Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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HISTORIC ALLIANCES | $200 | A hope of joining this alliance is in Ukraine's constitution | NATO | 93%
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STATELY RIVERS | $200 | John Wesley Powell was one of the first to explore the Grand Canyon by boat on this river | the Colorado | 73%
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THINK PINK | $200 | This title object of a 1963 film doesn't refer to a large feline but to a large gem targeted by a thief | the Pink Panther | 67%
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WORDPLAY-POURRI | $400 | Crossword clues "P": Next to the last (11 letters) | penultimate | 60%
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POP ROCKS | $600 | A few years back daughter Liv posted a sweet video of her & dad, this Aerosmith frontman, singing, "Can't take my eyes off of you" | Steven Tyler | 60%
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HISTORIC ALLIANCES | $600 | Created during the Cold War in 1955, this alliance joined together several countries including Bulgaria & Albania | the Warsaw Pact | 60%
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WORDPLAY-POURRI | $200 | Only one vowel: The main building of a parish | church | 53%
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POP ROCKS | $200 | Seen here, he is pops to British model Georgia May & to 7 other kids | Mick Jagger | 53%
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HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION | $200 | They say "No man is" one, but no kitchen of ours will be without one of these! Maybe with a wine rack, too! | an island | 47%
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WORDPLAY-POURRI | $600 | 5-syllable words: A person aged 100 years or older | a centenarian | 40%
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POP ROCKS | $800 | At his Rock Hall of Fame induction, this late legend's son Dhani joined Tom Petty & others in playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | (George) Harrison | 40%
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THE "IT" DEPARTMENT | $800 | Passports: check; tickets: check; kids: check; & this, a schedule of your journey & planned activities | itinerary | 40%
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THE QUOTABLE MOVIE | $800 | From 2004: "On Wednesdays we wear pink" | Mean Girls | 40%
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POP ROCKS | $1000 | In 2000 Duncan Jones directed a concert film of this legendary pop, born David Jones, rocking out at the Roseland Ballroom | David Bowie | 33%
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HIS WIDOW LIVED ON | $800 | Until 2020 you could book a tour of this country that included a visit with its first lady Jehan Sadat, widowed in 1981 | Egypt | 33%
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HISTORIC ALLIANCES | $1000 | Around 1428 Texcoco, Tlacopan & this Aztec city-state formed the Triple Alliance | Tenochtitlan | 33%
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MARINE BIOLOGY | $800 | A new theory says that as cetaceans evolved from land animals, the nostril moved to the top of the skull & became this orifice | the blowhole | 33%
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STATELY RIVERS | $400 | Its name derived from words for "truth" & "head", Lake Itasca is the head or starting point for this river | the Mississippi | 33%
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STATELY RIVERS | $600 | Great Falls, Montana was named for the nearby falls of this river | the Missouri | 33%
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THE "IT" DEPARTMENT | $400 | This restraining item from which Houdini used to escape can also mean anything that confines you | a straitjacket | 27%
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SUCH A PEASANT LIFE | $400 | After working dawn to dusk, it's time for some mead, an alcoholic concoction brewed from water & this sweet stuff | honey | 27%
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POP ROCKS | $400 | In an interview, Frances Bean said of this late father, his "artistry was on another level" | Kurt Cobain | 27%
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MARINE BIOLOGY | $400 | The giant & colossal species of this are the world's 2 largest cephalopods & may reach 60 feet & 2,000 pounds | squid | 27%
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THE QUOTABLE MOVIE | $1200 | "Mclovin? What kind of a stupid name is that, Fogell?" | Superbad | 27%
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HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION | $400 | Time to change the look with a new this but which type? Mansard, gambrel or Dutch gabled? | a roof | 20%
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HISTORIC ALLIANCES | $800 | The Eight-Nation Alliance was formed to protect Western interests in this Asian nation during a 1900 uprising against foreigners | China | 20%
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SCI-FI CHARACTERS | $1200 | Paul Atreides is the messiah-like Kwisatz Haderach in the novels named for this desert-like planet | Dune | 20%
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SUCH A PEASANT LIFE | $800 | Our lord's away fighting again, across the channel in the battles of Blanchetaque & Caen; hope this war is over soon | a Hundred Years\' War | 13%
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SUCH A PEASANT LIFE | $2000 | No more back-breaking farm labor for me; I've got this new job at the manor, curing hides & making leather | a tanner | 13%
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THE QUOTABLE MOVIE | $1600 | From 2015: "I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You wouldn't understand" | Fifty Shades of Grey | 13%
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HIS WIDOW LIVED ON | $2000 | Wife Geneviève outlived this "Carmen" composer by 50 years, but even after she stopped wearing black, stuck mostly to mauve | (Georges) Bizet | 13%
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HIS WIDOW LIVED ON | $1200 | 35 years after the death of this beloved Yankee first baseman, his widow Eleanor is seen at a 1976 game | Lou Gehrig | 13%
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STATELY RIVERS | $800 | The Schuylkill & Lehigh Rivers are tributaries of this river | the Delaware | 13%
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SCI-FI CHARACTERS | $800 | In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy | The Invisible Man | 13%
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HISTORIC ALLIANCES | $400 | The Seneca & the Tuscarora were members of an 18th century confederacy bearing the name of this group of Native American people | the Iroquois | 13%
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THE QUOTABLE MOVIE | $2000 | "I drink your milkshake. I drink it up" | There Will Be Blood | 13%
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MARINE BIOLOGY | $1200 | The movement of invasive species from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean via this waterway has been called Lessepsian migration | the Suez Canal | 13%
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HIS WIDOW LIVED ON | $400 | Then in her 70s & a widow for 2 decades, Maud Gage Baum was a consultant on this 1939 movie | The Wizard of Oz | 13%
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WORDPLAY-POURRI | $1000 | Overlaps: Home city of the NHL sabres+ a type of leather step-in shoe | a Buffaloafer | 7%
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HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION | $800 | Out of the barn & into the kitchen for this type of big sink, installed just under the counter-top & a bit in front of cabinets below | a farmhouse sink | 7%
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MARINE BIOLOGY | $1600 | Benthic organisms that live on the ocean bottom include sponges, bristle worms, & these prickly echinoderms | a sea urchin | 7%
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WORDPLAY-POURRI | $800 | Change a letter: A convenient way to get your bills paid & an examination of a body after death | autopay & autopsy | 7%
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THE "IT" DEPARTMENT | $2000 | Having a right to something, or acting like you have a right to just about anything | entitlement | 7%
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SUCH A PEASANT LIFE | $1600 | Not much travel for us normally, but I am considering a pilgrimage to Gastonbury to see the grave of this legendary queen | Guinevere | 7%
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19th CENTURY CONTEMPORARIES | N/A | Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, "I have wrought in the day--you in the night" | Harriet Tubman | 7%
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THINK PINK | $400 | In 1939 Paul & Betty Pink began selling soda & these from a cart on La Brea & Melrose in L.A. & the rest is history | hot dogs | 7%
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HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION | $1000 | It's the transportation name for the tile that's seen here in a kitchen | subway tile | 7%
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THINK PINK | $600 | Introduced in 1957, this brand was packaged in little pink packets so that it would stand out in sugar bowls | Sweet\'n Low | 7%
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SCI-FI CHARACTERS | $400 | In "Ink" by Sabrina Vourvoulias, Mari & Meche have their immigrant status displayed in the form of these on their wrists | tattoos | 7%
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SCI-FI CHARACTERS | $1600 | In Kameron Hurley's novel, Dietz is reduced to particles & beamed to war in this title corps, sounding like one in a Tennyson poem | the Light Brigade | 7%
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THE QUOTABLE MOVIE | $400 | "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with... & it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead" | The Terminator | 7%
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THINK PINK | $1000 | In Hawaii, these flowers, often with a touch of pink, are popular for leis | a plumeria | 0%
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HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION | $600 | This type of flooring named for two parts that fit together is a nice choice, easy to install & with tight seams | a tongue & groove (T&G) | 0%
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HIS WIDOW LIVED ON | $1600 | Last name of Frank, the "How to Succeed in Business..." composer who died in 1969; Jo, his widow & collaborator, lived until 2019 | Loesser | 0%
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THE "IT" DEPARTMENT | $1600 | Methuselah had more of it than anyone else in the Bible | longevity | 0%
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THINK PINK | $800 | 2020 marked the 20th anniversary of this fashion designer's Pink Pony initiative to fight cancer | Ralph Lauren | 0%
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SCI-FI CHARACTERS | $2000 | Walter M. Miller Jr. won a Hugo Award for penning "A Canticle for" this saint | Saint Isaac Leibovitz | 0%
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STATELY RIVERS | $1000 | It empties into Long Island Sound between the towns of Old Saybrook & Old Lyme | the Connecticut River | 0%
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THE "IT" DEPARTMENT | $1200 | This split of the Korean Peninsula took place in August 1945 | the partition | 0%
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MARINE BIOLOGY | $2000 | This smallest North American marine mammal is a key species in kelp forests, keeping consumers of the kelp in check | the sea otter | 0%
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SUCH A PEASANT LIFE | $1200 | You might think I'm revolting, but I swear I did not join Wat Tyler's peasant revolt that stormed this fortress on June 14, 1381 | the Tower of London | 0%
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