Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Word Search
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
Jeopardy #8150 - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 677 times
- The average score is 14 of 51
Answer Stats
| Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SYMBOLS | $800 | Long a symbol of communism, this pair represents the union of worker & peasant | hammer and sickle | 74%
|
| SYMBOLS | $200 | On the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle grasps this symbol of peace in its right talon | an olive branch | 69%
|
| SYMBOLS | $1000 | Because of his days as a sailor, the founder of this department store used a red star as its symbol | Macy\'s | 68%
|
| @ | $200 | About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West | Cuba | 67%
|
| @ | $400 | No visit to Iceland would be complete without a visit to the "Bay of Smokes", this capital city founded around 874 | Reykjavik | 66%
|
| ""&" | $600 | Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things | death & taxes | 63%
|
| SYMBOLS | $400 | One symbolic representation of Christ is as the paschal type of this animal | a lamb | 56%
|
| > | $400 | The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison | Orange is the New Black | 56%
|
| SPECIES NAMES | $400 | Macropus rufus is this color kangaroo | red | 53%
|
| % | $400 | The occupy Wall Street movement helped popularize the populist phrase "We are the" this | the 99% | 53%
|
| 14-LETTER WORDS | $800 | Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city | infrastructure | 52%
|
| % | $800 | In the dystopian Netflix show "3%", kids in the slums of this largest Brazilian city are competing to join an offshore paradise | São Paulo | 45%
|
| 14-LETTER WORDS | $400 | The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one | capitalization | 43%
|
| % | $1000 | The government contacts about 110,000 people to get this monthly figure, 3.6% for Oct. 2019 | unemployment | 42%
|
| 14-LETTER WORDS | $1600 | If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones | farsightedness | 39%
|
| > | $600 | In 2019 Jason Bateman won an Emmy for his direction of this series & Julia Garner won for playing Missouri local Ruth Langmore | Ozark | 32%
|
| @ | $800 | A small trading town until the 19th c., this city on the Huangpu River now has a pop. of 20+ million, kidnapped sailors aside | Shanghai | 32%
|
| ""&" | $400 | A classic reader featured "Fun with" these 2 siblings, along with their dog Spot | Dick & Jane | 31%
|
| % | $600 | In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he's involved in on offense | the Houston Rockets | 31%
|
| SPECIES NAMES | $1200 | The annuus in Helianthus annuus, the sunflower, implies it lives up to this number of years | one | 29%
|
| ""&" | $800 | It's the traditional name of the British dish seen here | bangers & mash | 27%
|
| > | $1000 | With superheroic effort at 2019's NAACP Image Awards, he bested Michael B. Jordan--again--as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | (Chadwick) Boseman | 27%
|
| 14-LETTER WORDS | $1200 | Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist | a paleontologist | 23%
|
| HISTORIC PLEAS | $400 | In 1860, after anti-abolitionists broke up a meeting, this thinker & ex-slave delivered a plea for freedom of speech in Boston | (Frederick) Douglass | 23%
|
| > | $800 | In 2019 the Grammy for Best Country Duo/ Group Performance went to "Tequila" by the duo of Dan + him | Shay | 22%
|
| LITERARY FESTIVALS | $2000 | One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness" | (Joseph) Conrad | 20%
|
| * | $800 | A 2016 papal footnote caused a ruckus by saying some divorced Catholics can have "the help of" these, such as communion | the sacraments | 20%
|
| LITERARY FESTIVALS | $800 | The Tennessee Williams & the Saints & Sinners LGBT Literary Festivals are both held in this southern city | New Orleans | 19%
|
| SYMBOLS | $600 | Gary Anderson designed 3 chasing arrows as the symbol for this; the negative space on the inside resembles a pine tree | recycling | 19%
|
| LITERARY FESTIVALS | $400 | This California city is home to Litquake, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019 | San Francisco | 19%
|
| * | $1000 | Gibbon's notes in "Decline and Fall of" this include a burn on an ancient historian, "Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense" | the Roman Empire | 19%
|
| @ | $1000 | What a pyramid scheme! The landmark here in this ancient Mayan city was dedicated to Kukulkan | Chichen Itza | 18%
|
| 14-LETTER WORDS | $2000 | Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example | interplanetary | 17%
|
| @ | $600 | This waterway extends 51 miles from Limón Bay to a second bay whose name would kinda give it away | the Panama Canal | 17%
|
| SPECIES NAMES | $2000 | The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth | a cyclops | 15%
|
| REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES | $1200 | I, this '90s figure skater, called 911 & gave mouth-to-mouth to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed in a bar in Portland | Tonya Harding | 15%
|
| WORLD TRANSPORTATION | $1200 | This U.S. interstate passes through 8 states on its 2,400+ mile journey from Santa Monica to Jacksonville | I-10 | 7%
|
| * | $600 | You can get "Lost" in the footnotes & notes on the footnotes in "S.", a novel conceived by this sci-fi writer-director | J.J. Abrams | 7%
|
| WORLD TRANSPORTATION | $2000 | In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals | Cape Town & Pretoria | 6%
|
| LITERARY FESTIVALS | $1200 | Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job | cowboy | 5%
|
| REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES | $2000 | Before playing Gibbs on "NCIS", he sledgehammered the window of a burning car & pulled 2 teens to safety | Mark Harmon | 5%
|
| * | $400 | A footnote in Richard Feynman's Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars' beauty | poets | 5%
|
| LITERARY FESTIVALS | $1600 | Louisville's Gonzofest is not about Muppets; it celebrates the writing of this native son | Hunter Thompson | 3%
|
| HISTORIC PLEAS | $1200 | Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home | Nez Perce | 3%
|
| WORLD TRANSPORTATION | $1600 | Carrying 5,000-plus passengers, one of the largest cruise liners, the "Harmony of the Seas" is operated by this company with a "C" name | Royal Caribbean | 3%
|
| FRENCH TOWNS | N/A | Legend says local farm wife Marie Harel & a priest from Brie created the famous product of this Normandy village | Camembert | 2%
|
| HISTORIC PLEAS | $2000 | He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year | Charles Guiteau | 0%
|
| HISTORIC PLEAS | $800 | An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this | horseback ride naked through the town | 0%
|
| HISTORIC PLEAS | $1600 | Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, "Be merciful and spare me"; Achilles kills him | King Priam (or "Pree-um")" | 0%
|
| SPECIES NAMES | $1600 | Pandalus borealis, the deepwater prawn, is also known as this directional shrimp | northern (**north) | 0%
|
| ""&" | $1000 | In 1949 Billboard added this new music category to replace what had been called Race Records | R&B (Rhythm & Blues) | 0%
|
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz
New and Popular