Statistics for Jeopardy #8551

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
NEXT IN LINE...	$200	Getting smaller in area: Alaska, Texas...	California	67%
SUBURBS	$200	Newcastle upon Tyne is a British city; a posh suburb of Paris is called Neuilly-sur-this river	the Seine	67%
NEXT IN LINE...	$800	In Ivy schools, alphabetically: Columbia,Cornell...	Dartmouth	50%
NEXT IN LINE...	$1000	In an alphabet: kappa, lambda...	mu	50%
CELEBRITY HOBBIES	$600	Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art	karate	44%
WORDS FROM ARABIC	$400	A convoy of vehicles or merchants traveling together for safety, perhaps across the Sahara	a caravan	39%
CELEBRITY HOBBIES	$200	Reasonably enough for Queen Bey, Beyoncé makes hundreds of jars of this a year, partly because of her daughters' allergies	honey	39%
NEXT IN LINE...	$400	U.S. Army ranks: first lieutenant, captain...	major	39%
SUBURBS	$800	Leon Trotsky's ashes are buried at his home, now a museum, in Coyoacán, a suburb of this capital	Mexico City	39%
THE HUGO AWARDS	$400	Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man	George R.R. Martin	33%
SUBURBS	$400	Our efforts at a SUBURB"IA" category fizzled out after Livonia, Michigan & Arcadia, New South Wales, a suburb of this city	Sydney	33%
THE HUGO AWARDS	$200	"You've just crossed over into" this TV anthology created by Rod Serling, Best Dramatic Presentation in 1960	The Twilight Zone	33%
SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE	$400	The Monkees took the "Last" one "To Clarksville"; Gladys Knight caught the "Midnight" one "To Georgia"	Train	33%
NEXT IN LINE...	$600	Gotta know your presidents if you hit our stage: Harrison, Tyler...	Polk	28%
WORDS FROM ARABIC	$200	It's from the Arabic for "embalmed body", like one in ancient Thebes	a mummy	22%
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS	$800	This Italian version of aloha is somehow derived from Latin for "slave"	ciao	22%
BANK SHOTS	$1600	The headquarters of the Emirates NBD in this city is shaped like the dhows that sail nearby	Dubai	22%
WORDS FROM ARABIC	$800	From Arabic for "notification", it's a tax paid on imported goods	tariff	22%
CELEBRITY HOBBIES	$800	She knitted the shawl she wore as Sister Aloysius in the movie "Doubt"	(Meryl) Streep	17%
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS	$400	It follows "pip-" regarding one of small stature	squeak	17%
BANK SHOTS	$1200	The Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong has long diagonal braces to protect it from these tropical cyclones of the region	typhoons	17%
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS	$1200	This garlic mayo goes great with fish	aioli	11%
SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE	$800	Here's a traffic update from this icon: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive"	Bruce Springsteen	11%
BETWEEN THE WORLD WAR	$1200	This 4-time Olympic gold medalist got a parade in NYC but had to ride the freight elevator to his reception at the Waldorf	Jesse Owens	11%
BETWEEN THE WORLD WAR	$400	The founder of the Russian Communist Party, he was also leader of the USSR until his death in 1924	Lenin	11%
WHALES	$1200	This extremely vocal white whale of the Arctic Ocean is nicknamed the "canary of the sea"	the beluga	11%
WORDS FROM ARABIC	$1000	This 4-letter stringed instrument was brought into Europe via Spain by the Moors	the lute	11%
WHALES	$2000	The blue whale is the largest, but this species, known for its enormous head, has the largest brain	the sperm whale	11%
SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE	$1600	Marc Cohn began this hit with "Put on my blue suede shoes & I boarded the plane / Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues"	"Walking In Memphis"	11%
WORDS FROM ARABIC	$600	Originally a part of Middle Eastern folklore, it's a demon, seen in its favorite haunt	a ghoul	6%
WHALES	$400	Like bats, some whales use this natural sonar to hunt, communicate & navigate	echolocation	6%
SUBURBS	$1000	Shostakovich titled an opera "Moscow, Cheryomushki", a suburb where in 1958 this leader began an experiment in prefab apartments	Khrushchev	6%
THE HUGO AWARDS	$600	The Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation in 2020 was "Good Omens", written by this Brit who also gave us "Coraline"	(Neil) Gaiman	6%
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS	$2000	The existence of this land mass that ends with 3 vowels was first suggested in 1912	Pangaea	6%
CELEBRITY HOBBIES	$400	The state legislature made him an honorary Texan after he donated his $15 million Alamo artifacts collection to the museum there	Phil Collins	6%
CELEBRITY HOBBIES	$1000	Taylor Swift makes these transparent items; the video of her song "Lover" happens inside one	snow globes	6%
PARTS OF A POEM	$400	An iamb is one of these basic units of verse with an anatomical name	a foot	0%
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?	$800	Not a discovered check but this moment where you see whether you've got the stuff inside to meet a challenge	a gut check	0%
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS	$1600	It's a river-livin' nymph of ancient Greek myth	A Naiad	0%
PARTS OF A POEM	$1600	Also a punctuation mark, it's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example	an apostrophe	0%
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?	$200	Not the Sicilian Defense but this legal one that may include the irresistible impulse test	an insanity defense	0%
PARTS OF A POEM	$1200	This word for a group of 4 lines of verse is from French for "four"	a quatrain	0%
BANK SHOTS	$400	There's a pretty obvious reason that the United Overseas Bank building in Bangkok is known as this 5-letter building	a Robot Building	0%
WHALES	$800	Whales are classified as either toothed or these, named for the bony filters in their mouths	baleen	0%
PARTS OF A POEM	$2000	Hail! This word for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry	caesura	0%
BANK SHOTS	$800	Saxo Bank is an online bank, but its headquarters designed by the Danish firm, 3XN, near this world capital are very 3-D	Copenhagen	0%
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?	$400	Not the Trompowsky but this 3-word attack that renders a computer no good to its legitimate user	denial-of-service	0%
BANK SHOTS	$2000	Madrid's La Vela is super sustainable with this kind of heating system that captures energy from the subsoil	geothermal	0%
THE HUGO AWARDS	$800	A failed actor is shanghaied to Mars in "Double Star", the 1956 best novel by this author of "Starship Troopers"	Heinlein	0%
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?	$600	Not the Ruy Lopez, but the him, A.C. Slater on "Saved by the Bell"	Mario Lopez	0%
SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE	$2000	Though he sang, "Climb on the back & we'll go for a ride in the sky" in his 1974 hit "Jet", the song was named for his dog, Jet	Paul McCartney	0%
BETWEEN THE WORLD WAR	$1600	The Dawes Plan outlined how Germany would make these payments compensating the Allies for the cost of the war	reparations	0%
THE HUGO AWARDS	$1000	This author, Hugo-nominated in his 20s for "Babel-17", has the middle initial "R" for Ray; he won a few years later	Samuel R. Delany	0%
BETWEEN THE WORLD WAR	$2000	This guerrilla leader murdered by Nicaraguan national guardsmen in 1934, gave his name to a revolutionary movement	Sandino	0%
SUBURBS	$600	Stewart Hartshorn made a fortune in window shade rollers & gave his S.H. initials to this wealth New Jersey suburb	Short Hill, New Jersey	0%
NEW CHESS STRATAGEMS?	$1000	Not a knight fork, but this fork, named for the food it's used on	spaghetti fork	0%
PARTS OF A POEM	$800	This word for a group of rhyming lines in a poem comes from Italian	stanza	0%
WHALES	$1600	As well as a type of flatworm, it's something much larger, either of the flat lobes of a whale's tail	the flukes	0%
BETWEEN THE WORLD WAR	$800	In 1935 Congress passed this act that established unemployment relief & old age pensions	the Social Security Act	0%
19th CENTURY NOTABLES	N/A	On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever"	Vincent van Gogh	0%
SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE	$1200	This 3-word refrain is the title of the Carter family tune remade as that "Cups" song--"& I'm leaving tomorrow, what do you say"	"When I\'m Gone"	0%