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Wallets made from slime eels may do this to your bank cards |
desensitize (demagnetize)
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It's the only continent where monotremes, egg-laying mammals, are found |
Australia
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The largest indoor set ever built was the UFO landing site for the climax of this '77 blockbuster |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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The World Almanac lists this man, born circa 1860, as a botanist, chemurgist & educator |
George Washington Carver
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One can hold a stamp in an album or a door to its frame |
a hinge
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Of spit, spat or sput, the proper term for a young oyster |
a spat
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Of 3, 6, or 10, the number of mainland countries on North America |
(Rod: Uh, what is 3?) (Carol: What is 6?)
10
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The hills of Cardiff, Wales are alive with the fact that Myra Franklin has seen this movie 940 times |
The Sound of Music
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It was under this name that Elijah Poole led the Black Muslims |
(Kevin: What is Muhammad X?) (Rod: Uh, who is Muhammad Elijah?)
Elijah Muhammad
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It's 2 strips, one with nylon hooks & the other with nylon pile |
Velcro
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This cephalopod is sometimes called "pearly" & sometimes called "chambered" |
a nautilus
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The 12 countries that signed the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 represent this many continents |
6
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A Shelley Duvall scene in this Stanley Kubrick 1980 thriller, set the record for most takes in a talkie--127 |
(Kevin: What is Nashville?) (Carol: What is Carrie?) ... (Alex: Nashville was an Altman film, not a Kubrick film.)
The Shining
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Hiram Revels, who finished out Jefferson Davis' term in 1879, was 1st Black elected as this |
(Carol: What is a representative?)
a (U.S.) senator
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Working on a vacuum principle, they hold your Garfield doll to your car window |
a suction cup
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When a coelacanth fish was caught near Africa in 1938, scientists were interested for this reason |
because it was thought to be extinct
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It's the continent with the greatest population density |
Europe
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"Lights of New York", which came out a year after "The Jazz Singer", was the 1st one |
(Rod: Uh... what is the, uh, first musical?) ... (Alex: The Jazz Singer was partly talkie & partly silent.)
all talking film
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One of the 1st Blacks to get a patent, Henry Blair got his 2nd in 1836 for a device to plant this crop |
cotton
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Its name might have come from the Latin "scrofa" meaning "sow", since its threads look like a sow's tail |
(Alex: Not fast enough, Kevin.)
a screw
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Some folks call this mollusk the devilfish, perhaps because of its scary-looking appendages |
(Alex: Carol, we've got less than a minute to go, select.)
the octopus
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Though basically centered in 1 country, it has the most adherents of any religion in Asia |
(Carol: What is Buddhism?) ... (Alex: For India.)
Hinduism
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This spaghetti Western starring Henry Fonda & Jason Robards had the longest screen credits, 12 minutes |
Once Upon a Time in the West
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A founder of this group, W.E.B. Du Bois, edited its magazine "The Crisis" |
(Carol: What is the Socialist Party?)
the NAACP
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The long metal pin that holds your shish kebab together |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a skewer
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