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FATHERS OF INVENTION | $200 | Plant burrs sticking to a dog's fur inspired Swiss inventor George de Mestral to create this fastener brand | Velcro | 94%
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LICENSE TO WHATEVER | $200 | Citizens in most German states need to pass a written test to get a license to enjoy this rod & reel pastime | fishing | 83%
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LICENSE TO WHATEVER | $800 | If you want to get a dog license in Ann Arbor, Michigan, your pooch must be vaccinated for this malady | rabies | 78%
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NOBLE | $200 | This 3-letter title is used for a man who is dubbed a knight | sir | 78%
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LICENSE TO WHATEVER | $600 | In Britain, an off-licence is a shop that sells this & requires you to consume it off the premises | alcohol | 61%
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FATHERS OF INVENTION | $1000 | Last name of the 19th century Belgian who never heard of jazz but invented one of its main instruments | Sax | 61%
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8-LETTER WORDS | $200 | The zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is Poland's unit of this | currency | 56%
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FATHERS OF INVENTION | $400 | To find the bullet in James Garfield, Alexander Graham Bell created an early one of these, but mattress springs confused it | a metal detector | 50%
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"E" SPORTS | $200 | Headquartered in Nepal, the WEPA is the World this animal Polo Association | elephant | 50%
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"E" SPORTS | $1000 | At the Montreal Olympics, Princess Anne competed for Britain in this sport | equestrian | 50%
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FATHERS OF INVENTION | $600 | In 1830 Edwin Budding patented the mechanical this for the "cropping or shearing" of "grass-plats and pleasure grounds" | the lawn mower | 50%
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"E" SPORTS | $600 | In 2020 Major League Baseball started putting a runner on second base to start each of these, which start with the tenth | extra innings | 44%
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"E" SPORTS | $800 | In 1999 this Denver QB was Super Bowl MVP, then quit while he was way ahead | John Elway | 44%
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8-LETTER WORDS | $600 | One of the witches in "Macbeth" refers to it as a "charmed pot" | a cauldron | 39%
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BARNS | $600 | Seen here are some barns used to cultivate this plant of the genus Nicotiana | tobacco | 39%
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8-LETTER WORDS | $1000 | This tuna, species Thunnus alalunga, can be used in a nicoise salad | albacore | 33%
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"E" SPORTS | $400 | Linda Cohn, Chris Berman & Scott Van Pelt are stars on its team | ESPN | 33%
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BARNS | $400 | Barn owls are generally this 10-letter word meaning they mate for life, & could nest in the same barn year after year | monogamous | 33%
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | $400 | Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney | To Kill a Mockingbird | 33%
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LICENSE TO WHATEVER | $1000 | Operators of CB radio have a "license by rule", while operators of this need an FCC amateur operator license | ham radio | 28%
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AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD | $800 | A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape | Casablanca | 22%
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AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD | $400 | Dartmouth, England has a memorial to the American role in this WWII invasion for which it was a major launching point | D-Day | 22%
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LICENSE TO WHATEVER | $400 | This 11-letter type of driver's license comes after the learner's permit in some states | provisional | 22%
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AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD | $1200 | The naval monument in this British territory at the entrance to the Mediterranean is known as the American Steps | Gibraltar | 17%
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AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD | $2000 | This nation mainly of ethnic Albanians put up a statue of Pres. Clinton for helping it declare itself independent of Serbia | Kosovo | 17%
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NOBLE | $400 | If you watched "Downton Abbey", you know the wife of an English lord with this title is a countess | earl | 11%
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STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" | $400 | Like mustard & wasabi, this related root is prepared & used as a condiment | horseradish | 11%
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FATHERS OF INVENTION | $800 | Christopher Cockerell invented these air-cushioned English Channel ferries | hovercrafts | 11%
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NOBLE | $800 | In 1867 John Sholto Douglas, the ninth marquess of this, sponsored a codification of the rules of fisticuffs | Queensberry | 11%
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NOBLE | $1000 | Henry V made Humphrey Plantagenet Duke of Gloucester before Humphrey went off to serve in this protracted war | the Hundred Years\' War | 11%
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BARNS | $800 | In some barns, the ground floor is for animals & the top floor is named for this action where grain is separated from husks | threshing | 11%
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PLAYING PRESIDENT | $1200 | Before Allstate ad fame, Dennis Haysbert was president David Palmer on this tense TV show | 24 | 6%
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STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" | $1200 | Grown from a bulb, it's the popular spring flower seen here | a hyacinth | 6%
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | $1200 | Translated into French in 1936, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" influenced this man's spare prose in "The Stranger" | (Albert) Camus | 6%
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PLAYING PRESIDENT | $1600 | Mary McDonnell's Laura Roslin had a strong anti-Cylon platform as president on this TV drama | Battlestar Galactica | 6%
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | $2000 | Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States | Being There | 6%
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NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES | $400 | In 1997 Myron Scholes won the award for this field; in 1998 the hedge fund he co-founded lost around $4 billion | economics | 6%
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AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD | $1600 | There is an American cemetery & monument with "crosses row on row" at this alliterative field near Ypres, Belgium | Flanders | 6%
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NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES | $1200 | Author Knut Hamsun tarnished his reputation when he gave his Nobel Prize medal to this Nazi propaganda minister | Goebbels | 6%
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STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" | $800 | In song, "There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken" this | hallelujah | 6%
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PLAYING PRESIDENT | $800 | It was plane to see this man had some in-flight issues as president James Marshall in "Air Force One" | Harrison Ford | 6%
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NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES | $2000 | 1948 had no Peace Prize winner; this man who was nominated that year was assassinated & Nobels are rarely given posthumously | (Mahatma) Gandhi | 6%
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PLAYING PRESIDENT | $400 | In addition to commander-in-chiefing in "Deep Impact" & "Angel Has Fallen", he's also played God at least a couple of times | Morgan Freeman | 6%
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NEXT IN LINE | $1600 | Alphabetically: xenon, ytterbium, yttrium... | zinc | 6%
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | $1600 | Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too" | A Room with a View | 0%
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8-LETTER WORDS | $400 | A small insect, or someone who reads a lot | bookwsorm | 0%
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17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN | N/A | Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" | (Cardinal) Richilieu | 0%
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8-LETTER WORDS | $800 | As a verb, it means to send or to kill; as a noun, it can mean speed | dispatch | 0%
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | $800 | This holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night | (Elie) Wiesel | 0%
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NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES | $1600 | In 1949 Dr. Antonio Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of this once common but now discredited brain surgery | (frontal) lobotomy | 0%
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STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" | $1600 | A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women | Hadassah | 0%
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BARNS | $1000 | Pennsylvania Dutch barns are sometimes adorned with these 3-letter signs intended to ward off evil | hex signs | 0%
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PLAYING PRESIDENT | $2000 | Terry Crews was president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in this 2006 Mike Judge film &/or warning | Idiocracy | 0%
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NOBLE | $600 | Becoming a "life" one of these in Britain gets you a title, but it can't be passed on to your children | life peers | 0%
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NEXT IN LINE | $400 | The next D.C. avenue: Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue... | Pennsylvania Avenue | 0%
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NEXT IN LINE | $800 | Omicron, pi, rho... | sigma | 0%
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NEXT IN LINE | $1200 | Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver... | Sochi | 0%
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NOBEL PRIZE ODDITIES | $800 | Physics winners Penzias & Wilson had to shoo pigeons from their antenna to pick up background radiation from this "Big" event | the Big Bang | 0%
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BARNS | $200 | The big barn seen here in Lexington, Kentucky was built to house this breed named for their unmixed stock | Thoroughbreds | 0%
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