Statistics for Jeopardy #8534

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This quiz has been taken 23 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES	$800	The French are known to refer to this peak as "The White Lady"	Mont Blanc	71%
CLASSIC MOVIES	$400	In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller	Psycho	71%
CLASSIC MOVIES	$600	Film in which De Niro as Travis Bickle asks, "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?"	Taxi Driver	71%
ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT	$200	Of the Earth's seasons, this one fits the category	autumn	65%
FASHION	$200	A variation on LBD, LWD stands for this, perhaps a summer wardrobe staple	little white dress	59%
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES	$600	Runnymede, England is sometimes referred to as the "Birthplace" of this document	the Magna Carta	59%
THE 15th CENTURY	$600	2 short years after attending Charles VII's coronation at Reims, she was burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	53%
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES	$400	The poet Tibullus called this city "Urbs Aeterna"	Rome	41%
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?	$200	The expression about "knowing" these comes from sailors who had to be familiar with the details of the rigging	the ropes	41%
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?	$400	This Kenny Rogers song says, "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em"	"The Gambler"	35%
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES	$200	This longest tributary of the Mississippi River is known as "Big Muddy"	the Missouri	35%
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES	$1000	In 1914 Syria was one of the few remaining bits of this empire dubbed "The Sick Man of Europe"	the Ottoman Empire	35%
CLASSIC MOVIES	$200	Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman	The Princess Bride	29%
MIRROR IMAGE WORDS	$800	Created & Dutch cheese	made & Edam	24%
LITERARY MUSEUMS	$400	Head to Wamego, Kansas for a museum dedicated to this fictional land created by L. Frank Baum	Oz	24%
SAY YOUR PRAYERS	$400	In Catholic tradition, October is the month dedicated to the use of this string of prayer beads	rosary	24%
THE 15th CENTURY	$400	After this flagship ran aground in 1492, Christopher Columbus ordered that its wreckage be used to build a fort on Hispaniola	Santa Maria	24%
ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT	$1000	Now an adjective for the middle class, it originally referred to someone from a French borough	bourgeois	18%
MIRROR IMAGE WORDS	$400	A burglar's booty & a screwdriver or hammer	loot & tool	18%
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?	$1000	To have knowledge in a particular field is to know these veggies, though some say the word is a reference to a lexicographer	onions	18%
FASHION	$800	For the 2021 Met Gala, Billie Eilish wore a gown whose 15-foot train was made of this netted fabric used for veils & tutus	tulle	18%
SNOW-POURRI	$800	This cereal invented in the 1890s was bleached & used as nice, crunchy underfoot snow in early sound films	Corn Flakes	12%
MIRROR IMAGE WORDS	$2000	An elite British secondary school & an item on a musical staff	Eton & note	12%
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?	$800	This insurance company says, "We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two"	Farmers (Insurance)	12%
PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY!	$400	360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants	Ferns	12%
PROTEST SONGS	$800	Despite police violence & other problems, "Alright" is on his album "To Pimp a Butterfly"	Kendrick Lamar	12%
THE 15th CENTURY	$800	At the tender age of 13, this member of the Borgia family was married off to Giovanni Sforza	Lucrezia Borgia	12%
CLASSIC MOVIES	$1000	This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world	Rashomon	12%
CLASSIC MOVIES	$800	In a 1967 film Charles Bronson & Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission	The Dirty Dozen	12%
ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT	$400	A sepulcher for one	tomb	12%
LITERARY MUSEUMS	$1200	You can find your roots at the museum devoted to this author of "Roots": genealogy services are offered to its visitors	(Alex) Haley	6%
SAY YOUR PRAYERS	$2000	In Islam, it's the word for the crier who calls the faithful to prayer 5 times a day	a muezzin	6%
PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY!	$800	All animals possess this protein that keeps skin firm & is used as a dietary supplement & cosmetic lip injection	collagen	6%
SNOW-POURRI	$400	In observing snowflakes, learn the basic types of these symmetrical structures, including plates, columns & needles	crystals	6%
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?	$600	This play character says when the wind is southerly, he knows a hawk from a handsaw	Hamlet	6%
PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY!	$1200	The Greek for "mushroom" gives us this word for the study of fungi	mycology	6%
MIRROR IMAGE WORDS	$1600	A type of frost & a Middle Eastern ruler	rime & emir	6%
PROTEST SONGS	$2000	A single of his, "A Change Is Gonna Come", was released just days after his tragic death in 1964	Sam Cooke	6%
ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT	$800	When it precedes "oath", this serious word refers to a legal agreement	solemn	6%
SNOW-POURRI	$1200	Mount Snow, Vermont calls itself these mountains' most accessible ski resort from the big cities south of it	the Green Mountains	6%
THE 15th CENTURY	$1000	Noted for his brutality & fanaticism, he was made Grand Inquisitor in Spain in 1483	Torquemada	6%
FASHION	$400	The woven ridges in corduroy are also called these; very narrow ones are pinthese	wales	6%
FASHION	$600	A drawstring can help create the ruffled waist seen here & called this, like an item to hold your purchases	a paperbag waist	0%
FASHION	$1000	A type of Greek robe gives us this word for the skirt-like addition to the top seen here	a peplum	0%
PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY!	$1600	To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants	a rust	0%
MIRROR IMAGE WORDS	$1200	Dull & a poet of yore	drab & bard	0%
PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY!	$2000	Plants, animals, fungi & protists are the 4 kingdoms of these organisms, from Greek for "good" & "kernel"	eukaryotes	0%
ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT	$600	The 17th century painting seen here depicts Anthonij de Bordes & his this whose name is not given	his valet	0%
PROTEST SONGS	$1200	He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa	Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt)	0%
LITERARY MUSEUMS	$2000	The home of this educator known for his "Readers" is kept as a museum on the campus of Miami University in Ohio	McGuffey	0%
SAY YOUR PRAYERS	$1600	A prayer collection dating from around 200 A.D. seeks health & success for followers of this mortal Greek musician	Orpheus	0%
THE 15th CENTURY	$200	Mid-century, Lorenzo Ghiberti completed his set of bronze baptistery doors with Old Testament scenes called "The Gates of" this	Paradise	0%
PROTEST SONGS	$1600	"Killing In The Name" was this L.A. band's reaction to the beating of Rodney King & its aftermath	Rage Against the Machine	0%
LITERARY MUSEUMS	$1600	The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum is in this Massachusetts city, Dr. Seuss' hometown	Springfield	0%
LITERARY MUSEUMS	$800	A museum devoted to this literary movement is not far from San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore	the Beat Movement	0%
SAY YOUR PRAYERS	$800	1662's Act of Uniformity made this Protestant work the standard for prayer in England	the Book of Common Prayer	0%
SAY YOUR PRAYERS	$1200	19th century Shinto leader Hirata Atsutane laid out a list of morning prayers; No. 1 was worship of this human	the emperor	0%
WORLD WAR II GEOGRAPHY	N/A	Body-of-water battles included the Coral Sea, Philippine Sea & this one that allowed Japan to seize Jakarta	the Java Sea	0%
SNOW-POURRI	$2000	"One must have a mind of winter", begins this Wallace Stevens poem that sets a chilly mood	The Snow Man	0%
SNOW-POURRI	$1600	Snow blinded the Lancastrians & wind stopped their arrows at Towton in this war, said to be the bloodiest battle ever in England	the Wars of the Roses	0%
PROTEST SONGS	$400	The group Drive-By Truckers scorned these 2 things often said to be "with the victims" of mass shootings	thoughts and prayers	0%