Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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MOVIES WITH NARRATORS | $200 | 2013: disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) | The Wolf of Wall Street | 83%
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MOVIES WITH NARRATORS | $400 | 1979: Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) regrets he's still only in Saigon | Apocalypse Now | 58%
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P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT | $400 | A young wolf | a pup | 58%
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MOVIES WITH NARRATORS | $600 | 1990: Henry hill says, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster" | Goodfellas | 58%
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THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE | N/A | Brazil stretches 2,700 miles from the Atlantic in the east to Serra do Divisor National Park on the border with this country in the west | Peru | 58%
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JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS | $200 | Originally titled "First Impressions", this tale of Elizabeth Bennet would be Jane's second novel published | Pride and Prejudice | 58%
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A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE | $400 | At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence | Gandhi | 50%
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JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS | $800 | Jane lived most of her life in this southern English county that lent its name to a "New" U.S. state | Hampshire | 50%
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SECRET SERVICES | $1200 | This country's intelligence agency goes by the short name Mossad, which just means "the institute" | Israel | 50%
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SECRET SERVICES | $1600 | This 3-letter agency was created in 1954 as "the sword & shield of the Communist Party" | the KGB | 50%
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P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT | $1200 | A sharp-pointed dueling sword | an epee | 42%
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KILLER TUNES | $400 | "Are you ready? Hey! Are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?" Are questions asked in this Queen tune | "Another One Bites The Dust" | 42%
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U.S. DATES | $600 | Punxsutawney Phil is known to make an appearance on this day | February 2nd | 42%
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KILLER TUNES | $1200 | Both Eric Clapton & Bob Marley sang this song, but swore it was in self-defense | "I Shot The Sheriff" | 42%
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U.S. DATES | $400 | For years 7-Eleven offered a little joy with free Slurpees on this date | July 11th | 42%
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JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS | $1000 | 2 of Jane's 6 novels were published posthumously--"Persuasion" & this one with a building for a title | Northanger Abbey | 42%
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P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT | $1600 | A J.Lo song popularized this Spanish word for "daddy" or "sweetheart " | papi | 42%
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JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS | $400 | In Austen novels the girls like a guy who has "four thousand" or "five thousand a year"--4 or 5,000 of these | pounds | 42%
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A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE | $1600 | One story of this Lakota leader recalls him entering a battlefield, taking a seat & smoking a pipe | Sitting Bull | 42%
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MOVIES WITH NARRATORS | $800 | 1986: Richard Dreyfuss remembers back to when he was Wil Wheaton | Stand By Me | 42%
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NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY | $400 | George Monroe & William Robinson: 2 African-American riders in this horsepowered mail service in the 1860s | the Pony Express | 42%
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WHERE AM I? | $400 | (Sarah presents the clue.) I’m here on board the fire boat John S. Damrell helping protect this city’s harbor south of Winthrop & north of Quincy | Boston | 33%
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EARTH SCIENCE | $800 | Increased seismic activity, especially in Oklahoma, has been linked to wastewater injection & this controversial practice | fracking | 33%
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SECRET SERVICES | $800 | Security Service & Secret Intelligence Service are the British agencies popularly known by these alphanumeric names | MI5 & MI6 | 33%
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THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK | $800 | The name of this university is found from nearly head to toe in a fashionable type of shirt as well as a type of shoe | Oxford | 33%
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P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT | $2000 | It's the life stage of an insect that fits the category | pupa | 33%
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JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS | $600 | Austen adaptations include the 1995 movie version of this novel starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | 33%
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U.S. DATES | $200 | On this date each year moments of silence are observed in New York City at 8:46 & 9:03 A.M. | September 11th | 33%
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SECRET SERVICES | $2000 | This country's secret intelligence service ASIS was founded in 1952; its existence was only acknowledged in Parliament in 1975 | Australia | 25%
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NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY | $2000 | Jefferson Davis: as U.S. Secretary of War in 1853, he approved the import of these from Egypt to test in the Southwest | camels | 25%
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NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY | $1600 | King George I: from Hanover, Germany but had a claim on the British crown through this man, his great-granddad born a Scot | James I | 25%
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KILLER TUNES | $2000 | Backed up by the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey & this man sang of the tragic fate of "Henry Lee" | Nick Cave | 25%
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THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK | $1000 | Maude Adams' look in a 1905 Broadway production of a J.M. Barrie work popularized this flat collar on shirts | Peter Pan | 25%
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MOVIES WITH NARRATORS | $1000 | 1950: a screenwriter doesn't let being dead stop him from narrating a Hollywood tale | Sunset Boulevard | 25%
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WHERE AM I? | $800 | (Sarah presents the clue.) I’m in this area of San Francisco that served as an Army base for Spain, Mexico & the United States before switching to civilian use in 1994 | the Presidio | 25%
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P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT | $800 | The bonobo is one | an ape | 17%
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WHERE AM I? | $600 | (Jimmy presents the clue.) I’m training for the worst, at the Texas A&M Extension Service in this city named for its railroad connections | College Station | 17%
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A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE | $2000 | This eldest son of Victoria was called "The Peacemaker"; the memorial here notes his Entente Cordiale with France | Edward VII | 17%
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EARTH SCIENCE | $400 | By definition, orogeny concerns itself with the formation of these by upward movements of the Earth's crust | mountains | 17%
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A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE | $1200 | St. Elizabeth of this country rode between 2 armies & quelled hostilities between her son Afonso & her husband, King Dinis | Portugal | 17%
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KILLER TUNES | $800 | He's the "Calvin Broadus (1972-1994)" referred to on the cover of "Murder Was the Case", both a song & short film | Snoop Dogg | 17%
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NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY | $1200 | Betty Friedan: the unhappy classmates at her Smith College 15th reunion inspired this 1963 nonfiction work | The Feminine Mystique | 17%
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WHERE AM I? | $200 | (Sarah presents the clue.) I'm at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, one of dozens of institutions, monuments & memorials along this promenade & green area that extends from the U.S. Capitol to the Potomac | the (National) Mall | 17%
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WHERE AM I? | $1000 | (Jimmy presents the clue.) I’m at the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, perhaps the most historically important spot in the 200-mile chain of islands off North Carolina | the Outer Banks | 17%
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SECRET SERVICES | $400 | The U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division branch named for this building includes counter snipers on its roof | the White House | 17%
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THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK | $400 | Seen here, this item is said to date back to the 1920s or '30s, when kimono fabric began to be used for men's shirts | a Hawaiian shirt | 8%
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EARTH SCIENCE | $1600 | In contrast to the lithosphere, or solid outer part of the Earth, this consists of all the Earth's water | hydrosphere | 8%
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U.S. DATES | $800 | On this date in 1921 an Unknown Soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery | November 11th | 8%
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A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE | $800 | Seen here, Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as head of SNCC, short their Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | Student | 8%
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EARTH SCIENCE | $2000 | This geologic era that began around 65 million years ago is the one we're living in today | the Cenozoic | 8%
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ANIMAL ANAGRAMS | $200 | I found this insect on a leaf | a flea (from leaf) | 0%
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ANIMAL ANAGRAMS | $400 | I saw this critter sneak into the yard | a snake (from sneak) | 0%
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ANIMAL ANAGRAMS | $800 | In summer this weasel is the color of toast | a stoat (from toast) | 0%
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THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK | $200 | This type of sweater is named for the rowing team | crew (a crew neck) | 0%
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THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK | $600 | A 2021 Rolling Stone headline: "The best" these "shirts for channeling every style, from grunge to cool lumber jack" | flannel shirts | 0%
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ANIMAL ANAGRAMS | $600 | Gosh, I didn't realize that half of these farm animals are raised in China | hogs (from gosh) | 0%
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U.S. DATES | $1000 | Date in 1865 on which Union General Gordon Granger told the African Americans of Galveston they were free | June 19th (Juneteenth) | 0%
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EARTH SCIENCE | $1200 | An iron ore, this mineral is named for the property it's exhibiting here | magnetite | 0%
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KILLER TUNES | $1600 | Fronted by Danny Elfman, this rhyming band sang, "It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?" | Oingo Boingo | 0%
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ANIMAL ANAGRAMS | $1000 | I hear this ostrich relative stands about 4 feet tall | rhea (from hear) | 0%
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NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY | $800 | Zhou Enlai: both prime minister & foreign minister of the country with this new name from its beginning in 1949 | the People\'s Republic of China | 0%
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