Statistics for Jeopardy #8582

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This quiz has been taken 25 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
ALSO A SCHOOL WORD	$800	Like furniture from IKEA, some toys may require this	assembly	79%
ALSO A SCHOOL WORD	$200	It comes between phylum & order	class	64%
IN THE OLYMPIC CITY	$200	The Temple of Hephaestus, for the rest of us	Athens	57%
IN THE OLYMPIC CITY	$800	The Palace of Catalan Music, a UNESCO World Heritage Site	Barcelona	57%
FEB BE WARY	$800	This sea captain should have been warier in February 1779; he was killed by locals after a kerfuffle at Kealakekua Bay	Cook	57%
FEB BE WARY	$600	Farmers beware! In February 2020 a veritable plague of these big insects swarmed Uganda	locusts	57%
TWEETS	$200	Demonstrating a sense of humor, this agency debuted on Twitter with "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet"	the CIA	43%
IN THE OLYMPIC CITY	$400	BC Place Stadium, where the Whitecaps crest	Vancouver	43%
MARK'S "-ISM"	$600	Asked about this versus socialism, Mark Cuban says this "is going to win"	capitalism	36%
MARK'S "-ISM"	$1000	Former Army Chief of Staff Mark A. Milley has a Bronze Star, which is awarded for this	heroism	36%
____ OF ____	$400	Traditionally, the person with this title is in charge of the bachelorette party	maid of honor	29%
MARK'S "-ISM"	$400	Accidentally stealing a line from Oliver Wendell Holmes for "Innocents Abroad", Twain felt guilty of "Unconscious" this	Plagiarism	29%
FREE STUFF	$400	Southwest Airlines has stopped serving peanuts, but a snack mix featuring chips & these salty treats is always complimentary	pretzels	29%
MARK'S "-ISM"	$800	"Do what you can", says Mark Ruffalo on this -ism, working for a cause as opposed to sitting back	activism	21%
FREE STUFF	$600	The modern craze for giving these to Major League Baseball fans began with Willie Mays ones at Candlestick Park May 9, 1999	bobbleheads	21%
FREE STUFF	$200	Like the federal government, many states have a DOT, short for this, & they'll mail you a free map	Department of Transportation	21%
FEB BE WARY	$200	If the critter sees this on Groundhog Day, tradition says we should be wary, with more bad weather in store	its shadow	21%
TWEETS	$800	In 2017 a fan asked this "Starships" rapper to pay her tuition; she tweeted, "Show me straight A's... and I'll pay" (& did)	Nicki Minaj	21%
FEB BE WARY	$400	Take care-- many Valentine's Day menus are this 2-word French term, meaning the food & cost are set	prix fixe	21%
FEB BE WARY	$1000	Cochise's detainment in February 1861 ultimately led to a war with these people of his in the Arizona Territory	the Apache	21%
ICONOGRAPHY	$400	On America's Great Seal, the eagle clutches these weapons, a warning to others	arrows	14%
FREE STUFF	$800	Rhyming term for a sack of gifts at an awards show; a $200,000 Oscars version included gold vape pens & liposuction vouchers	a swag bag	14%
MARK'S "-ISM"	$200	In Mark 1:4 John preached about this sacrament "of repentance for the remission of sins"	baptism	14%
TWEETS	$600	Dionne Warwick asked him, "If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this"	Chance the Rapper	14%
IN THE OLYMPIC CITY	$1000	The Sibelius Monument, resembling a collection of organ pipes forming a sound wave	Helsinki	14%
ICONOGRAPHY	$800	The base that the bodhisattva sits on is a stylized version of this symbolic flower, also the name of the position he's in	lotus	14%
BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY	$1200	In 1993 this Laker legend added to his trophy case for "What You Can Do to Avoid AIDs"	Magic Johnson	14%
ALSO A SCHOOL WORD	$600	As an adjective, it means "highest in importance"	principal	14%
____ OF ____	$800	It's the hydraulic device that can rescue people trapped inside wreckage	the jaws of life	14%
ALSO A SCHOOL WORD	$1000	It's a synonym for an alcove	a recess	7%
TWEETS	$1200	The name of this pigeon family member comes from the sound of its call, not from any association with a shelled reptile	a turtledove	7%
ALSO A SCHOOL WORD	$400	As a verb, this white stuff means "to ascribe to" when followed by "up"	chalk up	7%
ICONOGRAPHY	$1200	Meaning "horn of plenty", this object goes back to the broken horn of a she-goat that endlessly refilled with food & drink	cornucopia	7%
THE 1600s	$1200	This statesman & general led the anti-royalist forces in England's civil war	Cromwell	7%
TWEETS	$1000	The first tweet ever, "just setting up my twttr", was from this Twitter co-founder	(Jack) Dorsey	7%
BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY	$400	In 2020 she added to her family's Grammy collection, winning for "Becoming"; her husband has several	Michelle Obama	7%
BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY	$1600	2001 honored "Q--The Autobiography of" this music legend who has 28 Grammys	Quincy Jones	7%
IN THE OLYMPIC CITY	$600	Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, furnished as it was when the man lived & worked there	St. Louis	7%
____ OF ____	$2000	This flower mentioned in the biblical Song of Solomon might actually be a crocus or a wild Narcissus	the rose of Sharon	7%
____ OF ____	$1200	The Inquisition ceremony auto-da-fe means this in English	act of faith	0%
ICONOGRAPHY	$2000	Pharaohs are often depicted holding one of these "life crosses"	an ankh	0%
TWEETS	$1600	Genus Megascops, it has a shrill call like the whinny of a horse & is one of the most nocturnal of birds, so it's more heard than seen	a screech owl	0%
FREE STUFF	$1000	In 2009, Todd Bol made a model full of books in tribute to his mother, a teacher; it became this 3-word concept with more than 100,000 worldwide	a (the) Little Free Library	0%
TWEETS	$800	The name of this bird is a synonym for singer; the yellow one has a song that sounds like "sweet, sweet, sweet, I'm so sweet"	a warbler	0%
TWEETS	$2000	This bird is named for its call, first & third syllables accented, which it may repeat 400 times without stopping	a whip-poor-will	0%
THE 1600s	$800	As chief minister from 1624 to 1642, this "Red Eminence" helped strengthen royal power in France	(Cardinal) Richelieu	0%
BOOKS & AUTHORS	$400	Koko & Yum Yum are these pets in a series of detective novels by Lilian Jackson Braun	cats	0%
BOOKS & AUTHORS	$1200	" Everything I Never Told You" is the debut novel by this author of "Little Fires Everywhere"	Celeste Ng	0%
TWEETS	$400	He tweeted, "Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook doesn't promote hate for profit; evidently, it's just for kicks"	Colbert	0%
____ OF ____	$1600	Reaching maturity; it precedes "in Samoa" in the title of a Margaret Mead work	Coming of Age	0%
BOOKS & AUTHORS	$800	In the book "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost, you'll read "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in" this	ice	0%
AMERICAN WOMEN	N/A	In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later	Juliette Gordon Low	0%
BOOKS & AUTHORS	$1600	This novelist's 1967 work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the Buendía family	Márquez	0%
BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY	$800	"Always Looking Up", this actor & 2009 winner is the incurable optimist seen here	Michael J. Fox	0%
BEST SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY	$2000	Mikhail Gorbachev & Sophia Loren were among the winners for a spoken word album for children on this Prokofiev work	Peter and the Wolf	0%
BOOKS & AUTHORS	$2000	2019's "The Water Dancer" is the first novel by this man better known for nonfiction	Ta-Nehisi Coates	0%
THE 1600s	$400	This Virginia college was founded by royal charter in 1693	the College of William & Mary	0%
THE 1600s	$1600	In 1644 the Ming Dynasty fell to these conquerors whose dynasty would rule China until the 20th century	the Manchu	0%
THE 1600s	$2000	After Shah Jahan completed the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposed him as ruler of this Muslim empire in northern India	the Mughal Empire	0%
ICONOGRAPHY	$1600	The mandorla, "almond" in Italian, is the burst of light seen here during this moment, also what Jesus said--"I am"	the Resurrection	0%