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| President about whom Mort Sahl supposedly asked "would you buy a used car from this man?" |
Richard Nixon
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| 2-letter "factor" inherited in red blood cells |
the Rh factor
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| Kind of play where "Oliver" sings for his supper |
a musical
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| Africa's only permanently frozen peak, Hemingway wrote of its snows |
Mount Kilimanjaro
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| Any flat, level surface, like a runway or a carrier deck |
a plane
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| Bad luck for a skier, good luck for an actor |
"break a leg"
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| Karl Marx said it's "the opium of the people" |
religion
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| The Frenchman Laennec invented this instrument to listen for sounds inside a body |
(Alex: Less than a minute in the round.)
the stethoscope
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| Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" is divided into 9 of these |
acts
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| For over 50 yrs. he operated a jungle hospital in Lambarene, Gabon |
(Kathleen: Who is Dr. Stanley?)
Dr. (Albert) Schweitzer
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| Schoolchild's instrument used for measuring & constructing angles |
a protractor
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| In legal terms, forcing unauthorized entry into another's home |
breaking and entering
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| He said, "I took the Canal Zone & let Congress debate & while the debate goes on, the canal does too" |
Teddy Roosevelt
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| Muslims use a red crescent, Israel a red star of David to symbolize their versions of this health org. |
the Red Cross
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| Civic location of Ireland's Abbey Theatre |
Dublin
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| In 1822, freed American slaves named this country's capital Monrovia, after U.S. pres. |
Liberia
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| A closed curve in which every point is equidistant from the center |
a circle
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| A Bert Parks game show, or what you want to do in Monte Carlo |
Break the Bank
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| In 1939, he called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" |
Winston Churchill
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| The "sunshine vitamin" |
vitamin D
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| The women in "Lysistrata" swear to be celibate until this is brought to an end |
(Dan: What are the Trojan Wars?) ... (Alex: You had the right part of the world, but the wrong wars. Not the Trojan Wars. This was the war between Athens and Sparta, known as the [*].)
the Peloponnesian Wars
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The celebrated South African folksinger who is probably best known for this song:
"Igqirhha lendlela nguqo ngqothwane / Igqirhha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane / Igqirha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane" |
(Sal: Who is Odetta?) (Alex: Oh, I'm sorry, that's wrong. This lady made her American debut some years ago with Harry Belafonte, and her name was [*]. And that was the famous click song.)
Miriam Makeba
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| An equilateral, equiangular tetrahedron |
(Dan: What is an isosceles triangle?) (Kathleen: What is a rectangle?)
a square
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| A '79 Best Film nominee about a biking boy who wanted to be Italian |
Breaking Away
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| He wrote "Private Lives" in just 2 weeks |
Noel Coward
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| His "Elements" is the basis for the modern science of geometry |
(Dan: Who is Pythagoras?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Euclid
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| Flatt & Scruggs' blue grass theme song for the film "Bonnie & Clyde" |
(Kathleen: Um, I don't know.)
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
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