Statistics for Jeopardy #8539

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This quiz has been taken 24 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
SEASONINGS GREETINGS	$200	A garnish on deviled eggs, this colorful spice is made from dried & ground sweet red peppers	paprika	92%
SEASONINGS GREETINGS	$1000	It can take thousands of crocus stigmas to make even a small amount of this golden seasoning used in paella	saffron	85%
NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS	$200	Nearly 600 sites are designated National Natural Landmarks, like the Barringer Meteor this in Arizona, the USA's largest impact one	a crater	69%
"SHORT"	$200	Though it can be an honest mistake at the cash register, this verb also means to cheat	shortchange	62%
FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST	$200	If the president & veep can no longer serve, this person becomes president	the Speaker of the House	54%
SEASONINGS GREETINGS	$400	Cilantro & this other "C"-soning both come from the same plant, but at different stages in its life cycle	coriander	46%
SEASONINGS GREETINGS	$600	It sounds like it's being pondered over, but it's just heated wine or cider with seasonings like star anise & cloves added to the mix	mulled	46%
NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS	$600	With 36, this state has the most NNLs, including Rancho La Brea & the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park	California	38%
NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS	$400	There are more than 1,000 fossil footprints of these creatures in the Connecticut state park named for them	dinosaurs	38%
"SHORT"	$600	Luis Aparicio & Barry Larkin are hall of famers who played this position	shortstop	38%
FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST	$800	Since 1789, there have been this many amendments to the Constitution	27	31%
"SHORT"	$400	Coffee shops employ these professionals who quickly make things like sandwiches & eggs	a short order cook	31%
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS	$400	"Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" was the sequel to this outstanding movie	Bill & Ted\'s Excellent Adventure	31%
FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST	$600	This 3-word separation of power keeps each branch of government from gaining too much over the others	checks and balances	31%
NASTY, BRITISH	$1000	Crowbar-wielding Richard Hillman gave chills on "Corrie", aka this perennial British soap opera	Coronation Street	31%
"SHORT"	$800	An ad for Nair asked, "Who wears" these?	short shorts	31%
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS	$1600	Logically, George Romero followed up "Night of the Living Dead" with this 1978 sequel	Dawn of the Dead	23%
NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS	$800	This "gem" of Hawaii was designated in 1968	Diamond Head	23%
FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST	$400	At 81, he was the oldest delegate to the Constitutional Convention	Franklin	23%
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS	$800	This Oscar-winning actor was back on the beat as New York cop Popeye Doyle in "French Connection II"	Gene Hackman	23%
BUILT IN THE 1800s	$400	Built for this city's Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace saw some 6 million visitors on its 19 acres	London	23%
NASTY, BRITISH	$800	Actor Tobias Menzies says Black Jack Randall in this time-traveling TV show is a sadist & character Jamie would agree	Outlander	23%
NASTY, BRITISH	$200	Known to connive on this BBC series, Robert James-Collier's Thomas the butler broke good in the 2019 film	Downton Abbey	15%
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY	$400	This Apple video chat app comes with every iPhone sold in the United States	FaceTime	15%
THOMAS HOBBES	$800	Hobbes used a biblical beast title in "Behemoth" & in this, his most famous work	Leviathan	15%
THAT'S QUITE A COUP	$400	He overthrew the Directory on November 9 (or 18 Brumaire), 1799	Napoleon	15%
NASTY, BRITISH	$400	Though Peter Cushing died in 1994, he digitally menaced again, playing Grand Moff Tarkin in this 2016 "Star Wars Story"	Rogue One	15%
THAT'S QUITE A COUP	$800	Ankara & Istanbul War College students took part in a 1960 coup that put General Cemal Gürsel in charge in this country	Turkey	15%
THOMAS HOBBES	$200	Hobbes said life was "nasty, brutish, & short" in a state of this, which doesn't just mean battles but "every man against every man"	war	15%
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS	$2000	Vin Diesel skipped this speedy 2003 sequel that tells you twice it's the second in the series	2 Fast 2 Furious	8%
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS	$1200	Stellaluna, who becomes separated from her mother	a bat	8%
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS	$400	Ferdinand, who likes to sit & smell the flowers	a bull	8%
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS	$2000	Inspiring a recent movie, "The One and Only Ivan"	a gorilla	8%
FIRST AMONG SEQUELS	$1200	In this 1986 film Lance Henriksen as the robotic android known as Bishop shows off his knife skills	Aliens	8%
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS	$800	Based on a TV show here & abroad: Peppa	a pig	8%
NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS	$1000	Missouri has plenty of these, including Mark Twain, a maze type & Marvel, with dripstones	caves	8%
NASTY, BRITISH	$600	This Brit has played bad guys like Stringer Bell on "The Wire" & lent his voice to meanies like Shere Khan on film	(Idris) Elba	8%
BUILT IN THE 1800s	$1600	King Ludwig was a patron of Wagner, so this castle of his featured murals of Lohengrin & Parsifal	Neuschwanstein	8%
THOMAS HOBBES	$1000	Hobbes corresponded about this science of light with Descartes, who said Hobbes was "childish and ridiculous"	optics	8%
THAT'S QUITE A COUP	$1200	A 1932 coup forced Prajadhipok, king of this then 4-letter country, to grant a Constitution	Siam	8%
THAT'S QUITE A COUP	$2000	In 1965 this one-named general put down a coup in Indonesia & then seized power for himself	Suharto	8%
FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST	$1000	These "Northern" islands in the Pacific are a U.S. territory	the Northern Mariana Islands	8%
BUILT IN THE 1800s	$2000	A meeting place for the Bundestag, it was completed in 1894 & dramatically torched in 1933	the Reichstag	8%
BUILT IN THE 1800s	$800	While president in 1806, he began construction of his octagonal house at his retreat, Poplar Forest	Thomas Jefferson	8%
BUILT IN THE 1800s	$1200	Named for a biblical threesome, this Boston church features stained glass from the Pre-Raphaelite William Morris	Trinity	8%
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY	$1200	The custom-molded ITC or "in-the-canal" is a type of this, helpful for many older adults	a hearing aid	0%
5,5	$400	A kid could make money with this, which allowed people to get their morning news	a paper route	0%
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY	$2000	In the 1950s Sarkis Acopian invented the solar-powered one of these devices, still good to have for emergencies	a transistor radio	0%
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY	$1600	As its name indicates, this device on a satellite responds to a signal, sending it out again on another frequency	a transponder	0%
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS	$1600	In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice"	a trumpeter swan	0%
THAT'S QUITE A COUP	$1600	A February 2021 coup deposed this Nobel Peace Prize winner seen here	Aung San Suu Kyi	0%
THOMAS HOBBES	$400	Hobbes was an Erastian, meaning that in the tension between these 2 social entities, the first is subordinate to the second	church & state	0%
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY	$800	Good manners, or the kind of airport phone you can use to reach Avis	courtesy	0%
SEASONINGS GREETINGS	$800	This geographic name for the seasoning seen here is on shaky ground, as it actually comes from hills in Punjab	Himalayan (pink) salt	0%
5,5	$2000	The Dalai Lama wrote a "Little Book" of this spiritual goal of happiness & calm	Inner Peace	0%
5,5	$800	Hilarious term for the wrinkles seen here	laugh lines	0%
5,5	$1600	A 1974 U.S. law mandated a national one of these, intended to improve fuel efficiency	speed limit	0%
THOMAS HOBBES	$600	Hobbes was fascinated by how people gather for mutual benefit into this "body", also called civil society	the body politic	0%
THE EARLY UNITED STATES	N/A	The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution"	The Federalist Papers	0%
"SHORT"	$1000	These 4 words begin a Hemingway title that concludes "of Francis Macomber"	The Short Happy Life	0%
5,5	$1200	Thought originally to be a tailoring idiom, a story said to be "cut out of" this is untrue	whole cloth	0%