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This quiz has been taken 69 times
The average score is 13 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
A 20th CENTURY DECADE	$600	World War II begins in Europe	the 1930s	73%
A 20th CENTURY DECADE	$200	The first humans land on the Moon	the 1960s	73%
A 20th CENTURY DECADE	$400	Joseph McCarthy is officially censured by the U.S. Senate	the 1950s	70%
A 20th CENTURY DECADE	$800	The Soviet Union is dissolved	the 1990s	67%
MASKS	$400	Writer Johnston McCulley created this masked vigilante with a Spanish name that means "fox"	Zorro	53%
DAM BUILDING	$800	In the 1950s Switzerland's Mauvoisin Dam became the world's tallest one, replacing this American one	the Hoover Dam	47%
WOMEN IN MUSIC	$200	This "Girl On Fire" performer chose her last name in reference to the piano & because "it can open so many doors"	Alicia Keys	43%
WOMEN IN MUSIC	$400	"I Will Survive" indeed; in 2020, 40 years after her hit, this singer was back on top, winning a Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album	Gloria Gaynor	40%
MASKS	$800	This Dumas novel suggests that the prisoner is actually the twin brother of Louis XIV	The Man in the Iron Mask	40%
WOMEN IN MUSIC	$600	In 2015 Rolling Stone named her & Ike No. 2 on their list of the Greatest Duos of All Time	Tina Turner	40%
IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS	$800	Here's Handsome Dan, who became the mascot of this school in 1889	Yale	40%
IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS	$200	In 1764 this school, then called Rhode Island College, became the 7th college chartered in America	Brown	37%
DAM BUILDING	$200	Called "Gujarat's Lifeline", the Sardar Sarovar Dam in this country still took 56 years to complete	India	37%
WOMEN IN MUSIC	$800	With more than 100 million albums sold, this "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" singer is among the top-selling country artists of all time	Shania Twain	37%
MASKS	$1000	In this French novel, a singer named Christine longs to see beneath the mask of the title character	The Phantom of the Opera	37%
DAM BUILDING	$1000	The Guri Dam near the Guyana border was built to ease this South American country's dependence on oil	Venezuela	33%
DAM BUILDING	$600	Now in danger of failing, the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River created the world's largest one of these by volume, 43 cubic miles	a reservoir	30%
ALL "IZE"	$800	To appoint someone as a sheriff's assistant	deputize	30%
A BUSY BODY	$400	It's just 3 to 4 inches long & seems to be gradually disappearing through evolution, but when it gets blocked, it can still kill you	the appendix	27%
WOMEN IN MUSIC	$1000	This frontwoman for the Go-Go's has also had solo hits like "Mad About You" & "I Get Weak"	Belinda Carlisle	23%
IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS	$400	This college cited Woodrow Wilson's "racist thinking & policies" as it took his name off its School of Public & Intl. Affairs	Princeton	23%
MASKS	$200	"Who Was That Masked Man?" is a book about this title character from radio, TV & movies	the Lone Ranger	23%
MASKS	$600	Here are some of the masks of these Mexican wrestlers	luchadores	20%
JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR	$800	We'll start in Irkutsk, go past Lake Baikal, then up into the Arctic Circle; all are a part of this Russian region	Siberia	20%
ALL "IZE"	$600	Term for milk that hasn't been heat-treated to kill microorganisms	unpasteurized	20%
THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE	$2000	Strip away his credit as "Magic Mike" & he was still born & bred to be part of Born & Bred Vodka	Channing Tatum	17%
THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE	$400	This actress offered Drew's Blend, a pinot noir	Drew Barrymore	17%
ALL "IZE"	$200	To make a partisan matter out of something, maybe by dividing Democrats & Republicans	politicize	17%
ALL "IZE"	$1000	To do exercise that increases oxygen intake, perhaps to a Jane Fonda workout video	aerobicize	13%
JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR	$2000	Head from Mongo to Koro Toro, then cross the northern border of this landlocked African nation into Libya... or maybe not	Chad	13%
IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS	$600	Dartmouth's Geisel Medical School is named for this writer & his wife; though he was a "Dr.", he was not an M.D.	Dr. Seuss	13%
JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR	$400	We wish you a merry isthmus as we travel from Las Tablas to Los Pozos in this Central American country	Panama	13%
A BUSY BODY	$800	The thinking part of the brain, it accounts for about 85% of the brain's weight	the cerebrum	13%
ALL "IZE"	$400	To get used to a new environment, particularly its temperature	acclimatize	10%
JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR	$1200	We've landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a stay in this capital; we hear one night there makes a hard man humble	Bangkok	10%
THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE	$800	Haig Club whisky added some Posh Spice to its recipe, relative-ly speaking, after this soccer star became a partner	(David) Beckham	10%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$400	A Latin word for "grace" or "favor", it means free of charge	gratis	10%
ALLUSIVE TITLES	$1600	This Shakespeare play provided Agatha Christie with "by the pricking of my thumbs"	Macbeth	10%
THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE	$1200	He must have worked up a thirst starring in "Two Guys, a Girl & a Pizza Place" & " Deadpool" , as he invested in Aviation Gin	Ryan Reynolds	10%
ALLUSIVE TITLES	$400	John Steinbeck lifted the title of this novel from "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"	The Grapes of Wrath	10%
DAM BUILDING	$400	This civilization built some of the oldest dams still in use, including the Proserpina Dam at Mérida, Spain	the Romans	10%
18th CENTURY AMERICANS	N/A	One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants"	Benjamin Franklin	7%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$1200	An Italian grandmother gives this command when it's time to eat	mangia	7%
JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR	$1600	We'll head out of Regina, hit Moose Jaw, then head up to catch some northern pike at Wollaston Lake in this prairie province	Saskatchewan	7%
A 20th CENTURY DECADE	$1000	ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, is built	the \'40s	7%
A BUSY BODY	$1200	The trochlea, a spool-shaped surface in this bone, articulates with the ulna, & that's no joke	the humerus	7%
IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS	$1000	Part of Penn, this business school once had the goal of its grads becoming "pillars of the state"	Wharton	7%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$800	Borrowed from German, this 5-letter word means an intense but nonspecific anxiety	angst	3%
FURNITURE STUFF	$1600	Two sets of double letters end the name of this smallish sofa	a settee	3%
FURNITURE STUFF	$800	The king mattress named for this U.S. state measures 72" wide by 84" long	California	3%
A BUSY BODY	$2000	Chronic alcohol drinking is a big cause of this disease, but it can also occur due to obesity or hepatitis C	cirrhosis	3%
THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE	$1600	"Drink You Away" was part of this singer's "20/20 Experience"; he might suggest his Sauza 901 Tequila for the task	Justin Timberlake	3%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$1600	Excessive sentimentality or chicken fat--this Yiddish word means both	schmaltz	3%
A BUSY BODY	$1600	Blockage of these neck arteries that bring blood to your brain can lead to stroke	the carotid artery	3%
ALLUSIVE TITLES	$800	Thomas Gray's line "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" gave this Thomas an 1874 novel title	Thomas Hardy	3%
ALLUSIVE TITLES	$2000	Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" takes its title from this man's poem "The Second Coming"	(William Butler) Yeats	3%
FURNITURE STUFF	$1200	This alliterative "bookcase" with glass or wooden doors is named for a type of British lawyer	a barrister	0%
FURNITURE STUFF	$400	Names for stools include counter, bar & this 3-letter synonym for bar	a pub stool	0%
FURNITURE STUFF	$2000	This free-standing cupboard has an Italian name	credenza	0%
ALLUSIVE TITLES	$1200	Milton's "Unless the almighty maker them ordain / His dark materials to create more worlds" inspired the title of a trilogy by him	Philip Pullman	0%
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES	$2000	Instead of calm or nonchalance, try this French phrase that means cold blood	sang froid	0%