Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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HOBBIES | $400 | After you've made your pottery, you may want to fire it in one of these ovens | a kiln | 83%
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EUROPE | $200 | This northern region encompassing several countries is sometimes reckoned to include Finland & the Faroe Islands | Scandinavia | 83%
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'70s TELEVISION | $200 | The alien Mork came to Earth to study humans like this other title character he bonds with | Mindy | 75%
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EUROPE | $800 | This capital of Belarus was almost completely destroyed during World War II | Minsk | 75%
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HOBBIES | $600 | Instead of paraffin, you might opt to make your candles from this, a by-product of honey making | beeswax | 67%
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HOBBIES | $200 | Maybe you want to make this type of decorative window; Chartres Cathedral has ones for inspiration | stained glass | 67%
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A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE | $200 | This West Coast state joined the union during Fillmore's presidency | California | 58%
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EUROPE | $600 | Finally realizing independence in 1993, it had been called "Upper Hungary" | Slovakia | 58%
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'70s TELEVISION | $400 | Bo & Luke, this title pair, were always working to stay one step ahead of Sheriff Coltrane & Boss Hogg | the Dukes of Hazzard | 58%
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WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT | $600 | A signal to an actor | a cue | 50%
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HOBBIES | $800 | Pinching buds, pruning & wiring branches are part of this, a loanword from Japanese that means "planted in a container" | bonsai | 50%
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A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE | $600 | Too-friendly-to-slavery Millard's name is being taken off things at UB, the U. at this city in New York where he was 1st chancellor | Buffalo | 50%
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A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE | $1000 | One of Fillmore's nicknames was "the last of" this political party's presidents | Whig | 50%
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WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT | $200 | A set cost for a service provided | a fee | 42%
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HOBBIES | $1000 | Settle in with some needlework & crochet this cozy blanket that gets its name from the land of the Pashtun people | afghan | 42%
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'70s TELEVISION | $800 | For three seasons, this actress helped protect our world as Diana Prince, an Amazon better known as Wonder Woman | Lynda Carter | 42%
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'70s TELEVISION | $600 | Jan, Cindy & this eldest were the 3 daughters in "The Brady Bunch" | Marcia | 42%
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EUROPE | $1000 | This former Yugoslav republic named for a mountain has the Tara River Canyon, one of Europe's deepest & a nice bridge over it | Montenegro | 42%
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'70s TELEVISION | $1000 | According to our "Files", this private eye lived in a trailer in Malibu but drove his Pontiac Firebird all over Los Angeles | Rockford | 42%
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | $400 | In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte" | Roots | 42%
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WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT | $400 | A bitter brew often with higher alcohol content | an ale | 33%
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I LOVE YOU 3,000 | $400 | He's not a total outcast; he's a musical & fashion trendsetter | Andre 3000 | 33%
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A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE | $800 | Shortly after taking office, Fillmore named this religious leader the governor of the Utah territory | (Brigham) Young | 33%
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | $1600 | Offering "very good advice on bad assumptions" is what the reviewer had to say about "How to Win Friends and" do this | Influence People | 33%
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | $800 | In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang | (Jack) London | 33%
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I LOVE YOU 3,000 | $600 | This shortstop was the first of all the team's superstars to join the 3,000-hit club as a Yankee, doing so with a home run in 2011 | Jeter | 33%
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | $1200 | Begun as a Saturday supplement in 1896, the first review included an update on this writer, incarcerated in Reading Gaol | Oscar Wilde | 33%
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EUROPE | $400 | Rossini never visited this Spanish city where he set an 1816 opera | Seville | 33%
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TUNE RIVER | $400 | It's said that he wrote the 2003 hit "Cry Me A River" about an ex, Britney Spears | Timberlake | 33%
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I LOVE YOU 3,000 | $1000 | In 2021 a trader's "fat-finger" error led to a sale price of $3,000 instead of $300,000 for an NFT, short for this | a non-fungible token | 25%
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS | $400 | When 2 light nuclei combine to form a single heavier nucleus, it's called this process | fusion | 25%
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TUNE RIVER | $800 | In her first solo No. 1 hit after leaving The Supremes, she sang, "Ain't no river wide enough to keep me from you" | Ross | 25%
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WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT | $800 | Great sorrow | woe | 25%
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WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT | $1000 | Home for an osprey | an aerie | 17%
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS | $1200 | The first people to use the term "atom" were the ancient Greeks & in their language, it refers to this quality | indivisibility | 17%
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TUNE RIVER | $2000 | It's the river that's "chilly & cold" as well as "deep & wide" in "Michael, row the boat ashore" | Jordan | 17%
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TUNE RIVER | $1200 | Jerome Kern wrote this standard about the Mississippi River for the musical "Show Boat" | "Ol\' Man River" | 17%
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A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE | $400 | In 1848 Fillmore wrote to this man who had chosen him for VP, saying I know you never heard of me before the convention | Taylor | 17%
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I LOVE YOU 3,000 | $800 | Beginning where the Lualaba & Luvua meet, this river flows almost 3,000 miles through West Central Africa to the Atlantic | the Congo | 17%
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RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS | $800 | A whole geologic time period centered on the queen of the Olympians | a Hera era | 8%
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RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS | $400 | A prohibition on the horned god of shepherds & flocks | a Pan ban | 8%
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RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS | $1600 | An unexpected extra father of Zeus | bonus Cronus | 8%
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS | $2000 | This fertile word is the "B" in FBR, a reactor that produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes while generating power | breeder | 8%
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"SH"! | $1200 | Once considered a rare breed, this dog was originally used for hunting & guarding in China | Shar-Pei | 8%
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"SH"! | $400 | From the name of a British army officer, it's fragments from an exploded bomb, mine or shell | shrapnel | 8%
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LIBRARIES | $2000 | The archives of this "Father of Existentialism" are housed at the Royal Library in Copenhagen | Søren Kierkegaard | 8%
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RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS | $2000 | Deception practiced by the muse of dance | Terpsichore trickery | 8%
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LIBRARIES | $800 | You don't have to work in government to use the main reading room here, but you do need an appointment | the Library of Congress | 8%
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS | $800 | Each particle in this Greek letter type of radiation used safely in home smoke detectors is identical to a helium nucleus | alpha radiation | 0%
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | $2000 | In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s | Amor Towles | 0%
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LIBRARIES | $1600 | The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community | Bethesda | 0%
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WORLD WAR I | N/A | Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula | Gallipoli | 0%
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LIBRARIES | $1200 | Mayor La Guardia named the 2 marble lions outside the NYPL this & Fortitude, qualities needed to survive the depression | Patience | 0%
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"SH"! | $2000 | It's a Middle Eastern sandwich in a pita or wrap with lamb or chicken, shaved from a rotating spit | shawarma | 0%
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"SH"! | $1600 | One of the earliest written mentions of this Native American people that included Sacagawea is in the journals of Lewis & Clark | Shoshone | 0%
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TUNE RIVER | $1600 | Big Mouth Billy Bass, a fish mounted on a plaque, lip-synched "Don't Worry, Be Happy" & this apt Al Green tune | "Take Me To The River" | 0%
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"SH"! | $800 | According to its website, this international is a fraternity based on fun, fellowship & masonic principles | the Shriners | 0%
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LIBRARIES | $400 | Its present building was erected under Pope Sixtus V | the Vatican Library | 0%
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RHYMING WITH THE GREEK GODS | $1200 | To walk behind the major god whose twin was Artemis | to follow Apollo | 0%
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS | $1600 | From their position on the periodic table, elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 are labeled with this term | transuranium | 0%
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I LOVE YOU 3,000 | $200 | "U" know it's the designation for radio frequencies between 300 & 3,000 megahertz | UHF (ultra high frequency) | 0%
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