Statistics for Jeopardy #8616

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This quiz has been taken 30 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
IT'S A FACT	$200	Parade reported that taking this type of picture now causes "more deaths than shark attacks"	a selfie	88%
PURPLE REIGN	$200	You love this big purple dinosaur of public TV (& he loves you)	Barney	75%
A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR	$200	Let's Czech in with this capital where Smetana & Dvorak both lived	Prague	75%
PURPLE REIGN	$800	1980s moviegoers were moved by this film that was "introducing Whoopi Goldberg as Celie"	The Color Purple	75%
IT'S A FACT	$400	Competing against 19-year-olds, this Jamaican was 16 when he set a junior world record in the 200 meters at 20.13 seconds	Usain Bolt	69%
2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$800	It's a fishy phrase for something that is deliberately misleading or distracts attention	a red herring	63%
IN MOM'S FREE TIME	$200	Susan Casey, one of the 1st politicians to call herself this kind of "mom", wasn't kidding--her son Conor became a star MLS striker	a soccer mom	63%
PURPLE REIGN	$400	Commonly dried, black Corinth is a purple & often seedless variety of this fruit	a grape	56%
IN MOM'S FREE TIME	$400	Detroit mom Evelyn Overton started making this dessert & turned it into a "Factory"	cheesecake	56%
2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$600	It means stocks are on the rise & investors are rushing to buy	a bull market	50%
A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR	$600	Completed in the 1490s, Nydegg Church is a landmark in this city, capital of both its nation & its same-named Canton	Bern	44%
A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR	$1000	Something to sink your teeth into... a signed document by Vlad the Impaler in 1459 is the first written appearance of this capital	Bucharest	44%
IT'S A FACT	$600	The name for this part of your nose comes from the Latin for "fence"	the septum	44%
2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$200	An easy target, or what we have here	a sitting duck	38%
2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$1000	It's a possession that's too expensive to maintain, or a rummage sale, often for a worthy cause	a white elephant	38%
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS	$400	The balloons in one Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade use about 400,000 cubic feet of this gas	helium	38%
A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR	$800	Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities"	Kyiv	31%
PURPLE REIGN	$600	This team went to the Super Bowl 4 times in the 1970s; purple never reigned & they haven't been back	the Vikings	31%
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS	$1200	Electric vehicles have brought cash to Chile, a land with large reserves of this lightest metal element, used in batteries	lithium	25%
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS	$800	As a gas, oxygen is colorless, but in liquid form it's this color	blue	19%
THE ORIGIN TRAIL	$1600	Legend says this, outside Tokyo, was created in the year 286 B.C. by an earthquake	Mount Fuji	19%
A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR	$400	Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west	Oslo	19%
U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY	$800	In 1921 New Orleans became the first city in the U.S. to declare a historic district, this one	the French Quarter	19%
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS	$1600	The element actinium & its symbol are both first alphabetically; this element & its symbol are last	zirconium	19%
IT'S A FACT	$1000	This yellow gastropod named for its resemblance to a fruit can move about 6 inches per minute	a banana slug	13%
METAPHORS	$1200	British Jew Israel Zangwill used this term for the U.S. as a vessel where all peoples mix; his son moved to El Paso & became part of it	a melting pot	13%
DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS	$400	17 & 20: This British-raised actor who played Peter Parker again in a 2021 surprise	Andrew Garfield	13%
METAPHORS	$400	You may find yourself on an emotional one of these, such as Maverick at Cedar Point	a roller coaster	13%
IT'S A FACT	$800	The Roman equivalent of this Greek goddess is Minerva	Athena	13%
METAPHORS	$800	Everyday metaphors include the instruction not to tackle problems prematurely, let's do this "when we come to it"	cross that bridge	13%
DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS	$800	43 & 35: This actor, an Oscar winner for "Cool Hand Luke" & a sidekick in "The Naked Gun"	George Kennedy	13%
IN MOM'S FREE TIME	$800	The mother of this 4-time Oscar-winning actress was a birth control activist & is seen here with Margaret Sanger	Katharine Hepburn	13%
THE ORIGIN TRAIL	$400	These dogs were originally trained as water dogs & their name is related to the small pools of water they splashed in	Poodles	13%
SYMPHON"E"s	$800	Works by this eminent Sir Edward 2 include 2 symphonies as well as the a "Enigma Variations"	Elgar	6%
IN MOM'S FREE TIME	$1000	In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations	in this house we believe	6%
LITERATURE	$400	Michel Tournier's "Friday, or the Other Island" is a modern retelling of this 18th century novel	Robinson Crusoe	6%
THE ORIGIN TRAIL	$1200	Full of tricks & treats, All Hallows' Eve has its origins in this Celtic festival	Samhain	6%
METAPHORS	$2000	To blame bad news on the one who told you; the last name of Chicago policeman William meant it was literally done to him in 1901	shoot the Messenger	6%
LITERATURE	$800	With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century	Sir Walter Scott	6%
IN MOM'S FREE TIME	$600	Tired of little heads going thunk, a daycare staff wanted something to prop kids up; Susan Henderson created this pillow	the Boppy	6%
LITERATURE	$2000	At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot	This Side of Paradise	6%
PURPLE REIGN	$1000	New Hampshire's state flower is the purple lilac & its state bird is the purple this	a purple finch	0%
DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS	$2000	42 & 5: This pioneer of bluegrass music	Bill Monroe	0%
2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS	$400	We won't string you along; it's this game	Cat\'s Cradle	0%
THE ORIGIN TRAIL	$800	In the 1790s, Old East, still a residence hall was the entirety campus of the University of North Carolina in this city	Chapel Hill	0%
SYMPHON"E"s	$600	London's orchestra of the Age of this plays Bach & Mozart on vintage 18th century instruments	Enlightenment	0%
SYMPHON"E"s	$1000	Disillusioned with Napoleon, Beethoven changed the title of his landmark 3rd symphony from "Bonaparte" to this	Eroica	0%
SYMPHON"E"s	$400	Inspired by his uprooted family, Alan Hovhaness' 1st symphony is titled this, a period of forced absence from one's homeland	Exile	0%
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS	$2000	Atomic number 100, this radioactive element is named for the scientist who directed the first controlled fission chain reaction	fermium	0%
DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS	$1600	22 & 1: This superstar saxophonist, Jr.	Grover Washington Jr.	0%
DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS	$1200	37 &18 & borrowing Jimmy Carter's middle initial, this actor	Richard E. Grant	0%
LITERATURE	$1200	"Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires	Sookie Stackhouse	0%
LITERATURE	$1600	Mr. Scratch is bested by a New Hampshire orator in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet	"The Devil and Daniel Webster"	0%
SYMPHON"E"s	$200	Haydn's No. 38 is also known as this symphony, from the way muted violins repeat the sound of non-muted ones	the Echo symphony	0%
METAPHORS	$1600	Based on a 1955 speech by a Fed head, slowing the economy is known as taking this away just as the party is getting started	the punch bowl	0%
WORDS OF THE YEAR	N/A	Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow"	vax	0%