Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS | $200 | Put rocks in a drink to serve it this way | on ice | 79%
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MED SCHOOL | $200 | Traditionally taken upon graduating, the modern version of this vow no longer acknowledges Apollo or Asclepius | the Hippocratic Oath | 79%
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EXODUS TELLS US... | $1000 | "Thou shalt not bear" these 2 words "against thy neighbour" | false witness | 57%
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15 MINUTES OR LESS | $600 | Roger Bannister made history by becoming the first person to do this in less than 4 minutes | run a mile | 57%
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EXODUS TELLS US... | $400 | "God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of" this body of water | the Red Sea | 57%
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2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS | $600 | This exclamation of enthusiasm or surprise is an interjection followed by a young male | Oh, boy! | 50%
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SING "OUT" | $600 | In 2004 indie rockers Franz Ferdinand declared, "You say you don't know; I say" this title | "Take Me Out" | 50%
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15 MINUTES OR LESS | $200 | Nic Cage & Angelina Jolie make cars disappear in this title length of time in a 2000 film | 60 seconds | 43%
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15 MINUTES OR LESS | $1000 | For plutonium-228, this interval of time of decay is thought to be about 1.1 seconds | a half-life | 43%
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2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS | $1000 | To Longfellow's Paul Revere, the signal shown here meant this | by sea | 43%
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SING "OUT" | $800 | Bruno Mars sang, "You make me feel like I've been" this title "for too long" | "Locked Out Of Heaven" | 43%
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SING "OUT" | $200 | Ed Sheeran won 2015 Song of the Year & Best Solo Pop Performance Grammys for this ruminative tune | "Thinking Out Loud" | 43%
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2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS | $400 | A proverb says getting here "early" will help make you robust, rich & smart | to bed | 43%
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2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS | $800 | Dictionaries that say it expresses dismay & frustration don't quite capture the spirit of this borrowing from Yiddish | oy vey | 36%
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MATH IN THE OLD DAYS | $800 | An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places | 2 | 29%
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MED SCHOOL | $400 | 510 or above (out of a possible 528) is a good score to aim for when you take this 4-letter medical school admissions test | the MCAT | 29%
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SING "OUT" | $1000 | "We can" do this "and get it straight or say goodnight", sang the Beatles in a 1966 No. 1 hit | "We Can Work It Out" | 29%
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MATH IN THE OLD DAYS | $400 | The Mayans were using this by the 4th century; the concept of that number didn't make it to Europe until the 1200s or so | zero | 29%
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WE GUARANTEE IT | $400 | Herbert Hoover ran ads in the 1920s promising one of these "for every pot" | a chicken | 21%
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15 MINUTES OR LESS | $400 | A skilled pro in this job that's done about once a year can take care of one Merino in 3 minutes | a sheep shearer | 21%
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EXODUS TELLS US... | $200 | The Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve, made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar & in this | brick | 21%
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EXODUS TELLS US... | $800 | "I will smite all thy borders with" these creatures: "and the river shall bring forth" them "abundantly" | frogs | 21%
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WE GUARANTEE IT | $600 | In 1964 this Republican candidate promised to end the draft, saying: "The military forces need trained volunteers" | Goldwater | 21%
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EUROPEAN PENINSULAS | $400 | 2 nations make up this peninsula whose name is related to that of its Ebro River | the Iberian Peninsula | 21%
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EXODUS TELLS US... | $600 | "And the Lord said unto Moses", this man "thy brother shall be thy prophet" | Aaron | 14%
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MATH IN THE OLD DAYS | $1200 | Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device | an abacus | 14%
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THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT | $400 | This composer's EGOT includes Tonys for "Evita", "Cats" & "Sunset Boulevard" | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 14%
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MED SCHOOL | $800 | WCC for short, this "colorful" rite of passage for new med students originated at schools like the Univ. of Chicago & Columbia around 1990 | a white coat ceremony | 14%
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EUROPEAN PENINSULAS | $1200 | The name of this French region that protrudes into the Atlantic has a name related to the land to its north | Brittany | 14%
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SING "OUT" | $400 | In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes "my name" | call out | 14%
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EUROPEAN PENINSULAS | $2000 | Schleswig & Holstein in northern Germany are at the southern end of this peninsula | Jutland | 14%
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EUROPEAN PENINSULAS | $800 | This 10,400-square-mile peninsula sits between the Black Sea & the sea of Azov | the Crimean Peninsula | 14%
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EUROPEAN PENINSULAS | $1600 | Cape Apostolos Andreas is the easternmost part of this island nation's Karpaz Peninsula, which stretches towards Turkey | Cyprus | 7%
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15 MINUTES OR LESS | $800 | A fighting penalty in the NHL can net you this much time in the penalty box--just like in the name of a band! | five minutes | 7%
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THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT | $1600 | Whoopi Goldberg won Emmys for "The View" & for hosting a documentary about this "Gone with the Wind" actress | (Hattie) McDaniel | 7%
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THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT | $800 | Composer Robert Lopez won both a Grammy & an Oscar for this song from "Frozen" | "Let It Go" | 7%
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THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT | $1200 | For "The Producers", he's won an Oscar, 2 Grammys & 3 Tonys | Mel Brooks | 7%
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YOU "PIC" IT | $800 | A Washington State congressman & a friend invented this tennis-like sport in 1965 to entertain their bored families | Pickleball | 7%
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MED SCHOOL | $600 | Third-year students typically begin clinical these to gain experience in many specialties for a few weeks to a few months | rotations | 7%
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MATH IN THE OLD DAYS | $1600 | The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other | the knuckles | 7%
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BOOKS OF 1990 | $400 | Alan Moore's dystopian look at a near-future England is called "V for" this | Vendetta | 7%
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BIRDING | $1200 | birdwatchingdaily.com listed this majestic endangered raptor as a North American bird birdwatchers most want to see | a California condor | 0%
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BIRDING | $1600 | In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders | a field guide | 0%
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BIRDING | $2000 | For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative "list", a personal history of all bird species they've encountered | a life list | 0%
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BIRDING | $800 | A good beginner's sighting is this largest North American thrush, with its red breast & "cheerio, cheery-up" song | a robin | 0%
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YOU "PIC" IT | $1200 | Molded jelly made from meat or fish stock | aspic | 0%
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THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT | $2000 | Nov. 8, 2014 was a great day-o for this singer & actor who received an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work | Belafonte | 0%
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BIRDING | $400 | The highest-rated these for bird-watching include the Bushnell Legend Ultra HD | binoculars | 0%
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WE GUARANTEE IT | $1000 | "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold", said this man in a fiery 1896 speech | Bryan | 0%
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YOU "PIC" IT | $1600 | These jars used by Ancient Egyptian embalmers got their name from an ancient city | canopic | 0%
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BOOKS OF 1990 | $1600 | This Maeve Binchy novel is about a group of pals attending a Dublin university | Circle of Friends | 0%
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AFRICAN MONARCHS | N/A | Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba | Haile Selassie | 0%
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MATH IN THE OLD DAYS | $2000 | Some think Ancient Egyptians represented fractions using symbols from the eye of this falcon god | Horus | 0%
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BOOKS OF 1990 | $1200 | "Barbarians at the Gate" is an expose of the fall of this giant food company behind brands like Oreo & Ritz | Nabisco | 0%
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MED SCHOOL | $1000 | As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine | osteopathic doctors | 0%
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YOU "PIC" IT | $2000 | Now meaning trifling, it was originally used in Louisiana & elsewhere in the South to refer to a coin of little value | picayune | 0%
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BOOKS OF 1990 | $2000 | 1990 saw the release of "Postmortem", Patricia Cornwell's first novel featuring this crime-solving medical examiner | Scarpetta | 0%
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BOOKS OF 1990 | $800 | "The Bourne Identity" & "The Bourne Supremacy" were followed in 1990 by this third entry in the series | The Bourne Ultimatum | 0%
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WE GUARANTEE IT | $800 | This party that existed from 1848 to 1854 also fittingly promised "free speech, free labor and free men" | the Free-Soil Party | 0%
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WE GUARANTEE IT | $200 | "For years politicians have promised" this, Nixon said in 1969--"I'm the first one to be able to deliver it" | the Moon | 0%
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