Statistics for Jeopardy #8599

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This quiz has been taken 37 times
The average score is 11 of 60

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
7-LETTER GRAB BAG	$200	It's a room for young children or young plants	a nursery	74%
SPORTS WITH NO BALLS	$400	Put on your gauntlet & wire mesh mask	fencing	70%
SPORTS WITH NO BALLS	$800	A grand champion is called a yokozuna in this Asian sport	sumo	70%
BEASTLY LIT	$200	In "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone", this groundskeeper has a pet dragon named Norbert	Hagrid	57%
7-LETTER GRAB BAG	$400	This carbohydrate is also called milk sugar	lactose	57%
BEASTLY LIT	$800	Joy Adamson's nonfiction books "Born Free" & "Living Free" are about Elsa, this type of animal	a lion	52%
SPORTS WITH NO BALLS	$1000	Lots of open space, 7 players per team & one disc	ultimate Frisbee	52%
IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS	$200	"Water" is one suggested original meaning for this first name of swimming's Mr. Lochte	Ryan	48%
SPORTS WITH NO BALLS	$200	What you're playing or watching if a drop pass is followed by a pad save	hockey	43%
7-LETTER GRAB BAG	$600	Nixon famously said, "When the president does it, that means that it is not" this 7-letter word	illegal	43%
CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU	$200	Arrêter translates to this 4-letter word, if you're reading our signs correctly	stop	39%
BALLET	$400	Choreographers like Alexander Gorsky have made this Moscow ballet co. that dates to 1776 one of the world's leading companies	the Bolshoi	39%
IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS	$1000	This last name means "lover of foreigners"--but sadly for the brothers in the band Oasis, not "lover of people in my family"	Gallagher	35%
CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU	$800	La fenêtre is one of these in your home	window	35%
7-LETTER GRAB BAG	$1000	Also called freerunning, this French-sounding word allows one to overcome obstacles in leaps & bounds	parkour	30%
CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU	$600	Août is French for this traditional vacation time	August	26%
THROWING SHADE	$800	Abbreviated cu, these puffy, dense clouds are good for periods of shade	cumulus	26%
CHEMICAL PEOPLE	$1600	Danish chemist Henrik Dam named this vitamin for its aid in coagulation, a word spelled differently in Denmark	K	26%
BEASTLY LIT	$400	The polite Twinkleberry & his impudent brother Nutkin are this type of animal in a Beatrix Potter work	a squirrel	22%
"X"s & "O"s	$400	Heard here, it's a cousin to the glockenspiel	a xylophone	22%
CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU	$400	A Frenchman who's living in fantasy builds châteaux en Espagne, literally these in Spain; we build them "in the air"	castles	22%
BALLET	$200	Stravinsky slyly used Russian folk idioms for the music of his 1922 ballet "Renard", with this animal being the title character	fox	22%
MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON	$400	Harrison Ford in a few films; John Krasinski on Prime	Jack Ryan	22%
IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS	$600	Also a type of foldaway bed, it derives from Gaelic for "sea warrior"	Murphy	22%
CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU	$1000	Literally "black beast", this 2-word French term refers to a specific thing that one strongly dislikes doing	bête noire	17%
SPORTS WITH NO BALLS	$600	A shammy towel is key; Olympian Jennifer Abel used a black one	diving	17%
IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS	$400	One of the most common family names in Ireland & a shade of green, it once meant "bright-headed"	Kelly	17%
BEASTLY LIT	$600	With sinister consequences, a cat named Church is brought back to life in this 1983 novel	Pet Sematary	17%
IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS	$800	"The real" this last name means the genuine article; the real derivation is one of "fire"	McCoy	13%
BALLET	$1000	Moira Shearer, famous for dancing "Cinderella", popularized ballet playing a troubled dancer in this colorful film	The Red Shoes	13%
BALLET	$600	As the costuming indicates, Giselle is this kind of country girl, also the name of a pas de deux in the ballet	a peasant	9%
THROWING SHADE	$1200	Archaeologists in Egypt found maybe the world's oldest this timepiece, missing its little shadow-casting doohickey	a sundial	9%
MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON	$2000	James Cromwell in "The Queen"; Tobias Menzies in "The Crown"	Prince Philip	9%
MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON	$800	Lena Headey on the tube, Linda Hamilton in several movies	Sarah Connor	9%
THROWING SHADE	$1600	This "U" word refers to leaves that provide shade, or an annoyance that one takes personally	umbrage	9%
LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE	$800	The Yazoo River joins the Mississippi below the bluffs of this Civil War site	Vicksburg	9%
THROWING SHADE	$2000	In a 1922 novel he wrote that Siddhartha grew up in the "shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree"	Hesse	4%
"X"s & "O"s	$1600	It's defined as government by the few	oligarchy	4%
LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE	$2000	Austria-Hungary, Germany & Russia formerly met at a river junction known as Three Emperors' Corner now in this country	Poland	4%
NONFICTION	N/A	This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth"	Silent Spring	4%
LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE	$400	These 2 rivers meet near the city of Al-Qurnah, just north of Basra in Iraq	the Euphrates & the Tigris	4%
CHEMICAL PEOPLE	$800	Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things	water	4%
HISTORY QUICK TAKES	$1600	Abu Bakr became the first of these rulers in 632 after the death of Muhammad	a caliph	0%
7-LETTER GRAB BAG	$800	These two events occurred simultaneously in early morning Cambridgeshire in 2011	an eclipse & a sunrise	0%
"X"s & "O"s	$2000	It's a gesture such as a bow to show reverence or respect	an obeisance	0%
BEASTLY LIT	$1000	Odysseus is remembered by this faithful dog after returning from the Trojan War	Argos	0%
THROWING SHADE	$400	Drop a "Y" from an action made by sleepy people to get this shade-giving roof extension	awning (from yawning)	0%
HISTORY QUICK TAKES	$400	Rebellion is in the air & in the photo seen here, showing fighters in this 1900 uprising	Boxer Rebellion	0%
HISTORY QUICK TAKES	$800	Ferdinand & Isabella wed in 1469, uniting these 2 kingdoms	Castile & Aragon	0%
MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON	$1600	Marlene Dietrich in "The Scarlet Empress"; Elle Fanning, much more recently on Hulu	Catherine the Great	0%
CHEMICAL PEOPLE	$2000	19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases	diffusion	0%
CHEMICAL PEOPLE	$1200	This English chemist analyzed Ancient Egyptian pigments but is remembered for funding an American institution	James Smithson	0%
"X"s & "O"s	$800	It's the side of a coin with the principal design	obverse	0%
HISTORY QUICK TAKES	$2000	He tried to starve the colonists out but later let his daughter Pocahontas marry one	Powhatan	0%
HISTORY QUICK TAKES	$1200	In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title	the Dalai Lama	0%
LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE	$1200	The Rideau River got its name, meaning "curtain", from the falls that forms when it joins this one at a national capital	the Ottawa River	0%
LET'S HAVE A CONFLUENCE	$1600	The Seine splits into 2 channels a around the Île Saint-Louis & rejoins just past this eridge across the Île de la Cité	the Pont Neuf	0%
BALLET	$800	In "Swan Lake", the same ballerina often dances both of these roles, a princess & a sorcerer's daughter	the white swan & the black swan (Odette & Odile)	0%
MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON	$1200	Howard Keel in the 1953 film "Calamity Jane"; Keith Carradine in "Deadwood "	Wild Bill Hickok	0%
"X"s & "O"s	$1200	From Greek for "dry" & "writing", this 10-letter word was described in 1948 as "a revolutionary process of inkless printing"	xerography	0%