Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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OFFICE, OURS | $200 | Looks like Barb brought a video of her dog; aw, it's this breed seen here which can hit 40 miles per hour when in the mood | a Greyhound | 64%
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MOUNTAINS | $600 | Here's the view from the peak of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest peak, part of this geographic region named for its altitude | the Highlands | 64%
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MOUNTAINS | $200 | China's Mount Huang translates as the mountain of this color | yellow | 57%
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OFFICE, OURS | $1000 | It's quittin' time, & Sally is buying round 1 of this Russian-sounding drink with vodka & ginger beer that has quite a kick! | a Moscow Mule | 50%
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT | $400 | He was a Rhodes Scholar | Bill Clinton | 50%
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MOUNTAINS | $800 | Uhuru & Mawenzi are peaks of this African mountain | Mount Kilimanjaro | 50%
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MOUNTAINS | $400 | The world's fourth-highest peak, Lhotse is found in this range | the Himalayas | 50%
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IN THE CURRICULUM | $200 | An ol' pal, or chopped up fish used to attract bigger ones | chum | 43%
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NONFICTION | $200 | "Apple", "Cancer" & "Legacy" are chapters in a biography about him, "The Man Who Thought Different" | (Steve) Jobs | 36%
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OFFICE, OURS | $400 | Pat submits receipts from a business trip --seems she enjoyed all the good things of Gothenburg in this European country | Sweden | 36%
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT | $800 | He killed lawyer Charles Dickinson in a duel | Andrew Jackson | 29%
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POP CULTURE | $400 | 2021 saw the first stand-alone movie about this Marvel-ous title female, set during the time of "Captain America: Civil War" | Black Widow | 29%
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OFFICE, OURS | $800 | Amal leads the pool in the Mega Millions lottery; Brad runs the pool for this one that's in D.C. & all but 5 states | Powerball | 29%
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NONFICTION | $400 | This bestselling memoir about a woman's quest to find balance in her life was published in Spanish as "Come, reza, ama" | Eat, Pray, Love | 21%
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT | $1000 | He was sheriff of Erie County & mayor of Buffalo | Grover Cleveland | 21%
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POP CULTURE | $600 | In 2019, this young rapper moseyed onto the scene in a really big way | Lil Nas X | 21%
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NONFICTION | $600 | Edward Gibbon's historical work "The Decline and Fall of" this was published in 6 volumes between 1776 & 1788 | Roman Empire | 21%
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT | $200 | He was a member of the Missouri National Guard | Truman | 21%
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT | $600 | He defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista | Zachary Taylor | 21%
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RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | $1200 | Until DNA tests in the 1990s proved otherwise, many claimed to be this youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II | Anastasia | 14%
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IN THE CURRICULUM | $1000 | This stomach trouble is caused by the H. pylori bacterium & can be made worse by too many pain relievers | an ulcer | 14%
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MYTHOLOGY | $1200 | Zeus gave a silver bow made by the Cyclops to this daughter & goddess of the hunt | Artemis | 14%
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RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | $400 | Apologizing to the Russian people for the failures of his administration, he abruptly resigned as president December 31, 1999 | (Boris) Yeltsin | 14%
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THEY EARNED A PhD | $1600 | We will rock you when we tell you that this guitarist & founding member of queen is a doctor of astrophysics | Brian May | 14%
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NAME THE MUSICAL | $400 | "I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot" | Hamilton | 14%
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IN THE CURRICULUM | $400 | An old special object kept due to its association with a saint | relic | 14%
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MOUNTAINS | $1000 | First summited in 1966, this 16,000-foot peak overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf | Vinson Massif | 14%
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NAME THE MUSICAL | $800 | "Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you" | Annie Get Your Gun | 7%
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THEY EARNED A PhD | $400 | Under Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict & Margaret Mead both earned PhDs from Columbia in this subject | anthropology | 7%
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10-LETTER WORDS | $400 | Footbridge is a 10-letter word that you use if you're this kind of 10-letter traveler | a pedestrian | 7%
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10-LETTER WORDS | $800 | Yep, people still use this handy measuring tool in math class & in certain professions | a protractor | 7%
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OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | N/A | This term once used for western North Africa is still used today in the name of a primate from that region | Barbary | 7%
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MYTHOLOGY | $400 | The immortal sisters Stheno & Euryale, whose gaze could turn you to stone, were these monsters | Gorgons | 7%
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NONFICTION | $800 | "The Immortal Life of" this woman tells how her HeLa cells aided medical research, without her knowledge or consent | Henrietta Lacks | 7%
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MYTHOLOGY | $1600 | Vulcan is the Roman counterpart of this Greek god | Hephaestus | 7%
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I'VE GOT A THEORY | $800 | In 1866 this monk was pushing paper--for the Natural Science Society of Brünn--detailing his theory of heredity | Mendel | 7%
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RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | $800 | Russian for "peace" or "world", this space station hosted more than 100 people from 12 countries during its time in orbit | Mir | 7%
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MYTHOLOGY | $2000 | This daughter of Tantalus turned to stone while weeping for her slain children | Niobe | 7%
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THEY EARNED A PhD | $800 | Born into slavery, Anna Julia Cooper became a noted educator & activist, & in her 60s received a PhD from this Paris college | the Sorbonne | 7%
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I'VE GOT A THEORY | $1200 | Brønsted-Lowry says any compound that transfers a proton to another compound is an acid; the one taking on a proton is a this | a base | 0%
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POP CULTURE | $200 | Seen here, she brought the funny to shows like "Shrill" & "Saturday Night Live" | Aidy Bryant | 0%
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MYTHOLOGY | $800 | Here's a depiction of this mythical creature | a phoenix | 0%
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NAME THE MUSICAL | $2000 | "I'm reporting live from Gander Airport where the 19th plane has just touched down" | Come From Away | 0%
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IN THE CURRICULUM | $800 | From a 1933 play, "When I hear" this artsy word "I reach for my pistol" is often wrongly attributed to Hermann Goering | cuture | 0%
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NAME THE MUSICAL | $1600 | "This needs to be perfect, these emails have to prove that we were actually friends" | Dear Evan Hansen | 0%
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10-LETTER WORDS | $2000 | From Greek for "to show through", it's used to describe a delicate, translucent fabric, perhaps a bridal veil | diaphanous | 0%
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I'VE GOT A THEORY | $1600 | In 1633 he got a life sentence for discussing Copernican theory, but it was a torture-free term | Galileo | 0%
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THEY EARNED A PhD | $1200 | This chairman of the Fed from 1987 to 2006 has a PhD in economics | Greenspan | 0%
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OFFICE, OURS | $600 | Shohei begins a water cooler discussion about this drama on Starz about pro wrestlers featuring Stephen Amell | Heels | 0%
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POP CULTURE | $1000 | In 2021, he rode on to movie screens as Snake Eyes | Henry Golding | 0%
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IN THE CURRICULUM | $600 | You rang? It's a sudden move in an unexpected direction | lurch | 0%
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10-LETTER WORDS | $1600 | This word meaning "harmful" is also the name of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis | maleficent | 0%
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NAME THE MUSICAL | $1200 | "I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more" | My Fair Lady | 0%
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10-LETTER WORDS | $1200 | This biology branch that shares a Nobel Prize category deals with the functions of living organisms | physiology | 0%
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POP CULTURE | $800 | Rob Delaney narrates this Netflix dating show in which contestants are outfitted as all sorts of creatures | Sexy Beasts | 0%
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RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | $2000 | As the result of his "Gulag Archipelago", this author was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 & wouldn't return for 20 years | Solzhenitsyn | 0%
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I'VE GOT A THEORY | $2000 | Sometimes called the theory of everything, it says all the objects in our universe are made of vibrating filaments of energy | string theory | 0%
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NONFICTION | $1000 | He wrote "Between the World and Me", about racial injustice, in the form of a letter to his teenage son | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 0%
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THEY EARNED A PhD | $2000 | She holds a PhD in animal science & authored "The Autistic Brain" & "Humane Livestock Handling" | Temple Grandin | 0%
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RUSSIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | $1600 | In the early 1900s members of the faction that opposed Lenin were called these, meaning "one of the minority" | the Mensheviks | 0%
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I'VE GOT A THEORY | $400 | Redefining minor things like space, time & gravity, the theory of general this changed the world in 1915 | the theory of relativity | 0%
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