Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY | $600 | The capital of this landlocked African nation is N'Djamena | Chad | 67%
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4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY | $1000 | Emily Blunt & John Krasinski tied the knot at George Clooney's villa on this lake | Como | 56%
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4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY | $800 | This world capital began hosting Holmenkollen ski jump competition in 1892 | Oslo | 56%
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4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY | $400 | A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany | Bonn | 50%
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6 FLAGS | $200 | Introduced in 1920, it consists of 5 interlocked rings of blue, black, red, green & yellow | the Olympic flag | 50%
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5 RANDOM THINGS | $200 | A 2014 headline: "Florida family butt-dials" this no. "while planning their next meth cook"; a dispatcher listened for 30 min. | 911 | 44%
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4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY | $200 | This city is Pennsylvania's only port on the St. Lawrence Seaway | Erie | 44%
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"TOO" WORDS | $400 | In French, it's un mal de dent | a toothache | 39%
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LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD | $400 | Krill differ from true shrimp in that these respiratory organs are externally visible | gills | 33%
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ONE WOMAN | $400 | Our subject raised funds to equip this duo's expedition with needed supplies; she was sure they were never coming back | Lewis and Clark | 33%
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING | $400 | A group of newborn animals, or to scatter trash about | litter | 33%
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"TOO" WORDS | $200 | A small porch, or to bend down | stoop | 33%
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3 STARS OF THE FILM | $1000 | 1988: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon & Robert Wuhl, who makes a memorable visit to the mound | Bull Durham | 28%
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"TOO" WORDS | $800 | Seaplanes float on them | pontoons | 28%
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3 STARS OF THE FILM | $400 | 2018: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen & Linda Cardellini drive the film | the Green Book | 28%
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ONE WOMAN | $1000 | In 1844 the woman had the honor to send the first personal message on this device--love to her friend Mary in Baltimore | the telegraph | 28%
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READ IT OR EAT IT? | $1200 | Violent gangs of Droogs run wild in the streets of an English city | A Clockwork Orange | 22%
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ONE WOMAN | $200 | Among the items our woman famously saved was a blue & gold Lowestoft set of porcelain ware, more commonly called this | china | 22%
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING | $800 | A hot dog condiment, or to enjoy | relish | 22%
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6 FLAGS | $600 | You can use two flags to communicate in the method seen here | semaphore | 22%
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INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS | $400 | In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips | Amsterdam | 17%
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"TOO" WORDS | $600 | You can get one removed via dermabrasion | a tattoo | 17%
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING | $2000 | Your equal, or to look at closely | peer | 17%
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3 STARS OF THE FILM | $600 | 1989: Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field & Julia Roberts & a 4th star--the weeping audience | Steel Magnolias | 17%
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6 FLAGS | $800 | Sportswriter Rob Neyer posed the query, "What makes" the race for one of these baseball flags "great?" | a pennant | 11%
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5 RANDOM THINGS | $600 | Astronauts Scott, Worden & Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land | Apollo 15 | 11%
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING | $1600 | A wind-blown pile of snow, or the meaning of what you're saying | drift | 11%
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5 RANDOM THINGS | $800 | This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go | Leviticus | 11%
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KILLER TV SHOWS | $400 | Murders abound on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, which doesn't seem much like Eden in "Death in" this | Paradise | 11%
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INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS | $800 | Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature | start-ups | 11%
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READ IT OR EAT IT? | $400 | Okies head west | The Grapes of Wrath | 11%
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3 STARS OF THE FILM | $200 | 2004: the super voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter & Jason Lee | The Incredibles | 11%
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5 RANDOM THINGS | $1000 | Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallest islands is name for this secretary-general from Myanmar | U Thant | 11%
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ONE WOMAN | $600 | Our one woman's one surviving child, Payne Todd, was a gambler who in 1830 went to this type of prison that Congress abolished in 1833 | a debtors\' prison | 6%
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LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD | $1600 | Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one of these organisms & may be found widely in a home | a fungus | 6%
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5 RANDOM THINGS | $400 | Holy biloba! Here's a beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty | a gingko | 6%
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CONDUCTORS | $1200 | On an 1887 cruise New York Symphony Society conductor Walter Damrosch met this tycoon & talked him into building a hall | (Andrew) Carnegie | 6%
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LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD | $1200 | Also called a light quantum, this bit of radiation travels at the speed of light | a photon | 6%
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HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY | N/A | This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution | Avignon | 6%
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CONDUCTORS | $2000 | 2 female music directors: Marin Alsop at the BSO (Baltimore Symphony) & Joann Falletta at the BPO (this N.Y. city's philharmonic) | Buffalo | 6%
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CONDUCTORS | $400 | His mentor Serge Koussevitzky suggested he change his name to Leonard S. Burns; he said no | (Leonard) Bernstein | 6%
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KILLER TV SHOWS | $800 | Poisoned by snake venom on his uniform in 2003, Commander Ray Trapp was the first of many, many naval personnel killed on this show | NCIS | 6%
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3 STARS OF THE FILM | $800 | 2021: Simu Liu, Tony Leung & Awkwafina | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | 6%
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INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS | $1200 | This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media | South by Southwest | 6%
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LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD | $800 | The buzz is true--the smallest hummingbird is this one named for an insect | the bee hummingbird | 6%
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KILLER TV SHOWS | $1600 | The "Murders" in this British detective show take place in the fictional title county, not the dog days of August | the Midsomer Murders | 6%
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ONE WOMAN | $800 | At age 80, our lady was there when the 25,000-pound white marble cornerstone of this was laid July 4, 1848 | the Washington Monument | 6%
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INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS | $1600 | In 2018 the India Mobile Congress event focused on telecom issues, especially this new alphanumeric mobile network | 5G | 0%
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READ IT OR EAT IT? | $1600 | Play in which a working class African-American family moves into an all-white Chicago neighborhood | A Raisin in the Sun | 0%
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READ IT OR EAT IT? | $800 | A grandfather tells a story about a town called Chewandswallow where food falls from the sky | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | 0%
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CONDUCTORS | $1600 | Sir Thomas Beecham conducted many U.K. premieres at the Royal Opera House in this London "Garden" spot | Covent Garden | 0%
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"TOO" WORDS | $1000 | Seen here are these flower chains curving as intended | festoons | 0%
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LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD | $2000 | Latin for "whips", these appendages in some protozoa help them get around | flagella | 0%
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING | $1200 | A multitude, or the bread that's consecrated in the Eucharist | host | 0%
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6 FLAGS | $1000 | "Flag above White with Collage" is one of this contemporary artist's paintings | Jasper Johns | 0%
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KILLER TV SHOWS | $2000 | "Better pay attention or this world we love so much might just kill you", Randy Newman sang in this show's opening theme | Monk | 0%
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6 FLAGS | $400 | Also called salsa bandera, or "flag", this 3-word condiment is red, white & green, like Mexico's flag | pico de gallo | 0%
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INTERNATIONAL GET-TOGETHERS | $2000 | Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos & gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978 | the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) | 0%
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READ IT OR EAT IT? | $2000 | Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | 0%
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CONDUCTORS | $800 | Once a manuscript copyist for Wagner, Hans Richter conducted the first performance of this full cycle of operas | The Ring Cycle | 0%
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KILLER TV SHOWS | $1200 | Good cops CCH Pounder & Forest Whitaker hounded killer cop Michael Chiklis & the strike team on this FX series | The Shield | 0%
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