Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES | $200 | French: qui | who | 89%
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THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES | $600 | Norwegian: hva | what | 78%
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THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES | $800 | Spanish: donde | where | 78%
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THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES | $1000 | Swedish: varfor | why | 78%
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THE 5 W's IN OTHER LANGUAGES | $400 | Italian: quando | when | 72%
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS | $400 | Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist from Nigeria, is the first woman to head this, WTO for short | the World Trade Organization | 67%
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ARTHROPODCAST | $400 | These, the members of the class Diplopoda, aren't 10 times the size of centipedes | millipedes | 56%
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS | $200 | 15 judges sit on the International Court of Justice as the principal judicial organ of this global body | the United Nations | 50%
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MIDDLE E | $400 | A wild mammal's cave lair... or your dad's | den | 39%
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EASY PEASY | $200 | Check out the statue standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona; it was inspired by this Eagles hit | "Take It Easy" | 39%
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE | $400 | Baseball star Muddy Ruel called the mask, shin guards, etc. used in this job the "tools of ignorance" | catcher | 33%
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LEMON SQUEEZY | $200 | For a classic French 75, along with the gin, lemon juice & simple syrup, you have to break out a bottle of this sparkling wine | champagne | 33%
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ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER | $200 | An angry mob's near murder of an entire village via beezle-nut juice dunking traumatizes this horrified & helpless elephant | Horton | 33%
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EASY PEASY | $600 | This HBO miniseries recounted the daunting history of Easy Company, the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne | Band of Brothers | 28%
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WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $400 | In 2021 Taste of Country named as country music's Most Powerful Woman of All Time this beloved Tennessee titan | Dolly Parton | 28%
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ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER | $600 | Freud said rivalry with the father is basic--for the young'uns in this book, that includes jumping onto his belly | Hop on Pop | 28%
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ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER | $800 | Pro-environment & perhaps with a savior complex, he "was shortish. And oldish... and mossy", & kinda looked like Wilford Brimley | the Lorax | 28%
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LEMON SQUEEZY | $600 | A classic pie is filled with tart lemon & topped with this, stiffly beaten egg whites & sugar | meringue | 22%
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LEMON SQUEEZY | $800 | This outermost layer of a lemon peel--just the skin & not the white pith--has aromatic oils that add flavor to food | zest | 22%
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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY | $1200 | In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba | "Che" Guevara | 17%
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EASY PEASY | $800 | After "The Fly", Jeff Goldblum reunited with Geena Davis in this comedy about 3 aliens who want to party in L.A. | Earth Girls Are Easy | 17%
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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY | $400 | In 1822 Brazil declared independence from this country, which recognized that action 3 years later | Portugal | 17%
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS | $1000 | This agency, the IAEA, has been much in the news in recent years with its inspectors' attempts to monitor nuclear technology | the International Atomic Energy Agency | 17%
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY | $800 | Utah would be more of a rectangle if this state hadn't taken a bite out of its northeastern corner | Wyoming | 17%
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MIDDLE E | $1200 | An evil, bewitching spell | a hex | 11%
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ARTHROPODCAST | $200 | The medicinal name of these little arthropods comes their habit of rolling themselves into a ball when threatened | a pill bug | 11%
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LEMON SQUEEZY | $1000 | Salt-preserved lemons can accompany this Moroccan stew made in an earthenware pot of the same name | a tagine | 11%
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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY | $800 | In 1919 South America got its first commercial airline: Avianca, now headquartered in this capital of Colombia | Bogotá | 11%
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS | $600 | Goals of the IMF include improving access to global investment & stabilizing these currency trading scales | exchange rates | 11%
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EASY PEASY | $400 | The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child | Five Easy Pieces | 11%
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LEMON SQUEEZY | $400 | Whisk yolks in the top of a double boiler & slowly add clarified butter & lemon juice to make this, 1 of cuisine's "mother sauces" | hollandaise | 11%
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ARTHROPODCAST | $1000 | These so-called crabs are actually related to the extinct trilobites | horseshoe crabs | 11%
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY | $400 | This "stately" river actually begins next door in Pittsburgh | Ohio | 11%
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE | $1600 | This job requires mastering a special 22-button keyboard & spending time around lawyers & defendants | a court reporter | 6%
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ARTHROPODCAST | $600 | The false this lacks the tail of the real thing and I'm fine with that | a scorpion | 6%
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MIDDLE E | $1600 | It's Spanish for "all right" or "good" | bueno | 6%
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WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $1200 | As runner-up on the Season 10 finale of "American Idol", country star Lauren Alaina got to sing with her idol, this season 4 winner | Carrie Underwood | 6%
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ARTHROPODCAST | $800 | The name of this arthropod subgroup is from Latin for "hard shell" | crustacean | 6%
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EASY PEASY | $1000 | Given first name Ezekiel, this fictional detective worked the Watts area of L.A. starting in the 1940s | Easy Rawlins | 6%
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WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $800 | Among those joining this icon for her 50th anniversary at the Grand Ole Opry were Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack & sister Crystal Gayle | Loretta Lynn | 6%
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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY | $1600 | In 1864 this country in the middle of the continent took on Brazil, later Argentina & Uruguay; half its population would end up dead | Paraguay | 6%
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MIDDLE E | $2000 | From the Old English for "kill", it means to suppress a riot or rebellion | quell | 6%
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WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $1600 | She said of "Stand By Your Man" that she spent 20 minutes writing it & over 20 years defending it | Tammy Wynette | 6%
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY | $2000 | Mount Marcy & Algonquin Peak can be found in these mountains in northeastern New York | the Adirondacks | 6%
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE | $1200 | An electronic pick & a plug spinner are tools of this trade; in California, a state license is good too | a locksmith | 0%
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE | $2000 | The Gemological Institute of America website sells a 10x one of these | a loupe | 0%
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ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER | $1000 | This title guy gets a death sentence--via beheading!--then overcomes his hoarding & sells his "500 Hats" to the king | Bartholomew Cubbins | 0%
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE | $800 | Floss & polishers are among the tools of those of this job; the women who did it were first allowed to wear pants in 1971 | dental hygienists | 0%
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MIDDLE E | $800 | To challenge the credibility of a witness in court or formally accuse misconduct by a public official | impeach | 0%
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES | $800 | The book of Ezekiel says the gates of this city shall be named after the tribes of Israel | Jerusalem | 0%
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WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $2000 | Breaking barriers in country music, she was Grammy-nominated for her song "Black Like Me" & in 2021, co-hosted the ACM Awards | Mickey Guyton | 0%
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES | $1200 | In Exodus, this man tells the elders of Israel that when the Lord sees blood upon the lintel & side posts, he "will pass over the door" | Moses | 0%
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY | $1200 | The cities of Providence & Newport lie at opposite ends of this bay | Narragansett Bay | 0%
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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY | $2000 | In the early 2000s this ex-president of Chile lost his immunity from prosecution & was charged with human rights abuses | Pinochet | 0%
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES | $2000 | If an Ephraimite pronounced this word with "si", not "shi", the Gileadites "slew him at the passages of Jordan" | shibboleth | 0%
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY | $1600 | At over 9,300 feet, Shishaldin volcano is the highest mountain in this Alaskan island chain | the Aleutian Islands | 0%
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES | $400 | In Genesis, God tells Noah, "the door of" this "shalt thou set in the side thereof" | the ark | 0%
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS | $800 | This group that now has 27 member nations is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium | the European Union (EU) | 0%
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NEWSPAPER TALK | N/A | Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting | the lede | 0%
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES | $1600 | In 1 Samuel 14, Jonathan the Hebrew finds a passage between 2 rocks that lets him reach these enemies & slaughter them | the Philistines | 0%
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ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER | $400 | "You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack | Yertle (the Turtle) | 0%
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