Statistics for Jeopardy #8583

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This quiz has been taken 172 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE	$200	By Hans Christian Andersen: "The Ugly ____ "	Duckling	86%
MUSICAL STYLES & GENRES	$200	Popular groups in this genre from Asia include SuperM &, of course, BTS	K-pop	69%
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS	$400	Dalal Street in Mumbai is to India what this street is to the U.S.; dalal means "a broker"	Wall Street	65%
MUSICAL STYLES & GENRES	$400	Seattle was the birthplace of this alternative rock style popularized in the early 1990s	grunge	55%
BROOM SERVICE	$800	Some players prefer hoghair or horsehair brooms for sweeping in this sport; others favor synthetic ones	curling	47%
PUTTING THE CARBS	$200	Apples, lentils & brown rice provide vitamins & minerals as this complex carb; you use a different form to crisp up shirts	starch	43%
PUTTING THE CARBS	$400	Barley up to the bar! A12-ounce can of this type of beverage can have 13 grams of carbs	beer	42%
MUSICAL STYLES & GENRES	$600	A symbol of pride & culture, it's the Mexican style of music heard here	mariachi	42%
BROOM SERVICE	$600	Running for pres. of this South American country, Janio da Silva Quadros used a broom as a symbol of his pledge to sweep out corruption	Brazil	35%
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS	$600	Aviles Street in this Florida city claims the title of oldest street in the nation	St. Augustine	32%
MUSICAL STYLES & GENRES	$800	Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith were among the first women to record music in this genre	blues	29%
PUTTING THE CARBS	$800	It's not traditionally eaten for breakfast, but bacon & eggs go into this dish that even has "carb" in its name	carbonara	29%
NOTABLE PEOPLE	$400	Describing one of her diamond jubilee celebrations in 1897, she said, "No one ever, I believe, has met with such an ovation"	Queen Victoria	27%
NOTABLE PEOPLE	$1200	On her death in 2005, this civil rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol	Rosa Parks	26%
THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE	$800	Set in India & the basis for a 2021 film: "The White ____"	Tiger	24%
PUTTING THE CARBS	$600	It's not surprising there are plenty of carbs in the post cereal called "Honey" these 3 words	Bunches of Oats	23%
BEFORE THE HORSE	$200	Good things are in store for you today after you realize it's a forecast of astrology	horoscope	23%
COUNTRY NICKNAMES	$1600	Don't be sad; this country is known as "India's teardrop"	Sri Lanka	23%
BEFORE THE HORSE	$400	Look far off into the distance & see it's from the Greek for "boundary"	horizon	20%
THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE	$400	A thriller about an assassin: "The Day of the ____"	Jackal	20%
THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE	$1000	A 1971 sequel: "____ Redux"	Rabbit	20%
SCIENCE	$400	This subfamily of grasses typically found in Asia can grow as much as a foot a day & reach 130 feet high	bamboo	19%
NOTABLE PEOPLE	$800	Like her sister Parthenope who was named for Naples, this founder of modern nursing was named for the city of her birth	(Florence) Nightingale	19%
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER?	$400	Current events: Bloody Sunday just broke out in this country, outside the Winter Palace, no less!	Russia	16%
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER?	$800	Geography: It's the largest state in the union by area	Texas	16%
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS	$200	Opened by the king in 1924, Italy's Autostrada dei Laghi or motorway of these can get you to some famous ones like Varese & Maggiore	lakes	15%
COUNTRY NICKNAMES	$2000	Engulfed by Bolivia, Argentina & Brazil, this country is nicknamed "the island surrounded by land"	Paraguay	15%
BEFORE THE HORSE	$600	This Mexican delight is sort of a drinkable rice pudding	horchata	13%
COUNTRY NICKNAMES	$400	Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series	ice & fire	13%
BROOM SERVICE	$400	This segment of "Fantasia" finds Mickey Mouse getting more than he bargained for when he uses magic on a broom	The Sorcerer\'s Apprentice	13%
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS	$800	Gulag labor was used to build this 7,000-mile highway with the same name as a famous railroad	the Trans-Siberian Highway	13%
CHILD ACTORS	$400	Millicent Simmonds, co-star of "A Quiet Place II", suffered permanent loss of this as a baby	hearing	12%
PUTTING THE CARBS	$1000	In an ad, young Molly Ringwald hawked this fruit, "nature's candy", but didn't say 1/4 cup had about 33 grams of carbs!	raisins	12%
BROOM SERVICE	$1000	This African-American wedding tradition was featured in the miniseries "Roots"	jumping the broom	11%
MUSICAL STYLES & GENRES	$1000	Pioneers of this jazz style included Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk	bebop	9%
NOTABLE PEOPLE	$2000	This Swiss man was the "father of analytic psychology"	(Carl) Jung	9%
THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE	$600	By Steinbeck: "The Red ____ "	Pony	9%
CHILD ACTORS	$800	A working actor to this day, Henry Thomas was 10 when he filmed this Spielberg classic	E.T.	8%
FROM P TO Y	$400	Another word for prison	penitentiary	8%
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS	$1000	Known for shopping & architecture, this Edinburgh street was named for two sons of King George III	Princes Street	8%
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER?	$1600	World Powers: This empire stretches from North Africa to southeastern Europe & well into the Middle East	the Ottoman Empire	7%
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER?	$1200	Social studies: It first appeared in "The Youth's Companion" only 13 years ago in 1892 & we say it in class every day	the Pledge of Allegiance	6%
COUNTRY NICKNAMES	$1200	Canada's nickname has these 2 words before "North"	Great White	5%
NOTABLE PEOPLE	$1600	It's the last name of sir William, who discovered a planet, & his sister Caroline, the first woman to discover a comet	Herschel	5%
FROM P TO Y	$800	In the 1960s feminists defined this as a system designed to keep women down, hence the need to smash it	the patriarchy	5%
BEFORE THE HORSE	$800	Harold Lloyd & Jay-Z had at least this eyewear in common	horn-rimmed glasses	4%
CHILD ACTORS	$2000	Miami-area kid Alex R. Hibbert played the child Chiron in this 2016 Oscar-winning movie set in that city	Moonlight	4%
SCIENCE	$1600	Aqua fortis is an old name for this corrosive liquid, HNO3	nitric acid	4%
FROM P TO Y	$1200	It's the pseudoscience of examining the shape of the head to determine intelligence & character	phrenology	4%
PLAY CHARACTERS	N/A	A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things"	Willy Loman	3%
CHILD ACTORS	$1200	McKenna Grace played preteen geniuses in the movie "Gifted" & opposite young Iain Armitage on this sitcom	Young Sheldon	3%
SCIENCE	$2000	With a name from Greek for "hedgehog" & "skin", this phylum of marine animals includes starfish & sea urchins	echinoderms	2%
SCIENCE	$800	With a high level of charged particles, this atmospheric layer that begins about 30 miles up makes radio possible	the ionosphere	2%
BROOM SERVICE	$200	A common species of this plant, seen here, is called windswept or broom	moss	1%
CHILD ACTORS	$1600	"The Boys" is a memoir of child actorhood by Clint Howard (Mark on "Gentle Ben") & his brother Ron (Opie on this show)	The Andy Griffith Show	1%
COUNTRY NICKNAMES	$800	Indonesia has been dubbed the "Emerald" of this great circle	the equator	1%
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER?	$2000	Reading: This O. Henry story about a poor couple at Christmastime makes a good read in the New York Sunday World	"The Gift of the Magi"	1%
BEFORE THE HORSE	$1000	It's the fancier term for clockmaker	horologists	0%
SCIENCE	$1200	She made important discoveries in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge	(Mary) Leakey	0%
FROM P TO Y	$1600	Another word for treachery	perfidy	0%
FROM P TO Y	$2000	This fancy word meaning invested with full authority is included in the title "ambassador extraordinary &..."	plenipotentiary	0%