Statistics for Jeopardy #8553

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
LET ME IN!!	$200	[Will be filled in later]	=	100%
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS	$200	A Bengal	a tiger	100%
HOW PROVINCIAL	$200	East, Central & West this island are 3 of some 30 provinces of Indonesia... why do I suddenly want some coffee?	Java	85%
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS	$400	A Capuchin	monkey	85%
HOW PROVINCIAL	$600	In 1908 Europe was thrown into crisis as Austria-Hungary annexed the Ottoman province of Bosnia & this	Herzegovina	62%
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS	$1000	A krait	a snake	54%
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS	$800	A Norway (also known as a brown)	rat	54%
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS	$600	A Merino	a sheep	46%
3 SHORTS WORDS	$200	Literally, to offer a body part in assistance; it's a motto of scouting	lend a hand	46%
LET ME IN!!	$800	Ali Baba & company got to a treasure trove by uttering this 2-word phrase	Open sesame	46%
WAR MACHINE	$600	On "My Grandparents' War" on PBS, Carey Mulligan learns about her grandpa, a specialist in this new technology to detect aircraft	radar	46%
WAR MACHINE	$400	The iconic Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter first saw action in this war	Vietnam	46%
IRON MAN	$600	In 2018 bowler Alastair Cook broke a record by playing in his 154th straight test match in this sport	cricket	38%
LET ME IN!!	$1000	Kool & the Gang sang of this, often a bar promotion, "and the feeling's right"	"Ladies Night"	38%
LET ME IN!!	$600	A part of a theater is mentioned in this credential that might allow you to meet the band after a concert	backstage pass	31%
WAR MACHINE	$200	Some ancient versions of this device could hurl a 170-pound boulder 100 yards	catapult	23%
3 SHORTS WORDS	$600	The advice to let an unhappy baby do this, hard for many parents to follow, dates back to 1894	cry it out	23%
WAR MACHINE	$800	During World War II the Germans used this machine whose very name is a puzzle, to send & receive secret messages	Enigma	23%
IRON MAN	$400	From 1955 to 1962 Glenn Hall started an NHL record 502 consecutive games at this position, playing some of it on his knees	goalkeeper	23%
HOW PROVINCIAL	$400	Later split into 3 provinces, South Africa's Cape Province was also known officially as the Gape of this	Good Hope	23%
HOW PROVINCIAL	$800	When Gander's Airport welcomed 6,500 passengers on U.S.-bound flights on Sept. 11, 2001, its province was still called this	Newfoundland	23%
SCIENCE	$400	As if this duck-billed mammal weren't strange enough, it glows under UV light; no one knows why	platypus	23%
IRON MAN	$800	Averaging 41.6 yards for each time he took the field, Jeff Feagles played in 352 straight NFL games at this position	punter	23%
AUTHORS' NONFICTION	$400	His "Life on the Mississippi" preceded "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by a year	Twain	23%
LET ME IN!!	$400	In Russia "face control" is the job of these "elastic" workers in charge of the promised land behind the velvet rope	bouncers	15%
3 SHORTS WORDS	$400	It's a classic sandwich you might get at a deli, though not a kosher deli	ham on rye	15%
ROYAL WOMEN	$800	In 2021 Princess Mako of this country gave up her royal status to marry the man she loved, a commoner	Japan	15%
IRON MAN	$200	On Sept. 20, 1998 Ryan Minor replaced Cal Ripken Jr. of this team, ending Cal's incredible consecutive game streak	the Orioles	15%
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT	$400	A word meaning constructed & a cloth bed covering	built & quilt	8%
ROYAL WOMEN	$1200	In 2020 this country's Queen Margrethe celebrated her 80th birthday	Denmark	8%
3 SHORTS WORDS	$800	Bremerton, Washington claims to be where an excited Democrat first yelled to Pres. Truman the phrase do this, Harry	Give \'em hell	8%
HOW PROVINCIAL	$1000	This province in the Iberian Peninsula went down to Pompey in 73 B.C.; the ocean liner of the same name, in 1915 (sans Pompey)	Lusitania	8%
ROYAL WOMEN	$400	In 2019 she shared her first Instagram photo, a letter from Charles Babbage to her g-g-gf Prince Albert	Queen Elizabeth II	8%
REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES	$800	Term for rolling a 2 in craps	snake eyes	8%
AUTHORS' NONFICTION	$800	In 1981, when he'd only written a handful of novels, he published "Danse Macabre", an overview of the horror genre	Stephen King	8%
CLASSIC SITCOMS	$400	On this sitcom Will Smith played a fictionalized version of himself, sent from philly to live with rich relatives in L.A.	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	8%
SCIENCE	$800	An event horizon is the boundary of one of these	a black hole	0%
REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES	$1600	This icky creature in a type of bar is a would-be ladies' man	a lounge lizard	0%
WAR MACHINE	$1000	Dubbed a "battle taxi", the M113 APC seen here can hold a dozen soldiers as this, what APC stands for	armored personnel carrier	0%
3 SHORTS WORDS	$1000	Samuel Butler's 19th century translation of the "Iliad" includes this phrase for "to die" more associated with the Old West	bite the dust	0%
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT	$1600	An optical disc format for HD video & a synonym for cloudy or fuzzy	Blu-ray & blurry	0%
REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES	$1200	A 14th century book that said certain beasts "slay men & they eat them weeping" gave rise to this expression	crocodile tears	0%
AUTHORS' NONFICTION	$2000	Best known for his novel "Infinite Jest", he also wrote "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity"	David Foster Wallace	0%
SCIENCE	$1600	When used of metals like copper, this 7-letter adjective means capable of being drawn out into a wire	ductile	0%
AUTHORS' NONFICTION	$1200	In 1979 he completed his third revision of "The Elements of Style"	(E.B.) White	0%
AUTHORS' NONFICTION	$1600	Before writing 1905's "The House of Mirth", she collaborated on "The Decoration of Houses", a book of interior designs	Edith Wharton	0%
HISTORIC AMERICANS	N/A	In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end	(Frederick) Douglass	0%
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT	$2000	A region in Israel mentioned in the Bible & an Italian scientist who got Inquisition-ed	Galilee & Galileo	0%
SCIENCE	$2000	This physicist was working as Niels Bohr's assistant when he came up with his uncertainty principle	Heisenberg	0%
ROYAL WOMEN	$2000	While King Felipe of Spain's daughter Leonor is a princess, his younger daughter Sofia has this title	infanta	0%
ROYAL WOMEN	$1600	Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, who lives in the U.S., co-founded the Foundation for the Children of this country	Iran	0%
CLASSIC SITCOMS	$1600	It centered on several unattached Brooklynites, including Kim Fields as Regine Hunter & Queen Latifah as Khadijah James	Living Single	0%
CLASSIC SITCOMS	$800	In 2019 Helen hunt reprised her role as Jamie Buchman for a revival of this sitcom	Mad About You	0%
CLASSIC SITCOMS	$2000	Harry Anderson presided over this sitcom while Markie Post played a public defender	Night Court	0%
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT	$800	"The City of Light" & destinations there like Montsouris & Bois de Boulogne	Paris & parks	0%
CLASSIC SITCOMS	$1200	Redd Foxx played a cantankerous junk dealer & patriarch on this Norman Lear comedy	Sanford and Son	0%
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT	$1200	A tiny European republic & a hall of fame Dolphin quarterback	San Marino & Dan Marino	0%
IRON MAN	$1000	Called the NBA's Iron Man, A.C. Green played 1,192 consecutive games & also collected 3 championship rings with this team	the L.A. Lakers	0%
REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES	$400	Putting together this pair from a fable is a way of saying it's better to go slow & steady	the tortoise & the hare	0%
SCIENCE	$1200	First appearing in the Cambrian Period, these are the 3-lobed fossils of what were marine animals	trilobites	0%
REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES	$2000	Jesus calls the scribes "ye serpents, ye generation of" these venomous serpents	vipers	0%