Statistics for Jeopardy #8533

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This quiz has been taken 27 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
PLAYING PROFESSOR	$200	This Harrison Ford character tells a class, "Forget any ideas you got about lost cities, exotic travel"	Indiana Jones	72%
WHIRLED MENU	$400	Canadian fries with curds & gravy: OUTPINE	poutine	72%
WHIRLED MENU	$800	A choice at the sushi bar: HA I MISS	sashimi	67%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY	$200	This event off Huntington Beach in 2021 brought memories of the 3-million-gallon disaster off Santa Barbara in 1969	an oil spill	44%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	$600	The Latin for "to carry" gives us part of this word for all the investments you own	portfolio	39%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY	$600	In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island	Catalina	33%
WHIRLED MENU	$200	They're husk-y in Mexico: SAT MEAL	tamales	33%
A CUT ABOVE	$400	Here's the shell of one of these sharp-sounding clams	a razor clam	28%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	$400	Alligator pear is another name for this superfood	avocado	28%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY	$400	Founded in 1891 as a vocational & liberal arts school, this Pasadena college became famous for physics & space science	Caltech	28%
NUCLEAR PHYSICS	$400	Combining atomic nuclei to form a heavier element, it happens in the core of our Sun as hydrogen atoms meet to form helium	fusion	28%
A CUT ABOVE	$800	The method used to create this style of sliced potato sounds like a French name	julienne	28%
MUSIC STARS	$1600	In 1995 this one-named singer rose to the top of the charts with "Kiss From A Rose"	Seal	28%
MUSIC STARS	$400	She had 3 of Billboard's Top 20 songs of 2015, including "Bad Blood"	Taylor Swift	28%
BALANCES	$400	In Chinese myth these 2 entities attained balance in the "cosmic egg"; the birth of man would follow	yin & yang	28%
WORLD CITIES	$1200	This capital city is located in the region known as Anatolia	Ankara	22%
STARTS WITH "W"	$400	The identity of the murderer typically isn't revealed until the end in this type of story	a whodunit	22%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	$200	Idiomatically, if you "stand on" this, you demand that things are done in an exceedingly formal manner	ceremony	22%
WHIRLED MENU	$600	In India it's the big cheese: ERA PEN	paneer	22%
WORLD CITIES	$1600	The name of this second-largest city in Wales starts with a big bird	Swansea	22%
WORLD CITIES	$400	Get a whiff of this city, the largest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia	Cologne	17%
A CUT ABOVE	$600	In 1961 JFK said we live under a "nuclear sword of" him, "hanging by the slenderest of threads"	Damocles	17%
PREQUELS & SEQUELS	$800	Co-authored by Brian Herbert, "House Atreides" is the first in a series of prequels to this series	Dune	17%
PLAYING PROFESSOR	$400	Russell Johnson was best known for playing the Professor on this series	Gilligan\'s Island	17%
PREQUELS & SEQUELS	$200	"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, about Mr. Rochester's mad first wife, is a prequel to this classic novel	Jane Eyre	17%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	$800	This word refers to the smallest detail that can be seen by a telescope or to the number of pixels on your computer screen	resolution	17%
WHIRLED MENU	$1000	In Ireland diners flock to it: HEPPER DISHES	shepherd\'s pie	17%
MUSIC STARS	$800	This singer's 2021 hit "Take My Breath" is perfect for a Saturday or Sunday	the Weeknd	17%
STARTS WITH "W"	$1200	In England you can whine or do this similar verb with an extra letter	whinge	17%
NUCLEAR PHYSICS	$1600	A radium nucleus that emits a particle & becomes a radon nucleus undergoes the "alpha" type of this process	decay	11%
NUCLEAR PHYSICS	$800	A quantum field theory describing the interactions of charged particles has this 3-letter abbrev. that also means "proved it!"	Q.E.D	11%
MUSIC STARS	$2000	In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band	The Bangles	11%
WORLD CITIES	$800	In Dublin, the Ha'penny Bridge spans this river	the Liffey	11%
PLAYING PROFESSOR	$800	On "How to Get Away with Murder", she played a professor at Middleton Law School	Viola Davis	11%
NUCLEAR PHYSICS	$2000	With the same mass & magnitude of charge, an antiparticle of an electron is called this word	a positron	6%
STARTS WITH "W"	$800	This insect is also known as a snout beetle	a weevil	6%
MUSIC STARS	$1200	Do start now & name this English-born woman of Albanian ancestry who was "Levitating" up the charts in 2021	Dua Lipa	6%
CZECHS	$400	2005's "The Rivals" told of the "Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship" of Chris Evert & her	Navratilova	6%
NUCLEAR PHYSICS	$1200	Both used in the nuclear power industry, these first 2 transuranium elements are named for heavenly bodies	neptunium & plutonium	6%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY	$800	In 1769 in San Diego, this priest, now a controversial figure, founded his first California mission; he went on to found 8 more	Serra	6%
STARTS WITH "W"	$2000	This Chinese word meaning "martial arts" is used for disciplines like kung fu	wushu	6%
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY	$1000	This evangelist opened the Angelus Tempus in Los Angeles & preached there to a flock of thousands	Aimee Semple McPherson	0%
BALANCES	$1600	He won his first Pulitzer Prize for his 1966 play "A Delicate Balance"	Albee	0%
PREQUELS & SEQUELS	$600	It was the first sequel in Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries	B is for Burglar	0%
BALANCES	$2000	This 17th century Dutch scientist was among the first to use a balance spring in the design of watches	Christiaan Huygens	0%
A CUT ABOVE	$1000	Liquid nitrogen in conjunction with a doctor's scalpel can be used to perform this, a superchilled operation	cryosurgery	0%
CZECHS	$1200	In the 1890s he moved briefly gs from Prague to New York City, inspiring his best-known symphony	Dvořák	0%
WORLD CITIES	$2000	South of Quito, this largest Ecuadorian city is seen here in all its colors	Guayaquil	0%
CZECHS	$800	He had a short term as president of Czechoslovakia before becoming president of the Czech Republic	Havel	0%
BALANCES	$1200	The rope wants to spin, so tightrope walkers employ a long pole to increase rotational this	inertia	0%
CZECHS	$2000	King Sigismund of Hungary promised this Czech religious reformer safe passage, then grabbed & burned him	Jan Hus	0%
BALANCES	$800	Also known as "the balance", Libra in the zodiac is sometimes represented by Astraea, the ancient goddess of this	justice	0%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	$1000	It's a term for someone who cuts & polishes precious gems	lapidary	0%
CZECHS	$1600	This Czech wrote novels like "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" in exile in France	Milan Kundera	0%
AWARDS	N/A	The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour	North Dakota	0%
PLAYING PROFESSOR	$600	On Netflix she's Ji-Yoon Kim, "The Chair" of a struggling English department	Sandra Oh	0%
A CUT ABOVE	$200	17th century Venetian craftsman Vicenti Peruzzi is said to have come up with this smart-sounding cut for diamonds	the brilliant cut	0%
PREQUELS & SEQUELS	$1000	In the final chapter in this sequel, "Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place, and we leave them there"	The House at Pooh Corner	0%
STARTS WITH "W"	$1600	Shawnee word for an elk	wapiti	0%
PREQUELS & SEQUELS	$400	Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch" & "A Lion Among Men" are sequels to this book that inspired a musical	Wicked	0%
PLAYING PROFESSOR	$1000	Judith Light is among those who have portrayed the professor stricken with cancer in this Pulitzer-winning play	Wit	0%