Statistics for Jeopardy #8662

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This quiz has been taken 25 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES	$200	Second hand item like a Bulova or Rolex (5 letters)	a watch	94%
CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES	$800	You'll need an ID to get your mail in this Rocky Mountain state (5 letters)	Idaho	82%
CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES	$400	A magical spirit of Arabic lore who might need a good bottle opener (5 letters)	a genie	76%
WELL IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY	$200	This British monetary term dates back to around 775, when 240 coins were minted from this much weight in silver	the pound	71%
MAMMALS	$400	This largest mammal tips the scales at 150 tons	a blue whale	59%
3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE	$800	A floral necklace	a lei	53%
COMMUNICATIONS	$400	The 1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference replaced the signal CQD, for "all stations, distress", with this	SOS	53%
ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES	$800	Lundy, an island in the Bristol Channel between England & this U.K. country, is a breeding ground for seabirds like puffins & razorbills	Wales	53%
THE MORAL OF THE FABLE	$600	A cockfight victor crows to show he's won, attracting a hungry eagle; as the saying has it, this quality goes before a fall	pride	47%
ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES	$400	Mainland is the name of the largest of these islands 130 miles off the coast of Scotland & famous for their wee equines	Shetland	47%
ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES	$1600	This isle in the Irish Sea is not part of the U.K. but has been a personal possession of the British monarch since 1828	the Isle of Man	47%
WELL IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY	$600	In 1897 Russia went to a gold standard in switching this monetary unit from silver to gold	the ruble	47%
CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES	$1000	The first lady's residence; some believe it was just east of Israel (4 letters)	Eden	41%
SUN UP	$200	Songs he recorded for Sun Records in the mid-'50s included "Milkcow Blues Boogie" & "Mystery Train"	Elvis Presley	41%
3 FOR THE SHOW	$200	Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly & Mo brings plenty landed in Montana	Yellowstone	41%
MAMMALS	$1200	The state marine mammal of Florida is a subspecies of the West Indian this	a manatee	35%
CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES	$600	It follows a midday grace period (5 letters)	lunch	35%
ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES	$1200	In 1897 this guy experimented & sent a radio transmission from the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England	Marconi	35%
1972	N/A	In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors"	Richard Nixon	35%
WELL IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY	$1000	Oklahoma's Wilma Mankiller, the 1st female principal chief of this Native American nation, appeared on a U.S. quarter in 2022	the Cherokee	35%
3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE	$400	To request alms of a stranger	beg	29%
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE	$1600	In a 1983 song & album, this piano man was "An Innocent Man"	Billy Joel	29%
ISLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES	$2000	Tresco & Bryher are 2 of the Scilly Isles about 30 miles off this county at the southwestern tip of Britain	Cornwall	29%
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE	$400	"Hey Joe" & "The Wind Cries Mary" are on this guitarist's 1967 debut album "Are You Experienced"	Jimi Hendrix	29%
SUN UP	$1000	Retirees enjoying rather than withering? A new concept until Sun City opened near this state capital in 1960	Phoenix	29%
THE EARLY 1800s	$400	In 1807 Congress passed a law to "prohibit the importation of" these, but it wasn't 100% effective	slaves	29%
SUN UP	$800	One of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World, it was a giant statue of the Greek sun god Helios	the Colossus of Rhodes	29%
THE MORAL OF THE FABLE	$800	This one of Aesop's fables, about a disguised member of a flock, teaches the moral that doing mean tricks can backfire on you	the wolf in sheep\'s clothing	29%
MAMMALS	$800	Looking "like a small watermelon on little, tiny legs", a baby pygmy one of these made its debut at a Sydney Zoo in 2021	a hippopotamus	24%
THE EARLY 1800s	$600	Marking a humane first, the RSPCA, the Royal this, was founded in London in 1824	Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	24%
WELL IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY	$800	Long after telling "The Tale of Genji" in one of the world's oldest novels, Murasaki Shikibu graced the 2,000-this note	yen	24%
COMMUNICATIONS	$800	"Telstar", a 1962 instrumental hit, was named for a pioneering communications one of these	a satellite	18%
THE EARLY 1800s	$200	The earliest predecessor of this transport was patented in 1818 & derisively called a "dandy horse"	bicycle	18%
COMMUNICATIONS	$1200	The oldest known recipes, including one for pigeon stew, are found on Babylonian clay tablets in this writing system	cuneiform	18%
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE	$1200	Perhaps her "Summertime Sadness" was caused by the "Innocence Lost" she sang of on her 2012 "Paradise" EP	Lana Del Rey	18%
MAMMALS	$1600	Here are these burrowing mammals of Africa on high alert, watching for predators	meerkats	18%
3 FOR THE SHOW	$1000	John Cena (not exactly living up to the title), Danielle Brooks & Jennifer Holland	Peacemaker	18%
PARTNERS IN RHYME	$400	Countee Cullen & Claude McKay were influential poets in this "Renaissance"	(the) Harlem (Renaissance)	18%
PARTNERS IN RHYME	$1600	Ezra Pound helped publish this T.S. Eliot poem that rhymes, "In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo"	"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"	18%
THE MORAL OF THE FABLE	$200	This avian proverb is the moral of the fable of a lone stork among cranes	birds of a feather flock together	12%
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE	$800	Andrew Bird called a song "Near" this "Experience Experience"	Death	12%
3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE	$1200	It means cool; a 1990s & 2000s hip-hop music label was "So So" this	Def	12%
THE EARLY 1800s	$1000	The French style in fashion, architecture & even desks was this, named for the type of vast political unit Napoleon built	Empire	12%
3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE	$1600	To cut something down with a broadsword, or build something up with tough effort	hew	12%
THE MORAL OF THE FABLE	$1000	A fox stuck in a well tricks a goat into joining him; the goat learned this lesson meaning "take care before you act"	look before you leap	12%
SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE	$2000	"I hold just one breath here within my chest / Just like innocence", these grunge rockers sang on their 1996 No. 1 album "No Code"	Pearl Jam	12%
SUN UP	$600	This newspaper was founded in 1837 & once employed TV show creator David Simon	the Baltimore Sun	12%
3 FOR THE SHOW	$800	Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna & Garcelle Beauvais get "Real"	The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills	12%
3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE	$2000	It's used in photography & filmmaking to adjust color	a gel	6%
MAMMALS	$2000	Sadly, one of these colorful carnivores that famously made its way into Calif. from Oregon died in 2021 after it was struck by a vehicle	a grey wolf	6%
PARTNERS IN RHYME	$800	Seen here is this 2021 inaugural poet partnering with the Boston Pops	(Amanda) Gorman	6%
3 FOR THE SHOW	$600	Ming-na Wen, Jennifer Beals & Temuera Morrison, who opens "The Book of" this mysterious title sci-fi guy	Boba Fett	6%
THE MORAL OF THE FABLE	$400	"Don't" do this was learned when an accident ruined a girl's plans for a poultry empire	count your chickens before they\'re hatched	6%
THE EARLY 1800s	$800	In 1810 this king got control of Kauai & Niihau, bringing all Hawaii under his rule	Kamehameha (the Great)	6%
COMMUNICATIONS	$2000	Towers & hilltop stations with pivoting arms were used to send messages in this system, from Greek for "sign bearing"	semaphore	6%
COMMUNICATIONS	$1600	Still important in the developing world, this long-distance radio format uses frequencies between AM & FM	short wave	6%
SUN UP	$400	Also called surya namaskar, this sequence of poses is a way to greet the day or warm up before your daily practice	sun salutations	6%
3 FOR THE SHOW	$400	CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim & Alex Russell	S.W.A.T.	6%
PARTNERS IN RHYME	$2000	In 1997, this British poet laureate collaborated with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney on editing a poetry anthology	Ted Hughes	6%
WELL IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY	$400	Ben Franklin was in profile, not facing forward, on the 1st Federal Reserve note for this amount of money when it was issued in 1914	the $100 bill	6%
PARTNERS IN RHYME	$1200	Aiding Coleridge in creating this poem, Wordsworth wrote he "suggested the navigation of the ship by the dead men"	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	6%