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Trinidad's Pitch Lake is a natural lake of this black substance used to surface roads |
Tar/asphalt
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Fiery name given the short shorts women were wearing in 1971 |
hot pants
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This emergency room term is short for a Latin term meaning "immediately" |
Stat (Statim)
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It's a cattle or horse pen, OK? |
Corral
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Before 1997 she was best known for her standup, her sitcom & her book "My Point... and I Do Have One" |
Ellen DeGeneres
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1996 film in which Eddie Murphy played most of the extended family of an "extended" chemistry teacher |
The Nutty Professor
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In 1889 this Caribbean island was joined politically to Trinidad |
Tobago
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In the early 1970s an "Earth" type of these came into vogue; later came a "chunky" type |
a shoe
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Meaning a feeding apparatus, IV stands for this |
Intravenously
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When Abilene decided to clean up its image in 1871, it dismissed this "wild" marshal |
Wild Bill Hickok
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Despite his cherubic appearance, this comic is known for raunchy material: |
Buddy Hackett
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This phrase can mean all-encompassing, or from the first course of a big meal to the last |
From soup to nuts
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This form of folk music popularized by Belafonte originated in Trinidad |
Calypso
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In the '70s people were shelling out big bucks for necklaces made of these Hawaiian shells |
Puka shells
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Acute, meaning sudden & brief, is the opposite of this term that means persistent |
Chronic
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Cibola, as in the 7 Cities of Cibola, is the Spanish word for this large animal of the plains |
Buffalo
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He performed off-center "sick comedy" before occupying the center of "The Hollywood Squares" |
Paul Lynde
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Not a snack for big sluggish guys, it's usually 4 or 5 of these that secure a wheel onto a car |
Lugnuts
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U.S.O.C. president Leroy Walker, not Runner, once coached this Trinidadian Olympic team |
(Monica: What is the bobsled team?)
track & field
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It was the nightclub fad that even had Gene Kelly doing it on film wearing the skates I'm holding |
(Alex: And these are the actual skates Gene Kelly wore. I wonder if they would fit me?)
roller disco
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DNR, used to contraindicate life-prolonging treatment, stands for this |
do not resuscitate
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Way before they made cars, Studebaker had these covered for the Old West |
Wagons
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Sunglasses-sporting priest who's the "altar" ego of comic Don Novello |
(Bruce: Who is Dr. Guido Sarducci?)
Father Guido Sarducci
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The ballet in which a little girl is entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy |
The Nutcracker
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What the Trinidadians call Shango, the Haitians call this |
Voodoo
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In 1974 this singer streaked to the top of the pop charts with the fad-based song "The Streak" |
Ray Stevens
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It's not a backup for a farm machine, but a device to pull back tissue so a surgeon can look inside you |
Retractor
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As this Arizona city's marshal in 1881, Virgil Earp earned some money from the prostitutes' license fees |
Tombstone
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I Hate Myself is the production company of this female comic who starred in "The Truth About Cats & Dogs" |
Janeane Garofalo
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It's Connecticut's "spicy" nickname |
"The Nutmeg State"
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