Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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COOKBOOKS | $200 | Honey glazed carrots & cranberry sauce are in Hannie Scott's "25 Easy... Recipes" for this holiday | Thanksgiving | 90%
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TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | $200 | Monica & Ross, always stuck in second gear | Friends | 85%
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ODD HISTORY | $400 | The Great Emu War of 1932 proved disastrous for this country's army; the big birds were no chickens | Australia | 80%
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ODD HISTORY | $800 | Caligula declared himself a god & decreed that a bridge be built between his palace & the temple of this top Roman god | Jupiter | 75%
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ODD HISTORY | $200 | One of these took place on the Bounty in 1789; there was another of sorts on Skylab in 1973 when the radios were turned off | a mutiny | 65%
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WHILE "E" | $600 | It's the act of a minor legally freeing themselves from their parents | emancipation | 65%
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ODD HISTORY | $600 | A 1976 mission in which U.S. forces cut a poplar tree in Korea's DMZ was named for this legendary lumberjack | Paul Bunyan | 65%
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COYOTE | $200 | Coyotes can run 40 mph & go after the real version of this Warner Bros. foe, which--gulp!--only runs at 15 to 20 mph, max | a roadrunner | 60%
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COOKBOOKS | $600 | She wrote her groundbreaking 1961 French cookbook "For the Servantless American Cook" | Julia Child | 60%
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COYOTE | $400 | A coyote is also known as a prairie or a brush this, but is smaller & lighter than a pure one | a wolf | 50%
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COOKBOOKS | $400 | Better digestion is promised with the cookbook called "Go with" this synonym for the stomach | Your Gut | 50%
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COYOTE | $800 | A character in the country song "Coyotes" would "sit out under the stars" & "listen while the coyotes" do this | howl | 45%
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TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | $400 | Jonathan & Will Byers, confronting the Upside Down on Netflix | Stranger Things | 45%
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WHILE "E" | $400 | Chocolate is a classic type of this delight seen here | an éclair | 40%
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SUPER GENIUS | $200 | Finding that a nearby magnetron had melted a candy bar in his pocket led Percy Spencer to invent this | a microwave | 35%
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COYOTE | $1000 | Coyotes prey on the snowshoe hare & the white-tailed this ruminant | deer | 30%
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CANADIAN PROVINCES & TERRITORIES | $400 | Pro sports teams in Saskatchewan include the Saskatoon Blades & the Regina Pats in this sport | hockey | 30%
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TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | $600 | Sam & Dean Winchester, hunters of demons & things that go bump in the night | Supernatural | 30%
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WHILE "E" | $200 | An example of this, at the grave of Marguerite Daniels: "She always said her feet were killing her, but no one believed her" | an epitaph | 25%
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SUPER GENIUS | $600 | In 1975 Gary Dahl marketed a "Pet" this, which sold for $3.95; the ones used were from Mexican beaches & cost Gary 1 cent each | a Pet Rock | 25%
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COOKBOOKS | $800 | Anne Byrn helps us make "American" this dessert, including Colonial gingerbread & classic layer ones | cake | 25%
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CANADIAN PROVINCES & TERRITORIES | $1600 | In 2003 it dropped the words "the" & "Territory" from its name | the Yukon | 25%
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ODD HISTORY | $1000 | A convert to Quakerism, Inazo Nitobe wrote a bestseller about this samurai warrior code | bushido | 20%
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TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | $800 | The twins Tia & Tamera, played onscreen by real-life twins | Sister, Sister | 20%
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CANADIAN PROVINCES & TERRITORIES | $1200 | The Fraser Valley in this Pacific province accounts for much of its agriculture | British Columbia | 15%
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SUPER GENIUS | $800 | An experiment turns the low-I.Q. Charlie Gordon & a mouse into geniuses in this Daniel Keyes story | Flowers for Algernon | 15%
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TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS | $1000 | Sisters Kara & Alex Danvers, one with extraordinary abilities | Supergirl | 15%
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COOKBOOKS | $1000 | In 1931 Irma Rombauer spent half her life savings to publish this cookbook that eventually sold 18 million copies | The Joy of Cooking | 15%
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EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION | $400 | Named for Reagan's press secretary & adopted in 1993, the Brady bill imposed a waiting period before purchasing these | guns | 10%
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CANADIAN PROVINCES & TERRITORIES | $800 | Places of interest in this province include the Citadel Historic Park in Halifax & the Alexander Graham Bell Historic Site | Nova Scotia | 10%
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CANADIAN PROVINCES & TERRITORIES | $2000 | Qikiqtaaluk, formerly called Baffin, is a region in this 800,000-square-mile territory | Nunavut | 10%
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WHILE "E" | $800 | Long ago, it had a curved shape, but now it's basically a big oboe | the English horn | 10%
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MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE | $800 | At the '84 Olympics Brits Torvill & Dean got perfect 6s skating to gold using this Ravel work but we'd have given them a "10" | Bolero | 5%
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FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS | $800 | She's the FBI trainee who must seek help from a deranged killer in "The Silence of the Lambs" | Clarice | 5%
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FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS | $1200 | Shakespeare wrote that the sails of her barge were "so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them" | Cleopatra | 5%
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WHILE "E" | $1000 | This "-ology" is basically the theory of knowledge | epistemology | 5%
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MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE | $1200 | In 1867 this wizard of the piano composed the "Hungarian Coronation Mass" | Liszt | 5%
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SUPER GENIUS | $400 | For examining how "labor, identity, & human rights are transformed by the digital economy", Mary L. gray earned this "Genius Grant" | MacArthur | 5%
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FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS | $1600 | This Thomas Hardy heroine has an out-of-wedlock child named Sorrow, who sadly dies | Tess (of the d\'Urbervilles) | 5%
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FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS | $400 | Scheherazade is the storyteller in this collection of folk tales | the 1001 Arabian Nights | 5%
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COYOTE | $600 | To avoid detection, coyotes may practice "digit-grading", which humans call walking this | walking on tiptoes | 5%
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DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS | $1600 | A non-lethal weapon that fires an electric charge, & a 5k engaged in for pleasure | a stun gun & a fun run | 0%
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DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS | $1200 | To reverse course using the same route, & the star of "Nacho Libre" | backtrack & Jack Black | 0%
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MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE | $400 | The 6th & last of these "Concertos" named for a place has no violins, but there's harpsichord, 'cause that's how Bach rolled | Brandenburg | 0%
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MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES | $400 | 1931:A strange potion divides a man's personality | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 0%
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DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS | $2000 | "Swift" journalism thoroughfare of London & illegal paper during quiz time | Fleet Street & cheat sheet | 0%
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MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE | $2000 | Really putting the "O" in orchestra, E.L.O. did a live performance of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by this composer | Grieg | 0%
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ANIMATION | N/A | These characters first seen onscreen in a 1938 film are known in Spain as Juanito, Jorgito & Jaimito | Huey, Dewey & Louie | 0%
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EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION | $1600 | A star in Chaplin's "The Kid", he earned millions, but it got spent by others; a law named for him protects the earnings of minors | Jackie Coogan | 0%
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SUPER GENIUS | $1000 | " Non-Cooperative Games", the doctoral thesis from his beautiful mind, made the "Annals of Mathematics" in 1951 | (John) Nash | 0%
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MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES | $1200 | 2000:An FBI agent goes undercover at a beauty pageant | Miss Congeniality | 0%
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MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES | $1600 | 2005:Married assassins are contracted to kill each other | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 0%
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MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES | $800 | 1993: Staying in touch with your kids after a divorce can literally be kind of a drag | Mrs. Doubtfire | 0%
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MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES | $2000 | 1942:A British woman & her family work together to survive at the outbreak of World War II | Mrs. Miniver | 0%
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DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS | $400 | Hawaiian dress, & garb worn by a ballerina | muumuu & tutu | 0%
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MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE | $1600 | The "Bride's Book of Etiquette" suggests "Canon In D" by this 17th century German as the party heads down the aisle | Pachelbel | 0%
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FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS | $2000 | This wife of Theseus had a minor part in Euripides' "Hippolytus" but got her own Racine tragedy | Phaedra | 0%
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DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS | $800 | Item held by a cheerleader, & type of movie like "Pretty Woman" | pom-pom & rom-com | 0%
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EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION | $1200 | The Lilly Ledbetter Act resets this time period whenever an employee receives a paycheck based on discriminatory pay | the statute of limitations | 0%
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EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION | $800 | Federal title this number of the education amendments of 1972 was renamed for Patsy Mink, a congresswoman who helped enact it | Title IX | 0%
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EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION | $2000 | 1920's National Prohibition Act was named for this Minnesota congressman | Volstead | 0%
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