Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES | $400 | Influence from one's equals | peer pressure | 100%
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ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES | $200 | To be near the end is to be "on your" these anatomical items | last legs | 80%
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THE "O" MEN | $800 | More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him | Ohm | 80%
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HORROR MOVIES | $1000 | The spawn of Satan is given this first name & is raised by an ambassador in "The Omen" | Damien | 60%
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WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN | $800 | Despite a generous retirement plan of 2 million francs a year & this island as his own, Napoleon returned to France on March 1, 1815 | Elba | 60%
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WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN | $1200 | Harlon Block, Michael Strank, Ira Hayes & 3 other servicemen were famously pictured on this island on Feb. 23, 1945 | Iwo Jima | 60%
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THE "O" MEN | $400 | Later a shipping magnate, this businessman whose middle name was Socrates made his first million by age 25 dealing tobacco | Onassis | 60%
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HORROR MOVIES | $400 | A masked killer known as Ghostface torments teens in this 1996 horror film & its 2022 outing | Scream | 60%
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GET OUT | $800 | Get out there & meet someone, then 7 minutes later meet someone else in this system invented by an L.A. rabbi in the 1990s | speed dating | 60%
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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS | $800 | In the 1930s Picasso often represented himself in his work as this mythical creature, half man & half bull | a Minotaur | 50%
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PLACES IN THE USA | $400 | The world's largest stand of ponderosa pines is near Flagstaff in Coconino National Forest in this state | Arizona | 50%
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CLASSIC CARS | $800 | Company founder & namesake Enzo had to give approval in order for someone to purchase one of its 250 GTOs | Ferrari | 50%
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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS | $200 | Her self-portrait titled "Diego & I" sold for $34.9 million at a 2021 auction, a record for her | Frida Kahlo | 50%
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FROM "B" TO "I" | $400 | A 1960 hit song described it as "itsy bitsy" & "teenie weenie" | a bikini | 40%
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IT'S ALL RELATIVITY | $400 | In 1916 astronomer Karl Schwarzschild used relativistic equations to predict the existence of these inescapable bodies | a black hole | 40%
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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS | $400 | Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man | Barack Obama | 40%
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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS | $600 | Dancers were a favorite subject of this artist as in his 1879 work shown here | Degas | 40%
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IT'S ALL RELATIVITY | $1200 | Einstein first stated the concept now summed up in this formula, just 5 symbols, in a short paper often called an afterthought | E=MC2 | 40%
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HORROR MOVIES | $200 | "The Babysitter Murders" became this 1978 film introducing Michael Myers | Halloween | 40%
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GET OUT | $400 | Get out to the West Coast for Bottlerock, a festival of big music acts & wine tasting in this California valley | Napa Valley | 40%
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THE "O" MEN | $200 | Done with manufacturing wagons, he set up an elevator shop in Yonkers in 1853 & business just went up from there | Otis | 40%
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ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES | $600 | Fascinated by the famous | starstruck | 40%
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ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES | $800 | Per the Farmers' Almanac, the hot period from July 3 to August 11 | the dog days | 40%
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WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN | $400 | On May 5, 1960 Khrushchev informed the Supreme Soviet this alphanumeric U.S. plane had been shot down over the USSR 4 days earlier | the U2 | 40%
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IT'S ALL RELATIVITY | $1600 | Nobel winner Kip Thorne made sure the science was right in "Interstellar", about a trip through one of these relativistic tunnels | a wormhole | 30%
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EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES | $400 | In this Disney flick one of the title characters has an enchanted rose that he keeps under glass | Beauty and the Beast | 30%
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GET OUT | $600 | Get out and play the combo game foot volley, invented in this country that's a powerhouse in soccer & beach volleyball | Brazil | 30%
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WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN | $1600 | France's National Assembly got "The Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen" from this military hero on July 11, 1789 | Lafayette | 30%
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FROM "B" TO "I" | $2000 | It's a decorative mark or jewel in the middle of the forehead traditionally worn by married Hindu women | a bindi | 20%
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FROM "B" TO "I" | $800 | Babies in Bologna | bambini | 20%
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EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES | $800 | She starred in the movie "The Rose" & had a No. 3 hit with the title song in 1980 | Bette Midler | 20%
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CLASSIC LIT | $800 | His 1789 book "Songs of Innocence" fittingly includes "The Lamb" | Blake | 20%
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HORROR MOVIES | $800 | In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home | Daniel Kaluuya | 20%
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EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES | $2000 | The song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" is from this musical about Rose Lee | Gypsy | 20%
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IT'S ALL RELATIVITY | $800 | On Dec. 24, 2021 this physicist tweeted, "Maybe Santa's reindeer are stationary, & it is we who fly past them" | Neil deGrasse Tyson | 20%
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EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES | $1200 | This woman shot a metaphoric arrow of love into now-husband Kit Harington & as Ygritte, a real one into Kit's Jon Snow | Rose Leslie | 20%
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CLASSIC LIT | $600 | In "Oliver Twist", precocious pickpocket Jack Dawkins is better known by this nickname | the Artful Dodger | 20%
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HORROR MOVIES | $600 | Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of a song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" plays before the start of this 2021 scarefest | the Candyman | 20%
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PLACES IN THE USA | $1200 | A favorite restaurant of Joe Biden's is Piccolina Toscana in this Delaware city, his longtime home | Wilmington | 20%
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CLASSIC CARS | $1200 | In 2018 this doozy of an American car sold for $22 million; previous owners include Gary Cooper | a Dussenberg | 10%
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WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN | $2000 | He was inaugurated as president on Nov. 3, 1970 in Chile but 3 years later, fell in a military coup | Allende | 10%
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CLASSIC CARS | $1600 | In "The Spy Who Loved Me", James Bond had esprit with this carmaker's Esprit--it converted into a submarine | a Lotus | 10%
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GET OUT | $200 | Get out & elect this group that helps set what kids are taught; the National Assoc. of them says voter turnout often runs under 10% | a school board | 10%
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PLACES IN THE USA | $2000 | This Oregon State University city is about 40 miles down the Willamette from Eugene | Corvallis | 10%
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CLASSIC CARS | $400 | This 8-letter avian word describes the doors on the 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL coupe | gullwing | 10%
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PLACES IN THE USA | $1600 | Sheffield, Alabama is home to these "Shoals", the studio where "Wild Horses" & "Old Time Rock & Roll" were recorded | Muscle Shoals | 10%
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THE "O" MEN | $600 | Dining out as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Rec", he introduced the "turf & turf. It's a 16-ounce T-bone & a 24-ounce porterhouse" | Nick Offerman | 10%
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PLACES IN THE USA | $800 | An Idaho city gave its name to a geyser there called these "Springs"; it was Beer Springs but went non-alcoholic | Soda Springs | 10%
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FROM "B" TO "I" | $1600 | Native to Africa, this hound dog is also known to be barkless | a Basenji | 0%
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FROM "B" TO "I" | $1200 | This Greek musical instrument resembles a mandolin | a bouzouki | 0%
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CLASSIC LIT | $200 | "The Jungle Book" contains a story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of these animals who protects his human family | a mongoose | 0%
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CLASSIC CARS | $2000 | Here's a real beauty from the 1960s, this hyphenated British make's 3000 | an Austin-Healy | 0%
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GET OUT | $1000 | Get out in your garden and plant this, every part of which can be used in cooking | fennel | 0%
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CLASSIC LIT | $1000 | The title of this semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin comes from a traditional hymn | Go Tell It on the Mountain | 0%
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CLASSIC LIT | $400 | Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" to this New Englander who had mentored him | Hawthorne | 0%
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ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS | $1000 | This New Englander showed the struggle between humans & nature in seascapes like "Fog Warning" & "The Herring Net" | Homer | 0%
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THE "O" MEN | $1000 | Rossini called this Prussian-born composer "our little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées" | Jacques Offenbach | 0%
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EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES | $1600 | Seen here, this daughter of a movie swashbuckler is an actor in her own right | Lily-Rose Depp | 0%
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DEBUT NOVELS | N/A | Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" | Outlander | 0%
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ALL ALLITERATIVE FAMILIAR PHRASES | $1000 | Thrown around by a storm; it's in the poem on the Statue of Liberty | tempest-tost | 0%
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IT'S ALL RELATIVITY | $2000 | This hyphenated term linking 3 dimensions with a fourth is a key concept in relativistic theory | the space-time continuum | 0%
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