Statistics for Jeopardy #8687

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This quiz has been taken 35 times
The average score is 15 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS	$200	"I'm strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach" is sung by this hero	Popeye	86%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$400	Tragically, on January 28, 1986 this exploded 73 seconds after liftoff	the Challenger	71%
CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS	$800	"Grab your backpack! Let's go! Jump in! Vámonos!!" says her theme	Dora the Explorer	67%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$600	Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917	Mount St. Helens	62%
CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS	$600	"More than meets the eye", they're "robots in disguise"	Transformers	62%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$200	In 1954 Senator Joe McCarthy provoked televised hearings after accusing the army of "coddling" these people	communists	57%
"LOCK"	$1000	Synonym for a wizard or a conjurer	a warlock	52%
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS	$400	Noted for its wooded gorges, Snowdonia National Park is found mostly in this U.K. country's Gwynedd County	Wales	52%
CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS	$400	He "will sleep till noon but before it's dark, he'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park"	Yogi Bear	52%
LET'S BUILD A HOUSE	$400	The hand railings on a stair or balcony can be called a balustrade or this, which you might slide down	a banister	48%
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS	$800	India's Sundarbans National Park is part of a reserve for this endangered feline	a tiger	48%
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS	$1600	Urho Kekkonen National Park in this nation is illuminated in summer by the midnight sun	Finland	43%
UNDER QUARANTINE	$400	To prevent 14th c. epidemics, some ships arriving in Europe had to sit at anchor for quaranta giorni, this many days before landing	40	38%
SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES	$200	(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) At San Diego’s Grant Hotel back in 1970, sci-fi master Ray Bradbury & superhero artist Jack Kirby, greeted the 300 fans who attended the first of these; now, it’s an annual event drawing more than 130,000 each year	Comic-Con	38%
LET'S BUILD A HOUSE	$1200	If you're renovating, be careful before taking out one of these walls named for the extra weight it supports	load-bearing	33%
UNDER QUARANTINE	$1200	A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown	Philadelphia	33%
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS	$2000	This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebok antelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas	South Africa	33%
CARTOON THEME SONG LYRICS	$1000	"Come join the Warner Brothers & the Warner Sister, Dot! Just for fun we run around the Warner movie lot"	the Animaniacs	33%
SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES	$1000	(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In February 1983, Queen Elizabeth visited San Diego, stopping in Balboa Park to unveil a statue of William Shakespeare at this theater, named for the historic one in London where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed	the Globe	33%
WORD ORIGINS	$400	This word for a political aspirant comes from Latin for "white", the color of their togas in ancient Rome	candidate	29%
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR	$400	The 2019 horror thriller"Us"	Jordan Peele	29%
UNDER QUARANTINE	$800	With disease threatening NYC in 1738, the city set up a quarantine at Bedloe's Island, today home to this landmark	the Statue of Liberty	29%
SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES	$800	(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1969, the U.S. Navy opened its Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program at Air Station Miramar, better known as this school that inspired a 1986 movie title	TOPGUN	29%
WORD ORIGINS	$800	This formal jacket is named for a New York country club where it was popularized in the 1880s	a tuxedo	24%
POSSESSIVE LIT	$400	"Some Pig" is one of the messages that shows up in the title object of this 1952 novel	Charlotte\'s Web	24%
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR	$2000	1960's "La Dolce Vita"	Fellini	24%
UNDER QUARANTINE	$1600	Numbers 5 mandated that the Israelites isolate anyone with the skin affliction the King James Bible calls this	leprosy	24%
"LOCK"	$400	To move together in unison as if connected is to "march in" this	lockstep	24%
UNDER QUARANTINE	$2000	Plague arrived by ship at this French Mediterranean port in 1720 & despite an immediate quarantine, half the city perished	Marseille	24%
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS	$1200	A sanctuary for moose, elk & bison, a Saskatchewan national park bears the name of this 19th century royal husband	Prince Albert	24%
KEY	$400	The painting seen here depicts Christ giving the keys to heaven to this saint	Saint Peter	24%
WORD ORIGINS	$1600	This dog breed gets its name from the German for "nose" or "muzzle"	Schnauzer	24%
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR	$800	2003's "Lost in Translation"	Sofia Coppola	24%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$1000	In 1960 4 students in Greensboro, N.C. staged a sit-in at this store's whites-only lunch counter, sparking other sit-ins in the South	Woolworth\'s	24%
"LOCK"	$800	An Allen charge can be read to try to coax a verdict out of this type of jury	deadlocked	19%
WORD ORIGINS	$2000	Now a way to get out of something, it was originally a window in a castle wall for archers to shoot through	loophole	19%
LET'S BUILD A HOUSE	$800	You can buy a finder to locate these vertical interior pieces of wall framing, which is helpful when hanging your Picasso	studs	19%
POSSESSIVE LIT	$1200	This Frank McCourt Pulitzer winner became a 1999 movie starring Emily Watson as the author's mother	Angela\'s Ashes	14%
HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS	$200	Of the zonkey seen here	a zebra & a donkey	14%
SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES	$400	(Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) On April 8, 2004, the Padres beat the Giants in the first Major League game at this ball park, a centerpiece of San Diego’s newly revitalized downtown	Petco	14%
LET'S BUILD A HOUSE	$2000	"C" if you can come up with this term for a projecting beam that's supported at only one end	a cantilever	10%
"LOCK"	$200	Notice the placement of this type of storage unit by each bed in the barracks	a footlocker	10%
LET'S BUILD A HOUSE	$1600	An inward angle where two sloping roof sections meet is known by this geographic name	a valley	10%
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR	$1600	The 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe installment "Eternals"	Chloé Zhao	10%
KEY	$200	It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key observed "the rockets' red glare"	Fort McHenry	10%
OPERA	N/A	An aria from this opera says, "Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh"	Pagliacci	10%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$800	In 1925, this high school teacher was put on trial for teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom	Scopes	10%
HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS	$800	Of the large but gentle dog called a Daniff	a Great Dane & a mastiff	5%
"LOCK"	$600	The Western species of	a hemlock	5%
POSSESSIVE LIT	$2000	This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark	All the King\'s Men	5%
WORD ORIGINS	$1200	Before it meant a record player, it referred to a symbol representing a sound	a phonograph	5%
SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES	$600	(Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures	Dr. Seuss	5%
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR	$1200	The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler	Frank Capra	5%
POSSESSIVE LIT	$800	In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil	Gulliver\'s Travels	5%
POSSESSIVE LIT	$1600	Aslan gives animals the ability to talk in this book in which Narnia is created	The Magician\'s Nephew	5%
HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS	$600	Of the small & energetic dog called a Chiweenie	a Chihuahua & a dachshund	0%
HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS	$400	Of the cattalo	a cow & a buffalo	0%
HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS	$1000	Of the Huarizo, these 2 domesticated South American camelids	a llama & an alpaca	0%
KEY	$800	This ornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here's the house that's now named in his honor	Audubon	0%
KEY	$1000	This community service & leadership organization has Key Club International, for high school students	Kiwanis International	0%
KEY	$600	In this TV series, Keegan-Michael key stumbles upon a magical town in which everyone acts like they are in a musical	Schmigadoon!	0%