Statistics for Jeopardy #8540

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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
SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING	$200	You're looking for the dress this woman wore as she wed Prince William? Talk about one of a kind--that cost $434,000!	Kate Middleton	62%
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER	$200	On December 5, 1933 FDR announced the repeal of this; cheers!	Prohibition	62%
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$800	Unfriendly lodging for young travelers abroad	a hostile hostel	54%
ALL AROUND THE WORLD	$800	The 1,500-foot Petronas Towers are linked via a skybridge between floors 41 & 42 in this Malaysian city	Kuala Lumpur	46%
SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING	$1000	An ancient sculpture of an athlete about to throw this should arrive by Christmas --Myron's original is lost, so it's just a copy	the discus	46%
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER	$400	In what was then the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, this energy giant filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2001	Enron	38%
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$200	Waaaah! The store ran out of my favorite Cabernet	whine wine	38%
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?	$200	In "Remember the Titans", this actor is the coach of an integrated football team in 1971	(Denzel) Washington	31%
ALL AROUND THE WORLD	$600	Picasso's "Guernica" is in this capital, where it was sent only after democracy had returned	Madrid	31%
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER	$600	On December 26, 2004 a 9.1 undersea earthquake in this ocean triggered a massive & deadly tsunami	the Indian Ocean	31%
ALL AROUND THE WORLD	$400	You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer"	Cooperstown	23%
SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING	$800	This indoor bike-making co. had a market value of $31 billion in 2021, so don't go crazy--just 50% of it would be enough for anyone	Peloton	23%
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?	$400	Burt Reynolds starred as Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard"; this "SNL" alum, in the remake	Sandler	23%
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$400	What's that smell coming from your penny?	scent cent	23%
ALL AROUND THE WORLD	$200	When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour	St. Peter\'s	23%
SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING	$600	I can't believe you bought me this NHL team that had players like Guy Carbonneau, Guy Lapointe & Guy Lafleur... merci!	the Canadiens	23%
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$1000	An official document seal belonging to a young swan	a signet cygnet	15%
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?	$600	Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie	Brian\'s Song	15%
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?	$800	As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves"	Cruise	15%
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	$800	This man who gave his name to a scale of earthquake strength was an avid nudist & Trekkie	Richter	15%
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER	$800	In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world	(Sir Francis) Drake	15%
ALL AROUND THE WORLD	$1000	The 12,000-square-mile Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic circle in this "directional" political unit	the Northwest Territories	15%
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS	$600	What you're in if you can't remember if it's the first of the month, the third, the fourth, the tenth	a daze days	8%
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD	$1600	Kia: "Holding Out For A Hero" by this '80s singer	Bonnie Tyler	8%
INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS	N/A	In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort	Mount Everest	8%
FIRST RESPONDERS	$1000	The First Responder Support Network helps those with trauma from the job & who may be suffering from this, PTSD for short	Post-traumatic stress disorder	8%
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	$400	America welcomed him as a citizen in 1891, the year he invented a coil that's still used in electronics today	Tesla	8%
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD	$400	The Volkswagen Passat: this man singing "On The Road again"	Willie Nelson	8%
FIRST RESPONSES	$400	We've covered the Earned Income Tax Credit but never this tax credit for parents that came along 22 years later	a child tax credit	0%
"K" 9	$800	It's the instructional item being used here	a kickboard	0%
"K" 9	$2000	It's what Russian-American inventor Vladimir Zworykin called his early TV picture tube	a kinescope	0%
"K" 9	$1600	One who uses political influence to put another in power	a kingmaker	0%
NOVELS & NOVELISTS	$400	Tolstoy & Fielding are among those who've employed an "intrusive" this who both reports & interrupts a story	a narrator	0%
NOTORIOUS	$800	In 1820s Edinburgh, Burke & Hare were killers who sold their victims' bodies to the head of a school of this medical subject	anatomy	0%
FIRST RESPONDERS	$200	A little more advanced than a typical EMT, "P" is for this first responder, able to dispense medicines	a paramedic	0%
SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING	$400	A $200,000 horse of this breed from the American Stud Book--how kind, especially with the $50,000 annual upkeep thrown in	a Thoroughbred	0%
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER	$1000	Deciding he was better suited for the Senate, in December 1832 this South Carolinian resigned as vice president	Calhoun	0%
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	$1200	This scientist's Agricultural Research Foundation in Tuskegee was founded after he donated most of his life savings in 1940	Carver	0%
NOVELS & NOVELISTS	$800	"La Galatea", his first novel, appeared in 1585, 20 years before his most famous one	Cervantes	0%
NOTORIOUS	$2000	Born Arthur Flegenheimer, he was gunned down in 1935 after his plan to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey alarmed other mobsters	Dutch Schultz	0%
NOTORIOUS	$400	Con man George Parker was notorious for "selling" NYC landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge & this man's tomb on West 122nd St.	Grant	0%
FIRST RESPONDERS	$400	Some first responders are trained to deal with this 6-letter issue; here's one wearing the suit of the same name	HAZMAT	0%
FIRST RESPONDERS	$600	Hoist gloves protect first responders' hands while aboard these vehicles performing rescues	helicopters	0%
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES?	$1000	The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team	Horse Feathers	0%
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD	$1200	Sargento cheese: this biggest hit by Modern English	"I Melt With You"	0%
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD	$2000	Oh, oh, oh,it's this '70s song by Pilot that diabetes drug Ozempic adapted	"It\'s Magic"	0%
"K" 9	$400	A single action of pressing a letter or other button on a computer console	keystroke	0%
"K" 9	$1200	This word is from the Greek for "thousand" & "measure"	kilometer	0%
FIRST RESPONSES	$2000	Chelsea Clinton, Levi Strauss chair Bob Haas & Google CEO Sundar Pichai all worked at this management consultant McCompany	McKinsey	0%
FIRST RESPONSES	$1200	Far from hardcore, this type of film is about young people, often adrift & talking a lot (but not loud)	mumblecore	0%
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD	$800	Allstate: this hit by ska band Madness	"Our House"	0%
NOVELS & NOVELISTS	$2000	Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh	P.D. James	0%
FIRST RESPONSES	$800	Born in 2018, this younger brother of Prince George & Princess Charlotte gets his first response	Prince Louis (of Cambridge)	0%
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	$2000	Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book	(Rachel) Carson	0%
NOTORIOUS	$1200	This doctor was convicted as part of Lincoln's murder after a boot belonging to John Wilkes Booth was found at his home	(Samuel) Mudd	0%
FIRST RESPONSES	$1600	Added to merriam-webster.com in 2020 but done by people long before, it's to hinder a process by doing it at very low speed	slow walk	0%
FIRST RESPONDERS	$800	Where there are these pros, there's fire; the U.S. Forest Service employs more than 300 of them	smoke jumpers	0%
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN	$1600	In 2000, Bill Clinton joined entrepreneur Craig Venter & government scientist Francis Collins to announce success in this, HGP for short	the Human Genome Project	0%
NOVELS & NOVELISTS	$1600	Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches	Their Eyes Were Watching God	0%
NOTORIOUS	$1600	In 2020 the FBI acknowledged that private citizens had broken a cipher sent by the 1960s Bay Area killer known as this	the Zodiac Killer	0%
NOVELS & NOVELISTS	$1200	Mary McCarthy's "The Group" follows the lives of 8 graduates of this Seven Sisters college north of New York City	Vassar	0%