Stats: Jeopardy! #8639

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This quiz has been taken 51 times
The average score is 21 of 61

Answer Stats

Category	Points	Clue	Answer	% Correct
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN	400	In 1613 the English kidnapped this daughter of Powhatan to use her as a hostage in negotiations	Pocahontas	86%
IN THE NATIONAL PARK	200	Great Fountain Geyser	Yellowstone	78%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	400	Tories is a nickname for this U.K. political party	Conservative	70%
BEVERAGES	600	The original plant-powered drink; the first half of its ingredients are tomato puree carrots celery & beets	V8	70%
OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS	200	A job like a chauffeur or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally	a driver	68%
SUBTITLED NONFICTION	600	Parents Children and the Search for Identity is the subtitle; the title completes the proverb "the apple doesn't fall far..."	From the Tree	65%
BEVERAGES	800	In 2020 McDonald's celebrated the 50th anniversary of this minty St. Patrick's Day treat	a Shamrock Shake	62%
MUSICALS BY LYRICS	400	One short day in the Emerald City... full of so much to do	Wicked	62%
IN THE NATIONAL PARK	600	Alligator Creek Campsite	Everglades	59%
THE 1960s	1200	In the Six-Day War Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall	Jordan	57%
MUSICALS BY LYRICS	800	Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings...	The Lion King	57%
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN	200	Susan La Flesche the first Native person to get this kind of degree had a solo practice covering the vast Omaha reservation	an MD (a medical degree)	54%
BEVERAGES	200	7UP is among the soda brands that have replaced this word on their labels in favor of "zero sugar"	diet	54%
OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS	800	A certain member of our military forces or an adjective that refers broadly to the sea	Marine	54%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	800	It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area	jurisdiction	51%
SUBTITLED NONFICTION	400	Over the Edge of the World charts this 16th century explorer's "Terrifying Circumnavigation of the World"	Ferdinand Magellan	49%
THE 1960s	2000	In 1964 he was called back to Moscow from a Black Sea holiday & told he was no longer in charge in the USSR	Nikita Khrushchev	46%
OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS	1000	Someone who oversees construction work or a muscle that becomes shorter	contractor	43%
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS	200	Performing in 2020 just after their family suffered a miscarriage this piano maestro dedicated "Never Break" to his wife	John Legend	43%
AUNTIE	400	In this novel Jo is ill-suited as a companion to her Aunt March	Little Women	41%
MUSICALS BY LYRICS	1600	Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes how do you measure measure a year?	Rent	41%
ESTABLISHMENT	1200	In 1999 Nunavut Territory was established out of the eastern portion of this other Canadian territory	the Northwest Territories	41%
ALL APOLOGIES	800	The 1531 Apology of the Augsburg Confession was a defense of the doctrines of this branch of Protestantism	Lutheranism	38%
AUNTIE	1200	The haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh does not approve of a match between this nephew of hers & Elizabeth Bennet	Fitzwilliam Darcy	35%
SUBTITLED NONFICTION	200	An Oral History of this cable TV channel's "Golden Age" in the 1980s & '90s is shared in "Slimed!"	Nickelodeon	35%
SUBTITLED NONFICTION	1000	Tears of Mermaids reveals "The Secret Story of" these gems	pearls	35%
ALL APOLOGIES	400	Robert Barclay's 1678 "Apology for the True Christian Divinity" stated the beliefs of this sect also called the Society of Friends	the Quakers	35%
CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD	FINAL	Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent	Australia	32%
THE 1960s	1600	On the medal podium in this city John Carlos & Tommie Smith raised fists & also wore no shoes to highlight poverty in America	Mexico City	32%
THE 1960s	400	Protests in May 1968 that rocked Paris were kicked off by student occupation & police action at this Latin Quarter school	the Sorbonne	32%
ESTABLISHMENT	400	The Judiciary Act of 1789 created this position in the cabinet first held by Edmund Randolph	attorney general	30%
IN THE NATIONAL PARK	800	In California Twenty Mule Team Canyon	Death Valley	30%
IN THE NATIONAL PARK	400	The McKinley Station Trail	Denali (National Park)	30%
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS	400	Straight Up now name this woman who closed the 2019 show with a greatest hits medley	(Paula) Abdul	30%
OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS	400	It can mean highest in rank or value as well as someone of high rank at your school	principal	30%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	1200	This period in English history refers to the return of Charles II to the throne	Restoration	30%
BEVERAGES	400	It's the beverage most associated with Dad's & Hires	root beer	30%
ESTABLISHMENT	800	In 1887 this man systematically created the first U.S. library school at Columbia	Melvil Dewey	27%
ALL APOLOGIES	1600	In 2010 John Henry Newman author of the "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" underwent this process that precedes canonization	beatification	24%
MUSICALS BY LYRICS	1200	Hey sanna hosanna hey JC JC you're alright by me	Jesus Christ Superstar	24%
ALL APOLOGIES	1200	This English statesman published an "Apology" defending Catholicism in 1533; 2 years later he was headless	Sir Thomas More	24%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	2000	This science studies the universe as a whole bringing together astronomy & physics	cosmology	22%
BEVERAGES	1000	The name of this popular Chinese tea is less popularly spelled with a W-U at the beginning	oolong	22%
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS	600	We won't dance around it--this band! at the 2019 show made their ma proud & lived up to the chorus of a hit tune	Panic! at the Disco	22%
ESTABLISHMENT	1600	The Ayyubid Dynasty created by this famed hero ruled Egypt in the 12th & 13th centuries	Saladin	19%
ALL APOLOGIES	2000	This Bishop of Hippo in North Africa published an apology in 388 titled "On the Holiness of the Catholic Church"	Augustine	16%
AUNTIE	800	Jan Handzlik played the young Patrick Dennis who is taken in by this exuberant auntie played memorably by Rosalind Russell	Auntie Mame	16%
IN THE NATIONAL PARK	1000	In Arkansas Bathhouse Row seen here	Hot Springs National Park	16%
THE 1960s	800	Broadening his message from civil rights on March 2 1965 Martin Luther King made his first public statement against this	the Vietnam War	16%
SUBTITLED NONFICTION	800	Eats Shoots & Leaves is subtitled "The Zero Tolerance Approach to" this part of writing	Punctuation	14%
4-SYLLABLE WORDS	1600	The name of this genus of bacteria honors a veterinarian with a fishy last name	Salmonella	14%
ESTABLISHMENT	2000	Initially worried about Axis control of this passage Britain created a base on Deception Island off Antarctica	Drake's Passage	11%
OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS	600	Not just an occupation it's also a type of fruity pie	a cobbler	8%
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN	600	Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims"	a copyright	8%
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS	1000	At the 2021 show this letter-perfect indie pop trio gave a smokin' performance of "Bang!"	AJR	8%
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS	800	This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021	Glass Animals	8%
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN	800	Making-Out-Road divorced this frontiersman & state capital name source Cheyenne style leaving his stuff outside her lodge	Kit Carson	5%
AUNTIE	1600	Seen here she plays Aunt Lydia on "The Handmaid's Tale"	Ann Dowd	3%
AUNTIE	2000	Her "astonishment was almost unspeakable" upon finding a fence whitewashed (ostensibly) by Tom Sawyer	Aunt Polly	3%
MUSICALS BY LYRICS	2000	In short there's simply not a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here	Camelot	3%
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN	1000	A mural in Oklahoma's capitol honors 5 Native American ballerinas including these 2 sisters Maria & Marjorie	the Tallchief sisters	0%

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Jeopardy! #8639 - Statistics