| Category | Cash | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1984 | $200 | In September Pope John Paul II visited this country & spoke up for the rights of the Inuit | Canada | 82%
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| HOLLYWOOD & LINE | $200 | A classic line from this 1972 film is "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" | The Godfather | 60%
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| THIS & THAT | $200 | In July 2019 this D.C. monument was "turned" into a rocket for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 | the Washington Monument | 60%
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| IKEA NAMES | $1000 | Rugs called Roskilde, Silkeborg & Osted are among things bearing names of towns not in Sweden but in this country | Denmark | 52%
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| GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS | $400 | Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah meet at a spot called this | Four Corners | 48%
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| IKEA NAMES | $400 | Billy, a popular one of these especially for your library, is named for IKEA employee Billy Liljedahl | a bookshelf | 47%
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| THIS & THAT | $800 | The U.S. Navy wanted to paint this bridge that opened in 1937 with yellow & black stripes so that it would be more visible in the fog | the Golden Gate Bridge | 47%
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| HOLLYWOOD & LINE | $1000 | Jennifer Lawrence to Bradley Cooper in this film: "Calm down, crazy" | Silver Linings Playbook | 35%
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| THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! | $200 | Jem Finch, Mayella Ewell | Harper Lee | 34%
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| THIS & THAT | $400 | A giant sculpture of a dead Norwegian blue parrot in London celebrated the 2014 reunion of this comedy troupe | Monty Python | 34%
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| IKEA NAMES | $200 | Spoka, meaning "to haunt", is a line of these to illuminate kids' rooms | night lights | 34%
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| 13-LETTER WORDS | $800 | The formula for this measure of a circle is pi times the diameter | circumference | 33%
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| HOLLYWOOD & LINE | $600 | "I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm" this moniker | The Dude | 29%
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| 13-LETTER WORDS | $400 | Bodybuilding includes a fair amount of this activity, using barbells & other resistance training devices | weightlifting | 29%
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| 1984 | $400 | 1984 was the first model year for the minivan from this company with Lee Iacocca as its CEO | Chrysler | 28%
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| THIS & THAT | $600 | O. vulgaris, a species of this mollusk, has been called the most intelligent of all invertebrate animals | an octopus | 27%
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| NEIL BEFORE ME | $1200 | Before guitarist Neil Giraldo, there was this other Neil from Ohio who piloted the X-15 to the edge of space | Armstrong | 24%
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| THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! | $600 | Robert Langdon & "the hulking albino named Silas" | Dan Brown | 24%
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| GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS | $1600 | Chogori & Dapsang are local names for this very tall mountain | K2 | 24%
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| HOLLYWOOD & LINE | $400 | Movie that gave us "Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex... no capes!" | The Incredibles | 24%
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| A BRUSH WITH DEATH | $400 | A cleaver in the head is part of Bellini's "Assassination of St. Peter" this, one who dies for his faith | a martyr | 21%
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| THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON | $800 | In 1703 this scientist had enough gravitas to be named president of the society | Newton | 16%
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| THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON | $400 | In 1919 the society was able to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity by photographing this event you shouldn't stare at | a solar eclipse | 15%
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| 1984 | $600 | "The rainbow is mandating a new definition of greatness", he told the 1984 Democratic Convention | Jesse Jackson | 13%
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| GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS | $800 | The Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal & Viminal are these | the seven hills of Rome | 12%
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| HOLLYWOOD & LINE | $800 | From 1984, it "is out there!...it doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. & it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead" | The Terminator | 11%
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| THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON | $1200 | The society first met in 1660 after a lecture by this architect, long before he designed St. Paul's Cathedral | (Christopher) Wren | 10%
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| THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! | $800 | Arthur Dimmesdale, (Young) Goodman Brown | Hawthorne | 10%
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| A BRUSH WITH DEATH | $1200 | "The skeleton atop the canopy bed is a reminder of our mortality", said this woman who painted herself in "The Dream" | (Frida) Kahlo | 9%
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| NEIL BEFORE ME | $1600 | 2 years before Neil Diamond was born there, this "Laughter In The Rain" singer-songwriter was born in Brooklyn | Neil Sedaka | 9%
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| THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! | $400 | Jason Bourne, a whole lot of people chasing Jason Bourne | Robert Ludlum | 8%
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| NEIL BEFORE ME | $2000 | In journalism, before Neil Cavuto came Neil Sheehan, who got a huge scoop in 1971 with these Defense Department documents | the Pentagon Papers | 8%
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| A BRUSH WITH DEATH | $1600 | El Greco's painting of the Virgin Mary cradling her dead son is called this, like Michelangelo's famous sculpture of the same subject | (The) Pietà | 8%
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| IKEA NAMES | $800 | This item that you often need to buy at checkout for $1.50 is called Frakta | a (shopping) bag | 7%
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| IKEA NAMES | $600 | Alkalisk is the name for these sold at IKEA | batteries | 7%
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| A BRUSH WITH DEATH | $800 | A Tahitian girl named Teha'amana stares at the viewer in his painting "Manaò Tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)" | Paul Gauguin | 7%
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| NEIL BEFORE ME | $800 | Neil Gaiman won a Newbery Medal for "The Graveyard Book"; this Neil won a Pulitzer for "Lost in Yonkers" | Simon | 7%
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| 1984 | $800 | Thousands gathered at this iconic L.A. location for Olympic track & field events | the L.A. Coliseum | 7%
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| GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS | $1200 | It's in the middle of the Susquehanna River just south of Harrisburg | Three Mile Island | 6%
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| A BRUSH WITH DEATH | $2000 | Jacques-Louis David painted "The Death of..." this Frenchman in 1793, the year of his assassination | Marat | 5%
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| 13-LETTER WORDS | $1600 | 13-letter adjective for the fluid that surrounds the brain & other parts of the nervous system | cerebrospinal | 4%
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| NEIL BEFORE ME | $400 | Before Neil Gorsuch, A.B. Neil similarly believed in the original meaning of the Constitution as Chief Justice of this in Tennessee | the state supreme court | 4%
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| GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS | $2000 | There aren't actually 8 rivers in this Jamaica port, but there are plenty of resorts, like Sandals Royal Plantation | Ocho Rios | 3%
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| 13-LETTER WORDS | $1200 | It's the term for repetitive echoing | reverberation | 3%
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| THIS & THAT | $1000 | Qualatex, which offers an exam to become a CBA, certified this artist, is a brand of microfoil & latex ones | balloons | 1%
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| THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON | $2000 | In 1920 the society awarded William Bateson a royal medal for his work in this field of biology he had named in 1905 | genetics | 1%
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| 13-LETTER WORDS | $2000 | This adjective with a meaning similar to "rebellious" refers to one who won't accept the authority of a superior | insubordinate | 1%
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| THOSE ARE MY LITERARY CHARACTERS! | $1000 | Mr. Sammler, who had a "Planet"; Von Humboldt Fleisher, who had a "Gift" | Saul Bellow | 1%
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| 1984 | $1000 | Prince Charles came to give Brunei independence as an Islamic one of these, based on the title of the man to Charles's right | a sultan (sultanate) | 0%
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| BESTSELLING AUTHORS | N/A | Now in her 70s, this author splits her time between Paris & San Francisco, often writing 20 to 22 hours a day on an old typewriter | Danielle Steel | 0%
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| THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON | $1600 | In one of the society's first experiments, this founding member soon to be known for his "law" of gases tested an air pump | (Robert) Boyle | 0%
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