Statistics for Jeopardy #8595

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This quiz has been taken 23 times
The average score is 11 of 58

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
BANK "C"	$1000	The assets you pledge as security for a loan are your this	collateral	75%
MUNCH	$200	A healthy snack is carrots & this dip traditionally made with ground chickpeas	hummus	75%
ARTISTS	$400	Before he painted these aquatic plants more than 250 times, Monet planted them himself	water lillies	75%
HOPPER	$400	Here are some kids playing an old-timey version of this game	hopscotch	58%
ARTISTS	$800	Before executing an 1890s monument to Balzac, this sculptor got the late novelist's measurements from his former tailor	Rodin	58%
ARTISTS	$200	Her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" commemorates their brief affair during his exile	Frida Kahlo	50%
BANK "C"	$200	To a banker, a CD is this	a certificate of deposit	42%
BOSH	$400	This word for idiotic talk can also mean "to drool" & likewise begins with "dr"	drivel	42%
SAYS ANN(E)	$200	A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams	King Kong	42%
AB-WORK	$400	Adding "AB" to a 3-letter type of poem gets you this type of housing	an abode	33%
SAYS ANN(E)	$600	On film Henry VIII asks her, played by Natalie Portman, "How do you propose to stay on the horse?" Her reply: "with my thighs"	Anne Boleyn	33%
SAYS ANN(E)	$400	Of co-hosting the Oscars in 2011, this actress said James Franco "convinced me to do it"	Anne Hathaway	33%
SAYS ANN(E)	$800	"But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne spelled with an E", says the title character in this novel, the first of a series	Anne of Green Gables	33%
BRIT LIT	$800	50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon	Beowulf	33%
MUNCH	$600	Breaded & deep-fried shrimp is perhaps misleadingly called this snack-food shrimp	popcorn shrimp	33%
AB-WORK	$1200	Add "AB" to a passageway for air or water & you get this people-stealing word	abduct	25%
BANK "C"	$600	It's payment earned on the sum of an original principal plus the money the principal has already accrued	compound interest	25%
6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS	$400	Benjamin Lee Guinness was its Lord Mayor in the 1850s	Dublin	25%
MUNCH	$800	Munch on the trail mix called gorp, perhaps short for "good ol"' these 2 foods	raisins & peanuts	25%
HOPPER	$200	A clodhopper can mean a bumbling oaf or one of these he might wear	shoes	25%
BOSH	$600	"Bosh" comes from a word for "nothing" in this language; the 1834 novel that popularized the word opens at the foot of Mount Ararat	Turkish	25%
MUNCH	$1000	Developed from a tree called MN1711, the name of this apple conveys 2 of its attributes: its sweet taste & its crunch	a Honey Crisp	17%
6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS	$2000	3 A's are the only vowels in the name of this capital of Eritrea	Asmara	17%
HOPPER	$600	To make a grasshopper green, use the green type of this liqueur	crème de menthe	17%
6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS	$1600	Known as the "City of Columns", it's one of the oldest in the Caribbean	Havana	17%
17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS	$400	William Bradford had quite the task set before him after winning the governorship of this fledgling colony in 1621	Plymouth	17%
MUNCH	$400	Low in calories & neutral in flavor, these provide a base for lots of toppings	rice cakes	17%
17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS	$2000	This mercantile "Company" defeated the Portuguese in India in 1612, setting up trade deals with the Mughals	the East India Company	17%
6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS	$1200	This European city is alphabetically last among world capitals	Zagreb	17%
AB-WORK	$800	An idle verb gets an "AB" at its front & becomes this fiery word	ablaze	8%
AB-WORK	$1600	A narrow mountain edge gets "AB" at the front to become this word of literary shortening	abridge	8%
17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS	$1600	Called the first modern physics text, Galileo's "Discorsi" deals with the motion of projectiles, now called this study	ballistics	8%
HOPPER	$800	Seen here, he lays down the law as Jim Hopper on "Stranger Things"	David Harbour	8%
BRIT LIT	$400	You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"?	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	8%
ARTISTS	$600	A collage by Romare Bearden imagines this wanderer coming home not to Ithaca but to West Africa	Odysseus	8%
MUSIC OF THE 2000s	$1200	Peaking at No. 2, their "Counting Stars" spent 68 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100	OneRepublic	8%
6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS	$800	Wenceslas Square is at its heart	Prague	8%
HERE BE LIONS	$1200	As described in 1 Kings, this great monarch's gold & ivory throne was flanked by figures of lions	Solomon	8%
BRIT LIT	$1600	At a tea party, it's this Lewis Carroll character who asks Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"	the Mad Hatter	8%
BRIT LIT	$1200	Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind"	The Time Machine	8%
BRIT LIT	$2000	Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	8%
AB-WORK	$2000	"AB" moves in front of a word describing a wayward knight, creating this word of deviation	aberrant	0%
BANK "C"	$400	While you don't sign the cashier's one, this double-"C" item that's also guaranteed is signed by you & a bank official	a certified check	0%
HOPPER	$1000	Eastern is the most common of this common type of rabbit best identified from behind	a cottontail	0%
HERE BE LIONS	$1600	In a Roman story, this hero pulls a thorn from a lion's paw & is repaid for his kindness by not being eaten later in the arena	Androcles	0%
ARTISTS	$1000	A portrait by him, Leonardo's almost exact contemporary, sold in 2021 for $92 million, a record for an old master not named Leonardo	Botticelli	0%
BOSH	$800	We hear a lot about these 2 14-letter words that differ by a letter; one is inadvertent untruths & the other, deliberate ones	disinformation & misinformation	0%
MUSIC OF THE 2000s	$1600	Her "Hot Pink" & "Planet Her" were 2 of the top-selling albums in 2021	Doja Cat	0%
SAYS ANN(E)	$1000	At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"	George Herbert Walker Bush	0%
SYMBOLS	N/A	This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978	Harvey Milk	0%
17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS	$1200	In 1697 Spain ceded to France a third of what's now called this island; the new territory was dubbed Saint-Domingue	Hispanola	0%
HERE BE LIONS	$2000	Richard the Lionheart was King Richard I of England & Duke of Aquitaine & this French duchy	Normandy	0%
MUSIC OF THE 2000s	$2000	Their 2007 collaboration album was a surprise success, & 14 years later, they returned to raise the roof	Plant & Krauss	0%
BOSH	$1000	I'll be furious & will find it most injurious if your story turns out to be this, from the Latin for "illegitimate"	spurious	0%
BANK "C"	$800	Also called a cap, it's the upper limit of a variable in a transaction, like the rate of an adjustable-rate mortgage	the ceiling	0%
17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS	$800	Axed by Urban VIII in 1631, a female religious community modeled on this order founded by Ignatius of Loyola began in 1609	the Jesuits	0%
MUSIC OF THE 2000s	$800	In 2001, he and his initial were everywhere with "U Remind Me" & "U Got It Bad"	Usher	0%
MUSIC OF THE 2000s	$400	In 2020 they sank their teeth into the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for "Father of the Bride"	Vampire Weekend	0%