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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES	$200	"The Whiteness of the Whale"	Moby Dick	79%
PHRASE HISTORY	$800	1970s Budget Director Bert Lance got people saying "If it ain't broke", this	don\'t fix it	77%
PHRASE HISTORY	$200	The alliterative "more" this "for your buck" was popularized by a 1950s Secretary of Defense	bang	76%
PHRASE HISTORY	$600	Marshall Field's Chicago department store popularized the expression "The customer is" this	always right	74%
THE MIDDLE AGES	$400	This "dark" pandemic ravaged Europe between 1347 & 1351	the Black Plague	54%
INSPIRING WOMEN	$400	Haben Girma, who advocates for disability rights, was the first deaf blind person to graduate from this law school	Harvard	52%
BUDDHIST TEMPLES	$200	The Buddhist Shingon Toji Temple overlooks Nachi Falls, the tallest waterfall in this country	Japan	44%
AROUND THE WORLD	$400	Not only is it the world's smallest ocean, it's also the shallowest	the Arctic	43%
INSPIRING WOMEN	$600	Pioneering environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the woman who saved this Florida "river of grass"	the Everglades	37%
BUDDHIST TEMPLES	$600	72 symbolic stupas encircle the top levels of the Borobudur Temple complex on this island, Indonesia's most populous	Java	36%
NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES	$400	No lie: "The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet"	Pinocchio	36%
PUBLIC TELEVISION	$200	Watch this PBS show & guess how much grandma's old postcards might be appraised for	Antiques Roadshow	35%
PHRASE HISTORY	$1000	John Donne's 1624 "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" is the source of the phrase "No man is" this	an island	34%
INSPIRING WOMEN	$800	India's first female prime minister, she helped shape the country's constitution & society	Indira Gandhi	33%
THE MIDDLE AGES	$1200	According to legend, he was blown off course around 1000 A.D. & landed on the North American continent	(Leif) Erikson	32%
HIT MUSIC OF TODAY	$400	In 2019 adult contemporary fans sure wanted to know "Girls Like You" from this Adam Levine band	Maroon 5	32%
NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES	$1000	From a Verne work: "Boldly Down the Crater"	Journey to the Center of the Earth	29%
HIT MUSIC OF TODAY	$800	This band was "Only Human" as a hitmaker in 2019, its humans being Kevin, Joe & Nick	the Jonas Brothers	29%
HIT MUSIC OF TODAY	$1600	He surprised people at the 2019 VMAs by performing "Panini" over the very expected "Old Town Road"	Lil Nas X	27%
DANGEROUS COLORS	$400	The use of cinnabar as a red, like in Degas' "Combing the Hair", is quite toxic, as it contains this liquid metal	mercury	26%
WRAP IT UP!	$400	At Subway the signature wraps come wrapped in one of these	tortilla	26%
THE MIDDLE AGES	$1600	Before Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800, he was dubbed king of these people	the Franks	24%
PUBLIC TELEVISION	$400	I say, old chap, it's time for "A Question of Sport", a quiz show on this network since 1970	BBC	23%
NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES	$600	By Dickens: "Knitting"	A Tale of Two Cities	22%
WRAP IT UP!	$1600	This 4-letter seaweed that wraps up sushi is actually a type of red algae	nori	21%
PHRASE HISTORY	$400	A 1918 song title said this "Is Hard To Find"	A Good Man	18%
AROUND THE WORLD	$800	In 2019 this airline used employees as guinea pigs on a 19-hour flight direct from London to Sydney	Qantas	16%
INSPIRING WOMEN	$200	American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date	September 11th	16%
WRAP IT UP!	$1200	According to Luke 2, Mary "brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in" these	swaddling clothes	16%
NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES	$800	1883: "Pieces of eight"	Treasure Island	16%
DANGEROUS COLORS	$2000	Prussian blue contained this poison that's also found in the seeds of apples	cyanide	15%
BUDDHIST TEMPLES	$400	In 1968, the Byodo-In Temple was built without nails in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park in this U.S. state	Hawaii	15%
DANGEROUS COLORS	$800	Copper sulfate helped produce Scheele's this color, which gave some Victorians arsenic poisoning from wallpaper	green	14%
PUBLIC TELEVISION	$600	Norm Abram earned his spot on the debut of this renovation show 40 years ago by having a minuscule scrap pile	This Old House	14%
WRAP IT UP!	$800	The house here has this type of veranda that extends around the sides of the house	a wraparound	13%
HIT MUSIC OF TODAY	$2000	The album "Beerbongs & Bentleys" topped the billboard 200, going pillar to him	Post Malone	13%
DANGEROUS COLORS	$1200	Used in "The Arrest of Christ", Naples yellow contains both antimony and this heavy metal once common in lead paint	lead	12%
DANGEROUS COLORS	$1600	Leonardo da Vinci used a black powder made from carcinogenic sources like coal tar & named for this element	carbon	11%
INSPIRING WOMEN	$1000	This glamorous Vienna-born actress invented a device that contributed to the development of GPS and WiFi	Hedy Lamarr	10%
PUBLIC TELEVISION	$800	Real programs on this type of TV seen in "Wayne's World" include "The Mr. Science Show" & "Cast Iron TV"	public access	10%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1200	A specialty of Goa, India is feni, a potent liquor made from the fruit of the tree that produces these kidney-shaped nuts	cashews	9%
AROUND THE WORLD	$2000	"B" aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions	the Bosporus	9%
AROUND THE WORLD	$1600	The name of this people of Kenya precedes "Mara" in the name of a national reserve loaded with lions	Masai	6%
POETS	N/A	A Dartmouth dropout, he received 2 honorary degrees from Dartmouth--in 1933 & 1935	Robert Frost	5%
THE MIDDLE AGES	$2000	In Medieval Europe, some women wore a cloth headdress called this, still used today by some nuns who wear a traditional habit	a wimple	4%
BUDDHIST TEMPLES	$800	A temple in India has a tree descended from this five-letter tree important in the life of Buddha	the Bodhi Tree	4%
WRAP IT UP!	$2000	One of Christo's temporary works of art was the wrapping in fabric of this oldest Paris bridge	the Pont Neuf	3%
HIT MUSIC OF TODAY	$1200	In 2019, Garth Brooks and this fellow country star, seen here, team up to hit "A Dive Bar"	Blake Shelton	2%
PUBLIC TELEVISION	$1000	The CBC's "Road to Avonlea" made a star of this actress named Sarah who played young Sara Stanley	Sarah Polley	2%
THE MIDDLE AGES	$800	In this medieval literary work, Judas is found in the lowest circle of hell being gnawed on by Satan	The (Dante\'s) Inferno (Divine Comedy)	0%