Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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JIMMY CARTER | $200 | Mediated by Jimmy, these accords ended 30 years of hostility, with an Egypt-Israel peace agreement | Camp David | 55%
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LITERARY GEOGRAPHY | $200 | Bernard Cornwell's low-born soldier has his first adventure in "Sharpe's Tiger", which takes place in this Asian land during British rule | India | 55%
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20-SOMETHING | $600 | 26 is the atomic number of this chemical element, symbol Fe | iron | 55%
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LITERARY GEOGRAPHY | $600 | Oh, the shame if you don't know "The Scarlet Letter" is set in what is today this U.S. state | Massachusetts | 55%
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20-SOMETHING | $200 | Arranged in pairs, you've got 24 of these chest protectors | ribs | 55%
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JIMMY CARTER | $1000 | Jimmy cut aid to this Central American country following the murder of Archbishop Romero & 4 U.S. churchwomen | El Salvador | 45%
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DOING THE SAFETY DANCE | $1000 | DuPont says this ballistic body armor product provides tensile strength 10 times that of steel on an equal weight basis | Kevlar | 45%
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LITERARY GEOGRAPHY | $400 | "Where the Crawdads Sing" is set near Asheville in the marshes of this southern state | North Carolina | 45%
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DOING THE SAFETY DANCE | $200 | FEMA says to replace the 9-volt battery at least once every year in this home device; some even include carbon monoxide sensors | smoke detector | 45%
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20-SOMETHING | $800 | In the Olympics, games of table tennis are played to 11 points & games of this racket sport are played to 21 | badminton | 36%
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COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | $200 | Sergeant Duke Lukela; Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly | Hawaii Five-O | 36%
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20-SOMETHING | $400 | The Constitution states that to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, you must be at least this age | 25 | 27%
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NONSENSE WORDS | $200 | Spelled differently from the Italian city it is derived from, it's a "meaty" nonsense word | baloney | 27%
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LITERARY GEOGRAPHY | $800 | James Michener wrote the nonfiction work "The Bridge at Andau" about the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in this country | Hungary | 27%
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DOING THE SAFETY DANCE | $800 | Also known as an emergency stop, you hit this "lethal" 2-word device to turn off a machine immediately | kill switch | 27%
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ANIMALS IN ART | $800 | On a subway car in 2020, Banksy depicted images of these "R"odents with masks & hand sanitizer | rats | 27%
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JIMMY CARTER | $600 | Carter was criticized for his return of this territory to the surrounding country | the Panama Canal | 27%
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ANIMALS IN ART | $400 | Originally used as an advertisement, "Chat Noir' in the iconic poster translates to this | "Black Cat" | 18%
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NONSENSE WORDS | $400 | This 4-letter word refers to a military cot, or a nonsense word | bunk | 18%
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COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | $600 | Detective Sofia Curtis; Dr. Gil Grissom | CSI | 18%
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HISTORICAL NONFICTION | $400 | A dark portrait of Victorian London, "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold examines the lives of the victims of this killer | Jack the Ripper | 18%
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DOING THE SAFETY DANCE | $600 | Goggles, gloves & masks are considered PPE, short for this | personal protective equipment | 18%
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LOST VOICES | $800 | This actor had all of his lines in "Hercules in New York" redubbed by someone without an Austrian accent | Schwarzenegger | 18%
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LOST VOICES | $1200 | Chris Farley recorded most of his lines as this title ogre before his death; Mike Myers replaced him | Shrek | 18%
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MILITARY EMBLEMS OF BELIEF | $1200 | Pagans might opt to use Mjölnir, the hammer of this god for their gravestones | Thor | 18%
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COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | $400 | Detective Danny Reagan; Sergeant Jamie Reagan | Blue Bloods | 9%
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THE OED, FROM DVANDVA TO FOLLIS | $1200 | "A drink in which the white and yolk of eggs are stirred up with hot beer" (Christmastime in England is weird) | eggnog | 9%
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HISTORICAL NONFICTION | $1600 | "1177 B.C." marks the decline of this ancient North African empire following invasions by marauding "sea peoples" that year | Egypt | 9%
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ANIMALS IN ART | $1200 | A painting by Leonardo da Vinci shows a favorite mistress of Ludovico Sforza with this short-tailed weasel | ermine | 9%
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20-SOMETHING | $1000 | This language, introduced around 1900, has 28 letters, including 6 special ones; you can enable your keyboard to type them | Esperanto | 9%
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NONSENSE WORDS | $600 | This hyphenated nonsense word begins with a word for a violin & ends with a word one letter different from the first | fiddle-faddle | 9%
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HISTORICAL NONFICTION | $800 | "American Rebels" recounts the Revolutionary roles of John Adams & this man famed for his big signature | John Hancock | 9%
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MILITARY EMBLEMS OF BELIEF | $800 | Some Protestants choose the rose of this German reformer | Luther | 9%
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JIMMY CARTER | $400 | When this man died in 2021 Jimmy said, "Fritz used his political skill and personal integrity to transform the vice presidency" | Mondale | 9%
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BUTTE OF COURSE | $1200 | Providing millions of gallons a day, Big Butte Springs is the main water supply for the Medford region in this state | Oregon | 9%
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ANIMALS IN ART | $2000 | In this French artist primitive painting of "The Sleeping Gypsy", a lion lurks nearby | Rousseau | 9%
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JIMMY CARTER | $800 | One of the 2 cabinet departments created during the Carter administration; both begin with the same letter | (1 of) Energy or Education | 0%
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LITERARY GEOGRAPHY | $1000 | Part of Act 3 of this Shakespeare tragedy unfolds at Actium | Antony and Cleopatra | 0%
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DOING THE SAFETY DANCE | $400 | Subaru provides beeps & visual cues on the rear camera screen & reverse automatic this to ensure you don't hit anything backing up | braking | 0%
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THE OED, FROM DVANDVA TO FOLLIS | $1600 | "To become smaller and smaller... decline", & it's not far from dvandva | dwindle | 0%
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THE OED, FROM DVANDVA TO FOLLIS | $400 | "A succession of rulers of the same line or family" | dynasty | 0%
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HISTORICAL NONFICTION | $2000 | Fact is sifted out of legend in Richard Fletcher's "The Quest for" this 11th century Spaniard who fought against the Moors | El Cid | 0%
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THE OED, FROM DVANDVA TO FOLLIS | $800 | "As phrase: and the rest, and so forth, and so on" | et cetera | 0%
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THE OED, FROM DVANDVA TO FOLLIS | $2000 | "Conjugal faithfulness" | fidelity | 0%
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LOST VOICES | $1600 | Samantha Morton recorded the lines on set as the A.I. assistant in this 3-letter film but was replaced by Scarlett Johansson | Her | 0%
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COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | $1000 | Officer Joe Coffey; Captain Frank Furillo | Hill Street Blues | 0%
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NONSENSE WORDS | $1000 | Originally it referred to the slop used as food for pigs; now it's a term for a meaningless sentiment | hogwash | 0%
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LOST VOICES | $2000 | All of David Prowse's lines in "Star Wars" were redubbed by this actor | James Earl Jones | 0%
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COP SHOWS BY CHARACTERS | $800 | Captain Olivia Benson; Sergeant John Munch | Law & Order: SVU | 0%
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HISTORICAL NONFICTION | $1200 | Did she murder her dad & stepmom in 1892? Decide for yourself with new evidence revealed in Cara Robertson's "The Trial of" her | Lizzie Borden | 0%
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BUTTE OF COURSE | $2000 | Elephant Butte, seen here, is one the tall sandstone pinnacles that give this scenic valley of the Southwest its name | Monument Valley | 0%
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LITERARY CHARACTERS | N/A | This owner of a large estate in Derbyshire is described as "proud" at least half a dozen times | (Mr. Fitzwilliam) Darcy | 0%
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ANIMALS IN ART | $1600 | A highlight at the Musee d'Orsay is "Ours Blanc", a sculpture of this predator of the north | polar bear | 0%
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NONSENSE WORDS | $800 | Seen here, it is the logo for this candy treat whose name also means "nonsense" | Poppycock | 0%
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BUTTE OF COURSE | $1600 | Black Butte Crater in southern Idaho is part of a 35-mile-long lava field in the plain of this river | Snake | 0%
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MILITARY EMBLEMS OF BELIEF | $400 | The angel Moroni is an emblem for adherents of this church | the Church of Latter-Day Saints | 0%
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BUTTE OF COURSE | $800 | A place for vision quests & sun dances, Bear Butte in South Dakota is a sacred site to these Native American people who call it "Mato Paha" | (the) Lakota (Sioux) | 0%
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MILITARY EMBLEMS OF BELIEF | $1600 | The faravahar signifies this Persian religion | Zoroastrianism | 0%
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