Statistics for Jeopardy #8584

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This quiz has been taken 27 times
The average score is 8 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
HODGEPODGE	$600	This word for a high-level teacher once simply meant a person who openly declares something	a professor	57%
HODGEPODGE	$200	In the 1970s East Germany came up with ketwurst inside a roll as an alternative to this American fare	hot dog	57%
HODGEPODGE	$800	This 2-letter abbreviation is alphabetically last among U.S. state postal codes	WY	57%
THE INNER "EAR"	$400	In 1893 Wrigley's introduced a gum with this refreshing flavor	spearmint	48%
PARISH FROM THE EARTH	$400	This parish has the same name as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's death	St. Helena	43%
THE INNER "EAR"	$1000	Noun for an animal between the ages of one & 2	a yearling	38%
HODGEPODGE	$400	This Jewish observance is also known as Pesach	Passover	38%
PARISH FROM THE EARTH	$200	Louisiana has an East as well as a West this parish; the capital city is in the East	Baton Rouge	33%
BOOK OF THE YEAR	$800	Tim Pat Coogan's account of the Easter Rising Rebellion in Ireland has this year for a title	1916	29%
THE INNER "EAR"	$200	In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these	a beard	29%
THE HALL OF FAMER'S POSITION	$200	Wayne Gretzky, Dermontti Dawson & Shaq, in wildly different ways	center	29%
HISTORIC WOMEN	$400	Before she died in 1906, she helped pave the way for women to vote & the 19th Amendment is nicknamed in her honor	Anthony	24%
THE HALL OF FAMER'S POSITION	$400	To begin, Pedro Martinez; to end, Mariano Rivera	pitcher	24%
BOOK OF THE YEAR	$1000	The Maralinga nuclear tests along with the continent's first Olympics are in this: "The Year Australia Welcomed the World"	1956	19%
CONSTELLATIONS	$400	The Crab Nebula is not in Cancer but in this constellation, & that's no bull	Taurus	19%
BOOK OF THE YEAR	$200	Gore Vidal's novel with this title follows the presidential election in the year of the nation's centennial	1876	14%
HODGEPODGE	$1000	The master one transmits pedal action to the wheels; a bad one may be the culprit if your brake goes right to the floor	a cylinder	14%
THE INNER "EAR"	$800	These, such as sweet words or caresses, express affection	endearments	14%
THE HALL OF FAMER'S POSITION	$600	"Power" players Karl Malone & Charles Barkley	forwards	14%
SENATE COMMITTEES	$400	Like the one on taxation, 4 committees begin with this 5-letter word meaning "shared"	Joint	14%
THE HALL OF FAMER'S POSITION	$800	Dick Butkus, Mike Singletary & Brian Urlacher; same team, different decades	linebackers	14%
RHYMING SYNONYMS	$400	Deliberately discourteous & a "raw" grade of oil before refining	rude & crude	14%
HISTORIC WOMEN	$2000	She made history when she became the first woman in space & more recently she's served in the Russian parliament	Valentina Tereshkova	14%
NAUTICAL LINGO	$400	A binnacle was a case often made of a nonmagnetic metal so it could store this guiding device	a compass	10%
CONSTELLATIONS	$1200	The Southern Cross is also called this, a 4-letter Latin word	Crux	10%
RHYMING SYNONYMS	$1200	These 2 of Santa's reindeer	Dancer & Prancer	10%
SENATE COMMITTEES	$200	If you're a senator who has made questionable stock trades, you may run afoul of the "Select" committee regarding these	Ethics	10%
THAT '70s SHOW	$1200	When we first met the 2 title gals of this series, they were working at Shotz Brewery	Laverne & Shirley	10%
CONSTELLATIONS	$800	If you're hunting for Rigel, you'll find it in a leg of this constellation	Orion	10%
RHYMING SYNONYMS	$800	Actor Pickens & a quick haircut	Slim & trim	10%
THAT '70s SHOW	$2000	This show whose theme song was "Come On Get Happy" turned David Cassidy into a teen heartthrob	The Partridge Family	10%
CONSTELLATIONS	$1600	Appropriately, this constellation containing a famous galaxy, is right by Perseus	Andromeda	5%
BOOK OF THE YEAR	$600	This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey"	(Arthur C.) Clarke	5%
LIT-POURRI	$800	In 1989, 30 years after this "Doctor Zhivago" author had to turn down his Nobel Prize, his son accepted it on his behalf	Boris Pasternak	5%
THE INNER "EAR"	$600	It's the inventory-reducing event seen here	clearance (sale)	5%
PARISH FROM THE EARTH	$1000	Spanish explorer Hernando spent time in what's now Louisiana before his May 21, 1542 death; this parish is named for him	DeSoto	5%
LIT-POURRI	$1200	The word detective was brand new at the time this author introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the model for the detective in fiction	Edgar Allan Poe	5%
THAT '70s SHOW	$800	Mr. Roarke began welcoming wishful guests to this title resort in the late '70s in a show rebooted in 2021	Fantasy Island	5%
NAUTICAL LINGO	$2000	Also a southwestern city, it's the pole upon which the ship's colors are flown	Flagstaff	5%
HISTORIC WOMEN	$800	The war of Austrian Succession was fought over whether she should succeed to the throne, which she did in 1740	Maria Theresa	5%
RHYMING SYNONYMS	$2000	"Tasty" descriptor for the 6 types of quarks & to relish in the moment	savor & flavor	5%
LIT-POURRI	$400	In 1995 Octavia Butler became the first author in this genre to be honored with a MacArthur Genius Grant	science fiction	5%
PARISH FROM THE EARTH	$600	The seat of Caddo Parish, this "port" city got very popular after the nearby discovery of oil in 1906	Shreveport	5%
THAT '70s SHOW	$400	Beginning in 1971, they starred in their own musical variety show	Sonny & Cher	5%
RHYMING SYNONYMS	$1600	A "-sayer" of old & the verity of what is said	sooth & truth	5%
BOOK OF THE YEAR	$400	Whitley Strieber's "2012" is a thriller based on apocalyptic events supposedly predicted by this Mesoamerican people's calendar	the Mayans	5%
NAUTICAL LINGO	$1600	A wall or partition that separates compartments on a vessel	a bulkhead	0%
SENATE COMMITTEES	$600	A long-time member & sometime chair of the Finance Committee, in 2021 this 88-year-old Iowan announced he's running again	(Chuck) Grassley	0%
CONSTELLATIONS	$2000	Light & everything else takes a swan dive into this constellation's X-1, the first known black hole	Cygnus	0%
THE HALL OF FAMER'S POSITION	$1000	Harry (Apple Cheeks) Lumley & Georges Vezina, of trophy fame	goalie (hockey goaltenders)	0%
HISTORIC WOMEN	$1600	In 1889 social reformers Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Starr founded this famous settlement house in Chicago	Hull-House	0%
NAUTICAL LINGO	$800	Wa'a kaukahi is a Hawaiian canoe with just one of these; wa'a kaulua has a double one	hulls	0%
PARISH FROM THE EARTH	$800	The category title PARISH FROM THE EARTH can clue you in to this presidential name of a parish with Ruston as its seat	Lincoln Parish	0%
HISTORIC WOMEN	$1200	One of America's first self-made female millionaires, this founder of a beauty empire was the subject of a Netflix series	Madam C.J. Walker	0%
NAUTICAL LINGO	$1200	A boat that doesn't list was said to be "on" this, which now means a calm disposition	on an even keel	0%
LIT-POURRI	$2000	A little birdie told us this Pulitzer Prize winner for "Thomas and Beulah" was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995	Rita Dove	0%
FICTIONAL FAMILIES	N/A	Introduced in the 1930s in The New Yorker, they've appeared on TV & Broadway & in live action & animated films	the Addams Family	0%
SENATE COMMITTEES	$1000	There are 3 "P"s in the name of this committee that is responsible for allocating federal funds	the Appropriations Committee	0%
LIT-POURRI	$1600	Shakespeare's sonnets 127 to 152 are addressed to a mysterious woman commonly called this, whose "eyes are raven black"	the Dark Lady	0%
THAT '70s SHOW	$1600	Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2021, Marla Gibbs was noted for playing Florence the maid on this sitcom	The Jeffersons	0%
SENATE COMMITTEES	$800	In 2006 this committee voted 10-8 to send the Alito nomination to the full Senate	the Senate Judiciary Committee	0%