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WHO WANTS TO BE A LEGIONNAIRE? |
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Haiti |
(Sidney: What is, um... Uh! No.)
the Dominican Republic
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This leader of The Miracles co-wrote "The Tears Of A Clown" with Henry Cosby & Stevie Wonder |
Smokey Robinson
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"Born with" one of these "in one's mouth" is a reference to a high-end christening gift |
a silver spoon
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Technically, it's the only country in the world that you can't be from to enlist in the French Foreign Legion |
France
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It's the only letter of the alphabet not used in the names of the 50 states |
Q
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Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet |
Oprah Winfrey
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Cambodia |
(Sidney: What is Laos?)
Vietnam
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His solo in Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" has been called the greatest guitar solo ever |
(Sidney: Who is Beck?) (Mark: Who is Plant?) (Alex: No. Cait's not gonna ring in. She's frozen with her signaling device up in the air like this. Who is [*]?)
Jimmy Page
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Louis Philippe formed the Foreign Legion in 1831 in support of the conquest of this North African nation |
Algeria
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In Genesis 6, it's described as being 50 cubits wide |
Noah's Ark
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Practice, practice, practice & you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th & 7th |
(Cait: What is Radio City Music Hall?)
Carnegie Hall
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This "brotherly" blue-eyed soul act returned to the Top 10 in 1974 with "Rock And Roll Heaven" |
The Righteous Brothers
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The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s |
(Cait: What is Peoria?) ... (Alex: Ooh, the expression is, I thought, fairly familiar. "Banned in [*]." [*].)
Boston
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During this 1870s war, the Legion attempted to lift the siege of Paris by breaking through the German lines |
the Franco-Prussian War
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Up to 50 yards of cloth may be used in one of these headdresses worn by Sikhs & Muslim men |
a turban
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On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial |
(Sidney: Who is Miriam Anderson?)
Marian Anderson
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He was as famous for his "duckwalk" as for the songs "Johnny B. Goode" & "Maybellene" |
Chuck Berry
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The area to the side of a stage gives us this 2-word phrase for performing without preparation |
(Sidney: What is ad-lib?)
wing it
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Life in the Legion was portrayed most notably by this 1924 Percival Wren novel that's been made into a film many times |
Beau Geste
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In exchange for more than 1,000 POWs, this country received about $50 million from the U.S. in December 1962 |
(Sidney: What is North Korea?) (Mark: What is South Korea?)
Cuba
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When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts & began a riot |
The Rite of Spring
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This group made its Top 40 debut in 1968 with "Suzie Q" |
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
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Shakespeare's Cleopatra used this expression for her youth, "When I was green in judgment" |
(Alex: She talked about her [*] when she was green in judgment.)
salad days
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While most Legion units are based in mainland France, 1 unit is based in Calvi on this Mediterranean Island |
(Sidney: What is Elba?) (Alex: No, sorry. What is [*]? You were thinking of Napoleon, probably.)
Corsica
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In some versions, this Hellenic hellhound has as many as 50 heads |
(Sidney: What is Cerebus?) (Cait: Uh, what is the hydra?) ... (Alex: [*], not Cerebus, yes. A slight error there that cost you.)
Cerberus
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The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J. |
(George) Gallup
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