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Category	Cash	Clue	Answer	% Correct
GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1700s	$200	1721 saw Robert Walpole become the first person to hold what would be called this high political office	prime minister	92%
CHEERY-"O"	$200	Kahlil Gibran wrote this cheery sort of person "sees the rose and not its thorns"	an optimist	77%
CHEERY-"O"	$400	A "standing" one of these after your powerful monologue is sure to bring you a smile	an ovation	77%
GLACIERS	$600	99% of the world's glacial ice is located on Antarctica & this big island well to the north	Greenland	77%
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS	$800	"Heart of Dixie"	Alabama	69%
HEARING RED	$800	In 1988 UB40 drank up attention singing this title, "Stay close to me, don't let me be alone"	"Red Red Wine"	69%
WRITER, WRONGER	$400	Terrible with money, this Mo. humorist invested in James Paige's multi-ton typesetter; he later fantasized about Paige's slow death	Mark Twain	62%
WOOD	$800	Boards sold as "knotty" this might be from the Scotch or Monterey types	pine	62%
HEARING RED	$200	In 1984 Nena floated to No. 2 on the charts, singing, "Scramble in the summer sky, 99" of these "go by"	red balloons	62%
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS	$200	"The Volunteer State"	Tennessee	62%
GLACIERS	$200	Iceland's vast Vatna Glacier is dotted with these; their heat can periodically cause melting & flooding	volcanoes	62%
WOOD	$400	The eastern red type of this wood has a distinct aroma & insect-repelling quality that make it popular for closets & chests	cedar	54%
WOOD	$1600	This strong, durable 3-letter conifer is commonly used for building walls, floors & ceilings	fir	54%
GLACIERS	$1000	When glaciers retreated in Norway, seawater filled the floor of the resulting trough, creating these, like the Sogne	fjords	54%
GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO ODGEN	$400	This country surrounded by China & India joined the United Nations in 1955	Nepal	54%
GLACIERS	$400	Tasman Lake in this country is one of the few lakes in the world where you can see icebergs	New Zealand	54%
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS	$1000	The Midwest's "Birthplace of Aviation"	Ohio	54%
GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1700s	$1000	Not as famous as James Watt, around 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented an initial version of this machine	a steam engine	46%
WOOD	$1200	The black & sweet types of these fruit trees provide tight-grained woods prized by craftspeople	cherry	46%
HEARING RED	$600	For Peter Gabriel, this unusual title precipitation "is coming down... pouring down all over me"	"Red Rain"	46%
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS	$400	"Great Faces, Great Places"	South Dakota	46%
GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1700s	$400	After 9 years' work, in 1755 Samuel Johnson published this pioneering reference work	the dictionary	46%
CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE	$400	The first in a series had Morpheus, Trinity & Agent Smith	The Matrix	46%
GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1700s	$600	Jacobite supporter Lord Lovat was the last person publicly executed this way in Great Britain--he was spared hanging, drawing & quartering	beheading	38%
WRITER, WRONGER	$1200	This poet & lord is said to have had an affair with his half-sister Augusta in 1813, the year he wrote "The Bride of Abydos"	(Lord) Byron	38%
CHEERY-"O"	$1000	Greeks of good cheer will exclaim this 3-letter word, perhaps after breaking a plate	opa	38%
CHEERY-"O"	$800	Shakespeare wrote, "Why, then the world's" my this "which I with sword will open"; hopeful indeed!	oyster	38%
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS	$600	Not a state, "Isla Del Encanto"	Puerto Rico	38%
CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE	$1200	Sharon Tate, Bruce Lee & Jay Sebring came to town	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	31%
CHEERY-"O"	$600	Cheers to the NCAA Final Four, where the MVP is called the "M.O.P.". with the "O" short for this	outstanding	31%
CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE	$2000	Captain Miller, Sergeant Horvath & Corporal Henderson in a '90s epic	Saving Private Ryan	31%
GREAT BRITAIN IN THE 1700s	$800	In March 1743 this sacred oratorio received its London premiere conducted by Handel himself	the Messiah	31%
THE RAVEN-POURRI	$200	"Ah, distinctly I remember it", this conflict of legend ignited by Paris & Helen, & in the room that I now dwell in, "Quoth the raven..."	the Trojan War	31%
FAMILIAL PHRASES	$800	If things are going swimmingly for you in the U.K., you might exclaim "Bob's your" this	uncle	31%
TRIAL & ERA	$800	At the center of 2013's U.S. v. Manning was this website that made sensitive secret information public	WikiLeaks	31%
TRIAL & ERA	$2000	This lawyer & statesman used his trademark rhetoric to convict corrupt Sicilian magistrate Gaius Verres in 70 B.C.	Cicero	23%
THE RAVEN-POURRI	$1000	"Other friends have flown before", to this northeastern Canadian region, bounded by its self-named sea & more, "Quoth the raven..."	Labrador	23%
GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO ODGEN	$1600	25 miles east of Vegas, this man-made lake was just 37% full in 2021, sparking energy concerns for the American Southwest	Lake Mead	23%
GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO ODGEN	$800	Kings up through Alfonso XIII lived in the Royal Palace in this world capital	Madrid	23%
TRIAL & ERA	$1600	1895 saw this writer initially suing for libel, but the tables turned & he was soon on the hook for "gross indecency"	Oscar Wilde	23%
HEARING RED	$1000	This country star, the son of a big league pitcher, hit the Top 40 in 2002 with "Red Rag Top"	Tim McGraw	23%
CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE	$800	Ernesto de la Cruz & Miguel got animated in the land of the dead	Coco	15%
WRITER, WRONGER	$800	The State Dept. issued guidelines to handle the drinking habits of this Mississippi writer on his official trips abroad	Faulkner	15%
GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO ODGEN	$1200	This city of more than 4 million people is home to the Jamia Mosque & Kenyatta University	Nairobi	15%
THE RAVEN-POURRI	$600	"Presently my soul grew stronger", & I'd wait no longer! This "small" French cake I'd make, I swore! "quoth the raven..."	petit four	15%
FAMILIAL PHRASES	$1200	This rhyming phrase suggests women should prioritize sibling-like relationships with other women over those with men	sisters before misters	15%
WRITER, WRONGER	$1600	Known for his wildly graphic writing, kidnapping & other horrific excesses, he was transferred to the Bastille in February 1784	the Marquis de Sade	15%
HEARING RED	$400	Toddlers worldwide know this group sang, "Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car" on their TV show	The Wiggles	15%
WRITER, WRONGER	$2000	This author of "Naked Lunch" shot & killed his second wife in a drunken accident	William S. Burroughs	15%
CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE	$1600	Annie Savoy & Nuke LaLoosh were good sports	Bull Durham	8%
GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO ODGEN	$2000	It's a county in Michigan, a borough in Jersey & a city in Northern California's Alameda County	Oakland	8%
MUSICAL THEATER	N/A	It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina	Porgy and Bess	8%
TRIAL & ERA	$1200	Peter Heywood, a crew member of this ship, won "his majesty's royal mercy" in 1792; others would later hang from a yardarm	the (HMS) Bounty	8%
FAMILIAL PHRASES	$400	A big vein in the mining biz, or a valuable source of anything	the mother lode	8%
THE RAVEN-POURRI	$400	"As of someone gently rapping", rapping at this alliterative item seen here"; what for? "Only this and nothing more"	a Dutch door	0%
FAMILIAL PHRASES	$2000	This phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V" now refers to any close-knit group, not just a military unit	band of brothers	0%
FAMILIAL PHRASES	$1600	As a verb, it means exempt from new legislation	grandfather	0%
TRIAL & ERA	$400	A Synodus Horrenda of 897 saw Pope Formosus guilty; 3 fingers were lopped off, but he felt nothing as he was in this state	he was dead	0%
THE RAVEN-POURRI	$800	"All my soul within me burning", we see here this singer of 1999s "Candy" returning with such name as?	Mandy Moore	0%
GLACIERS	$800	This glacier in Alaska is named for naturalist John, who visited it in 1879; it has since receded & thinned	Muir (Muir Glacier)	0%
WOOD	$2000	This soft, lightweight red wood is named for a man born in what is now Tennessee around 1775	sequoia	0%