Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | $200 | Of the days of the week | Friday | 90%
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ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | $400 | Of chess pieces | bishop | 85%
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THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION | $600 | On "The Simpsons" varieties of this beer brand include Raspberry this, Lady this & Tartar-Control this | Duff | 80%
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ISLE "B" | $200 | When the British settled these islands between Florida & Haiti, they were deserted | the Bahamas | 70%
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS | $200 | This story of a fawn is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" | Bambi | 60%
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ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | $600 | Of the 4 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Donatello | 60%
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SPORTY LINGO | $200 | The best pitcher on a baseball team is known as this playing card | the ace | 55%
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ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | $800 | Of the New England states | Connecticut | 50%
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SPORTY LINGO | $600 | There's a cozy word in this term for a player or a person who sits around waiting to go in | a benchwarmer | 40%
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SPORTY LINGO | $400 | A practice opponent who makes you better, like Harvey Cody Jones for Muhammad Ali | a sparring partner | 40%
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THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION | $800 | Now boarding Oceanic Air Flight 815 for this drama; objects may shift through time & don't expect a happy landing | Lost | 40%
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THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION | $200 | Fans of "The Office" could buy Dunder Mifflin 20-pound branded this that had slogans like "Our motto is, 'quabity first' " | paper | 40%
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ISLE "B" | $400 | Captain William Bligh discovered a group of South Pacific islands in 1788 & named them for this ship | the Bounty | 40%
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THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION | $400 | Think back, & remember a time when Don Draper made a beautiful & poignant pitch about Kodak's Carousel on this drama | Mad Men | 35%
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ISLE "B" | $600 | Recent surveys have found that the soil on this atoll has plutonium concentrations vastly higher than Chernobyl's | the Bikini Atoll | 35%
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ALPHABETICALLY FIRST | $1000 | Of U.S. first ladies' first names | Abigail | 30%
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS | $400 | First published in 1931, "The Story of" this elephant includes his escape to the city where he becomes cultured & educated | Babar | 30%
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS | $600 | In this Frances Hodgson Burnett book, Mary Lennox is determined to find the title place, locked off for years | The Secret Garden | 30%
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VICE PRESIDENTS | $800 | Before Biden he was the last veep to later ascend to the presidency | George H.W. Bush | 25%
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THE JUDGE OF THAT | $400 | District court judges conduct trials & manage the selection & instruction of these | juries | 25%
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THE JUDGE OF THAT | $200 | Judges belonging to courts of these hear those cases, reviewing procedures & decisions of trial courts | appeals | 15%
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3-LETTER ANIMALS | $1600 | As a source of food & as a pack animal, this bovine has long been essential to the people of the Tibetan Plateau | a yak | 15%
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS | $800 | In 2004 Kate DiCamillo' won a Newbery Medal for "The Tale of" this inquisitive mouse | Despereaux | 15%
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3-LETTER ANIMALS | $800 | This species of deer crossed into North America about 12,000 years ago using the Bering land bridge | elk | 15%
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THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION | $1000 | Los Pollos Hermanos is run by this "Better Call Saul" man played by Giancarlo Esposito, but he has another job, too | Gus Fring | 15%
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VICE PRESIDENTS | $400 | In 1832 he missed Senate confirmation to be minister to the U.K. by one vote but he'd soon get Jackson's MVB vote as veep | Martin Van Buren | 15%
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IT'S TIME FOR A WORD | $800 | Pronounced one way, it's a unit of time; another, a very small amount | minute | 15%
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IT'S TIME FOR A WORD | $400 | This period of time is a homophone for a word meaning lacking strength | week | 15%
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3-LETTER ANIMALS | $400 | 58 million years ago, a thankfully extinct relative of this constrictor could reach 2,500 pounds & 40 feet in length | boa | 10%
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VICE PRESIDENTS | $1600 | Failing to report nearly $30,000 on his income tax return led to the resignation of this vice president | Spiro Agnew | 10%
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20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES | $1600 | Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast | Lawrence of Arabia | 5%
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THE JUDGE OF THAT | $800 | Federal magistrate judges consider pretrial these, such as for summary judgment | motions | 5%
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THE JUDGE OF THAT | $600 | An experienced attorney may act as a temporary judge in this type of court that hears cases involving limited dollar amounts | small claims court | 5%
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20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES | $800 | A monarch working to overcome his stammer is central to the plot of this Oscar winner | The King\'s Speech | 5%
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20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES | $400 | "Charlie Wilson's War" is about a Texas congressman's covert dealings to arm anti-soviet rebels fighting in this country | Afghanistan | 0%
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3-LETTER ANIMALS | $2000 | Native to the southern U.S., the "alligator" this can grow 10' long, making it one of the largest freshwater fish | a gar | 0%
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SPORTY LINGO | $1000 | Sporty term for the action here that's deliberately, perhaps sarcastically, restrained | a golf clap | 0%
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IT'S TIME FOR A WORD | $2000 | "Back in a" this 5-letter word! here's a flash--it's how long light takes to go 1 femtometer, a millionth of a millionth of a mm | a jiffy | 0%
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MISMATCHED PAIRS | $1200 | 360 guy on CNN & "Leatherstocking Tales" teller | Anderson Cooper & James Fenimore Cooper | 0%
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3-LETTER ANIMALS | $1200 | Related to sharks, this cartilaginous fish has more than 500 species, including the blue-spotted ribbontail | a ray | 0%
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ISLE "B" | $800 | About 4.6 million people every year take the 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle to this island in Puget Sound | Bainbridge Island | 0%
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MISMATCHED PAIRS | $800 | "Beantown" rotisserie restaurant chain & unregulated economic system in which business is lightly taxed | Boston Market & free market | 0%
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IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS | $2000 | Pay your respects to the bronze Gerald & Lawrence Durrell on this Greek island where they spent much of their youth | Corfu | 0%
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IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS | $800 | This author of fantasy novels & of "Mere Christianity" worshiped at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford & you can too | (C.S.) Lewis | 0%
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IT'S TIME FOR A WORD | $1600 | It's not a special pet accessory, it's naval duty from 4 to 6 or 6 to 8 | dogwatch | 0%
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IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS | $1600 | Seen as a dangerous atheist, Voltaire bought a chateau near the border of these two counties so he could hop over the border as needed | France & Switzerland | 0%
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20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES | $2000 | Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa | Hacksaw Ridge | 0%
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VICE PRESIDENTS | $2000 | This alliterative Lincoln vice president was a heavy smoker, but his grandson said he took it up on doctor's orders | Hannibal Hamlin | 0%
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THE JUDGE OF THAT | $1000 | Makes sense that Texas leads the nation with more than 100 judges assigned to its 11 courts of this; California is second | immigration courts | 0%
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20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES | $1200 | The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton | Judas and the Black Messiah | 0%
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ISLE "B" | $1000 | Drop an "A" from a colorful plant to get this Frenchman who also gave his name to an island in the Solomon Sea | Louis-Antoine de Bougainville | 0%
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS | $1000 | In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum | Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 0%
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MISMATCHED PAIRS | $1600 | Sophocles play about a Theban king & a real king of the dinosaurs | Oedipus Rex & Tyrannosaurus rex | 0%
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MISMATCHED PAIRS | $400 | Evangelist with a Tulsa university & current Supreme supreme | Oral Roberts & John Roberts | 0%
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IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS | $1200 | The Globe Inn, with a vast selection of single malt scotches, was a hangout of this 18th century poet & can be yours | (Robert) Burns | 0%
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AMERICAN CITIES | N/A | Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" | San Diego | 0%
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SPORTY LINGO | $800 | In 2021 the U.S. Secretary of State used this tennis expression to say it's North Korea's turn to make a move on nuclear talks | the ball is in their court | 0%
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MISMATCHED PAIRS | $2000 | Tall Emirati building & "See You Again" rapper | the Burj Khalifa & Wiz Khalifa | 0%
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IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS | $400 | Ray Bradbury's favorite place in his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois was this building at 1 Sheridan Road | the library | 0%
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IT'S TIME FOR A WORD | $1200 | In parliamentary procedure, to endorse a nomination another person has just made | to second | 0%
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VICE PRESIDENTS | $1200 | 33 days after taking the oath to be the veep, he took another one to not be the veep | Tyler | 0%
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