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This adjective for loans to less-than-stellar borrowers was much in the news in the last few years |
sub-prime loans
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He was the second president of the Mormon church |
Brigham Young
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Sulfur dioxide emissions lead to this nasty atmospheric deposit |
acid rain
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Orwell's essay on this says it should be strong & made in small quantities & that one should use the Indian or Ceylonese type |
(Nina: What is ink?)
tea
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In 2007 Gisele (Bundchen), Amber (Valletta) & this Naomi all showed up for Dior's 60th anniversary show |
(Naomi) Campbell
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The HP CP4005 is a pretty good model of this |
(David: What is a computer?)
a printer
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"Big" this is a sarcastic remark meaning "who cares?"; you could also say "no big" this |
whoop
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Marie Curie won her first Nobel Prize in Physics; her second was in this field |
chemistry
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It's in group 5a of the periodic table, sublimes at 1,135 degrees & my 2 zany aunts put it in elderberry wine |
arsenic
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Her "Out of the Dark" essays include "How to Become a Writer", "Our Duties to the Blind" & "What the Blind Can Do" |
Helen Keller
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Like many Eastern European models, Anya Kazakova is renowned for her malars, these skeletal features |
cheekbones
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It's a coming together of 3 words & 3 birds, served by some on Thanksgiving |
turducken
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Henry VIII secretly married this second wife in 1533, after she got pregnant |
Anne Boleyn
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If a mechanic tells you he put CH2(OH)CH2(OH) in your radiator, he means this |
antifreeze
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H.L. Mencken wrote a notorious essay on the "unbroken and agonizing ugliness" of this state's steel towns |
Pennsylvania
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With a name like Chanel Iman, the November 2009 cover girl of "teen" this had to be a supermodel |
(Teen) Vogue
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Numerical term for the unnamed guest of the person to whom an invitation is addressed |
the plus-one
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In 1954, a year after Everest, this second-highest mountain was conquered |
K2
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There are 2 types of solid: ice & sugar are crystalline, while glass & blankets are this, meaning "shapeless" |
amorphous
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After publishing an essay on Will Strunk, he was asked to revise Strunk's "The Elements of Style" |
(E.B.) White
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From 1950 to 1992 model Lisa Fonssagrives was married to Irving Penn, famous in this profession |
photographer
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This pioneering microwave oven from Amana cost $495 when introduced--pretty steep for 1967 |
[End-of-round signal sounds.]
the Radarange
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8-letter word for an especially vigorous microorganism, like a bacterium that's become drug-resistant |
(Nina: [shakes head])
a super-bug
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From 1577 to 1580 he commanded the second voyage ever to go around the world |
(David: Who is Francis Bacon?) (Nina: Who is Marco Polo?)
Francis Drake
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This adjective can precede "entropy" or "zero" |
absolute
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In this 1841 essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson urged people to trust their own judgment above that of all others |
(Tony: What is "On Civil Disobedience"?)
"Self-Reliance"
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In 2007 Natalia Vodianova made news by working the catwalk 3 weeks after doing this |
giving birth
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The G.E. Smith Telecaster is from this guitar company |
Fender
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