Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES | $200 | In Monopoly, you roll the dice & you'll pay the price if your Community Chest card reads, "Go to" here, "Go directly to" here | Jail | 83%
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DANCE IN HISTORY | $1000 | In this German "Aa" city in 1374, summer was here & the time was right for the 1st major episode of compulsive dancing in the street | Aachen | 58%
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IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES | $600 | You did not want to be in these 2 cities after the Lord says "their sin is very grievous" in Genesis 18 | Sodom & Gomorrah | 50%
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LOOKING FOR LUNCH | $200 | Layers of turkey, lettuce, tomato & bacon are placed between 3 slices of toast in this traditional sandwich | a club sandwich | 42%
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IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES | $400 | 7 & 11 can be lucky numbers, but financially, going to this type of U.S. court to file Chapter 7 or 11 is never fun | bankruptcy | 42%
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OUT OF THE CRADLE | $400 | To use an acid to produce a pattern on glass | etch | 42%
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LOOKING FOR LUNCH | $1000 | A white version of this cold, Spanish summertime soup includes garlic, bread & almonds & is garnished with green grapes | gazpacho | 42%
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"M"EDICINE | $400 | Chloroquine can prevent this disease, but the best way is to avoid the mosquitos that carry it | malaria | 42%
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A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT | $200 | Aimee Mann paid tribute to this city's 1939 World's Fair with her song "Fifty Years After The Fair" | New York | 42%
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OVERSEAS TERRITORIES | $400 | Norfolk Island, a territory of Australia, gives its name to a type of this tree also called a living Christmas tree | a pine | 33%
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AMEND THE AMENDMENT | $400 | 1st: "Congress shall make no law... prohibiting... the right of the people peaceably to mambo" | assemble | 33%
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LOOKING FOR LUNCH | $400 | Holy these, Spanish for "beans"! Time to serve some up with vegetables & citrus pepper salmon | frijoles | 33%
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POETRY COLLECTIONS | $400 | Borrowing a title from David Bowie, Tracy K. Smith won a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her collection "Life on" this planet | Mars | 33%
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"M"EDICINE | $800 | Removal of the ovaries will cause a woman to go through this process prematurely | menopause | 33%
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A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT | $800 | This British event ended in 1788, but is remembered largely thanks to a Simon & Garfunkel song | Scarborough Fair | 33%
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IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES | $800 | These islands off Africa were the wrong place for travelers in 2021 as a volcanic eruption closed La Palma's airport | the Canary Islands | 33%
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AMEND THE AMENDMENT | $600 | 6th: "The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public freeway" (there's an amendment L.A. can really get behind!) | trial | 33%
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OVERSEAS TERRITORIES | $800 | In 1998 the capital of this U.S. Pacific territory got a name change from Agana to the Chamorro name Hagatna | Guam | 25%
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AMEND THE AMENDMENT | $200 | 5th: "Nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in Pictionary of life or limb" | jeopardy | 25%
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A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT | $1000 | Age 11, he made his movie debut in "It Happened at the World's Fair", starring Elvis, whom he later portrayed | Kurt Russell | 25%
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OVERSEAS TERRITORIES | $2000 | Though part of its name was a Roman designation for Scotland, this "New" Pacific island territory belongs to France | New Caledonia | 25%
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AMEND THE AMENDMENT | $800 | 8th: "Excessive bail shall not be required... nor cruel and unusual amphibians inflicted" | punishments | 25%
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OVERSEAS TERRITORIES | $1600 | Great Britain's Falkland Islands are also claimed by Argentina, where they are called these | the Malvinas | 25%
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DANCE IN HISTORY | $600 | The hornpipe was associated with this British force & helped its men maintain fitness in a confined space | the Navy | 25%
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OUT OF THE CRADLE | $200 | Let's have this friendly talk | a chat | 17%
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DANCE IN HISTORY | $400 | With 27 straight hours of waltzing, Alma Cummings started this fad with an athletic contest name, big in the desperate 1930s | dance marathons | 17%
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POETRY COLLECTIONS | $800 | He wrote many of the poems in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" for his godchildren | Eliot | 17%
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A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT | $400 | This fourth season of "American Horror Story" is set at Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities in Jupiter, Florida | Freak Show | 17%
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LOOKING FOR LUNCH | $600 | An egg-milk solution, bread-crumbs, seasonings & a specific cheese are in the mix to make a lovely eggplant this | parmesan | 17%
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OUT OF THE CRADLE | $600 | Soft silicate substance | talc | 17%
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DANCE IN HISTORY | $800 | Now meaning an easy-to-win contest, it originated as enslaved peoples' mockery of their masters' elaborate dances | a cakewalk | 8%
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OUT OF THE CRADLE | $800 | This mark used by proofreaders shows where something is ^to be inserted | a caret | 8%
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IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES | $1000 | The U.S. decided Afghanistan is the wrong place to be & on July 1, 2021 left this air base, hub of operations for 20 years | Bagram | 8%
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TV HUSBANDS | $2000 | "The Good Wife" was wed to the bad husband played by this actor | Chris Noth | 8%
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OUT OF THE CRADLE | $1000 | A scarcity or shortage | dearth | 8%
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OVERSEAS TERRITORIES | $1200 | The U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased from this European country in 1917 | Denmark | 8%
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TV HUSBANDS | $1200 | Cookie Lyon had quite the dramatic relationship with hubby Lucious on this show set in the world of rap music | Empire | 8%
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POETRY COLLECTIONS | $1200 | "Sunflower Sutra" is one of the "Other Poems" in his "Howl and Other Poems" | Ginsberg | 8%
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TV HUSBANDS | $400 | Seen here, Ty Burrell was known to woo wife Claire in the guise of smooth Clive Bixby on this show | Modern Family | 8%
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DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY | $400 | DPI stands for dots per inch; PPI is these digital elements per inch | pixels | 8%
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AMEND THE AMENDMENT | $1000 | 24th: "The right of citizens... to vote... shall not be denied... by reason of failure to pay any redonkulous tax or other tax" | poll | 8%
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DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY | $1200 | In font types, this word follows "slab" & "sans" | serif | 8%
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DANCE IN HISTORY | $200 | In the Dakota Territory city of Medora, there was a real account of cowboys making new hands dance by doing this | shooting at their feet | 8%
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"M"EDICINE | $1200 | A common knee injury is a tear in this crescent-shaped pad of cartilage located where the thighbone & the lower leg bone meet | the meniscus | 8%
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A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT | $600 | There are kids at a fairground at the start of the video for this Springsteen song about a ride | "Tunnel Of Love" | 8%
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LOOKING FOR LUNCH | $800 | Restaurants vie for bragging rights serving these dumplings called "the ultimate Hong Kong comfort food" | wontons | 8%
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EMBEDDED NUMERIC HOMOPHONES | $2000 | A lessening, or a reduction of a tax assessment | ab8ment | 0%
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DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY | $800 | A device for spraying paint, it also means to remove a detail or flaw from a photo | airbrush | 0%
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EMBEDDED NUMERIC HOMOPHONES | $800 | Chaw receptacle also called a cuspidor | a spi2n | 0%
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TV HUSBANDS | $800 | First name of Linda Belcher's burger-flipping husband on an animated Fox show | Bob | 0%
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DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY | $2000 | It's the process seen here by which all letters become perfectly spaced | kerning | 0%
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POETRY COLLECTIONS | $2000 | "Song of Myself" is the longest & best known poem in this Walt Whitman collection first published in 1855 | Leaves of Grass | 0%
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EMBEDDED NUMERIC HOMOPHONES | $1200 | This adjective means resembling the proverbial "king of the jungle" | leo9 | 0%
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"M"EDICINE | $2000 | A diamond-tipped wand is used in this polysyllabic procedure that removes the top layer of skin to treat sun damage | microdermabrasion | 0%
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"M"EDICINE | $1600 | A muscle biopsy & electromyography are tests that can diagnose this group of genetic diseases, whether Becker or Duchenne | muscular dystrophy | 0%
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TV HUSBANDS | $1600 | In "For All Mankind" Wayne Cobb is the supporting hubby of Molly, who is really going places working for this agency | NASA | 0%
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EMBEDDED NUMERIC HOMOPHONES | $1600 | Repentant uses most of the letters in this synonym meaning remorseful over one's sins | peni10t | 0%
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POETRY COLLECTIONS | $1600 | The title of this Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection does not come from her nationality, but from her nickname | Sonnets from the Portuguese | 0%
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HISTORY | N/A | In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years | the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) | 0%
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DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY | $1600 | Concepts are often begun with these miniature sketches named for a part of the hand | thumbnail sketches | 0%
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EMBEDDED NUMERIC HOMOPHONES | $400 | This marvelous or lovely word describes TV's "World of Disney" | W1derful | 0%
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