Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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CHECK YOUR CALENDAR | $200 | Colorful nickname for November 27, 2020, knowing that Thanksgiving is November 26 | Black Friday | 67%
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | $800 | The 60 minutes that belong to you & me | our hour | 67%
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | $400 | To wander through the land of the Caesars | roam Rome | 59%
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IN THE YEAR 2000 | $400 | Following the death of Charles Schulz, the final original strip of this comic was published in February | Peanuts | 56%
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | $200 | A story about a beastly appendage | a tail tale | 52%
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CHECK YOUR CALENDAR | $600 | Bastille Day, Parents' Day & Nelson Mandela Day are all observed during this month | July | 52%
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GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN | $200 | The 2019 film of "Little Women" replicated Orchard House, where this author wrote & set the novel | (Louisa May) Alcott | 52%
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IN THE YEAR 2000 | $200 | Defeating Rick Lazio, Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate to represent this state | New York | 48%
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CHECK YOUR CALENDAR | $400 | You are this sign of the zodiac if your birthday falls between December 22 & January 19 | Capricorn | 44%
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IN THE YEAR 2000 | $600 | A rise in this fatal bovine ailment sparked alarm in several European countries | mad cow disease | 44%
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CHECK YOUR CALENDAR | $800 | Place your bets--this sporting event established in 1875 takes place the first Saturday in May | the Kentucky Derby | 44%
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | $600 | The right moment for a pungent herb of the mint family | thyme time | 44%
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POP MUSIC | $800 | It wasn't so long ago that this singer's "Gangnam Style" was everywhere | Psy | 41%
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POP MUSIC | $400 | The hive was buzzing in 2019 when she released her live album "Homecoming" | Beyoncé | 37%
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IN THE YEAR 2000 | $800 | The 2000 Summer Olympics were held in this city with Governor-General Sir William Deane opening the games | Sydney | 37%
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CONSTELLATIONS | $400 | In the 18th century a big constellation named for this ship in which Jason & his "nauts" sailed was broken up into smaller ones | Argo | 33%
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POP MUSIC | $1200 | This French pop duo were right at home in their "Tron: Legacy" cameos--lots of people were wearing futuristic headgear | Daft Punk | 30%
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KINDER GARDEN | $200 | The chocolate is an appropriately tanned version of this flower that will make your garden shine | a sunflower | 26%
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POP MUSIC | $2000 | Ufologists took notice of Nicki Minaj's song about these title objects that were "meant to fly" | starships | 26%
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CONSTELLATIONS | $600 | The star Arcturus is in Boötes , but its name is Greek for "bear guard"; it's right on the tail of this other constellation | Ursa Major | 26%
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A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS | $400 | A woven container, or the structure under a hot air balloon for the crew & equipment | a basket | 22%
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KINDER GARDEN | $600 | This flower with a precious metal in its name is sure to bring joy to all who behold one | a marigold | 22%
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A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS | $800 | A handbag; it can also refer to the prize money in a boxing match | a purse | 22%
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GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN | $800 | Before George Cukor directed her in "Adam's Rib" & "The Philadelphia Story", he cast this actress as Jo for the 1933 film adaptation | (Katharine) Hepburn | 22%
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CONSTELLATIONS | $800 | Lepus, "the hare", is the quarry of this nearby constellation | Orion | 22%
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KINDER GARDEN | $400 | "Z" is for this zesty flower that's hardy and stands up well to drought | zinnia | 22%
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THE A.V. CLUB | $400 | As a child in 1450s Florence, he probably didn't expect to have 2 continents named for him | Amerigo Vespucci | 19%
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GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN | $400 | As this March sister in the 1949 version of "Little Women", Elizabeth Taylor marries Laurie, played by Peter Lawford | Amy | 19%
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THE A.V. CLUB | $800 | Andreas Vesalius' 1543 "De humani corporis fabrica libri septem" pioneered this study of human body structures | anatomy | 19%
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POP MUSIC | $1600 | This "Use Somebody" group sounds like a long line of Spanish royalty, but it actually formed in Nashville | Kings of Leon | 19%
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KINDER GARDEN | $1000 | Yes, Iggy, this rhododendron variety is the pride of the South | azalea | 15%
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CONSTELLATIONS | $200 | The Whirlpool Galaxy is in Canes Venatici, "the hunting" these | dogs | 15%
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CHECK YOUR CALENDAR | $1000 | Commemorating an event from 1777, June 14 is this holiday | Flag Day | 15%
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THE A.V. CLUB | $1600 | Last name of Alessandro, for whom a unit of electricity is named | Volta | 15%
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NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES | $1600 | Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city & has about a fifth of the population of this region it's in | Catalonia | 7%
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GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN | $600 | In 1994, this actress made her feature film debut as Beth | Claire Danes | 7%
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NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES | $400 | Put a stopper in this second city of Ireland, found on an island in the River Lee | Cork | 7%
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CONSTELLATIONS | $1000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Appearing overhead in northern summer months, the Summer Triangle is formed by the brightest stars of Aquila the eagle, Lyra the harp and this swan-shaped constellation | Cygnus | 7%
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GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN | $1000 | The 2019 film of "Little Women" was written & directed by this woman | Greta Gerwig | 7%
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NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES | $800 | Italy's financial capital, this second city of the nation is also the center of its fashion & publishing industries | Milan | 7%
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U.S. GOVERNMENT | $2000 | In the wake of WWI, it was organized as a bureau; then it was an administration & in 1989 got a new name & cabinet status | Veterans Affairs | 7%
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U.S. GOVERNMENT | $1200 | Lucile Lomen, daughter of a reindeer meat salesman, was the first female one of these, helping Justice Douglas | a (Supreme Court) clerk | 4%
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NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES | $2000 | At one time a major Byzantine city, Split is today the second-largest city in this country that split from Yugoslavia in 1991 | Croatia | 4%
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THE A.V. CLUB | $2000 | Senator Arthur Vandenberg wrote, "For any realist" Pearl Harbor ended this policy of avoiding foreign entanglements | isolation | 4%
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NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES | $1200 | Its second city of Pusan is located at the southeast tip of this nation's peninsula | South Korea | 4%
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U.S. GOVERNMENT | $800 | The person in this job, currently Gretchen Whitmer, has an official summer residence overlooking the Straits of Mackinac | the governor of Michigan | 4%
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A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS | $2000 | From the Latin for "box", it's an underground reservoir for collecting rainwater | a cistern | 0%
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19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | $1200 | "Agnes Grey" is a novel by this lesser-known sister | Anne Bronte | 0%
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS | $1000 | A scratchy & hard-to-wear elaborate starched collar | a rough ruff | 0%
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A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS | $1200 | Wearable term for the box from which cards are dealt for blackjack in a casino | a shoe | 0%
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A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS | $1600 | This small glass container can begin with "v" or with "ph" | a vial (phial) | 0%
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KINDER GARDEN | $800 | As the name implies, these flowers are so happy to propagate that their seeds burst out with great alacrity | impatiens | 0%
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U.S. GOVERNMENT | $400 | The prosecutors in a Senate impeachment trial are called the "House" these | managers | 0%
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19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | $1600 | He wrote a critique of prison life, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", after spending time in the prison; it was his last published work | Oscar Wilde | 0%
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EUROPEAN HISTORY | N/A | Once Europe's leading military power & later the largest state in Germany, it was abolished by the Allies in 1947 | Prussia | 0%
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U.S. GOVERNMENT | $1600 | One task of this government commission opened in 1915 is to protect consumers from con games | the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) | 0%
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IN THE YEAR 2000 | $1000 | After 136 years underwater, this Confederate submarine was raised intact to the surface in August | the Hunley | 0%
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19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | $2000 | The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was originally stolen from an Indian shrine | The Moonstone | 0%
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19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | $800 | The painting seen here, depicts a scene from this Charles Dickens novel | The Old Curiosity Shop | 0%
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19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | $400 | Lewis Carroll mirrored the success of his "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with this 1872 sequel | Through the Looking-Glass | 0%
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THE A.V. CLUB | $1200 | Almost 500 concerti from this Venetian survive today | Vivaldi | 0%
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