Statistics for Jeopardy #8588

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This quiz has been taken 51 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES	$400	This Swiss capital lies on the Aare River	Bern	86%
ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES	$600	As the Coriolis force moves counterclockwise, afternoon brings a sea breeze called the Freemantle Doctor to this Western Australia capital	Perth	69%
ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES	$800	We doff our caps to this metropolis, the oldest of Morocco's 4 imperial cities	Fez	51%
COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE	$200	Mozart: "The ____ Flute"	Magic	51%
FITS & STARTS	$600	Merriam-Webster defines one of these as "a fledgling business enterprise"	a start-up	46%
ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES	$200	This city of 10 million hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics	Seoul	43%
FITS & STARTS	$400	The Luxe & the Ace 3 are wearable trackers from this brand	Fitbit	40%
THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR	$600	In 2012 he got back into "The Hobbit" of making trilogies	Peter Jackson	40%
"WISE" WORDS	$400	Familiar with life in an urban environment, especially along its avenues & boulevards	streetwise	40%
YOU CAN SET YOUR CALENDAR BY IT	$200	With more job security than some, U.S. senators have to face reelection after this many years in office	six	37%
THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR	$200	In 2009 he shot a documentary of "Kobe Doin' Work"; c'mon, do the right thing & name him	Spike Lee	37%
YOU CAN SET YOUR CALENDAR BY IT	$400	Often confused with locusts, these insects occur in chronological broods of 13 & 17 years	cicadas	34%
"WISE" WORDS	$1000	3-word phrase meaning no smarter or unaware, as in "I borrowed his astrolabe when he wasn't looking & he's" this	none the wiser	34%
"WISE" WORDS	$200	Proverbially, it can be a tough way to "get a word in"	edgewise	31%
FAMOUS PERES	$400	This "Sun King" had 6 kids with wife Marie-Thérèse but fathered more than a dozen kids without,wife Marie-Thérèse	Louis XIV	29%
FITS & STARTS	$200	Forrest Mars Sr. made a sweet start selling these candies in 1941	M&Ms	29%
ACRONYMS	$400	POTUS: an elected official	President of the United States	26%
THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR	$800	1999's "Eyes Wide Shut" was his last effort; sadly, he did not make it to 2001	Stanley Kubrick	23%
FITS & STARTS	$1000	F.I.T. can stand for this college of design in New York City	the Fashion Institute of Technology	23%
"WISE" WORDS	$600	A gangster, or a 1980s TV show about agent gone deep undercover Vinnie Terranova	wiseguy	23%
COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE	$400	Wagner: "____ und Isolde"	Tristan	20%
"WISE" WORDS	$800	To do a thing in the same manner as someone else is to do this	likewise	17%
"M"EDICINE	$400	The American Cancer Society recommends this screening yearly for women aged 45 to 54	a mammogram	14%
ROAD TRIP	$400	The Blue Ridge Parkway connects the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with this state's Shenandoah National Park	Virginia	14%
ACRONYMS	$1200	It's used to promote retail sales: BOGOF	buy one, get one free	11%
FAMOUS PERES	$800	This artist had 8 children, including Emile, whose mother was a Tahitian woman	Gauguin	11%
FITS & STARTS	$800	A green flag at 12:47 P.M. on May 30 signaled the start of the 2021 running of this race	the Indianapolis 500	11%
ROAD TRIP	$800	A network of ancient European trade routes is named for this fossilized resin carried over them	amber	9%
YOU CAN SET YOUR CALENDAR BY IT	$600	Every 100 years this fictitious Scottish village becomes visible for a single day	Brigadoon	9%
THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR	$400	This 1990s Oscar winner studied physics at Cal State Fullerton	James Cameron	9%
THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR	$1000	Seen in an actual director's chair, he was famous for making Westerns, but won four Oscars in other genres, like for "The Informer"	John Ford	9%
BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS	$800	In this author's "A Fault in Our Stars", Hazel is mesmerized while reading "An Imperial Affliction"	(John) Green	9%
ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES	$1000	Home to the largest religious college in Iran, this city was the base of Ayatollah Khomeini before & after his exile	Qom	9%
ACRONYMS	$800	BIPOC: an umbrella term for certain humans	Black, Indigenous, & People of Color	6%
FAMOUS PERES	$1600	Jean-ichel, son of this undersea explorer, founded Ocean Futures Society in 1999 "to honor his heritage"	Cousteau	6%
BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS	$400	The "Amazing Amy" series of books is oft-mentioned in this thriller from Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	6%
COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE	$800	Offenbach: "The Tales of ____"	Hoffman	6%
ART MUSEUMS	N/A	Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew	the Guggenheim	6%
ROAD TRIP	$2000	This ancient Greek historian wrote, "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night" stopped messengers on the royal road	Herodotus	3%
HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE	$800	Her in 2010 for playing sue Sylvester on "Glee"	Jane Lynch	3%
"M"EDICINE	$800	Required vaccines before entering college may include a menACWY, to protect against this	meningitis	3%
"M"EDICINE	$1200	The primary type of this is without aura & may include sensitivity to light	migraine	3%
YOU CAN SET YOUR CALENDAR BY IT	$1000	Each March swallows return to nest in the Great Stone Church, part of this Southern California mission	San Juan Capistrano	3%
BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS	$1200	"Don't Panic" is on the cover of this title reference book that says towels are "massively useful" for space travel	The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy	3%
ROAD TRIP	$1600	The Trans-Canada Highway runs almost 5,000 miles from St. John's in the east to this Vancouver island city in the west	Victoria	3%
ACRONYMS	$1600	The mnemonic Roy G. BIV: just Roy's last name	blue indigo violet (battle in vain)	0%
COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE	$600	Gluck: "Orfeo ed ____"	Euridice	0%
FAMOUS PERES	$2000	Last name of govt. worker Jean-Christophe, called "Papa-Told-Me" for always dropping president--& dad--François' name	(François) Mitterrand	0%
HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE	$2000	Veteran standup comic Deborah Vance on "Hacks", a role she plays "brilliantly"	Jean Smart	0%
HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE	$1600	Back in 1995 she won as "ER" nurse Carol Hathaway	Julianna Margulies	0%
HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE	$1200	This actress as Madame Delphine LaLaurie on "American Horror Story: Coven"	Kathy Bates	0%
COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE	$1000	Donizetti: "Lucia di ____"	Lammermoor	0%
HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE	$400	Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn & Cynthia Nixon, all for guest appearances on this crime drama	Law & Order: SVU	0%
ACRONYMS	$2000	Mexican president AMLO: just Andres Manuel's last 2 names	López Obrador	0%
YOU CAN SET YOUR CALENDAR BY IT	$800	Every 11 years or so the Sun goes through a solar cycle where these flip, affecting sunspot activity	magnetic fields (magnetic poles)	0%
"M"EDICINE	$2000	As the fellow here was king of Spain, you would keep quiet about the underbite, a class III "this" mandibular misalignment	malocclusion	0%
"M"EDICINE	$1600	Multiple sclerosis attacks this sheath around nerve fibers, affecting movement & sensation	myelin sheath	0%
FAMOUS PERES	$1200	Père refers to a priest, not a dad, in the name of this cemetery where Georges Bizet & Marcel Proust rest	Père Lachaise	0%
ROAD TRIP	$1200	Vital during World War II, this road runs from Kunming, China to Lashio in Myanmar	the Burma Road	0%
BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS	$2000	Called "Al Azif" in Arabic, this book in H.P. Lovecraft's stories can cause insanity in readers	the Necronomicon	0%
BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS	$1600	In a Michael Ende tale, young Bastian steals this title book & reads of Atreyu & the world of Fantastica	The Neverending Story	0%