Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE | $400 | His assassination sparked a war to end all wars | (Franz) Ferdinand | 74%
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COMMON BONDS | $200 | Driver, wedge, putter | golf clubs | 74%
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YOUTHFUL POP STARS | $400 | This actress-singer was 13 when the soundtrack for "Hannah Montana" hit No. 1 | Miley Cyrus | 70%
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GREATS IN HISTORY | $400 | Term for the worldwide economic crisis that lasted throughout the 1930s | the Great Depression | 70%
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COMMON BONDS | $1000 | Cuban, banh mi, po' boy | sandwich | 65%
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LIZARDS | $1000 | The world's biggest lizards, Komodo dragons are native only to Komodo Island & the Sunda Islands of this country | Indonesia | 57%
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BOOKS & AUTHORS | $600 | In "Gub Gub's Book", by the creator of Dr. Dolittle, this type of animal tells of truffles & more | pig | 48%
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ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE | $200 | In 1937 this future U.S. commander in chief made his film debut in "Love is on the Air" | Ronald Reagan | 48%
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VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES | $200 | The U.S. loves ventriloquists! 3 have won this NBC competition show with Simon Cowell as a judge | America\'s Got Talent | 43%
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GREATS IN HISTORY | $800 | Here's a portrait of this empress of Russia, who did not go by her original name of Sophie | Catherine the Great | 43%
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BOOKS & AUTHORS | $200 | An H. Rider Haggard novel from 1885 saw Allan Quatermain looking for this king's mines | Solomon | 39%
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BOOKS & AUTHORS | $400 | Anthony Bourdain wrote a 2001 book about this New York woman who was very infectious in the kitchen in the early 1900s | Typhoid Mary | 39%
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COMMON BONDS | $800 | Birds, angels, the stage in a theater | wings | 39%
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LIZARDS | $200 | The Florida worm lizard has no ear openings or visible eyes but somehow preys on these wood-eating insects also called white ants | termites | 35%
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COMMON BONDS | $600 | A violin, a marionette, a tennis racket | things with strings | 35%
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LIZARDS | $600 | The name of this lizard known for its ability to climb vertical surfaces is from a Malay word imitating the sound it makes | gecko | 30%
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YOUTHFUL POP STARS | $1200 | This military-sounding rapper had a 2007 hit at age 17 with "Crank That" | Soulja Boy | 30%
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COMMON BONDS | $400 | The bucket, bad habits, a football | things you kick | 30%
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VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES | $600 | Before winning an Oscar for playing an imprisoned serial killer, he partnered up with a spooky dummy in "Magic" | (Anthony) Hopkins | 22%
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A WORD IN SPANISH | $600 | This fish in the tuna family is also a masculine adjective for "pretty" in Spanish | bonito | 22%
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A WORD IN SPANISH | $400 | Lionel Richie sang of celebrations in many languages: "We're going to party, karamu," this Spanish word | fiesta | 22%
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LIZARDS | $400 | Sounding like an ornamental edging, it's the membrane that an Australian lizard raises to appear larger when threatened | frill | 22%
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YOUTHFUL POP STARS | $2000 | In 1987, a month after her 16th birthday, this single-named singer topped the charts with "I Think We're Alone Now" | Tiffany | 22%
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A WORD IN SPANISH | $1000 | In Spanish it's not someone taking the law into his own hands, it's just a watchman, like a night watchman | vigilante | 22%
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BOOKS & AUTHORS | $800 | "War & Peace" opens in this year, 7 years before a fateful invasion | 1805 | 17%
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BOOKS & AUTHORS | $1000 | Outside the Ansonia, Connecticut Public Library, a memorial fountain & horse trough honors this "Black Beauty" author | Anna Sewell | 17%
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STARTS WITH "B" | $400 | A signal fire, perhaps on a Boston hill | beacon | 17%
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VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES | $800 | Bubba J & the cranky Walter are 2 of the dummies featured in this comedian's act | Jeff Dunham | 17%
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VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES | $400 | Shari Lewis had her own children's show featuring this "sheepish" puppet | Lamb Chop | 17%
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GREATS IN HISTORY | $2000 | After the death of his wife Julia, this member of the First Triumvirate turned against his father-in-law Julius Caesar | Pompey | 17%
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GREATS IN HISTORY | $1600 | During the period in the Catholic church called the "Great" this, there were 2 & even 3 rival popes at the same time | the Schism | 17%
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A WORD IN SPANISH | $800 | Stand down, Sir Francis Drake; Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina use this to mean their navy | armada | 13%
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STARTS WITH "B" | $800 | An uncivilized person, particularly one from outside the Roman Empire | Barbarian | 13%
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YOUTHFUL POP STARS | $800 | This 17-year-old singer was appearing on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" when he released his album "Ricky" | Ricky Nelson | 13%
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OH MY GODS! | $800 | Saraswati, Hindu goddess of learning & the arts, is considered the inventor of this language | Sanskrit | 13%
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ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE | $600 | One of the greatest songs he's written is "Send In The Clowns" from "A Little Night Music" | Sondheim | 13%
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AMERICAN LAKES | $400 | As its name suggests, this 1,900-foot-deep lake sits atop an Oregon volcano | Crater | 9%
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GREATS IN HISTORY | $1200 | A great & prolific builder, this pharaoh dedicated one of his temples at Abu Simbel to his favorite queen, Nefertari | Ramses (the Great) | 9%
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LIZARDS | $800 | The 5-lined this 5-letter lizard is also known as the blue-tailed type | skink | 9%
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OH MY GODS! | $1200 | Amulius wanted Mars' sons Romulus & Remus drowned in this river, but turns out Rome wasn't gonna found itself | the Tiber | 9%
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STARTS WITH "B" | $2000 | A blessing from the Sermon on the Mount | beatitude | 4%
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STARTS WITH "B" | $1600 | Many over-40 folks wear these to compensate for presbyopia | bifocals | 4%
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OH MY GODS! | $1600 | Appearing as a swan to Leda, Zeus became a dad to at least one of these twins, the Dioscuri; obviously, that's complicated | Castor & Pollux | 4%
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VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES | $1000 | Edgar Bergen's most famous dummy, this character was based on a newsboy but classed up with a monocle & top hat | (Charlie) McCarthy | 4%
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FOOD FIGHTS BACK | $1200 | If your doctor tells you to avoid this citrus fruit with your medications, the furanocoumarins are the problem | grapefruit | 4%
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YOUTHFUL POP STARS | $1600 | Seen here, she took the country music world by storm as a teenager in the 1990s | LeAnn Rimes | 4%
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OH MY GODS! | $400 | This leader of the Norse gods stole a potion containing the art of poetry from Suttung the giant & gave it to human wordsmiths | Odin | 4%
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ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE | $800 | Born with an artistic heritage, she's found beauty in designing jewelry & creating a signature perfume | Picasso | 4%
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STARTS WITH "B" | $1200 | Guinea is a small species of this primate | baboon | 0%
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AMERICAN LAKES | $800 | In honor of a first lady with a famous nickname, Town Lake in Austin, Texas got this new 2-word name in 2007 | Lady Bird | 0%
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AMERICAN LAKES | $1200 | Secluded inlets called coves are poplular for fishing in Midwestern lakes, like Missouri's Lake of these mountains | Lake of the Ozarks | 0%
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ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE | $1000 | In 2020 the job of White House Chief of Staff changed M&Ms, from this man to Mark Meadows | Mick Mulvaney | 0%
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FOOD FIGHTS BACK | $400 | The tyramine in fermented products like aged cheese or beer may cause these headaches derived from the word hemicrania | migraines | 0%
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A WORD IN SPANISH | $200 | A Spanish idiom for "Don't worry about it", literally "nothing happens", is no pasa this word | nada | 0%
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AMERICAN LAKES | $1600 | A Seminole reservation & the communities of Belle Glade & Pahokee are found around the shores of this lake | Okeechobee | 0%
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FOOD FIGHTS BACK | $800 | A serious allergic reaction to this legume can be caused by its Ara h 1, 2 & 3 proteins | peanuts | 0%
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FOOD FIGHTS BACK | $1600 | If mango skin makes your lips tingle, it's a reaction related to the rashes you might get from touching this toxic vine | poison ivy | 0%
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AMERICAN LAKES | $2000 | Home to a wildlife refuge, this saline "sea" in the Colorado Desert is California's largest lake in surface area | Salton | 0%
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OH MY GODS! | $2000 | Quetzalcoatl was worshiped at Tula, also called Tollan, by this people from whom the Aztecs claimed descent | Toltec | 0%
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FOOD FIGHTS BACK | $2000 | Leafy greens are rich in this vitamin needed to synthesize clotting factors; blood thinners may counteract its activity | vitamin K | 0%
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1980s MOVIES | N/A | The Dip used to kill characters in this 1988 film consisted of acetone, benzene & turpentine, ingredients of paint thinner | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 0%
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