Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS | $400 | A 1909 act of Congress describes this symbol as "the letter C inclosed within a circle" | a copyright | 74%
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WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL | $600 | It's one direction of a crossword answer | down | 66%
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A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS | $800 | This European country's history of being permissive on soft drugs dates back to its 1919 Opium Act | the Netherlands | 55%
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A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS | $600 | Britain's Constitution Act of 1982 gave complete independence to this big country | Canada | 50%
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CATCH | $400 | Though India would win by 257 runs, Dwayne Leverock made a memorable catch for Bermuda in this sport at a West Indies World Cup | cricket | 50%
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IN A BOTTLE | $200 | There are no parabens in this company's baby shampoo; the bottle promises "No More Tears" | Johnson & Johnson | 47%
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WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL | $400 | We all return to this per Genesis 3:19 | the dust | 45%
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WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL | $200 | Predatory sobriquet for a poolroom hustler | shark | 42%
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LIGHTNING | $800 | The saying that lightning doesn't do this is not strictly accurate; the Empire State Building gets at least 25 hits a year | strike twice | 42%
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WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL | $1000 | A manufacturing facility, or a person in the audience who's there to help a performer | a plant | 39%
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LIGHTNING | $200 | The B.C. scientific work "On the Nature of Things" ignores Prometheus & says it was lightning that first brought this to Earth | fire | 32%
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CATCH | $200 | 1950s race horse Silky Sullivan once caught the leaders & won after trailing by 41 these, the distance from his nose to his tail | length | 32%
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A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS | $200 | The Judiciary Act of 1789 said the Supreme Court would have 1 Chief Justice & 5 of these, which seems problematic in close decisions | associate justices | 29%
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CATCH | $800 | Nicknamed "OBJ", he's on the cutting edge in NFL ball catching | Odell Beckham Jr. | 29%
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RHYME TIME | $1200 | A senior person who joins metal parts together using heat | an elder welder | 26%
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CATCH | $1000 | Teenaged truck driver Sal Durante caught this man's homer No. 61 in '61; he sold the ball for $5,000 | Roger Maris | 24%
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LIGHTNING | $400 | Florida is a good place to find a fulgurite, most commonly formed when lightning hits this substance | sand | 24%
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RHYME TIME | $400 | Someone who lives in an underground room where wine is stored | a cellar dweller | 21%
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COUNTRY FACTS | $400 | It's officially known as the Hellenic Republic | Greece | 21%
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ART & ARTISTS | $400 | A Barcelona museum added glass to block toxic fumes from an Alexander Calder fountain that pumps not water but this liquid metal | mercury | 21%
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BRITISH POETRY | $400 | This poem from 1667 contains the line "His pride had cast him out from heav'n, with all his host of rebel angels" | Paradise Lost | 18%
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BRITISH POETRY | $800 | In this 1798 poem a sailor laments, "with my cross-bow I shot the albatross" | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 18%
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WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL | $800 | The very pale Pierrot is a type of this performer | a clown | 16%
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TV-POURRI | $400 | "AGT" is short for this show & also for agent, which you'll need if you make the finals | America\'s Got Talent | 16%
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IN A BOTTLE | $800 | Created in 1969, this drink is basically Manhattan-style chowder in a bottle | Clamato | 16%
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COUNTRY FACTS | $2000 | Of the 7 countries that make up the mainland of Central America, this one is farthest south | Panama | 16%
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ART & ARTISTS | $800 | "Ferret in a Brothel" & "Elvis Descending a Staircase" are 2 of the terrible paintings in MOBA, the Museum of this | Bad Art | 13%
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LIGHTNING | $1000 | In a country song George Jones "asked my old pappy why he called his brew" this 2-word stuff | white lightning | 13%
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CATCH | $600 | Alfred Glassell set a record catching a "black" one of these in 1953; footage of the catch was later used in "The Old Man and the Sea" | a marlin | 11%
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BRITISH POETRY | $600 | Robert Burns described this creature as a "cow'rin tim'rous beastie" | a mouse | 11%
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ART & ARTISTS | $2000 | An annual floating parade in the Netherlands is named for this artist & seeks to emulate his "Earthly Delights" | Hieronymus Bosch | 11%
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IN A BOTTLE | $1000 | To prevent breakage during sea voyages, this duo began wrapping their bottles of Worcestershire sauce in paper | Lea & Perrins | 11%
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IN A BOTTLE | $400 | 6 liters of wine fits in a bottle called this, the name of an extremely old guy in the Bible | Methuselah | 11%
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COUNTRY FACTS | $1200 | Until 1970 Muscat was part of this country's name | Oman | 11%
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HISTORIC NUMBERS | $800 | NASA called this April 1970 mission "a successful failure" | Apollo 13 | 8%
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RHYME TIME | $1600 | A fondness for the Father, Son & Holy Spirit | a trinity affinity | 8%
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COUNTRY FACTS | $800 | "La Brabanconne", also known as "The Song Of Brabant", is the national anthem of this country | Belgium | 5%
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ART & ARTISTS | $1600 | The Reichstag was draped in fabric by the husband & wife team of this man & Jeanne-Claude, who were born on the same day | Christo | 5%
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RHYME TIME | $800 | With twice as much effervescence | doubly bubbly | 5%
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BRITISH POETRY | $200 | Her 1844 poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" mentions Robert Browning, who soon began his own courtship | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 5%
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THE ARISTOCRATS! | $1200 | Not count but this slightly lower British title was as noble as Horatio Nelson got | viscount | 5%
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THE ARISTOCRATS! | $800 | A 1919 law banned this aristocratic syllable, belonging to folks like the Red Baron, from Austrian names | von | 5%
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RHYME TIME | $2000 | A stage play about the Hindu creator god | a Brahma drama | 3%
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LIGHTNING | $600 | When Michael Corleone first sees his future bride, he's "hit by" this, lightning with accompanying sound effects | a thunderbolt | 3%
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TV-POURRI | $2000 | Since 2017 this Netflix cartoon for adults has chronicled early adolescence--basically, Nick Kroll's | Big Mouth | 3%
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THE ARISTOCRATS! | $400 | This alliterative "sanguine" term dates back to when it described the early 19th century aristocratic families of Spain | blue bloods | 3%
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THE ARISTOCRATS! | $2000 | This earl, admiral & Governor-General of India was Prince Philip's uncle | Mountbatten | 3%
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IN A BOTTLE | $600 | Sourced in the Alps, this brand of Italian mineral water refers to the shape of the bottles it has used since 1899 as "Vichy" | Pellegrino | 3%
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COUNTRY FACTS | $1600 | In Central Africa, it's been led since 1986 by Yoweri Museveni, elected to a sixth term in 2021 | Uganda | 3%
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FAMOUS WOMEN | N/A | In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin | Valentina Tereshkova | 3%
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TV-POURRI | $800 | He was still catching deviant scum on "Law & Order: SVU" when he appeared on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" | Christopher Meloni | 0%
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A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS | $1000 | The Anti-Union Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 known as Taft-this congressman overcame the veto of Harry Truman | Fred Hartley | 0%
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TV-POURRI | $1600 | Jamie Foxx as Wanda & David Alan Grier as Calhoun Tubbs were memorable portrayals on this early '90s TV show | In Living Color | 0%
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ART & ARTISTS | $1200 | Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" | James Abbott McNeil Whistler | 0%
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THE ARISTOCRATS! | $1600 | The daughter of an aristocrat who hit hard times, she became empress of France, till hubby nullified their marriage in 1809 | Josephine Bonaparte | 0%
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BRITISH POETRY | $1000 | Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" at age 80 & made this request to all future publishers | put it last in his books | 0%
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HISTORIC NUMBERS | $1600 | In 1815 the Comte de Chabrol coined this numerical term for a period that had actually lasted for nearly 16 weeks | the 100 Days | 0%
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HISTORIC NUMBERS | $1200 | Congress ratified this long-overdue amendment December 6, 1865 | the 13th Amendment | 0%
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HISTORIC NUMBERS | $400 | Congress heard this list in a January 8, 1918 presidential address | the 14 Points | 0%
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HISTORIC NUMBERS | $2000 | It rode to disaster on June 25, 1876 | the 7th Cavalry | 0%
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TV-POURRI | $1200 | Shane Vendrell dies & Vic Mackey is, even worse, forced into a desk job on the finale of this FX drama | The Shield | 0%
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