Statistics for Jeopardy #8684

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
EARTH	$400	The Earth's longest river is the Nile, but this one carries the most water by volume	the Amazon	100%
THE FOUNDING FATHERS	$200	Encyclopedia Britannica calls him "The Foundingest Father of them all" (really!)	George Washington	86%
EARTH	$600	This liquid beneath the Earth's surface is different in Hawaii--it has more molten rock & fewer gases & fragments	magma	86%
THE FOUNDING FATHERS	$400	Cheers to this Harvard grad, a second cousin of the second president	(Samuel) Adams	79%
EARTH	$200	277 miles long & found in the American Southwest, it's one of the largest land gorges on Earth	the Grand Canyon	71%
RIVER NAMES	$400	This river's name comes from a word for "arrow", implying that it is faster than the Euphrates	the Tigris	71%
THE FOUNDING FATHERS	$600	Activist lawyer James Otis is credited with saying that this "without representation is tyranny"	taxation	57%
THAT'S COLD!	$400	About temperature, this adjective can mean cold; when used regarding lettuce, it means fresh & firm	crisp	50%
LITERARY CASTLES	$400	A Scottish castle is home to this school of witchcraft & wizardry	Hogwarts	50%
THE 20th CENTURY	N/A	Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland	Lenin	50%
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE	$200	"Last Exit to Springfield"	The Simpsons	50%
RIVER NAMES	$1600	Some Europeans called this Chinese river the Blue River, perhaps to distinguish it from the Yellow River	the Yangtze	50%
THAT'S COLD!	$200	With a name meaning "cold", he's the animated guy with a corncob pipe & a button nose	Frosty (the Snowman)	43%
TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES	$800	Listerine says bad breath is "also known as oral malodor or" this word; now oral malodor... that'd be a better name	halitosis	43%
ROMANCE LANGUAGES	$800	In 2008 this European country's parliament passed an act officially adopting Brazilian spellings of hundreds of words	Portugal	43%
UNITS OF MEASURE	$600	A braza, about 5 1/2 feet, is an old Spanish measure based on the reach of outspread these	arms	36%
UNITS OF MEASURE	$1000	You can spell "acre" with letters in this metric measurement that equals 2.471 acres	hectare	36%
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID	$800	You won the U.S. National All-Around Gymnastics Championships from 2013 to 2016 & in 2018, 2019 & 2021	Simone Biles	36%
EARTH	$800	Larger trees are starting to encroach north on this ecosystem defined by its lack of them	the tundra	36%
UNITS OF MEASURE	$200	About .26 inches, a unit called this insect's space is based on the length of the gaps in a hive	a bee	29%
TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES	$200	The king can't move without being put in check! Curses! It's this chess situation--a draw!--who no one ever wants to see!	a stalemate	29%
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE	$400	From 2012: "Say My Name"	Breaking Bad	29%
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID	$1600	You served as Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996	(Desmond) Tutu	29%
UNITS OF MEASURE	$800	A city map, also called a plat, shows the division into single-owner areas called this "P" word, a synonym of packages	parcels	29%
4 OF THE SAME LETTER	$400	A small figurine like an Academy Award	a statuette	21%
ROMANCE LANGUAGES	$1600	In 1898 an explosion killed the last known speaker of this Adriatic language that shared its name with a dog breed	Dalmatian	21%
THAT'S COLD!	$600	This word is paired with an opposite in the name of a relieving cream to treat minor aches & pains of the muscles & joints	icy	21%
LITERARY CASTLES	$800	This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place	Kafka	21%
ROMANCE LANGUAGES	$2000	Isolated from its romantic relatives, Romanian has been influenced by this language group of neighbors like Serbia & Bulgaria	Slavic	21%
THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE	$800	Seen here, Alexandra Shipp played a younger version of this film mutant originally portrayed by Halle Berry	Storm	21%
THE FOUNDING FATHERS	$1000	The "Penman of the Revolution", John Dickinson drafted the first version of this predecessor to the Constitution	the Articles of Confederation	21%
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE	$600	"Chidi's Choice"	The Good Place	21%
TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES	$400	"Pater Corpus" doesn't quite have the same ring as this slang term for the build of some fathers	a dad bod	14%
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID	$1200	You took a constitutional oath on October 26, 2020,	(Amy Coney) Barrett	14%
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID	$400	As Germany's "chancellor of change", you ended military conscription & introduced a minimum wage	Angela Merkel	14%
4 OF THE SAME LETTER	$800	At the recent Tokyo Olympics, Alix Klineman & April Ross netted gold in this sport	beach volleyball	14%
THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE	$400	Saying it wasn't a "protest song", Bob Dylan did include the lyrics "How many times must the cannonballs fly"	"Blowin\' In The Wind"	14%
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID	$2000	After a huge upset in the 1948 election, you did the honorable thing & conceded to Pres. Truman & sent congratulations	Dewey	14%
ROMANCE LANGUAGES	$400	Spoken in medieval southern France, the dialect langue d'Oc got its name because Oc, not this, meant yes there	oui	14%
TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES	$1000	The result for your account of writing a check you can't cover? It's this villain who many need "protection" from	overdraft	14%
THAT'S COLD!	$1000	The food seen here is prepared "crudo", Spanish & Italian for this word	raw	14%
THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE	$1200	Formerly the Hartford Whalers, they blew into Raleigh in 1997	the Hurricanes	14%
RIVER NAMES	$2000	A king of Alba Longa, near present-day Castel Gandolfo, drowned in this river, which was then named for him	the Tiber	14%
LITERARY CASTLES	$1600	A key antagonist in "The Chronicles of Narnia", she lives in a castle full of stone statues	the White Witch	14%
THAT'S COLD!	$800	If your office is really "as cold as" this space for dry aging, it's well under 40 degrees	a meat locker	7%
4 OF THE SAME LETTER	$2000	If you support another person's alibi, you provide this 4-"O" word from the Latin for "to strengthen"	corroboration	7%
LITERARY CASTLES	$2000	Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in "I Capture the Castle" by this "101 Dalmatians" author	Dodie Smith	7%
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE	$800	"Wind Sprints" & "Black Eyes & Broken Hearts"	Friday Night Lights	7%
UNITS OF MEASURE	$400	The GGE, this substance gallon equivalent, compares the energy content of alternative fuels	gasoline	7%
TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE	$1000	"Riding in Town Cars with Boys" & "The Unblairable Lightness of Being"	Gossip Girl	7%
EARTH	$1000	Hurricanes don't hit our middle, as this "effect" of the rotating earth on wind flow increases the further you get from the equator	the Coriolis	7%
RIVER NAMES	$1200	This river that gave its name to a Georgia city was known as Rio Dulce, or "sweet river", to early Spanish explorers	the Savannah River	7%
THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE	$1600	"Blood On The Coal" by The Folksmen is on the soundtrack album of this Christopher Guest mockumentary	A Mighty Wind	0%
4 OF THE SAME LETTER	$1200	An expert in the formal rules & procedures of running an assembly, like the British legislature	a parliamentarian	0%
TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES	$600	This insurance duo--the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services--are just the worst	deductible & co-pay	0%
THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE	$2000	Spencer Tracy was on the side of evolution while Fredric March argued creationism in this classic 1960 film	Inherit the Wind	0%
THE FOUNDING FATHERS	$800	This Virginian first became prominent for his oratory in a 1763 case about whether it was OK to pay clergy with cash rather than tobacco	Patrick Henry	0%
RIVER NAMES	$800	In Sanskrit, the name of this river comes from "sindhu", which means "river"	the Indus River (the Sindh)	0%
ROMANCE LANGUAGES	$1200	Ladino, or Sephardi, was carried to the Mideast by people expelled from their homeland in 1492 at the urging of this judicial body	the Inquisition	0%
LITERARY CASTLES	$1200	In this 17th century religious allegory, Christian & hopeful are imprisoned for a time at Doubting Castle	The Pilgrim\'s Progress	0%
4 OF THE SAME LETTER	$1600	This adjective means having no previous example known	unprecendented	0%