Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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FLY BY NIGHT | $200 | Who wants to try their luck as we fly over this city's Strip | Las Vegas | 100%
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FLY BY NIGHT | $1000 | Here are the lights of this largest Chinese city, about 700 miles from Beijing | Shanghai | 79%
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JOB DESCRIPTION | $200 | Catwalking; being "elite" like Cindy, Christy & Naomi; not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day | supermodel | 79%
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JOB DESCRIPTION | $600 | Fluency in Latin & Italian, a must; you own nothing yet also have your own hospital & bank; only about 260 have had the gig | the pope | 79%
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MOVIES BY QUOTE | $200 | 1986: "I feel the need, the need for speed" | Top Gun | 71%
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ANNIVERSARIES | $200 | In Salzburg on January 27, 2006, church bells rang to celebrate the 250th birthday of this composer | Mozart | 64%
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MOVIES BY QUOTE | $400 | 2013:"Look at me. Look at me. I'm the captain now" | Captain Phillips | 57%
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"MAL" PRACTICE | $400 | An "attack" using this disrupts normal functioning of a computer via Trojans & viruses | malware | 57%
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"MAL" PRACTICE | $200 | A hammering tool, or an item used to play a vibraphone | a mallet | 50%
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IT'LL BE MY TWEET | $200 | At exactly 3 a.m. London time on October 28, 2021, an unofficial account of this landmark let us know, "bong bong bong" | Big Ben | 43%
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"MAL" PRACTICE | $800 | The American Kennel Club says this working dog breed is "affectionate, loyal, playful"; the Alaskan type is super-cute, too | Malamute | 43%
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FLY BY NIGHT | $600 | Batter up at this ballpark; notice the Gateway Arch to the right | Busch Stadium | 36%
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IT'LL BE MY TWEET | $600 | This TV chef asked, "Am I really that mean????"; he constantly hurls F-bombs & called a kitchen staffer a "French pig", so yes | Gordon Ramsay | 36%
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MOVIES BY QUOTE | $800 | 1993: "if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists" | Jurassic Park | 36%
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ANNIVERSARIES | $600 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" was part of MoMA's 75th anniversary exhibition devoted to this artist | Picasso | 36%
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MOVIES BY QUOTE | $600 | 1993: "It's like that movie... 'An Affair to Remember'... she's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building" | Sleepless in Seattle | 36%
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JOB DESCRIPTION | $400 | Enjoyment growing by leaps & bounds; jeté battu pas marché, tricks of the trade; a specific terpsichorean | a ballerina | 21%
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JOB DESCRIPTION | $800 | By law, can't be a U.S. senator; only needed quadrennially; "faithless"? Can be fined or fired | an elector | 21%
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TV SCIENCE | $400 | On this series, Walter & Jesse plan to make ricin out of castor beans to poison the troublesome Tuco | Breaking Bad | 21%
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS | $400 | An infant might exhibit this type of "anxiety" when taken away from someone to whom they have a strong attachment | separation | 21%
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS | $1600 | Many speculate that Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" has this syndrome identified in the 1970s; Emma Watson weighed in to disagree | Stockholm Syndrome | 21%
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TV SCIENCE | $800 | The Cooper-Hofstadter paper about space-time & superfluidity was co-authored by characters on this CBS show | The Big Bang Theory | 21%
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ANNIVERSARIES | $400 | On Oct. 9, 1992 Disneyland hosted 1,000 fifth graders to celebrate the 100th anniversary of these words they say each morning | the Pledge of Allegiance | 21%
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JOB DESCRIPTION | $1000 | Take in 4,500 years of history; 12 basic meridians & qi are key; get to the multiple points & max around 0.4 inches deep | an acupuncturist | 14%
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IT'LL BE MY TWEET | $800 | This billionaire of the virgin empire attached an article on "How My Dyslexia Has Been a Great Benefit to Me in Business" | Branson | 14%
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ANNIVERSARIES | $1000 | At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2021, a moment of silence marked the 10th anniversary of this Japanese disaster | Fukushima | 14%
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS | $1200 | The DSM-5 psychiatry text defines it as "persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions" | hoarding | 14%
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | $400 | Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state & this New England state as a non-slave addition | Maine | 14%
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"MAL" PRACTICE | $600 | I saw the hot-water bottle on the thermometer! You're not sick, you're doing this, pretending to be | malingering | 14%
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"MAL" PRACTICE | $1000 | Stunting & wasting are 2 types of this worldwide problem | malnutrition | 14%
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FLY BY NIGHT | $400 | Commissioned in 1806 following a great victory, it's this famous landmark by night | the Arc de Triomphe | 14%
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RELIGION | $1600 | As holder of this post, Reverend Justin Welby is the spiritual leader of the 85 million members of the Anglican Communion | Archbishop of Canterbury | 7%
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ALSO A COOKING VERB | $400 | Humorous insults are the order of the day at one of these ceremonial tributes | a roast | 7%
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ALSO A COOKING VERB | $2000 | In Exodus, a plague afflicting the Egyptians | boil | 7%
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ALSO A COOKING VERB | $1200 | Dental accessory popularized by hip-hop stars | grill | 7%
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LITERARY CHARACTERS | $1600 | Thomas Hardy's last 2 major novels both have title characters, Tess of the d'Urbervilles & this man | Jude the Obscure | 7%
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IT'LL BE MY TWEET | $1000 | This scientist: "In my NCAA wrestling days I dreamt of a hold I called the 'double tidal lock' inspired by Earth-Moon physics" | Neil deGrasse Tyson | 7%
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS | $800 | Submissive & pugnacious are synonyms for the 2 words in this type of behavior; fine. Whatever | passive-aggressive | 7%
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ALSO A COOKING VERB | $800 | To fish or hunt for game illegally | poach | 7%
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TV SCIENCE | $2000 | Dean Stockwell played the observer who helps physicist Sam Beckett adjust to various time periods on this 1990s show | Quantum Leap | 7%
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ALSO A COOKING VERB | $1600 | To mix a transmitted radio signal so that only the intended recipient can translate it | scramble | 7%
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LITERARY CHARACTERS | $400 | This character known for its grin tells Alice that everyone in Wonderland is mad | the Cheshire Cat | 7%
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MOVIES BY QUOTE | $1000 | 2008: "I know who I am! I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!" | Tropic Thunder | 7%
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TV SCIENCE | $1600 | "NCIS: New Orleans" finds CCH Pounder playing Dr. Loretta Wade, this 7-letter official who gets clues from the deceased | a coroner | 0%
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LITERARY CHARACTERS | $1200 | "God forgive me everything!" are her last words before the train runs her over | Anna Karenina | 0%
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LITERARY CHARACTERS | $2000 | This main character of "Native Son" by Richard Wright ends up in prison for committing 2 murders | Bigger Thomas | 0%
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RELIGION | $800 | Just as Catholics debate this practice of its priests, in Thailand there's debate about it (brahmacharya) for Buddhist monks | chastity | 0%
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS | $2000 | In the operant kind of this learning process, desired behavior is rewarded; respond correctly & you'll get $2,000 | conditioning | 0%
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IT'LL BE MY TWEET | $400 | It me, this Philadelphia Flyers mascot who noted, "Not all heroes wear pants" | Gritty | 0%
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | $800 | The procedural wizardry of this longtime congressman from Kentucky got the compromise passed | (Henry) Clay | 0%
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | $1200 | The 1820 compromise allowed slavery only south of a line of this; it still forms state boundaries & there's a marker on it in Enid, Oklahoma | latitude | 0%
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LITERARY CHARACTERS | $800 | The 2021 novel "Nick" by Michael Farris Smith tells of this Nick before his time as the narrator of "The Great Gatsby" | Nick Carraway | 0%
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TV SCIENCE | $1200 | In 2008 this "Science Kid" began teaching preschoolers about pulleys & inertia, among other topics | Sid | 0%
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FLY BY NIGHT | $800 | Let's go back in time as we take a little flyby of this famous hill | the Acropolis | 0%
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ANNIVERSARIES | $800 | In January 2015 1,500 military re-enactors marked the bicentennial of this battle at Chalmette Battlefield | the Battle of New Orleans | 0%
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RELIGION | $400 | In 2018 the Mormon or LDS Church announced a course correction to stress this full name that mentions the savior | the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 0%
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | $1600 | Many anti-Missouri men had been active in this faded party & were accused by opponents of using the issue to make a comeback | the Federalists | 0%
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | $2000 | The compromise was repealed in 1854 by this act with a hyphenated 2-state name, spurring Abe Lincoln's return to politics | the Kansas-Nebraska Act | 0%
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RELIGION | $2000 | In 2018 members of this Christian group released a very quiet podcast of a silent meeting of worship | the Quakers | 0%
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RELIGION | $1200 | The Karaite sect of Judaism rejects talmudic doctrine, relying on this set of 5 books for guidance | the Torah | 0%
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HISTORIC BUILDING | N/A | Begun in the 1070s with stone from Caen, it was meant to dominate both a skyline & the hearts & minds of a conquered populace | the Tower of London | 0%
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