Statistics for Jeopardy #8592

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 11 of 59

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
MORE THAN ONE MEANING	$1000	A workout coach, or a sports shoe in British English	a trainer	77%
MORE THAN ONE MEANING	$400	The person who runs the last leg in a relay race, or a TV news person who introduces others' reports	an anchor	62%
ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY	$200	Anthropologists identify 2 basic types of these as extended or nuclear	families	62%
REALITY SHOW SPIN-OFFS	$400	"Snooki & Jwoww"	Jersey Shore	62%
MORE THAN ONE MEANING	$600	A bathroom fixture with a sink & a countertop, or excessive pride in one's looks	vanity	62%
REALITY SHOW SPIN-OFFS	$200	"Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami"	Keeping Up with the Kardashians	54%
MORE THAN ONE MEANING	$200	A pathogen, or a hidden listening device	bug	46%
THE AT LEAST 5 LABORS OF HERCULES	$200	We wonder who would adopt this 3-headed dog as a rescue after Hercules grabbed him away from his underworld post	Cerberus	46%
THE AT LEAST 5 LABORS OF HERCULES	$400	Herc had to capture the mad bull of this island, the largest in modern Greece	Crete	46%
OCEANS	$600	A "point" in the Pacific that's the farthest from any land--1,670 miles--bears the name of this Jules Verne captain	Nemo	46%
OCEANS	$400	The Arctic Ocean is home to creatures like snailfish, sea butterflies & a "bearded" type of this mammal	seal	46%
11	$400	11 is the atomic number of this silvery white chemical element with symbol Na	sodium	46%
MORE THAN ONE MEANING	$800	A spoken-word poetry event, or a big success playing bridge	a slam	38%
ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY	$400	3-word term for recurring traditions in a society marking important transition points, like baptisms, marriages or funerals	a rite of passage	31%
11	$600	This religious epic from 1959 was the first film to win 11 Academy Awards	Ben-Hur	31%
OCEANS	$1000	300 million years ago, a giant ocean called Panthalassa surrounded this landmass with the same first 3 letters	Pangaea	31%
14-LETTER WORDS	$400	This verb means to travel completely around the globe	circumnavigate	23%
OCEANS	$200	The lowest point of Tanzania is the shore of this ocean	the Indian Ocean	23%
11	$200	Released in 2021, this Microsoft operating system 11 is the first version in over 20 years shipped without Internet Explorer	Windows	23%
14-LETTER WORDS	$800	From words meaning "heart" & "vessel", this adjective means relating to the heart & blood vessels	cardiovascular	15%
ANCIENT WARFARE	$400	At the Battle of Gaugamela, the Greeks let these wheeled Persian vehicles pass between the ranks, then wiped them out	chariots	15%
REALITY SHOW SPIN-OFFS	$600	"Under the Gunn" (as in Tim Gunn)	Project Runway	15%
REALITY SHOW SPIN-OFFS	$800	"Vanderpump Rules"	The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills	15%
THE AT LEAST 5 LABORS OF HERCULES	$800	All cattle, no hat; Hercules had one day to work solo & completely clean this structure belonging to King Augeas	the stables	15%
THE AT LEAST 5 LABORS OF HERCULES	$600	Hercules could have used a sign for this animal "crossing"--it took him a year to track down the Arcadian one	a deer	8%
POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK	$2000	Byron: "She walks in ____, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"	beauty	8%
11	$1000	The Duchess of Richmond is one of the "Windsor Beauties", 11 portraits of women in the life of this Restoration king	Charles II	8%
ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY	$600	Couvade is sympathetic behavior by a man during this event; Central America's Garifuna men quit fishing	childbirth	8%
14-LETTER WORDS	$1200	By definition this type of speech is given without preparation	extemporaneous	8%
THE OSCA"R"s	$1600	In her only nomination, she was named 1940's Best Actress for "Kitty Foyle", & she didn't even dance with Fred	Ginger Rogers	8%
PEOPLE IN SCIENCE	$1200	In 1705 he wrote, "I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758"	Halley	8%
ANCIENT WARFARE	$800	Thrusting rather than throwing it, the Macedonians got extra reach with the sarissa, this type of weapon that could be 22' long	javelins	8%
REALITY SHOW SPIN-OFFS	$1000	"The Hills" on MTV	Laguna Beach	8%
14-LETTER WORDS	$1600	Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time	predestination	8%
FIRST & LAST ALPHABETICALLY	$400	Adams, Wilson	presidents	8%
THE OSCA"R"s	$400	Starring Dustin Hoffman, it definitely, definitely was named 1988's Best Picture	Rain Man	8%
THE OSCA"R"s	$1200	For his role in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", he was 2017's Best Supporting Actor	Sam Rockwell	8%
ANCIENT WARFARE	$1200	The ancient sambuca was not a liqueur but a ladder latched from a ship to a wall to enter a city in this kind of warfare	siege	8%
OCEANS	$800	These islands off Florida have ocean cliffs a mile deep--don't know about that theory that the name is from Spanish for "shallow sea"	the Bahamas	8%
FIRST & LAST ALPHABETICALLY	$1200	Argon,xenon	the noble gases	8%
ANCIENT WARFARE	$1600	Stymied by a small force, the invading Persians won this battle only after a Greek traitor showed them a way around the pass	Thermopylae	8%
POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK	$1200	Silverstein: "There is a place where ____ ____ ____ and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white"	the sidewalk ends	8%
14-LETTER WORDS	$2000	I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important	aggrandizement	0%
THE AT LEAST 5 LABORS OF HERCULES	$1000	In what could be called a fashion (please) don't, Hercules stole this 6-letter article of clothing from the queen of the Amazons	a girdle	0%
11	$800	In craps, a winning dice roll of 11 on the first throw is called this	a natural	0%
PEOPLE IN SCIENCE	$2000	Sir Isaac Newton had a famous dispute with this German philosopher & mathematician over who invented calculus first	Gottfried Leibniz	0%
ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY	$800	This word refers to the taming & purposeful breeding of animals by humans	husbandry (domestication)	0%
THE OSCA"R"s	$2000	For "West Side Story" Robert Wise shared Best Director with this man, seen working on the film	Jerome Robbins	0%
PEOPLE IN SCIENCE	$1600	No longer a "Hidden Figure", in 2015, this mathematician & NASA pioneer received the Medal of Freedom	Katherine Johnson	0%
POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK	$1600	Kipling: "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a ____, ____ ____!"	man, my son	0%
POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK	$400	Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead"	my Captain	0%
FIRST & LAST ALPHABETICALLY	$800	Acadia, Zion	national parks	0%
THE OSCA"R"s	$800	You can't have forgotten this 2017 best song from "Coco"	"Remember Me"	0%
BROADWAY MUSICALS	N/A	Characters Mark, Roger & Maureen in this musical were inspired by Marcello, Rodolfo & Musetta in another work	Rent	0%
ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY	$1000	Victor Turner's "The Forest of" these basic anthro items says they can stand for many concepts, as the milk tree does for the Ndembu	Symbols	0%
POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK	$800	Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land"	the crulest month	0%
FIRST & LAST ALPHABETICALLY	$1600	"Das Rheingold","Siegfried"	the operas in Wagner\'s Ring Cycle	0%
ANCIENT WARFARE	$2000	These two formations--one Greek & one Roman, met a few times; the masked Greeks won the early battles, & the more flexible Romans the latter	the phalanx & the legion	0%
FIRST & LAST ALPHABETICALLY	$2000	Anointing of the sick, reconciliation	the (Seven) Sacraments	0%