Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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GOOD HISTORY | $600 | At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there | Copernicus | 69%
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AMERICANA | $400 | He's the only president honored on Mount Rushmore who lived into the 20th century | Roosevelt | 62%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $1200 | Getting the supreme boot in Genesis, he was told, "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be" | Cain | 54%
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COLOR ME BAD | $200 | If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this | jealousy | 54%
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ACTING UP ON TV | $600 | An Oscar winner as the outspoken Erin Brockovich, in 2022 she was "Gaslit" on TV as "Mouth of the South" Martha Mitchell | Julia Roberts | 54%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $400 | In 1985 Apple's board gave this guy the heave-ho but 12 years later he got ho-heaved & was back in charge | (Steve) Jobs | 54%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $400 | We'll wear these rubberized boots & walk through all kinds of puddles to go home & enjoy the same-named beef dish | Wellingtons | 54%
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FEELIN' INDEPENDENT | $1200 | This country: 1971, from Pakistan | Bangladesh | 46%
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS | $1200 | Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military | conscription | 46%
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GOOD HISTORY | $200 | Around 400,000 B.C., hominids began to control this; one later use may have been to destroy habitat so as to aid hunting & foraging | fire | 46%
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TROPHY HUSBANDS | $400 | This husband of Nicole Kidman was the 2018 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year | Keith Urban | 46%
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS | $400 | This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws | legislative | 46%
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"THE" END | $200 | To feel intense dislike | loathe | 46%
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COLOR ME BAD | $800 | This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis | pink eye | 46%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $800 | As well as pants for horse riding, they can be ankle-high boots with a strap buckled at the side | the jodhpur | 46%
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GOOD HISTORY | $800 | In the 1960s, Stanley Lebar of Westinghouse designed a special camera that allowed 650 million to see live video from here | the Moon | 46%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $1600 | This Bolshevik got exiled to Siberia twice, expelled from the Politburo in 1926 & the Soviet Union itself 3 years later | Trotsky | 46%
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"THE" END | $1000 | Happy & lighthearted, like a title spirit in a classic Noël Coward play | a blithe | 38%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $800 | A rough New Year's Day in 1959 for Fulgencio Batista, who woke up as president of this country & went to sleep as an exile | Cuba | 38%
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AMERICANA | $800 | Georgia is a leading producer of the 3 Ps: peaches, peanuts & these praline nuts | pecans | 38%
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GOOD HISTORY | $400 | This group of 10 guarantees (out of the 12 sent to the states) was ratified in December 1791 | a Bill of Rights | 31%
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ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES | $400 | David stood upon this "Philistine, and took his sword... and cut off his head therewith" | Goliath | 31%
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FEELIN' INDEPENDENT | $2000 | Montenegro: 2006, ending a union with this other Yugoslav republic | Serbia | 31%
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"THE" END | $400 | To alleviate or provide solace | soothe | 31%
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TROPHY HUSBANDS | $1600 | John McEnroe won his last few ATP singles titles while he was married to this former child star | Tatum O\'Neal | 31%
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FEELIN' INDEPENDENT | $1600 | Belgium: 1830, from this country | the Netherlands | 31%
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FEELIN' INDEPENDENT | $400 | This Asian country, not yet divided into North & South: From France, 1945 | Vietnam | 31%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $2000 | Elected to Congress from Tennessee in 1833 as an Anti-Jacksonian, he got the boot in the 1834 election & headed off to Texas | Davy Crockett | 23%
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ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES | $1200 | "And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death" | horse | 23%
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ACTING UP ON TV | $200 | "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" stars Quincy Isaiah as this Laker rookie from Lansing | Magic Johnson | 23%
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FEELIN' INDEPENDENT | $800 | Angola: 1975, from this country | Portugal | 23%
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"THE" END | $800 | To be filled with violent emotion, perhaps rage | seethe | 23%
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COLOR ME BAD | $600 | If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part | yellow-bellied | 23%
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS | $1600 | This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin | balderdash | 15%
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THE WOUK MOB | $600 | "The Winds of War" begins with "Pug" Henry made military attache in this European city, sensing the winds of war indeed | Berlin | 15%
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ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES | $2000 | Since no one had done this for 40 years, God told Joshua to get a knife & do it to the male Israelites | circumcise | 15%
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ACTING UP ON TV | $400 | "And Just Like That...", she was back on TV as Miranda Hobbes in 2021 | Cynthia Nixon | 15%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $200 | Buzzfeed featured these double-talk, thigh-high boots "that will look totally far out in your closet" | go-go boots | 15%
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GOOD HISTORY | $1000 | In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel | the Abraham Accords | 15%
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COLOR ME BAD | $400 | This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick | the blue flu | 15%
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ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES | $800 | In Exodus, "Behold", this "burned with fire, and (it) was not consumed" | the (burning) bush | 15%
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TROPHY HUSBANDS | $1200 | Yvonne Molinaro married 2 winners of this gridiron trophy, 1954 honoree Alan Ameche & 1946's Glenn Davis | the Heisman | 15%
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS | $800 | Keep your eye on the birdie, also known by this longer name | the shuttlecock | 15%
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AMERICANA | $1600 | It's the year chiseled into Plymouth Rock | 1620 | 8%
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS | $2000 | This term for a tightrope walker comes from Latin for "rope" & "walk" | a funambulist | 8%
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TROPHY HUSBANDS | $2000 | L.A. Musicians Institute was the meeting place of Jae Lin & this husband, a 2022 Grammy winner with Silk Sonic partner Bruno Mars | Anderson Paak | 8%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $1000 | This type of boot seen here shares its name with areas in London & New York City | Chelsea | 8%
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ACTING UP ON TV | $800 | It's the last name of John Hillerman's Jonathan & Perdita Weeks' Juliet, friends of "Magnum P.I." across the decades | Higgins | 8%
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TROPHY HUSBANDS | $800 | When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money" | Martin Scorsese | 8%
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THE WOUK MOB | $800 | In a '50s bestseller Wouk's heroine Marjorie Morgenstern anglicizes her last name to this & seeks fame as an actress | Morningstar | 8%
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THE WOUK MOB | $400 | In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails | radio | 8%
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COLOR ME BAD | $1000 | Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life | red tide | 8%
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THE WOUK MOB | $200 | In a novel by Herman Wouk, unstable Captain Queeg of the USS Caine faces this title event | The Caine Mutiny | 8%
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ACTING UP ON TV | $1000 | Beltalowda! Keon Alexander showed wide range as Marco Inaros, leader of the Free Navy on this Amazon sci-fi show | The Expanse | 8%
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ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES | $1600 | As Jesus "walked by" this body of water, "he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers" | the Sea of Galilee | 8%
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ART & THEATRE | N/A | Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree | Waiting for Godot | 8%
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GIVING YOU THE BOOT | $600 | Woo-woo! All aboard these boots, known for their stovepipe calf | engineer boots | 0%
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AMERICANA | $2000 | One of New York City's oldest streets, the Bowery once led to the farm of this last Dutch colonial governor | (Peter) Stuyvesant | 0%
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THE WOUK MOB | $1000 | Physicist Guy Carpenter is out of a job in "A Hole in Texas", based on the real cancellation of the Superconducting this machine | Super Collider | 0%
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AMERICANA | $1200 | Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seen here in Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel | The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Gables) | 0%
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"THE" END | $600 | To fancy up an argument with big words, or to array with garments | to clothe | 0%
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