Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY | $200 | It's a book of maps | an atlas | 93%
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ART, OF WAR | $400 | One of his greatest & largest paintings was inspired by a newspaper article on the bombing of Guernica | Picasso | 86%
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ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU | $200 | The 390-calorie Burrito Supreme | Taco Bell | 86%
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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY | $600 | This day of the week gets its name from the Norse god of thunder | Thursday | 79%
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ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU | $400 | Sir, this is a this place, & that's a vanilla Frosty | Wendy\'s | 79%
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WHAT EVER | $200 | In 2021 a container ship called the Ever Given got stuck in this canal, causing a 6-day maritime traffic jam | the Suez Canal | 71%
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BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS | $800 | Most translations say Lot's wife became one of these, but some use "column" or "statue" | a pillar of salt | 57%
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BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS | $200 | In the Common English Bible, the first 3 words of the first verse of this book are "When God began" | Genesis | 57%
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BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS | $400 | In some versions of 1 Timothy, it's the "desire of" this, not the "love of" it, that causes trouble | money | 57%
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ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU | $600 | The original Orange Chicken, & perhaps some sides | Panda Express | 57%
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ART, OF WAR | $200 | In "Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta", Kara Walker adds silhouettes to illustrations of this war | the Civil War | 57%
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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY | $800 | Thick & sweet & prepared from fruit puree like mango or guava, it's a drink fit for the gods | nectar | 43%
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ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU | $800 | We are amused with a Chocolate Dilly Bar | Dairy Queen | 36%
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MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP | $400 | Del the Funky Homosapien rapped about this "& Crossbones" | Skull | 36%
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MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP | $1000 | In a Kim Carnes tune the subject of the song has "Greta Garbo stand-off sighs" & this actress' eyes | Bette Davis | 29%
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WHAT EVER | $800 | This brand of American-made grain alcohol is 190 proof | Everclear | 29%
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MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP | $200 | For some reason Willow Smith in 2010 kept telling us she was going to "whip" this "back and forth" | her hair | 29%
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WHAT EVER | $600 | As Joan Crawford in this movie, Faye Dunaway clarifies things for her daughter: "No wire hangers, ever!" | Mommie Dearest | 29%
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BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS | $600 | In one translation, it's a cable, not a camel, that has trouble doing this | passing through the eye of a needle | 29%
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IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | $400 | "Notorious RBG" | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 29%
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CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS | $1600 | This rapper, pitchman & friend of Martha Stewart said that in 2020, age 49, he was finally going to go out & vote | Snoop Dogg | 29%
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GEOGRAPHIC VERSE | $400 | Langston Hughes "heard the singing" of this big river, "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" | the Mississippi | 29%
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ART, OF WAR | $1000 | 2 black granite walls & a sculpture called "The Three Servicemen " are part of this Washington, D.C. memorial | the Vietnam War Memorial | 29%
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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY | $400 | You can thank the Roman goddess of agriculture for this breakfast staple | cereal | 21%
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MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP | $800 | "Heaven, I'm in heaven... when we're out together dancing" this way | cheek to cheek | 21%
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GEOGRAPHIC VERSE | $1200 | Wordsworth wrote of an ascent of Helvellyn, a mountain in this "District" that he called home | the Lake District | 21%
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BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS | $1000 | In some translations of Isaiah 40:3, a voice is crying in the desert; in the King James version, it's crying in this | wilderness | 21%
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CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS | $800 | Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death | a hearse | 14%
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IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | $1200 | "My Life with the Chimpanzees" | Jane Goodall | 14%
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MUSIC FROM THE NECK UP | $600 | Echo & the Bunnymen sang that they were "like sugar"; in a Meghan Trainor song, they were movin' | lips | 14%
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ART, OF WAR | $800 | Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda | Singapore | 14%
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IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | $800 | "Bossypants" | Tina Fey | 14%
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NUMBER WORDS | $400 | This numerical term means open every hour every day | 24/7 | 7%
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WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY | $1000 | Taken from Roman mythology, it's another name for a drunken orgy | bacchanalia | 7%
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CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS | $2000 | John C. Reilly took his first plane ride to Thailand for his first movie, this 1989 Brian de Palma film about soldiers in Vietnam | Casualties of War | 7%
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CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS | $400 | The first album she owned was by the Go-Go's and she recreated their album cover look at the Rock Hall of Fame induction | Drew Barrymore | 7%
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WHAT EVER | $400 | This battery brand uses a cat in its logo | Eveready | 7%
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ECONOMICS | $400 | The Federal Reserve's target rate for this is 2%, but that was majorly exceeded in the late months of 2021 | inflation | 7%
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IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | $1600 | "Road to Tara: The Life of" this author | Margaret Mitchell | 7%
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GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE | $400 | This scientist told an early biographer that "the notion of gravitation came into his mind... occasion'd by the fall of an apple" | Newton | 7%
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GEOGRAPHIC VERSE | $800 | A Whitman poem is titled "By Blue" this Great Lake's "Shore"; he could've been in the province of the same name | Ontario | 7%
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ART, OF WAR | $600 | The artwork here depicts this famous venture at the Battle of Balaclava | the Charge of the Light Brigade | 7%
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NUMBER WORDS | $1200 | A book title gave us this shorthand for totalitarianism | 1984 | 0%
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NUMBER WORDS | $800 | A 1931 newspaper article: "My Fingers Dialed" this number. " 'Information, can you tell me where there is a breadline?"' | 411 | 0%
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NUMBER WORDS | $1600 | This slang number for a certain crop is thought to date to a San Rafael, California high school in the early 1970s | 420 | 0%
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NUMBER WORDS | $2000 | The last entry in the online Oxford English Dictionary is this U.K. equivalent of 911 | 999 | 0%
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WHAT EVER | $1000 | Adjective for vast northern forests of evergreen trees; Canada has the largest protected one, bigger than Belgium | a coniferous forest | 0%
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ECONOMICS | $1600 | A common barrier to trade, it's a government payment to a domestic industry, like the U.S. government's to farmers | a subsidy | 0%
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GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE | $1600 | Daniel of this family gets the credit for the principle that says the pressure of a fluid decreases as its speed increases | Bernouli | 0%
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WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY | N/A | The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday | Catherine Parr | 0%
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CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS | $1200 | This Harvard grad & future talk show host's first L.A. apartment was at Cochran & 3rd, $380 a month, living on tuna & miracle whip | Conan O\'Brien | 0%
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ECONOMICS | $2000 | Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors" | incentives | 0%
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GEOGRAPHIC VERSE | $1600 | This state's official poem ends, "where the dreamy Wabash River wanders on... through paradise" | Indiana | 0%
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IT'S ALL ABOUT HER | $2000 | "Power, Privilege and the Post" | Katharine Graham | 0%
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GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE | $2000 | America's first profession female astronomer, in 1847, she discovered a new comet, & later became Vassar's first professor of astronomy | Maria Mitchell | 0%
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GEOGRAPHIC VERSE | $2000 | This 19th century British poet & literary critic wrote the poems "East London", "West London" & "Dover Beach" | Matthew Arnold | 0%
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ECONOMICS | $1200 | The expenses for a business of changing its prices are called these "costs", what Joe's Diner doesn't want to keep reprinting | menu costs | 0%
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ECONOMICS | $800 | A monopsony, unlike a monopoly, is a market with only one of these; in a labor market, it can lead to lower wages | only one purchaser (buyer) | 0%
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ON ITS FAST FOOD MENU | $1000 | Tuscani Meaty Marinara Pasta | Pizza Hut | 0%
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GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE | $1200 | Marie Tharp's discovery of mid-ocean ridges would support continental drift & this theory of continents moving on slabs of rock | plate tectonics | 0%
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GREAT NAMES OF SCIENCE | $800 | Astrophysicist Joan Feynman explained the science behind these northern & southern light displays, the borealis & the australis | the auroras | 0%
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