Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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JUMBLE GYM | $400 | Metal bar with weights on both ends: BULB MELD | a dumbbell | 75%
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JUMBLE GYM | $600 | Period of reduced intensity toward the end of a workout: OWL CONDO | cooldown | 71%
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DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY | $200 | "Our American Cousin" infamously plays at Ford's Theatre | the 1860s | 71%
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NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES | $200 | A ship getting a "clean bill of" this on leaving a port meant it was deemed free of infectious diseases | health | 61%
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DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY | $600 | Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic | the 1920s | 61%
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DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY | $1000 | The Battle of Santiago goes all the way up San Juan Hill | the 1890s | 57%
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FACE THE PERFORMER | $400 | Loretta Devine checked into this ABC medical drama as Adele Webber in 2005 & checked out eight years later | Grey\'s Anatomy | 50%
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JUMBLE GYM | $200 | Exercises often done in a class to music: BASIC ORE | aerobics | 46%
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DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY | $800 | The Civilian Conservation Corps gets started | the 1930s | 43%
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JUMBLE GYM | $800 | A muscle at the back of the thigh: THIN GRAMS | a hamstring | 39%
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I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT | $600 | Rumors abounded about an ultra-exclusive "Black Card"; in 1999 this company made one available--the Centurion Card | American Express | 39%
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NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES | $400 | "All" these body parts means the entire crew & if it's a meeting, everyone is expected to come | hands | 39%
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HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE | $1000 | Located on the lower slopes of a volcano called Pichincha, this capital of Ecuador is up there at 9,350 feet | Quito | 39%
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DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY | $400 | The telephone is invented by Bell | the 1870s | 39%
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HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE | $400 | On the fringes of this world capital, a 17,200-foot volcano called Iztaccíhuatl will take your breath away | Mexico City | 36%
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NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES | $600 | The right of "hot" this allows a nation to chase a boat from its own waters into the high seas | pursuit | 36%
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HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE | $600 | Lhasa, the capital of this autonomous region in southwestern China, sits serenely at 12,000 feet | Tibet | 36%
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FACE THE PERFORMER | $600 | Stephen Root's roles include the hitman handler for Barry & the stapler-obsessed Milton in this workplace comedy film | Office Space | 32%
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JUMBLE GYM | $1000 | Low-impact exercise program that can use the wunda chair: TEA LIPS | Pilates | 32%
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HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE | $800 | This southwestern state capital lies at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, about 1.3 miles above sea level | Santa Fe | 32%
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FACE THE PERFORMER | $800 | Graham Greene got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for playing Kicking Bird in this 1990 historical drama | Dances with Wolves | 21%
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HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME | $1600 | These crustaceans with a "solitary" name seek new shells to live in after outgrowing their old ones | hermit crabs | 21%
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5 NIGHTS | $400 | Some NCAA basketball teams begin their journey with "Midnight" this; reminds me of March... | Madness | 21%
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THE STAGE | $400 | Whoops! John Proctor becomes a victim of the witch hunt in this Arthur Miller drama | The Crucible | 21%
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POP CULTURE TIDBITS | $400 | This "Sesame Street" character fittingly appears as a census taker in a 2020 public service announcement | The Count | 18%
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I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT | $1000 | In 1950 the inaugural charge of this first universal credit card fittingly paid for a meal in New York City | Diners Club | 14%
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THE STAGE | $800 | The stage manager is a pivotal role in this play by Thornton Wilder | Our Town | 14%
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I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT | $400 | The time between the end of a credit card's billing cycle & the due date is this "period" | the grace period | 14%
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I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT | $800 | That 3-digit number on the back of a credit card is the CVV, the "card" this 12-letter word "value" | verification | 11%
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NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES | $800 | This term for a leader without power comes from a part of a ship | a figurehead | 7%
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NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES | $1000 | This 3-word phrase for a quick exit implies you sliced off your anchor rope to get away | cut and run | 7%
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HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME | $1200 | Just below the overstory, this area of a tropical forest is home to the spider monkey & the sloth | a canopy | 4%
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AT FREDDY'S | $400 | There were no rooms for Frederick the Great's wife in his Sanssouci Palace; her more modest home was in another part of this capital | Berlin | 4%
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DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS | $1600 | A symphony sounds lovely; this word with the same suffix is a discordant bunch of sounds | cacophany | 4%
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POP CULTURE TIDBITS | $2000 | Tony Todd was paid $1,000 each time he was stung by a bee playing the title villain in this 1992 horror movie | Candyman | 4%
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5 NIGHTS | $1200 | One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival | Cannes | 4%
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DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS | $800 | Like coward, this cowardly adjective is 6 letters & starts with "C" | craven | 4%
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5 NIGHTS | $2000 | Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad | Gabriel | 4%
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DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS | $1200 | Church law defines it as the "obstinate post-baptismal denial" of truth "which is to be believed by divine & Catholic faith" | heresy | 4%
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DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS | $400 | A query that expects no real response is this 10-letter type of "question" | rhetorical | 4%
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HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE | $200 | Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, is 9,700 feet up in these mountains | the (Bavarian) Alps | 4%
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THE STAGE | $1200 | 2 of the sets in this Tennessee Williams drama are the Wingfield family apartment & a fire escape | The Glass Menagerie | 4%
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HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME | $800 | Poultry reside in a coop or pen & walk around in this 3-letter enclosure | a chicken run | 0%
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HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME | $400 | These high nests for birds of prey, like the osprey, may take their name from the Latin for a "vacant place" | aerie | 0%
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THE STAGE | $2000 | In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it's worth & plans to steal it back | American Buffalo | 0%
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AT FREDDY'S | $800 | This red-bearded Fred built a mighty, now ruined castle at Gelnhausen in the 12th century | Barbarossa | 0%
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POP CULTURE TIDBITS | $1200 | The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages | Dan Brown | 0%
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I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT | $200 | In 1985 Sears launched this credit card with the promise of no annual fees | Discover Card | 0%
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AMERICAN WOMEN | N/A | During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht | Jackie (Jacqueline) Kennedy Onassis | 0%
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POP CULTURE TIDBITS | $1600 | "Chernobyl" & this comic book movie won Iceland's Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season | Joker | 0%
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FACE THE PERFORMER | $1000 | On "Parks and Rec", this actress told Amy Poehler, "You can trust me because I don't care enough about you to lie" | Kathryn Hahn | 0%
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AT FREDDY'S | $1600 | Frederick the Wise, ruler of Saxony, protected this controversial reformer at Wartburg Castle in 1521 | (Martin) Luther | 0%
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FACE THE PERFORMER | $200 | Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series | Marvel\'s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 0%
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AT FREDDY'S | $2000 | A Dutch Prince Frederick once owned Muskauer Park on the Neisse River, shared by Germany & this country | Poland | 0%
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DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS | $2000 | Like prophesize, this 13-letter "pro-" verb means to forecast or predict a future event | prognosticate | 0%
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5 NIGHTS | $800 | Also called Freedom's Eve, Watch Night is a celebration of this edict issued on January 1, 1863 | the Emancipation Proclamation | 0%
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AT FREDDY'S | $1200 | While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century's "Poor Fred" lived in Cliveden House | the Prince of Wales | 0%
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HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME | $2000 | This type of spider creates a deep burrow with a hinged entrance from which it jumps out & snatches prey | the trapdoor spider | 0%
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POP CULTURE TIDBITS | $800 | The first season of this series said the title location "lies between the pit of man's fears & the summit of his knowledge" | The Twilight Zone | 0%
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5 NIGHTS | $1600 | Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name | Twelfth Night | 0%
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THE STAGE | $1600 | In this Albee play, Martha's husband George is an associate professor of history | Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 0%
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