Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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LAND OF NICKNAMES | $200 | The "Land of the Pharaohs" | Egypt | 94%
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LAND OF NICKNAMES | $400 | The "Land of the Inca" | Peru | 89%
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LAND OF NICKNAMES | $800 | The "Land of Genghis Khan" | Mongolia | 83%
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"S" IS FOR SUMMER | $200 | Slides & slingbacks are styles of these strappy summer shoes | sandals | 83%
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PHARMACEUTICALS | $200 | Beta-blockers are used to prevent stimulation of certain receptors & to control rhythms in this body part | the heart | 78%
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PHARMACEUTICALS | $600 | The track & field movie "Personal Best" includes a song about dianabol, an anabolic one of these | a steroid | 72%
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COLD WORDS | $200 | This cool admonition to calm down has been paired with Netflix | chill | 72%
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LAND OF NICKNAMES | $600 | Translated from a Maori name, the "Land of the Long White Cloud" | New Zealand | 72%
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LAND OF NICKNAMES | $1000 | The "Land of the Khmer" | Cambodia | 67%
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"S" IS FOR SUMMER | $600 | The bill making this California's state sport mentions the breaks at Malibu & Trestles | surfing | 61%
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COLD WORDS | $800 | A poem by William Carlos Williams begins, "I have eaten the plums that were in" this, not the refrigerator--it was 1934 | the icebox | 61%
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COLD WORDS | $600 | Meaning briskly cold, it's also a frozen dessert from Wendy's | a Frosty | 56%
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"S" IS FOR SUMMER | $400 | Piñata Colada is a flavor of this frozen 7-Eleven refresher | a Slurpee | 56%
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PHARMACEUTICALS | $800 | The active ingredient in products like Lotrimin for athlete's foot is an "anti-" this | fungal | 56%
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COLD WORDS | $400 | It's the geographic area above the circle of latitude at 66 1/2 degrees north | the Arctic Circle | 56%
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"S" IS FOR SUMMER | $800 | If you step on this creature, you may regret it; lifeguards advise shuffling, so it'll feel the vibrations & swim away | a stingray | 50%
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AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE | $600 | The graphic novel about this pop & rock icon is subtitled "Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams" | David Bowie | 50%
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PHARMACEUTICALS | $400 | To unstuff my nasal passages, please get me this type of drug (a word that's right on the non-drowsy Sudafed box) | a decongestant | 39%
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FRENCH LITERATURE | $1200 | Frederic Chopin's lover wrote romantic feminist works like "Lelia" using this pseudonym | George Sand | 39%
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AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE | $200 | 8 decades after his death, a 2007 graphic novel told the adventures of this man, "The Handcuff King" | Houdini | 39%
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"S" IS FOR SUMMER | $1000 | A street in the Bronx is named for this traditional game played with a broom handle by would-be Dodgers & Yankees | stickball | 28%
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COLD WORDS | $1000 | Originally a nautical term meaning closer to the wind, it means to be unfriendly or reserved, distant & uninvolved | aloof | 22%
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GAMER'S DELIGHT | $400 | (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) Toru Iwatani wanted to make a game about eating, & after seeing a pizza with a slice missing, he created this 1980 classic filled with fruit & ghosts | Pac-Man | 22%
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AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE | $800 | "21" is a comic about this Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder from Puerto Rico who tragically died young | Roberto Clemente | 22%
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF | $2000 | She got her U.S. citizenship in 1957 & earned her B.A. with honors 2 years later | Albright | 17%
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF | $1200 | He took over the job in 2018 | Pompeo | 17%
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PHARMACEUTICALS | $1000 | Central nervous system depressants include tranquilizers for anxiety & these sleep inducers, from Latin for "calm" | sedatives | 17%
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"Z" IN THE MIDDLE | $1200 | It's an Italian turnover made out of pizza dough containing meat, cheese & other ingredients | a calzone | 11%
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"Z" IN THE MIDDLE | $400 | King Gillette introduced a safety one in 1903 | a razor | 11%
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GAMER'S DELIGHT | $200 | (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) New PS5 owners get introduced to console components via a platform game starring this robot with the same name as "The Jetsons" dog | Astro | 11%
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GAMER'S DELIGHT | $600 | (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) Uh-oh, friends, it looks like Dr. Nefarious is back to his evil ways, forcing Ratchet once again strap this little robot buddy on his back & fight the good fight | Clank | 11%
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LOGOMANIA | $1200 | The blue & white striped logo for this tech company hasn't changed since Paul Rand designed it in 1972 | IBM | 11%
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BUDDHISM | $800 | The chain of moral cause & effect; it's popularly simplified as if you're mean, yours will be bad | karma | 11%
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF | $1600 | He was born in Furth, Germany | Kissinger | 11%
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FRENCH LITERATURE | $400 | One of the most popular novels among soldiers on both sides in the U.S. Civil War was this 1862 Victor Hugo novel | Les Misérables | 11%
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AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE | $400 | "Twilight Man" is a graphic novel biography about this writer & "the Birth of Television" | Rod Serling | 11%
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BUDDHISM | $1200 | One of Buddhism's Four Noble Truths is the doctrine that all life is this painful 9-letter word | suffering | 11%
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF | $400 | The first U.S. Secretary of State, he helped arrange for D.C. to be the capital | Thomas Jefferson | 11%
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BUDDHISM | $2000 | After gaining knowledge of the Four Noble Truths, Buddhists follow a "path" of this many parts in order to reach Nirvana | 8 | 6%
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"Z" IN THE MIDDLE | $1600 | Suction cups are a tool of this professional | a glazier | 6%
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"Z" IN THE MIDDLE | $800 | The American Epilepsy Society offers tips for observation & recording of this event | a seizure | 6%
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GAMER'S DELIGHT | $1000 | (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) The PlayStation 5 is kitted with an ultra-high speed SSD, this kind of hyphenated drive that makes iconic characters like Sackboy really move | a solid-state drive | 6%
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LOGOMANIA | $800 | The logo for this video game company that ruled the '80s is a stylized "A"; it is also based on the Pong screen | Atari | 6%
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LOGOMANIA | $400 | Bill Golden, the creator of this TV network's logo, was inspired by hex signs on shaker barns that looked to him like eyes | CBS | 6%
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FRENCH LITERATURE | $800 | Charles Perrault is remembered for his fairy tales like "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge", this title in English | Little Red Riding Hood | 6%
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OLD TV THEME SONGS | $1600 | "Keep movin' movin' movin', though they're disapprovin', keep them dogies movin"', this western | Rawhide | 6%
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN BRIEF | $800 | The last name of this 1897 to 1898 secretary is on a landmark antitrust act | Sherman | 6%
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LOGOMANIA | $2000 | The logo for the national tourism office of this country was designed by Joan Miro | Spain | 6%
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OLD TV THEME SONGS | $400 | Sherwood Schwartz wrote the lyrics to this theme song about a group that "must somehow form a family" | "The Brady Bunch" | 6%
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BUDDHISM | $1600 | The plant called the sacred or Indian this is a symbol of the true nature of beings & of Buddha's throne | the lotus | 6%
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BUDDHISM | $400 | The master known as Bodhidharma was said to have founded this type of meditative Buddhism in China | Zen | 6%
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"Z" IN THE MIDDLE | $2000 | C6H6, this aromatic hydrocarbon typically derived from petroleum, is used in the manufacture of detergents & fuels | benzene | 0%
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GAMER'S DELIGHT | $800 | (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) Now entering the arena is Twinkle Riot, a hard-hitting star in "Destruction AllStars", a type of this alliterative competition in which vehicles are supposed to get smashed to pieces | demolition derby | 0%
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AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE | $1000 | Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about growing up in a mortuary, it was the basis for a Tony-winning musical | Fun Home | 0%
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FRENCH LITERATURE | $1600 | Colette created this teenager shown here with her grandma who's raising her to be a courtesan | Gigi | 0%
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COLLEGE LIFE | N/A | This dish associated with Harvard goes back to the start of the school; the wife of the first headmaster made an awful version | hasty pudding | 0%
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OLD TV THEME SONGS | $2000 | "Through early morning fog I see", begin this song's lyrics, heard in the 1970 movie "M*A*S*H" but not in the TV show's theme | "Suicide Is Painless" | 0%
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OLD TV THEME SONGS | $1200 | The title good ole boys of this show were "fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood" | The Dukes of Hazzard | 0%
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FRENCH LITERATURE | $2000 | France's premier literary prize, this "Prix" awards a whopping 10 euros to the winner | the Prix Goncourt | 0%
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LOGOMANIA | $1600 | The center part of the logo for this designer & creator of Tommy Jeans is the international signal flag for the letter "H" | Tommy Hilfiger | 0%
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OLD TV THEME SONGS | $800 | Tired of "packing and unpacking, town to town up & down the dial"; you're "living on the air" at this radio station | WKRP in Cincinnati | 0%
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