Category | Points | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS | 400 | Tories is a nickname for this U.K. political party | Conservative | 87%
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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN | 400 | In 1613 the English kidnapped this daughter of Powhatan to use her as a hostage in negotiations | Pocahontas | 87%
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OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS | 200 | A job like a chauffeur or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally | a driver | 80%
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SUBTITLED NONFICTION | 600 | Parents Children and the Search for Identity is the subtitle; the title completes the proverb "the apple doesn't fall far..." | From the Tree | 73%
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IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 200 | Great Fountain Geyser | Yellowstone | 73%
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THE 1960s | 1200 | In the Six-Day War Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall | Jordan | 67%
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THE 1960s | 2000 | In 1964 he was called back to Moscow from a Black Sea holiday & told he was no longer in charge in the USSR | Nikita Khrushchev | 67%
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MUSICALS BY LYRICS | 800 | Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings... | The Lion King | 67%
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BEVERAGES | 600 | The original plant-powered drink; the first half of its ingredients are tomato puree carrots celery & beets | V8 | 67%
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MUSICALS BY LYRICS | 400 | One short day in the Emerald City... full of so much to do | Wicked | 67%
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BEVERAGES | 800 | In 2020 McDonald's celebrated the 50th anniversary of this minty St. Patrick's Day treat | a Shamrock Shake | 60%
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SUBTITLED NONFICTION | 400 | Over the Edge of the World charts this 16th century explorer's "Terrifying Circumnavigation of the World" | Ferdinand Magellan | 60%
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MUSICALS BY LYRICS | 1600 | Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes how do you measure measure a year? | Rent | 60%
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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN | 200 | Susan La Flesche the first Native person to get this kind of degree had a solo practice covering the vast Omaha reservation | an MD (a medical degree) | 53%
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CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD | FINAL | Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent | Australia | 53%
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BEVERAGES | 200 | 7UP is among the soda brands that have replaced this word on their labels in favor of "zero sugar" | diet | 53%
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IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 600 | Alligator Creek Campsite | Everglades | 53%
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS | 800 | It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area | jurisdiction | 53%
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AUNTIE | 400 | In this novel Jo is ill-suited as a companion to her Aunt March | Little Women | 53%
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OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS | 800 | A certain member of our military forces or an adjective that refers broadly to the sea | Marine | 53%
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ESTABLISHMENT | 1200 | In 1999 Nunavut Territory was established out of the eastern portion of this other Canadian territory | the Northwest Territories | 53%
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ESTABLISHMENT | 400 | The Judiciary Act of 1789 created this position in the cabinet first held by Edmund Randolph | attorney general | 47%
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ALL APOLOGIES | 1600 | In 2010 John Henry Newman author of the "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" underwent this process that precedes canonization | beatification | 47%
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OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS | 1000 | Someone who oversees construction work or a muscle that becomes shorter | contractor | 47%
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THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | 200 | Performing in 2020 just after their family suffered a miscarriage this piano maestro dedicated "Never Break" to his wife | John Legend | 47%
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ALL APOLOGIES | 800 | The 1531 Apology of the Augsburg Confession was a defense of the doctrines of this branch of Protestantism | Lutheranism | 47%
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THE 1960s | 1600 | On the medal podium in this city John Carlos & Tommie Smith raised fists & also wore no shoes to highlight poverty in America | Mexico City | 47%
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THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | 400 | Straight Up now name this woman who closed the 2019 show with a greatest hits medley | (Paula) Abdul | 47%
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS | 1200 | This period in English history refers to the return of Charles II to the throne | Restoration | 47%
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ALL APOLOGIES | 400 | Robert Barclay's 1678 "Apology for the True Christian Divinity" stated the beliefs of this sect also called the Society of Friends | the Quakers | 47%
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AUNTIE | 1200 | The haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh does not approve of a match between this nephew of hers & Elizabeth Bennet | Fitzwilliam Darcy | 40%
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ESTABLISHMENT | 800 | In 1887 this man systematically created the first U.S. library school at Columbia | Melvil Dewey | 40%
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BEVERAGES | 400 | It's the beverage most associated with Dad's & Hires | root beer | 40%
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THE 1960s | 400 | Protests in May 1968 that rocked Paris were kicked off by student occupation & police action at this Latin Quarter school | the Sorbonne | 40%
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AUNTIE | 800 | Jan Handzlik played the young Patrick Dennis who is taken in by this exuberant auntie played memorably by Rosalind Russell | Auntie Mame | 33%
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IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | In California Twenty Mule Team Canyon | Death Valley | 33%
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IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 400 | The McKinley Station Trail | Denali (National Park) | 33%
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MUSICALS BY LYRICS | 1200 | Hey sanna hosanna hey JC JC you're alright by me | Jesus Christ Superstar | 33%
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SUBTITLED NONFICTION | 200 | An Oral History of this cable TV channel's "Golden Age" in the 1980s & '90s is shared in "Slimed!" | Nickelodeon | 33%
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SUBTITLED NONFICTION | 1000 | Tears of Mermaids reveals "The Secret Story of" these gems | pearls | 33%
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OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS | 400 | It can mean highest in rank or value as well as someone of high rank at your school | principal | 33%
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ALL APOLOGIES | 1200 | This English statesman published an "Apology" defending Catholicism in 1533; 2 years later he was headless | Sir Thomas More | 33%
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BEVERAGES | 1000 | The name of this popular Chinese tea is less popularly spelled with a W-U at the beginning | oolong | 27%
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THE 1960s | 800 | Broadening his message from civil rights on March 2 1965 Martin Luther King made his first public statement against this | the Vietnam War | 27%
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THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | 600 | We won't dance around it--this band! at the 2019 show made their ma proud & lived up to the chorus of a hit tune | Panic! at the Disco | 20%
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SUBTITLED NONFICTION | 800 | Eats Shoots & Leaves is subtitled "The Zero Tolerance Approach to" this part of writing | Punctuation | 20%
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ESTABLISHMENT | 1600 | The Ayyubid Dynasty created by this famed hero ruled Egypt in the 12th & 13th centuries | Saladin | 20%
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THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | 1000 | At the 2021 show this letter-perfect indie pop trio gave a smokin' performance of "Bang!" | AJR | 13%
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ALL APOLOGIES | 2000 | This Bishop of Hippo in North Africa published an apology in 388 titled "On the Holiness of the Catholic Church" | Augustine | 13%
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS | 2000 | This science studies the universe as a whole bringing together astronomy & physics | cosmology | 13%
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IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 1000 | In Arkansas Bathhouse Row seen here | Hot Springs National Park | 13%
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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN | 600 | Sarah Winnemucca was the first Native woman to secure this protection with 1883's "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims" | a copyright | 7%
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AUNTIE | 2000 | Her "astonishment was almost unspeakable" upon finding a fence whitewashed (ostensibly) by Tom Sawyer | Aunt Polly | 7%
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MUSICALS BY LYRICS | 2000 | In short there's simply not a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here | Camelot | 7%
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ESTABLISHMENT | 2000 | Initially worried about Axis control of this passage Britain created a base on Deception Island off Antarctica | Drake's Passage | 7%
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THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS | 800 | This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021 | Glass Animals | 7%
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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN | 800 | Making-Out-Road divorced this frontiersman & state capital name source Cheyenne style leaving his stuff outside her lodge | Kit Carson | 7%
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OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS | 600 | Not just an occupation it's also a type of fruity pie | a cobbler | 0%
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AUNTIE | 1600 | Seen here she plays Aunt Lydia on "The Handmaid's Tale" | Ann Dowd | 0%
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS | 1600 | The name of this genus of bacteria honors a veterinarian with a fishy last name | Salmonella | 0%
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NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN | 1000 | A mural in Oklahoma's capitol honors 5 Native American ballerinas including these 2 sisters Maria & Marjorie | the Tallchief sisters | 0%
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