Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | $200 | The university of this is in Santiago, but national congress meetings are not; those are in Valparaíso | Chile | 67%
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IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | $400 | In 1791 Mozart conducted the first performance of "The Magic Flute" in this city | Vienna | 67%
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PHIL & THE BLANK | $400 | The Genesis of his hall of fame career was a toy drum kit he got as a kid: Phil ____ | Collins | 58%
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IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | $800 | Sail over to the Kon-Tiki Museum & the Fram Museum featuring Amundsen's polar ship in this city | Oslo | 50%
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APPLES | $800 | This apple with a Japanese name is actually a cross between 2 American varieties | a Fuji | 33%
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IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | $1000 | We'd love to take one of the cars in its Royal Automobile Museum for a spin, maybe 3 hours north to another capital, Damascus | Amman | 33%
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THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY | $1200 | Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua | Jericho | 33%
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IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | $600 | This city has many ancient temples & the Hindu Akshardam one, completed in 2005 A.D. | New Delhi | 33%
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APPLES | $600 | Oscar Tschirky, the legendary maître d' of a certain hotel, created this salad with apples as the central ingredient | Waldorf | 33%
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THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY | $800 | Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond | Columbus | 25%
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RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS | $200 | The largest dome since antiquity was constructed in the 1430s by the architect Brunelieschi in this city | Florence | 25%
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APPLES | $1000 | This apple tart is named for 2 French sisters who served it at their hotel in the Loire Valley | tarte Tatin | 25%
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THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY | $400 | It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later | the Hindenburg | 25%
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ORANGES | $200 | This football game was called the Palm Festival when first played in 1933 | the Orange Bowl | 25%
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THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY | $1600 | This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians | Denmark | 17%
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PHIL & THE BLANK | $600 | With brother Don, he had a hit with "Wake Up Little Susie": Phil ____ | Everly | 17%
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APPLES | $200 | These green-skinned apples go into apple pie & at See's Candies, go into the apple pie truffles | Granny Smiths | 17%
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PHIL & THE BLANK | $200 | He won 11 NBA titles as coach of the Bulls & Lakers: Phil ____ | Jackson | 17%
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RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS | $400 | In 2016 Leonardo's painting of this preacher in Mark 1 got its first cleaning since 1802 | John the Baptist | 17%
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DON'T GET CONFUSED | $600 | "Odorous" means strong-smelling; this means reprehensible | odious | 17%
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PHIL & THE BLANK | $1000 | He put the Swoosh in Nike: Phil ____ | Phil Knight | 17%
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A BIT OF LIT | $1200 | Shakespeare's "Henry V" takes place before & after this decisive 1415 battle in France | Agincourt | 8%
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APPLES | $400 | In 2011 McDonald's removed the caramel dip from the apple slices option with this offering | a Happy Meal | 8%
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT | $1200 | It's a unit of measure for small things like atoms; it's also a small mammal | a mole | 8%
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT | $400 | Time to work the back 640 of these; that's equal to one square mile, so hop to it | an acre | 8%
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT | $1600 | There are 12 ounces per pound in the Troy system & 16 ounces per pound in this system of weight abbreviated avdp | avoirdupois | 8%
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DON'T GET CONFUSED | $400 | Dubbing is the act of conferring knighthood; this is the act of beating severely | drubbing | 8%
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DON'T GET CONFUSED | $1000 | An antonym of "energize", it begins with the same 4 letters | enervate | 8%
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A BIT OF LIT | $2000 | This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature | (Kazuo) Ishiguro | 8%
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PHIL & THE BLANK | $800 | He got his own TV show in 2002: Dr. Phil ____ | McGraw | 8%
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"M" PATHS | $800 | Type of institution that has a "Row" in Garden City on Long Island, including one about firefighting & a children's one | museums | 8%
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DON'T GET CONFUSED | $200 | Change an "A" to an "E" to go from immobile to this write stuff | stationery | 8%
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ORANGES | $800 | It's not just the one in Paris--Orange, France has an arch dating from Roman times known by this French name | the Arc de Triomphe | 8%
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"M" PATHS | $1200 | This almost 200-mile trail named for a famous line runs through Pennsylvania, Maryland & Delaware | the Mason-Dixon | 8%
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"M" PATHS | $400 | A 4,700-mile cycling path from Cadiz through Athens to Cyprus is called this route, from the body of water it runs along | the Mediterranean Route | 8%
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ORANGES | $400 | William of Orange, who became British king in 1689, was stadtholder, or chief executive, of this other nation | the Netherlands | 8%
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RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS | $800 | Born Jacopo Robusti, this painter of biblical subjects like "Susanna & the Elders" had a name meaning "little dyer" | Tintoretto | 8%
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT | $2000 | The energy used to lift an apple about 3 feet is 1 watt-second, which equals this "gem" | a joule | 0%
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WORDS WITH FIENDS | $2000 | This hyphenated 3-word synonym for a fiend has an apostrophe for the "V" in the first word | a ne\'er-do-well | 0%
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ORANGES | $1000 | The there in "There There" by Tommy Orange is Oakland, where his characters are headed for this gathering of Native Americans | a powwow | 0%
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ORANGES | $600 | Ignition Orange is a special edition color of this truck brand named for a male animal | a Ram | 0%
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WORDS WITH FIENDS | $1600 | A mischievous person, or a type of mobility scooter | a rascal | 0%
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WORDS WITH FIENDS | $800 | On film, Steve Martin was a "Dirty Rotten" one of these | a scoundrel | 0%
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WORDS WITH FIENDS | $1200 | A nasty creature of folklore, or one who makes offensive posts online | a troll | 0%
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A BIT OF LIT | $1600 | "The Last Tycoon" was left unfinished at this author's death | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 0%
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A BIT OF LIT | $400 | Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory" moves from Croix-des-Rosets in this Caribbean island country to NYC & back | Haiti | 0%
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DON'T GET CONFUSED | $800 | Spelled one way, it's a pile of treasure; spelled another, it's a crowd coming to take it | hoard (horde) | 0%
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"M" PATHS | $2000 | A 211-mile trail named for this naturalist winds through the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite to Mount Whitney | (John) Muir | 0%
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A BIT OF LIT | $800 | Korzeniowski was the original last name of this "Lord Jim" author | Joseph Conrad | 0%
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"M" PATHS | $1600 | In 2020 more than 2 miles of this iconic San Francisco street were permanently closed to automobile traffic | Market Street | 0%
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WORDS WITH FIENDS | $400 | You "go" this fiendish 5-letter word when you deviate from the expected | rogue | 0%
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THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY | $2000 | In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky | Skylab | 0%
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SUPER-DUPER SUPERS | $400 | Famous as Captain America, Chris Evans played this Marvel hothead in 2005's "Fantastic Four" | the Human Torch | 0%
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SUPER-DUPER SUPERS | $1200 | Large & in charge, King Shark went "nom nom" on a few folks in the 2021 reboot about this group | the Suicide Squad | 0%
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SUPER-DUPER SUPERS | $800 | This superhero quartet of TV & film all have the names of Renaissance artists | the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 0%
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TECHNOLOGY | N/A | Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated | the telegraph | 0%
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SUPER-DUPER SUPERS | $1600 | There's no shelter from the storm for super-powered adoptees Klaus & Allison on this Netflix show | the Umbrella Academy | 0%
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RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS | $1000 | One of the most famous works of this Venetian master is simply known as "La Bella", "The Beautiful Woman" | Titian | 0%
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT | $800 | In the Chinese city of Harbin in October 2013, this measure was 65' due to smog | visibility | 0%
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RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS | $600 | A master or print making, Albrecht Dürer used this grainy technique to great effect as seen here | woodcuts | 0%
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SUPER-DUPER SUPERS | $2000 | Seen here, he sounded like he could take a punch or 12 voicing the title super Invincible | Yeun | 0%
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