Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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STICKS & STONES | $200 | In 1973 North Carolina went green in naming this as the official state precious stone | an emerald | 80%
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STICKS & STONES | $800 | The stone weighs between 38 & 44 pounds in this sport | curling | 80%
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BODY PARTS IN LATIN | $200 | Nasus | nose | 80%
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WE'RE FULL! | $400 | If the audience is "packed" like these little herring relatives, the venue is pretty full | sardines | 70%
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WE'RE FULL! | $200 | Psalm 23 refers to one of these that "runneth over", so stop pouring already | cup | 60%
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ON THE MAP OF AFRICA | $400 | This African country is home to Tobruk, Tripoli & the oasis town of Tazirbu | Libya | 60%
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WE'RE FULL! | $800 | Your place is really full if you're packed to these exposed beams in the ceiling | the rafters | 60%
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THE BRADY BUNCH | $200 | In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance" | Tom Brady | 60%
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THE BRADY BUNCH | $600 | In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened | Alaska | 50%
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STICKS & STONES | $400 | Teddy Roosevelt cited what he described as a West African proverb: do this "& carry a big stick; you will go far" | speak softly | 50%
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GETTING "W-R-M" | $800 | A memorable line from "Dr. Strangelove": "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the ____ ____" | the war room | 50%
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STICKS & STONES | $600 | Hickory is the traditional material for making these sporting sticks with a net at one end | a lacrosse stick | 40%
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MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES | $600 | (Nicole Koglin of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) It's not as big as Comic-Con, but thousands attend Gary Con in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin where Gary Gygax invented this pioneering role-playing game; you can get your dice blessed near the Riviera Fountain | Dungeons & Dragons | 40%
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ON THE MAP OF AFRICA | $2000 | The Blue Nile & the White Nile join together just north of this capital city | Khartoum | 40%
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BODY PARTS IN LATIN | $400 | Pulmo | lungs | 40%
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THE BRADY BUNCH | $400 | '80s & '90s Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady dealt with the crisis & bailout of failing S&Ls, short for these institutions | savings & loans | 40%
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COACH & HORSES | $1000 | Don Nelson coached Dirk Nowitzki & the rest of this NBA team when its uniform logo went horsey in 2001 | the Dallas Mavericks | 40%
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COACH & HORSES | $200 | Head coaches of this mile high football team have included John Fox & Gary Kubiak | the Denver Broncos | 40%
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BODY PARTS IN LATIN | $800 | Auris | the ear | 40%
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COACH & HORSES | $400 | Larry Bird once coached this NBA team whose nickname was chosen to refer to horse racing & car racing | the (Indiana) Pacers | 40%
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BODY PARTS IN LATIN | $1000 | Genu (as in genuflect) | the knee | 40%
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ON THE MAP OF AFRICA | $1600 | Massawa & Assab are important port cities of Eritrea on the shores of this long body of water | the Red Sea | 40%
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ORPHANS IN BOOKS | $400 | This character lost his parents in a boating accident & was adopted by Bilbo | Frodo Baggins | 30%
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ORPHANS IN BOOKS | $1200 | At the beginning of this Bronte novel, this orphaned title character is sent to the Lowood Institution, where she is mistreated | Jane Eyre | 30%
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ON THE MAP OF AFRICA | $800 | To make the national government more accessible to all Nigerians, in 1991, Abuja replaced this city as Nigeria's capital | Lagos | 30%
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WE'RE FULL! | $600 | At the theater, SRO is short for this | standing room only | 30%
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COACH & HORSES | $800 | Coaches at Kentucky State in this state capital may want to explain why their team nickname is spelled Thorobreds | Frankfort | 20%
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MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES | $200 | (Mike Strehlow of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) Years that end in 3 & 8 bring out big celebrations of this company; in 2018, its 115th birthday bash had 6,500 riders roaring down Wisconsin Avenue | Harley-Davidson | 20%
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MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES | $400 | (Mike Curkov of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) In 1969, Milwaukee Bucks management was excited to introduce this new player who soon led the team to its first championship; he lived in an apartment in Juno Village with a specially raised doorframe | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 20%
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TV MONSTERS | $800 | "Return of the Killer Catfish" & "Mekong Mutilator" were episodes of this Animal Planet adventure show | River Monsters | 20%
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THE 5th CENTURY | $400 | Missionary work by Bishop Palladius & this saint succeeded in converting Ireland to Christianity | St. Patrick | 20%
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BODY PARTS IN LATIN | $600 | Bracchium | the arm | 20%
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COACH & HORSES | $600 | This Notre Dame quartet was coached by Knute Rockne | the Four Horsemen | 20%
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STATE FLORA | $400 | The sabal this, Florida's state tree, has a heart that tastes like cabbage | the palm | 20%
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STICKS & STONES | $1000 | In 1950 this 336-pound object was stolen by Scottish nationalists on Christmas, but it was recovered a few months later | the Stone of Scone | 20%
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GETTING "W-R-M" | $1200 | Type of glasses favored by John Lennon & the farmer in "American Gothic" | wire-rimmed | 20%
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GETTING "W-R-M" | $1600 | It's another name for tungsten | wolfram | 20%
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GETTING "W-R-M" | $2000 | The shape of an electromagnetic emission or of a gnarly breaker | a waveform | 10%
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STATE FLORA | $1200 | California made the lace type of this fungus-alga partnership its official state one | lichen | 10%
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TV MONSTERS | $1200 | In a Christmas special narrated by Burl Ives, this title animal meets an abominable snow monster | Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer | 10%
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THE 5th CENTURY | $1600 | This Christian patriarch & Bishop of Hippo wrote the philosophical treatise "The City of God" | St. Augustine | 10%
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TV MONSTERS | $1600 | The monster-hunting Winchester boys on this show tangled with demons & Rakshasa | Supernatural | 10%
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STATE FLORA | $1600 | Hawaii's state plant is kalo, the local name for this root used to make poi | taro | 10%
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ORPHANS IN BOOKS | $2000 | In this John Irving novel, the eccentric Dr. Wilbur Larch runs an orphanage | The Cider House Rules | 10%
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STATE FLORA | $800 | Also known as the ground laurel, it has been Massachusetts' state flower since 1918, not 1620 | the mayflower | 10%
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THE 5th CENTURY | $800 | This branch of the goths migrated to the Iberian Peninsula & gained domination over it | Visigoths | 10%
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TV MONSTERS | $400 | Folks guard against these mindless monsters on "Black Summer" | zombies | 10%
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STATE FLORA | $2000 | Known for living a long time, one of Nevada's two state trees is this type of pine named for the feature seen here | a bristlecone | 0%
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MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES | $1000 | (Natalie Shepherd of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) The Milwaukee Art Museum now has wings designed by geniuses from both ends of Europe; in 2001, a new pavilion with a removable sunscreen, designed by Spain's Santiago Calatrava, joined the original building by this modernist from Finland | (Eero) Saarinen | 0%
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MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES | $800 | (Amanda Porterfield of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) Milwaukee's German heritage is celebrated with a summertime festival along Lake Michigan or more quietly with monuments all over the city like the one to Schiller & this friend & fellow German romantic writer | Goethe | 0%
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THE BRADY BUNCH | $1000 | When the 1993 bill named for him became law, it instituted background checks for gun purchases | (James) Jim Brady | 0%
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THE BRADY BUNCH | $800 | For his PBS Civil War documentary, Ken Burns relied on this man's photographs | Mathew Brady | 0%
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TV MONSTERS | $2000 | There were also vampires & werewolves on this Showtime series with characters like Dorian Gray & Victor Frankenstein | Penny Dreadful | 0%
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ORPHANS IN BOOKS | $800 | This Beverly Cleary girl has a mom & dad; Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 character of the same name does not | Ramona | 0%
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WE'RE FULL! | $1000 | Past tense for "eat" is spelled out in this word that means "I couldn't eat another bite" | satiated (sated) | 0%
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ON THE MAP OF AFRICA | $1200 | The Limpopo River between South Africa & Botswana is also known as this river, after a large predator | (the) Crocodile (River) | 0%
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THE 5th CENTURY | $2000 | This temple was founded in Henan, China around 495 & became associated with Zen Buddhism & martial arts | the Shaolin | 0%
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THE 5th CENTURY | $1200 | Containing the Mishnah & Gemara, the Babylonian version of this vast compilation of Jewish law was compiled | the Talmud | 0%
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BRANDS | N/A | Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Evan Strong & Roy Campanella broke barriers representing this brand | Wheaties | 0%
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GETTING "W-R-M" | $400 | A heavy dairy product beaten until it's stiff | whipped cream | 0%
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