Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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WATERLOGGED READING | $200 | "Porto Praya, viewed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect", Darwin wrote in "The Voyage of" this ship | the Beagle | 79%
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WATERLOGGED READING | $600 | The Amity Police Department gets a call that Christine Watkins hasn't returned from a late night swim in this novel | Jaws | 57%
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"N" JOY | $600 | In Buddhism or otherwise, it's a state of bliss | nirvana | 57%
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"N" JOY | $200 | You can liven up your oatmeal or waffles with this chocolaty hazelnut spread; enjoy! | Nutella | 57%
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EURO-POURRI | $400 | In 2003, Slovenia held a competition to help distinguish its flag from that of this similar-sounding nation, but made no changes | Slovakia | 57%
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TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES | $800 | 2013: "One night a year, all crime is legal" | The Purge | 57%
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TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES | $1000 | 1992: "We dare you to say his name five times" | Candyman | 50%
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GETTING ADJECTIVAL | $600 | Meaning dull, it follows "olive" to describe a dull color | drab | 50%
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"N" JOY | $800 | Why wait for the holidays to enjoy the music from this ballet, including the piece heard here | The Nutcracker | 50%
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WATERLOGGED READING | $400 | In a totally epic move, wax is placed in the ears of Perimedes & pals to help sail by the singing Sirens in this epic | The Odyssey | 50%
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"N" JOY | $1000 | Who doesn't like learning about this unusual ocean mammal whose scientific name is Monodon monoceros | a narwhal | 43%
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GETTING ADJECTIVAL | $200 | There's an organ in this 6-letter adjective meaning smart, & you're all it | brainy | 43%
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GETTING ADJECTIVAL | $800 | This 4-letter word can mean A-OK or be the opposite of coarse | fine | 43%
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GETTING ADJECTIVAL | $400 | As an adjective, it means lightheaded or elated; it can also precede "up" in a command to a horse | giddy | 43%
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TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES | $600 | 2018: "Forty years ago, he came home. Now, he returns" | Halloween | 43%
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GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE | $1600 | One country & parts of 2 others share this third-largest island | Borneo | 29%
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GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE | $800 | In the NATO phonetic alphabet, this name comes third | Charlie | 29%
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"N" JOY | $400 | You're sure to enjoy this film in which Frances McDormand says she's not homeless, she's just houseless | Nomadland | 29%
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RECENT POP CULTURE | $400 | It's the 3-letter title of the M. Night Shyamalan movie about people aging with terrifying speed | Old | 29%
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GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE | $400 | As of 2021, she was the third & most recent woman to serve as Secretary of State | Hillary Clinton | 21%
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GETTING ADJECTIVAL | $1000 | As an adjective, it means out of date; as a noun, it's a cocktail that's never out of date | old-fashioned | 21%
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EURO-POURRI | $200 | The only remaining town gate in Berlin, it was built from 1788 to 1791 after the model of the Propylaea in Athens | the Brandenburg Gate | 21%
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MODEL RAILROADING | $400 | The world's largest model train store, located in Colorado, was named for this car, which was sadly fitting when it recently closed | the caboose | 21%
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TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES | $200 | 2020: "What you can't see can hurt you" | The Invisible Man | 21%
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MODEL RAILROADING | $200 | Term for the ratio of the size of a model train to the size of the real thing; for HO sets, it's 1:87 | the scale | 21%
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MODEL RAILROADING | $600 | Build your own model of the railroad on the island of Sodor with James & the other friends of this BBC TV engine | Thomas | 21%
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THE NEW TESTAMENT | $1200 | In the Garden of Gethsemane, Judas Iscariot reveals which man is Jesus by this action | a kiss | 14%
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EURO-POURRI | $600 | A medieval tapestry that depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066 hangs in a museum in this French town | Bayeux | 14%
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MIDDLE "J" | $1200 | This style of southern cuisine uses a filé powder, made from sassafras leaves | Cajun | 14%
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THE NEW TESTAMENT | $400 | Andrew was a disciple of this dunker before following Jesus | John the Baptist | 14%
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THE NEW TESTAMENT | $800 | Martha & Mary are this man's sisters & ask for Jesus' help when he falls ill, & worse | Lazarus | 14%
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MODEL RAILROADING | $1000 | Seen here is the 1935 Commodore Vanderbilt, a model train from this manufacturer, a favorite for 120 years | Lionel | 14%
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MIDDLE "J" | $400 | It's a crime to commit this, from the Latin for "false oath" | perjury | 14%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE | $800 | In 1885 he was allowed to leave the Standing Rock Lakota Reservation to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | Sitting Bull | 14%
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MIDDLE "J" | $800 | This part of a sentence denotes the doer of the action | subject | 14%
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MIDDLE "J" | $2000 | This type of drug is used to prevent a transplanted organ from being attacked by the recipient's immune system | antirejection | 7%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE | $400 | In a comedy act Anne Sullivan asked her questions like "Do you close your eyes when you sleep?" (her answer: I never stayed awake to see) | Helen Keller | 7%
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WATERLOGGED READING | $1000 | Overmatched Capt. Jack Aubrey & Dr. Stephen Maturin take on a Spanish frigate in this 1st Patrick O'Brian book in a series | Master and Commander | 7%
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THE NEW TESTAMENT | $1600 | Matthew 21 is one place that records Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, celebrated on this holy day | Palm Sunday | 7%
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SCIENCE | $1200 | In the classification of animals, this division comes between kingdom & class | phylum | 7%
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THE NEW TESTAMENT | $2000 | The King James version gives us a line heard at weddings: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man" do this | put asunder | 7%
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GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE | $2000 | "The Lost Symbol" is Dan Brown's third novel to feature this professor of symbology | (Robert) Langdon | 7%
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EURO-POURRI | $800 | Stretching over 800 miles from near Genoa down to Calabria, these mountains are said to form the backbone of Italy | the Apennines | 7%
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GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE | $1200 | It's the third of these agreements, in 1929, that covers humane treatment of prisoners of war | the Geneva Convention | 7%
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RECENT POP CULTURE | $1200 | Giannis & company made dreams come true for fans of this Midwestern team, beating a game Phoenix crew in the NBA finals | the Milwaukee Bucks | 7%
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SCIENCE | $2000 | Crater Lake is an example of one of these volcanic remnants | a caldera | 0%
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MODEL RAILROADING | $800 | A popular type of bridge in model railroading is this one named for the X-shaped pilings that support it | a trestle bridge | 0%
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WATERLOGGED READING | $800 | Spoiler alert! It does not end well for this title foretopman in a book written in 1891 | Billy Budd | 0%
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RECENT POP CULTURE | $2000 | This comedian seen here charted on "Billboard" with "All Eyes On Me", a song heard on his comedy special "Inside" | (Bo) Burnham | 0%
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WORD ORIGINS | N/A | From the Greek for "ring", the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 | circus | 0%
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MIDDLE "J" | $1600 | To summon something using supernatural powers | conjure | 0%
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RECENT POP CULTURE | $1600 | She hosted the 2021 VMAs & won Best Collaboration for teaming up with SZA on "Kiss Me More" | Doja Cat | 0%
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RECENT POP CULTURE | $800 | This scary "road" is a 2021 trilogy of horror films on Netflix adapted from R.L. Stine's books | Fear Street | 0%
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SCIENCE | $1600 | Boyle's law states that the pressure of this varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature | gas | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE | $1200 | In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" | L. Frank Baum | 0%
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SCIENCE | $400 | The atomic number of an element is determined by the number of these in one atom of it | protons | 0%
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TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES | $400 | 2006: "Sit back. Relax. enjoy the fright" | Snakes on a Plane | 0%
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EURO-POURRI | $1000 | This river & the Ebro are the 2 longest on the Iberian Peninsula | the Tagus River | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE | $1600 | A decade after surviving the Titanic, she won awards in France for interpreting Sarah Bernhardt's classic roles | (the Unsinkable) Molly Brown | 0%
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FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE | $2000 | This buddy of Alexander Graham Bell toured as an actor & lectured on "The Birth & Babyhood of the Telephone" | (Thomas) Watson | 0%
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SCIENCE | $800 | Molecules that carry amino acids to ribosomes are called tRNA, with the "t" short for this | transfer | 0%
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