Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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LET'S "EET" | $200 | Precipitation coming down as a mixture of snow & rain | sleet | 88%
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LET'S "EET" | $600 | Botox alert! These tiny wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes are the result of age & squinting | crow\'s feet | 81%
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TALK TO THE HAND | $200 | This digit only has 2 phalanges | the thumb | 81%
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5, MOUNTAIN TIME | $400 | Billed as the world's smallest mountain, Mount Wycheproof rises a majestic 141 feet in this Aussie state fit for a queen | Victoria | 81%
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3-LETTER WORDS | $800 | Portugal's national dish is salted this fish | cod | 56%
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LET'S "EET" | $400 | Adjective meaning careful & circumspect in what one says or does | discreet | 56%
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5, MOUNTAIN TIME | $200 | Notable in Japanese art, a series of woodblock prints called "Thirty-Six Views of" this mountain were made in the 1800s | Mount Fuji | 56%
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5, MOUNTAIN TIME | $800 | You can enjoy "The Snows of" this Tanzanian massif on its central cone, Kibo, a dormant volcano | (Mount) Kilimanjaro | 56%
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AUTOMOBILES... ASSEMBLE! | $400 | It's always the Sentra of attention | Nissan | 56%
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AUTOMOBILES... ASSEMBLE! | $200 | I'm leavin' on a Jetta non-plane | Volkswagen | 56%
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THE 16th CENTURY | $400 | In 1593 a Thai king & a Burmese prince settled a battle one-on-one, riding on these; the king won | elephants | 50%
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THE 16th CENTURY | $200 | Some were suspicious in 1560 when Amy Robsart died at 28 just when her husband the Earl of Leicester was hoping to marry this queen | Elizabeth | 50%
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AUDIBLE | $1000 | This actor bares all in his memoir "Greenlights": "I've had four concussions from falling out of four trees, three of them on a full moon. I have bongoed naked until the cops arrested me." | (Matthew) McConaughey | 50%
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LET'S "EET" | $1000 | Term for a newspaper published in a large format, regarded as more serious & less sensational than tabloids | a broadsheet | 44%
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3-LETTER WORDS | $1200 | The British use this booze to mean "strange" | rum | 44%
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TALK TO THE HAND | $400 | Useful when performing magic, this 3-word skill refers to manual dexterity employed in doing tricks | sleight of hand | 44%
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AUDIBLE | $600 | Feel your pulse pound with a 1988 bestseller by this action novelist: "Look, Dr. Ryan," the general started to say. Jack cut him off. "General, I am cleared for Tea Clipper. You know that, so let's stop screwing around." | (Tom) Clancy | 44%
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AUTOMOBILES... ASSEMBLE! | $600 | The 2021 XF is quick as a cat... starting at 44 grand | Jaguar | 38%
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AUDIBLE | $400 | Known for nothing, this funny guy narrates his memoir called "Is This Anything?": "I was a very, very nervous performer when I first began going onstage. But I was encouraged by my college friends Jesse Michnik, Joe Bacino and Mike Costanza." | (Jerry) Seinfeld | 38%
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AUDIBLE | $800 | Johnny Depp got the honor of bringing this guitar legend's memoir to life: "Mick and I knew each other just because we happened to live very close, just a few door away, with a bit of schooling thrown in." | Keith Richards | 38%
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HOWDY, SHERIFF | $400 | Sheriff Johnny Behan arrested 3 Earp brothers, also lawmen, after a shootout at this place; the 3 were exonerated | the O.K. Corral | 38%
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5, MOUNTAIN TIME | $600 | At 8,100 feet, Galdhopiggen, northeast of Bergen, is this country's highest peak | Norway | 31%
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AUTOMOBILES... ASSEMBLE! | $800 | Its Roadster can top 250 mph & has a 620-mile range, sans gas | Tesla | 31%
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THE 16th CENTURY | $800 | Launched in 1536, the Portuguese version of this focused largely on pretend converts | the Inquisition | 31%
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ANTON CHEKHOV | $400 | In an 1889 letter Chekhov laid down a famous principle, saying if you show one of these, it must be used | a gun | 25%
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HOWDY, SHERIFF | $800 | Nucky Johnson, who inspired Steve Buscemi's character on this HBO show, was a corrupt sheriff of Atlantic County, New Jersey | Boardwalk Empire | 25%
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3-LETTER WORDS | $400 | This verb means to handle something roughly, like an animal would | paw | 25%
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ANTON CHEKHOV | $1600 | Chekhov's last play is about a woman who must decide if she wants to allow houses to be built on this title plot of land | The Cherry Orchard | 25%
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HOWDY, SHERIFF | $1600 | More slender as a sheriff than as a politician, Grover Cleveland was once known as the hangman of this city in New York | Buffalo | 19%
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE | N/A | The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language | German | 19%
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AUTOMOBILES... ASSEMBLE! | $1000 | Its Legacy is on the line every day | Subaru | 19%
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HOWDY, SHERIFF | $2000 | Daughter of migrant farmworkers, Sheriff Lupe Valdez ran in 2018 to become this state's governor, losing to Greg Abbott | Texas | 19%
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ANTON CHEKHOV | $1200 | The title siblings in this Chekhov play are named Olga, Irina & Masha | Three Sisters | 19%
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3-LETTER WORDS | $1600 | This term for flax fiber goes before "headed" to describe kids with very light blond hair | tow | 19%
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THE FAMOUS MOM | $400 | Of Sean Lennon | (Yoko) Ono | 19%
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TALK TO THE HAND | $800 | Ambrose Bierce defined this divination practice as "the 947th method... of obtaining money by false pretences" | palmistry | 13%
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HOWDY, SHERIFF | $1200 | As a sheriff, this man found Billy the Kid twice & killed him once; he'd later get a sweet new gig thanks to Lew Wallace | (Pat) Garrett | 13%
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TALK TO THE HAND | $1000 | The nerves providing sensation to the hand are the median, radial & this one that enters the hand via Guyon's canal | ulnar | 13%
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"C" IN SCIENCE | $400 | The Earth's mantle is sandwiched between these two layers | core & crust | 6%
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LET'S "EET" | $800 | In this "speak" used in Internet chat rooms, letters are replaced by numbers or other symbols | leet | 6%
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THE FAMOUS MOM | $1200 | Of Dakota Johnson | Melanie Griffith | 6%
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AUDIBLE | $200 | She gives her life in lyrics in "Songteller":"Well, I've often said that my songs are my children and I expect them to support me when I'm old. Well, I am old and they are!" | Parton | 6%
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ANTON CHEKHOV | $800 | In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", an albatross gets killed; in an 1896 Chekhov play, it's one of these birds | seagull | 6%
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3-LETTER WORDS | $2000 | Term for a day on Mars--24 hours & nearly 40 minutes, so you can hit snooze a little longer there | sol | 6%
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THE 16th CENTURY | $1000 | This Ottoman sultan promised he'd eat breakfast in Vienna; after a few days of siege, he got a note saying his food was getting cold | Suleiman | 6%
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THE CHOSEN FEW | $800 | Anyone is allowed to book time to use this space telescope first launched in 1990, but competition is fierce | the Hubble | 6%
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THE CHOSEN FEW | $2000 | This "twinkly" tribunal that persecuted Puritans was abolished by Parliament in 1641 | the Star Chamber | 6%
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THE CHOSEN FEW | $400 | British Airways in 1996 was the first airline in modern times to offer its first class flyers this feature for a comfy snooze | a lie-flat bed | 0%
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THE FAMOUS MOM | $2000 | Of Gwyneth Paltrow | (Blythe) Danner | 0%
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"C" IN SCIENCE | $800 | This insoluble plant fiber is found in paper pulp & in the fruits & vegetables that we eat | cellulose | 0%
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"C" IN SCIENCE | $2000 | Numbers 55 & 58 on the periodic table are these 2 elements that differ by a letter | cesium & cerium | 0%
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THE FAMOUS MOM | $1600 | Of Alexa Ray Joel | (Christie) Brinkley | 0%
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THE CHOSEN FEW | $1200 | Latin for "with a key" gives us this select group of holy men responsible for picking a new pope | conclave | 0%
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"C" IN SCIENCE | $1200 | This field concerned with the effects of low temperatures on organisms derives its name from words meaning "icy life study" | cryobiology | 0%
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"C" IN SCIENCE | $1600 | In 1970 these artificial sweeteners were banned for good after they were linked to cancer in rats | cyclamates | 0%
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THE 16th CENTURY | $600 | A landmark of mannerism inside & out, the Palazzo Te was built for this ruling family of Mantua, not of Spokane | Gonzaga | 0%
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ANTON CHEKHOV | $2000 | Several Chekhov plays were staged in the Moscow Art Theatre, founded by this man known for his acting "method" | (Konstantin) Stanislavski | 0%
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THE FAMOUS MOM | $800 | Of Zoe Kravitz | (Lisa) Bonet | 0%
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THE CHOSEN FEW | $1600 | Ken Kesey led a close-knit group called the "Merry" these | Pranksters | 0%
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5, MOUNTAIN TIME | $1000 | There's great skiing at places like Tremblant in these mountains, the Quebec portion of the Canadian Shield | the Laurentians | 0%
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TALK TO THE HAND | $600 | This twisting action done out of grief or concern can also mean showing an exaggerated amount of those emotions | wringing your hands | 0%
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