Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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INCONCEIVABLE! | $200 | Crossword, jigsaw, Sudoku... all are a real this | a puzzle | 92%
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IF AT "FIRST" | $600 | 2-word term describing an E.M.T. who goes to a crisis area to provide immediate assistance | a first responder | 62%
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BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS | $400 | Look at numbers like 7,356 innings pitched & you'll: C.Y. | (Cy) Young | 62%
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BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS | $200 | Made the last of 21 straight all-star teams in 1975: H.A. | Hank Aaron | 62%
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FRY FRY AGAIN | $800 | This long Mexican fritter is deep-fried, cinnamon-coated & all-delicious | churro | 54%
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4-LETTER BOOK TITLES | $200 | This 1981 novel is named for a sick 200-pound St. Bernard in Maine | Cujo | 54%
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INCONCEIVABLE! | $1000 | Riddle-named Nazi enciphering machine | Enigma | 54%
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RIVERS OF ASIA | $400 | In this frigid region, Russia's Lena River rises near Lake Baikal & flows over 2,700 miles north to the Laptev Sea | Siberia | 54%
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BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS | $600 | Class of 2020: D.J. | Derek Jeter | 46%
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IF AT "FIRST" | $200 | This covers "the right of the people... to petition the government for a redress of grievances" | First Amendment | 46%
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BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS | $800 | Spectacular southpaw: S.K. | (Sandy) Koufax | 46%
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YOU DON'T SUCCEED | $400 | In a 1998 floor speech, Bob Livingston stunned colleagues by saying he would not succeed Newt Gingrich in this job | Speaker of the House | 46%
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YOU DON'T SUCCEED | $200 | Killing a man was one good reason this vice president did not succeed his boss, Jefferson; later, he got busted for treason | Burr | 38%
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4-LETTER BOOK TITLES | $800 | Named for a music genre, this Toni Morrison novel involves a Harlem love triangle | Jazz | 38%
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FRY FRY AGAIN | $200 | Stick with it, this fried favorite made its debut at the 1942 Texas State Fair | corn dog | 31%
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4-LETTER BOOK TITLES | $600 | Coming between "Night" & "Day", it's the middle title in Elie Wiesel's acclaimed trilogy | Dawn | 31%
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4-LETTER BOOK TITLES | $400 | In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" | Jaws | 31%
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THE ARTS | $400 | Joseph Haydn told Leopold, dad of this prodigy, "Your son is the greatest composer known to me in person or by name" | Mozart | 31%
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FRY FRY AGAIN | $400 | Shrimp & vegetables are popular fillings for this battered & deep-fried Japanese dish | tempura | 31%
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RIVERS OF ASIA | $800 | In some areas, mountains more than one mile high form the banks of this river that runs from Tibet to the East China Sea | Yangtze | 31%
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IF AT "FIRST" | $800 | Primus inter pares is Latin for this, the member of a power-sharing group with a little more juice than the rest | first among equals | 23%
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IF AT "FIRST" | $400 | Sounds like bad grammar but "me" is an objective singular pronoun of this linguistic form | first person | 23%
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BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY INITIALS | $1000 | He took a big lead & slid into the H.O.F. in 2009: R.H. | Henderson | 23%
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RIVERS OF ASIA | $1200 | The Mekong River fluctuates greatly during the year, with its highest levels after the rains of this wind system | monsoon | 23%
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FRY FRY AGAIN | $1000 | This ovoid appetizer with a nationality in its name is enclosed in sausage & breadcrumbs | Scotch egg | 23%
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FRY FRY AGAIN | $600 | Aw Cher, Acadians graced Louisiana with this sugar-covered fried treat whose name comes from French for "fritter" | beignet | 15%
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SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES | $400 | Rick retires Replicants, Roy (Rutger) ruminates in rain | Blade Runner | 15%
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MEDICAL TERMS | $1200 | Distal means away from the point of origin; this similar-sounding word means pertaining to the back | dorsal | 15%
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INCONCEIVABLE! | $400 | Add a "Y" to this 4-letter word for gloom or a dark mist & you get a word for hard to understand | murk | 15%
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YOU DON'T SUCCEED | $600 | In 1978 Giovanni Benelli was said to be a favorite--twice--to be the successor in this job but did not have the votes | pope | 15%
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4-LETTER BOOK TITLES | $1000 | It's the original title of Sapphire's novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones | Push | 15%
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RIVERS OF ASIA | $2000 | Long considered sacred, the Godavari River flows 910 miles west to east across India into this bay | the Bay of Bengal | 15%
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INCONCEIVABLE! | $800 | A 6-foot unit of nautical measurement is within this word meaning impossible to understand | unfathomable | 15%
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YOU DON'T SUCCEED | $800 | Joice Mujuru was set to succeed Robert Mugabe as leader of this African nation but got dismissed as vice president in 2014 | Zimbabwe | 15%
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INCONCEIVABLE! | $600 | "Bewitched, Bothered & Perplexed" wasn't quite the right song title, so folks went with this synonym | Bewildered | 8%
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MEDICAL TERMS | $800 | By definition keratitis is an inflammation of this part of the eye | cornea | 8%
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IF AT "FIRST" | $1000 | As leader of Poland from 1956 to 1970, Wladyslaw Gomulka held this Communist Party title | first secretary | 8%
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THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER | $1600 | Used as filling in a defensive wall near Mount Olympus, a 2,200-year-old statue of this queen & goddess was found in 2006 | Hera | 8%
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YOU DON'T SUCCEED | $1000 | In 2004 the line of succession changed in this country when King Abdullah II dubbed his half-brother Hamzah ex-heir apparent | Jordan | 8%
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THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER | $400 | In linguistics, this 4-letter word associated with simile-making is considered a filler word | like | 8%
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THE ARTS | $2000 | Paul Signac used this technique that he helped pioneer in his painting "The Red Buoy" seen here | pointillism | 8%
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THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER | $800 | As a bonus gift, surround that delicate item you mail to a pal with bags of freshly made this... maybe Orville Redenbacher's? | popcorn | 8%
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MEDICAL TERMS | $1600 | Used to describe a method of taking medication, it means "below the tongue" | sublingual | 8%
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SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES | $1200 | Beleaguered botanist bolsters base, buddies bounce back, boost on board | (The) Martian | 8%
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RIVERS OF ASIA | $1600 | This lake of Israel famous for its biblical associations is fed & drained by the Jordan River | the Sea of Galilee | 8%
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BEFORE & AFTER | $1200 | Geographic latitude separating the 2 Koreas that's a gymnastics apparatus | 38th parallel bars | 0%
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SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES | $800 | Linguistics lass learns lexicon of labyrinthine life forms | Arrival | 0%
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MEDICAL TERMS | $2000 | Often administered through an inhaler, it's the 14-letter term for a medication that opens up the airways | bronchodilator | 0%
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BEFORE & AFTER | $2000 | Late summer arts festival in the desert that's a basement hangout with TV & beer | Burning Man cave | 0%
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THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER | $1200 | If gray is not your favorite color, block filler is used to paint this type of "block" made from burned matter | cinderblock | 0%
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SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES | $1600 | Aging actors assume anterior aspects, Allen aids admiring aliens against annihilation | Galaxy Quest | 0%
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THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER | $2000 | This French-named delight seen here in a bowl & as filling is made by whipping up chocolate & heavy cream | ganache | 0%
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THE ARTS | $800 | "Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in mine", sings Rodolfo to Mimi in this opera | La bohème | 0%
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BEFORE & AFTER | $1600 | Artistic Left Bank region of Paris that's a meaty McDonald's burger | Latin Quarter Pounder | 0%
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BEFORE & AFTER | $800 | Southern state capital confection that's made of crystallized sugar | Little Rock candy | 0%
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THE ARTS | $1600 | Eugene O'Neill described this 4-act family drama as "old sorrow written in tears & blood" | Long Day\'s Journey into Night | 0%
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SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES | $2000 | Cruise & crafty computer collaborate on crimes not yet committed | Minority Report | 0%
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RENAISSANCE MEN | N/A | 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them | (Niccolò) Machiavelli | 0%
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THE ARTS | $1200 | The christening, the spell & the awakening are all part of this fairy tale ballet | Sleeping Beauty | 0%
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MEDICAL TERMS | $400 | Misophonia is a disorder in which a person is triggered & distressed by these | sound or noises | 0%
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BEFORE & AFTER | $400 | Top equestrian trio of races that are next in line to be the reigning monarch | Triple Crown prince | 0%
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