Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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"EYE" | $600 | It's a building that is unpleasant to look at | an eyesore | 94%
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"EYE" | $200 | It's a late or overnight airplane flight | a red eye | 88%
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FINISH THE LINE | $200 | Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind": "Frankly, my dear..." | I don\'t give a damn | 76%
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"EYE" | $800 | A 2003 study said a dog with a problem will make this with a human to try & get help; a wolf with a problem probably won't | eye contact | 65%
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GRAZE ANATOMY | $200 | Sheep don't have any upper front these, using a dental pad instead | teeth | 65%
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GRAZE ANATOMY | $400 | The rumen, the omasum & the reticulum are parts of this organ for a cow | the stomach | 65%
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"EYE" | $400 | This avian outlook refers to a viewpoint from a high angle | a bird\'s-eye view | 59%
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STATE YOUR NAME | $200 | Virginia Wade won 55 tennis singles titles, including this major in 1977, the last Englishwoman to do so | Wimbledon | 59%
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STATE YOUR NAME | $400 | Appearing in the novel "The Hustler", Minnesota Fats was a legendary player of this game | pool | 53%
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GRAZE ANATOMY | $800 | Camels' humps store nutrients from grazing as this substance, also called adipose tissue | fat | 41%
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FINISH THE LINE | $600 | Oscar Wilde wrote, "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is" these 4 words | not being talked about | 41%
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DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR | $800 | Swear on this weapon, as the Vikings did & as Horatio does in "Hamlet" | sword | 41%
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STATE YOUR NAME | $800 | Stately first name of Mr. Tuxedo, a cartoon penguin voiced by Don Adams | Tennessee | 41%
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FINISH THE LINE | $800 | In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men": "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a" this | whimper | 41%
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FINISH THE LINE | $400 | Dr. Seuss' Sam-I-Am: "Would you like them in a house? Would you like them..." | with a mouse | 41%
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"EYE" | $1000 | As seen here, a Bloody Mary is one of these when served at breakfast | an eye opener | 29%
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DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR | $200 | I swear by him; he swears by himself in the book of Jeremiah | God | 24%
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STATE YOUR NAME | $1000 | This state comes before the names of blues musicians John Hurt & Fred McDowell | Mississippi | 24%
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DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR | $600 | I swear to this map co-invented by Harry Potter's father | the Marauder\'s Map | 24%
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GRAZE ANATOMY | $1000 | This manatee relative grazes on the sea floor with its tough lips | a dugong | 18%
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LIBRARIES | $400 | The ancient library in this North African city was founded by the Ptolemaic Dynasty around the 3rd century B.C. | Alexandria | 18%
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NOW READ THIS! | $1000 | Stella Kowalski's sister is this play character who has always depended on the kindness of strangers | Blanche DuBois | 18%
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GRAZE ANATOMY | $600 | Llamas are sure-footed grazers because of their padded feet, which have these on their toes instead of hooves | nails | 18%
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NOW READ THIS! | $200 | Mia Thermopolis finds out that her dad is the crown prince of Genovia in this book, the first of a series | The Princess Diaries | 18%
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FINISH THE LINE | $1000 | John F. Kennedy: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men..." | to do nothing | 18%
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NOW READ THIS! | $400 | Howard Roark is to "The Fountainhead" as John Galt is to this 1,100-page tome | Atlas Shrugged | 12%
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NOW READ THIS! | $600 | He wrote the 1936 self-help book "How to Win Friends & Influence People" | Dale Carnegie | 12%
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LIBRARIES | $1200 | Barack Obama & Scott Turow have studied at the world's largest academic law library, at this school | Harvard | 12%
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DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR | $1000 | You can swear by the Sun, using this Greek name, as in Euripides' "Medea" | Helios | 12%
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HISTORIC POTPOURRI | $400 | The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country | Italy | 12%
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STATE YOUR NAME | $600 | 1920s nightclub hostess Texas Guinan was arrested several times for operating these illegal "quiet" establishments | speakeasies | 12%
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MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES | $800 | "The Asner" is this 2009 animated film | Up | 12%
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THE IMPASSABLE DREAM | $800 | In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba | blockade | 6%
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THE IMPASSABLE DREAM | $400 | Dams & other barriers to migration have reduced the Atlantic species of this food fish to a fraction of historic numbers | salmon | 6%
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DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR | $400 | I swear on this so you know I'm telling the truth | a stack of Bibles | 0%
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HIGH/LOW | $800 | It's alphabetically first of the Low Countries | Belgium | 0%
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THE IMPASSABLE DREAM | $2000 | This 90-mile stretch of California south of Monterey is known for its scenic highway that sometimes does become impassble | Big Sur | 0%
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MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES | $400 | Care to dance with this 2010 thriller? | Black Swan | 0%
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HISTORIC POTPOURRI | $800 | One of Asia's first European-Native treaties was made in 1565 in the Philippines; drops of this mixed in wine sealed the deal | blood | 0%
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DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS | $1600 | This northern sky constellation whose name may derive from a Greek word for "ox driver" does not sound like tiny tot footwear | Boötes | 0%
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MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES | $2000 | This period piece from 2000 had some Ang-st | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 0%
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HIGH/LOW | $400 | Working with the firm Webb & Knapp, I.M. Pei designed the Mile High Center in this city in the mid-1950s | Denver | 0%
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NOW READ THIS! | $800 | "Golden Girl" & "28 Summers" are Nantucket-set novels by this woman, "The Queen of Beach Reads" | Elin Hilderbrand | 0%
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THE IMPASSABLE DREAM | $1600 | When you swallow, this flap covers the larynx to keep food out of the respiratory tract | epiglottis | 0%
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MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES | $1200 | Here's this 1994 British comedy distilled to its essence | Four Weddings and a Funeral | 0%
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HIGH/LOW | $2000 | The Aswan High Dam created a reservoir or "Lake" that was named for this Egyptian president | Gamal Abdel Nasser | 0%
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DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS | $2000 | This German word literally means the "twilight of the gods" | Götterdämmerung | 0%
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THE IMPASSABLE DREAM | $1200 | In 1611 this English navigator sought the Northwest Passage but ended up trapped in the bay that would bear his name | (Henry) Hudson | 0%
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LIBRARIES | $1600 | Some 1,800 scrolls at a library in this city between Pompeii & Naples were uniquely preserved because Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. | Herculaneum | 0%
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LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN | N/A | These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time | Just So Stories | 0%
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DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS | $1200 | A huge fan of the dieresis, the New Yorker uses one for this 5-letter word meaning gullible, simple or unjaded | naïve | 0%
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DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS | $800 | This word for the feast of Christmas can have a dieresis over the E | Noël | 0%
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HISTORIC POTPOURRI | $1600 | They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring | perestroika & glasnost | 0%
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HIGH/LOW | $1600 | Lower Merion Township is one of the main line suburbs of this city | Philadelphia | 0%
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HISTORIC POTPOURRI | $1200 | Sultan Yusuf I, responsible for the decoration of this palace in Granada, was assassinated in a mosque at age 36 | the Alhambra | 0%
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HIGH/LOW | $1200 | Mount Whitney is the highest point in what's known as the "High" this | the High Sierras | 0%
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LIBRARIES | $800 | Begun in 1800 with an appropriation of $5,000, it's one of the largest libraries in the world, with over 160 million works | the Library of Congress | 0%
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HISTORIC POTPOURRI | $2000 | Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade | the Teutonic Knights | 0%
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MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES | $1600 | Let's get down to business--it's the 2013 film broken down here | The Wolf of Wall Street | 0%
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LIBRARIES | $2000 | Seen here, the Long Room at this Irish school's library dates back to the 1700s, while the library itself was founded in 1592 | Trinity College | 0%
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DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS | $400 | Let's catch a ride with this German word that uses an umlaut & can mean "upon" or "beyond" | über | 0%
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