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Ogadai had some big stirrups to fill when he succeeded this man as supreme Mongol |
Genghis Khan
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It often means "of foreign origin", but put it in front of "dancer" & you've got yourself a stripper |
exotic
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In hair accessories, then sunglasses: Sam Foster &... |
(Bill) Grant
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Technically, a drama only has one of these; another character may be the antagonist or deuteragonist |
protagonist
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Along with lemons, which contain more vitamin C, this citrus fruit was used to prevent scurvy |
(Tracy: What is the orange?)
limes
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If an appliance runs at 10 amperes on 115 volts multiply 10 x 115 to get 1,150 of these |
watts
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In 2001 the Australian state of Victoria banned all Good Friday showings of this '70s film--whatever "possessed" them? |
The Exorcist
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In beauty products : Robert Chesebrough &... |
Theron Pond
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"Cohort" is properly used in the singular to mean a group; it was originally a unit in this army |
Roman
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This state was the first to begin raisin' raisins, in the 19th century |
California
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To get the number of these, multiply the number of kilometers by 100,000 |
centimeters
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Born in 1725, he created scandals in his home of Italy & in France, made love to a lot of women, & died in 1798 |
Casanova
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A synonym for expatriates, or the title of a James Joyce play about amorous entanglements |
exiles
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In menswear: The Hart brothers, Joseph Schaffner &... |
(Marcus) Marx
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This adjective from the Latin for "native" emphasizes that something is native to an area rather than from outside |
indigenous
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Early New England colonists sang about eating this gourd morning & noon, & not just in October |
pumpkins
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To calculate a pitcher's ERA, divide earned runs by innings pitched & multiply by this |
(Matt: Um, what are strikeouts?)
9
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This 3-time Democratic Presidential candidate was called "The Boy Orator of the Platte" |
(Matt: Who is Mondale?)
William Jennings Bryan
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The great silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" seen here is a prime example of this style of cinema |
expressionist
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In British retail: Michael Marks &... |
Spencer
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Musicans cringe when this word meaning "a slow increase in loudness" is used to mean "a climax" |
crescendo
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In Matthew 21 Jesus cursed one of these trees for not being fruitful enough |
fig tree
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When cooking, to get the number of these in a given number of cups, multiply by 16 |
tablespoons
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England's King Charles II was given this jovial sobriquet, maybe because he had at least 13 mistresses |
(Tracy: What is Lucky Chucky?) (Alex: No. Whoa! [laughter all around] Lucky Chucky, okay. No. he was known as the [*], but Lucky Chucky sounds pretty good to me. [applause])
Merry Monarch
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(Hi, I'm Dana Delany.) I played the dominatrix boss of an S&M fantasy resort in this 1994 film that co-starred Rosie O'Donnell |
Exit to Eden
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In U.S. retail: Abraham Abraham &... |
(Isidor or Nathan) Straus
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This word meaning "reciprocal" may also mean "shared", as when it precedes "friend" in a Dickens title |
mutual
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"Ah, why should life all labor be?" asks Tennyson's "eaters" of this fruit |
(Tracy: What is the peach?)
lotus
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Have plenty of zeroes on hand when using Einstein's equation of energy with mass multiplied by this, squared |
speed of light
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