Statistics for Jeopardy #8579

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This quiz has been taken 20 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
PLUS	$200	At the University of Chicago & other schools, the grading system consists of 5 letters, 3 that can have + added & these 2 that can't	A & F	100%
PLUS	$800	At bell Labs Bjarne Stroustrup designed this programming language released in 1985	C++	91%
THAT'S SO CLICHÉ!	$200	"Better safe than" this	sorry	91%
THAT'S SO CLICHÉ!	$400	It "is always greener on the other side"	the grass	91%
BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES	$1200	With 2 territories on it, the U.K. joins Turkey & Greece as countries with influence on this Mediterranean island	Cyprus	73%
THAT'S SO CLICHÉ!	$800	It "doesn't fall far from the tree"	the apple	73%
BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES	$800	For 10 weeks in 1982, Britain & Argentina battled over this territory	the Falklands	73%
BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES	$400	In 1969 Francisco Franco closed the border with this territory	Gibraltar	64%
DESSERT	$800	Marshmallows, almonds & chocolate ice cream pave the way to make this classic flavor	Rocky Road	45%
ANIMALS OF NOTE	$800	In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest	elephants	36%
JAZZ GREATS	$200	Known for her scat singing, she received 14 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award in 1967	(Ella) Fitzgerald	36%
DESSERT	$200	Popular in the South, chess pie is basically this pie without those big brown nuts	pecan pie	36%
PLUS	$400	These long, baggy men's knickers were popular on 1920s golf courses	plus fours	36%
ANIMALS OF NOTE	$400	In 1960 Jane Goodall saw that the animal she'd dubbed David Greybeard, this type of primate, made & used tools	a chimpanzee	27%
DESSERT	$400	This Spanish dessert with a 4-letter name is custard with a layer of caramel sauce	flan	27%
THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT	$1200	Helen Mirren is trying to recover a portrait by Gustav Klimt in the fact-based movie "Woman in" this	Gold	27%
PLUS	$600	Britain's eleven plus exams are basically entrance tests to admits kids to this kind of school that not our writers, obviously	grammar school	27%
MIDAS	$800	In "The Lost Hero" by this adapter of myths for young adults, Midas turns Leo & Piper into gold statues	(Rick) Riordan	27%
THAT'S SO CLICHÉ!	$600	2 bad choices: "between the devil &" this location	the deep blue sea	27%
THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT	$2000	"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this	arsenic	18%
MIDAS	$600	Midas got the wish he later regretted by being kind to Silenus, one of these faun-like beings	a satyr	18%
A HARD CATEGORY	$800	Known for its hardness, durability & capacity to take a high polish, this heavy, black wood is big in cabinets & knife handles	ebony	18%
A HARD CATEGORY	$400	The hardest tissue in your body, this tooth-topper predominately contains calcium & phosphate	enamel	18%
ABRAHAM LINCOLN	$200	(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician	Euclid	18%
THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT	$800	Meryl Streep (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) & Robert Downey Jr. (over & over) have starred in movies with this element in the title	iron	18%
ABRAHAM LINCOLN	$400	(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln was a struggling 30-year-old lawyer when he began wooing this 21-year-old, & though she came from a prominent family & had many suitors, eventually won her hand in marriage	Mary Todd	18%
JAZZ GREATS	$800	Here's a bit of "So What", the lead track from this trumpeter's 1959 album "Kind of Blue"	Miles Davis	18%
ABRAHAM LINCOLN	$1000	(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) On April 4, 1865, Lincoln made a daring & dangerous visit to this newly captured capital, walking its still-burning streets to the cheers of jubilant former enslaved people	Richmond	18%
THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT	$1600	Bradley Cooper is a bipolar man looking to reconnect with his ex in this 2012 film	Silver Linings Playbook	18%
A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY	$400	Emily Brontë says it flat out in Chapter 1: this title place "is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling	Wuthering Heights	18%
DESSERT	$600	A line from "The Godfather": "Leave the gun, take" this dessert	a cannoli	9%
"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH	$400	A weather report	a forecast	9%
BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES	$2000	In short, the Somers Islands is a former name of this British possession in the Atlantic	Bermuda	9%
JAZZ GREATS	$600	She honed her unique style singing in Harlem nightclubs	Billie Holiday	9%
A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY	$800	Reasonably sure that people would like another story about dinosaurs, he published "The Lost World" in 1995	Crichton	9%
"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH	$1200	If you tolerate a lot of nonsense, you're showing great this	forbearance	9%
"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH	$2000	Verily, this archaic adverb means "in truth"	forsooth	9%
ABRAHAM LINCOLN	$800	(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army	Frederick Douglass	9%
ABRAHAM LINCOLN	$600	(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln grew frustrated with many of his commanders but with none more so than this general who did a brilliant job of readying the Union Army to fight but proved reluctant to commit it to battle	George McClellan	9%
ANIMALS OF NOTE	$2000	A German Shepherd named Trakr found the last survivor in the Manhattan area dubbed this after 9/ 11	Ground Zero	9%
ANIMALS OF NOTE	$1200	The western lowland gorilla with this repetitive name, known for using sign language, died at age 46 in 2018	Koko	9%
ANIMALS OF NOTE	$1600	Many British govt. offices have cats called "Chief" this rodent-ridder; Palmerston worked in the foreign office 2016-2020	mouser	9%
THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT	$400	It precedes "& Dime" in the title of a 1992 comedy with Wallace Shawn & C. Thomas Howell	Nickel	9%
A HARD CATEGORY	$1200	This brand with a biblical character in its name offers hardside luggage with a polycarbonate composite shell	Samsonite	9%
"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH	$1600	Maintain this part of a horse's mane or it can cause eye irritation	the forelock	9%
DESSERT	$1000	What the French call an omelette norvégienne is what Americans call this dessert	a baked Alaska	0%
"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH	$800	An excursion or raid	a foray	0%
LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS	N/A	This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old	Big Bird	0%
A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY	$2000	O! This author of "O Pioneers" was featured on a stamp in 1973	Cather	0%
JAZZ GREATS	$400	This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him	Charlie ("Bird") Parker	0%
A HARD CATEGORY	$2000	This white substance in the outer skeleton of crabs is used to bind dyes & as a strengthening agent for paper	chitin	0%
JAZZ GREATS	$1000	Seen here tickling the ivories, he got his famous nickname from an announcer who equated him with jazz aristocrats like Duke Ellington	Count Basie	0%
A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY	$1200	This Alabama woman was honored by President Bush for her "outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition" in 2007	Harper Lee	0%
THAT'S SO CLICHÉ!	$1000	It's where the "proof of the pudding" is	in the eating	0%
BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES	$1600	Point Christian & Bounty Bay are features of this South Pacific island territory	Pitcairn Island	0%
A HARD CATEGORY	$1600	Rubies & sapphires rate a 9 on this scale of hardness named for a German mineralogist	the Mohs scale	0%
PLUS	$1000	In French the word plus means "more", as in this expression that begins, "plus ça change" (a translation is fine)	the more things chance the more they stay the same	0%
A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY	$1600	His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods"	Thoreau	0%