Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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GAME PLAN | $200 | Determine 3 things: In what room, with what weapon & whodunit | Clue | 86%
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ON A HOLIDAY | $800 | This English explorer got stabbed in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779 | (Captain James) Cook | 79%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH | $400 | Citron vert | a lime | 71%
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ANIMALS & THE LAW | $200 | Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic | fish | 71%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH | $800 | Ananas (& it's not a banana) | pineapple | 71%
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GAME PLAN | $400 | Collect 6 wedges for answering a question in 6 different categories, then head to the middle & answer one more | Trivial Pursuit | 71%
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ANIMALS & THE LAW | $400 | Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one | a pig | 64%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH | $200 | Maïs | corn | 64%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH | $600 | Chou (chou de bruxelles is Brussels sprout) | cabbage | 57%
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH | $1000 | Cerise | cherry | 57%
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GAME PLAN | $800 | Drop colored discs into a grid trying to get a quartet of yours in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally | Connect Four | 50%
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U.S. CITIES | $200 | Things found in this city: The Joe Louis Fist statue as well as Ford Field | Detroit | 50%
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"X"s & "O"s | $400 | A small book to aid priests performing one of these rites is called "Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness" | exorcism | 36%
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U.S. CITIES | $1000 | Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M. | Fairbanks | 36%
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WORLD GEORGRAPHY | N/A | Mont Bellevue de l'Inini is the highest point in this European possession largely covered by the Amazon rainforest | French Guiana | 36%
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ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES | $400 | "Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line | geometry | 36%
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ITALIAN LOANWORDS | $1200 | Name shared by the weapon & the shoe style seen here | a stiletto | 29%
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ITALIAN LOANWORDS | $2000 | Used to dilate the pupils, atropine is commonly derived from this plant whose name means "beautiful lady" | belladonna | 29%
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20th CENTURY NAMES | $1200 | He won nine gold medals in four Olympics before retiring from track & field competition in 1997 | Carl Lewis | 29%
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U.S. CITIES | $400 | Wacker Drive is an impressive double-decker street in this city of big shoulders | Chicago | 29%
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20th CENTURY NAMES | $800 | In 1965, early in his career, he used a Honda motorcycle to leap over 2 mountain lions & a box of rattlesnakes | Evel Knievel | 29%
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ON A HOLIDAY | $600 | Ex-Confederates got a Christmas gift from this president in 1868: a full pardon | Johnson | 29%
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U.S. CITIES | $600 | Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is home to this city's symphony orchestra | Pittsburgh | 29%
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ITALIAN LOANWORDS | $1600 | It's the text or "book" of an opera or a musical | a libretto | 21%
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"X"s & "O"s | $600 | It's the natural color & appearance of your face | complexion | 21%
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FILMED IN GEORGIA | $1600 | The Whistle Stop Café in Juliette became a real eatery after this 1991 movie filmed there, & still serves up the title dish | Fried Green Tomatoes | 21%
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A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS | $800 | These insects "did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left" | locusts | 21%
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GAME PLAN | $600 | In survival mode, fight off mobs such as evokers & build shelter so as to stay alive | Minecraft | 21%
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FILMED IN GEORGIA | $800 | Woodbury in this AMC series was actually the town of Senoia & the Alexandria Safe Zone scenes were also shot there | The Walking Dead | 21%
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A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS | $1200 | The Lord says, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness" for this length of time, "until your carcases be wasted" | 40 years | 14%
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"X"s & "O"s | $200 | The formal act of adding territory to a nation, it happened to Hawaii in 1898 | annexation | 14%
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"X"s & "O"s | $800 | It means "tense" & "uneasy" but everyone except language fussbudgets also uses it to mean "eager" | anxious | 14%
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ITALIAN LOANWORDS | $800 | Made with espresso, it's named for resembling the color of a certain friar's habit | cappuccino | 14%
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ON A HOLIDAY | $400 | On May Day, 1961 this country's prime minister declared it a socialist nation | Cuba | 14%
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FILMED IN GEORGIA | $2000 | Much of this thriller based on a James Dickey novel was filmed in Northeastern Georgia & on the Chattooga River | Deliverance | 14%
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IT'S A PROCESS | $400 | After wheat is processed via milling, about 72% of the original grain ends up in sacks of this | flour | 14%
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ANIMALS & THE LAW | $600 | You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it | frogs | 14%
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20th CENTURY NAMES | $1600 | After his term as vice president, he was reelected to the Senate from Minnesota in 1970 | Hubert Humphrey | 14%
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20th CENTURY NAMES | $400 | A Bible of sorts for members of the Red Guards, "The Little Red Book" is a collection of his quotations | Mao (Tse-tung) | 14%
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IT'S A PROCESS | $1200 | It's the elegant term for the process by which crude oil is distilled & purified into useful forms of petroleum | refining | 14%
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U.S. CITIES | $800 | At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville | Salt Lake City | 14%
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A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS | $1600 | There's a lot of smiting & destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either | the Philistines | 14%
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"X"s & "O"s | $1000 | This employee, who handles the care & upkeep of a church, sometimes has the specific responsibility seen here | the sexton | 14%
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FILMED IN GEORGIA | $1200 | He not only created & executive-produced "The Haves and the Have Nots" for OWN, the series was filmed at his studios | Tyler Perry | 14%
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IT'S A PROCESS | $800 | The Haber-Bosch process combines nitrogen & hydrogen to produce this strong-smelling gas that's liquefied into fertilizer | ammonia | 7%
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ITALIAN LOANWORDS | $400 | Meaning "same here", it has its own marks | ditto | 7%
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GAME PLAN | $1000 | Using a small mallet, tap out the blocks one by one until someone topples the standing animal | Don\'t Break the Ice | 7%
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IT'S A PROCESS | $2000 | This process reduces fat globules in milk into small particles that are evenly distributed, so the cream doesn't rise to the top | homogenization | 7%
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ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES | $1200 | This word for all kinds of distractions from clear thinking is the title of a book subtitled "A Flaw in Human Judgment" | noise | 7%
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20th CENTURY NAMES | $2000 | A room at the U.S. Department of the Interior is named for this author of "Silent Spring" | (Rachel) Carson | 7%
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ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES | $800 | "Duty" is the memoir of Robert Gates, who held this job from 2006 to 2011 | Secretary of Defense | 7%
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ANIMALS & THE LAW | $1000 | This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon | Tennessee | 7%
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FILMED IN GEORGIA | $400 | Seen here, Swan House, in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, stood in for President's Snow's mansion in this film series | The Hunger Games | 7%
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ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES | $1600 | In "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert meets a guy from Brazil; soon she's ready to be this, her follow-up book all about marriage | Committed | 0%
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ANIMALS & THE LAW | $800 | New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year | draw a buggy | 0%
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ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES | $2000 | She's the author of the female empowerment bestseller "Untamed" & the wife of Abby Wambach | Glennon Doyle | 0%
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ON A HOLIDAY | $200 | Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses | Halloween (October 31st) | 0%
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A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS | $2000 | In 2 kings this king of Babylon "cut in pieces all the vessels of gold... in the Temple of the Lord" | Nebuchadnezzar | 0%
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A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS | $400 | After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done" | Noah | 0%
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ON A HOLIDAY | $1000 | Pathfinder & this rover touched down on Mars July 4, 1997 | Sojourner | 0%
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IT'S A PROCESS | $1600 | Here's a vitriolic clue--the lead-chamber process produces this acid that doesn't react with lead | sulfuric acid | 0%
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