Statistics for Jeopardy #8653

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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
COFFEE BREAK	$200	There are more than 600 coffee farms on the Kona coast of this U.S. island	Hawaii	82%
IT'S A "SYN"	$200	It's an abstract or summary of a film or novel	synopsis	82%
COFFEE BREAK	$1000	Temperate at an altitude of about 5,00q feet, Medellín is a center of this nation's coffee industry	Colombia	73%
COFFEE BREAK	$400	Order café com leite in Brazil & you'll get coffee with this liquid, hot--or sometimes this liquid with a little coffee	milk	73%
IT'S A "SYN"	$600	It can be an agency that sells the same columns to many newspapers, or an illegal cartel	a syndicate	55%
COFFEE BREAK	$600	It was a fine coffee named for a Yemeni port before it was a chocolatey coffee flavor	mocha	55%
BALLPARK FUN	$200	After "Yankees win! The-e-e-e-e Yankees win!" At home, count on hearing this Sinatra classic on the stadium speakers	"New York, New York"	55%
IT'S A "SYN"	$400	It created the music heard here	a synthesizer	45%
U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY	$400	This 29-year-old was made acting director of the Bureau of Investigation in May 1924; "acting" was gone by December	(J. Edgar) Hoover	45%
U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY	$200	In 1989 he became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	Colin Powell	36%
POP & ROCKLIFE STORIES	$800	Don't get me wrong, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" was her tale to tell	Chrissie Hynde	27%
PICTURE THE NOVEL	$400	A classic tale that makes points about censorship	Fahrenheit 451	27%
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN	$400	Stage I of labor includes creating a cozy space, known as this avian-sounding activity; be sure to use your human's most costly clothes	nesting	27%
BODIES OF WATER	$800	When not hampered by monsoons, the dhow was the traditional trading vessel of this ocean	the Indian Ocean	27%
BODIES OF WATER	$1600	The Conchos River, the longest in the state of Chihuahua, is a tributary of this one	the Rio Grande	27%
U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY	$800	Big from 1834 to 1854, this political party took its name from a British one opposed to royal prerogatives	the Whigs	27%
POP & ROCKLIFE STORIES	$1600	This Englishman looked at fame in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me"	Davy Jones	18%
IT'S A "SYN"	$800	What a coincidence, all these things coming together now, it's this 13-letter word	synchronicity	18%
PICTURE THE NOVEL	$200	Fantasy via furniture	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	18%
BODIES OF WATER	$400	The Churn & the Leach are among its headstreams in the Cotswolds	the Thames	18%
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN	$200	Ultrasound won't tell us litter size; for that we use this diagnostic technology that's several decades older	X-ray	18%
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN	$800	In the third stage of labor, this will emerge; Dr. M. prefers this plain English compound word to the fancy Latin "placenta"	afterbirth	9%
WHAT A TOOL	$2000	Used for shaping wood, it can end in "z" "ze"	an adze	9%
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS	$1600	A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer	a paparazzi	9%
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS	$400	1989: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th holder of this religious title	Dalai Lama	9%
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS	$800	1999: this medical organization founded in France	Doctors Without Borders	9%
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE	$400	A Faustian bargain hit the pop charts in 1979 when "The Devil Went Down To" this place, "he was lookin' for a soul to steal"	Georgia	9%
BALLPARK FUN	$1000	In the 1980s & '90s this rhymingly named Cubs announcer led the Wrigley faithful in singing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"	Harry Caray	9%
BODIES OF WATER	$1200	At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan	Lake Huron	9%
BODIES OF WATER	$2000	Tanzania & Mozambique are on the eastern shore of this lake	Lake Malawi	9%
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS	$1200	1997: Jody Williams & the group she helped found, the International Campaign to Ban these weapons	landmines	9%
POP & ROCKLIFE STORIES	$400	The confessions of this funkmeister is subtitled: "Memoirs of a Super Freak"	Rick James	9%
POP & ROCKLIFE STORIES	$1200	"Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness" is by this late, great Ronette	Ronnie Spector	9%
IT'S A "SYN"	$1000	"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is one way of explaining it	synergy	9%
U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY	$600	1930's Smoot-Hawley act raised these import duties... anyone? Anyone? By about... anyone? 20%, rattling Wall Street badly	tariffs	9%
BALLPARK FUN	$600	Traditionally, home fans of this A.L. East team give particular emphasis to yelling "O!" during the national anthem	the Baltimore Orioles	9%
U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY	$1000	On March 1, 2003 FEMA & 21 other organizations got a new boss with the creation of this department	the Department of Homeland Security	9%
COFFEE BREAK	$800	A Seattle coffee co. is named for this 1765 British act that raised tea prices; coffee was soon the patriotic choice for colonists	the Stamp Act	9%
PICTURE THE NOVEL	$1000	Dances with Woolf	To the Lighthouse	9%
PICTURE THE NOVEL	$800	Lowry goes low, south of the border	Under the Volcano	9%
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN	$600	When the offspring start trying to eat mom's solid food instead of suckling, it's time for this shift to independence	weaning	9%
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE	$1200	Traditionally, in Gounod's opera, Faust is a tenor while Méphistophélès is this, like Nicolai Ghiaurov in a classic recording	a bass	0%
WHAT A TOOL	$1600	The "cold" type of this chipping instrument is so called because it's tough enough to cut cold metal	a chisel	0%
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS	$800	If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type	a mainframe	0%
WHAT A TOOL	$800	It's a pronged tool used for gathering, & no one would use a hoe for that	a rake	0%
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS	$1200	From Latin for "war", as a noun it can mean a nation involved in a war	belligerent	0%
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE	$1600	Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man	(Christopher) Marlowe	0%
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS	$2000	1961: this Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously	Dag Hammarskjöld	0%
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE	$800	Part II of Goethe's "Faust" gets into his salvation & the courtship of this Greek woman of Trojan War myth	Helen of Troy	0%
POP & ROCKLIFE STORIES	$2000	"So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death"	James Hetfield	0%
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS	$2000	From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game	kibbitzing	0%
WHAT A TOOL	$1200	Locksmith Bill Deforrest invented innovative these, like a hybrid of the diamond & hook types	lockpicks	0%
WHAT A TOOL	$400	Often joined with "ball", it means the end of a hammer opposite the face	peen	0%
DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN	$1000	Dr. Mittens' patients are happy to hear that this royal noun becomes a verb when it refers to a cat giving birth	queening	0%
9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS	$400	The mathematical operation of deducting a number	subtraction	0%
THE EARLY 19th CENTURY	N/A	Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled "engage the enemy" around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle	the Battle of Trafalgar	0%
PICTURE THE NOVEL	$600	The author's sole novel, published in 1963	The Bell Jar	0%
BALLPARK FUN	$800	When a Texas Ranger hits a homer at home, the theme from this Robert Redford film plays, & it's not "The Way We Were"	The Natural	0%
BALLPARK FUN	$400	In an unexpected crossover, the green Phanatic supporting this team since 1978 has a kids' book with a "Galapagos Gang" of animals	the (Philadelphia) Phillies	0%
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS	$1600	2015: the National Dialogue Quartet, of this North African Arab Spring nation	Tunisia	0%
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE	$2000	This composer conducted the first performance of his "Faust" overture at a Dresden concert in 1844	Wagner	0%