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In 1992 Santo Domingo's Quinto Centenario celebration honored this explorer's discovery |
Christopher Columbus
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The color Shirley Eaton was painted all over her body |
gold (in Goldfinger)
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These dark patches on the sun's surface appear & disappear in regular cycles |
sunspots
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They "scream" & TV movies are "ripped" from them |
headlines
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Arthur C. Clarke followed his book "The Nine Billion Names of God" with this other numerically titled tale |
2001: A Space Odyssey
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Length in yards you have to dash to cover an American football field goal line to goal line |
100 yards
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Every August this country is home to the Reggae Sunsplash |
Jamaica
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James Bond's old flame, Teri Hatcher, was put out in this 1997 film |
Tomorrow Never Dies
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From the Greek for "yoke", it's a cell formed by the union of 2 gametes |
a zygote
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Look it up; it's the total of the fixed costs of running a business |
overhead
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Her 1997 book "Violin" features a phantom violinist |
Anne Rice
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The Olympic record for tossing one of these is 73 feet, 8 3/4 inches in 1988 |
a shot put
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El Yunque, the only truly tropical rain forest in the U.S. national forest system, is on this island possession |
(Mark: What is the Virgin Islands?)
Puerto Rico
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This "License To Kill" co-star seen here now has a license to practice "Law & Order": |
Carey Lowell
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Creature seen here, in full bloom |
a sea anemone
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Shark with the know-how to "tool around" the sea |
a hammerhead
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Be thankful we're not going to list all the characters in his "Gravity's Rainbow"; there are over 400 |
Thomas Pynchon
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The greatest length of the Jewish one of these is 385 days |
a year
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It's T&T to the natives but Desmond Tutu called this nation the rainbow country |
Trinidad & Tobago
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She set the style for girls to come with her body of work as Honey Ryder in "Dr. No" |
Ursula Andress
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Son of a gun! This female seed-bearing part of a flower consists of a stigma, a style & an ovary |
the pistil
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Acrobatic phrase meaning "hopelessly"; it describes someone who's hopelessly "in love" |
"head over heels in love"
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This 1993 Robert Altman film was based on a few tales of Raymond Carver |
Shortcuts
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You're at sea if you know this length is 1 mean minute of arc on the meridian |
a knot (or nautical mile)
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The Dutch side of this island uses 110 volts, the French side, 220 |
(Mark: What is Martinique?) (Lo: What is Antigua?)
St. Martin (or St. Maarten)
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Natalie's sister, she was Plenty O'Toole in "Diamonds Are Forever" |
Lana Wood
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Announced on February 14, 1946, this first electronic digital computer had 18,000 vacuum tubes |
(Alex: Is that what you were going to say, Lara?) (Lara: No, I was going to say UNIVAC.) (Alex: Aren't you glad we ran out of time on that one?)
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)
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Lots of people look up to these... well, okay, lots of dead people |
headstones
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The upshot is he won the Howell's Medal for his "Wapshot Scandal" |
John Cheever
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This distance used in astronomy is abbreviated pc & is equal to 19.2 trillion miles |
(Alex: Lo, before you decide on how much you're going to wager, I want to avoid us receiving a lot of mail on that last clue; a knot, ladies and gentlemen, is usually an indication of a speed measurement, but it is also, I believe, the third definition in "nautical mile".)
a parsec
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