Statistics for Jeopardy #8548

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This quiz has been taken 22 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED	$200	This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991	(Elizabeth) Taylor	58%
HAND-Y RESPONSES	$200	Alliterative term for easily handled eats like cut vegetables & cheese	finger foods	50%
ISLANDS	$400	One year before Napoleon's birth, this island was transferred from Italian to French ownership	Corsica	42%
A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW	$200	On Sept. 23, 2001 Drew Bledsoe of the Patriots was injured & this man became first-string QB; Drew's playing time then decreased a bit	Tom Brady	42%
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?	$200	The Federal Railroad Administration	Transportation	42%
HAND-Y RESPONSES	$600	As seen here, this unpredictable pitch is actually gripped with the fingertips	a knuckleball	33%
ISLANDS	$1200	Carnival in this 5-letter Mediterranean island nation is celebrated with a sword dance called the parata	Malta	33%
RAIN	$400	For acid rain, the EPA says this measure is about 4.3	pH	33%
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?	$400	The Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service	Agriculture	25%
HAND-Y RESPONSES	$400	Entwining of digits to seal a deal, often by kids	a pinky promise	25%
A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW	$600	Oi! Oi! Oi! Robert Flower of Melbourne could be my wingman anytime with 315 goals in a hall of fame career in this rough sport	Australian rules football	25%
A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW	$1000	One of his incredible NHL seasons was 1983-84, with 87 goals & 118 assists for Edmonton	Gretzky	25%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$800	Joseph Fiennes played the bard as a young playwright struggling to establish himself in this 1998 film	Shakespeare in Love	25%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$1200	In this film Gary Oldman played the punk rock bassist for the Sex Pistols, who lived fast & died young	Sid and Nancy	25%
YOUR PARADE	$200	Savannah has the South's biggest of these March parades with lots of folks dressed in green	St. Patrick\'s Day	25%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$400	The film named for this type of early 20th century feminist featured Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst	suffragette	25%
RAIN	$200	A 1979 tropical storm set the lower 48 record for rainfall, dumping 42 inches in 24 hours near Galveston Bay in this state	Texas	25%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$1600	This actor played Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist", a film about a Jewish musician struggling to survive in the Warsaw ghetto	(Adrien) Brody	17%
A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW	$400	This 14-time All-Star & one-time highest-paid Major Leaguer joined the ESPN broadcast team in 2018	Alex Rodriguez	17%
ISLANDS	$2000	The 15-mile-long King Faud Causeway links this island to Saudi Arabia	Bahrain	17%
LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE	$1600	Set in 2021, this P.D. James novel centers on an outbreak of mass infertility in a world descending into chaos	Children of Men	17%
MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED	$600	1895 was a big year for this man; he defended his thesis on magnetism & was drawn to wed Marie Sklodowska, also a towering intellect	Curie	17%
LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE	$1200	Nexus-6 is a type of artificial human in "Do Androids Dream of" these	Electric Sheep	17%
MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED	$1000	Portugal's King Afonso V was a possible husband for this woman but she coupled up with the future king of Aragon in 1469	Isabella	17%
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?	$800	The Mine Safety & Health Administration	Labor	17%
ISLANDS	$1600	Scattered over 300,000 square miles, the CSI, this colorful sea's islands, have a land area of less than 2 square miles	the Coral Sea	17%
YOUR PARADE	$600	FTD has been affiliated with this annual parade for more than 60 years	the Rose Parade	17%
"A"NTONYMS	$400	Of present & accounted for	absent	8%
"A"NTONYMS	$800	In math, of obtuse	acute	8%
HAND-Y RESPONSES	$800	The European fan type is one of the few of these trees native to that continent	a palm tree	8%
LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE	$2000	In her novella "Anthem", humanity has entered a dark age of collectivism where using the word "I" is punishable by death	(Ayn) Rand	8%
YOUR PARADE	$400	In August 1929 this city's Defender newspaper began its Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African-American parade in the United States	Chicago	8%
LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE	$400	In 2014's "Station Eleven" most of Earth has been wiped out by a strain of this infectious disease	flu	8%
LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE	$800	"1984" is set in the pretend country Oceania & in the made-up province Airstrip One, but in this actual city	London	8%
RAIN	$600	In Arizona, the months of June to September are referred to as this season with heavy rain, high winds & flash flooding	monsoon season	8%
YOUR PARADE	$800	Lighted vessels cruise the Columbia & Willamette Rivers for this Northwest city's annual Christmas Ships Parade	Portland	8%
RAIN	$1000	For big raindrops, this fatal-sounding top speed reached at equilibrium between gravity & air resistance can approach 25 mph	terminal velocity	8%
ECONOMY SIZE	$1200	As head of this body from 2011 to 2019, Christine Lagarde called on countries to have more flexible exchange rates	the IMF	8%
ISLANDS	$800	Only about 3 miles divide Little & Big Diomede, but this line runs between, hence the nicknames Yesterday Island & Tomorrow Island	the International Date Line	8%
YOUR PARADE	$1000	This Philadelphia New Year's parade is named for its costumed entertainers, a tradition dating to Ancient Egypt	the Mummers Parade	8%
THE 1950s	N/A	The first TV debate between presidential candidates of the same party involved him & future running mate Estes Kefauver	Adlai Stevenson	0%
"A"NTONYMS	$1600	Of clear, having only one possible meaning	ambiguous (ambivalent)	0%
HAND-Y RESPONSES	$1000	An investment fund with a portfolio that tracks a group of stocks such as the S&P 500 companies	an index fund	0%
LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS	$1200	Florence Price based her "Fantasy Negre No. 1" on "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass", this type of folk hymn	a spiritual	0%
"A"NTONYMS	$2000	In musical chords, of diminished	augmented	0%
LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS	$400	Cecilia Bartoli unearths arias by obscure composers Vinci & Steffani on her 2020 album "Queen of" this 17th c. musical era	Baroque	0%
MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED	$400	Perhaps a toast was not made when this woman married David Nation in 1874 & her single was back on the charts after a 1901 divorce	Carrie Nation	0%
REAL PEOPLE ON FILM	$2000	Leo DiCaprio took to the skies as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" with this actress playing Katharine Hepburn	Cate Blanchett	0%
ECONOMY SIZE	$1600	This much, much longer follow-up to "The Communist Manifesto" was subtitled "A Critique of Political Economy"	Das Kapital	0%
ECONOMY SIZE	$2000	To discuss commerce, development & other issues, the World Economic Forum holds its annual inter meetings in this Swiss town	Davos	0%
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?	$1000	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Energy	0%
ECONOMY SIZE	$400	Simon Kuznets' work laid the foundation for this measure, the total market value of a country's annual output	GDP (GNP)	0%
MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED	$800	This pair, a novelist & a poet, ran off together in July 1814 but didn't marry until December 30, 1816	Mary Shelley & Percy Shelley	0%
A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW	$800	In March 2021 she testified on gender discrimination to a House committee; in April, she scored on a penalty kick for the U.S. vs. Sweden	Megan Rapinoe	0%
LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS	$2000	In 1968 Georgy Sviridov succeeded his mentor, this other "S" composer, in the top job in the Soviet musical bureaucracy	Shostakovich	0%
ECONOMY SIZE	$800	This "imperceptible" term is used for unseen forces within a market economy that balance self-interest with the benefit of the whole	the invisible hand	0%
RAIN	$800	Heavy rains made a dam collapse, causing this 1889 disaster in Pennsylvania	the Johnstown Flood	0%
LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS	$800	Jan Sweelinck put his best foot forward as the first composer to write independent parts for these features of the organ	the pedals	0%
LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS	$1600	In 1844, before this brass woodwind was even patented, Jean-Georges Kastner used it in his opera "The Last King of Judah"	the saxophone	0%
WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?	$600	The Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau	the Treasury Department	0%
"A"NTONYMS	$1200	Of take the throne	to abdicate	0%