Statistics for Jeopardy #8669

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
KITCHEN TOOLS	$200	The name of this utensil used to serve soup comes from the Old English for "load"	a ladle	92%
THE "D" TAILS	$200	Its tail is often pinned on at kids' parties	donkey	92%
THE DEVIL	$200	This marsupial kind of looks like a bear, has a jaw as strong as a hyena's & like its cartoon counterpart, can have a bad temper	the Tasmanian devil	85%
THE "D" TAILS	$400	A joint used by carpenters is named for this bird's fan-shaped tail	a dove	77%
YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED	$800	Debits go on the left side in this book that contains the financial records of a business	a ledger	77%
POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON	$200	A 2014 film: "Captain America: The ____ Soldier"	Winter	77%
POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON	$800	A play by James Goldman: "The Lion in ____"	Winter	77%
YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED	$200	It's an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft, captain	a log	69%
MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE	$200	I need some Shakespeare & get her line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"	Juliet	69%
KITCHEN TOOLS	$600	This Spanish rice & seafood dish is often made in a wide shallow pan named for the dish	paella	69%
POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON	$400	By Megan Thee Stallion: "Hot Girl ____"	Summer	69%
THE DEVIL	$600	Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur & Scott Stevens led this team to its first Stanley Cup in 1995	the New Jersey Devils	69%
YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED	$400	Originally it was a book for priests on how to administer the sacraments; today it's a book of operating instructions	a manual	62%
MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE	$400	I asked for a basic truth about humanity & got the often-said "If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like" this	a nail	62%
VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT	$800	An object of worship	an idol	62%
YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED	$1000	This 4-letter word for an especially weighty scholarly book comes from the Greek for "roll of papyrus"	a tome	62%
POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON	$1000	Directed by Ingmar Bergman: "____ Sonata"	Autumn	62%
VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT	$400	Scent or smell	odor	62%
POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON	$600	A Broadway musical: "____ Awakening"	Spring	62%
VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT	$1600	To get out of control is to "run" this, from a Malaysian word	amok	46%
THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK	$1600	Westinghouse first trademarked this word as the name of a washing machine; now it refers to an establishment	laundromat	46%
THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK	$800	In 1950 the Otis Company lost its trademark on this word derived from the Latin scala, "ladder"	an escalator	38%
VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT	$1200	An auspice or portent	an omen	38%
THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK	$1200	In a 1965 case that swung from a district court to an appeals court, Donald F. Duncan lost a trademark on the name of this toy	a yo-yo	38%
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY	$800	Called "a great breezy read", "Summer Crossing" by this "Breakfast at Tiffany's" author was published in 2005	Capote	38%
IT'S ANARCHY	$400	This country's repressive King Umberto I was assassinated by an anarchist in 1900	Italy	38%
IT'S ANARCHY	$1200	In 1872 anarchism pioneer Mikhail Bakunin quarreled with this man, splitting Europe's revolutionary movement	(Karl) Marx	38%
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY	$400	In 2020 the Strand magazine published "Aunt Nellie's Diary", a story that predates her "Little Women", written when she was just 17	Louisa May Alcott	38%
IT'S ANARCHY	$1600	Anarchists helped spark the antiglobalization movement at the 1999 WTO protests in this U.S. city	Seattle	31%
THE DEVIL	$1000	A debate provoker, this 2-word phrase dates to a 1616 work where one "pleadeth for nothing but for the kingdome of Sathan"	a devil\'s advocate	23%
THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK	$2000	B.F. Goodrich once owned this word for the "hookless slide fastener" on its rubber boots	a zipper	23%
MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE	$1000	21st century news quote time: Him in 2001--"We stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy"	Blair	23%
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY	$1200	The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave	Charles Dickens	23%
THE "D" TAILS	$1000	These marine creatures have learned to "walk" upright on their tails in captivity & also in the wild	dolphins	23%
IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL	$400	Last name of gunslinging title hero Wynonna, who partnered with Doc Holliday on a Syfy show	Earp	23%
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY	$2000	Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death	Forster	23%
MOUNTAINS	$800	Lending their name to a peninsula, these mountains extend from Serbia to the Black Sea	the Balkans	23%
IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL	$800	A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work	The Boys	23%
KITCHEN TOOLS	$400	This 5-letter word refers to a stoppered flask, usually for oil or vinegar	a cruet	15%
KITCHEN TOOLS	$800	This implement that sounds like a lute relative is actually a vegetable slicer	a mandoline	15%
KITCHEN TOOLS	$1000	There's a shape in the name of this device that makes vegetable noodles	a spiralizer	15%
IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL	$1600	Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl"	Chloë Grace Moretz	15%
THE "D" TAILS	$800	The website of the Perth Zoo informs us that these have bushy tails & can't bark	dingoes	15%
THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK	$400	A company of the same name trademarked this term for solid carbon dioxide in 1925	Dry Ice	15%
IT'S ANARCHY	$800	Matthew Arnold's 1869 "Culture and Anarchy" took the side of culture & popularized the phrase "sweetness and" this	light	15%
MOUNTAINS	$2000	Africa's second-highest peak, it bears the name of the country it's found in	Mount Kenya	15%
MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE	$800	Commencement address wisdom: "Be the heroine of your life, not the victim", said this writer & filmmaker at Wellesley in 1996	Nora Ephron	15%
MOUNTAINS	$1600	Opening parts west to settlement, the Wilderness Road was a 200-mile pathway through the Cumberland Gap in these mountains	the Appalachians	15%
THE DEVIL	$800	This insect is also called the devil's arrow or the devil's darning needle	the dragonfly	15%
IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL	$1200	Matthew Goode played Ozymandias in the film version of this graphic novel; Jeremy Irons played the role on HBO	Watchmen	15%
VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT	$2000	French word for distinctive style or flair	elan	8%
PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY	$1600	This author traded China for the Korean DMZ in "The Eternal Wonder", published 40 years after her 1973 death	(Pearl) Buck	8%
YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED	$600	A classic work of literary criticism is Ian Watt's "The Rise of" this form: "Studies in Defoe, Richardson & Fielding"	the novel	8%
MOUNTAINS	$400	Utah's highest point is 13,500-foot Kings Peak in these mountains	the Rocky Mountains	8%
THE DEVIL	$400	Cocoa powder in place of melted chocolate is one difference between this & a regular chocolate cake	a devil\'s food chocolate cake	0%
THE "D" TAILS	$600	Its tail gave its name to a 1950s men's hairstyle	a ducktail (a duck)	0%
IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL	$2000	This 2017 movie with Charlize Theron as a badass spy was based on the graphic novel "The Coldest City"	Atomic Blonde	0%
CLASSIC ALBUMS	N/A	This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral	Damn the Torpedoes	0%
MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE	$600	A putdown, please. Oscar Wilde told a fellow poet who complained of "a conspiracy of" this, "join it"	silence	0%
IT'S ANARCHY	$2000	In July 1917 Emma Goldman got 2 years in prison for opposing this wartime measure, authorized by Congress in May	the draft	0%
MOUNTAINS	$1200	This section of the Alps that include some famous peaks, gets its name from the Celtic "penn", meaning "peak"	the Pennine Alps	0%