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TRADITIONAL ANNIVERSARY GIFTS |
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WINNING CLAMS AT THE CASINO |
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Christina Aguilera talks about tackling this very difficult song |
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
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From the Spanish for "stray animal", it's a wild horse, or a sports car |
a mustang
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The 8th: This alloy, so maybe use one of your old Olympic medals |
bronze
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Reddening of the face in the presence of someone you're crazy about |
a crush blush
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Wheel! Of! Mis-fortune! PBS noted if you bet $100 an hour on this game, you'd lose an average of $5.26 an hour over time |
roulette
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Shonda Rhimes discusses the importance of doing research, as she did when creating & writing this show |
Grey's Anatomy
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The roar of this type of monkey can be heard 2 miles away, & also right here |
a howler monkey
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The 35th: This marine organism, so be creative & take a trip to the Great Barrier Reef |
(Kate: What is pearl?)
coral
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An oxford that's a piece of evidence at a crime scene |
a clue shoe
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Many prefer the safety of the Panama Canal to dealing with this S. American cape rounded by a Dutch navigator in 1616 |
Cape Horn
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Life was a bowl of cherries when a Vegas man won $4.6 million & years later, $21.1 million on a Megabucks one of these |
(Mary: What's a lottery?)
a slot machine
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Here's this celebrity chef teaching about knife skills |
Gordon Ramsay
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The Chinese call this native animal da xiong mao, meaning "great bear cat" |
a panda
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The 11th: This metal, so anything Superman-related |
(Mary: What is krypton... ite?) ... (Alex: Yes, the Man of [*].)
steel
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A sense of excitement in Sao Paulo |
a Brazil thrill
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First sighted in 1488, this dangerous South African cape will never quite be rounded by the Flying Dutchman |
the Cape of Good Hope
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Somehow this game even makes the concept of insurance exciting; splitting may also play a key role |
blackjack
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Serena Williams talks about how to master the fundamentals of these, forehands & backhands from the baseline |
(Kate: What is a swing?)
ground strokes
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Descriptive moniker for this South Asian export |
(Mary: What's a wild boar?)
a pot-belly pig
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The 2nd: This fiber, so how about a set of sheets with a high thread count |
cotton
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An irritating inconvenience at Balmoral |
(Kate: What is a Scottish itch?)
a castle hassle
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Swift water rescue teams frequently visit the Great Falls area of this river between Reston & Bethesda |
the Potomac
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The race & sports book has special cards to let you do this to your winnings, plow them right into the next wager |
(Alan: What is let it ride?) [Originally ruled incorrect; ruled correct during the contestant interviews.]
parlay (or let it ride)
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Steve Martin explains how he found the voice of Ruprecht in this film with Michael Caine |
(Alex: And for those of you who are watching, ladies and gentlemen, and were wondering why we credited Alan with a correct response a little while ago, it had to do with the WINNING CLAMS AT THE CASINO, when he came up with "Let it ride".)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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A porpoise with a purpose would know that along with whale & dolphins, they make up this mammalian order |
cetaceans
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The 30th: These gems, perhaps a string of the seed type |
pearls
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The most essential chorus |
the main refrain
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In 2016 the waves at Mavericks in this "lunar" California bay were gnarly, dude, like totally hitting 50 feet |
Half Moon Bay
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One joker is added to a 52-card deck & may be used to complete any flush or a straight in this Asian type of poker |
pai gow
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