Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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UNUSUAL ISLANDS | $600 | Taal Lake has a volcanic island that has its own Crater Lake--all on Luzon island in this country | Philippines | 79%
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UNUSUAL ISLANDS | $200 | Snake Island off Brazil's coast is filled with golden lanceheads, a deadly "pit" type of this snake | viper | 71%
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TIME FOR SECONDS | $600 | The second-largest moon in the solar system, Titan orbits this planet every 16 Earth days | Saturn | 64%
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SHIRT SHORTS | $200 | A Channel Island lends its name to this athletic shirt | jersey | 57%
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DUMB ANSWERS | $600 | This compound avian term says you don't have one single idea in your tiny mind | birdbrain | 50%
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TIME FOR SECONDS | $1000 | Marquette, Michigan is on this, the world's second-largest lake by area | Superior | 50%
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SHIRT SHORTS | $600 | Simon Cowell is famous for wearing this letter-style T-shirt | V-neck | 50%
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RIDDLE ME THIS | $200 | In 1939 this statesman spoke of a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" | Churchill | 43%
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UNUSUAL ISLANDS | $800 | More than 300 shipwrecks have earned Canada's Sable Island the nickname this "of the Atlantic" | Graveyard | 43%
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HISTORIC GROUPS | $400 | They had meant to make a brand new start of it near the Hudson River, but in November 1620 decided to stay on Cape Cod | Pilgrims | 43%
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RIDDLE ME THIS | $800 | To pay up for a riddle solved, this biblical strongman murders 30 men who had nothing to do with it and steals their stuff | Samson | 43%
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UNUSUAL ISLANDS | $1000 | Miyake islanders have worn masks to thwart this element, atomic No.16, prevalent in the air due to gassy Mount Oyama | sulfur | 43%
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COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS | $600 | This baseball team whose name includes a shade of red is also known as the Redbirds | Cardinals | 36%
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CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS | $1200 | Like her more famous novel, her "Villette" was also published under the name Currer Bell | Charlotte Brontë | 36%
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DUMB ANSWERS | $200 | As the saying goes, do this to "me once, shame on you"; do this to "me twice, shame on me" | fool me | 36%
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HISTORIC GROUPS | $1200 | Rome was sacked at least 7 times in its history, including by Alaric & this Germanic people in 410 A.D. | Goths | 36%
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TIME FOR SECONDS | $200 | In 1800 the second of these listed 5,641 people living in the entire Indiana Territory | the census | 36%
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COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS | $800 | This Midwest NHL team that plays its home games at the United Center won the Stanley Cup in 2013 & 2015 | (the Chicago) Blackhawks | 36%
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CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS | $800 | Charles Ryder recalls members of the Marchmain family in this place "Revisited" | Brideshead | 29%
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DUMB ANSWERS | $400 | Opposite of keen, it's often found compared to "dishwater" | dull | 29%
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RIDDLE ME THIS | $400 | A famous Sumerian riddle says a person enters this institution "blind, but comes out seeing" | a school | 21%
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"CON" GAME | $400 | By definition it's the relationship of a circle within a circle within a circle, all sharing the same midpoint | concentric | 21%
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CITY TRANSPORTATION | $400 | Named for their resemblance to coconuts, cocotaxis roam the cities of this Communist island nation | Cuba | 21%
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SHIRT SHORTS | $1000 | Cilice is another word for this type of "shirt" worn by monks for extra filth & discomfort | hairshirt | 21%
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CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS | $1600 | Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is a "contemporary retelling of" this Virginia Woolf novel | Mrs. Dalloway | 21%
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SHIRT SHORTS | $400 | Apparel nickname for a "Star Trek" crew member who may not live to the second commercial break | redshirt | 21%
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TIME FOR SECONDS | $800 | Around 19 B.C. King Herod expanded the second of these & built a retaining wall that still stands today | temple | 21%
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COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS | $200 | Boylston Street & Brookline Avenue will take you to parking for their home games | the (Boston) Red Sox | 21%
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DUMB ANSWERS | $800 | It rhymes with a synonym for "fast", but describes a person empty of interest or originality | vapid | 21%
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CITY TRANSPORTATION | $800 | Vaporettos are water buses on the canals of this city | Venice | 21%
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"CON" GAME | $1600 | It's another name for a candy store that also sells other sweets | confectionary | 14%
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CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS | $2000 | The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow" | D.H. Lawrence | 14%
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RIDDLE ME THIS | $600 | The Sphinx plagued Thebes before this man solved its riddle | Oedipus | 14%
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FEATURES OF THE MOON | $800 | The darker areas on the Moon are called maria, Latin for these | seas | 14%
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COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS | $400 | This U.S. pro soccer team sounds like an energy drink | the (New York) Red Bulls | 14%
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RIDDLE ME THIS | $1000 | This Puccini princess of Peking vows to marry a man who can answer her 3 riddles; anyone who fails must die! | Turandot | 14%
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CITY TRANSPORTATION | $1600 | In Manila, a jeepney is a mix of Jeep & this small bus both physically & etymologically | a jitney | 7%
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THE GERSHWIN PRIZE | $1200 | In 2013 this singer-songwriter became the first woman to get the prize thanks to her "Tapestry" of hits | (Carole) King | 7%
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"CON" GAME | $2000 | It's a group of voters in a district, or the district itself | constituency | 7%
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UNUSUAL ISLANDS | $400 | Nothing strange here, just another normal day on this island | Easter Island | 7%
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BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES | N/A | Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" | Jaws | 7%
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CITY TRANSPORTATION | $2000 | Tourists are pushed around on toboggans without snow in the parish of Monte on this wine-y Portuguese island | Madeira | 7%
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HISTORIC GROUPS | $2000 | In 1662 King Charles II granted patronage to scientists & academics who had formed this group | Royal Society | 7%
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HISTORIC GROUPS | $1600 | Formed by the U.S. to help China in World War II, the American Volunteer Group Air Corps was also known as these "felines" | the Flying Tigers | 7%
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CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS | $400 | Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel | The Invisible Man | 7%
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"CON" GAME | $1200 | This synonym for a magician comes from Latin for "swear together" | a conjurer | 0%
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CITY TRANSPORTATION | $1200 | In 2012 London brought back a Routemaster this alliterative type of bus, redesigned in time for the Olympics | a double-decker bus | 0%
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THE GERSHWIN PRIZE | $1600 | The 2014 Gershwin Prize concert honoring him included Boyz II Men performing his doo-wop tribute "The Longest Time" | Billy Joel | 0%
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THE GERSHWIN PRIZE | $2000 | In 2012 this man was honored along with songwriting partner Hal David | (Burt) Bacharach | 0%
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"CON" GAME | $800 | They're the circus performers seen here | contortionists | 0%
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FEATURES OF THE MOON | $1200 | A catena is a chain of these depressions on the Moon, the sites of impacts long ago | craters | 0%
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TIME FOR SECONDS | $400 | In 2021 he became the USA's first second gentleman | Doug Emhoff | 0%
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COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS | $1000 | One in the NBA & one in the NHL, these 2 pro sports teams are "Golden" | Golden Knights & Golden State Warriors | 0%
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FEATURES OF THE MOON | $1600 | There are lakes on the Moon, like Lacus Felicitatis, which NASA translates as the Lake of this | (Lake of) Happiness | 0%
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FEATURES OF THE MOON | $2000 | Apollo 17 astronauts landed near a mountain called "South" this; you may be familiar with the Vinson one in Antarctica | Massif | 0%
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HISTORIC GROUPS | $800 | You'd think just 46th staters, but folks from Kansas & Texas who went to California from 1933 to 1935 were also called these | Okies | 0%
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THE GERSHWIN PRIZE | $400 | Created in 2007 by the Library of Congress, the first prize went to this "One Trick Pony" singer | Paul Simon | 0%
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THE GERSHWIN PRIZE | $800 | Born in Saginaw, Michigan, this 2009 honoree was recording with Motown Records at age 12 | Stevie Wonder | 0%
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DUMB ANSWERS | $1000 | Also a Jethro Tull album title, this 4-word rhyming phrase includes a building material | thick as a brick | 0%
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SHIRT SHORTS | $800 | The guayabera is also known as the Mexican this festive event shirt | wedding shirt | 0%
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FEATURES OF THE MOON | $400 | Seen here in the Oceanus Procellarum is one of these ridges that shares a name with a skin feature of the aged | wrinkle | 0%
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