Statistics for Jeopardy #8617

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This quiz has been taken 33 times
The average score is 11 of 60

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
ROCK ART	$200	"Help" is a 2005 print by this man who played drums on "Help!" 40 years earlier	Ringo Starr	78%
ROCK ART	$400	Andy Warhol's cover for The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album featured one of these fruits with a peelable sticker	a banana	72%
FASHION	$200	Long flowy dresses are typical of boho fashion, boho being short for this	bohemian	61%
MEDICINE	$400	The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this	diabetic	61%
GAME CHANGERS	$400	In 1990 this classic card game was included as part of Windows 3.0, turning millions of casual computer users into gamers	solitaire	61%
GAME CHANGERS	$200	A 15th century rule change transformed the weakest chess piece to this one, the strongest on the board	the queen	56%
MEDICINE	$200	In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs	antibiotics	50%
ROCK ART	$1600	Though arid today, Libya's Messak plateau in this desert has prehistoric images of hippos & crocodiles	the Sahara	50%
ROCK ART	$400	A mysterious animal in France's famed Lascaux Cave is know as this, even though it has two horns, not one	unicorn	50%
ROCK ART	$600	Lithographs by this late disco queen include "Jazzman" & "Hard for the Money"	Donna Summer	44%
EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD	$200	A rule by royals; Saudi Arabia has an absolute one	monarchy	44%
GAME CHANGERS	$600	In 1875 a British army lieutenant modified a form of pool to create this very British billiards game	snooker	44%
ROCK ART	$1000	She's painted the covers for many of her own albums, including "Ladies of the Canyon" & "Both Sides Now"	Joni Mitchell	33%
GAME CHANGERS	$800	This card game scored with pegs on a board evolved from an earlier one called Noddy	cribbage	28%
EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD	$400	Buzzfeed examined "Why" this synonym for damp "is the Worst Word Ever"	moist	28%
MEDICINE	$800	A patient is often put on a ventilator in a procedure called endotracheal this -ation	intubation	22%
FASHION	$600	1980s fashion included wearing these accessories seen here outside the ballet studio	leg warmers	22%
ROCK ART	$800	For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop	Lizzo	22%
AMAZON PRIME	$600	Iquitos, the world's largest city that can't be reached by road, is on the Amazon in this nation on Chile's northern border	Peru	22%
THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE	$1200	To Tom Cruise: "Shut up, just shut up. You had me at hello"	Renée Zellweger	22%
THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE	$400	In a movie sequel: "Yo, Adrian, I did it!"	Sylvester Stallone	22%
FASHION	$400	Often seen on the front of a hoodie, this type of pocket resembles a certain animal's pouch	a kangaroo pocket	17%
MEDICINE	$600	Iatrogenic is the term for a medical problem caused by the act of one of these, with maybe a lawsuit as a consequence	a doctor	11%
FASHION	$1000	This portmanteau word is used of a casual clothes for exercise & for just hanging out	athleisure	11%
AMAZON PRIME	$800	Seen floating on the Amazon is Victoria amazonica, the largest one of these; its pads can be six feet wide	a water lily	11%
AMAZON PRIME	$200	The Amazon River basin is home to stands of this "national" nut tree; the nuts are big in protein & the oil, big in shampoos	Brazil nuts	11%
GAME CHANGERS	$1000	In 2019 season 10 of this online survival game ended with a giant asteroid blowing up its virtual island, leaving a black hole	Fortnite	11%
MEDICINE	$1000	Thomas Hodgkin's paper on "morbid appearances of the absorbent glands & spleen" described this type of cancer	Hodgkin\'s lymphoma	11%
EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD	$800	Angora goat fabric	mohair	11%
EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD	$600	This group of animals includes squid as well as shellfish	mollusks	11%
I HAVE A PLAN	$400	G. Gordon Liddy's 1972 Gemstone plan included kidnapping & prostitutes; it was scaled back but a remaining part led to this scandal	Watergate	11%
HALLS OF FAME	$800	Teenaged Yo-Yo Ma must have practiced, practiced, practiced to play his debut recital here, May 6, 1971	Carnegie Hall	6%
THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE	$800	In 2018: "I am not king of all people. I am king of Wakanda"	Chadwick Boseman	6%
ROCK ART	$800	The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago	charcoal	6%
THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE	$2000	Her in a 1950 classic: "I am big, it's the pictures that got small"	Gloria Swanson	6%
NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER	$2000	This Danish concept comparable to coziness has become a U.S. trend; it includes good food, coffee & a warm place to gather	hygge	6%
A CHRISTIE MYSTERY	$400	(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) A train that was snowbound in Turkey for 10 days in 1929 & the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby helped inspire the plot of this, one of Agatha Christie's greatest novels	Murder on the Orient Express	6%
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS	N/A	The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast"	the Bermuda Triangle	6%
AMAZON PRIME	$1000	The Casiquiare River connects 2 major river systems, the Amazon & this 1,300-mile one	the Orinoco	6%
ROCK ART	$1200	Rock art depicting an animal's skeleton & internal organs is said to be in this electromagnetic-named style	X-ray	6%
NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER	$1200	This peanut butter & marshmallow creme sandwich has been around for a long time, but only made it into Merriam-Webster's in 2021	a fluffernutter	0%
NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER	$800	Spectral phrase for the place to prepare food that is consumed elsewhere	a ghost kitchen	0%
AMAZON PRIME	$400	Let this alliterative Amazon water creature light up your night... & despite its name, it's a knifefish	an electric eel	0%
FASHION	$800	This winter coat echoes the name of a deadly sushi fish	a puffer jacket (coat)	0%
A CHRISTIE MYSTERY	$800	(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Because she worked as a nurse & later as a pharmacy dispenser, Christie frequently used poison as the murder weapon in her writing--strychnine, cyanide, & very often this one, as it would have been easy to obtain in her day as rat poison	arsenic	0%
NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER	$1600	It's the 4-letter abbreviation for the pleasant tingling sensation that starts on the scalp in response to certain stimuli	ASMR	0%
I HAVE A PLAN	$1200	Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan was to strangle the Confederacy by means of these efforts to stop up the enemy's ports	blockades	0%
NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER	$400	Withdrawing support from those who have erred in the eyes of the world leads to this alliterative phenomenon	cancel culture	0%
HALLS OF FAME	$1600	This temperance advocate took in battered women at Hatchet Hall, her Arkansas home	Carrie Nation	0%
I HAVE A PLAN	$800	In 1960 PM Ikeda planned to double Japan's national income by 1970, with annual this of 7.8%; it was 10% & income doubled early	GDP (annual growth)	0%
I HAVE A PLAN	$1600	In 1990 the Shatalin plan for moving the USSR to a free market was too radical even for this reformer who ousted Shatalin	Gorbachev	0%
THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE	$1600	In 2005: "I wish I knew how to quit you"	Jake Gyllenhaal	0%
A CHRISTIE MYSTERY	$1200	(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels & 20 short stories featuring this woman & regretted making her so old at the outset; she would have been well over 100 by the time Christie finished writing about her	Miss Marple	0%
EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD	$1000	It's Spanish for "young guy"	muchacho	0%
ROCK ART	$2000	A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings"	petroglyps	0%
I HAVE A PLAN	$2000	The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man	(Pierre) L\'Enfant	0%
HALLS OF FAME	$1200	We'd like to reflect on the fact that the treaty ending World War I was signed in this room in the Palace of Versailles	the Hall of Mirrors	0%
HALLS OF FAME	$400	Seen here, this organization's General Assembly Hall accommodates nearly 200 delegations	the United Nations	0%
A CHRISTIE MYSTERY	$2000	(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) The amateur sleuths featured in my adaptation of "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", Bobby Jones & Frankie Derwent, have a lot in common with the detectives Christie enjoyed writing about the most, the Beresfords--Tommy and his wife Prudence, nicknamed this, slang for a British coin	Tuppence	0%
A CHRISTIE MYSTERY	$1600	(Will Poulter presents the clue.) This courtroom drama that hinges on the testimony of the mistress of the accused murderer had been adapted for stage & screen, & in 2014 was performed in an actual English coutrroom	Witness for the Prosecution	0%