Statistics for Jeopardy #8560

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
LANDMARK OF THE CITY	$400	The Little Mermaid, unveiled 1913	Copenhagen	92%
FICTIONAL PLANETS	$400	Infant Kal-El's father & mother send their baby in a rocket away from this planet just as it is about to be destroyed	Krypton	69%
FICTIONAL PLANETS	$200	In a 1977 movie Tatooine is the home planet of this jedi-to-be	Luke Skywalker	69%
WHO "E"	$600	Her 18 Grand Slam tennis singles titles include 7 French Opens & 6 U.S. Opens	(Chris) Evert	62%
LANDMARK OF THE CITY	$600	30 St. Mary Avenue, better known as the Gherkin	London	62%
WORD PAIRS	$800	A blues classic says, "Nobody knows you when you're" this destitute pair	down & out	54%
WORD PAIRS	$200	This pair in a fruit & dairy dessert also describes a pale-skinned, pink-cheeked complexion	peaches & cream	54%
WORD PAIRS	$400	Pair of building materials used to describe a physical store as opposed to an online retailer	brick & mortar	38%
WHO "E"	$400	If you read the letters of this giant of 19th c. thought, you'll see the sign-off "Your affectionate brother, Waldo"	Emerson	38%
WHO "E"	$800	He edited the second & third of the 3 volumes of "Das Kapital"	Engels	38%
WHO "E"	$200	This ancient Greek is synonymous with the study of plane geometry	Euclid	38%
EXPLORERS	$400	In the late 900s Erik the Red founded the first European settlement on this large island	Greenland	38%
LANDMARK OF THE CITY	$1000	The Topkapi Palace, begun by Sultan Mehmed II around 1460 & now a museum	Istanbul	38%
BALDERDASH	$200	In 1940 Congress said it's a crime to kill this bird	a bald eagle	31%
EXPLORERS	$1600	In 1728 he discovered that Russia was separated from North America by a narrow strait	Bering	23%
WORD PAIRS	$1000	A wild speech & a wild party (maybe with glow sticks) combine in this alliterative pair meaning to express anger	rant & rave	23%
FICTIONAL PLANETS	$600	This unusual-looking family first seen on "Saturday Night Live" pose as earthlings but are really from Remulak	the Coneheads	23%
EXPLORERS	$2000	Lope de Aguirre was among those who sought this mythic South American land of gold	El Dorado	15%
BALDERDASH	$400	A depiction of a witches' Sabbath, Mussorgsky's composition "Night On Bald Mountain" was used in this 1940 Disney film	Fantasia	15%
BALDERDASH	$800	Found just south of the North Carolina border, 4,784-foot Brasstown Bald is the highest point in this state	Georgia	15%
THE PRODUCERS	$1200	The G in MGM, he produced classic films like "Guys and Dolls"	Goldwyn	15%
BALDERDASH	$600	In one Norse myth, Loki tricks the god Hoder into throwing a sprig of this parasitic plant at the beloved god Balder, killing him	mistletoe	15%
PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs	$800	It means the belief in only one god	monotheism	15%
LANDMARK OF THE CITY	$800	The Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 confrontation	Selma	15%
FICTIONAL PLANETS	$800	Etheria is the planet where this title cartoon "Princess of Power" fights the evil horde	She-Ra	15%
THE PRODUCERS	$800	In 2020 this speedy guy also known as Barry Allen was one of Greg Berlanti's 20 shows on the air	the Flash	15%
NONSENSE	$800	The German work "Songs" of this structure for hanging people actually contains jolly nonsense like "the sniffle"	the gallows	15%
PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs	$400	Mortalism believes that this dies with the body or lies unconscious until the resurrection	the soul	15%
LANDMARK OF THE CITY	$200	The memorial seen here, this city	Washington, D.C.	15%
WORDS FROM RUSSIAN	$1200	By 1936 more than a million people in the Soviet Union were held in this system of forced labor camps	a gulag	8%
WORDS FROM RUSSIAN	$400	Sevruga is a type of this fish, prized for its roe	a sturgeon	8%
WORD PAIRS	$600	A preposition & an adjective of size, together they're a synonym for "in general"	by & large	8%
NONSENSE	$1000	This 19th century giant of nonsense wrote of "The Owl & the Pussy-Cat" & also of nutcrackers running off with sugar tongs	Edward Lear	8%
THE PRODUCERS	$400	Seen in the '70s, he's produced hundreds of hours of beloved TV comedy	(Norman) Lear	8%
NONSENSE	$200	George Orwell said most English nonsense verse consists of these, like "See-Saw, Margery Daw", & once may have made sense	nursery rhymes	8%
SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS	$400	Known for its "Valley", this can be used as a semiconductor & as an alloying element in steel	silicon	8%
PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs	$1200	This 19th century movement believed the dead could communicate with the living through mediums	spiritualism	8%
EXPLORERS	$1200	Bridges over New York Bay & Narragansett Bay are named for this explorer who sailed into both bodies of water in 1524	Verrazzano	8%
WORDS FROM RUSSIAN	$2000	This type of summer dwelling is seen here	a dacha	0%
THE PRODUCERS	$1600	Ryan Murphy has told us 10 "American Horror Story"s & 3 of these FX limited series	American Crime Story	0%
SYMPHONIES	$400	During World War II Allied Radio used 4 notes from this Beethoven symphony to boost morale--they represent "V" for victory	Beethoven\'s Fifth	0%
FICTIONAL PLANETS	$1000	A prequel series to "Battlestar Galactica" was named for this planet	Caprica	0%
WORDS FROM RUSSIAN	$1600	Job title of Vladimir Komarov, who was very, very high up on Oct. 12 & 13, 1964	cosmonaut	0%
SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS	$800	It's named for 2 French physicists & one isotope has a half-life of 15.6 million years	curium	0%
PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs	$1600	This 5-letter philosophy popular with some of the founding fathers believes in a god, but one who stays out of human affairs	deism	0%
NONSENSE	$400	In Stephen Leacock's "Nonsense Novels": "A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural" & "Maddened by Mystery, or the Defective" this	Detective	0%
SYMPHONIES	$2000	At the end of this Haydn symphony, the musicians say goodbye; they gradually stop playing & leave the stage	"Farewell" Symphony	0%
SYMPHONIES	$800	Part of Arlene Sierra's "Nature Symphony" was inspired by this artist's paintings of the New Mexico landscape	Georgia O\'Keeffe	0%
WHO "E"	$1000	The first African American to hold the post of U.S. Surgeon General, she served in 1993 & 1994	(Joycelyn) Elders	0%
MOUNTAINS	N/A	First scaled in 1829, this 17,000-foot mountain has caused excitement by the supposed discovery of wood high up on it	Mount Ararat	0%
THE PRODUCERS	$2000	Last name of Mark who produced "Wicked" on Broadway & Tony-winning actor/son, Ben	Platt	0%
SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS	$1600	This has the atomic number 94; the Cassini craft set off to Saturn with power provided by 73 pounds of this-238	plutonium	0%
EXPLORERS	$800	African-American explorer Matthew Henson was co-discoverer of the North Pole, along with this man	(Robert) Peary	0%
PHILOSOPHIC & RELIGIOUS -ISMs	$2000	The truth is always uncertain in this philosophy that takes its name from the Greek for "to consider"	skepticism	0%
SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS	$2000	This element gave us the "tan" in coltan, a metal essential in electronics but also classified as a conflict mineral	tantalum	0%
BALDERDASH	$1000	This 1950 absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco consists mainly of meaningless dialogues between 2 couples	The Bald Soprano	0%
WORDS FROM RUSSIAN	$800	Taiga, perhaps meaning "land of little sticks", is used for what's also called the boreal this environment	the forest	0%
SYMPHONIES	$1200	It's thought that the grand scale & exuberant energy of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C major earned it this nickname	the Jupiter Symphony	0%
SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS	$1200	Whosoever holds the hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of this, discovered by a Swede in 1828	thorium	0%
SYMPHONIES	$1600	Charles Ives used all kinds of existing tunes in his Symphony No. 3, including this hymn also called "Erie"; "what a" choice	"What A Friend We Have In Jesus"	0%
NONSENSE	$600	Beloved nonsense words include this creature that Pooh & Piglet track through the snow--or is it a Wizzle?	Woozles	0%