Statistics for Jeopardy #8577

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This quiz has been taken 26 times
The average score is 13 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL	$400	...In where you're said to "start from" when you begin a new project	A	94%
EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY	$600	In England, it's a cookie & in the U.S. it's a roll, but either way, it's from Old French for "twice baked"	a biscuit	61%
TONY-WINNING MUSICALS BY SONG	$400	1977: "You Won't Be An Orphan for Long"	Annie	61%
6-LETTER VERBS	$200	It's paired with "forgive" in an idiom meaning you should pretend past wrongs never happened	forget	61%
IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL	$800	...In the word that follows "any" when it precedes "in a storm"	O	56%
EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY	$800	Denoting its traditional preparation, gravlax is from Swedish words meaning "trench" & this fish	salmon	56%
OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE	$200	The very first czar, in 1565 I formed the Oprichnina to deal with traitors as I wished (& my wishes were kinda super-harsh)	Ivan the Terrible	50%
INTERNATIONAL PRISONS	$200	Anne Boleyn is said to haunt this prison & castle begun by William the Conqueror in 1066	the Tower of London	50%
TONY-WINNING MUSICALS BY SONG	$200	1980: "Peron's Latest Flame"	Evita	44%
6-LETTER VERBS	$400	This word with a double letter pair in the middle can mean to bubble just below boiling or to seethe with inner turmoil	simmer	44%
EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY	$1000	The name of this style of slow-roasted, seasoned chicken of Jamaica comes from the Quechua for "dried meat"	jerk chicken	39%
IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL	$1200	...In a word that precedes "force trauma" if you are in a car accident or get punched	U	39%
INTERNATIONAL PRISONS	$600	Russia's Petak Island Prison in the middle of a lake is often compared to this Calif. lockup that started in 1861 as a military prison	Alcatraz	33%
OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE	$1000	Around 342 B.C. I got the call from Philip II of Macedonia to tutor his 13-year-old kid, Al; well, that's just great	Aristotle	33%
A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS...	$600	"When I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about Miss Havisham's, and asked a number of questions"	Great Expectations	33%
OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE	$400	In 1931 i took an autogiro up to a record 18,415 feet; oh yeah, I wed George Putnam that year too, so y'know... busy	Amelia Earhart	28%
EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY	$200	Stop by the salad bar for this, from "kool", the Dutch word for cabbage	coleslaw	28%
THE 50 STATES	$400	This state has dozens of mountain peaks that exceed 14,000 feet, including Yale, Princeton &, of course, Pikes Peak	Colorado	28%
THE 50 STATES	$2000	Rhodonite is its state gem & Roxbury Puddingstone, its state rock	Massachusetts	28%
INTERNATIONAL PRISONS	$800	Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison was known by this infamous nickname when it held captured U.S. pilots like James Stockdale	the Hanoi Hilton	28%
INTERNATIONAL PRISONS	$400	A synonym for labyrinth, this prison in Northern Ireland held IRA prisoners like Bobby Sands until it closed in 2000	the Maze	28%
A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS...	$800	"My dearest Lucy, --forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work... your loving Mina"	Dracula	22%
THE 50 STATES	$800	In 2021, this state raised a new flag, doing away with the Confederate battle emblem, & adding a magnolia	Mississippi	22%
THE 50 STATES	$1600	The Blackfeet Reservation on the eastern edge of Glacier Natl. Park is one of 7 Indian reservations found in this state	Montana	22%
THE HUMAN BODY	$400	It's another name for the kneecap	patella	22%
TONY-WINNING MUSICALS BY SONG	$600	1952: "March Of The Siamese Children"	The King and I	22%
6-LETTER VERBS	$1000	To remove a stock from the roster of securities traded on an exchange	delist	17%
TONY-WINNING MUSICALS BY SONG	$800	1965: "Sabbath Prayer"	Fiddler on the Roof	17%
WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN?	$800	A Monty Python skit finds Terry Jones as a waitress repeatedly screeching the name of this Hormel meat product	Spam	17%
TONY-WINNING MUSICALS BY SONG	$1000	1995: "Every Movie's A Circus", along with "As If We Never Said Goodbye"	Sunset Boulevard	17%
FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED	$2000	Seen here is an engraving showing one of these tools that turns wood	a lathe	11%
FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED	$1600	This 3-letter hole-poking tool can be used on hides or leather; Africa's Blombos Cave has Stone Age ones	an awl	11%
A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS...	$400	"Vronsky had never had a real home life... his father he scarcely remembered"	Anna Karenina	11%
FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED	$1200	A symbol of the Grim Reaper, this long-handled farming tool had its "hay" -day mowing down hay until around the 1850s	a scythe	11%
6-LETTER VERBS	$600	This word meaning "to interfere" comes from the Latin for "foot"	impede	11%
OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE	$600	In June 1791, I tried to escape captivity, fleeing Paris in a regular-guy hat; unfortunately, people tend to recognize the kind	King Louis XVI	11%
A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS...	$1000	"At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since he had left his grandfather"	Les Misérables	11%
THE 50 STATES	$1200	In the 1860s this state got the first professional baseball team, the Red Stockings	Ohio	11%
WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN?	$400	In a 1993 film this actor asks Harvey Fierstein, playing his makeup artist brother, "Could you make me a woman?"	Robin Williams	11%
THE HUMAN BODY	$800	Its central ridge is called the Adam's apple	the larynx	11%
IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL	$1600	...In a clear or yellowish fluid that helps remove bacteria from body tissues	Y	11%
FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED	$400	First made from bone & animal horn, eyed versions of this tool made from iron popped up in the Low Countries in the 15th century	a needle	6%
WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN?	$1600	He got an Oscar nomination for playing soap star Dorothy Michaels	Dustin Hoffman	6%
IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL	$2000	...In the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels)	E, I	6%
20th CENTURY AUTHORS	N/A	Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English"	(Ernest) Hemingway	6%
OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE	$800	Czech-born, in 1997 I was confirmed by the Senate to be Secretary of State, 99-0. Think that'd happen today?	Madeleine Albright	6%
THE HUMAN BODY	$1600	This hormone first isolated in 1958 plays an important role in regulating sleep	melatonin	6%
INTERNATIONAL PRISONS	$1000	This German prison that housed Nazi war criminals was demolished after the death of Rudolf Hess, its last inmate	Spandau Prison	6%
U.N. RESOLUTIONS	$1200	A 1961 General Assembly resolution started the WFP, this anti-hunger "programme" that won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize	the World Food Programme	6%
FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED	$800	Here's sculptor Antoine Coysevox holding this tool that he put to good use while at Versailles	a chisel	0%
EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY	$400	This fruit's name comes from the Latin "praecoquum", meaning "early to ripen"	an apricot	0%
WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN?	$1200	As Tobias Fünke on "Arrested Development", this actor took on an alter ego as cheery maid Mrs. Featherbottom	(David) Cross	0%
U.N. RESOLUTIONS	$400	The General Assembly's first resolution, from Jan. 1946, set up a commission on problems raised by discovery of this	discovery of atomic energy (the nuclear age)	0%
U.N. RESOLUTIONS	$1600	In October 1956 the Security Council unanimously approved a complaint by Great Britain & France against this country	Egypt	0%
WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN?	$2000	In a 1959 comedy these 2 actors donned dresses as members of Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra	Lemmon & Curtis	0%
THE HUMAN BODY	$2000	Bilirubin, a pigment of bile, is the result of the breakdown of these cells	red blood cells	0%
U.N. RESOLUTIONS	$800	Issued on this date, Security Council resolution 1368 was on "threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts"	September 12, 2001	0%
U.N. RESOLUTIONS	$2000	In 2019 the General Assembly resolved to explore ways to save this shrinking Asian "sea" that was once the world's 4th-largest lake	the Aral Sea	0%
A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS...	$200	"During the summer the packing houses were in full activity again, and Jurgis made more money"	The Jungle	0%
THE HUMAN BODY	$1200	2-word term for the group of nerves behind the stomach	the solar plexus	0%
6-LETTER VERBS	$800	Disinter is another word for this action of digging something out of the ground	to exhume	0%