Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW | $200 | "D'oh!" | The Simpsons | 90%
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TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW | $400 | "Yabba dabba doo!" | The Flintstones | 86%
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TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW | $600 | "Bazinga!" | The Big Bang Theory | 71%
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A RIVER RUNS UNDER IT | $200 | Covered over in the late 19th century, the Bievre runs under Paris before flowing into this river | the Seine | 69%
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"THAN" WORDS | $200 | It was inspired by a 1621 harvest feast | Thanksgiving | 57%
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SPEAK LOUDER | $800 | If you're increasing these units that measure the intensity of sound, you're getting louder | decibels | 53%
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SPEAK LOUDER | $1000 | Thespians know that to speak louder, you need to project, & a good method is engaging this dome-shaped muscle in the torso | the diaphragm | 47%
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A RIVER RUNS UNDER IT | $600 | Today buried in tunnels, Moscow's Neglinnaya river fed the moat protecting this fortress | the Kremlin | 47%
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AMERICAN LITERATURE | $800 | 4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel | The Joy Luck Club | 37%
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"THAN" WORDS | $600 | It's handy to put facilities for this gasoline additive right in fields of the Midwestern corn it's made from | ethanol | 31%
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TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW | $1000 | "Book 'em, Danno" | Hawaii Five-O | 31%
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | $400 | During this notorious period that began in 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was effectively the govt. of France | the Reign of Terror | 29%
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TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW | $800 | "Nanu-nanu" | Mork & Mindy | 27%
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"THAN" WORDS | $800 | In Greek mythology this 8-letter figure is the personification of death | Thanatos | 27%
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A RIVER RUNS UNDER IT | $400 | Connecticut's Park River, which flows under the state capitol grounds, was buried in the 1940s by the Army Corps of these | Engineers | 24%
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | $1600 | The motto of the radical Jacobin Club was "Vivre libre ou mourir", translated as this | Live free or die | 24%
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | $800 | The National Convention first met on Sept. 20, 1792 & declared France one of these kingless governments 2 days later | a republic | 22%
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AMERICAN LITERATURE | $200 | Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale | Rip Van Winkle | 22%
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BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES | $400 | This actress who captured our hearts as little Gertie in "E.T." | Drew Barrymore | 20%
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | $1200 | A coup on 18 Brumaire established the consulate & brought this general to power | Napoleon Bonaparte | 18%
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ANIMALS | $1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Those aren't racing stripes; a mutation in the king type of this African cat blends the spots around its spine to look like stripes | a cheetah | 14%
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BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES | $1600 | This Canadian-born actress in the title role of "Juno" | (Ellen) Page | 14%
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A RIVER RUNS UNDER IT | $1000 | This rhyming road synonymous with the British press gets its name from a river that flows under London | Fleet Street | 14%
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ACTIONS | $800 | In knitting, it means to pull a loop of yarn through the front to the back of the fabric | purl | 14%
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ANIMALS | $400 | The pronghorn, also called the American or pronghorned one of these, can cover about one mile per minute | an antelope | 12%
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BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES | $800 | Him as adult film star Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights" | (Mark) Wahlberg | 12%
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"THAN" WORDS | $400 | "Beowulf" features several of these feudal warriors who serve their liege | thanes | 12%
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AMERICAN LITERATURE | $600 | The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death | The Big Sleep | 12%
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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | $800 | 2019's H.R. 420 is a federal bill that seeks to regulate this substance | marijuana | 10%
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ANIMALS | $2000 | This late gorilla once broke a sink & used sign language to blame someone else | Koko | 8%
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AMERICAN LITERATURE | $400 | Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska | My Antonia | 8%
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ACTIONS | $1000 | Medically speaking, remove 2 letters from a word meaning "to beat rapidly" & you get this word meaning "to examine by touching" | palpate | 8%
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BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES | $1200 | Him as stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" | Sean Penn | 8%
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ACTIONS | $600 | In dancing the Lindy Hop, the kaye is this type of move to be done carefully & without surprising your partner | a dip | 6%
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ANIMALS | $1600 | When these camel relatives give birth, it's been colloquially called "unpacking" | alpacas | 6%
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ANIMALS | $800 | In the 1950s Idaho relocated these amphibious rodents by dropping them (with parachutes) out of airplanes | beavers | 6%
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"THAN" WORDS | $1000 | Euphuism, an artificially elegant prose style, came into fashion in this royal period of English literature | Elizabethan | 6%
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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | $400 | Eleanor Holmes Norton has been the non-voting delegate for this district for nearly 30 years | Washington, D.C. | 6%
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MEDICAL HISTORY | N/A | One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks | Julius Caesar | 4%
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PATRON SAINTS | $400 | This patron saint of lost causes probably got his 4-letter name so he wouldn't be confused with Judas | St. Jude | 4%
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PATRON SAINTS | $800 | George slew this mythical beast, which led to 15,000 baptisms & him becoming patron saint of England | the dragon | 4%
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AMERICAN LITERATURE | $1000 | In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon" | (Thomas) Pynchon | 4%
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PUN-FORGIVABLE | $800 | "A spot for handing out pink slips", or a hearth at the base of a chimney | a fire place | 2%
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PATRON SAINTS | $2000 | Pope Clement IX made Rose of Lima patron of this country; Clement X made her patron saint of all of South America | Peru | 2%
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BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES | $2000 | Described as a cinematic chameleon, this British actress in the title role of "Orlando" | Tilda Swinton | 2%
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION | $2000 | From tomber, French for "to fall", it was the cart that took those condemned to death on their last ride | tumbrel | 2%
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PUN-FORGIVABLE | $1600 | "Where Noah stored his bees aboard his vessel", or a place where historical documents & records are kept | an ark hive | 0%
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PUN-FORGIVABLE | $1200 | "What you say to scare a lemon pie topping", or an Australian aboriginal weapon | Boo! meringue | 0%
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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | $1200 | Chaired by Maxine Waters, the House Committee on these services regulates the banks | financial services | 0%
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ACTIONS | $400 | Steph Curry is one of many athletes who tap their chests & then do this to thank God after a successful play | look up (point up to the sky) | 0%
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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | $2000 | The 9th district of this state was not represented in January 2019 because the vote there was not certified due to charges of fraud | North Carolina | 0%
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PUN-FORGIVABLE | $400 | "The hog products you crave", or a mammal with quills | pork you pine | 0%
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PUN-FORGIVABLE | $2000 | "To break God's law until a prime time hour", or to sparkle brightly | sin till late | 0%
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PATRON SAINTS | $1200 | St, Erasmus, also known by this shorter name, is a patron saint of sailors | St. Elmo | 0%
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PATRON SAINTS | $1600 | Sharing his feast day with fellow archangels Gabriel & Michael, he's the patron saint of the blind | St. Raphael | 0%
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A RIVER RUNS UNDER IT | $800 | West Virginia's Lost River disappears under a ridge in this mountain chain, then emerges as the Cacapon River on the other side | the Applachian Mountains (Blue Ridge Mountains) | 0%
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THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | $1600 | This 15-letter appointed officer publishes the rules for the House & makes sure the reps abide by them | the parliamentarian | 0%
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ACTIONS | $200 | After one of your checkers reaches your opponent's first row, do this to your piece to show it's now a king | top it on the other piece | 0%
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