Statistics for Jeopardy #8575

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This quiz has been taken 33 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
NAMES OF THE PAST	$200	His body emaciated from years of fasting, he didn't last long after an assassin's bullets felled him in 1948 New Delhi	Gandhi	89%
BOATS & SHIPS	$200	The USS Pennsylvania was in drydock at this naval base on December 7, 1941	Pearl Harbor	58%
I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI	$800	... for this animal "Who Walks Through Walls" in a Robert A. Heinlein title	a cat	53%
I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI	$600	... for this northern Italian city & fashion capital, site of Sforzesco Castle	Milan	53%
AMERICAN FOLKLORE	$400	Some teach that the ghost of this pirate who died in 1718 glows under the waters off North Carolina, searching for his own head	Blackbeard	47%
BOATS & SHIPS	$600	Tamil words for tie & wood give us the name of this type of twin-hulled boat	a catamaran	42%
WEAPONS	$400	This word for a throwing stick comes from an Aboriginal language	boomerang	37%
MY MOVIE OCCUPATION	$600	Margot Robbie, gliding through "I, Tonya"	a figure skater	32%
FLOWER NAMES	$400	Be at peace! The columbine gets its name from Latin for this bird	a dove	26%
A PLACE IN THE SUN	$400	The colossus is long gone, but on this sunny island of Greece you can visit the Acropolis of Lindos	Rhodes	26%
ORDINAL PHRASES	$200	Intuition not arrived at via sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell	sixth sense	26%
MY MOVIE OCCUPATION	$800	Sidney Poitier, taking a tough assignment in "To Sir, with Love"	a teacher	21%
AMERICAN FOLKLORE	$800	"Stand in front of the bathroom mirror with a... candle & say" this witch's name "3 times"; if it works, you'll need that drink, too	Bloody Mary	21%
A PLACE IN THE SUN	$2000	It looks like a different planet, but one of the hottest places on Earth is Dallol, in this largest Horn of Africa country	Ethiopia	21%
NAMES OF THE PAST	$800	The couple seen here, Menkaure & wife, were found near one of the three main pyramids at this city	Giza	21%
AMERICAN FOLKLORE	$200	He used 2 hammers to bore a 14-foot hole in rock & defeat a drill; however, he died doing it	John Henry	21%
I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI	$200	... for my this, be it t-, guayabera or flannel; so sexy it hurts	my shirt	21%
A PLACE IN THE SUN	$1600	With over 300 sunny days each year, this tourist destination in the south of Spain has a name meaning "sun coast"	the Costa del Sol	21%
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	$1200	"Freedom in Exile" is the autobiography of Tenzin Gyatso, better known by this religious title	the Dalai Lama	21%
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	$800	Seen here, singer Mary Wilson wrote a memoir titled "Dreamgirl: My Life as..." a member of this trio	The Supremes	21%
NAMES OF THE PAST	$400	Known to Israelis as "Arik", this ex-general was prime minister from 2001 to 2006	Ariel Sharon	16%
WEAPONS	$800	Hamlet mentions this stone-throwing weapon & the book of Judges says the children of Benjamin included 700 experts in it	a sling	16%
NAMES OF THE PAST	$1000	In 451 it took a combined army of Roman & Germanic forces to stop this leader of a Central Asian people at a battle near Troyes	Attila the Hun	16%
AMERICAN FOLKLORE	$600	He was big, he was blue & one story said his footprints filled with water & became Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, so to repeat... he was big	Babe (the Blue Ox)	16%
BOATS & SHIPS	$400	John Quincy Adams argued the case of the Africans who had mutinied aboard this slave ship & won their freedom	the Amistad	16%
WEAPONS	$1600	Sir Walter Scott popularized this name for a type of heavy broadsword favored by Scots Highlanders	the claymore	16%
ORDINAL PHRASES	$400	It's a nickname for Chicago	the "Second City"	16%
MY MOVIE OCCUPATION	$200	Jimmy Stewart, in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (after going to Washington)	a senator	11%
AMERICAN FOLKLORE	$1000	Were you raised by coyotes?! Well, this cowboy was, after being lost by his parents near a certain Texas river	Pecos Bill	11%
TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH	$1600	We're frightfully busy at the hospital in the "casualty department"	the E.R.	11%
BOATS & SHIPS	$800	These boats in the lagoon at Boston's Public Garden were inspired by the opera "Lohengrin" & declared a Boston landmark	the swan boats	11%
ORDINAL PHRASES	$800	If you're taking the subway, keep your distance from this electrified part of the tracks	the third rail	11%
A PLACE IN THE SUN	$1200	Take the 3:10 to this city at the southwestern tip of Arizona that frequently ranks as the sunniest city in the United States	Yuma	11%
WEAPONS	$2000	The name of this combo stabbing & chopping weapon is from the Middle German for "halm", "handle" & "barte", "hatchet"	a halberd	5%
TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH	$800	Old Mrs. Dudge still has an "aerial" on her telly	an antenna	5%
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	$1600	Toni Morrison edited the memoir of this woman who was a Black Panther, a UCLA professor & a fugitive	Angela Davis	5%
FLOWER NAMES	$1200	The thoughtful should know that the name of this flower comes from French for "thought"	a pansy	5%
I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI	$400	... for your this, which we can only assume is a choice of Know-Nothing, Likud or Bull Moose	(a political) party	5%
TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH	$1200	Let's take our seats & meet for a drink at the "interval"	intermission	5%
I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI	$1000	... for this island nation whose largest freshwater lake is the 260-square-mile Biwa	Japan	5%
A PLACE IN THE SUN	$800	After flying over the Nazca Lines in this country, get away to Huacachina, an oasis in the middle of the desert	Peru	5%
"S.T." ON THE TV	$400	Hume, Marx, Freud, "Voyager", "Next Generation" & others combined in an Indiana University class about this show "& Religion"	Star Trek	5%
FLOWER NAMES	$800	Kansas' state flower, the common this, is in the genus Helianthus	sunflower	5%
ORDINAL PHRASES	$600	The parable of the workers in the vineyard in mark 20 gave us this idiom for anything done at the last minute	the eleventh hour	5%
BOATS & SHIPS	$1000	The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, it was launched in 1960 & was the 8th U.S. naval vessel to carry the name	the Enterprise	5%
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	$400	Completes the title of legendary animal trainer Mabel Stark's memoir "Hold That..."	Tiger	5%
MY MOVIE OCCUPATION	$400	Denzel Washington, stepping up in "Philadelphia"	a lawyer (attorney)	0%
INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS	N/A	A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there"	(Anton) Chekhov	0%
MY MOVIE OCCUPATION	$1000	Holly Hunter, before saying hi to motherhood in "Raising Arizona"	a policeman	0%
WEAPONS	$1200	Originally a Cavalry sword with a curved blade, it's also the name of a fencing weapon	a saber	0%
TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH	$400	Black tie with "turn-ups" on the trousers? Appalling	cuffs	0%
FLOWER NAMES	$1600	This flower seen here	foxglove	0%
NAMES OF THE PAST	$600	This "Waltz King" was 23 when he combined his orchestra with his dad's	Johann Strauss Jr.	0%
FLOWER NAMES	$2000	This flower whose name is derived from "wolf" is also a word used to describe wolves	lupine	0%
"S.T." ON THE TV	$2000	John Bradley played this "better with a book than a sword" character on "Game of Thrones"	Sam Tarly	0%
TRANSLATE THE BRITISH ENGLISH	$2000	Oh no! Colin has stopped on the "verge" of the M1; his car broke down	shoulder	0%
"S.T." ON THE TV	$1600	Can't remember the last name of this multi-limbed neighbor of SpongeBob? Remember his multiple limbs	Squidward Tentacles	0%
"S.T." ON THE TV	$1200	Seen here, this rocker told most of the hopefuls on "American Idol" to "Dream On"	Steven Tyler	0%
"S.T." ON THE TV	$800	Fact-checking this Netflix show, the Energy Department said in 2016, we don't "explore parallel universes"	Stranger Things	0%
ORDINAL PHRASES	$1000	In the 19th century this phrase began its association with all things press-related	the Fourth Estate	0%
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES	$2000	"Every Secret Thing" by Patty Hearst includes a firsthand account of her abduction by this militant group	the Symbionese Liberation Army	0%