, a verb that is also an Adobe brand	Photoshop	12%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$2000	At 14, this British author of "White Teeth" changed the first letter of her name from S to Z, thinking it sounded more exotic	Zadie Smith	12%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$800	Third time's the charm for this author who won a Pulitzer for her third novel, "The Goldfinch"	Donna Tartt	8%
A LECTURER	$600	Biologist T.H. Huxley was a renowned defender of this theory & in 1893 famously lectured on it "& Ethics"	evolution	8%
U.S. COUNTIES	$600	This most populous Georgia county is thought to be named for a steamboat pioneer	Fulton	8%
POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.	$800	Kevin O'Leary, one of the investors on this series, is frequently referred to as Mr. Wonderful	Shark Tank	8%
U.S. COUNTIES	$800	These 2 counties that both end in "-folk" border Massachusetts Bay	Suffolk & Norfolk	8%
LET'S TALK REVOLUTION	$1200	The full name of this 1966-76 upheaval commences with "Great Proletarian"	the Cultural Revolution	8%
TRANSPORTATION	$400	This iconic Ford's agile transmission made shifting gears easy, & by 1927, more than 15 million had been sold	the Model T	8%
A LECTURER	$400	The audience at Martin Heidegger's 1924 lecture on "The Concept of" this may have had the concept that it moves slowly	time	8%
AN INSTRUCTOR	$400	At Oxford, personalized learning has long been based on the student this teacher relationship	tutor	8%
U.S. COUNTIES	$400	Fittingly, Mille Lacs is a county in this state	Minnesota	4%
U.S. COUNTIES	$1000	This Oklahoma county is in the title of Tracy Letts' play about a dysfunctional family	Osage County	4%
DIFFERS BY A LETTER	$1200	Vindictive punishment for past wrongs & income generated by a government or person	revenue & revenge	4%
A LECTURER	$800	In 1939 this man whose fantasy trilogy was still unpublished lectured "On Fairy Stories" & said fantasy is a higher form of art	Tolkien	4%
WOMEN AUTHORS	$1600	This late author's sci-fi & fantasy classics include "The Left Hand of Darkness" & The Earthsea books	Ursula Le Guin	4%
TRANSPORTATION	$800	Named for what they carry cargo in, these behemoth ships include the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal in 2021	a container ship	0%
16th CENTURY ARTS	$1600	Parmigianino painted a self-portrait in this curved item, also the title of John Ashbery's poem about the painting	a convex mirror	0%
TRANSPORTATION	$1600	In 2010 Rocky Robinson reached 376.363 miles per hour, the fastest land speed ever riding one of these	a motorcycle	0%
DIFFERS BY A LETTER	$800	A part of speech & an offer made to you	a preposition & a proposition	0%
16th CENTURY ARTS	$800	This end-blown instrument was very popular; Henry VIII had a large collection of them	a recorder	0%
AN INSTRUCTOR	$200	A dual brake set is a tool of this trade	driver\'s license instruction	0%
16th CENTURY ARTS	$2000	This great German printmaker left a diary of his travels across Europe, including his wife having her purse stolen in Antwerp	Dürer	0%
POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.	$2000	On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln"	Henry Fonda	0%
A LECTURER	$1000	The early 1800s London lectures of this discoverer of sodium brought so much traffic, Albemarle St. had to be made one-way	Humphry Davy	0%
SUCCULENTS	$1000	Belying their name, these succulents often used as ground cover are native to Africa	ice plants	0%
ALLITEROCKERS	$1000	This powerhouse vocalist was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995	(Janis) Joplin	0%
TRANSPORTATION	$2000	"Ride Green" (bright green) "with" this bike & scooter sharing service	Lime	0%
AN INSTRUCTOR	$1000	A piece on sight-reading strategies was 2013's article of the year in the Journal AMT, American this	Music Teacher	0%
TRANSPORTATION	$1200	In 1937 the XC-35 was the first plane with a pressurized cabin; before that everyone wore these, now used in emergencies	oxygen masks	0%
ALLITEROCKERS	$800	He led a rockin' "Family" on such hits as "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin"	Sly Stone	0%
20th CENTURY PHYSICS	N/A	Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles	strange	0%
ALLITEROCKERS	$600	After a long "Vacation", these '80s icons returned to the charts with 2020's "Club Zero"	the Go-Go\'s	0%
POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.	$400	Rachel Brosnahan is marvelous in her role as this Jewish housewife-turned-comedian	the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	0%