Statistics for Jeopardy #8656

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This quiz has been taken 26 times
The average score is 6 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
SOUND UP!	$400	The wingbeats of this bird are heard here; it's been clocked at 50 wingbeats per second	a hummingbird	50%
ON THE COAST	$400	Manuel Antonio is a magnificent beach in this Costa-l country of Central America	Costa Rica	50%
ON THE COAST	$600	PCH for short, this road has its northern terminus near Leggett, California	the Pacific Coast Highway	50%
ON THE COAST	$800	You'll find Pompano Beach & Deerfield Beach on this state's scenic Gold Coast	Florida	44%
ON THE COAST	$200	The beautiful people know the Côte D'Azur is also called the French this	Riviera	38%
SOUND UP!	$800	Chiming in now: This 15.1-ton great bell, part of a landmark	Big Ben	31%
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)	$200	2-4-6-8! What do we appreciate?! "Identity Theft of" this spirited type of high schooler!	a cheerleader	25%
SOUND UP!	$600	The use of this word for the basketball success heard here dates back at least as far as 1913	a swish	25%
SCIENCE STUFF	$800	Abbreviated T, a fundamental unit of magnetic induction is named for this man	Tesla	25%
SCIENCE STUFF	$200	A gram stain checks for these microbes; gram-positive ones include MRSA & strep while gram-negative ones include E. coli & salmonella	bacteria	19%
SOUND UP!	$200	Guess what?! I got a fever! & the only prescription is more this instrument here!	cowbell	19%
1992 FILMS	$1600	Denzel Washington earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of this slain civil rights leader	Malcolm X	19%
IT'S RHYMING DAY	$200	A burro's bellow	a bray	13%
IT'S RHYMING DAY	$1000	A heated dispute or competition	a fray	13%
1992 FILMS	$400	Tom Hanks in this 1992 film: "Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!"	A League of Their Own	13%
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)	$600	In 2004 wedding planner Denise Richards fell for the groom in a movie titled this "(But I Don't)"	I Do	13%
IT'S RHYMING DAY	$600	To wander off topic or to have an extramarital affair	stray	13%
SCIENCE STUFF	$1000	Some 25 miles in depth, it lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere	the stratosphere	13%
1992 FILMS	$1200	"You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl" was a tagline for this film starring Mike Myers & Dana Carvey as a couple of slackers	Wayne\'s World	13%
WRITTEN CYRILLIC	$400	This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian	a bear	6%
ON THE COASTER	$400	Usually the coaster is on the table--here, this type of table, named for its spot next to the arm of a couch, is on the coaster	an end table	6%
IT'S RHYMING DAY	$400	"At the home of" en Francais	chez	6%
WRITTEN CYRILLIC	$800	One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian	ciao	6%
WOMEN WRITERS	$800	Sadly, she died at the age of 30, just a year after her "Wuthering Heights" was published	Emily Brontë	6%
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)	$400	It was this two-word Internet sensation's "Worst Christmas Ever"	Grumpy Cat	6%
1992 FILMS	$2000	Chow Yun-fat starred in this Hong Kong director's action epic "Hard Boiled"	John Woo	6%
SCIENCE STUFF	$400	A spinning skater rotates faster by pulling in her arms, a demonstration of the conservation of angular this	momentum	6%
1992 FILMS	$800	Joe Pesci played an inept lawyer who's called upon to defend Ralph Macchio in this "family" comedy	My Cousin Vinny	6%
D-DAY, THE 6TH OF JUNE	$2000	British & Canadian troops landed at areas code-named Gold, Juno & Sword Beaches; U.S. troops, at these 2	Omaha & Utah	6%
D-DAY, THE 6TH OF JUNE	$1600	German Field Marshal Rommel predicted, "The first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive... it will be" this, the title of a 1962 film	The Longest Day	6%
ON THE COASTER	$1200	Coaster on coaster--sometimes known as "The Fifth Coaster", session great King Curtis played this instrument on hits like "Yakety Yak"	the saxophone	6%
ON THE COAST	$1000	Incheon, on South Korea's West Coast, is a port on this sea north of the East China Sea	the Yellow Sea	6%
IT'S RHYMING DAY	$800	To consider options	weigh	6%
ANTHROPOLOGY	$1200	Why don't women die at menopause? In Kristen Hawkes' theory, when they become this older relative, they still help family survival	a grandmother	0%
ANTHROPOLOGY	$1600	A curandero is one of these healers who communicate with supernatural forces for information & to attempt cures	a medicine man (a witch doctor)	0%
ANTHROPOLOGY	$2000	Term for a kitchen trash heap like this one, studied centuries later to reveal eating habits & other aspects of a bygone group	a midden	0%
ON THE COASTER	$800	Perfect for our coasters is a round painting, Madonna of this fruit she's holding, its seeds a symbol of Jesus' suffering	a pomegranate	0%
D-DAY, THE 6TH OF JUNE	$800	Oddly, Americans' first word of the invasion came from this capital, from sources like the news agency Transocean	Berlin	0%
ANTHROPOLOGY	$800	In everyday speech this "Money" is from unethical sources; in anthropology, it's compensation to the family of a murder victim	blood money	0%
GREEK MYTHOLOGY	N/A	Of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece, these 2 from the same family were from Sparta according to Homer	Castor & Pollux	0%
WOMEN WRITERS	$1200	She set "Little Fires Everywhere" in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio	Celeste Ng	0%
NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS	$200	Dr. Neil Clark Warren's 1967 Ph.D. in this subject has helped his service eHarmony engineer 2 million marriages	clinical psychology	0%
NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS	$600	She said, "I worked so hard" after a 2020 op-ed suggested she stop using "Dr." before her name	Dr. Jill Biden	0%
NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS	$400	The late, great New Orleans musician Dr. John was the inspiration for this "Muppet Show" bandleader	Dr. Teeth	0%
D-DAY, THE 6TH OF JUNE	$400	Told there'd likely be a June 6 break in bad weather that had delayed the invasion, this commander gambled & said, "OK, let's go"	Eisenhowser	0%
WOMEN WRITERS	$400	In 1956, Kay Thompson, on the left, appeared in a TV production about this little girl of hers who lives at the Plaza Hotel	Eloise	0%
WRITTEN CYRILLIC	$1200	In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel"	February	0%
WOMEN WRITERS	$2000	She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Chile, the University of Santiago, & Harvard, among others	(Isabel) Allende	0%
ON THE COASTER	$2000	Have a drink on "Forbes" 6th richest American in 1918--this meat-packing magnate of hot dogs, his family's hot dogs	J. Ogden Armour	0%
ANTHROPOLOGY	$400	The field of glottochronology tries to pinpoint when 2 of these branched apart from a common source	languages	0%
NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS	$800	Near the Mass. Ave. T stop on the Orange Line is where this man lived in the 1950s getting his theology at Boston University	Martin Luther King Jr.	0%
WOMEN WRITERS	$1600	In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter	Maya Angelou	0%
WRITTEN CYRILLIC	$2000	Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue	Persian	0%
WRITTEN CYRILLIC	$1600	Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus	Polish	0%
NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS	$1000	In 1765 Trinity College Dublin conferred a doctorate on this pioneering dictionary maker	Samuel Johnson	0%
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)	$1000	A high school vampire tale punned on "Eat, Pray, Love" with "Drink", this synonym for murder, "Love"	slay	0%
SOUND UP!	$1000	Heard here, these paired items are used expertly by native people of northern North America	snowshoes	0%
ON THE COASTER	$1600	Coaster on coaster--it's this venerable Coney Island ride that Charles Lindbergh said was more thrilling than flying	the Cyclone	0%
SCIENCE STUFF	$600	It was launched in 1990 with optical defects that required 5 spacewalks to fix	the Hubble Telescope	0%
D-DAY, THE 6TH OF JUNE	$1200	Members of this U.S. Army special operations force scaled the steep cliffs of Pointe du Hoc to take out German artillery	the Rangers	0%
MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)	$800	Oh dear... a college student finds her own way to pay her expensive tuition in "From Straight A's to" this 3-letter movie rating	XXX	0%