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This quiz has been taken 91 times
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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
5-LETTER COUNTRIES	$800	The rugged Mahabharat range of the Himalayas spans part of this landlocked Asian nation	Nepal	63%
WILD THINGS	$400	Kublai Khan kept this fastest cat as a pet; you can't & shouldn't	the cheetah	58%
5-LETTER COUNTRIES	$400	Gaining independence in 1804, it was the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule	Haiti	54%
WILD THINGS	$800	Red cat-bear is another name for the red this, which lives in the Himalayas & eats bamboo	panda	51%
WILD THINGS	$200	The only eagle that is native to just North America is this one	the bald eagle	51%
CHOCOLATE	$200	What a compliment to chocolate! Theobroma, the genus of cacao, means "food of" these beings	the gods	51%
DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E	$400	A visual examination of something; let's have a...	a look-see	49%
5-LETTER COUNTRIES	$200	It stretches southward to Cape Horn	Chile	49%
WILD THINGS	$600	Mambas are members of this venomous snake family that is famed for its hood	the cobra	49%
CHOCOLATE	$600	Named for a port in Yemen, mocha is what Americans call the combination of chocolate & this	coffee	47%
DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E	$200	IBC or Barq's, for example	root beer	47%
FEMINISM	$200	An 1848 declaration said these institutions were unjustly closed to women; today women are the majority there	colleges	46%
FEMINISM	$400	Giving her 1989 book its title, Arlie Hochschild noted, "Most women work one shift at" their jobs & a "second shift" here	at home	40%
5-LETTER COUNTRIES	$1000	This kingdom consists of some 170 islands located about 1,300 miles north of New Zealand	Tonga	40%
CHOCOLATE	$400	These baked chocolatey squares share their name with a type of sprite	brownies	35%
YOU MAKE MY HEART SING	$400	Celine Dion had to be convinced by her husband/manager to do a demo for this 1997 movie song; it worked out okay	"My Heart Will Go On"	33%
YOU MAKE MY HEART SING	$200	Billy Ray Cyrus found disfavor with country purists for this song, a No. 4 crossover pop hit	"Achy Breaky Heart"	30%
YOU MAKE MY HEART SING	$1000	Heart, a group formed by sisters Ann & Nancy Wilson, had a hit in 1977 with this song named for a predatory fish	"Barracuda"	30%
DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E	$800	2-word name for the flat pan used to bake up some snickerdoodles	a cookie sheet	28%
CHOCOLATE	$800	In 1905, the year after it began making chocolate, this company merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company	Nestlé	28%
5-LETTER COUNTRIES	$600	In the 19th century, this Mideast nation fell under the control of the Al Thani Dynasty, which still rules there today	Qatar	28%
FEMINISM	$600	In a feminist move the women's social & political union insisted on saying this word with a hard "G", as in "We'll get the vote"	suffragette	25%
HOW ARTSY	$800	It is rumored that in 1508 Raphael & Bramante pushed for this man to paint a Vatican ceiling, hoping he would fail	Michelangelo	19%
WORLD FLAGS	N/A	Both Wales & Bhutan have flags bearing one of these mythical creatures	a dragon	18%
DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E	$600	"Be of" these 2 words denoting happy spirits	good cheer	18%
YOU MAKE MY HEART SING	$600	In 2020 Dua Lipa sang "Break My Heart"; in 1996 she gave the impossible demand "Un-Break My Heart"	Toni Braxton	18%
CHOCOLATE	$1000	White chocolate is actually not chocolate--it is milk & sugar mixed with this, the edible fat of the cocoa bean	cocoa butter	14%
HOW ARTSY	$1200	I'm not sure which is the bigger disaster, the storm in the painting by this Dutch master or that it was stole in 1990	Rembrandt	12%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$400	In December 1917 just one representative in Congress said no to war with this dual monarchy	Austria-Hungary	11%
WARM WORDS	$400	It follows "dead" in a race with no clear winner	heat	11%
YOU MAKE MY HEART SING	$800	A 2015 song by her begins, "This is my heartbeat song and I'm gonna play it"	Kelly Clarkson	9%
ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM	$400	This real-life doctor turned comedic actor is one of the panelists on "The Masked Singer"	Ken Jeong	9%
ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM	$800	For 7 seasons she played Dr. Joan Watson on "Elementary"	Lucy Liu	9%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$800	As the dot-com bubble swelled, this tech-heavy stock index rose from 1,000 to 5,000 between 1995 & 2000	the Nasdaq	9%
FEMINISM	$1000	In "A Room of One's Own", Virginia Woolf spoke up for this type of "mind" that has feminine equally with masculine qualities	androgynous	7%
ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM	$1200	Of Indian descent, Kal Penn had roles on "Designated Survivor" & "House" & was one half of this movie duo opposite John Cho	Harold & Kumar	7%
A TOTAL SMOKE SCREEN	$800	Since 1964, 2.5 million non-smokers have died from exposure to secondhand smoke, says the website of this govt. doctor	the Surgeon General	7%
A TOTAL SMOKE SCREEN	$1200	The smoke monster on this 2000s ABC drama was really the Man in Black	Lost	5%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$1200	A 1920s song asked, "How ya gonna keep em down on" this place? Many didn't, as in that decade, the U.S. became majority city folk	the farm	5%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$1600	Thanks to the 23rd Amendment, on November 3rd, 1964, residents of this city cast their first votes for president	Washington, D.C.	5%
A TOTAL SMOKE SCREEN	$2000	Haze was visible on the East Coast after the 1912 eruption of the volcanic Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in this now state	Alaska	4%
ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE	$400	Anna, Vronsky may be something now, but he is easily distracted--you bet on the wrong horse	Anna Karenina	4%
20th CENTURY AMERICA	$2000	Eugene Hasenfus survived a shoot-down by the Sandinistas, leading to the exposure of this 1980s scandal	Iran-Contra	4%
ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE	$800	Emma, your marriage to a country doctor won't fulfill you, but neither will your affairs with Leon & Rodolphe	Madame Bovary	4%
WILD THINGS	$1000	This 5-letter so-called cat excretes a musk that is used in the making of perfumes	the civet	4%
WARM WORDS	$2000	It can mean both crazy & pleasantly warm, like a mild tropical climate	balmy	2%
HOW ARTSY	$2000	To honor this artist's 125th birthday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, commissioned statues like the one here	Grant Wood	2%
HOW ARTSY	$1600	It was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven who signed "R. Mutt" to a urinal in this French Dadaist's provocative 1917 artwork	Marcel Duchamp	2%
FEMINISM	$800	In a 2012 case the Mass. Supreme Court ruled women who are breastfeeding their infants get time to do this during licensing exams	pump breast milk	2%
WARM WORDS	$800	Like a passionate affair, a zone of the Earth between the tropics is called this "T" word	torrid	2%
ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM	$2000	This star of her own stand-up specials starred opposite Randall Park in the romcom "Always Be My Maybe"	Ali Wong	0%
ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE	$1200	Dagny, you will fall in love with John Galt even though you are a stand-in for Ayn Rand's vision of capitalism	Atlas Shrugged	0%
WARM WORDS	$1200	In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tosses 3 men into this alliterative "furnace"	fiery	0%
ASIAN AMERICANS ON TV & FILM	$1600	This Japanese-American actor has more than 10 million followers on Facebook	(George) Takei	0%
ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE	$2000	Lily, I think you should wait one more day for Lawrence Selden--at least tell him the debts are paid	The House of Mirth	0%
ADVICE TO THE NOVEL HEROINE	$1600	Miss Kenton, even all the Nazis at Darlington Hall couldn't bring you & Stevens the butler together	The Remains of the Day	0%
WARM WORDS	$1600	This word for an updraft of warm air is from the Greek for "heat"	thermal	0%
A TOTAL SMOKE SCREEN	$1600	This website founded in 1997 provides authentic documents from court files & government records	thesmokinggun.com	0%
DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E	$1000	To excessively pamper someone with a utensil, metaphorically	to spoon-feed them	0%