Statistics for Jeopardy #8601

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This quiz has been taken 22 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
4-LETTER COUNTRIES	$400	The city of Fallujah in this country is nicknamed the "City of Mosques"	Iraq	77%
4-LETTER COUNTRIES	$200	It was the home of the Inca civilization for centuries before its conquest by Spain	Peru	77%
FILMS OF THE 1990s	$400	For this 1994 film, Sandra Bullock actually learned to drive a bus & passed the licensing test	Speed	77%
4-LETTER COUNTRIES	$800	Sultan Haitham rules this nation on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula	Oman	69%
LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU	$400	This word can refer to a radiant explosion or a multi-colored candy brand	a starburst	62%
4-LETTER COUNTRIES	$600	Columbus landed on this island nation in 1492, but Diego Velazquez began its first permanent settlement in 1511	Cuba	62%
4-LETTER COUNTRIES	$1000	Mostly volcanic, about 300 islands make up this Pacific Ocean nation 1,000 miles north of New Zealand	Fiji	62%
LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU	$200	A movie with lots of celebrities is said to be "star-" this, meaning "covered with objects"	studded	62%
FILMS OF THE 1990s	$800	The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one	Casino	54%
DANCE OFF, BRO!	$800	Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do this Spanish courtship dance using castanets & an increase in speed as it progresses	the fandango	46%
FILMS OF THE 1990s	$200	Dorothy is a device that studies tornadoes in this film starring Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton	Twister	46%
BOATING GLOSSARY	$400	To take a sounding is to measure this, often important in unfamiliar seas	depth	38%
LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU	$600	If you "hitch" one of these conveyances to a star, you're aspiring to lofty goals	a wagon	31%
DANCE OFF, BRO!	$200	If you like doing this step-slide-step ballroom dance, you can zip & whirl in a Viennese one or glide & dip with a Boston	a waltz	31%
DANCE OFF, BRO!	$400	Pop star Psy said, the "mindset of this dance," also a song title, "is dress classy & dance cheesy" & imagine you're on a horse	"Gangnam Style"	31%
FILMS OF THE 1990s	$600	Character actor J.T. Walsh told a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film	Sling Blade	31%
GROUPS IN HISTORY	$1200	In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short	the Roundheads	31%
DANCE OFF, BRO!	$1000	French for "thrown", it's the grand ballet move seen here in all its beauty	a jeté	23%
SEISMIC ACTIVITY	$400	An earthquake where one plate moves under another & pushes the top plate up may cause this wave that can reach around 500 miles per hour	a tsunami	23%
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK	$400	"Slow and steady wins the race" is a moral from Aesop's fable of these 2 creatures	the tortoise & the hare	23%
SINGERS	N/A	In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material	Tony Bennett	23%
FILMS OF THE 1990s	$1000	Kat & Bianca Stratford attend Padua High School in this 1999 film loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew"	10 Things I Hate About You	15%
3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY	$1200	Apparel for a thespian	a costume	15%
SEISMIC ACTIVITY	$1600	A 9.1 off the coast of Honshu in 2011 led to a nuclear accident in this prefecture	Fukushima	15%
DANCE OFF, BRO!	$600	Popping is contracting & relaxing your muscles quickly; this, paired with popping, stops & holds during a move	locking	15%
3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY	$400	By the 1930s, its tokens included a battleship, a top hat & a shoe	Monopoly	15%
SEISMIC ACTIVITY	$1200	Haiti's government reported 300,000 deaths after a 7.0 quake & multiple aftershocks hit about 15 miles from this capital in 2010	Port-au-Prince	15%
BOATING GLOSSARY	$600	It's a rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it; if you're 3 of them "to the wind", you're drunk	sheet	15%
BOATING GLOSSARY	$200	A windlass is a rotating device that houses the chain used to raise or lower this	the anchor	15%
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK	$800	In his own version of this rule, Confucius said, "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"	the golden rule	15%
LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU	$1000	Oscar Wilde wrote "We are all in" this, "but some of us are looking at the stars"	the gutter	15%
LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU	$800	Originally a British tribunal, this 2-word term now refers to any group that adjudicates unfairly	the star chamber	15%
3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY	$1600	Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women	a hijab	8%
CHILDHOOD HOMES	$1600	In Palisades, N.Y. the Whitney House, as in the family behind the Whitney Museum, was home to this daughter of Jon Voight	Angelina Jolie	8%
SEISMIC ACTIVITY	$2000	In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day	Chile	8%
GROUPS IN HISTORY	$1600	Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches	culotte	8%
3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY	$800	A failure to pay money on a loan	default	8%
GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT	$1200	Michelle Obama's plum-colored outfit on this day in 2021 helped crash designer Sergio Hudson's website	Inauguration Day	8%
CHILDHOOD HOMES	$1200	"There are places I'll remember all my life", & one would have been the home in Liverpool where he lived with Aunt Mimi	John Lennon	8%
GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT	$400	For a while, Hasbro changed this profession of Plum in the game Clue to archaeologist, then to video game designer	professor	8%
GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT	$800	The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds	sugar plums	8%
GROUPS IN HISTORY	$2000	Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties	the Kuomintang	8%
GROUPS IN HISTORY	$400	Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians	the plebians	8%
BOATING GLOSSARY	$800	It sounds like scissors are required to do this, change the angle of a sail to take advantage of the wind	to trim	8%
3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY	$2000	He led the Greeks against Troy	Agamemnon	0%
SEISMIC ACTIVITY	$800	In 1964 the Prince William Sound earthquake registered a scary 9.2 in magnitude in the southern part of this state	Alaska	0%
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK	$1600	While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold	Archimedes	0%
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK	$1200	Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish	buries her	0%
CHILDHOOD HOMES	$800	In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today	Hank Aaron	0%
GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT	$1600	This plant-breeding genius created more than 120 varieties of plum, more than of any other fruit or vegetable	Luther Burbank	0%
CHILDHOOD HOMES	$2000	Martha Stewart likes to visit Nutley in this state to see her childhood home on Elm Street & the store where her dad bought Gallo wine	New Jersey	0%
PICTURE/BOOK	$400	This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute	Of Mice and Men	0%
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK	$2000	From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it"	Pliny	0%
GROUPS IN HISTORY	$800	Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will"	Robber Barons	0%
GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT	$2000	Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold	slivovitz	0%
CHILDHOOD HOMES	$400	A later owner of this current pop star's childhood home in Pennsylvania says the initials "TAS" in cement may be the singer's	Taylor (Alison) Swift	0%
PICTURE/BOOK	$600	It's mainly set in New York City	The Catcher in the Rye	0%
BOATING GLOSSARY	$1000	This uppermost edge of the side of a boat gets its name because it was once used to support cannons	the gunwale	0%
PICTURE/BOOK	$1000	A first novel dealing with the Second World War	The Naked and the Dead	0%
PICTURE/BOOK	$200	Here's this 1850 novel quite literally	The Scarlet Letter	0%
PICTURE/BOOK	$800	A landmark work of the 18th century	The Wealth of Nations	0%