Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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THE RULES OF THE GAME | $600 | In this Olympic sport, no splashing water in an opponent's face | water polo | 68%
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COMPANY COLORS | $200 | Home Depot is known as "Big" this | Orange | 55%
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FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB | $800 | Jewelry with an image of this sacred beetle | scarab | 55%
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FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB | $200 | For safe passage into the afterlife, several of these wheeled vehicles, disassembled | chariots | 50%
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THE RULES OF THE GAME | $400 | Rule 6-6d says you can be disqualified if you sign & return an incorrect scorecard | golf | 50%
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THE RULES OF THE GAME | $200 | With no game clocks on the field, only a referee such as Daniele Orsato keeps time | soccer | 50%
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MORE THAN 100 | $400 | This mythic hall for slain warriors has 540 doors | Valhalla | 50%
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COMPANY COLORS | $400 | The A&W browns remind us of the color of this A&W product which predates the restaurant | root beer | 42%
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FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB | $1000 | A statue of this jackal-headed god who weighed the hearts of the deceased to determine their fate | Anubis | 37%
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DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT | $400 | A 1997 U.N. protocol adopted in this Japanese city called for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions | Kyoto | 34%
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MORE THAN 100 | $200 | The Bible says this grandfather of Noah lived to be 969 years old | Methuselah | 34%
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DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT | $200 | The 1987 Montreal Protocol limits "substances that deplete" this in the atmosphere | ozone | 32%
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FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB | $600 | Used to hunt birds, these curved throwing weapons, like those used by the Aborigines of Australia | boomerangs | 29%
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MORE THAN 100 | $600 | It's the highest atomic number for any known element: oganesson, formerly called ununoctium | 118 | 26%
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THE RULES OF THE GAME | $800 | The supine competitor may use no mechanical brakes | luge | 24%
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MORE THAN 100 | $800 | Stephen Kinnock & Ian Paisley Jr. are 2 of the 650 members of this body whose chamber seats 427 | the House of Commons | 18%
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES | $1000 | Splinters are an indication that you're sanding or planing wood this way, also meaning contrary to my inclinations | against the grain | 13%
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THE RULES OF THE GAME | $1000 | While trying to pin your opponent, you can't get him in a hold below the waist | Greco-Roman wrestling | 13%
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A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE | $400 | Darren Aronofsky's directorial debut was this 1998 film about a math genius who might have approximated the title as 22/7 | Pi | 13%
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A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE | $800 | As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array | The Matrix | 13%
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME | $800 | The center violin puzzle | the middle fiddle riddle | 13%
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COMPANY COLORS | $1000 | The purple feather means premium content on this streaming service | the Peacock | 13%
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES | $400 | That's a secret! Keep it below one's deerstalker, or to put it another way... this | under your hat | 13%
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ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN | $2000 | The Windward & Leeward Islands make up the "Lesser" these | Antilles | 11%
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LITERARY PROFESSORS | $800 | Phonetics professor Henry Higgins is a 1913 creation of this playwright | (George Bernard) Shaw | 11%
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FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB | $400 | A headrest made of this animal material doesn't look comfy | ivory | 11%
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME | $2000 | A narrow Tanqueray smirk | a thin gin grin | 8%
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LITERARY PROFESSORS | $400 | Doctor Pangloss is the unfailingly optimistic mentor of the title character in this Voltaire work | Candide | 8%
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ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN | $400 | St. Croix is the largest of these islands belonging to the United States | the Virgin Islands | 8%
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NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 | $1200 | This British diver won gold at the Olympics & won hearts by knitting in the stands | Tom Daley | 8%
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME | $400 | A fashionable Athenian computer wonk | a chic Greek geek | 5%
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME | $1200 | A searing camp bed scheme | a hot cot plot | 5%
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME | $1600 | A small & portable spacecraft plug receptacle | a pocket rocket socket | 5%
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"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO | $1600 | It's a city in Colorado, 15 miles southeast of Denver | Centennial | 5%
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ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN | $1200 | It's the northernmost of the Florida Keys as well as the longest | Key Largo | 5%
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COMPANY COLORS | $600 | This company that grew out of one called Zimride has used pink to convey that it's female friendly | Lyft | 5%
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LITERARY PROFESSORS | $1200 | The protagonist of this author's 1995 novel "Wonder Boys" was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor | Michael Chabon | 5%
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"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO | $800 | It means year after year, as when it precedes "pennant contender" | perennial | 5%
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DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT | $800 | The International Tropical Timber Agreement regulates the use of wood that's grown between these 2 geographic limits | the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn | 5%
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES | $600 | Using a forceful manner to attack a problem is to do it this way, like a "Die Hard" film title | with a vengeance | 5%
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DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT | $600 | The 1979 convention on long-range transboundary this problem that doesn't respect borders has helped reduce it dramatically | air pollution | 3%
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"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO | $1200 | From how often it takes place, it's the Whitney Museum's regular survey of American art | biennial | 3%
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NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 | $400 | In July 2021, he became the first billionaire space company owner to ride his own craft into the heavens | Branson | 3%
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"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO | $400 | Jon Ossoff, born in 1987, has been called the first of these in the U.S. Senate | millennial | 3%
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES | $800 | Claritin, Gaviscon & Midol are classified as this type of drug | over-the-counter | 3%
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LITERARY PROFESSORS | $1600 | In an 1893 story he is described as "the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected" in London | Professor Moriarty | 3%
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ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN | $800 | Though only 540 square miles, you could say it's the most colossal of the Dodecanese Islands | Rhodes | 3%
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LITERARY PROFESSORS | $2000 | Her 1925 novel "The Professor's House" is set largely in New Mexico, not her familiar Nebraska | Willa Cather | 3%
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ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN | $1600 | It's the largest of Asia's Greater Sunda Islands | Borneo | 0%
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A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE | $1200 | Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term | Dividend | 0%
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MORE THAN 100 | $1000 | Fitting the genre of Barbara Cartland's 723 novels, her $55 million London mansion went up for sale on this day in 2020 | February 14th (Valentine\'s Day) | 0%
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DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT | $1000 | A 2007 column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman is credited as the origin of this 3-word term | Green New Deal | 0%
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NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 | $1600 | Meng Wanzhou, CFO of this giant tech company, went home to China after nearly 3 years' confinement in Canada | Huawei | 0%
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20th CENTURY PEOPLE | N/A | Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" | "Mahatma" Gandhi | 0%
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A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE | $2000 | Troubled hubby Michael Keaton is cloned several times in this 1996 screwball comedy | Multiplicity | 0%
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"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO | $2000 | It's the official commission to honor America in 2026--we'll be halfway to 500 | Semiquincentennial | 0%
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COMPANY COLORS | $800 | Green is good for this e-commerce platform represented here | Shopify | 0%
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NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 | $800 | In September the last piece of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, opposed by the U.S., was put in place under this sea | the Baltic Sea | 0%
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES | $200 | "Out of" this color means totally unexpected | the (clear) blue | 0%
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A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE | $1600 | Ben Affleck played a younger version of Jack Ryan in this explosive 2002 thriller | The Sum of All Fears | 0%
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NAMES & PLACES OF 2021 | $2000 | The TPLF, the Ethiopian region People's Liberation Front, captured the region's capital from government soldiers | Tigray | 0%
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