Statistics for Jeopardy #8688

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This quiz has been taken 30 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
FAMOUS AMERICANS	$400	2022 marks the 60th anniversary of this Hollywood icon's death at 36; she's only become more famous since her passing	Marilyn Monroe	88%
DOUBLE TALK	$200	A ballerina's stage costume typically includes this skirt	tutu	88%
PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL...	$200	Bird: Chosen in 1782, it can live up to 30 years in the wild	bald eagle	81%
NOT A FEATURE	$800	John Lennon & this woman made a 1970 short film in which a fly walks over a nude body	Yoko Ono	81%
IT'S A BUG	$200	Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources	ants	75%
IT'S A BUG	$600	Deer ones cause Lyme disease in the U.S.; the chillingly named Australian paralysis ones, anaphylactic shock	ticks	75%
PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL...	$600	Symbol of the USA itself: In 1950 the nation said, "I want you" to this finger-pointer	Uncle Sam	75%
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS	$600	Centro Cultural Kirchner; Monumento a Eva Peron	Buenos Aires	69%
PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL...	$800	Floral emblem: In proclaiming it, Reagan pointed out the White House has a garden of them	roses	63%
HISTORY	$1200	In 1453 the fall of the city then called this marked the end of the Byzantine Dynasty	Constantinople	56%
NOT A FEATURE	$1000	In a legal morass for decades, 1987's "Superstar" uses Barbie dolls to tell of this singer & her tragic battle with anorexia	Karen Carpenter	56%
DOUBLE TALK	$600	Big in the 1950s, this double- or even triple-speak ballroom dance has roots in the mambo	the cha-cha	56%
FAMOUS AMERICANS	$800	A star attraction of Wild West shows, she was once billed as "The Peerless Lady Wing-shot"	Annie Oakley	50%
HISTORY	$800	China pledged to leave this region's system in place for 50 years after 1997	Hong Kong	50%
DOUBLE TALK	$400	An abnormal sound of the heart, or to say something in a very quiet voice	murmur	50%
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS	$400	The Spanish Steps & the Pyramid of Cestius	Rome	50%
EATING & DRINKING PLACES	$800	"Beef & reef" is another term for this type of restaurant that also has a rhyming name	surf & turf	50%
QUIZ BOWL	$800	Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1940, "The Grapes of Wrath" has been called "the greatest novel about" this subject	the Dust Bowl	50%
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS	$200	Sanrio Puroland & the Ginza shopping district	Tokyo	50%
EATING & DRINKING PLACES	$1200	Military types can have food & fun at one of these, also a term for something carried to drink water	a canteen	44%
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS	$800	The Muzey Kino & the Laika Monument	Moscow	44%
HEY, NICE "AB"s!	$1200	In a monastery, he's the boss	the abbot	44%
NOT A FEATURE	$200	Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck"	Daffy Duck	38%
HISTORY	$400	In 1474 at the age of 23, this queen began her rule of the Spanish kingdom of Castile	Isabella	38%
DOUBLE TALK	$800	Roy's, a Hawaiian fine-dining destination, serves macadamia crusted this fish	mahi-mahi	38%
QUIZ BOWL	$400	For decades this venue has been the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic	the Hollywood Bowl	38%
HEY, NICE "AB"s!	$800	A kidnapper, or a muscle that pulls away from the middle	abductor	31%
QUIZ BOWL	$200	Part of a tea set, or a college football game first played in 1935	a sugar bowl	31%
THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME	$800	"I know that I can't take no more it ain't no lie I wanna see you out that door baby..."	"Bye Bye Bye"	31%
FAMOUS AMERICANS	$1200	San Francisco hosts a parade honoring this late labor union activist & champion of farm workers near his march 31st birthday	Chavez	31%
DOUBLE TALK	$1000	Something fancy & frilly, or the name of a character in "The Aristocats"	froufrou	31%
IT'S A BUG	$400	Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn"	ladybug	31%
THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME	$1600	"Just gonna stand there and hear me cry? Well that's all right because I..."	"Love The Way You Lie"	31%
HEY, NICE "AB"s!	$400	To give up completely, or to flee a ship	abandon	25%
EATING & DRINKING PLACES	$400	The action of going to a drinking establishment located in a basement gave rise to this term for an unsavory tavern	a dive bar	25%
EATING & DRINKING PLACES	$2000	A word for "treat" gives us the name for this type of Italian restaurant	a trattoria	25%
ESSAYS	$400	Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Man" gave us the phrase this "springs eternal"	hope	25%
FAMOUS AMERICANS	$1600	In 1916 this illustrator created his first of more than 300 covers for the Saturday Evening Post	Norman Rockwell	25%
QUIZ BOWL	$600	It's Team Ruff vs. Team Fluff & a whole lot of cuteness when Animal Planet presents this competition	the Puppy Bowl	25%
EATING & DRINKING PLACES	$1600	The Internet is on tap at this place with a 1-word name suggesting you can get a cup of joe there as well	a cybercafe	13%
NOT A FEATURE	$400	One of Pixar's first animated shorts was "Luxo Jr."; Luxo is this, still seen in the opening of Pixar films	a desk lamp	13%
QUIZ BOWL	$1000	This holiday drink whose name derives from an Old Norse toast to health is traditionally served in a large bowl of the same name	a wassail	13%
NOT A FEATURE	$600	I was 22 for 23 on my Oscar ballot in 2022 but missed Documentary Short Subject: "The Queen of" this team sport, about Lusia Harris	basketball	13%
THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME	$2000	"If no one is around you say 'baby, I love you', if you ain't runnin' game..."	"Say My Name"	13%
THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME	$1200	"Have your friends collect your records and then change your number, I guess that I don't need that though, now you're just..."	"Somebody That I Used To Know"	13%
ESSAYS	$800	Charles Lamb's 1823 "The Tombs in the Abbey" argued that the poor shouldn't be charged admittance to visit this London spot	Westminster Abbey	13%
HEY, NICE "AB"s!	$1600	Irritating & grating, or a substance used to grate away by friction	an abrasive	6%
ESSAYS	$1600	This 1929 essay says a woman must have a dedicated personal space in order to become a fiction writer	A Room of One\'s Own	6%
ESSAYS	$2000	The word "essay" came into English in a 1597 work by this Sir Francis, last name not Drake	Bacon	6%
IT'S A BUG	$1000	Papaya & European cherry precede this alliterative term, a nuisance in the fields & in the kitchen	fruit flies	6%
PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL...	$400	Motto: This 4-word phrase, signed into law by Eisenhower in 1956; "E pluribus unum" had been used unofficially	In God We Trust	6%
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS	$1000	Emancipation Park & Trench Town Culture Yard	Kingston	6%
HISTORY	$1600	During this 1870-71 war, Napoleon III was captured & eventually deposed & Paris fell to a neighboring nation's army	the Franco-Prussian War	6%
PLEASE RISE FOR OUR NATIONAL...	$1000	March: This "eternal" Sousa piece got the gig in 1987	"The Stars And Stripes Forever"	6%
ESSAYS	$1200	"Higher Laws" & "The Pond in Winter" are 2 of the 18 essays in this collection by Thoreau	Walden	6%
THE TITLE THAT COMPLETES THE RHYME	$400	"And I'm just like oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh you need to just stop like can you just not step on my gown?"	"You Need To Calm Down"	6%
HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS	N/A	Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow	Broadway	0%
FAMOUS AMERICANS	$2000	In 1939, after she was denied a stage at Constitution Hall, she sang to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial	Marian Anderson	0%
HISTORY	$2000	This 5th century B.C. leader of Athens strengthened its leadership of Greece's city-states & had the Parthenon built	Pericles	0%
IT'S A BUG	$800	Pillbugs are also called tiggy-hogs & more familiarly, by this rhyming name	roly-polies	0%
HEY, NICE "AB"s!	$2000	To wait patiently, like a movie "Dude"	to abide	0%