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Jeopardy!
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ENIGMAS$100Yes, loud and clear! Now don’t move til we’re done talking (5)
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ENIGMAS$200The latter, but isn’t it impressive how it sounds like the former? (7)
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ENIGMAS$300What do I look like, a deli on wheels? (8)
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ENIGMAS$400Cash, some credit cards, my driver’s license (4)
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ENIGMAS$500Between two buns (3)
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MYSTERIES$100Behind a mail truck (4)
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MYSTERIES$200Somewhere in rural Mississippi (5)
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MYSTERIES$300My plaid overnight bag is missing! (3)
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MYSTERIES$400Judge Doom (4)
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MYSTERIES$500George and Martha, clearly (5)
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CONUNDRUMS$100Yep, just take the 101 south from San Francisco (8)
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CONUNDRUMS$200It makes kind of a raspy bark (5)
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CONUNDRUMS$300Not much, meow meow, just licking myself and sleeping meow (3)
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CONUNDRUMS$400You must be mistaking me for someone else… (4)
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CONUNDRUMS$500The guy with the one-star review on Rover (5)
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VEXATIONS$100Yes, child I’m right here (7)
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VEXATIONS$200No, only humans can do that (6)
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VEXATIONS$300Only if they need some glue (5)
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VEXATIONS$400I don’t know, red? Yellow? I’m too scared to look up!! (5)
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VEXATIONS$500He’s lost in a big crowd (2)
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QUANDARIES$100Yes, a waiter just took our order (4)
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QUANDARIES$200Berlin, or maybe Belize (7)
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QUANDARIES$300Everyone (except maybe billionaires) (6)
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QUANDARIES$400Angela, usually, but sometimes Tony (3)
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QUANDARIES$500Ryan’s? Colin’s? (5)
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Double Jeopardy!
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POTPOURRI$800Hollywood’s most famous sword-wielding “dhampir,” or human-vampire hybrid
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POTPOURRI$1,000This colorful military man might have done it with the wrench in the conservatory
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POTPOURRI$200Invented by Philips in the 1960s, some underground labels still release music on these today. Gen Z: ask your parents
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POTPOURRI$600This 92-year-old Texan left CBS News after a public scandal, but he’s staying young with a recently launched Substack newsletter
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POTPOURRI$3,600On average, it begins around age 11 for girls and 12 for boys, although that number has been going down and scientists aren’t sure why
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ODDS & ENDS$1,800A seven nation army couldn’t hold them back (well, until they broke up in 2011)
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ODDS & ENDS$2,800It takes a long time to get home — ten years, in fact — in this ancient Greek epic
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ODDS & ENDS$3,600This James Caan crime movie with music by Tangerine Dream was Michael Mann’s first film
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ODDS & ENDS$3,200Between your incisors and your molars are these kinds of teeth, also called cuspids. Woof!
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ODDS & ENDS$1,400I have made a monument more lasting than bronze, he said, perhaps referring to his 103 Latin odes
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MISCELLANY$1,000This anthropomorphic lagomorph’s voice was based on that of a fast-talking bus passenger in It Happened One Night
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MISCELLANY$800“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship,” Rick says to him at the end of Casablanca
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MISCELLANY$3,400The eyes of this Cleopatra star were not actually violet, but a deep blue
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MISCELLANY$1,400This revolutionary three-volume work of economics and philosophy is the most-cited book in social sciences published before 1950
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MISCELLANY$1,000Their Seal of Approval has graced products since 1909
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HODGEPODGE$1,000This century-old broadcasting network is funded by annual licence [sic] fees
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HODGEPODGE$1,200The Harold is one structure used in this “Yes, and” type of live theater
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HODGEPODGE$1,600In football, it’s when a player successfully catches a forward pass from their quarterback thrown from behind the line of scrimmage
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HODGEPODGE$2,000This common girl’s name was unknown before Shakespeare apparently invented it for “The Merchant of Venice”
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HODGEPODGE$600Albert Finney stars in this Best Picture winner based on a 1749 novel by Henry Fielding
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MELANGE$1,200This 2011 comedy starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is named after a character’s odds of surviving a cancer diagnosis
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MELANGE$1,400The popularity of this name peaked in the 1960s after Disney featured her adventures in Never Land
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MELANGE$800Sha Na Na got its name from the repeated nonsense sounds in this 1957 doo-wop hit by the Silhouettes
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MELANGE$1,800This group of boneless swimmers includes the largest living species of fish, which surprisingly doesn’t eat meat
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MELANGE$1,200It’s the largest per-capita producer of oil outside the Middle East and one of the wealthiest countries in the world; can you affjord it?