Statistics for Jeopardy #8585

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This quiz has been taken 29 times
The average score is 9 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
COMMON COMMODITIES	$200	It hit an all-time high in August 2020, when it was trading at more than $2,000 an ounce	gold	73%
A FEW COLORFUL WORDS	$600	Aubergine means eggplant or something of this color	purple	53%
A FEW COLORFUL WORDS	$200	In addition to a shade of red, it can refer to a holy man, a bird or a number	cardinal	47%
COMMON COMMODITIES	$800	Brazil is the leading producer of these legumes, a top commodity that's exported to China	soybeans	47%
THE DISNEY LADY SINGS	$600	"How Far I'll Go", performed by Auli'i Cravalho	Moana	40%
COMMON COMMODITIES	$400	In 2011 trading ended in these "bellies", a symbol in pop culture of Chicago's arcane commodities trading world	pork bellies	40%
A FEW COLORFUL WORDS	$800	Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color	russet	40%
THE DISNEY LADY SINGS	$200	"Belle", performed by Paige O'Hara	Beauty and the Beast	33%
BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY	$200	The Hawkeyes' home is this 2-word town	Iowa City	33%
KINDS OF CARE	$400	It's when you tend to you; goop.com ran a piece on it "For the Cubicle-Bound"	self-care	33%
THE DISNEY LADY SINGS	$400	"Someday My Prince Will Come", performed by Adriana Caselotti	Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)	33%
THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC	$400	In may 1958 an electronics tinkerer & a doctor kept a dog's heart going with a gizmo they called tiknik & this device was born	a pacemaker	27%
AFRICAN EMPIRES	$1200	The Punic Wars were punitive to this North African empire, destroyed in 146 B.C.	Carthage	27%
BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY	$800	Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers	Columbus	27%
AFRICAN EMPIRES	$400	From the 200s to the 800s, the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum dominated the southwest coast of this "colorful" sea	the Red Sea	27%
THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC	$1200	The advocacy of John Counsell, who suffered a spinal injury in the 1942 Dieppe Raid, led to the 1st electric one in the 1950s	a wheelchair	20%
BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY	$400	This Illinois city was originally called West Urbana; here's to it, so say we all!	Champaign	20%
COMMON COMMODITIES	$1000	On the periodic table Hg stands for mercury, but in commodities HG stands for this, a good conductor of electricity	copper	20%
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE PLAY	$800	Fortinbras ends act V & this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot"	Hamlet	20%
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE PLAY	$200	Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm"	King Lear	20%
COMMON COMMODITIES	$600	NG on your ticker stands for this, a nonrenewable hydrocarbon	natural gas	20%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$400	Oft spoken on this series: "The tribe has spoken"	Survivor	20%
THE DISNEY LADY SINGS	$1000	"When Will My Life Begin?", performed by Mandy Moore	Tangled	20%
THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC	$800	Jack Cover read about a man who survived walking into an electric fence & as a result, police use these devices	tasers	20%
KINDS OF CARE	$600	Respite care gives short-term relief to primary these, a word that begins with "care"	caregivers	13%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$1600	This 3-word catchphrase gives audience members the chance to play on "The Price Is Right"	Come on down	13%
BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY	$1000	Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836	Madison, Wisconsin	13%
BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY	$600	They're the westernmost & the easternmost Big Ten Schools; the westerners are 5-0 in the football rivalry	Nebraska & Rutgers	13%
THE DISNEY LADY SINGS	$800	"Once Upon A Dream", performed by Mary Costa	Sleeping Beauty	13%
HOW PUNGENT!	$800	Indonesians call the titan arum "bunga bangkai", meaning this dead body "flower"; it can grow 6 fragrant inches a day	a corpse	7%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$2000	Urkel's catchphrase on "Family Matters" was this question	Did I do that?	7%
AFRICAN EMPIRES	$2000	In ancient times, Nubia had this 4-letter name & it's an easy job to remember it	Kush	7%
KINDS OF CARE	$1000	An HMO is a type of MCO, short for this organization concerned with keeping costs down	managed care organizations	7%
HOW PUNGENT!	$1200	John Goodman's Sulley gives Mike his choice of odorants--old dumpster, smelly garbage or wet dog--in this film	Monsters, Inc.	7%
A FEW COLORFUL WORDS	$400	This 3-letter word follows "golden" in a lustrous type of paper	rod	7%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$1200	On "Star Trek: The Next Generation", this group warned, "Resistance is futile"	the Borg	7%
HOW PUNGENT!	$400	A ferocious X-Man would be less cool if we knew him as "Skunk Bear", this mammal with a nasty odor	wolverine	7%
THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC	$1600	In 1859 Gaston Planté developed "the accumulator", a world-changing one of these found in many cars today	a battery	0%
3-SYLLABLE VERBS	$1600	In electronics, it means to increase the current or voltage of something; it can also mean to make anything stronger	amplify	0%
A FEW COLORFUL WORDS	$1000	In heraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here	argent	0%
BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY	$1200	In Missouri, where she grew up, she was an accomplished athlete, excelling in several sports including tennis	Bess Truman	0%
HOW PUNGENT!	$1600	That rotten egg smell can happen when sulfur, this biblical substance used to torment sinners, combines with hydrogen	brimstone	0%
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE PLAY	$1000	Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way"	Caliban	0%
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE PLAY	$400	This title character declares,"He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt	Cleopatra	0%
3-SYLLABLE VERBS	$1200	The Latin for "speak against" gives us this verb of refutation	contradict	0%
KINDS OF CARE	$200	In 2021 a staffing shortage at these places led to a wider labor shortfall as parents of babies & toddlers had to stay home	daycare facilities	0%
3-SYLLABLE VERBS	$2000	This word that ends with violence means to rid of misguided notions	disabuse	0%
3-SYLLABLE VERBS	$800	"Mission: Impossible" often said the secretary might do this, deny knowledge of the team's actions	disavow	0%
BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY	$2000	His wife, the former Lou Henry, was one of the first women in the U.S. to earn a geology degree	Herbert Hoover	0%
BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY	$400	She was the first woman to become a partner at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas	Hillary Rodham	0%
TV CATCHPHRASES	$800	On "Game of Thrones", Ygritte told this character, "You know nothing"	Jon Snow	0%
BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY	$1600	Prior to her marriage she was a teacher & school librarian in Texas	Laura Bush	0%
HOW PUNGENT!	$2000	Ig Nobel prize-winning work showed that a malaria mosquito was drawn to the smell of this German cheese & human feet, equally	Limburger	0%
BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY	$800	She appeared on Broadway in "Lute Song" with Yul Brynner & Mary Martin	Nancy David (Reagan)	0%
AWARDS	N/A	These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast	the Hugo Awards	0%
AFRICAN EMPIRES	$800	Legend says the Shona capital of Great Zimbabwe was once the home of this biblical queen	the Queen of Sheba	0%
THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC	$2000	In the 1830s Joseph Henry invented this 5-letter device used in telegraphs; he used it to send lunch orders from his lab to his home	the relay	0%
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE PLAY	$600	Act I of this play concludes with, "The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your Ben Venuto"	The Taming of the Shrew	0%
AFRICAN EMPIRES	$1600	This fabled trading city of the medieval Malian Empire was home to 25,000 Islamic scholars	Timbuktu	0%
3-SYLLABLE VERBS	$400	To dig beneath, or to subvert via nefarious activity	undermine	0%
KINDS OF CARE	$800	Opened by emergency physicians starting in the 1970s, in the U.S. these clinics now number more than 10,000	urgent care clinics	0%