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11.22.2022

Do You Know the Correct Responses to These Clues That Amy Schneider Missed in the 2022 Tournament of Champions?

Amy Schneider — the winner of this year’s Tournament of Champions — has proven to be virtually unstoppable, no matter the clue on the gameboard. After all, over the course of the tournament, the 40-game winner notched the most correct responses in a single game during the semifinals (28) and the finals (28). That said, despite being one of the best to ever do it, there were a number of clues in this ToC that left her scratching her head.

Think you’ve got what it takes to outsmart our extra-super super-champ? Perhaps you might have better luck with the clues Amy missed. Take our quiz below and find out!

*Quiz Rules: Respondents do not have to answer in the form of a question. Moderate spelling errors will receive consideration. No prizes, but big-time bragging rights.*

HITS OF 2002 This dance anthem by Pink says, "We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz"

NUMBER, PLEASE The non-profit, non-partisan news service known as "The" this number covers the state of U.S. education

REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK Alex had tons of hardware supplies, including these, also called half-moon keys; he never knew what they were for, though

MOVIE QUOTES Oft seen in writing on fact & fiction, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" includes "When the legend becomes fact," do this

HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH The name of this character writing about world myth has become synonymous with dry, out-of-touch scholarship

MOVIE QUOTES Burt Lancaster to Tony Curtis in this film: "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. you're a cookie full of arsenic"

CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural

TRAVEL In 1936 the Clipper was the first of these sleek, silvery travel trailers made of aluminum

I'M "EN" IT! It's how the food seen here is being prepared

SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME This title guy kills Lavinia, stabs Tamora, gets killed by Saturninus, who in turn is whacked by Lucius, the said title guy's son

3-NAMED PEOPLE Many students learn the history of African Americans from John Hope Franklin's antonym-titled history "From ____ to ____"

INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE There's Bollywood, but there's also Pollywood from India & Pakistan, with hits like "Carry on Jatta" in this language

RIVER RUN The Camargue, a wild & wildlife-rich region of France, is in the delta of this river that rises in Switzerland

3-NAMED PEOPLE She's the first Black woman on the Supreme Court & the first justice to have been a federal public defender

INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE Before directing blockbusters like "The Professional" & "The Fifth Element", he influenced France's cinema du look era

RIVER RUN Good Catholics know South Bend, Indiana is named for a curvature of this river

FRONTIER FOLK William Green T'Vault, frontier editor, ran Oregon's first newspaper, with this title meaning "onlooker" or "observer"

3-NAMED PEOPLE This 3-named naturalist came up with the natural selection theory around the same time as Darwin, spurring Darwin to go public

FRONTIER FOLK Horace Vesey, frontier hotelier, ran the Gold Hill Hotel in the boomtown called this "City", biggest in Nevada Territory

ONOMATOPOEIA "The Bells" pairs clamor with this word that also starts with "C-L-A"

AT THE MALL OF AMERICA Fabletics, co-founded by this actress

AT THE MALL OF AMERICA Outdoor clothing & gear from this eponymous store out of Washington State

THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE This republic of 115 islands northeast of Madagascar was uninhabited until its 18th century settlement by the French

POETRY Sylvia Plath's "Parliament Hill Fields" is set in this city that she loved & where she died

PRIMED FOR PRIME NUMBERS This man, who served 37th president, Richard Nixon, later wrote a biography of 29th president, Warren G. Harding

POETRY The "Terrible Sonnets" of this 3-named 19th c. poet aren't bad but sad, like "No Worst, There is None" & "Carrion Comfort"

GEOGRA-FLEE In July 2022 the ousted president of this country fled west across the Indian Ocean to the Maldives

PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 After being on soundtrack hits from the “Descendants” franchise, she had a hit with “Boyfriend”

USA The Northernmost point in the Lower 48 is this 130-square-mile area on Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods

PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 A groove from 1981's "Genius Of Love" by this Talking Heads side project found its way into Latto's "Big Energy"

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES The occupation seen at work on the left, or the pro football retiree on the right

A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY Not a game show prize, the San Francisco Treaty of 1951 says in Article 1 the state of war between this country & the allies is over

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES This type of cymbal keeps steady rhythm rather than providing the occasional crash; we've done that cymbal to death

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES We’ve gone for Fort Lauderdale but not for this Florida “Fort” city where Edison & Henry Ford had winter homes

FIRST-TIME RESPONSES An old French word gives us this term for a cut gem that’s rounded & polished but not faceted

NAME’S THE SAME Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase

A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS Found from Mexico to Peru, these orchids bear the name of a horrific figure from Eastern European history & the movies

RAPPERS WHO ACT (TV) Judge for yourself – born in Trinidad, she signed to Lil Wayne’s label in 2009 & voiced Pinky in “Angry Birds 2”

RAPPERS WHO ACT “I’m going back to Cali”; he’s played a Southern Cali law enforcement agent on CBS since 2009

BEASTLY BOOK TITLES A secret U.S. army unit uses paranormal powers in its missions

RAPPERS WHO ACT A nice 2011 for this 1-name star: he joined Enrique Iglesias on "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" & played Tej in "Fast Five"

MAKING AN ASSONANCE OF YOURSELF In a song title from the 1920s, these 2-word noisemakers for nuptials "are breaking up that old gang of mine"

OPERA CHARACTERS In a Bellini Opera the heroine Amina suffers from this often nocturnal affliction

COLD AROUND THE GLOBE One of mountain climbing's Seven Summits, Jaya Peak is on the Indonesian part of this big island

HEARD IN THE MOVIE From the ‘80s: “I want my 2 dollars”

COMPOUND WORDS A point of reference from which measurements are made, it was once an actual notch or line made on a permanent object

HEARD IN THE MOVIE “Fred C. Dobbs ain’t a guy likes bein’ taken advantage of – do the mug in, I say”

SPELEMENTARY Arsenic + tellurium + radon

SONGS FROM THE HIT ALBUM "2 Become 1" & "Wannabe" (part of the group name)

MEMOIRS & PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Susannah Cahalan chronicled her descent into madness while struggling with an autoimmune disease in this 2012 bestseller

MISCELLANY Though some are kept as exotic pets, this wildcat seen here is better left in the wild

MOVIES & LITERATURE Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute

FURNITURE The tambour is what gives this piece of furniture seen here its name

FURNITURE The name of this piece of furniture comes from the French for "to put to bed"

FURNITURE Often wrought iron, a shelving unit that's handy in the kitchen is called this kitchen personage's rack

FURNITURE Here's a chair designed by this pioneer of the mission furniture style

TV DRAMAS BY TITLE EPISODES “Sophomoric” “Senioritis” & “Ben Don’t Leave”

PAINT SAMPLES Benjamin West nailed history painting depicting this man's "Treaty with the Indians" on the Delaware River

HISTORIC CASTLES Poland’s Malbork Castle is the largest in Europe built with these rather than stones

HISTORIC CASTLES Built by the knights of St. John in the 11-&1200s, the crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers is in this Middle Eastern country

“P.J.”s Alexander Pope wrote of this literary term, “with her lifted scale, where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs”

BODIES OF WATER Formed in Chihuahua, the Fuerte River of Mexico flows southwestward 180 miles into this gulf

FILMS BY TAGLINE 1986: "The first casualty of war is innocence"

"P.J."s In 1979 this architect famous for his "Glass House" in Connecticut was the first recipient of the Pritzker Prize

WITH CREAM CHEESE Turn cream cheese mayonnaise into sauce parisienne by adding this parsley relative, one of the 4 classic fines herbes

2022 Tournament of Champions