Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
---|---|---|---|---|
AUSTRALIANA | $600 | Starring Paul Hogan, this 1986 movie has the highest domestic gross of any Australian film | Crocodile Dundee | 82%
|
AUSTRALIANA | $400 | Arvo means afternoon & servo is this place, as in "better stop here, it's 600 kilometers til the next servo" | a gas station | 64%
|
AUSTRALIANA | $200 | The national holiday of Anzac Day originally honored the Australian & New Zealand soldiers who fought in this war | World War I | 64%
|
AUSTRALIANA | $1000 | Seen here, this beach is only six miles from the center of Sydney | Bondi Beach | 45%
|
CAR"Z" | $600 | Its MX-5 Miata was named 2016 World Car of the Year | Mazda | 45%
|
IN MY WORDS | $200 | In Amanda Yates Garcia's book "Initiated: Memoir of" one of these, she weaves a spell, telling of her magical life | a Witch | 36%
|
AGAIN | $200 | 5-letter term for a close copy, or what you could say instead of "I agree as well" | ditto | 36%
|
IN MY WORDS | $600 | Ray Nagin, former mayor of this city, released a memoir titled "Katrina's Secrets" | New Orleans | 36%
|
WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY | $400 | Seen here on February 2, 1901 is the funeral procession of this long-ruling royal | Queen Victoria | 36%
|
CAR"Z" | $800 | This Japanese company made the once-popular Rodeo & Trooper | Isuzu | 27%
|
SONGS ON MY PLAYLIST | $800 | "This Used To Be My Playground", the theme to "A League of Their Own", is by this singer who had a part in that film | Madonna | 27%
|
WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY | $600 | After 4 years & 4 months, Alexander Selkirk was rescued from a deserted island on Feb. 2, 1709, inspiring this novel years later | Robinson Crusoe | 27%
|
MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED | $600 | For a viper with a rattle at the end of its tail | the Diamondbacks | 27%
|
MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED | $1000 | For those who had to get out of the way of NYC trolleys back in the day | the Dodgers | 27%
|
MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED | $200 | A nod to Catholic missionaries once prevalent in the area | the Padres | 27%
|
ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY | $800 | It's a capital city on the Horn of Africa | Addis Ababa | 18%
|
"AD" IT UP | $400 | A written work remade in a new medium | an adaptation | 18%
|
CAR"Z" | $1000 | Have a spare million or so lying around? You, too, can drive one of these Ferraris named for the company's founder | an Enzo | 18%
|
THE LEADER IN BETWEEN | $800 | This king of England was sandwiched between George V & George VI | Edward VIII | 18%
|
THE LEADER IN BETWEEN | $1600 | She led a nation between Levi Eshkol & Yitzhak Rabin | (Golda) Meir | 18%
|
IN MY WORDS | $800 | Her "Going There" has stories of her rise in journalism & colleagues like Matt Lauer & Ann Curry | Katie Couric | 18%
|
POETRY | $2000 | Most of the poems in Ted Hughes' 1998 collection "Birthday Letters" are addressed to her, beginning with "Fulbright Scholars" | Plath | 18%
|
SONGS ON MY PLAYLIST | $400 | A No. 1 hit by Wild Cherry says, "Somebody turned around & shouted" do this title action, "white boy" | Play that funky music | 18%
|
YOU'RE THE DOG | $800 | Since the 1960s this cartoon pet beagle has been a safety mascot for NASA | Snoopy | 18%
|
YOU'RE THE DOG | $1600 | Sadly, Laika, the first living creature launched into orbit, aboard this Soviet satellite 2, did not survive the trip | Sputnik | 18%
|
"AD" IT UP | $1200 | In Britain, it's the government board in charge of the navy | the Admiralty | 18%
|
AUSTRALIANA | $800 | Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister in 2010 as leader of this political party | the Labor Party | 18%
|
MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED | $800 | Named after a law enforcement agency that dates back to the 1820s | the Rangers | 18%
|
WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY | $800 | On Feb. 2, 1959 a school in Arlington was the 1st in this state to integrate, with no incidents except a firecracker in a bathroom | Virginia | 18%
|
"AD" IT UP | $2000 | The New Testament says, "Be sober, be vigilant" because of your this, "the devil" | adversary | 9%
|
AGAIN | $800 | This Shakespearean adverb means again & also soon or forthwith, as in "They will be here..." | anon | 9%
|
AGAIN | $600 | It's a repetition of a song in a musical, usually in shorter form | a reprise | 9%
|
YOU'RE THE DOG | $1200 | In 1925, this Alaskan sled dog led the final team in a brutal blizzard to delivery lifesaving serum to Nome | Balto | 9%
|
CAR"Z" | $400 | This man whose name is part of a brand of luxury carz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1844 | (Carl) Benz | 9%
|
RECENT TV | N/A | The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant" | (Garry) Kasparov | 9%
|
IN MY WORDS | $400 | In "Unbound", activist Tarana Burke tells of the birth of this movement & the power of saying those 2 small words | Me Too | 9%
|
SONGS ON MY PLAYLIST | $1200 | The Drifters sang, "I can play this here guitar & I won't quit till I'm a star" here, the song's title | "On Broadway" | 9%
|
THE LEADER IN BETWEEN | $1200 | He spoke for the House between John Boehner & Nancy Pelosi | Paul Ryan | 9%
|
WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY | $200 | The Groundhog Day Festival in this Pennsylvania borough celebrated rodent meteorology for the first time in 1887 | Punxsutawney | 9%
|
AGAIN | $400 | The first use of "instant" this was during the 1963 Army-Navy football game | replay | 9%
|
SONGS ON MY PLAYLIST | $1600 | This pop-punk band had a breakout hit in 1994 with "Come Out & Play" | The Offspring | 9%
|
MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED | $400 | In 1890 they stole a player from Philadelphia's team & got this nickname | the Pirates | 9%
|
"AD" IT UP | $800 | It's what the "A" stands for in an A.R.M. for home buyers | adjustable | 0%
|
"AD" IT UP | $1600 | "Keep it simple" is this, a friendly 10-letter reproof | admonition | 0%
|
YOU'RE THE DOG | $400 | That's Morris Frank & Buddy, the first dog in the U.S. who was trained as this | a guide dog | 0%
|
IN MY WORDS | $1000 | "Fun Home" & "Are You My Mother?" are graphic memoirs written & illustrated by this woman | Alison Bechdel | 0%
|
THE LEADER IN BETWEEN | $400 | He was U.S. president between Grover Cleveland & Grover Cleveland | (Benjamin) Harrison | 0%
|
SONGS ON MY PLAYLIST | $2000 | The lead track from his 1970 album "Tea for the Tillerman" asked, "Where Do The Children Play?" | Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) | 0%
|
ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY | $1200 | In song, "Some came from a land beyond the sea, from Boston and New York, but the boys who beat the Black and Tans, were the boys from" here | County Cork | 0%
|
POETRY | $1600 | "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet", says her poem No. 1741 | Emily Dickinson | 0%
|
WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY | $1000 | Under this 2-word treaty with Mexico signed Feb. 2, 1848, the U.S. acquired land making up today's Southwest for $15 million | Guadalupe Hidalgo | 0%
|
AGAIN | $1000 | This verb means to say repeatedly, so adding "re-" is redundant; Ecclesiasticus pairs it with speaking again | iterate | 0%
|
POETRY | $400 | "Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets", says "The Love Song of" him | J. Alfred Prufrock | 0%
|
ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY | $2000 | A chapel on its banks contains a fresco depicting the 1291 oath there that formed the Swiss Confederation | Lake Lucerne | 0%
|
YOU'RE THE DOG | $2000 | Here are the Bushes with this beloved dog who recounted her adventures as "first canine" in a bestselling book | Millie | 0%
|
THE LEADER IN BETWEEN | $2000 | He headed the Catholic church between John XXIII & John Paul I | Paul VI | 0%
|
ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY | $1600 | This city was once the capital of the United Provinces of Central America | San Salvador | 0%
|
POETRY | $800 | This poetry character is seen here as depicted by Gustave Doré | the Ancient Mariner | 0%
|
ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY | $400 | Sail through this strait to get from Oakland to the Pacific | the Golden Gate | 0%
|
CAR"Z" | $200 | Chevy cut a new trail when it pioneered SUVs with the 1969 debut of this model | the K5 Blazer | 0%
|
POETRY | $1200 | This pair of adjectives describes how the narrator of "The Raven" pondered "over many a quaint & curious volume of forgotten lore" | weak and weary | 0%
|
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Desktop Site