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This quiz has been taken 49 times
The average score is 13 of 61

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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW	$800	"The Golden Girls"	Florida	88%
THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW	$200	"Magnum, P.I."	Hawaii	73%
THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW	$400	"Breaking Bad"	New Mexico	69%
THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW	$1000	"black-ish"	California	62%
IN BOX	$400	You can get a Skogsta dining table or Lommarp bookcase to build out of the box from this brand	IKEA	54%
BOATS & SHIPS	$200	Electric boats are taking off like electric cars & 30 of these speed units is a common performance benchmark	knots	46%
THE STATE OF THE TV SHOW	$600	"King of the Hill", I tell you what	Texas	46%
BOATS & SHIPS	$400	In 1943 the USS Kidd became the first U.S. Navy ship permitted to fly this feared flag	the Jolly Roger	46%
TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT	$800	Literally meaning not paid back, this adjective is used for love for someone who doesn't love you in return	unrequited	42%
TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT	$200	Beastly term for youthful, immature love, not just for your baby Keeshond	puppy love	38%
IN BOX	$200	The 2 tablets of law that God gave to Moses were placed in this wooden, gold-plated chest but don't look at it, Marion!	the Ark of the Covenant	38%
"E"-MALE	$400	Though also working in law enforcement, he was busted for horse stealing & uh, brothel involvement before moving to Tombstone in 1879	(Wyatt) Earp	38%
"E"-MALE	$200	A towering figure in 19th century engineering, this Frenchman was known as the "Magician of Iron"	Eiffel	35%
I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!	$800	These bloodsucking worms have been used in medicine to treat everything from gout to whooping cough	leeches	35%
DRAFTS	$800	Elvira Entwhistle was renamed Veruca Salt by this writer who, thankfully, also went with Mike Teavee over Herpes Trout	(Roald) Dahl	35%
I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!	$400	There are 3 species of this flyer, the only mammal whose diet is solely based on blood	a vampire bat	31%
"E"-MALE	$600	A crater on Mars is named for this 11th century Norse explorer of North America	Erikson	31%
TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT	$600	From the Middle English for "faint", it means to faint from feelings of love	swoon	31%
STAIRING AT MOVIES	$400	Young again, Rose ascends a ship's staircase to reunite with Jack in this 1997 film	Titanic	31%
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE	$400	3,212-foot-high Angel Falls, in the southeast of this country, was unknown to the outside world until the 1930s	Venezuela	31%
I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!	$1200	Feasting on rats & humans, these bloodsuckers helped cause the deaths of 1/4 of Europe during the Middle Ages	fleas	23%
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE	$800	Residents of this volcanic British island territory in the Caribbean call themselves Monstratians	Montserrat	23%
IN BOX	$600	18th century craftsmen got elaborate & whimsical with these boxes, named for the scented powdered tobacco they held	snuff boxes	23%
BOATS & SHIPS	$1000	The 107-year-old steamboat Belle of Louisville offers lunch & dinner cruises as it paddles up & down this river	the Ohio	23%
BOATS & SHIPS	$600	1 in 1854 Flying Cloud, this type of merchant ship, sailed from NYC to San Francisco in 89 days, a record that stood for 135 years	a clipper	19%
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE	$1600	Georgetown is the chief port & capital of this South American country	Guyana	19%
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE	$2000	Receiving water from about 200 rivers, it's the largest lake in the Western Hemisphere	Lake Superior	19%
BRIDAL WAVES	$2000	A smiling Marilyn Monroe waved with her gloves after her 1956 wedding to this playwright	Arthur Miller	15%
I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!	$2000	Terminix offers a 30-day guarantee when removing these bloodsuckers--90 days if you buy a mattress encasement	bedbugs	15%
DRAFTS	$200	In one draft Tolkien had this character stab & kill Smaug, then nearly drown in the dragon's blood	Bilbo Baggins	15%
DRAFTS	$1000	Lost on an island before "Lost", Simon is a bit of a precog in this 1954 novel, foreseeing his own death in an early draft	Lord of the Flies	15%
STAIRING AT MOVIES	$1600	"Home Alone" & atop the stairs, this child actor tells 2 burglars, "I'm up here, you morons! Come & get me"	Macaulay Culkin	15%
IN BOX	$800	"America's Original Butcher", this co. that can send you beef in a box was founded by Latvian immigrants in Nebraska	Omaha Steaks	15%
2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL	$800	Noodle soup with beef that's the national dish of Vietnam	pho	15%
MYTHOLOGY	$400	Hera honored her servant Argus by setting his eyes in the feathers of this, her sacred bird	a peacock	12%
"E"-MALE	$1000	Seen here are two "E"-males who helped create the motion picture--Edison & this man who made the film he used	George Eastman	12%
MYTHOLOGY	$800	As both were beautiful & unfaithful, Helen of Troy is often compared to this wife of King Arthur	Guinevere	12%
BRIDAL WAVES	$400	She's seen here following her May 2018 wedding	Meghan Markle	12%
BRIDAL WAVES	$1200	Princess Caroline of this country was all smiles following her 1978 wedding to Philippe Junot	Monaco	12%
BRIDAL WAVES	$800	The happy wavers seen here are enjoying the New Year's Day Junkanoo Parade in this capital of the Bahamas	Nassau	12%
2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL	$1200	Neophyte is an antonym of one	pro	12%
DRAFTS	$400	Here's "A Remembrance of Things Past" as first written--literally--by this man	Proust	12%
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE	$1200	For 647 miles, this westernmost of Canada's 3 territories shares a straight-line border with Alaska	the Yukon	12%
TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT	$1000	2 people who seem perfect for each other are likened to this type of Empyrean pairing	a match made in heaven	8%
MYTHOLOGY	$1200	This realm of the Norse gods included Valhalla, the hall of the dead heroes	Asgard	8%
MYTHOLOGY	$1600	With 2 faces, this Roman god had an eye on both the past & the future	Janus	8%
DRAFTS	$600	In his 1917 poem "Dulce et Decorum est", Wilfred Owen tried several verbs about being stricken by this: gargling, gurgling, goggling	mustard gas	8%
IN BOX	$1000	In 2000 Al Gore said he wanted to put this government program in a "lockbox", as it then had a surplus of $150 billion	Social Security	8%
BRIDAL WAVES	$1600	Some 2,500 couples took vows at a 2014 mass wedding staged by the Unification Church in this country	South Korea	8%
STAIRING AT MOVIES	$1200	This actor wanted to carry 120-lb. Butkus the dog up Philly's Museum of Art steps in 1976 but fearing "a terminal case of a hernia", did not	Stallone	8%
STAIRING AT MOVIES	$800	"I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" is a classic number in this musical with Gene Kelly in France	An American in Paris	4%
I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!	$1600	Female mosquitos drink human blood & in so doing, can transmit diseases like this, also called breakbone fever	dengue fever	4%
2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL	$1600	This word meaning "brother" was once a form of address for certain Italian clergy	fra	4%
"E"-MALE	$800	A World War II vet, this slain NAACP field secretary in Mississippi was buried with full military honors at Arlington	Medgar Evers	4%
BOATS & SHIPS	$800	The USS Doyle didn't have a mutiny during World War II, but it later played this movie ship that did	the Caine	4%
2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL	$400	I broke a "powder" this & only have one now; it's gonna be hard to get down the slope	a ski	0%
2 CONSONANTS, THEN ONE VOWEL	$2000	For wines of superior vintage, it follows "grand"	cru	0%
19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS	N/A	The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff	(Dred) Scott	0%
STAIRING AT MOVIES	$2000	A baby in a carriage rolls down stairs during a gunfight at a Chicago train station in this film but Andy Garcia has things under control	The Untouchables	0%
MYTHOLOGY	$2000	In Egyptian mythology, this 5-letter moon god with the head of an ibis also ruled over learning & writing	Thoth	0%
TERMS OF LOVE & ENDEARMENT	$400	Bearing the name of the spiritual part of a person, this is your ideally suited one true love	your soulmate	0%