Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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COME OUT TO THE COAST | $400 | Bordering Central America, this South American country has a coastline on both the Atlantic & the Pacific | Colombia | 73%
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AN AUGUST CATEGORY | $200 | August 1934: known as "The Rock", it opens & Frank Bolt gets prisoner number 1 | Alcatraz | 60%
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COME OUT TO THE COAST | $600 | The southern shores of Bangladesh welcome the waters of this 800,000-square-mile bay known for its monsoons | (Bay of) Bengal | 60%
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LOCK TALK | $200 | To open a safe, rotate the lock dial to this sequence of numbers | the combination | 60%
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3-SYLLABLE VERBS | $200 | Sometimes combined with "guess", it means to calculate approximately the amount of something | estimate | 53%
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3-SYLLABLE VERBS | $600 | Lyft says "45% of Americans have a gig on the side to" do this to their income | supplement | 53%
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LOCK TALK | $400 | This type of car key named for a parking pro operates the doors & ignition but not the storage compartment locks | valet | 53%
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AN AUGUST CATEGORY | $1000 | August 1977, Arktika this appropriate type of vessel is the first surface ship at the North Pole | an icebreaker | 47%
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AN AUGUST CATEGORY | $600 | August 1875: Matthew Webb makes the first unaided swim from this British town to Calais | Dover | 47%
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3-SYLLABLE VERBS | $1000 | An alternate term for a crossroads takes its name in part from this verb meaning what happens when 2 lines cross each other | intersect | 47%
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COME OUT TO THE COAST | $200 | It's the gulf in Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College | (the) Gulf of Mexico | 47%
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WE'LL GET TOGETHER | $200 | In 2001 Time Warner was acquired by this Internet company for $111 billion; that did not work out so well | AOL | 40%
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3-SYLLABLE VERBS | $800 | In psychology, to contribute to a loved one's pathological behavior | enable | 40%
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COME OUT TO THE COAST | $800 | Named for its 2 distinct regions, this Canadian province on the Atlantic is the most easterly part of North America | Newfoundland and Labrador | 40%
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AN AUGUST CATEGORY | $400 | August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law | Social Security | 40%
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AN AUGUST CATEGORY | $800 | August 1990: Sue Hendrickson discovers a 40-foot-long skeleton of this | T. rex | 33%
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LOCK TALK | $600 | The part of a key that enters a lock cylinder is called this, like the part of a sword that enters a foe | a blade | 27%
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CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION | $400 | Mao's attempts to reform this party resulted in an estimated 1.5 million deaths during the Revolution | Communist Party | 27%
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COME OUT TO THE COAST | $1000 | The name of its capital translates to "Freetown" in this coastal nation highlighted here, independent from France since 1960 | Gabon | 27%
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NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY | $1200 | Mercutio says, "If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark" | Romeo and Juliet | 27%
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3-SYLLABLE VERBS | $400 | From Greek for "existing at the same time", it's to match one's actions to the timing of another's | synchronize | 27%
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LOCK TALK | $800 | Pins & levers are types of these moving parts that must be properly aligned before a lock will open | tumblers | 27%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES | $1600 | A national emblem of Wales is this vegetable related to the onion | a leek | 20%
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NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY | $400 | A literal fairy tale that gets to the bottom of things with a triple wedding | A Midsummer Night\'s Dream | 20%
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WE'LL GET TOGETHER | $1000 | Get C, H & O together in the right proportions & you've got this gasoline additive also called ethyl alcohol | ethanol | 20%
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WE'LL GET TOGETHER | $600 | With many players serving in World War II, NFL teams from these 2 cities in the same state merged to form the Steagles | Pittsburgh & Philadelphia | 20%
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HAVE A FEW LAUGHS | $200 | Mike Tyson, who wanted his tiger back, favored us with his rendition of "In The Air Tonight" in this 2009 comedy | The Hangover | 20%
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DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS | $2000 | On the "Invisible Touch" album in 1986, this trio tipped a "Domino", a nearly 11-minute song | Genesis | 13%
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"ISH" LIST | $1600 | The word assassin goes back to a Muslim sect during the Crusades whose members were thought to be ritual users of this drug | hashish | 13%
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"ISH" LIST | $1200 | 3 red diamonds make up the logo of this automaker | Mitsubishi | 13%
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LOCK TALK | $1000 | The u-shaped part of a padlock that fits around an item to be locked is called this, also a word for a manacle or leg iron | shackle | 13%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES | $800 | Related to peaches & nectarines, this smaller relative that's a good source of vitamin A can be pronounced with a long or a short "A" | the apricot | 13%
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CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION | $1200 | In 1966 Chairman Mao swam across this "long river" at Wuhan to prove his strength | Yangtze | 13%
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WE'LL GET TOGETHER | $800 | This hybrid breed is the result of having a poodle & a Cocker Spaniel as parents | a Cockapoo (Cockadoodle) | 7%
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DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS | $400 | Appropriately, the last track of her "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" is "Goodbye" | Billie Eilish | 7%
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HAVE A FEW LAUGHS | $800 | In 2021 Randy Watson, the lead singer of Sexual Chocolate, hit Amazon Prime in this sequel to a 1988 film | Coming 2 America | 7%
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CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION | $2000 | Stripped of his post during the Revolution, he came back to lead China starting in the late 1970s | (Deng) Xiaoping | 7%
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WORLD FLAGS | N/A | The use of red, yellow & green as Pan-African colors began with the flag of this nation, the continent's oldest independent country | Ethiopia | 7%
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NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY | $800 | Laertes gets the short end of the (poisoned) stick | Hamlet | 7%
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CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION | $800 | Mao started the Revolution partly over fears he would be deposed after Brezhnev replaced this Soviet leader in 1964 | Khrushchev | 7%
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CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION | $1600 | Also called "Quotations from Chairman Mao", this colorful book was carried by the Revolution's most zealous adherents | Little Red Book | 7%
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NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY | $1600 | Tragically, not giving a guy a promotion at work ends up inflaming a non-affair to remember | Othello | 7%
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WE'LL GET TOGETHER | $400 | This women's college formally merged with Harvard in 1999 | Radcliffe | 7%
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HAVE A FEW LAUGHS | $400 | This late comic, handing out compliments in "Caddyshack": "Hey, baby... you must have been something before electricity" | Rodney Dangerfield | 7%
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DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS | $1200 | "Sweet Virginia" & "Loving Cup" were on their 1972 classic "Exile on Main Street" | Rolling Stones | 7%
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HAVE A FEW LAUGHS | $600 | We'll have a side of Beef Tobin, a single dad in Alaska voiced by Nick Offerman in this Fox cartoon | The Great North | 7%
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"ISH" LIST | $2000 | Made from resins & oils, this liquid is used on wood to protect it & make it shiny | varnish | 7%
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HAVE A FEW LAUGHS | $1000 | A vampire named Laszlo became "regular human bartender Jackie Daytona" on this FX mockumentary | What We Do in the Shadows | 7%
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MATH | $400 | To find the area of a sector of a circle, the formula is seen here, but fill in this missing number | 360 (degrees) | 0%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES | $2000 | Langoustine is a shellfish; this similar word is a tropical fruit | a mangosteen | 0%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES | $1200 | Widely grown worldwide, this protein-rich vegetable is seen here | an edamame bean (soybean) | 0%
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"ISH" LIST | $800 | Traditionally, the headdress seen here is worn by this person | bishop | 0%
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MATH | $2000 | In calculus this is defined as the instantaneous rate of change of a function, so for a constant function (no change) it's 0 | derivative | 0%
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MATH | $1200 | Homotopy is when one shape can be continuously deformed into another; a circle is homotopic to this oval closed curve | ellipse | 0%
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DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS | $800 | "Stepdad" was part of this Michigan man's "Music to Be Murdered By" | Eminem | 0%
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MATH | $800 | It's a statement of a relationship such as greater than or less than; it's also a socioeconomic issue | inequality | 0%
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DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS | $1600 | The 2000 album "Return of Saturn" by this ska-pop band found "Magic's In The Makeup" | No Doubt | 0%
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MATH | $1600 | When the NBA's Steph Curry puts up a 3-point shot, this point, the apex of a parabola, is about 16 feet above the floor | the vertex | 0%
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NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY | $2000 | Demetrius is among the many, many casualties by the end & oh yeah... there's cannibalism! | Titus Andronicus | 0%
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