Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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DEUCE | $400 | Publicly released in 2011, his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate includes II after his name | Barack Obama | 87%
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15 LOVE | $400 | "One Time" in 2009 this 15-year-old kid from Ontario hit us with the lyrics "Girl I love, girl I love you" | Justin Bieber | 78%
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"AD" IN | $200 | A general in the U.S. Army corresponds to this rank in the U.S. Navy | admiral | 74%
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GAME | $800 | In 1996 the New Zealand All Blacks beat Australia 43-6 in the first tri-nations tourney in this tough sport | rugby | 57%
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15 LOVE | $800 | Before her birthday in this 1984 film, Molly Ringwald was already crushing hard on hunky Jake | Sixteen Candles | 57%
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"AD" IN | $400 | This rustic style of outdoor chair was named for a New York mountain range | Adirondack | 48%
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GAME | $200 | Since we're all about tennis, if you serve a ball that doesn't land in the proper service box, it's one of these | a fault | 48%
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15 LOVE | $200 | In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him | Harry Potter | 48%
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GAME | $400 | The field & the don't pass bar are part of this casino game, & don't forget to tip your stickman | craps | 43%
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15 LOVE | $600 | The youngest of the Bennet sisters, Lydia is 15 when this Jane Austen novel begins & 16 when she elopes with Wickham | Pride and Prejudice | 39%
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DEUCE | $200 | Leesylvania State Park in this state is the burial site of Henry Lee II, grandfather of Robert E. | Virginia | 39%
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MATCH | $200 | A twinset is a matching pullover & this type of open-front sweater, worn together | a cardigan | 35%
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SHADES OF GREEN | $400 | In the 19th century a poisonous copper compound was used to make a green pigment named for this gem | emerald | 30%
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SHADES OF GREEN | $800 | This branch of the U.S. military introduced olive drab green & khaki uniforms beginning in 1902 | the Army | 26%
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SET | $1000 | This type of diagram that uses overlapping circles to illustrate 2 set relationships is named for a 19th century Englishman | a Venn diagram | 22%
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BIBLICAL BROADWAY | $800 | Richard Rodgers' musical "Two by Two" is about this Old Testament man | Noah | 22%
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MATCH | $400 | A spectrophotometer can be used to match colors of this, whether from Behr or Benjamin Moore | paint | 22%
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"AD" IN | $600 | This musical term is from the Italian for "at ease" | adagio | 17%
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MATCH | $800 | The ABO system is used to match types of this | blood | 17%
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SHADES OF GREEN | $1600 | This nut of the cashew family is naturally pale green, as is the color named for it | pistachio | 17%
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15 LOVE | $1000 | At 15, Joe was the younger of this literary detective duo; his first love, Iola Morton, would perish from a car bomb | The Hardy Boys | 17%
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BIBLICAL BROADWAY | $400 | Alan Alda & Barbara Harris played this couple in the first part of "The Apple Tree" | Adam & Eve | 13%
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3-LETTER PALINDROMES | $400 | A joke | a gag | 13%
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3-LETTER PALINDROMES | $2000 | Bards used it to mean "before" | ere | 9%
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MATCH | $1000 | A tiger was one of the creatures on the tag that helped kids mix & match items of apparel from this clothing brand that started in 1972 | Garanimals | 9%
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BIBLICAL BROADWAY | $2000 | John the Baptist & Judas are played by the same actor in this 1970s Broadway musical with a one-word title | Godspell | 9%
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DEUCE | $800 | John Murray II published this lord's poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" & its success helped make them friends | Lord Byron | 9%
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RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS | $400 | The 23 statues at this city's Gare du Nord station represent possible destinations | Paris | 9%
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GAME | $1000 | Handicaps & divots are in this sport, but don't say golf; there is also penalty 3, a free hit from 40 yards to an open goal | polo | 9%
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SET | $400 | It's the intersection of the set {3, 4, 5} with the set of prime numbers | 3 & 5 | 4%
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BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES | $1200 | O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export | a banana republic | 4%
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MATCH | $600 | In 2016 "Match Game" was brought back to TV with this man as the host | Alec Baldwin | 4%
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BIBLICAL BROADWAY | $1200 | A 20-minute cantata by Tim Rice & this British composer became "Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 4%
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3-LETTER PALINDROMES | $800 | It's a dot on your standard 6-sided die | a pip | 4%
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BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES | $1600 | The first use of "ingenue" in English described this not-quite-ingenue in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" | Becky Sharp | 4%
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RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS | $800 | More than 3 billion riders a year use this city's subway system, with stops at Gucheng & Dongdan stations | Beijing | 4%
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BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES | $400 | Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward | debunk | 4%
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RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS | $1600 | Among Eliel Saarinen's prominent works is the railway station in this capital | Helsinki | 4%
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DEUCE | $1000 | A character in a 2019 film about Le Mans, this executive known as "The Deuce" is shown at that race in the '60s | Henry Ford II | 4%
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3-LETTER PALINDROMES | $1600 | This type of tent will give you shelter from the storm | pup | 4%
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3-LETTER PALINDROMES | $1200 | As a noun it can refer to a hairstyle or a piece of fishing gear | a bob | 0%
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"AD" IN | $800 | Home to a species of penguin, this Antarctic land was named by French explorer Dumont d'Urville for his wife | Adelie | 0%
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"AD" IN | $1000 | Here are some of these Asian beans | adzuki beans | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS | $2000 | "Revelations", this man's signature dance piece, is set to African-American spirituals like "Wade in the Water" & "Sinner Man" | Alvin Ailey | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS | $400 | In the 1930s this woman had her own fashion line with touches like propeller-shaped buttons | Amelia Earhart | 0%
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SHADES OF GREEN | $1200 | Crayola has as green marker named for this reptile | an iguana | 0%
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THE SUPREME COURT | N/A | The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair | (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh | 0%
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DEUCE | $600 | Robert Wood Johnson II ran his family co. for 30 years, with special care for this product down to the sprinkle holes' size | baby powder | 0%
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RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS | $2000 | The monument to Queen Eleanor depicted here, gave this London neighborhood & rail station it's name | Charing Cross | 0%
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SET | $600 | A one-to-one this between 2 sets means their members can be precisely paired, not that they're exchanging letters | corresponding | 0%
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BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES | $800 | William Gibson coined this term that now refers to the Internet in his short story "Burning Chrome" | cyberspace | 0%
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BIBLICAL BROADWAY | $1600 | Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" is based on this "occupational" book of the Old Testament | Judges | 0%
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SHADES OF GREEN | $2000 | Add 2 letters to the last of the Bible's 12 Minor Prophets to get the name of this green mineral | malachite | 0%
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RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS | $1200 | The domes & minarets at Kuala Lumpur Railway Station are in this architectural style named for a people of North Africa | Moorish | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS | $1200 | This evangelist who founded a university in Oklahoma was called home in 2009 at age 91 | Oral Roberts | 0%
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GAME | $600 | Make "room" for Change Seats! & Wink Murder, 2 of Mental Floss' 14 of these kind of "games to bring back" for the holidays | parlor games | 0%
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BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES | $2000 | In "Stranger in a Strange Land", this author came up with "grok", meaning to understand someone thoroughly | Robert Heinlein | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS | $800 | This man divided his library into history, philosophy & fine arts; the Library of Congress kept the system when it took it over | Thomas Jefferson | 0%
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SET | $800 | Meaning the combination of two sets, the symbol here is called this, the shape may give you a hint | union | 0%
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SET | $200 | The symbol here denotes this, also known as a null set | void (an empty set) | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS | $1600 | This Army major & his 21 associates were recognized with congressional gold medals for their work on yellow fever | Walter Reed | 0%
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