Statistics for Jeopardy #8615

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This quiz has been taken 24 times
The average score is 10 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
MULTIPLE MEANINGS	$200	Secured firmly in place, or a period without food	fast	71%
BEAN THERE	$200	Illinois leads the U.S. in production of these sources of tofu	soybeans	64%
DONE THAT	$200	John Mark carried the Olympic flame into London's Wembley Stadium in this year of the first post-WWII Summer Games	1948	57%
MULTIPLE MEANINGS	$800	A mode of transport, or to direct a plant to grow in a particular way	train	57%
MULTIPLE MEANINGS	$400	To strike down hard with a foot, or something that's affixed to show a fee has been paid	stamp	50%
POTPOURRI	$400	Seen here, this type of pipe is an accessory of Frosty the Snowman	a corncob pipe	36%
PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS	$400	Mitch Mitchell & Blanche DuBois (1948)	A Streetcar Named Desire	36%
MULTIPLE MEANINGS	$600	A quantity of liquid, or to allow to fall	drop	36%
PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS	$200	Angelica Schuyler & Aaron Burr (2016)	Hamilton	36%
DONE THAT	$400	Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett led the team that came up with the COVID-19 vaccine from this company founded in 2010	Moderna	36%
POTPOURRI	$600	Its largest tributary is the Snake River	the Columbia River	36%
BEAN THERE	$1000	Minnesota's Otter Tail County is a center for growing this bean named for its shape	a kidney bean	29%
BEAN THERE	$600	Navy beans & molasses are traditional ingredients in this baked "metropolitan" offering	Boston baked beans	29%
POTPOURRI	$800	Greek gives us this word for the ritual also called communion or the Lord's Supper	eucharist	29%
TELEVISION	$200	In season 8 the Linz siblings covered 50 cities in 25 days to win this reality show's first family edition	The Amazing Race	29%
DONE THAT	$1000	In 1889 this Western U.S. state's constitution was the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women	Wyoming	29%
TELEVISION	$400	A blond mullet topped the head of this subject of Ttiger King", a zookeeper & felon born Joseph Schreibvogel	Joe Exotic	21%
WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?	$400	April 22, 1889 is the birthdate of this "City", capital of the Sooner State	Oklahoma City	21%
R&B MUSIC	$400	This signature song topped the R&B chart for 8 weeks in 1967; do we have to spell it out for you?	"Respect"	21%
POTPOURRI	$1000	Sailing from Portugal in July 1497, this explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope & reached Mombasa in April of the next year	Vasco da Gama	21%
TELEVISION	$800	Carrie Bradshaw returned to TV screens in this follow-up to "Sex & the City"	And Just Like That	14%
"EM"POWER	$400	Dubai & Abu Dhabi are this type of political territory	emirate	14%
BEAN THERE	$400	Chickpeas are also called these beans or just these, their usual name in Spain	garbanzo beans	14%
NORSE MYTHOLOGY	$400	This deity was a mischief maker & a changeling who once transformed into a salmon to escape the other gods' wrath	Loki	14%
R&B MUSIC	$1600	Billboard said this late, great singer "redefined R&B/soul" with "the socially themed 1971 landmark album 'What's Going On"'	Marvin Gaye	14%
WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?	$1200	Smaller than it sounds, this Illinois place was designated "Home of Superman" in 1972	Metropolis	14%
MULTIPLE MEANINGS	$1000	To surmount, or distance info on a map	scale	14%
POTPOURRI	$200	The 200 little dots on the outside of this shortcake favorite are called achenes; each one is a tiny fruit with a seed inside	strawberries	14%
AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY	$800	This London theater most associated with Shakespeare was torn down in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed all the theaters	the Globe	14%
WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?	$800	Faulkner titled a novel after this type of little town such as Pottersville, New York	a hamlet	7%
TELEVISION	$1000	In 1986 Arthur Miller was the first subject of this PBS series of profiles in greatness that has earned more than 25 Emmys	American Masters	7%
BEAN THERE	$800	Native to India, mung beans are often used to grow these tender, edible seedlings	bean sprouts	7%
DONE THAT	$800	In a revival of the "Special Relationship" , in June 1954 these 2 world leaders met & released the "Potomac Charter"	Eisenhower & Churchill	7%
DONE THAT	$600	Born in Toronto, this architect designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall for his adopted hometown	(Frank) Gehry	7%
WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?	$2000	Virginia "burg"s include Peters-, Williams- & this one also with a man's name, site of an 1862 battle	Fredericksburg	7%
TELEVISION	$600	This actress is one of the Yellowjackets, coping as adults after a plane crash 25 years earlier	Juliette Lewis	7%
19th CENTURY LITERATURE	N/A	The strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel	Oliver Twist	7%
NORSE MYTHOLOGY	$800	Muninn (memory) & Huginn (thought) are 2 of these crow relatives that fly around the 9 worlds & bring information back to Odin	ravens	7%
AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY	$400	You spend 22 years having this 42-acre Indian landmark built, & what thanks do you get? Getting deposed by your son in 1658!	the Taj Mahal	7%
NORSE MYTHOLOGY	$2000	This mighty ash tree supports the universe	Yggdrasil	7%
WRITING--IT'S A LIVING	$1200	Pitch that story to this type of magazine, such as the fittingly named High Life or Enroute	an in-flight magazine	0%
WRITING--IT'S A LIVING	$2000	Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin	as told to	0%
R&B MUSIC	$1200	Songwriter, producer & singer Kenneth Edmonds is better known by this nickname	Babyface	0%
WRITING--IT'S A LIVING	$1600	Screenwriters, you could do worse than to follow script guru Syd Field's checkpoint No. 4--"All drama is" this type of struggle	conflict	0%
WRITING--IT'S A LIVING	$800	It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world	copywriting	0%
"EM"POWER	$1600	French gives us this word for the mouthpiece of a wind instrument	embouchure	0%
"EM"POWER	$800	This word is used to address the dignitary seen here	eminence	0%
"EM"POWER	$1200	Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution says office holders cannot accept "any present," this, "office, or title"	emolument	0%
PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS	$800	Aaronow & Moss, real estate salesmen (1984)	Glengarry Glen Ross	0%
PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS	$1000	Corporate bigwig J.B. Giggley & former window washer J. Pierrepont Finch (1962)	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	0%
AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY	$2000	This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind	John Locke	0%
NORSE MYTHOLOGY	$1600	The rainbow bridge Bifrost connects 2 worlds, Asgard for the gods & this one for earthlings	Midgard	0%
NORSE MYTHOLOGY	$1200	Forged by the dwarfs Brokk & Eitri, this hammer is Thor's chief weapon & symbol of his power	Mjölnir	0%
AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY	$1200	San Antonio got its name in 1691 when explorers camped at the site on June 13, the feast day of St. Anthony of this Italian city	Padua	0%
WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?	$1600	A larger geographic division + "town" = this town on Cape Cod known for its "players"	Provincetown	0%
WRITING--IT'S A LIVING	$400	For success with this kind of novel, a good pseudonym helps; Kate Rothwell chose "Summer Devon" to show that her books were hot	romance novels	0%
R&B MUSIC	$800	In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was a kid	Stevie Wonder	0%
R&B MUSIC	$2000	In Dec. 2021 this "seasonal" singer was on 10 of the Top 25 R&B Hits, including "Bitter" with Cardi B & "Insane"	Summer Walker	0%
AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY	$1600	In 1685 this edict that had granted freedom of worship to French Protestants was revoked	the Edict of Nantes	0%
"EM"POWER	$2000	It's the English name for the desert region known in Arabic as Rub' al-Khali	the Empty Quarter	0%
PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS	$600	Scoop Rosenbaum & Heidi Holland (1989)	The Heidi Chronicles	0%