Statistics for Jeopardy #8666

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
HORSE IDIOMS	$200	Information directly from the person involved comes "straight from" here	the horse\'s mouth	100%
ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM	$600	A children's story tells us despite severe reservations, this colorful breakfast item goes very well with ham	green eggs	90%
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, COMMONLY	$400	Don't chuckle--nitrous oxide also goes by this name	laughing gas	90%
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, COMMONLY	$200	Sodium chloride, which you know better as "table" this	salt	90%
ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM	$200	In 2022 France passed a law that reduces nitrites, the chemicals that make cured ham this color inside instead of gray	pink	70%
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, COMMONLY	$600	Chimney sweeps may find this 4-letter form of amorphous carbon coating their workplace	soot	70%
AIR TRAVEL	$400	Though often used to mean the front of a terminal where planes remain in a delay, it's actually a paving material	the tarmac	70%
BELGIANS	$400	National hero Eddy Merckx won this foremost multi-stage cycling event 5 times	Tour de France	70%
AIR TRAVEL	$200	When it comes to flight connections, a stopover is longer than one of these that typically lasts less than 4 hours	a layover	60%
MASHED UP TV SHOWS	$200	"Better Call Nine-Nine"	Better Call Saul & Brooklyn Nine-Nine	60%
SADJECTIVES	$400	P.G. Wodehouse wrote, "I am all alone here and rather" this color traditionally used to describe sadness	blue	60%
GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS	$800	In 2008 the Grammys said yes, yes, yes to this Amy Winehouse song	"Rehab"	50%
BELGIANS	$800	In the 1920s, priest & physicist Georges Lemaître formulated the modern version of this sudden expansion model of the universe	the big bang (theory)	50%
MASHED UP TV SHOWS	$400	"Touched by Improvement"	Touched by an Angel & Home Improvement	50%
THE ZODIAC SIGN...	$400	Mentioned in the title of a No. 1 hit from 1969	Aquarius	40%
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, COMMONLY	$800	Sodium bicarbonate, used in ovens & refrigerators alike, is known by this common 2-word name	baking soda	40%
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP	$800	It was once known as the Zaire, but now it's this & it still carries more water than any river except the Amazon	Congo	40%
MASHED UP TV SHOWS	$1000	"Emily in Blinders"	Emily in Paris & Peaky Blinders	40%
MASHED UP TV SHOWS	$600	"I Dream of Anarchy"	I Dream of Jeannie & Sons of Anarchy	40%
ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM	$400	Italian for "ham", this meat precedes cotto when cooked	prosciutto	40%
GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS	$1600	In 1989 Bobby McFerrin took home a Song of the Year Grammy for this, & he probably didn't, & was	"Don\'t Worry, Be Happy"	30%
GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS	$400	He & co-writer Amy wadge shared a Grammy in 2016 for "Thinking Out Loud"	Ed Sheeran	30%
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP	$1200	Once a mighty kingdom, it was abolished by the Allies after WWII during the reorganization of Germany	Prussia	30%
WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE	$200	After John Roberts flubbed this 35-word recitation at the inauguration in 2009, he & the president got it right the next day	the Oath of Office	30%
THE ZODIAC SIGN...	$1200	That sounds like a god of war	Aries	20%
THE ZODIAC SIGN...	$800	Whose animal representation has the most legs	Cancer	20%
HORSE IDIOMS	$600	Someone super ready & eager is said to be exhibiting this bridle-based activity	chomping at the bit	20%
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP	$400	This Central European country only existed in the 20th century	Czechoslovakia	20%
SADJECTIVES	$1600	U is the only vowel in this 4-letter adjective that means dull or sullen	glum	20%
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, COMMONLY	$1000	"G" is for this, hydrated calcium sulfate, used in drywall	gypsum	20%
SADJECTIVES	$800	Word for one whose cardiac organ got busted, metaphorically	heartbroken	20%
ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM	$800	Harry J. Hoenselaar patented the spiral ham slicer & later built this sweet-sounding company into a household name	Honey Baked	20%
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS	$800	Courting controversy, this Norwegian's 1881 play "Ghosts" dealt openly with venereal disease & incest	Ibsen	20%
SADJECTIVES	$1200	"M" is for mood, & a gloomy one at that; "Come to me" in a 1912 song, "My" this "Baby"	melancholy	20%
AIR TRAVEL	$800	O'Hare Airport in Chicago is about a 25-mile drive from this other international airport that's closer to downtown	Midway	20%
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP	$2000	Yugoslavia ceased to be in 2003, becoming the Union of Serbia and this	Montenegro	20%
GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS	$1200	In 1995 "Streets Of" this won Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Male Rock Vocal & Best Song Written Specifically for Movies or TV	Philadelphia	20%
SADJECTIVES	$2000	Insert an M into a word meaning abstinent from alcohol & you have this adjective meaning grave in mood	somber	20%
BELGIANS	$1600	Using this new type of microscope in the 1940s, scientist Albert Claude helped create the modern map of the cell	the electron microscope	20%
MASHED UP TV SHOWS	$800	"What We Do in the Building"	What We Do in the Shadows & Only Murders in the Building	20%
BELGIANS	$2000	Victor Horta's 1890s Hôtel Tassel in Brussels has been called the first major building in this French-named style	Art Nouveau	10%
WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE	$400	A 2006 survey of presidential historians gave the No. 1 all-time blunder to this 15th prez for failing to avert the Civil War	Buchanan	10%
WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE	$1000	Oops! One of the burglars caught at the Watergate in 1972 was security chief of this committee, CREEP for short	Committee to Re-elect the President	10%
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS	$400	The 2012 Tony for Best Revival of a Play went to this Arthur Miller classic	Death of a Salesman	10%
THE ZODIAC SIGN...	$1600	With its name in a November meteor shower emanating from comet Tempel-Tuttle	Leo	10%
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS	$1600	This Christopher Hampton play about immoral 18th century French seducers was based on a Pierre Laclos novel	Les Liaisons dangereuses	10%
HORSE IDIOMS	$1000	Oops, we've done this--arranging our 2 necessities, but in the wrong sequence	put the cart before the horse	10%
WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE	$600	In 1922 the Interior Secretary gave an oil company exclusive rights in this Wyoming reserve & got a $200,000 payoff	Teapot Dome	10%
WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE	$800	In 1798 the laws regarding pro-French immigrants & anti-presidential rhetoric known as these acts did not go over well	the Alien and Sedition Acts	10%
AIR TRAVEL	$1000	When a change of pressure causes airplane ear, try swallowing to open this tube that connects the middle ear to the pharynx	the eustachian tube	10%
GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS	$2000	Writers Donald Glover, Ludwig Goransson & Jeffery Lamar Williams shared a 2019 award for this Childish Gambino smash	"This Is America"	10%
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP	$1600	At one time the capital of Upper Canada, this city was once named York, in honor of a duke of York	Toronto	10%
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS	$2000	This actor/playwright won a Tony for "August: Osage County" & has been seen in "Homeland" & "Ford v Ferrari"	Tracy Letts	10%
HORSE IDIOMS	$800	It's too late; you've done this "after the horse is gone"	close the barn door	0%
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS	$1200	Harold Pinter's adultery drama "Betrayal" is notable for unfolding in this unusual way	in reverse or antichronilogical (backwards)	0%
HORSE IDIOMS	$400	"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't" do this	make him (them) drink	0%
ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM	$1000	One country-cured ham is this brand that comes from the same-named Virginia town; hickory-smoke 'em if you got 'em!	Smithfield	0%
THE ZODIAC SIGN...	$2000	Represented by a creature that Zeus turned into to abduct Europa	Taurus (the bull)	0%
AIR TRAVEL	$600	Named for the wall in front of them, these have less storage space but nobody to recline in your face	the bulkhead	0%
BRITISH HISTORY	N/A	From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous"	the monarchy	0%
BELGIANS	$1200	Brussels-born, she created her wrap dress in the '70s, when she was married to a prince; she later wed Barry Diller	von Furstenberg	0%