Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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COMPOUND WORDS | $400 | The coccyx, colloquially | tailbone | 72%
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BOOKS FOR KIDS | $200 | This book asks, "Would you eat them in a box? Would you eat them with a fox?" | Green Eggs and Ham | 67%
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INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT | $600 | Even when inaugurations were in this month for over a century, snow could still be an issue as it was for President-Elect Taft | March | 56%
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BOOKS FOR KIDS | $600 | A baby bird hatches alone & asks a dog, a hen & a kitten the title question of this classic book | Are You My Mother? | 50%
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COMPOUND WORDS | $200 | ORD or SFO | airport | 44%
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THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL | $800 | Your pooch loved Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink in this Tarantino film but found the title misleading | Reservoir Dogs | 44%
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BOOKS FOR KIDS | $800 | A chapter in "The Wizard of Oz" is "The Council with" these folks | the Munchkins | 44%
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PROTEST THIS | $400 | In 2008 a Guy Fawkes mask became a symbol of this shadowy 9-letter protest group | Anonymous | 39%
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PROTEST THIS | $1000 | Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for protests ultimately part of this "vernal" uprising | Arab Spring | 39%
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THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL | $600 | "Immortal Beloved" is a biography of a composer while the 1992 movie with this one-word title is about a Saint Bernard | Beethoven | 39%
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PROTEST THIS | $800 | People in this Scandinavian country couldn't fly their flag under Prussian rule, so they bred protest pigs with its colors | Denmark | 39%
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COMPOUND WORDS | $1000 | She used me as her mere this, a synonym for toy | plaything | 39%
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INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT | $200 | John Quincy Adams didn't take his oath with his hand on a Bible; he used a law book that included this document that he read from | (the) Constitution | 39%
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ALSO A BODY PART | $400 | A tropical tree | a palm | 33%
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ALSO A BODY PART | $1600 | A piece of furniture with drawers | chest | 33%
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COMPOUND WORDS | $600 | A woodchuck is one of these giant squirrels, also a compound word | groundhog | 33%
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NATIONS | $400 | This country's northernmost point is Cape Soya on Hokkaido | Japan | 33%
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THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL | $400 | Jim Dear gives his wife Darling a Cocker Spaniel for Christmas in this animated film | Lady and the Tramp | 33%
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COMPOUND WORDS | $800 | It gets its name because it's said to combine the flavors of cinnamon, clove & nutmeg | allspice | 28%
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PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE | $2000 | Elijah crusaded against the worship of the Canaanite gods Asherah & this one | Baal | 28%
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19th CENTURY MUSIC | $400 | An early song to be mastered on keyboards, this 1877 tune shares a name with a set of eating implements | "Chopsticks" | 28%
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THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL | $200 | Champ Gabrielle Reece shows up in "Air Bud: Spikes Back", about a dog excelling in this outdoor sport | beach volleyball | 22%
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A TOUCH OF GLASS | $400 | It was in Charles Perrault's version of the fairy tale that this heroine first got her glass slipper | Cinderella | 22%
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PROTEST THIS | $600 | On February 1, 1960 a Woolworth's lunch counter in this North Carolina city was the site of nonviolent protest | Greensboro | 22%
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INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT | $1000 | A new blueberry variety of this treat was created for Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration | jelly bean | 22%
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ALSO A BODY PART | $1200 | A bare minimum crew | skeleton | 22%
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TV ROLES | $800 | This actor's roles have included Jesse Pinkman on "Breaking Bad" & Caleb Nichols on "Westworld" | (Aaron) Paul | 17%
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A VISIT TO THE ISS | $600 | (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) ISS crew members have gone on more than 230 of these assembly & maintenance excursions; I've been on four, & in 2019, Jessica Meir & Christina Koch made the first all-female one | a spacewalk | 17%
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INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT | $400 | James Madison was honored at the first of these inaugural events, held at Long's Hotel with tickets costing $4 a person | ball | 17%
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A VISIT TO THE ISS | $200 | (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) Conducting an experiment that could help us diagnose & treat health problems in space, in 2016, I became the first person to sequence the base pairs of this material while in orbit | DNA | 17%
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NATIONS | $1200 | This small nation is mainland South America's only country with English as an official language | Guyana | 17%
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PROTEST THIS | $200 | Beyond the barricades in 2019, Hong Kongers sang, "Do you hear the people sing?" from this musical | Les Misérables | 17%
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TV ROLES | $400 | On accepting her Golden Globe for "The Crown", Emma Corrin paid tribute to this woman whom she portrayed | (Princess) Diana | 17%
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A VISIT TO THE ISS | $400 | (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) Look up in the sky at dawn or dusk & you might be able to spot the ISS flying overhead; it's visible thanks to nearly an acre of the arrays that provide this type of power | solar | 17%
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BOOKS FOR KIDS | $1000 | "Merlin Missions" are books in this "Magic" time-traveling series for older readers | the Magic Tree House | 17%
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PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE | $1600 | King David consulted with the prophet Nathan about his intention to build a structure to hold this chest | Ark (of the Covenant) | 11%
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ALSO A BODY PART | $800 | Munitions | arms | 11%
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NATIONS | $1600 | 16 federal states make up Germany; this one that's home to Munich is the largest in area | Bavaria | 11%
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A VISIT TO THE ISS | $1000 | (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) One of the perks of working on the ISS is the incredible view; here's this cape from 250 miles overhead that's played a key role in the history of space flight | (Cape) Canaveral | 11%
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NATIONS | $2000 | France has a major overseas naval base in this small Horn of Africa country that was a French territory until 1977 | Djibouti | 11%
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INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT | $800 | This man flubbed some of the words while administering the oath to Barack Obama, so they did it all again a day later | (John) Roberts | 11%
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PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE | $800 | The name of this man who was thrown overboard & swallowed by a fish became a word for one who brings bad luck | Jonah | 11%
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19th CENTURY MUSIC | $800 | The orchestra known as the Berlin this, meaning "lover of music", debuted in 1882 | Philharmonic | 11%
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A VISIT TO THE ISS | $800 | (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) ISS crew members look forward to the arrival of supplies on four different spacecraft from three countries, including the Dragon from this U.S. company that has also pioneered the development of reusable rockets | SpaceX | 11%
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NATIONS | $800 | The 2 main linguistic communities in Belgium are the French-speaking Walloons & this Dutch-speaking one | the Flemish | 11%
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19th CENTURY MUSIC | $2000 | The first music publisher to move to what was nicknamed this "Alley" in New York City was M. Witmark & Sons in 1893 | Tin Pan | 11%
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THE CANINES FILM FESTIVAL | $1000 | Your pooch loved Robert De Niro as a spin doctor dealing with a presidential scandal in this film but found the title misleading | Wag the Dog | 11%
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A TOUCH OF GLASS | $800 | A stained glass window depicts the death of Thomas Becket at this cathedral where he was slain | Canterbury Cathedral | 6%
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A TOUCH OF GLASS | $2000 | Seen here is "Float Boat" with glass contents fashioned by this famous artist from Tacoma | Chihuly | 6%
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PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE | $1200 | For interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dreams, this prophet was made ruler over a province of the empire | Daniel | 6%
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ALSO A BODY PART | $2000 | A rainbow goddess | Iris | 6%
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TV ROLES | $1200 | In 2021 Soleil Moon Frye reprised this '80s role, now all grown up with children of her own | Punky Brewster | 6%
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A TOUCH OF GLASS | $1600 | The main ingredient in most glass is this 6-letter compound, also known as industrial sand | silica | 6%
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19th CENTURY MUSIC | $1200 | Invented in France in the 1820s, this instrument seen | a cornet | 0%
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A TOUCH OF GLASS | $1200 | In 1879 glassblowers at this N.Y. glass company created the first bulbs for Edison's new electric light | Corning | 0%
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19th CENTURY MUSIC | $1600 | A veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, this German who built his first piano in 1836 later made a grand turn to America | Henry Steinway | 0%
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PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE | $400 | In chapter 1 Zechariah recounts a vision of these beasts, similar to a vision in Revelation of 4 of them being ridden | (red or white) horses | 0%
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TV ROLES | $2000 | Lee Majors played a stuntman who had a side hustle as a bounty hunter on this 1980s series | The Fall Guy | 0%
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TV ROLES | $1600 | On this HBO Max show, it's a bumpy ride for Kaley Cuoco in the title profession when she gets embroiled in a murder mystery | The Flight Attendant | 0%
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BOOKS FOR KIDS | $400 | This 1962 classic by Ezra Jack Keats has been praised for advancing multiculturalism | The Snowy Day | 0%
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FICTIONAL PLACES | N/A | A savage people called Zapoletes are contrasted with the inhabitants of the title place of this 16th century work | Utopia | 0%
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