Statistics for Jeopardy #8661

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
HUNGARY	$600	[To be filled in later	=	100%
TEXTING, TEXTING	$200	In Oregon a first offense for texting while doing this can be a class B violation & a $1,000 fine	driving	64%
ONE, TWO	$400	A tree-dweller, the 2-toed this mammal sleeps about 15 hours a day & can take an entire month to digest some food items	a sloth	57%
PRE HISTORIC	$200	To rest in a big way for a few months starting around December	hibernate	57%
HUNGARY	$200	Under a treaty following WWI, Hungary lost about 2/3 of its territory, including Transylvania, to this country	Romania	57%
KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT	$800	In 1998 Queen Elizabeth knighted this piano-playing singer, though his first & last names got reversed when he was introduced	(Sir) Elton John	57%
KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT	$1000	Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty	Chaplin	43%
KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT	$200	In 2014 Prince William knighted this Oscar winner's "left foot", & the rest of him, too	Daniel Day-Lewis	43%
PRE HISTORIC	$800	From the Latin for "gap", it describes the break a TV show takes when it goes out of production for a few weeks	hiatus	43%
PRE HISTORIC	$1000	This hairy adjective is extremely close to historic in the dictionary	hirsute	36%
HUNGARY	$400	Hungary's Ferenc Puskas, "The Galloping Major", was one of the first international superstars of this sport	soccer	36%
BOOK TITLE REFERENCES	$800	In a novel by Khaled Hosseini, a boy named Hassan	The Kite Runner	36%
TEXTING, TEXTING	$600	Online at damnyou this: "How's your day going?"; "Awful. I have a bad case of the manboobs" (followed by) "Omg. The Mondays!"	Autocorrect	29%
DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II	$800	Precious commodity: 7-15-12-4	gold	29%
PRE HISTORIC	$600	A set of people who rob on a public road, or in a more fun sense, a side project for Willie Nelson & 3 other legends	highwaymen	29%
ASTRONOMY	$1200	It's the second smallest of the solar system's 8 major planets	Mars	29%
KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT	$400	To honor his father, this star here was knighted in his birth name, so he's Sir Maurice Micklewhite	Michael Caine	29%
DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II	$400	One possible answer: 14-15	no	29%
KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT	$600	After captaining the Enterprise on TV in the '90s, this actor would get called "Sir" for another reason in 2010	Patrick Stewart	29%
ROCK DOCS	$400	Hofstra linguistics Prof Robert Leonard sang at this 1969 concert, where he & his band Sha Na Na opened for their pal Jimi Hendrix	Woodstock	29%
TEXTING, TEXTING	$1000	ATEOTD, in texting lingo, ATEOTD is short for this	at the end of the day	21%
BIBLICAL WOMEN	$800	David's wife & Solomon's mother, she had formerly been married to Uriah the Hittite	Bathsheba	21%
ONE, TWO	$200	In 2014 Jennifer Garner began wondering about the contents of your wallet in ads for this company	Capital One	21%
TEXTING, TEXTING	$400	Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text	Merry Christmas	21%
DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II	$1200	This little light in a gas-powered appliance: 16-9-12-15-20	pilot	21%
U.S. HISTORY	$400	In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service & the Life-Saving Service merged to create this branch of the military	the Coast Guard	21%
BOOK TITLE REFERENCES	$200	Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field	the color purple	21%
ROCK DOCS	$1600	After playing guitar with Lou Reed & Nico in this influential '60s band, Sterling Morrison earned a PhD in medieval studies	The Velvet Underground	21%
ROCK DOCS	$800	Can't get much more metal than Runhild Gammelsaeter, who sang for the band called this god's Hammer & has a PhD from the U. of Oslo	Thor	21%
DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II	$1600	A reddish brown: 21-13-2-5-18	umber	21%
HUNGARY	$800	The beautiful Tokaj region in the northeast is world famous for its production of this, like Tokaji Aszu	wine	21%
U.S. HISTORY	$1200	In 1912, the U.S. flag gained its 47th & 48th stars after these two neighbors, highlighted here, joined the Union	Arizona & New Mexico	14%
ONE, TWO	$800	The basic movement in this numeric Lone Star State dance is "quick-quick, slow, slow"	a (Texas) two-step	14%
ASTRONOMY	$400	Because they orbit between the Earth & Sun, these are known as the 2 "inferior" planets	Mercury & Venus	14%
TEXTING, TEXTING	$800	MMS, this message service, lets you attach that cute video of your toddler singing "Poker Face" in a text to grandma	Multimedia	14%
BIBLICAL WOMEN	$1200	This dancer who in Matthew 14 is referred to as "the daughter of Herodias" is better known by this name	Salome	14%
BOOK TITLE REFERENCES	$1000	In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold	The Alchemist	14%
ROCK DOCS	$2000	4-time "Jeopardy!" champ Jackie Fuchs has a J.D. from Harvard; as Jackie Fox, she played bass in this all-female Joan Jett band	The Runaways	14%
DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II	$2000	Vascular plant part: 24-25-12-5-13	xylem	14%
BOOK TITLE REFERENCES	$400	Luke Castellan (not Percy Jackson), who stole Zeus' master bolt	a lightning thief	7%
ONE, TWO	$600	"Shave & a haircut, 2 bits"?! Sounds like quite the bargain, as 2 bits is usually worth this amount of money	a quarter	7%
HUNGARY	$1000	In 1988, 43 years after his death in self-exile in New York, this composer's remains were returned to his beloved Hungary	Bartók	7%
BOOK TITLE REFERENCES	$600	The murder of Linnet Doyle aboard the Karnak, a steamer	Death on the Nile	7%
U.S. HISTORY	$1600	In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles	(Earl) Warren	7%
PRE HISTORIC	$400	Check out an example of these; you don't have to translate them, though	hieroglyphics	7%
BIBLICAL WOMEN	$2000	The name of this queen who vowed to have the prophet Elijah killed has come to mean an immoral woman	Jezebel	7%
TV LEGENDS	N/A	Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors	Lucille Ball	7%
ASTRONOMY	$2000	Astronomers use this, the difference in an object's direction when observed from 2 points, to measure distance	parallax	7%
BIBLICAL WOMEN	$400	The woman who found the baby Moses floating in a basket in the river is identified in Exodus only as this person's daughter	Pharaoh	7%
ONE, TWO	$1000	In 1934 John Dillinger got a very unwanted birthday present, this 4-word designation & soon, a $10,000 reward on his head	Public Enemy Number One	7%
BIBLICAL WOMEN	$1600	This matriarch was the mother of Esau & Jacob	Rebecca	7%
U.S. HISTORY	$800	The Dorr Rebellion in 1842 was directed against the government of this "Ocean State"	Rhode Island	7%
ROCK DOCS	$1200	"I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem" sang Dexter Holland, a molecular biology PhD who's the lead singer of this band	The Offspring	7%
ASTRONOMY	$800	65 times the size of the Sun, Canopus, the second-brightest star in the sky, is a yellow-white one of these	a yellow-white giant	0%
FINANCE BROS	$800	In September 2008 Lehman Brothers, with $639 billion in assets, filed the largest one of these in U.S. history	bankruptcy	0%
FINANCE BROS	$1600	The fabulous Baker Boys, Julian & Felix, run a hedge fund specializing in this 7-letter sector of new drug development	biotech	0%
FINANCE BROS	$2000	Founded by French freres, this financial advising & asset managing giant is LAZ on the New York Stock Exchange	Lazard	0%
U.S. HISTORY	$2000	Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint	(Mother) Cabrini	0%
FINANCE BROS	$400	Anderson Brothers Bank was founded in 1933 in the depths of this to give desperately needed support to South Carolina farmers	the Great Depression	0%
FINANCE BROS	$1200	A philanthropic fund was created in 1940 by these brothers--John 3rd, Laurance, Winthrop, Nelson & David	the Rockefellers	0%
ASTRONOMY	$1600	Blown back by this, a comet's ion tail points almost directly away from the Sun	the solar wind	0%