Statistics for Jeopardy #8586

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This quiz has been taken 55 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER	$1200	The,en Español	el	82%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$200	During this period that began in 1920, keg parties weren't for drinking but for the dumping of liquor	Prohibition	82%
SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS	$400	The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not)	baseball	64%
SMALL ADJECTIVES	$200	As an adjective it means lesser in importance; as a noun, it means a child not yet of legal age	minor	64%
SMALL ADJECTIVES	$600	Of limited breadth, like an alley you can barely pass through or a mind that won't admit new ideas	narrow	57%
2-WORD BOOK TITLES	$800	Something is happening here in the barn in this 1945 anti-utopian satire but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?	Animal Farm	54%
2-WORD BOOK TITLES	$200	"'Oh no, he isn't grown up', Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size"'; "he" is also the title of the book	Peter Pan	54%
KICKIN' IT	$200	You want to cease a foul habit abruptly? Time to "kick it" this "fowl" way	cold turkey	50%
SMALL ADJECTIVES	$400	In nursery rhyme land, it describes Willie Winkie	wee	50%
SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS	$1000	The Ballon d'Or	soccer	46%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$400	5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event	the Boston Massacre	46%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$800	The "separate but equal" doctrine in the case of plessy v. this judge upheld racial segregation for almost 60 years	Ferguson	43%
COLORS IN NATURE	$800	If it's red & it's a corundum, it's this gem	a ruby	36%
SMALL ADJECTIVES	$800	Physically similar to one of Santa's helpers	elfin	36%
THE PICKLE BARREL	$400	A basic recipe for pickles calls for a brine of equal parts water & this acidic liquid, along with salt & seasonings	vinegar	29%
OLD SCHOOL	$600	Known for its work in medicine, this university dates back to 1876 & was originally in downtown Baltimore	Johns Hopkins	25%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$600	The tracks of the Central Pacific & this railroad met in Utah in 1869	the Union Pacific	25%
2-WORD BOOK TITLES	$1000	Balnibarbi is a continent & Glumdalclitch, a person, in this 18th century work	Gulliver\'s Travels	21%
KICKIN' IT	$1000	Dean Martin sang, "How lucky can one guy be? I kissed her & she kissed me, like the fella once said, ain't that" this?	a kick in the head	18%
COLORS IN NATURE	$1600	This colorful Atlantic type of tuna is the largest type, weighing as much as 1,500 pounds	bluefin	18%
SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS	$200	The Naismith Awards	(college) basketball	18%
COLORS IN NATURE	$400	Somewhere over in Australia is this variety of lorikeet, named for its array of colors	rainbow	18%
KICKIN' IT	$600	During a 25-year NFL career, Morten Andersen missed just 10 of 859 of these kicks that follow a successful play	an extra point	14%
OLD SCHOOL	$200	One of several of its colleges, Merton College was founded in 1264 without one Rhodes scholar (as that was a 1902 thing)	Oxford	14%
AROUND THE WORLD	$400	Italy's longest river, the Po flows about 400 miles from the Alps into this arm of the Mediterranean	the Adriatic	14%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1600	11,200-foot Mount Koussi in northern Chad is the highest summit in this area of more than 3 million square miles	the Sahara Desert	14%
SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS	$600	The Slammy Awards	WWE	14%
THE PICKLE BARREL	$800	Musing on history, Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why the New World must bear the name of this thieving pickle-dealer	(Amerigo) Vespucci	11%
HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER	$400	To exist, in the singular	be	11%
HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER	$2000	Charles Kingsley wrote of "The Sands of" this English river	Dee	11%
SMALL ADJECTIVES	$1000	From a word meaning immeasurably big comes this adjective meaning immeasurably small	infinitesimal	11%
2-WORD BOOK TITLES	$600	In this William Goldman novel, a graduate student must flee a Nazi & his henchmen	Marathon Man	11%
OLD SCHOOL	$400	Established in 1505, the university of this Spanish city now uses what was Europe's first tobacco factory as Carmen would know	Seville	11%
AMERICAN HISTORY	$1000	At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the Pilgrims shared a feast with these native people of Massachusetts	the Wampanoag	11%
HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER	$1600	4-legged palindromic female flock member	ewe	7%
OLD SCHOOL	$800	One of the 7 Sisters colleges, it was founded in 1879 as the Harvard Annex	Radcliffe	7%
HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER	$800	To use your peepers	see	7%
BACKING BANDS	$800	Not exactly a stupid answer, this group originally known as the Hawks took some of "The Weight" off Dylan in the 1960s	The Band	7%
AROUND THE WORLD	$800	The flag of this Southeast Asian nation of 103 million is seen here	Vietnam	7%
KICKIN' IT	$800	Also called mawashi geri, this "domicile" kick swings a leg in a semi-circular motion to strike with the foot	a roundhouse	4%
LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE	$400	To his brother Orion, Mark Twain wrote of & employed a "new-fangled" one of these made by Remington	a typewriter	4%
BACKING BANDS	$400	2 saxophonists & a trombonist were some of the J.B.'s, who backed up this legend with the same initials	(James) Brown	4%
OLD SCHOOL	$1000	2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821	McGill	4%
2-WORD BOOK TITLES	$400	Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn	Sophie\'s Choice	4%
THE PICKLE BARREL	$2000	In this Shakespeare play, Trinculo tells King Alonso, "I have been in such a pickle" (meaning drunk) "since I saw you last"	The Tempest	4%
LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE	$1200	This Irish poet's great love Maud Gonne addressed him in letters as "My dear Willie"	William Butler Yeats	4%
LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE	$2000	Georgia O'Keeffe wrote often to this photographer whom she called "Dearest Duck"	Alfred Stieglitz	0%
COLORS IN NATURE	$1200	"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow", so stay clear of the eastern this venomous snake seen here	an eastern coral snake	0%
KICKIN' IT	$400	A dance kick where you change legs in the air, or a swimming kick used as part of the sidestroke	a scissors kick	0%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1200	Norway's main Antarctic research station bears the name of this mythic creature of Scandinavian folklore	a troll	0%
AROUND THE WORLD	$2000	Founded around 636 A.D., Iraq's chief port city is this one at the southeast end of the country	Basra	0%
LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE	$1600	"Never doubt the faithfullest heart", he wrote to his "Immortal Beloved" in an 1812 note	Beethoven	0%
BACKING BANDS	$1200	The Tennessee Three, the longtime backers for this man, famously went to prison with him in 1968	Cash	0%
LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE	$800	After introducing rude Charlotte Braun into his comic strip, he let one reader know by letter she wouldn't be around for long	Charles Schulz	0%
THE PICKLE BARREL	$1600	The cute little pickles seen here go by this French name, meaning "little horns"	cornichon	0%
BACKING BANDS	$2000	Stevie Ray Vaughan had this rhyming rhythm section	Double Trouble	0%
THE PICKLE BARREL	$1200	At the 1893 World's Fair, this pickle-maker from Pittsburgh offered souvenir pickle charms to those who visited his booth	H.J. Heinz	0%
COLORS IN NATURE	$2000	"J" is for this tree that brings a burst of purple to the neighborhood but also a mess	jacaranda trees	0%
MODERN WAR	N/A	Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996	Sarajevo	0%
BACKING BANDS	$1600	Despite the name, this group that backed up Frank Zappa was made up of men, not moms	the Mothers of Invention	0%
SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS	$800	The Dinah Shore Trophy Award	(women\'s college) golf	0%