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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
ANCIENT HISTORY	$200	Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano	(Mount) Vesuvius	86%
PUMP-POURRI	$200	It's the size of a fist & pumps 5-6 quarts of blood per minute, or about 2,000 gallons a day	the heart	71%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$400	Consulting the oracle at this site was opened wide with the destruction of the nearby town of Krisa, which taxed visitors	Delphi	64%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$800	A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses	elephants	64%
COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL	$800	Dettifoss in Vatnajökull National Park	Iceland	64%
ABBREVIATED TV	$200	This investigative series has come in flavors like "NY", "Miami" & "Cyber"	CSI	57%
SILENT W WORDS	$800	Where the lower part of the radius ends	the wrist	57%
COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL	$400	Horseshoe Falls & Helmcken Falls	Canada	50%
ABBREVIATED TV	$800	Eriq La Salle played surgical resident Peter Benton on this long-running series	ER	50%
CLASSICAL MUSIC	$800	"Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age" was Gustav Holst's favorite part of this work of his	The Planets	50%
ABBREVIATED TV	$1000	The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization	U.N.C.L.E.	50%
THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT	$400	"Kennedy" used to mean one of these fireplace implements, & to Kennedy someone was to hit them with it	a poker	43%
PUMP-POURRI	$400	This rhymingly named device removes water from a pit that's the lowest point of a drainage system	a sump pump	43%
THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT	$800	It means to consume something voraciously, like a particular appliance brand	hoover	43%
COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL	$1600	Wairere Falls, towering over the Waikato Plains	New Zealand	43%
PUMP-POURRI	$800	A bicycle pump is often used to separate the crispy skin on this Chinese national dish	Peking duck	43%
DRINK UP POP CULTURE	$400	This host of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" has drunk some Joe with Margaret Cho & Jay Leno	Seinfeld	43%
THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT	$1600	A Tyler is a doorkeeper at the secret meetings of this fraternal organization founded by stoneworkers	the Freemasons	43%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$1000	In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa	the Phoenicians	43%
SILENT W WORDS	$400	Idiomatically, a sensual dance of Argentina requires this many	two	43%
SILENT W WORDS	$600	A determination of this type of death based on negligence can lead to a lawsuit	wrongful	43%
THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT	$1200	The Roosevelt is a variety of this second-biggest North American deer also known as the wapiti	an elk	36%
PUMP-POURRI	$1000	In 1854 one water pump on London's Broad Street caused an outbreak of this infectious disease of the small intestine	cholera	36%
WORDS OF COMFORT	$400	Brits spell this 4-letter word meaning warm & snug with an "S", Yanks with a "Z"	cozy	36%
ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE	$200	A princess of Wales & a portrayer of Annie Hall	Diana & Diane	36%
ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE	$600	A scat-singing jazz legend of the 1940s & an Aussie supermodel who had "The Body" of the 1980s	Ella & Elle	36%
SILENT W WORDS	$1000	10-letter job of Mamet or Pinter	playwright	36%
COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL	$1200	Corra Linn, part of a the Falls of Clyde	Scotland	36%
CLASSICAL MUSIC	$1600	He dedicated "The Firebird" to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov	Stravinsky	36%
PUMP-POURRI	$600	Technotronic told us to "Pump up" this, "Pump it up, while your feet are stompin'... get your booty on the floor tonight"	the jam	36%
DRINK UP POP CULTURE	$1200	"Wishful Drinking" was a one-woman show & a memoir by this daughter of Debbie Reynolds	Carrie Fisher	29%
ABBREVIATED TV	$600	This drama premiered in 2003 with a troubled kid from Chino being taken in by a wealthy family in Newport Beach	The O.C.	29%
PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!	$400	To store your Jeopcoins, we offer a cold one of these, like the one for cash in your back pocket, just $299.99	a wallet	21%
PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!	$1200	Super Bowl ads? Crass. We plan a rollout at the 2023 championships of this ski-&-shoot sport in the Thuringian Forest	biathlon	21%
ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE	$400	A 1980s New York governor & a 2000s first lady of California	Mario & Maria	21%
BOOK IT!	$600	This book comes between "Twilight" & "Eclipse"	New Moon	21%
DRINK UP POP CULTURE	$800	John Lee Hooker & George Thorogood sang of the trio "One bourbon, one scotch" & one this	one beer	21%
ABBREVIATED TV	$400	Clark Gregg & Chloe Bennet fought evil as "Agents of" this	S.H.I.E.L.D.	21%
WORDS OF COMFORT	$1200	According to a 1697 play, it's what music can do to a savage breast	soothe	21%
COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL	$2000	Reichenbach Falls	Switzerland	21%
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE	N/A	First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages	The Little Prince	21%
CLASSICAL MUSIC	$2000	It's the term for an extended instrumental solo in a concerto, like the one in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5	a cadenza	14%
CLASSICAL MUSIC	$400	As well as an imposing title, "Die Gezeichneten" has one of opera's longest of these musical preludes at about 20 minutes	an overture	14%
SILENT W WORDS	$200	The fairy type of this bird seen here can be found in Eastern Australia	a wren	14%
BOOK IT!	$200	2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these	Bees	14%
WORDS OF COMFORT	$1600	Meaning both holy & venerated & bringing pleasure & contentment, it begins many a beatitude	blessed	14%
ANCIENT HISTORY	$600	This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple	Hanukkah	14%
DRINK UP POP CULTURE	$1600	A tagline from this 1994 Tom Cruise flick: "Drink from me & live forever"	Interview with the Vampire	14%
PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!	$800	We're clean crypto!--power for this, the computing by computers of new Jeopcoins, is from recycled glitter & doll hands	mining	14%
ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE	$800	Patterson's fictional homicide investigator & the real-life voice of "The Boss Baby"	Alex & Alec	7%
ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE	$1000	"Old Hickory" & Soviet nuclear physicist & peace activist Sakharov	Andrew & Andrei	7%
PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!	$1600	You'll want to invest when we launch our cryptocurrency through our ICO, short for this (it's like an IPO)	an initial coin offering	7%
BOOK IT!	$800	He set "Harlem Shuffle" in the 1960s	(Colson) Whitehead	7%
WORDS OF COMFORT	$2000	Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto	copacetic	7%
WORDS OF COMFORT	$800	It usually means unattractive, but can also mean comfortable, like one's place of residence	homely	7%
DRINK UP POP CULTURE	$2000	In "Another Round", this actor plays one of a quartet of teachers in Copenhagen who tests a theory about drinking	Mads Mikkelsen	7%
BOOK IT!	$1000	Her bestsellers include "Big Little Lies" & "Apples Never Fall"	Moriarty	7%
CLASSICAL MUSIC	$1200	In 1830 German composer Felix Mendelssohn traveled south & found inspiration for this "national" symphony	the Italian Symphony	7%
THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT	$2000	A Wilson is a type of this scientific "chamber" in which charged particles are passed through water vapor	a cloud chamber	0%
PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!	$2000	We're very close to amassing the assets to make our crypto this kind of "coin", meaning it's tied to a traditional base like dollars or gold	a stablecoin	0%
BOOK IT!	$400	In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force"	(Tony) Robbins	0%