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This quiz has been taken 225 times
The average score is 11 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
PODCASTS	$200	This "Science Guy" "Is on a Mission to Change the World" & takes your questions on "Science Rules!"	Bill Nye	86%
M-N-Ms	$200	It's a period of 1,000 years	a millennium	70%
WHAT THE BLANK?	$400	Standard versions of this board game have 2 blank tiles that can be any letter but are worth zero points	Scrabble	70%
A DAY AT THE RACES	$200	On May 3, 2008 this Jamaican ran a 100 meters in 9.76; a few weeks later, he shaved .04 to set the world record	(Usain) Bolt	61%
WHAT THE BLANK?	$200	Literally, it's a bank draft that is signed but with the amount left empty	a blank check	48%
PODCASTS	$400	"Fiasco" examined the issues that played out during the election in 2000 between these 2 politicians	Bush & Gore	44%
THE BOOK CASE	$200	In "Tropic of Fear" Nancy Drew met up with these brothers for a Hawaiian-themed mystery	the Hardy Boys	42%
M-N-Ms	$800	Jesse Ventura said, "WikiLeaks exists because" this media "haven't done their job"	mainstream	36%
HISTORIC NAMES	$800	During an historic visit to China in 1972, President Nixon met with this Communist Party leader	Mao	36%
M-N-Ms	$600	Used in photography, it has atomic number 12	magnesium	34%
A DAY AT THE RACES	$400	It took 3 days of looking at news pics, but Lee Petty was finally named the winner of the 1st 500 at this Fla. speedway in 1959	Daytona	33%
THE BOOK CASE	$600	"The Interpretation of Murder" finds this Austrian & Carl Jung caught up in a Manhattan murder mystery	Freud	30%
HISTORIC NAMES	$400	She united Castile with Aragon when she married Ferdinand V in 1469	Isabella	28%
A DAY AT THE RACES	$800	The tradition of the yellow jersey being awarded during this race began in 1919; yellow was the color of the newspaper that sponsored it	the Tour de France	28%
PODCASTS	$600	"WeCrashed" looks at this office-sharing company that had a rough month in 2019 when it lost $37 billion in valuation	WeWork	28%
MOVIE BIOS	$1200	In "The Motorcycle Diaries": Gael Garcia Bernal as this revolutionary	Che Guevara	27%
PODCASTS	$1000	Turns out this TBS late night show host "Needs a Friend"; Malcolm Gladwell & Tina Fey were happy to oblige	Conan O\'Brien	27%
A DAY AT THE RACES	$1000	As a rookie in 2007, Lewis Hamilton finished only one point behind. season champ Kimi Räikkönen in this alphanumeric auto racing class	F1	23%
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS	$800	It's the only one of the 10 that's part of Africa	Madagascar	23%
M-N-Ms	$1000	As opposed to albinism, this hereditary condition allows for darker pigmentation	melanism	23%
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS	$400	With an area of about 840,000 square miles, it's the world's largest island	Greenland	22%
ACRONYMS	$2000	This acronymic period takes up about 25% of our sleep time & is when we have our most vivid dreams	REM	22%
ACRONYMS	$400	The creator of this type of animated online file intended it to sound like the peanut butter brand	a GIF	21%
ACRONYMS	$1200	You might want to wear a wetsuit if you do this type of underwater diving	SCUBA	21%
WHAT THE BLANK?	$600	This phrase meaning to be failed by your memory probably comes from a lottery where losing tickets had nothing written on them	draw a blank	17%
A DAY AT THE RACES	$600	In 2012 the Maryland Racing Commission shaved 1 2/5 seconds off Secretariat's 1973 win, setting a new record for this Triple Crown race	the Preakness	16%
HISTORIC NAMES	$1200	Leading the Spartan forces, Lysander defeated the Athenian navy, ending this war in 405 B.C.	the Peloponnesian	15%
MOVIE BIOS	$400	2005: Joaquin Phoenix as this country music sensation	(Johnny) Cash	14%
ACRONYMS	$800	Adman Arthur Meyerhoff got his initials in the name of this cooking spray	PAM	13%
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	$200	After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment"	Pavarotti	13%
WHAT THE BLANK?	$1000	John Milton used this unrhymed pentameter in "Paradise Lost"	blank verse	12%
PODCASTS	$800	Start counting Scovilles as the podcast about this food heats up on "It Burns"	(chili) peppers	12%
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS	$1600	At No. 10, Ellesmere Island covers about 75,000 square miles in this ocean	the Arctic	11%
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	$400	Opera hits a real low note (a "D") in an aria by Osmin, a role for this vocal range in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio"	bass	10%
THE BOOK CASE	$800	This "colorful" boy detective solved many crimes, like "The Case of the Stolen Diamonds"	Encyclopedia Brown	10%
HISTORIC NAMES	$1600	In 1781 this German philosopher published his "Critique of Pure Reason", because he could	Kant	10%
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	$600	The name of this famed opera house in Milan built by Maria Theresa in the 1770s translates to "the staircase"	La Scala	10%
HISTORIC NAMES	$2000	Prior to David Cameron, the last British PM named David was this man who led his country during WWI	David Lloyd George	9%
WHAT THE BLANK?	$800	A documentary about this game show hosted by Gene Rayburn & later Alec Baldwin is subtitled "Behind the Blank"	Match Game	9%
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS	$2000	Brunei is located on its northern coast	Borneo	7%
MOVIE BIOS	$800	2000: Ed Harris as this drip painter	Jackson Pollock	7%
THE BOOK CASE	$1000	This, Mary Shelley's middle name, is the name of a detective agency in which a young Mary solves cases	Wollstonecraft	7%
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	$1000	The king's aria to a tree is a highlight of Handel's "Serse", about the Persian king better known as this	Xerxes	7%
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA	$800	In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs	Cleopatra	5%
SYMBOLS	$400	The glyph that symbolizes this sign of the zodiac represents ripples of water	Aquarius	4%
THE BOOK CASE	$400	This lady who lived in the British village of St. Mary Mead solved "The Murder at the Vicarage"	(Jane) Marple	4%
MOVIE BIOS	$1600	1993: Liam Neeson as this German industrialist who saved Jews during World War II	(Oskar) Schindler	4%
M-N-Ms	$400	I'm fond of the one seen here; it was made for me	a monogram	3%
SYMBOLS	$800	The diminutive of star gives this keyboard symbol its name	an asterisk	3%
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS	$1200	A silhouette of this second-largest island kind of looks like a bird in flight	New Guinea	2%
SYMBOLS	$1600	An ancient symbol, the ouroboros is this animal with its tail in its mouth; it is continually devouring itself & reborn from itself	a snake	1%
KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST	$1200	(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This cartilaginous fish with a barbed tail and its mouth on its underside lives on the ocean bottom; its relative, the manta ray, was found in open waters, so I wonder how the classic marine biology text, "Rock, Lobster" by the B-52s, can possibly have them swimming together	a stingray	1%
KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST	$400	(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The giant larvacean which looks like a tadpole surrounded by a balloon of mucus helps battle climate change; disproportionate to its small size, the gelatinous animals, with their protein and cellulose snot palaces, have helped the ocean remove this planet-warming gas from the atmosphere	carbon dioxide	1%
WORD ORIGINS	N/A	This word for a type of building or institution comes from Greek for a place sacred to a mythical group of 9	museum	1%
KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST	$1600	(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Some species of shrimp dig burrows that provide shelter for goby fish which, in turn, act as lookout for the nearly blind shrimp; it's an example of mutualism, which of the main types of this relationship is the one where both parties benefit	symbiosis	1%
KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST	$800	(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though its name is a byword for "crowding", this fish is vulnerable to steep reductions in numbers; overfishing closed the famed Cannery Row, and in 2014, its Pacific grounds were closed after its populations reduced by about 90%	the sardine	1%
SYMBOLS	$2000	The first 3 letters of this eastern symbol are represented by the tiger; the last 4, by the dragon	yin-yang	1%
SYMBOLS	$1200	This baby animal represents Jesus, the sacrifice offered for man's sins	lamb (the Lamb of God)	0%
MOVIE BIOS	$2000	In "12 Years a Slave": Chiwetel Ejiofor as this free Black man sold into slavery	Solomon Northup	0%
KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST	$2000	(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Marine biology with a touch of militarism. During World War II, Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists identified a crustacean whose noises were interfering with the detection of these enemy vessels	submarines	0%
ACRONYMS	$1600	Drake's song "The Motto" helped popularize this acronym telling us to go for what we want	YOLO (you only live once)	0%