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For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this |
(Babu: What is work?)
the drawing board
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This star seen here broke the Las Vegas color line in 1954: |
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The shells of these nuts were dyed red to make them distinctive to consumers & to disguise blemishes |
Pistachios
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A cold-blooded vertebrate |
Reptile
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Francisco Franco died Nov. 20, 1975 in this capital city |
(Greg: What is Havana?)
Madrid
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Located on the borders of Arizona & Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 & got "presidential" in 1947 |
Hoover Dam
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To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this |
Scratch
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"The Birdman of Alcatraz" is one of the classic roles of this star, seen here: |
Burt Lancaster
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These kidney-shaped nuts grow from the bottom of a tropical "apple" |
(Babu: What are macadamias?)
cashews
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A device permitting passage of one paying customer at a time |
Turnstile
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Sometime after Nov. 20, 1975 this "SNL" "Weekend Update" anchor reassured us that the Generalissimo "is still dead" |
(Lisa: Who is Dan Aykroyd?)
Chevy Chase
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The Grand Coulee Dam's reservoir, Roosevelt Lake in this state stretches 150 mi. toward Canada's border |
Washington
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To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling |
(Babu: What is roll?)
start the ball rolling
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The man seen here died in 1996, 7 weeks after celebrating this birthday: |
100th (George Burns)
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The paste of these nuts is an ingredient in marzipan |
Almonds
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A non-Mormon or a non-Jew |
Gentile
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In the spring of 1939 Franco won unconditional victory in this war begun in 1936 |
Spanish Civil War
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Construction of the Aswan High Dam, which holds back Lake Nasser in this country, cost $1 billion |
Egypt
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The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years |
Raise the curtain (Curtin)
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His smash songs include the 1948 million-seller "Nature Boy": |
Nat King Cole
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This nut contains more fat & calories than any other nut |
(Babu: What is a peanut?)
macadamia
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It describes an unsuccessful endeavor |
Futile
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Franco wanted a piece of the rock when he demanded the return of this U.K. territory to Spain in the '60s |
Gibraltar
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First proposed by Sun Yat-sen, the Three Gorges Dam in this nation will be the world's largest when finished |
the People's Republic of China
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In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this |
(Lisa: What is the New York Marathon?) ... (Alex: We have a minute to go, Babu.)
the New York Stock Exchange
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On her long-running TV show, she was the matriarch of the Stone family of Hilldale: |
Donna Reed
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The New England Journal of Medicine reports this nut, including the English or Persian type, can help your heart |
Walnut
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Relating to trade or commerce |
Mercantile
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Franco's regime was ostracized for its Fascist policies by this organization formed in October 1945 |
United Nations
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Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first major dam built by this New Deal agency |
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
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