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This quiz has been taken 80 times
The average score is 19 of 55

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
RHYME FIGHTER	$200	You "pull" one of these by staying up very late until that term paper is finally finished	an all-nighter	87%
3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD	$200	Elizabeth Gilbert: "Pray"	Eat Pray Love	78%
JACKAL	$200	The jackal was called this big cat's "provider": it was thought to assist on hunts	the lion	74%
WORLD RIVERS	$800	Dusseldorf & Mainz are important cities on this river	the Rhine	74%
WORLD RIVERS	$400	In the 1540s Francisco de Orellana made the first known trip down its entire length	the Amazon	69%
BEARD MAN	$200	A Guinness World Record, Hans Langseth's over 17-foot-long beard was eventually cut and donated to this D.C. institution	the Smithsonian	69%
HYDE	$400	Enacted by Congress in response to this 1973 Supreme Court case, the Hyde Amendment limits public funding for abortions	Roe v. Wade	67%
ENTERTAINMENT	$400	This song was written in 1908 & over 100 years later it's still sung during the seventh-inning stretch	"Take Me Out To The Ball Game""	67%
HYDE	$600	Founder of the Gaelic League, Douglas Hyde was also the first president of this republic	Ireland	63%
WORLD RIVERS	$1200	The Thar Desert of Northwestern India stretches into Pakistan & this river's valley	the Indus	59%
RHYME FIGHTER	$600	This item near a car's radio evolved into a 12-volt accessory charger	a cigarette lighter	56%
BEARD MAN	$400	In 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell of New York sent a letter urging him to "let your whiskers grow", & he did!	Lincoln	54%
BEARD MAN	$1000	Stop the presses. Here's an image of this bearded 15th century German inventor	Gutenberg	52%
JACKAL	$400	Some jackals use mounds abandoned by these ant-like insects as dens to birth their pups	termites	52%
3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD	$400	Truman Capote: "Cold"	In Cold Blood	46%
SURVIVOR	$1000	(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today	The Art of War	46%
SURVIVOR	$400	(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) In 1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy formed a secret pact called the Triple this. On the first season of "Survivor", Richard formed a quadruple one with Sue, Rudy & Kelly in which the four voted as a bloc, a wildly successful strategy that set a precedent for the series	alliance	44%
SURVIVOR	$200	(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The weather upped the stakes for "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X". The castaways had to be temporarily evacuated from their camps due to Zena, this tropical storm that can also be called a hurricane or a typhoon	cyclone	44%
JACKAL	$1000	Jackals in Africa can transmit this disease AKA lyssa to dogs & other animals	rabies	43%
JACKAL	$600	This African country gave its name to a canine that is also known as the Abyssinian wolf & the Simien jackal	Ethiopia	39%
ART SUBJECTS	$400	This Dutch artist often painted his beloved wife Saskia, who died in 1642 at age 29	Rembrandt	37%
THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE	$800	For at least one day in December, the sun does not set south of this circle	the Antarctic	37%
BEARD MAN	$800	This bearded French physician published the first edition of "Centuries", containing his prophecies, in 1555	Nostradamus	35%
RHYME FIGHTER	$800	After 8 years in the job in Dallas, Mike Rawlings said, "A mayor needs to" be this, bringing folks together	a uniter	33%
HYDE	$800	Anne Hyde was the mother of 2 British queens, Anne & this woman who married William III	Mary	33%
ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs	$400	1790: "an act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States"	the Census	33%
ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs	$1200	2001: "an act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world"	the Patriot Act	33%
HYDE	$200	The murderous Mr. Edward Hyde was created by this author	(Robert Louis) Stevenson	30%
WORLD RIVERS	$2000	Not the Seine but this river that enters the Atlantic south of Brittany is the longest in France	the Loire	26%
SURVIVOR	$600	(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) I knew that "Survivor" needed a catchphrase for when I snuffed out a torch at tribal council. It was actually executive producer Mark Burnett who inadvertently came up with this iconic 4-word phrase & the rest is TV history	"The tribe has spoken""	26%
ENTERTAINMENT	$1200	In 2019 Aaron Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman for this "Breaking Bad" movie	El Camino	24%
HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES	$400	The "Valley Isle" (4)	Maui	24%
THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE	$400	Adair, Iowa & Makanda, Illinois have put this cheerful symbol, big in the '70s, on their water towers	a smiley face	22%
ART SUBJECTS	$1200	Teenaged ballerina Marie van Goethem was the model for his sculpture of the "Little Dancer"	Degas	22%
THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE	$2000	(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The path of any point on the smaller circle will trace the diameter of the larger circle as the smaller circle rolls inside, according to the theorem of this Polish astronomer and mathematician	Copernicus	20%
ENTERTAINMENT	$800	In the 1980s Cyndi Lauper & Wham! were among the artists who made their early U.S. TV appearances on this Dick Clark series	American Bandstand	19%
3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD	$1000	W. Somerset Maugham: "Human"	Of Human Bondage	19%
BEARD MAN	$600	By the time he died, still unshaven in 1923, his discovery, the X-ray, was an essential tool of medicine	Roentgen	19%
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE	N/A	This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team including book & direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles	Waitress	17%
RHYME FIGHTER	$400	Synonym for a rabble-rouser who fires up a mob	an inciter	15%
HYDE	$1000	An 1872 act of Parliament allowed anyone to talk in this "Corner" of London's Hyde Park	Speakers\' Corner	15%
RHYME FIGHTER	$1000	Anatomical term for someone who talks spitefully about an absent person	a backbiter	13%
JACKAL	$800	This Russian airline has bred dog-jackal hybrids to sniff out explosives	Aeroflot	13%
THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE	$1600	1989 film in which Keanu Reeves tells Alex Winter, "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K"	Bill & Ted\'s Excellent Adventure	13%
ENTERTAINMENT	$2000	AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone	Birth of a Nation	13%
3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD	$800	Dr.Seuss: "in"	Fox in Socks	13%
ART SUBJECTS	$800	Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son	Whistler	13%
3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD	$600	Jojo Moyes: "Before"	Me Before You	11%
ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs	$800	1790: "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors"	Copyright	9%
WORLD RIVERS	$1600	It's name means swiftly flowing river and it crosses the province of the same name, the northern and southern branches meeting near Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	9%
ENTERTAINMENT	$1600	A resort area in the Catskills where many Jewish entertainers got their start had this alliterative nickname	the Borscht Belt	9%
ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs	$1600	1965: "an act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes"	the Voting Rights Act	9%
ART SUBJECTS	$2000	Jeanne Hébuterne had a slightly shorter neck than depicted in the works of her beau, this Italian painter	Modigliani	6%
ART SUBJECTS	$1600	Between 1971 & 1985 this artist painted Helga Testorf, his neighbor in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania	Andrew Wyeth	4%
SURVIVOR	$800	(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends"	(Elisabeth) Hasselback	2%