2024 Jeopardy Invitational Tournament Quarterfinal Games 6-9

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“$200 ||| MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ||| A modification of a Portuguese guitar, it became popular in Hawaii in the late 19th century”,ukulele

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“$200 ||| AUTO PARTS 101 ||| When driving a pal’s treasured 1964 Pontiac GTO, go easy on this pedal that releases the crankshaft”,the clutch

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“$200 ||| CRUISE LINES ||| As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, ““This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby”” but was told the pattern was full”,Maverick

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“$400 ||| TRENDING ||| Oxford dictionaries once defined this 2-word event as when a group of strangers ““perform a pointless act & then disperse””“,a flash mob

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“$400 ||| EQUINE WORDS ||| The high version of this hairstyle was worn by Barbara Eden in ““I Dream of Jeannie”” & has been seen on Ariana Grande”,a high ponytail

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“$400 ||| CRUISE LINES ||| Client Rod Tidwell gets agent Jerry Maguire to say this 4-word phrase again & again, louder each time”,show me the money

Question 12

“$400 ||| PORTS OF CALL ||| Cruises in this country will likely begin at the port city of Piraeus, just 7 miles from the capital”,Greece

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“$600 ||| TRENDING ||| The manual for this robotic ’90s toy says, ““You can feed me by inserting your fingertip into my mouth””“,a Furby

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“$600 ||| MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ||| Ben Franklin made a ““glass”” type of this instrument, totally different from the ““mouth organ”” type”,a harmonica

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“$600 ||| AUTO PARTS 101 ||| The belt that drives your alternator, water pump & other important components is known by this snaky adjective”,serpentine

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“$600 ||| CRUISE LINES ||| In this comedy, Tom as studio exec Les Grossman dances to ““Low”” by Flo Rida & T-Pain & says, ““This is… when the job gets fun””“,Tropic Thunder

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“$600 ||| PORTS OF CALL ||| Many cruising to the Western Caribbean will set sail from this Texas city, the largest U.S. cruise port outside of Florida”,Galveston

Question 19

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“$800 ||| MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ||| The Greek for ““wood”” gives us the name of this instrument that’s struck with padded mallets”,xylophone

Question 21

“$800 ||| EQUINE WORDS ||| These vertical pieces of wood, usually 2x4s, form the framework of an interior wall”,a stud

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“$800 ||| CRUISE LINES ||| ““I am the world’s last barman poet””, Tom declaims in this film, ““America’s getting stinking on something I stir or shake””“,Cocktail

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“DD ||| MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ||| Also known as an etherophone, this boxy electronic instrument was used by The Beach Boys”,a theremin

Question 27

“$1000 ||| EQUINE WORDS ||| Asked by Herod what she wanted, the daughter of Herodias replied, ““Give me here John Baptist’s head in”” one of these platters”,a charger

Question 28

“$1000 ||| AUTO PARTS 101 ||| A seal between 2 mechanisms, the ““head”” one seals the combustion part of an engine to allow oil & coolant to circulate properly”,a gasket

Question 29

“$1000 ||| CRUISE LINES ||| Tom Cruise tells Max von Sydow in this flick, ““If you don’t kill me, precogs were wrong & pre-crime is over””“,Minority Report

Question 30

“$1000 ||| PORTS OF CALL ||| Once you arrive at this Jamaican port whose name means ““8 rivers””, you can swim with dolphins or visit Margaritaville”,Ocho Rios

Question 31

“$400 ||| DURING JAMES BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY ||| In January 1861 President Buchanan sent supplies & reinforcements to this fort, but the ship turned back when fired upon”,Fort Sumter

Question 32

“$400 ||| ARCHITECTS ||| One of the masterminds behind the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was Daniel Burnham of this Midwestern ““School””“,the Chicago School

Question 33

“$400 ||| WORLD LITERATURE ||| This French novelist’s 1843 swashbuckling book ““Georges”” follows a mixed-race adventurer who leads a slave rebellion”,Dumas

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“$400 ||| MUSIC COLLABS ||| He had a collab with Miles Davis called ““Can I Play With U?””, included on a ““Sign o’ the Times”” reissue”,Prince

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“$400 ||| THE 3 ““R””s (Ken: The letter R will appear 3 times in each correct response.) ||| Types of this household tool include slotted, hex & Robertson”,screwdriver

Question 37

“$800 ||| DURING JAMES BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY ||| In 1860 California mountain man John Adams, nicknamed this, died from a head wound suffered while wrestling one of his pet bears”,Grizzly

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“DD ||| WORLD LITERATURE ||| In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature”,Steppenwolf

Question 40

“$800 ||| MUSIC COLLABS ||| This country singer collaborated with Leon Bridges on the song ““If You Were Mine””“,Miranda Lambert

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“$800 ||| THE 3 ““R””s (Ken: The letter R will appear 3 times in each correct response.) ||| Big laxative has made good use in its ads of this word for the problem its products treat”,irregularity

Question 43

“DD ||| DURING JAMES BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY ||| On December 2, 1859 he rode to the gallows on his coffin & remarked, ““This is a beautiful country””“,John Brown

Question 44

“$1200 ||| ARCHITECTS ||| He saw himself as a trimtab, a small but powerful rudder, for humanity, & his tombstone says, ““‘Call me Trimtab’-Bucky””“,Fuller

Question 45

“$1200 ||| WORLD LITERATURE ||| Made into a Scorsese film with Andrew Garfield, this novel by Shusaku Endo follows 17th century Jesuit priests in Japan”,Silence

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“$1200 ||| I’VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU ||| 2 regions of this bone are the manubrium, which joins with the first ribs, & the xiphoid process, which is just fun to say”,the sternum

Question 48

“$1200 ||| THE 3 ““R””s (Ken: The letter R will appear 3 times in each correct response.) ||| This type of pilot in the early days of aviation would travel the country giving stunt-flying exhibitions”,barnstormer

Question 49

“$1600 ||| DURING JAMES BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY ||| New York City’s citizens, including 103 who gave $1,000 each, raised the funds to build this church; the cornerstone was laid in 1858”,St. Patrick’s

Question 50

“$1600 ||| ARCHITECTS ||| With his impressive Duomo in Florence, he was called the architect who ““renewed Roman masonry work””“,Brunelleschi

Question 51

“$1600 ||| WORLD LITERATURE ||| In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of this tale of ancient Rome, became the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize in lit”,Quo Vadis

Question 52

“$1600 ||| MUSIC COLLABS ||| 1990s hip-hop duo, Black Star, was a collaboration between Talib Kweli & this rapper, also known as Yasiin Bey”,Mos Def

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“$1600 ||| THE 3 ““R””s (Ken: The letter R will appear 3 times in each correct response.) ||| Also a tropical cocktail, it’s a person who transports illegal liquor, no matter what type”,a rumrunner

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“$2000 ||| ARCHITECTS ||| During her Pritzker Prize acceptance speech, she said her secular & modern childhood in Iraq was an influence on her career”,Hadid

Question 57

“$2000 ||| WORLD LITERATURE ||| This Chilean author of ““The Savage Detectives”” has gained wide fame in English translation since his early death in 2003”,Roberto Bolaño

Question 58

“$2000 ||| MUSIC COLLABS ||| Billie Holiday & this sax player first linked up in 1934; soon enough they gave each other nicknames, Lady Day & Prez”,Lester Young

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“$2000 ||| THE 3 ““R””s (Ken: The letter R will appear 3 times in each correct response.) ||| From the Latin for ““earth”” & meaning to make a planet suitable for human habitation, it dates back to a 1942 sci-fi story”,terraforming

Question 61

“FJ ||| OLD WORDS ||| First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word”,midnight

Question 62

“$200 ||| LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS ||| ““Tomorrow Will Be Different”” is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first”,Delaware

Question 63

“$200 ||| HOP ON THE INTERSTATE ||| After visiting Michael Jackson’s family home in Gary, Ind., enjoy views of this Great Lake off I-94 East as you enter Benton Harbor”,Lake Michigan

Question 64

“$200 ||| FREE FOR ALL ||| Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot”,Free Parking

Question 65

“$200 ||| 2-WORD POP CULTURE ||| In the preface to ““The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”” we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book”,don’t panic

Question 66

“$200 ||| ALPHANUMERICS ||| A mix of tomatoes, oranges, garlic & more, this bills itself as ““the perfect complement to burgers, steak, chicken…””“,A.1.

Question 67

“$200 ||| DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY (Ken: And finally, the satirical work by Ambrose Bierce…) ||| Under C: ““A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head””“,a cabbage

Question 68

“$400 ||| LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS ||| ““The House of Hidden Meanings”” is a 2024 memoir from this TV host & pop culture icon, both far from & totally a drag”,RuPaul

Question 69

“$400 ||| HOP ON THE INTERSTATE ||| Put Kingman in your rear view, cruise I-40 & you’ll be in Standin’ on the Corner Park in this Arizona city in 3 hours”,Winslow

Question 70

“$400 ||| FREE FOR ALL ||| The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared”,open-source

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“$400 ||| 2-WORD POP CULTURE ||| This catchphrase of Ed McMahon was uttered with creepy efficiency in ““The Shining””“,Here’s Johnny

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“$400 ||| DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY (Ken: And finally, the satirical work by Ambrose Bierce…) ||| Under H: ““An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another””“,happiness

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“$600 ||| LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS ||| This writer’s ““test”” on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as ““The Rule”” in a 1985 comic strip”,(Alison) Bechdel

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“$600 ||| 2-WORD POP CULTURE ||| Barney on ““How I Met Your Mother”” often implored his friends with this command that superheroes might receive”,suit up

Question 78

“$600 ||| ALPHANUMERICS ||| The first movie with this designation was ““Henry & June”” in 1990”,NC-17

Question 79

“$600 ||| DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY (Ken: And finally, the satirical work by Ambrose Bierce…) ||| Under P: ““A play in which the story is told without violence to the language””“,a pantomime

Question 80

“$800 ||| LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS ||| Oscar Wilde wrote 2 plays of ““importance”” but sadly, also a ““Ballad”” about this place of confinement”,Reading Gaol

Question 81

“$800 ||| HOP ON THE INTERSTATE ||| Enjoy 1,700 miles of the I-95 system, south from Bangor to this 2-word city whose name comes from Spanish for ““mouse’s mouth””“,Boca Raton

Question 82

“$800 ||| FREE FOR ALL ||| The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party”,the Free Soil Party

Question 83

“$800 ||| 2-WORD POP CULTURE ||| This memorable 1997 Apple ad campaign notably didn’t end with a ““-ly””“,Think Different

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“$800 ||| DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY (Ken: And finally, the satirical work by Ambrose Bierce…) ||| Under N: ““Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party””“,nepotism

Question 86

“$1000 ||| LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS ||| This playwright has used his uniquely gravelly voice to speak about gay rights & wrote the book for ““La Cage aux Folles””“,Fierstein

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“$1000 ||| FREE FOR ALL ||| The ““free”” type of this refers to an atom or molecule with a loose electron that can destabilize other molecules”,a free radical

Question 89

$1000 ||| 2-WORD POP CULTURE ||| Written by Sia, this Shakira song from “Zootopia” can be heard in commercials for Disney World”,”“Try Everything”

Question 90

“$1000 ||| ALPHANUMERICS ||| The Russian creator of this ubiquitous weapon was quoted as saying, ““I would prefer to have invented… a lawnmower””“,an AK-47

Question 91

“$1000 ||| DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY (Ken: And finally, the satirical work by Ambrose Bierce…) ||| Under Q: ““A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it””“,a quorum

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“$400 ||| ART TERMS ||| A painting on 2 panels, often hinged together; London’s National Gallery of Art has the Wilton one”,a diptych

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“$400 ||| ROUND HERE ||| Since 1908, the roundel has been a symbol of this system that also contains ““round””“,the Underground

Question 96

“$400 ||| TOUGH VOCAB ||| In film when characters explain the plot verbally, it’s called this, also the name of a big public fair”,exposition

Question 97

“$400 ||| HIP-POP ||| Cordell Broadus, son of this rapper who, like us, asked ““Who am I?””, was a WR for UCLA & became a streetwear fashion designer”,Snoop Dogg

Question 98

“$800 ||| BRITISH EXPLORERS ||| In 1610 he reached Canada’s James Bay; his crew soon mutinied & cast him & 8 others adrift, never to be seen again”,Hudson

Question 99

“$800 ||| ART TERMS ||| It means a picture made of inlaid tile, or pertaining to the guy to whom the 10 Commandments were revealed”,mosaic

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“$800 ||| SCIENCE ||| A ““false thumb”” or enlarged wrist bone on this animal helps it grasp bamboo stalks”,a panda

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“$800 ||| TOUGH VOCAB ||| In Latin ““fuscus”” meant dark, hence this verb meaning to deliberately bewilder”,obfuscate

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$800 ||| HIP-POP ||| Willow Smith, daughter of Will, hit the Top 40 by doing this title quite repeatedly, “back & forth””,”“Whip My Hair”

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“DD ||| SCIENCE ||| Devised by a 19th century German scientist, this scale measures a mineral’s resistance to abrasion”,Mohs hardness scale

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“$1200 ||| ROUND HERE ||| In legend, the Siege Perilous was a seat at King Arthur’s round table reserved for the knight destined to do this”,find the Grail

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“$1200 ||| HIP-POP ||| Kanye’s 10-year-old daughter, she raps on her dad’s 2024 track ““Talking/Once Again””“,North West

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“$1600 ||| BRITISH EXPLORERS ||| Born in the county of Devon, Francis Drake was knighted in 1581 & made mayor of this English Channel port there”,Plymouth

Question 111

“DD ||| ART TERMS ||| Jean Arp coined this term for Alexander Calder’s inert sculptures, often made from sheet metal”,stabiles

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“$1600 ||| HIP-POP ||| This Compton rapper died in 1995, but his son Lil this is carrying on the hip-hop name”,Eazy-E

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“$2000 ||| ART TERMS ||| Marcel Duchamp used mass-produced items for objects called these, like a bicycle wheel on a stool”,readymade

Question 118

“$2000 ||| SCIENCE ||| CMEs for short, these blasts from the aura of plasma around the Sun can occur with solar flares”,coronal mass ejections

Question 119

“$2000 ||| ROUND HERE ||| The Aldar Headquarters building, 23 stories tall & presumably, 23 stories wide, too, is in this emirate, southwest of Dubai”,Abu Dhabi

Question 120

“$2000 ||| TOUGH VOCAB ||| Meaning reverse or opposite, it’s also a rhetorical device using contrast, such as ““Give me liberty or give me death””“,antithesis

Question 121

“$2000 ||| HIP-POP ||| Hip-hop artist Chris Rivers is the son of this ““Big”” guy born Christopher Rios, the first Latino solo rapper to go platinum”,Big Pun

Question 122

“FJ ||| 20th CENTURY BOOKS ||| TIME mentioned ““cruelty & enforced conformity”” when summing up this novel with a ““stonily silent narrator””“,One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Question 123

“$200 ||| THE ANCIENTS SPEAK ||| You get an ““A”” if you know that Horace described this emotion as ““a short madness””“,anger

Question 124

“$200 ||| STATE FLAGS ||| Not ““E pluribus unum”” but this national motto appears on the flags of Georgia & Mississippi”,In God We Trust

Question 125

“$200 ||| A STANDOUT STAND-UP ||| Roy Wood Jr.: ““If they can make a documentary about your time”” in this post held by Spiro Agnew, you did the job ““incorrectly””“,vice president

Question 126

“$200 ||| PENALTIES & BONUSES ||| A ““quicker picker upper””, or a bonus given at some poker tournaments after knocking out specific players”,a bounty

Question 127

“$200 ||| CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES ||| ““Double your pleasure, double your fun”” with this brand”,Doublemint

Question 128

“$200 ||| 13-LETTER WORDS ||| From the Latin for ““ask””, it’s the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect”,interrogation

Question 129

“$400 ||| THE ANCIENTS SPEAK ||| In ““Oedipus at Colonus””, he wrote, ““Acceptance–that is the great lesson suffering teaches””“,Sophocles

Question 130

“$400 ||| STATE FLAGS ||| In 1992 this state replaced the words ““The Sunshine State”” on its flag with the words ““The Mount Rushmore State””“,South Dakota

Question 131

“$400 ||| A STANDOUT STAND-UP ||| What to do with Wanda Sykes’ ashes? ““Spread ‘em over”” this actress, Storm in ““X-Men””; ““she don’t even have to be at the funeral””“,Halle Berry

Question 132

“$400 ||| PENALTIES & BONUSES ||| In the Gospel of John, the Pharisees told Jesus that this was the penalty for adultery; he told them to be cautious judging”,death by stoning

Question 133

$400 ||| CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES ||| “I don’t wanna grow up, I’m” this kind of “kid””,”a Toys “R” Us kid

Question 134

“$400 ||| 13-LETTER WORDS ||| It’s the type of photo seen here; what do we gotta do, put it on a silver plate for you”,a daguerreotype

Question 135

“$600 ||| THE ANCIENTS SPEAK ||| In his ““Histories””, he quoted Solon as saying, ““Before he dies, call no man happy–he is at best but fortunate””“,Herodotus

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“$600 ||| CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES ||| This chain promised ““We’ll leave the light on for you””“,Motel 6

Question 140

“$600 ||| 13-LETTER WORDS ||| In this type of democracy, the political party with the most legislative seats forms a government”,parliamentary

Question 141

“DD ||| THE ANCIENTS SPEAK ||| In ““The Lives of the Twelve Caesars””, it’s said that his last words were ““What an artist dies with me!””“,Nero

Question 142

“$800 ||| STATE FLAGS ||| This state’s flag features the frigate Raleigh, built in Portsmouth in 1776 & the first ship to fly the U.S. flag in a sea battle”,New Hampshire

Question 143

“$800 ||| A STANDOUT STAND-UP ||| On ““Rolling Stone’s 500 Worst Albums””, from Blaine Capatch: ““2 Foot 2 Loose”” by Kenny Loggins & ““Idahoication”” by this bunch of Flea’s”,the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Question 144

“$800 ||| PENALTIES & BONUSES ||| There are fines & fees & then there’s this other ““F”” word referring to property seized by the po-po for criminal reasons”,forfeiture

Question 145

“$800 ||| CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES ||| This brand has been advertised as ““Two, two, two mints in one””“,Certs

Question 146

“$800 ||| 13-LETTER WORDS ||| This ““-ism”” describes the ongoing habit of judging foreign groups by the standards of one’s own culture”,ethnocentrism

Question 147

“$1000 ||| THE ANCIENTS SPEAK ||| We’re not sure if he found him, but this cynic, lantern in tote, was quoted as saying he was ““looking for an honest man””“,Diogenes

Question 148

“$1000 ||| STATE FLAGS ||| This state’s flag bears the words ““Battle Born””, referring to it becoming a state during the Civil War”,Nevada

Question 149

“$1000 ||| A STANDOUT STAND-UP ||| A chapter in Laurie Kilmartin’s ““Dead People Suck”” is ““Home Hospice: Die Surrounded by Stuff You Meant to Take to”” this charity”,Goodwill

Question 150

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Question 151

“$1000 ||| CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES ||| ““Quick, Henry,”” this old-time insecticide that also means to move quickly from place to place”,Flit

Question 152

“$1000 ||| 13-LETTER WORDS ||| From the Latin for ““to take away secretly””, it means secret or sneaky”,surreptitious

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“$400 ||| BIOLOGY ““A””, ““B””, ““C””s ||| ““A””: This clear fluid surrounds a baby in its mother’s womb”,amniotic fluid

Question 156

“$400 ||| A WARMING TREND ||| Consider your heart (but really, these) warmed in song via ““roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose””“,chestnuts

Question 157

$400 ||| MR. OR MRS. SONG ||| (It was only a hit) it was only a hit over a year after its release; now this song by the Killers is called a “millennial anthem””,”“Mr. Brightside”

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“DD ||| SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia’s rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich”,tin

Question 160

“$800 ||| PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ||| In the preface to ““Major Barbara”” he wrote, ““The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty””“,Shaw

Question 161

“DD ||| BIOLOGY ““A””, ““B””, ““C””s ||| ““C”“:In myth, it’s a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it’s an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA”,chimera

Question 162

“$800 ||| A WARMING TREND ||| After deep torpor, a Rivoli’s this, known for wing speed, can see its body temperature rise 50 degrees up to 100-plus”,a hummingbird

Question 163

“$800 ||| MR. OR MRS. SONG ||| Rapper Nas, aka Nasir Jones, claims to be the inspiration for this woman’s ““Me & Mr. Jones”” from ““Back to Black””“,Winehouse

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“$1200 ||| SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Cemented in Argentine history is this man, whose 1986 World Cup goal was aided by the ““Hand of God””“,Maradona

Question 166

“$1200 ||| PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ||| 1887’s ““Ivanov””, an early work by this playwright, centers on a depressed young man who considers suicide”,Chekhov

Question 167

“$1200 ||| BIOLOGY ““A””, ““B””, ““C””s ||| ““A””: You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom & one from dad”,alleles

Question 168

“$1200 ||| A WARMING TREND ||| This ““official blanket with sleeves”” sold 4 million in the 2008 holiday season after its fall introduction”,a Snuggie

Question 169

“$1200 ||| MR. OR MRS. SONG ||| Paul Simon said this Yankee was baffled by a lyric in ““Mrs. Robinson””, telling Paul, ““I haven’t gone anywhere””“,Joe DiMaggio

Question 170

“$1200 ||| EPONYMS ||| Last name of Belgian inventor Adolphe, who lent his name to a brass wind instrument that ranges in type from sopranino to bass”,Sax

Question 171

“$1600 ||| SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY ||| Huascar co-ruled the Inca from Cuzco; his brother Atahualpa ruled from this city that also ends in ““O””“,Quito

Question 172

“$1600 ||| PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ||| Teleplaywright J.P. Miller first gave us these ““Days”” of an alcoholic couple, later a movie & then a Broadway musical in 2024”,the Days of Wine and Roses

Question 173

“$1600 ||| BIOLOGY ““A””, ““B””, ““C””s ||| ““B””: This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones”,bilirubin

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“$1600 ||| MR. OR MRS. SONG ||| Avian name of the Adam Duritz band that in the ’90s sang, ““Mr. Jones & me tell each other fairy tales””“,Counting Crows

Question 176

“$1600 ||| EPONYMS ||| A Kochel number, used to list this composer’s works, is named for the Austrian who indexed them”,Mozart

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“$2000 ||| PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ||| As this Beth Henley play opens in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, one of the 3 Magrath sisters has recently shot her husband”,Crimes of the Heart

Question 179

“$2000 ||| BIOLOGY ““A””, ““B””, ““C””s ||| ““C”” ““C””: 2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself”,the cell cycle

Question 180

“$2000 ||| A WARMING TREND ||| In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, ““Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord””“,Ezekiel

Question 181

$2000 ||| MR. OR MRS. SONG ||| Bob Dylan wrote, “Drugs never played a part” in the creation of this song about a percussionist”,”“Mr. Tambourine Man”

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“FJ ||| U.S.S.R.I.P. ||| Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last”,Uzbekistan

Question 184

“$200 ||| TAILOR’S VERSION ||| Not quite full bespoke, MTM is this type of custom suit & also describes a type of tailoring”,made-to-measure

Question 185

“$200 ||| CURRENT EVENTS ||| On April 8th, a total this will be seen across the heart of the U.S.; it will be the last visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044”,an eclipse

Question 186

“$200 ||| REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS ||| A section of I-75 in Florida is alliteratively known as this animal ““Alley””“,Alligator

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“$200 ||| AUTHORS AT WAR ||| When he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, J.D. Salinger is reported to have had 6 chapters of this work in his jacket”,The Catcher in the Rye

Question 189

“$200 ||| SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS (Ken: We’ll need two two words in each correct response.) ||| Animal you ““play”” when feigning death& a brief & succinct explanation of an event”,possum & summary

Question 190

“$400 ||| TAILOR’S VERSION ||| Hooks & bars are a popular alternative to hooks & these, because the bars can go closer to the garment’s edge”,eyes

Question 191

“$400 ||| CURRENT EVENTS ||| As campaigning continued in chilly New Hampshire, he ended his presidential run in sunny Tallahassee”,DeSantis

Question 192

“$400 ||| REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS ||| The African clawed variety is an exception, but most frogs use this body part to catch their prey”,the tongue

Question 193

“$400 ||| INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ||| As of 2021, women also got to compete in the Olympic C1 & C2 races in this type of ““C”“raft”,canoe

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“$400 ||| AUTHORS AT WAR ||| As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar’s army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his ““Sevastopol Sketches””“,Tolstoy

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“$600 ||| CURRENT EVENTS ||| Will it be ““How soon they forget”” or ““Always remembered””? He caught the Super Bowl 58-winning pass for Kansas City”,Mecole Hardman

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“$600 ||| INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ||| The team version of this is an Olympic sport that somewhat resembles soccer, but players throw the ball rather than kick it”,handball

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“$600 ||| AUTHORS AT WAR ||| During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges”,the Seabees

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“$800 ||| TAILOR’S VERSION ||| This measurement can be about 30”” on a 5’10”” man”,an inseam

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“$800 ||| REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS ||| Pogona is the genus name for the 8 species of this lizard lovingly known as ““beardies””“,the bearded dragons

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“DD ||| AUTHORS AT WAR ||| As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground”,Dresden

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“$1000 ||| TAILOR’S VERSION ||| Sewn in a double layer, this part of a shirt adds strength & structure at the shoulders, ya big ox!”,the yoke

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“$1000 ||| REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS ||| From a Latin word for ““blind””, this worm-like amphibian spends most of its life underground”,the caecilian

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“$1000 ||| INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ||| French for ““servant””, in pro cycling it’s a rider whose job is to help a team’s leader win, not to win individually”,a domestique

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“$1000 ||| AUTHORS AT WAR ||| This author of ““Going After Cacciato”” was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade in Vietnam & received a Purple Heart”,Tim O’Brien

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“$400 ||| ART & CRIME ||| ““Vanished Smile””, a true crime book by R.A. Scotti, is subtitled ““The Mysterious Theft of”” this artwork”,the Mona Lisa

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“$400 ||| LONG WORDS ||| 14 letters: Christian doctrine laid out by Paul in Romans 8:29-30, so god doesn’t just know all but foreknows all”,predestination

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“$400 ||| ““G”“OING PLACES ||| This Scottish city is known for local slang such as ““gallus””, which means bold or daring”,Glasgow

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“$800 ||| THE 14th CENTURY ||| In a big climate switch, the Medieval Warm Period gave way to this ““diminutive”” era”,the Little Ice Age

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“$800 ||| YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? ||| We have ““High Hopes”” you’ll know that this group’s name is not from a Smiths song but one by an obscure group called Name Taken”,Panic! at the Disco

Question 225

“$800 ||| ““G”“OING PLACES ||| Antigua & Quetzaltenango are sites in the highlands of this country”,Guatemala

Question 226

“DD ||| THE 14th CENTURY ||| During the Great Schism beginning in 1378, Robert of Geneva reigned as Clement VII, this 8-letter type of guy”,antipope

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“$1200 ||| IN MY FEELINGS ||| It was ““Primal”” in the title of a Richard Gere & Edward Norton film”,Fear

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“$1200 ||| ART & CRIME ||| Art forger Elmyr de Hory is included as a subject in ““F for Fake””, a rare documentary by this film auteur”,Orson Welles

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“$1200 ||| YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? ||| This group of anarchists with a nonsensical name gained fame with its pro-drinking earworm ““Tubthumping””“,Chumbawamba

Question 231

“$1200 ||| ““G”“OING PLACES ||| The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in this city is housed in a former Woolworth’s, a site of a nonviolent protest”,Greensboro

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“$1600 ||| THE 14th CENTURY ||| What is today this seaport on a peninsula was captured by the Ottomans in 1354, their first foothold in Europe”,Gallipoli

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“$1600 ||| IN MY FEELINGS ||| It’s the second word of ““The Tell-Tale Heart””; the narrator admits that he was dreadfully so”,nervous

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“$1600 ||| ““G”“OING PLACES ||| This area stretches roughly from Paradise Point to Coolangatta in Queensland & largely consists of beach resorts”,the Gold Coast

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“$2000 ||| THE 14th CENTURY ||| In the 1380s, this Oxford theologian led an effort that translated the Bible into English”,Wycliffe

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“$2000 ||| ART & CRIME ||| After he caught a body in 1606, this artist fled Rome & took his chiaroscuro skills to Malta”,Caravaggio

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“$2000 ||| LONG WORDS ||| 14 letters: A sequence of fantastic & weird images, as seen perhaps in a dream or while hallucinating”,phantasmagoria

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“$2000 ||| YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? ||| This band with songs like ““1985”” & ““Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day””, the ““Phineas & Ferb”” theme, riffed on a Steve Martin sketch for its name”,Bowling for Soup

Question 243

“$2000 ||| ““G”“OING PLACES ||| This place in India was dubbed ““the Rome of the Orient””, since it was a center for the Roman Catholic Church in the East”,Goa

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“FJ ||| NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS ||| A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & ““got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them””“,a wardrobe