Statistics for Jeopardy #8550

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS	$400	"I am Sam Sam I am... do you like" this offering?	green eggs and ham	85%
OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS	$800	"On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool" this guy "heard a small noise"	Horton	54%
THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT	$400	"Cry Me A River", by a former boy bander	Justin Timberlake	54%
IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN	$200	After she beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Sept. 20, 1973, Riggs admitted, "I underestimated you"	Billie Jean King	46%
MOVE IT!	$200	Called the "move of the millennium", in 1999 one of these massive beacons was moved inland about 1,000 yards on Cape Hatteras	a lighthouse	38%
4-LETTER BIRDS	$400	On a chessboard, this European black bird would be worth about 5 pawns	a rook	38%
THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT	$1000	Turning back time, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", in 1966	Cher	38%
POP CULTURE MONIKERS	$400	This "Avengers" actor was nicknamed "Hammer" before he played Thor	Chris Hemsworth	38%
THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT	$200	"California Girls" in 1985, the year he left Van Halen	David Lee Roth	38%
DOUBLE TIME	$200	In this alliterative playground activity, 2 ropes are turned simultaneously in opposite directions	Double Dutch	38%
METAPHORS	$1000	President Eisenhower saw Stalin's death as a chance "to crack" this barrier & thaw out the Cold War	the Iron Curtain	38%
OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS	$600	"...but the Grinch who lived just north of" this place "did not!" (like Christmas a lot, that is)	Whoville	38%
IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN	$1000	On July 2, 1979 the U.S. Mint elected to release a coin honoring this woman; nearly 758 million were made that year	Susan B. Anthony	31%
THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT	$600	"Pillowtalk" in 2016, by a former boy bander	Zayn (Malik)	31%
MOVE IT!	$400	Historic London Bridge was taken apart beginning in 1968 & reassembled in this U.S. state as a tourist attraction	Arizona	23%
4-LETTER BIRDS	$1200	You can tell the "mourning" species of this by its characteristic call & long, pointed tail	dove	23%
THAT'S BORDER LINE	$400	Put it all on black in this principality that's surrounded by France & also just 5 miles from the Italian border	Monaco	23%
OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS	$200	"1 fish, 2 fish red fish blue fish. Black fish blue fish" this fish "new fish"	old fish	23%
METAPHORS	$600	Stan Lee addressed Marvel Comics readers directly in the column "Stan's" this, once an actual crate that speakers would stand on	Soapbox	23%
DOUBLE TIME	$800	This double reed woodwind is played using a neck sling & separates into 6 parts, including the bass & boot joints	a bassoon	15%
4-LETTER BIRDS	$1600	A bufflehead, teal or merganser, for example	a duck	15%
OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS	$1000	"Now, the star-belly" these "had bellies with stars. The plain-belly" these "had none upon thars"	a Sneetches	15%
MOVE IT!	$800	In the 1930s the 4th century Obelisk of Axum was taken to Italy, but in 2005 returned to this African nation & rebuilt there	Ethiopia	15%
DOUBLE TIME	$600	The 1946 article that coined this term for a brooding drama cited "Double Indemnity", starring Barbara Stanwyck, as an example	film noir	15%
IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN	$400	In 1973 he was minority leader of the House of Representatives but got 2 big job promotions by the end of the next year	Ford	15%
MOVE IT!	$600	This first treasury secretary's former New York City home, the Grange, was jacked up & rolled to a new location nearby in 2008	Hamilton	15%
4-LETTER BIRDS	$800	The canyon species of this bird is small, brown & chubby & a sweet whistler	wren	15%
IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN	$600	On May 1, 1971 this service had its 1st run from N.Y. to Philly, just after midnight; really, at that time, it should have been to Georgia	Amtrak	8%
POP CULTURE MONIKERS	$1200	Born on the South Side of Chicago, he originally had "Sense" behind his name in his early rap years	Common	8%
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON	$1200	Ruth Ziolkowski kept working on a monument to this Native American warrior long after her sculptor husband died in 1982	Crazy Horse	8%
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON	$400	In 2019, 96-year-old Rachel Robinson attended ceremonies at this stadium in her husband's centennial year	Dodger Stadium	8%
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON	$800	This former first lady died in Austin in 2007, having outlived her husband by 34 years	Lady Bird Johnson	8%
THAT'S BORDER LINE	$1600	A hundreds-of-miles-long eastern border with Vietnam is part of what makes this nation landlocked	Laos	8%
AWARDS & HONORS	$400	The Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 categories, including this one for which Louise Gluck won in 2020	literature	8%
THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT	$800	"Cruisin'", in 1980 by this Motown legend	Smokey Robinson	8%
METAPHORS	$800	Meaning achieving great success, grabbing this was originally a way to get a free ride on a merry-go-round	the brass ring	8%
POP CULTURE MONIKERS	$2000	The Victims is the fitting name for superfans of this hard-rocking Vegas band	The Killers	8%
DOUBLE TIME	$400	Worth twice as much as a pistole, this Spanish gold coin was once widely used in the Americas	a doubloon	0%
WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS	$1600	This Japanese martial art aims to turn an attacker's strength & momentum against him	aikido	0%
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON	$1600	Laura, shown with Timothy Leary, died in 2007; this husband who wrote "The Doors of Perception" back in 1963	(Aldous) Huxley	0%
AWARDS & HONORS	$1600	John B. Glen began in veterinary science but won a 2018 Lasker Award for developing propofol, one of these for humans	an anesthetic	0%
WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS	$1200	An ejection or an eviction	an ouster	0%
AWARDS & HONORS	$800	Marvin Minsky built the first neural network simulator & won the Turing Award in 1969 for helping create this 2-word field	artificial intelligence	0%
MOVE IT!	$1000	The Ara Pacis, an altar built to honor this Roman emperor c. 9 B.C., was long forgotten, rescued in the 1930s & moved to a new home	Augustus	0%
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON	$2000	In 1994, nearly 60 years after his death, his wife Anna passed away still proclaiming his innocence in the Lindbergh case	Bruno Hauptmann	0%
WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS	$2000	The joker was invented for this card game & the 2 words may be related	Euchre	0%
AWARDS & HONORS	$2000	In 2021, this longtime PBS anchor won a Peabody Award for her journalistic integrity	Judy Woodruff	0%
AWARDS & HONORS	$1200	His first two Tonys honored his work in lighter fare; in 2018, his third was for his performance in "Angels in America"	Nathan Lane	0%
METAPHORS	$200	A problem individual in an organization ruins things for everyone, as in the old saying this "spoils the barrel"	one bad apple (a bad apple)	0%
POP CULTURE MONIKERS	$800	Maggie Smith gave the man seen here this flower-part nickname, an anagram of his last name	Petal	0%
IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN	$800	Paul Gann & Howard Jarvis led a revolt against these taxes that upset many Californians with big jumps every October	property taxes	0%
THAT'S BORDER LINE	$1200	Home to Brisbane, this "royal" Australian state is bounded to the west by, of course, the Northern Territory	Queensland	0%
THAT'S BORDER LINE	$2000	You have a couple of choices if you're heading directly across the eastern border of Wyoming--these 2 states	South Dakota & Nebraska	0%
THAT'S BORDER LINE	$800	Bordering Alaska & British Columbia, this territory has a population of 42,000, around 4,000 more than Fenway Park's capacity	the Yukon Territory	0%
20th CENTURY NONFICTION	N/A	"Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man	(Thor) Heyerdahl	0%
METAPHORS	$400	Literally, it's to exit with a gesture of lowering the head; it's often followed by "gracefully"	to bow out	0%
4-LETTER BIRDS	$2000	A "true" this is a member of the swift, predatory genus Accipiter	true hawks	0%
POP CULTURE MONIKERS	$1600	The main character on this HBO comedy was called "Grizzly Madam" & "The Wicked Witch of the West Wing"	Veep	0%
DOUBLE TIME	$1000	This American Nobel Prize winner penned the book "The Double Helix"	Watson	0%