Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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AIR | $200 | Title VI of the Clean Air Act is "stratospheric" this layer " protection " | ozone | 75%
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THE WORD SERIES | $600 | This word follows "legal" on the obverse of a dollar bill | tender | 67%
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THE WRATH OF KHAN | $600 | A shah paid the ultimate price after going back on his word to allow Genghis to trade on this legendary route | the Silk Road | 67%
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MIXED BAGS | $400 | One of these from the Scottish Highlands has 2 tenor drones & a single bass one | bagpipes | 58%
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& THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! | $200 | Have a g'day at this city's Taronga Zoo, opened in 1884, then have a g'night at the opera house | Sydney | 58%
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MIXED BAGS | $200 | This capacious canvas item symbolizes commitment to your local NPR station | a tote bag | 42%
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THE WORD SERIES | $200 | A proverb says, "A nod is as good as" one of these "to a blind horse" | a wink | 42%
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MIXED BAGS | $800 | A bouquet garni used by chefs is usually made from this fabric with a dairy product in its name | cheesecloth | 42%
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& THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! | $800 | Meet up in Yitzhak Rabin Square & enjoy the Israeli opera at the performing arts centre in this 2-word city | Tel Aviv | 42%
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THE WRATH OF KHAN | $400 | The Tangut people, related to those of this "roof of the world" region, had a nice little kingdom in NW China until Genghis came along | Tibet | 42%
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& THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! | $400 | Enjoy the 360-degree views in the Atomium built for Expo 58 in this Belgian Capital & then the music in its De Munt National Opera House | Brussels | 33%
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THE WORD SERIES | $400 | The presidential oath of office: "preserve, protect and" this verb "the Constitution of the United States" | defend | 33%
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POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" | $200 | 2 New York City gangs sing & dance in this top-grossing film of 1961 | West Side Story | 33%
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AIR | $800 | Up high, it's a downdraft that affects flight; underwater, it's a breathable zone where some have survived for days | an air pocket | 25%
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INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES | $400 | Aer Lingus has a hub & its headquarters in this capital city | Dublin | 25%
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ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS | $400 | The name of this motorcycle club founded in 1948 had been used during World War II by bomber crews | Hells Angels | 25%
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INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES | $800 | This German airline began flying in April 1955 | Lufthansa | 25%
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THE WORD SERIES | $1000 | Hamlet ponders taking up "arms against a sea of" these | troubles | 25%
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THE WRATH OF KHAN | $200 | "X" marks this spot where the Great Khan held a debate between Daoists & Buddhists, forcing the former to convert | Xanadu | 25%
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INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES | $1600 | The name of this Russian airline comes from words meaning "air fleet" | Aeroflot | 17%
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AIR | $600 | To reduce head injuries in kids, keep the air pressure of these items low, maybe below the 14 psi max for U.S. pros | soccer balls | 17%
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THE WRATH OF KHAN | $1000 | Batu Khan, while leading this legendary troop of the Mongol Empire, sacked & burned Kiev in 1240 | the Golden Horde | 17%
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AIR | $400 | Among other things, TLC stands for this; 6 liters of air is a healthy measurement | total lung capacity | 17%
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POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" | $400 | Yul Brynner wore the black hat in this 1973 movie; Ed Harris is a different man in black on the TV series | Westworld | 17%
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INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES | $1200 | Dozens of flight attendants stripped off their uniforms in a Rome square to protest this airline's October 2021 demise | Alitalia | 8%
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THE WORD SERIES | $800 | Henry Traute of the Diamond Match Co. came up with this 4-word phrase that begins with "close cover", printed billions of times | before striking | 8%
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& THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! | $600 | Get your rodeo on during the 10 days of its stampede & also mosey over to the Mamdani Opera Centre | Calgary | 8%
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PHOTOGRAPHERS | $400 | Margaret Bourke-White's pic of Fort Peck Dam was the first cover of this Henry Luce magazine that covered, well... everything | Life | 8%
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MIXED BAGS | $600 | As a noun, it's an object used to fortify structures; as a verb, it means to deceive by masking one's skill in a contest | sandbag | 8%
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ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS | $1200 | Taking a break from Nine Inch Nails, he formed How to Destroy Angels & married a bandmate | (Trent) Reznor | 8%
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& THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! | $1000 | This Po River city's Santa Sindone Chapel houses a famous linen; there's great opera at its Teatro Regio | Turin | 8%
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INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES | $2000 | Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai wanted to start an airline & this name was chosen for it in 1984 | Air Emirates | 0%
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PHOTOGRAPHERS | $2000 | In 1935 this photographer from San Francisco used his own pics to create a guide called "Making a Photograph" | Ansel Adams | 0%
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CANNES | $400 | Holly Hunter won Best Actress for a film titled for this instrument, & Isabelle Huppert won for a film in which she taught it | a piano | 0%
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PROSE | $1600 | This "sanguine" novel by Cormac McCarthy describes the villainous Judge Holden as "a great shambling mutant" | Blood Meridian | 0%
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PHOTOGRAPHERS | $1600 | Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. looked a little different in May 1865 in a photo credited to this man | Brady | 0%
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PROSE | $800 | Milan Kundera wrote "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in this language, but later started writing novels in French | Czech | 0%
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POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" | $1000 | Danny McBride was ex-Major Leaguer Kenny Powers on this HBO series | Eastbound & Down | 0%
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POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" | $800 | The Trask at hand is knowing James Dean starred in this 1955 film | East of Eden | 0%
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POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" | $600 | In a 2018 summer tune, "She used to meet me" here, "in the city where the sun don't set" | Eastside | 0%
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PHOTOGRAPHERS | $1200 | Walter Iooss took a classic shot of reporters including Brent Musburger around this Jets QB lounging poolside before Super Bowl 3 | (Joe) Namath | 0%
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PROSE | $1200 | James McBride's "The Good Lord Bird" finds the young enslaved Henry joining this abolitionist at Harpers Ferry | John Brown | 0%
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PHOTOGRAPHERS | $800 | In Depression-era America, Dorothea Lange took the alliterative "Migrant" this seen here | Mother | 0%
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WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM | $1600 | As an adjective, it means "former"; as a sports verb, it's to shoot when a pass reaches you without pausing | one-time | 0%
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CANNES | $2000 | This 2007 Jury Prize winner was an animated feature based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about an Iranian girl | Persepolis | 0%
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WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM | $1200 | They're the delicious little cakes seen here | petit fours | 0%
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ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS | $2000 | A demon in early English folklore, it became the name of a character in a Shakespeare comedy | Puck | 0%
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AIR | $1000 | The dew point is reached when this 2-word measurement for the air reaches 100% | relative humidity | 0%
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CANNES | $1600 | A winner at Cannes was the 1998 film called "La vita è bella", directed by this Italian, who also starred | (Roberto) Benigni | 0%
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MIXED BAGS | $1000 | These bags, such as the model 1859 McClellan ones, were issued to U.S. Army Cavalry | saddlebags | 0%
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ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS | $800 | Your agent assures you that even though this company's name isn't on Seattle's ballpark anymore, your policy is as secure as it sounds | Safeco | 0%
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WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM | $2000 | Derived from seeds of the Nux vomica tree, this poison is often used in rodent control | strychnine | 0%
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PROSE | $400 | Louis Chu's novel of Manhattan's Chinatown is titled "Eat a Bowl of" this beverage | tea | 0%
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WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM | $800 | 7-letter adjective describing a weak grasp of a situation or a thin lead in a game | tenuous | 0%
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ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS | $1600 | The agent explains whole life insurance costs more than this 4-letter kind with benefits that expire after you survive 10, 20 or 30 years | term | 0%
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CANNES | $1200 | Trees like those seen here on the Promenade de la Croisette inspired this name of Cannes' top prize, first awarded in 1955 | the Palme d\'Or | 0%
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CANNES | $800 | It won top prize in 1949 & a 2015 restoration also played Cannes in the centenary year of Orson Welles, who played Harry Lime | The Third Man | 0%
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TOYS & GAMES | N/A | Its co-creator said adding an "L" to the end of the 1st word in the original title of this board game invented in 1979 "made it" | Trivial Pursuit | 0%
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WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM | $400 | Ponderous or heavy | weighty | 0%
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PROSE | $2000 | She's the 18th century author of "Mary, A Fiction" & "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" | Wollstonecraft | 0%
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