Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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IT'S TOO CROWDED | $200 | 800,000 people gathered in a field in Krakow to watch the televised Vatican funeral for this man in 2005 | Pope John Paul II | 70%
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IT'S TOO CROWDED | $600 | On New Year's Eve 1994, 4.2 million showed up for fireworks & a free Rod Stewart concert on Copacabana Beach in this city | Rio de Janeiro | 70%
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IT'S TOO CROWDED | $400 | A million fans endured stifling Madrid heat to celebrate Spain's 2010 victory in this international competition | the World Cup | 60%
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EXAM TIME | $400 | In the 1950s half of U.S. hospital deaths were followed by a postmortem exam, also called this; now it's under 10% | an autopsy | 55%
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IT'S TOO CROWDED | $800 | In 2019 tens of millions gathered to bathe in sacred rivers for Kumbh Mela, a festival of this religion | Hinduism | 55%
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FUNNY LADIES | $200 | The showbiz career of this beloved funny lady has spanned more than 80 years | Betty White | 40%
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IT'S TOO CROWDED | $1000 | Millions lined the streets of New York for the June 2019 LGBTQ parade that was part of "World" this | Pride | 40%
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EXAM TIME | $200 | A task on a recent one in New York State was to draft a memo regarding sovereign immunity under a tort claims law | a bar exam | 35%
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FICTION | $800 | This novel about a canine says, "A monster came to the small town of Castle Rock" | Cujo | 35%
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FICTION | $200 | In "A Christmas Carol", this man's ghost is the first of 4 to appear to Scrooge | Marley | 35%
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FUNNY LADIES | $400 | Long before "Grace and Frankie", she starred opposite Jane Fonda & Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5" | Tomlin | 35%
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA | $400 | By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000 | Salk | 25%
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA | $200 | The Levi Coffin House in Indiana was a stop on this system, that defied the Fugitive Slave Act | the Underground Railroad | 25%
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SAILING THE BLACK SEA | $400 | This mythological hero & his Argonauts sailed the Black Sea in antiquity | Jason | 20%
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA | $800 | Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut | John Glenn | 20%
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FUNNY LADIES | $800 | The name of this original "SNL" cast member lives on in the name of a cancer support organization | Radner | 20%
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA | $600 | It was a tempest in this govt. scandal, so large that Senate committees & a special commission looked into it from 1922 to 1928 | Teapot Dome | 20%
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FOR "U" & "ME" | $400 | Trees can live in this highway-dividing "strip" | the median | 20%
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FOR "U" & "ME" | $200 | This adjective describes 100% agreement, like a boxing decision | unanimous | 20%
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WORDS IN ELEMENTS | $1200 | Hg: this term for a mean or scroungy dog | a cur | 15%
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA | $1000 | The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battleground despite this mayor's promise of law & order | Daley | 15%
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WORDS IN ELEMENTS | $400 | Br: this possessive pronoun | mine | 15%
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FROM THE GREEK | $1200 | From Greek for "thick-skinned ", this word is sometimes used for an elephant or a hippo | pachyderm | 15%
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FICTION | $1000 | Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back! | Shane | 15%
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EXAM TIME | $800 | To do your taxes, look for someone who passed this 3-letter exam first standardized in 1917 | the CPA exam | 15%
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"T" FOR... | $1200 | This board game has a Pop-O-Matic dice roller | Trouble | 15%
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FOR "U" & "ME" | $800 | A Quaker place of worship noted for simplicity, like Philadelphia's Arch Street one | a meeting house | 10%
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WORDS IN ELEMENTS | $800 | Si: this, a symbol for a program on your computer desktop | an icon | 10%
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WORDS IN ELEMENTS | $1600 | Mn: this Asian art form | manga | 10%
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SAILING THE BLACK SEA | $1200 | Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014 | Sochi | 10%
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"T" FOR... | $800 | This twisting force is measured in newton-meters | torque | 10%
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FUNNY LADIES | $1000 | She's won Emmys for voicing Lois Griffin on "Family Guy", & for her role as Susie Myerson on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" | Alex Borstein | 5%
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"T" FOR... | $1600 | Seen here, this shell is named for a son of Poseidon | a triton | 5%
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LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC | $2000 | This New Yorker incorporated graffiti into his his work, & was a celebrity in the art world when he died at age 27 in 1988 | Basquiat | 5%
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FROM THE GREEK | $400 | This word for a place of eternal rest is from a Greek word for "sleeping place" | cemetery | 5%
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EXAM TIME | $1000 | Mydriatic eye drops do this to help in an eye exam | dilate your pupils | 5%
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WORDS IN ELEMENTS | $2000 | I:this allfather | Odin | 5%
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LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC | $1600 | The title characters of this 1936 Prokofiev work are represented by strings & French horns, respectively | Peter and the Wolf | 5%
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"T" FOR... | $2000 | A member of the Dravidian family, it's an official language of the Indian territory of Puducherry | Tamil | 5%
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SAILING THE BLACK SEA | $2000 | This mountain range, a dividing line between Asia & Europe, runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea | the Caucasus | 5%
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"T" FOR... | $400 | Lionel Richie was born in this Alabama city & graduated from its famed institute | Tuskegee | 5%
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FOR "U" & "ME" | $600 | To criticize harshly, perhaps about interweaving hair a bit higher | upbraid | 5%
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FROM THE GREEK | $2000 | You get an "A" if you know that this 5-letter word from Greek refers to God's love for man & Christians' love for others | agape | 0%
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LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC | $1200 | The song with this Latin title was one of the few pieces Schubert got published in his lifetime & has been popular since | "Ave Maria" | 0%
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FICTION | $400 | He wrote short stories like "Sonny's Blues" & novels like "Go Tell It on the Mountain" | Baldwin | 0%
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SAILING THE BLACK SEA | $800 | Woof! A small shark called the spiny this abounds in the Black Sea | dogfish | 0%
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POP CULTURE-POURRI | $1200 | Conservatorship hearings in L.A. in 2021 attracted supporters of the movement known by this 2-word hashtag | Free Britney | 0%
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JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY | N/A | Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man | (General George) Custer | 0%
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POP CULTURE-POURRI | $800 | On April 1, 1963 ABC premiered this soap opera & NBC launched a similar rival, "The Doctors" | General Hospital | 0%
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FICTION | $600 | Emily is imprisoned in a gloomy castle--that tells you "The Mysteries of Uoolpho" is a classic of this big 1790s genre | gothic fiction (a gothic romance) | 0%
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FROM THE GREEK | $800 | "O, beware, my lord, of" this! From the Greek for "zeal" | jealousy | 0%
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LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC | $400 | Pavarotti took this Neapolitan song whose title means "my own sun" to new heights | "Ole Sole Mio" | 0%
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EXAM TIME | $600 | These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year | oral exams | 0%
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POP CULTURE-POURRI | $1600 | First name of Mr. Youssef, who plays the title character in a Hulu series he also created | Ramy | 0%
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FUNNY LADIES | $600 | Order in the court! If she ever tires of being funny, she has a law degree from the University of New South Wales to fall back on | (Rebel) Wilson | 0%
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POP CULTURE-POURRI | $400 | In 2021 Jon Batiste recalled his own piano teacher in accepting the Best Score Oscar for this animated film about a music educator | Soul | 0%
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FROM THE GREEK | $1600 | How words are put together to form phrases & sentences, it's from the Greek for "arrange together" | syntax | 0%
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POP CULTURE-POURRI | $2000 | A landmark in video game music is Koji Kondo's score for this "Legend of Zelda" edition with an instrument in the title | The Ocarina of Time | 0%
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SAILING THE BLACK SEA | $1600 | It's alphabetically last of the countries a that border the Black Sea | Ukraine | 0%
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FOR "U" & "ME" | $1000 | There are 3 U's in this word meaning smug or insincere in an oily way | unctuous | 0%
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LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC | $800 | Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands | Venus de Milo | 0%
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