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This quiz has been taken 65 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
FEBRUARY	$200	One legend about this saint whose feast day is February 14 says he specialized in performing secret marriages	St. Valentine	92%
"JUST SAY "N.O."	$200	Avian term for someone who stays up late	a night owl	84%
FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES	$200	Something ill-suited is "not my" this 3-word phrase; I prefer English breakfast	cup of tea	82%
"JUST SAY "N.O."	$400	This gas is used by dentists as an anesthetic	nitrous oxide	76%
THE CIVIL WAR	$600	The first amputee of the war, J.E. Hanger invented a prosthetic this that ones made today are still based upon	a leg	71%
THE HORN OF AFRICA	$600	The point of the Horn is the peninsula of this country that's earned a reputation as a haven for pirates	Somalia	71%
THE HORN OF AFRICA	$800	In 1993, this country broke away from Ethiopia to become the Horn's newest independent nation	Eritrea	66%
"SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS	$1200	Pickles or ice cream for expectant mothers, for example	craving	61%
3/4 OF AN EGOT	$1600	This actress still needs a Tony, so right now, she will have to settle for having a "Titanic" "EGO"	Kate Winslet	58%
FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES	$600	It's a circular representation of relative percentages making up a whole	a pie chart	55%
TRIAL MIX	$400	A minor character in "The Crucible", the real Martha Corey was tried, excommunicated & hanged for this in 1692	witchcraft	55%
CAST OF THE TV SHOW	$400	Time traveling on BBC America without the lead actress: Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Bradley Walsh	Doctor Who	50%
3/4 OF AN EGOT	$800	Emmy "seems to be the hardest word" for this musician, but he certainly could "feel the love tonight" at the Oscars in '95	Elton John	50%
THE CIVIL WAR	$800	With Atlanta burning in their wake, 62,000 soldiers under Gen. Sherman marched 300 miles to the sea in Nov. & Dec. of this year	1864	45%
FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES	$400	Tread carefully if doing this phrase for being careful not to anger someone (it can use the whole food item or just the shells)	walking on eggshells	45%
3/4 OF AN EGOT	$1200	Her life story itself was on Broadway in 2019; yet still somehow this one-named superstar is Tony-less	Cher	42%
FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES	$1000	This expression means "earn a living"; in an old commercial, it was followed by "fry it up in a pan"	bring home the bacon	39%
CAST OF THE TV SHOW	$200	On NBC...oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer	This Is Us	39%
CAST OF THE TV SHOW	$800	On the CW: Camila Mendes & Cole Sprouse as teens, Robin Givens & Skeet Ulrich as grownups	Riverdale	37%
TRIAL MIX	$1200	On Aug. 2,1921, 8 members of this team were acquitted of taking money to lose the World Series; on Aug. 3 they were banned from baseball	the White Sox	37%
INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE	N/A	There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country	Argentina	34%
TRIAL MIX	$800	During the trial of this teacher in 1925, vendors sold refreshments, Bibles & toy monkeys	(John T.) Scopes	32%
CAST OF THE TV SHOW	$1000	HBO gets some very robotic performances out of Thandie Newton & James Marsden	Westworld	32%
3/4 OF AN EGOT	$400	This "Divine Miss M" could still really use an "O"--that'd be Oscar--as her 2 nominations did not lead to victory	Bette Midler	26%
HEAT STREET	$800	0 Kelvin is 273.15 below on this scale	Celcius	26%
THE HORN OF AFRICA	$1000	(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Horn of Africa is bordered by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and this body of water that gets its name from a seaport on the coast of Yemen	the Gulf of Aden	26%
"SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS	$800	A brewski in Barcelona	a cerveza	24%
FEBRUARY	$400	According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore	African-American History Month	24%
THE HORN OF AFRICA	$400	Animals of the Horn include the hamadrayas, among the smallest of these big monkeys	a baboon	21%
TRIAL MIX	$2000	Seized in South America in 1960, this high-ranking Nazi was transported to Israel, where he was tried & executed	Adolf Eichmann	21%
HEAT STREET	$400	Pasta chefs know it's the common way of saying heat-induced conversion of a liquid to a gas through vaporization	boiling	21%
FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES	$800	To lament a misfortune that can't be changed or corrected	cry over spilled milk	21%
THE HORN OF AFRICA	$200	National Geographic called the Danakil this, home to the Horn's Afar people, "the cruelest place on earth"	Desert	21%
THE CIVIL WAR	$1000	George Stewart called his in-depth study of this disastrous charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 a microhistory	Pickett	21%
THE CIVIL WAR	$200	About 1,500 Union soldiers received this highest award for valor, instituted by Congress during the Civil War	the Congressional Medal of Honor	21%
FEBRUARY	$1000	It's the big day seen here in the Crescent City one recent February	Mardi Gras	18%
HEAT STREET	$1200	It's the transfer of energy from one object to another by electromagnetic waves, like heat traveling from the Sun to the Earth	radiation	18%
"SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS	$1600	A high-ranking college officer	a provost	16%
RELIGIOUS FICTION	$400	Books in this series by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins take place following "the rapture"	Left Behind	16%
FEBRUARY	$600	Baseball spring training begins each February, with players at these 2 positions the first to report	pitchers & catchers	16%
RELIGIOUS FICTION	$1200	"The Fifth Mountain" by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho tells of the "whirlwind" life of this biblical prophet	Elijah	13%
CAST OF THE TV SHOW	$600	Some special FX: Patrick Wilson & Keith Carradine, both playin' Lou Solverson, dontcha know	Fargo	13%
THE CIVIL WAR	$400	Confederate troops used a high-pitched battle cry known by this 2-word name; it may have derived from fox hunting	the rebel yell	13%
OPERA ZINGERS	$400	Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" has lots to say to this other British queen, such as "Figlia impura di Bolena"	Elizabeth I	11%
RELIGIOUS FICTION	$800	Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series of novels includes one about these 2 sisters & wives of Jacob	Rachel & Leah	11%
"SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS	$2000	Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard	a clavier	8%
OPERA ZINGERS	$800	"Vile intruder who thou art" are the first words directed to this Mozart seducer	Don Giovanni	8%
"JUST SAY "N.O."	$800	It's a French phrase whose sentiment is that the rich should take care of the poor	noblesse oblige	8%
HEAT STREET	$2000	Like the desert snake it's named for, this air-to-air missile uses heat sensing to home in on its prey	a sidewinder	5%
3/4 OF AN EGOT	$2000	He's the Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy-winning rapper and actor seen here	Common	5%
FEBRUARY	$800	John Clare's poem "February" is all about thawing: "eaves in quick succession drop, where grinning" these "have been"	icicles	5%
"JUST SAY "N.O."	$1000	This astronomical site in D.C. is responsible for the U.S. time service	the Naval Observatory	5%
"SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS	$400	"Any port in a storm" is a popular one	a proverb	3%
TRIAL MIX	$1600	In 1982 a federal jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of president Reagan	John Hinckley, Jr.	3%
OPERA ZINGERS	$1200	This Verdi guy's joking includes suggesting the Count of Ceprano be beheaded since his head is useless on his shoulders	Rigoletto	3%
"JUST SAY "N.O."	$600	It's the delicacy seen here	a navel orange	0%
OPERA ZINGERS	$2000	The Wagnerian dwarf Alberich calls these "maidens" "bony fish" who should "take eels for their lovers"	Rhinemaidens	0%
OPERA ZINGERS	$1600	"You inconsiderate jade" is one of the nicer things said to Polly in this 1728 "opera" that inspired the 20th c. "Threepenny Opera"	The Beggar\'s Opera	0%
HEAT STREET	$1600	Heat is a form of energy: the first law of this says that it can be neither created nor destroyed but can be changed	thermodynaics	0%