Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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WORLD LEADERS | $200 | In 2020 this P.M. credited the U.K.'s National Health Service for saving his life after he spent time in the ICU battling COVID | Boris Johnson | 85%
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HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? | $200 | Phil & Lily Collins | father & daughter | 85%
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AN ORANGE CATEGORY | $800 | The original version of this orange soda made by Coca-Cola was formulated in Germany during World War II | Fanta | 62%
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LOCAL NICKNAMES | $800 | Joburg is a shortening of this large African city | Johannesburg | 62%
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WORLD LEADERS | $600 | At age 39 in 2017 he became the youngest president in the history of modern France | Macron | 62%
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AN ORANGE CATEGORY | $400 | Oh, my darlin', it's this variety of small mandarin orange | a clementine | 54%
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ALL EARS | $600 | These reptiles, such as the Nile type, have moveable external ear flaps that can be closed underwater | crocodiles | 54%
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POTENT POTABLES | $200 | On a cold wintry night, warm up with a traditional hot buttered this drink | rum | 54%
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WORLD LEADERS | $1000 | Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with this Egyptian president | Sadat | 54%
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LOCAL NICKNAMES | $400 | In New York City this 3-letter abbreviation is a museum; in London it refers to the police force | the Met | 46%
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CORRECT THAT NUMBER | $400 | Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, crankin' the dials on his amp waaay up: "These go to" 596, which would totally rock so hard | 11 | 38%
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CORRECT THAT NUMBER | $600 | In a Christmas song: 156 "drummers drumming", a multiple of the actual number that would totally rock so hard | 12 | 38%
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HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? | $1000 | Tippi Hedren & Dakota Johnson | grandmother & granddaughter | 38%
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POTENT POTABLES | $800 | This type of booze is also a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet | whiskey | 38%
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ALL EARS | $400 | The low-hanging ears on these hunting hounds swing as they run, wafting scents to their noses | a Basset Hound | 31%
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AN ORANGE CATEGORY | $600 | Prison supplier the Bob Barker Company offers a "high security" version of this garment in orange --no pockets | a jumpsuit | 31%
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ALL EARS | $200 | Scientists aren't sure what the earlike tufts of feathers on these nocturnal raptors do; they may be used for camouflage | owls | 31%
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HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? | $400 | Jonah Hill & Beanie Feldstein | brother & sister | 23%
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POTENT POTABLES | $1000 | This yellow-green liqueur is made by Carthusian monks | Chartreuse | 23%
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ALL EARS | $800 | These desert "rabbits" (really hares) got their name because their long ears were thought to resemble those of donkeys | jackrabbits | 23%
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WORLD LEADERS | $800 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who became the first female president of this African nation, is related by marriage to funny lady Retta | Liberia | 23%
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CEMETERIES | $800 | In 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was laid to rest at this cemetery outside Washington, D.C. | Arlington | 15%
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HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? | $800 | Bridget & Jane Fonda | aunt & niece | 15%
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POTENT POTABLES | $400 | Ilchester is a cheese created in 1962 by adding this potent potable to Cheddar | beer | 15%
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ALSO A BROADWAY MUSICAL | $400 | Tanned actor George or "Terminator" actress Linda | Hamilton | 15%
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POTENT POTABLES | $600 | Gusano Rojo is a popular brand of this tequila relative known for sometimes having a worm in the bottle | mescal | 15%
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CEMETERIES | $2000 | Chopin & Jim Morrison are now permanent residents of Paris at this cemetery | Père Lachaise | 15%
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CORRECT THAT NUMBER | $800 | Slang for being absolutely truthful: I'm "keeping it" 7,322 | 100 | 8%
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CORRECT THAT NUMBER | $1000 | In a classic poem: "Then they rode back, but not / Not the" 19 | 600 | 8%
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"BIG" TALK | $800 | In 1958 the Fresno Bee reported that this had a 50-inch stride & traveled only at night | Bigfoot | 8%
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CEMETERIES | $1600 | Painter René Magritte is buried in Schaerbeek Cemetery just outside this European capital | Brussels | 8%
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WORLD LEADERS | $400 | One succeeding the other, these two brothers both led their country | Fidel & Raul Castro | 8%
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SHORT NOVELS | $1200 | "A River Runs Through It" begins, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and" this 2-word activity | fly fishing | 8%
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ALSO A BROADWAY MUSICAL | $800 | An ad slogan says, "Ajax... mild on hands, tough on" this | grease | 8%
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AN ORANGE CATEGORY | $1000 | Orange County, California is home to Disneyland & this other theme park that began as a roadside produce stand | Knott\'s Berry Farm | 8%
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SHORT NOVELS | $400 | This classic centers on George Milton & Lennie Small, migrant workers in California | Of Mice and Men | 8%
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LOCAL NICKNAMES | $1200 | In its web address, the University of Mississippi uses this 2-word nickname before .edu | Ole Miss | 8%
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"BIG" TALK | $2000 | Ironically, it was cosmologist Fred Hoyle, a leading advocate of the steady-state theory, who coined this term | the big bang | 8%
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"BIG" TALK | $1600 | A 1962 article said JFK's Democratic Party was like one of these, "sheltering liberals and conservatives" | a big tent | 0%
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"BIG" TALK | $1200 | As it name indicates, it's a retailer noted for a certain architectural style | big box | 0%
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MEXICO BEFORE 1600 | $400 | Maya tracking their appointments could use the Haab 19-month one of these or the long count one, which covers 5,125 years | calendars | 0%
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ALSO A BROADWAY MUSICAL | $1600 | At the carnival, it's also known as a whirligig | carousel | 0%
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MEXICO BEFORE 1600 | $2000 | The biggest court for the ball game pok-ta-pok was in this 2-word city on the Yucatan whose ruins you can visit today | Chichen Itza | 0%
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MEXICO BEFORE 1600 | $800 | This crop, zea mays, was cultivated thousands of years ago in Mexico & farmers learned how to hybridize it to get bigger kernels | corn | 0%
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SHORT NOVELS | $1600 | This British-born author's "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" was later published as part of his "Berlin Stories" | Isherwood | 0%
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ALL EARS | $1000 | These singing cricket relatives with a female first name in their name have tiny ears on their legs | katydids | 0%
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ALSO A BROADWAY MUSICAL | $1200 | Last name of Willy & Benny, early 1900s New York City delicatessen entrepreneurs | Katz | 0%
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FILMS OF THE 2000s | N/A | One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' | Legally Blonde | 0%
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MEXICO BEFORE 1600 | $1200 | The Toltec fashioned & traded various items out of this black volcanic glass | obsidian | 0%
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LOCAL NICKNAMES | $2000 | A Spud Islander is a resident of this Canadian province known for its potatoes | Prince Edward Islander | 0%
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ALSO A BROADWAY MUSICAL | $2000 | In the King James Bible, Mordecai & Reuben each got upset & did this to their clothes | rent | 0%
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CEMETERIES | $1200 | Naturally, Washington Irving rests at this famed cemetery in New York State | Sleepy Hollow | 0%
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HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? | $600 | Jason Momoa & Zoë Kravitz | stepdad & stepdaughter | 0%
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LOCAL NICKNAMES | $1600 | Convicts named an area of this city where they settled starting in 1788 "The Rocks" | Sydney | 0%
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SHORT NOVELS | $2000 | As the title of this daring 1899 work by Kate Chopin indicates, 20-something Edna Pontellier discovers her sexuality | The Awakening | 0%
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"BIG" TALK | $400 | He's seen here in an old illustration meeting his end | the Big Bad Wolf | 0%
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SHORT NOVELS | $800 | Set in Africa, this novella was published in Spanish as "El corazon de las tinieblas" | the "Heart of Darkness" | 0%
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MEXICO BEFORE 1600 | $1600 | This people, the first big civilization in Mexico, left behind figures called werejaguars | the Olmecs | 0%
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CORRECT THAT NUMBER | $200 | Go home, you're drunk: to be very precise, you're 46 "sheets to the wind" | three sheets to the wind (two sheets to the wind) | 0%
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AN ORANGE CATEGORY | $200 | Tennessee orange is the primary color of the University of Tennessee; it's burnt orange for this school with the same initials | (University of) Texas (at Austin) | 0%
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CEMETERIES | $400 | Distinguished military officers like General Winfield Scott are buried in this service academy's cemetery | West Point | 0%
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