Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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ROYALTY AROUND US | $200 | The longest venomous snake is the king type of this | a cobra | 92%
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GET-TOGETHERS | $400 | A trip to Hawaii might include this traditional feast with music, hula dancing & food like poi & kalua pig | luau | 80%
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THE MIDDLE AGES | $200 | Jerusalem was captured during the first of these campaigns in the 1090s | Crusade | 76%
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ROYALTY AROUND US | $400 | This Canadian province is completely surrounded by water | Prince Edward Island | 76%
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GET-TOGETHERS | $200 | Before a football game, fans gather for this type of party seen here | tailgate | 68%
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CHANNEL | $600 | Also a fan of using an exclamation point like we do, this network started keeping up with "The Bradshaw Bunch" in 2020 | E! | 60%
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CHANNEL | $400 | Where Whitesnake & ZZ Top once ruled, this channel now has "Revenge Prank" & "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" | MTV | 60%
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"AND" SO FORTH | $200 | A home run with 3 players on base | grand slam | 56%
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ITALY | $400 | Naples has survived eruptions of this nearby volcano, most recently in 1944 | Vesuvius | 52%
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"AND" SO FORTH | $800 | An example from Merriam-Webster: "She decided with reckless" this "to quit her job & move to Tahiti" | abandon | 48%
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NO. 5 | $200 | Here's a Fifth served up by this musician & completed in 1808 | Beethoven | 48%
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"AND" SO FORTH | $400 | This stretchy polyurethane fabric was introduced in the late 1950s | spandex | 44%
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NO. 5 | $800 | In 2008 this German carmaker rolled out its 5 millionth 5 Series, a black sedan | BMW | 40%
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ITALY | $800 | This northwestern seaport where Columbus was likely born is at the center of the Italian riviera | Genoa | 40%
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GET-TOGETHERS | $800 | At this Latin American celebration the 15-year-old honoree gets her last doll, a symbol of the transition to adulthood | quinceañera | 32%
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ITALY | $1600 | Catherine de Medici was queen of France & the mother of 3 French kings, but was born in this Tuscan city | Florence | 28%
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NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS | $1200 | Not a fan of rock music, he initially turned down the job of designing the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | (I.M.) Pei | 28%
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THE MIDDLE AGES | $1000 | In 1329 David II became the Scottish king, but at age 5, struck less fear into foes than this predecessor, his father | Robert the Bruce | 28%
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THE MIDDLE AGES | $800 | Thomism is theology & philosophy based on the works of this medieval scholar, seen here | Thomas Aquinas | 28%
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THE MIDDLE AGES | $600 | Before she married the soon-to-be English King Henry II, this woman of Aquitaine had been married to King Louis VII of France | Eleanor | 24%
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CHANNEL | $200 | "Chopped" & "Girl Meets Farm" are served up here on your dial | Food Network | 24%
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THE MIDDLE AGES | $400 | By the 13th century Visby in Sweden had become one of the richest cities in Europe & an important member of this league | Hanseatic | 24%
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ITALY | $1200 | Home to many fine palaces & churches, this city hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics | Turin | 24%
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NO. 5 | $400 | One end of Interstate 5 is in the former salmon canning center of Blaine in this state | Washington | 24%
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NOVELS BY QUOTE | $800 | "No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal" | Animal Farm | 20%
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CHANNEL | $1000 | "Bargain Mansions" & "Fixer to Fabulous" are listed on this channel | HGTV | 20%
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ROYALTY AROUND US | $600 | In 1959 AT&T targeted women with this product that came in pastel colors | the Princess phone | 20%
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FURRY ROAD | $800 | Ya dirty polecat! This animal can accurately target its noxious spray 6 feet away | a skunk | 12%
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"AND" SO FORTH | $600 | It's another word for a candlemaker | chandler | 12%
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NO. 5 | $1000 | Shakespeare liked to write in this, from the Greek for "5" & "measure" | pentameter | 12%
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CHANNEL | $800 | "Black Sails" & "American Gods" are originals from this heavenly sounding channel | Starz | 12%
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FURRY ROAD | $1600 | A kangaroo family member, the alliterative whiptail this likes to get its water from vegetation rather than drinking | wallaby | 12%
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ROYALTY AROUND US | $800 | This novelist switched to his paternal ancestors in the book "Queen", with his enslaved grandma the title character | (Alex) Haley | 8%
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FURRY ROAD | $400 | With claws retracted, the paw of this furry animal, Panthera leo, doesn't look so scary | a lion | 8%
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NOVELS BY QUOTE | $400 | "Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had traveled constantly eastward" | Around the World in 80 Days | 8%
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ROYALTY AROUND US | $1000 | A 1938 performance by this "King of Swing" with his band marked one of the first-ever major integrated concerts | (Benny) Goodman | 8%
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ITALY | $2000 | 5 provinces make up this historic peninsular region known as the toe of Italy's boot | Calabria | 8%
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NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS | $800 | Honored on a 2021 stamp, Chien-Shiung Wu was best known for her work on this secret program to build the first atomic bomb | Manhattan Project | 8%
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GET-TOGETHERS | $1000 | Similar to a seminar, this small conference derives its name from Greek words meaning "to drink together" | symposium | 8%
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SIGNATURE SONGS | $1200 | Charlie Daniels spun the tale of a confident fiddle player in this tune he called his signature song | "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" | 8%
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"AND" SO FORTH | $1000 | A soldier's over-the-shoulder broad belt with small loops to hold cartridges | a bandolier | 4%
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SIGNATURE SONGS | $800 | It's a drum, it's a dance, it's Miami Sound Machine's signature song | "Conga" | 4%
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FURRY ROAD | $1200 | This wild dog also known as the prairie wolf can speed along at 43 miles per hour | coyote | 4%
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NO. 5 | $600 | In "Monty Python & the Holy Grail", this character tries to toss the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch by counting, "One, two, five!" | (King) Arthur | 4%
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NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS | $1600 | She won Olympic gold in 1992 & in 1998 was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame | Kristi Yamaguchi | 4%
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NOVELS BY QUOTE | $1200 | "We would not talk of Manderley, I would not tell my dream. For Manderley was ours no longer" | Rebecca | 4%
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TOUGH VOCABULARY | $800 | The Latin root of "journey" also gave us this word for a temporary visit | sojourn | 4%
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TOUGH VOCABULARY | $1200 | In Japan a standard way to indicate room size is with the number of these woven straw mats; 6 is medium size | tatami | 4%
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HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS | N/A | Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 | the Lusitania | 4%
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TOUGH VOCABULARY | $1600 | The adjective form of a word for an expert craftsman, it tells you that cheese was lovingly handmade | artisanal | 0%
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SIGNATURE SONGS | $1600 | A bio of John Fogerty says this CCR signature song shifts "Northern Californian experiences to a southern setting" | "Born On The Bayou" | 0%
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SIGNATURE SONGS | $400 | Wayne Newton says, "Thank you very much" for making this German title a signature tune | "Danke Schoen" | 0%
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NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS | $2000 | Steven Chu, who shared a 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, served as secretary of this cabinet department from 2009 to 2013 | (Department of) Energy | 0%
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SIGNATURE SONGS | $2000 | Vince Neil has called this tune about a drug dealer Mötley Crüe's signature song | "Dr. Feelgood" | 0%
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NOVELS BY QUOTE | $1600 | "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" | Frankenstein | 0%
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TOUGH VOCABULARY | $2000 | A hillside cable railway; in the novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh", it's one of a character's favorite words | funicular | 0%
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FURRY ROAD | $2000 | Varieties of this semi-aquatic cutie are the sea, small-clawed & the 6-foot-long giant types in South America | otters | 0%
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TOUGH VOCABULARY | $400 | Refringent means relating to this bending of light & sound waves that pass from one medium to another | refraction | 0%
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GET-TOGETHERS | $600 | As seen here, these parties were once all the rage | Tupperware parties | 0%
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NOVELS BY QUOTE | $2000 | "I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel" | War of the Worlds | 0%
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NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS | $400 | Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant! | Yahoo! | 0%
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