Statistics for Jeopardy #8602

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This quiz has been taken 40 times
The average score is 12 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY	$200	Scotland's largest city, it's on both banks of the River Clyde	Glasgow	88%
ICE CREAM FLAVORS?	$200	Idiomatically, if you're "plain" this, you're unexciting	vanilla	75%
"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY	$600	Kolkata is on the Hugli River, an arm of this other river	the Ganges	71%
"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY	$1000	This country is surrounded by Senegal	The Gambia	67%
"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY	$800	In 1900 this Texas city was devastated by a hurricane that killed more than 5,000 people	Galveston	58%
ICE CREAM FLAVORS?	$600	This alliterative expression refers to a literal path fraught with troubles	rocky road	58%
ICE CREAM FLAVORS?	$400	Who's a good boy? This type of Lab seen here just chilling	chocolate	54%
"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY	$400	2 promontories called the Pillars of Hercules flank the entrance to this strait	Gibraltar	54%
A WORD TO THE WISE	$400	An herb, or a profound philosopher	a sage	46%
ICE CREAM FLAVORS?	$1000	Beginning & ending with the same letter, it's a term for someone from a big city on Italy's West Coast	Neapolitan	46%
A WORD TO THE WISE	$200	It's the "I" in Britain's MI6	intelligence	38%
SCIENTIFIC INITIALS	$800	M.C. (born M.S.),a 2-time Nobel winner	Marie Curie	38%
INVESTING	$400	Warren Buffett says most people should simply hold a fund that tracks the S&P 500, short for this index	Standard & Poor	33%
1860s AMERICA	$800	This oldest & northernmost leg of horse racing's Triple Crown was first run in 1867, with Ruthless winning in 3:05	the Belmont Stakes	33%
FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL	$200	Desmond Howard's 99-yard kick return touchdown helped him earn Super Bowl 31 MVP honors over Brett Favre for this team	the Packers	33%
THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS	$1600	The Etruscan League was a dodecapolis, consisting of this many main cities	12	29%
CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX	$400	On this sitcom Ariel Winter was Alex, the smartest member of the Dunphys	Modern Family	29%
ICE CREAM FLAVORS?	$800	It's the rock classic that begins, "Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!"	"Tutti Frutti"	29%
FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL	$1000	In 2020, thousands thronged the presidential palace in Buenos Aires as this national hero lay in state	Diego Maradona	25%
INVESTING	$200	As their name indicates, these are contracts to buy or sell commodities like grain at an agreed-upon price at a later date	futures	25%
FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL	$600	This Premier League system of sending the 3 bottom-finishers to a 2nd-tier league is like sending 3 MLB teams down to AAA	relegation	25%
CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX	$800	In 2020 this medical drama's character Dr. Alex Karev left after 15 years on the series	Grey\'s Anatomy	21%
SILENT LETTER STARTERS	$1200	This lung infection is commonly caused by a strain of streptococcus	pneumonia	21%
SCIENTIFIC INITIALS	$1200	N.T.,who made sparks fly	Nikola Tesla	17%
1860s AMERICA	$400	This company, founded in 1865, began making iconic hats like the ones seen here & still does today	Stetson	17%
A WORD TO THE WISE	$600	The idiom "too" this smart synonym "by half" means you're wise, but in a way that causes problems	clever	13%
RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS	$400	"The Life She Wished to Live" is a bio of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who at 32 moved her life to a backwoods citrus grove in this state	Florida	13%
THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS	$800	A messenger & an intermediary between the gods & man, the Etruscan god, Turms, was equivalent to this Greek god	Hermes	13%
THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS	$400	The Etruscan 20-letter language went out of use owing to the spread of this language that used 23 letters	Latin	13%
SILENT LETTER STARTERS	$2000	This type of "device" helps you remember something	mnemonic	13%
SCIENTIFIC INITIALS	$2000	N.B.,a great Dane	(Niels) Bohr	13%
NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS	$800	The trail named for this 19th century service runs 1,900 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco	the Pony Express	13%
NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS	$2000	The website for this trail that traces a 19th century Cherokee route calls it "a journey of injustice"	the Trail of Tears	13%
FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL	$800	In 2022 quarterback Stetson Bennett led this school to the national title over SEC rival Alabama, 33-18	the University of Georgia	13%
1860s AMERICA	$200	One of the first U.S. colleges for the deaf, Gallaudet University in this city was founded in 1864	Washington, D.C.	13%
CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX	$2000	This James Patterson character is a profiler who is a liaison between the Washington, D.C. police & the FBI	Alex Cross	8%
SCIENTIFIC INITIALS	$400	Naturalist C.R.D., 1809-1882 (the "R" was for Robert)	Darwin	8%
RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS	$800	"The Sinner and the Saint" tells how a real-life egotistical murderer inspired this Russian novelist	Dostoevsky	8%
NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS	$1200	The site where this captive Englishman met Powhatan & Pocahontas is along the trail named for him	John Smith	8%
A WORD TO THE WISE	$1000	Add -nt to the end of a word for one overly sensitive to decorum & you'll get this synonym for wisely cautious	prudent	8%
CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX	$1200	This title cyborg formerly known as Alex Murphy reads Miranda rights to a suspect as he tosses him through a few glass windows	RoboCop	8%
1860s AMERICA	$600	This amendment that granted citizenship & civil rights to emancipated African Americans was ratified in 1868	the 14th Amendment	8%
1860s AMERICA	$1000	In the House in 1868, radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens began the closing argument against this man	Andrew Johnson	4%
A WORD TO THE WISE	$800	It's the highest rating in military rifle marksmanship	an expert	4%
INVESTING	$800	Not risk-averse? Buy into a special purpose acquisition company, formed to get investors while avoiding this 3-letter process	an IPO	4%
NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS	$400	This religious word precedes Pioneer Trail in the name of a rugged route; note the western endpoint	Mormon	4%
NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS	$1600	The only winter trail in the NHT system, it includes a 1,000-mile section between Seward & Nome & shares its name with a race	the Iditarod	4%
HISTORIC NICKNAMES	N/A	Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle	"The Little Corporal"	4%
SILENT LETTER STARTERS	$800	The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is considered this kind of gospel, from the Greek for "knowledge"	gnostic	0%
RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS	$1200	Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie	H.G. Wells	0%
CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX	$1600	The Ross & Rachel, or the Jim & Pam, of "Orange Is the New Black" were Piper, played by Taylor Schilling, & Alex, played by her	Laura Prepon	0%
SCIENTIFIC INITIALS	$1600	C.L. (also just L.),an 18th century classifier	Linnaeus	0%
RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS	$2000	"Competing with Idiots" is a dual biography of these screenwriting giants, brothers Herman & Joe, by a grandson of Herman's	Mankiewicz	0%
INVESTING	$600	To buy "on" this is to buy stocks partly with money borrowed from a broker	margin	0%
FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL	$400	Football's Ted Lasso knows this pre-snap line of scrimmage penalty well; soccer's Ted Lasso found the sport's version... complex	offisides	0%
THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS	$1200	The Etruscans' religious use of fowls for divination led to this clavicular way for determining fate	pulling a wishbone	0%
THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS	$2000	The Etruscans lived from the Tiber River in the south to this 150-mile river of Florence in the north	the Arno	0%
INVESTING	$1000	Risk-averse? Buy TIPS, government securities whose value rises with inflation, as measured by this index	the Consumer Price Index	0%
SILENT LETTER STARTERS	$400	This title for a European ruler can have a silent "T" or "C" at the front	tsar (czar)	0%
RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS	$1600	"Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage	Voyager	0%
SILENT LETTER STARTERS	$1600	Psalms says, "Cease from anger, and forsake" this, "fret not thyself in any wise to do evil"	wrath	0%