Category | Price | Clue | Response | % Correct |
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GEOGRAPHY | 200 | Of the 14 countries that border Russia this "stan" country shares the longest border with it 4 750 miles | Kazakhstan | 78%
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STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL | 200 | It's a beard trimmed to a point on the chin | a goatee | 74%
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SCIENCE | 400 | His first law of motion is the law of inertia | Isaac Newton | 74%
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WHATCHA WATCHING? | 400 | Drag queens lip-sync for their legacy on this host's "Drag Race All Stars" | RuPaul | 74%
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STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL | 400 | To bind all 4 of an animal's legs together | hogtie | 70%
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GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city founded by Europeans that is now under U.S. jurisdiction | San Juan | 63%
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HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY? | 200 | After raising $17.9 billion in a 2008 IPO this credit card company was truly everywhere it wanted to be | Visa | 59%
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LANGUAGES | 400 | Serbian & Ukrainian are written in versions of this alphabet | Cyrillic | 56%
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SCIENCE | 800 | The human this is all of the 3 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the entire set of a person's chromosomes | genome | 56%
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GEOGRAPHY | 600 | Basra is an oil-refining center & this country's main port | Iraq | 56%
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B.C.-ING YOU | 400 | Among the treasures he was buried with around 1325 B.C. was the gold mask seen here | King Tut | 56%
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SCIENCE | 1200 | Hg is the symbol for this element | mercury | 56%
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HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY? | 600 | In 1978 its eventual co-founders saw red--make that orange--after getting fired by Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers | The Home Depot | 56%
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B.C.-ING YOU | 600 | Shortly after he attained enlightenment he gave a sermon in which he presented the 4 noble truths | Buddha | 52%
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ILLUSTRATORS | 1200 | The modern image of Santa Claus owes a lot to the illustrations Haddon Sundblom created for this beverage's ads | Coca-Cola | 52%
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HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY? | 800 | There's no business like this shoe business that joined the Dow in 2013 | Nike | 52%
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B.C.-ING YOU | 1000 | X marks the spot for this king who succeeded his father Darius I as ruler of the Persian Empire | Xerxes | 52%
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LANGUAGES | 2000 | Official in the kingdom of Cambodia this language has 74 letters in its alphabet | Khmer | 48%
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LANGUAGES | 1600 | This language is known as hanguk-mal in the south & choson-mal in the north | Korean | 48%
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HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY? | 400 | This company makes Scotch Wall-Safe tape | 3M | 44%
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B.C.-ING YOU | 200 | The city of Larsa wasn't up to this Babylonian's code so he conquered it in the 1760s B.C. | Hammurabi | 44%
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GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Aka Tahoma this 14 400-foot active volcano is about 60 miles southeast of Seattle | Mount Rainier | 44%
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ILLUSTRATORS | 800 | Peggy Fortnum sketched in the London Zoo to perfect this traveling bear created by Michael Bond | Paddington | 44%
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B.C.-ING YOU | 800 | The Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. brought a temporary end to the fighting in this Greek war | Peloponnesian | 44%
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MEGALITHS | 800 | Many of the giant stone figures on this island were quarried from the crater walls of the Rano Raraku volcano | Easter Island | 37%
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LANGUAGES | 1200 | In addition to the language of the host country these 2 are the official languages of the Olympics | English & French | 33%
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GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | In 1871 Henry Stanley finally tracked down Dr. David Livingstone along the shores of this 2nd-largest lake in Africa | Tanganyika | 33%
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WHATCHA WATCHING? | 600 | This 2008 film about bomb defusers which won 6 Oscars | The Hurt Locker | 33%
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ILLUSTRATORS | 400 | In the early 1900s Rose O'Neill's popular drawings of this winged god evolved into wildly popular Kewpie dolls | Cupid | 30%
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TITLES & HONORIFICS | 1000 | In German forms of address traditionally this word goes before "doktor" if the doktor is a dude | herr | 30%
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MEGALITHS | 400 | One legend says that the tall stones in Carnac France were Roman legions petrified by this Arthurian wizard | Merlin | 30%
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TITLES & HONORIFICS | 200 | A Massachusetts paper discussed using this honorific for women in 1901; the New York Times would embrace it in 1986 | Ms. | 30%
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WEE FOLK | 400 | Paul Reubens named this childlike alter ego after a harmonica | Pee-wee Herman | 30%
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STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL | 600 | To crouch in fear | to cower | 30%
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TITLES & HONORIFICS | 400 | The wife of a lord ain't just a lady (though that is a title equivalent) she's a this | a dame | 26%
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LANGUAGES | 800 | In 2013 he added Latin to the 8 still-living languages of his Twitter account | Pope Francis | 26%
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WHATCHA WATCHING? | 800 | Truth Seekers which reunited Nick Frost & this guy who was "Shaun of the Dead" | Simon Pegg | 26%
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WEE FOLK | 800 | Billie Jean is on the 2019 album of cover songs by this Rivers Cuomo band | Weezer | 22%
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WHATCHA WATCHING? | 1000 | Drake's "Nice For What" video featuring Olivia Wilde & this ballerina | Misty Copeland | 19%
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SCIENCE | 2000 | A mother's levels of this "hormone of love" may influence the intensity of the bond between her & her child | oxytocin | 19%
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MEGALITHS | 2000 | These avian-named people of Montana have origin myths for large sacred medicine wheels like the one in the Bighorn Mountains | the Crow | 19%
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MEGALITHS | 1600 | The roof box in the 5 000-year-old Newgrange tomb in Ireland allows light to enter during this annual winter event | the solstice | 19%
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TOUGH TALK | 1200 | This last name of English novelist Thomas means sturdy & tough | Hardy | 15%
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MEGALITHS | 1200 | This 5-letter word for a circle of stones is a back-formation from the name of a famous one on Salisbury Plain | henge | 15%
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TITLES & HONORIFICS | 800 | An abbot is referred to as right this; a Roman Catholic bishop most this | reverend | 15%
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TOUGH TALK | 2000 | A tough guy from ancient Greece or a synonym for spare or frugal | Spartan | 15%
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HOW NOW DOW JONES COMPANY? | 1000 | When it comes to personal insurance boat & yacht & even umbrella insurance are all under its symbolic umbrella | Travelers | 15%
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TOUGH TALK | 400 | This hyphenated numerical adjective can mean tough or holding booze in both hands | two-fisted | 15%
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TITLES & HONORIFICS | 600 | American legal eagles are commonly called this but it also can refer to the eldest son of a baronet | esquire | 11%
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WHATCHA WATCHING? | 200 | Space Force with this actor seen here portrays science advisor Dr. Adrian Mallory | John Malkovich | 11%
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SCIENCE | 1600 | Working according to the same principles as a laser a maser gets the "M" in its name from this word | microwave | 11%
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ILLUSTRATORS | 1600 | Daniel Beard provided dashing but comical illustrations for this novel by Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | 7%
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TOUGH TALK | 1600 | Meaning able to recover quickly from a setback it's from Latin for "to bounce back" | resilient | 7%
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EUROPEAN LANDMARKS | FINAL | Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel none were foreigners | the Louvre | 7%
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STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL | 1000 | It's the proud & historic region seen here | Catalonia | 4%
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WEE FOLK | 2000 | He was Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight Men Out" & Doug Dorsey in "The Cutting Edge" | D.B. Sweeney | 4%
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TOUGH TALK | 800 | There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded | hard-nosed | 4%
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WEE FOLK | 1600 | This singer-songwriter founded the band Wilco | Jeff Tweedy | 4%
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STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL | 800 | Bilirubin & carotene are these coloring agents | pigments | 4%
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WEE FOLK | 1200 | This model is married to Gene Simmons | Shannon Tweed | 4%
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ILLUSTRATORS | 2000 | Around 1890 Kate Greenaway illustrated the pages of a children's story by this British poet | Robert Browning | 0%
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