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THAT'S MY NICKNAME, DON'T WEAR IT OUT |
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1 of 4 Olympic medalists who played Tarzan in feature films |
(1 of) Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe, Glenn Morris or Johnny Weissmuller
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Baseball's "Dizzy" pitching phenom of the 1930s |
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
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A dedicated athlete is said to "give" this, equal to 55/50 |
(B: What is "the extra 10%?")
110%
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This Shakespearean title character kills Laertes & the king, then dies from poisoning |
Hamlet
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This U.S. city was the birthplace of Connie Chung, Edward Herrmann & John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
(P: What is Boston?)
Washington, D.C.
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A reverse-charge call in Britain is what Americans usually term this |
Collect call
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In 1950 this comic pair were "In The Foreign Legion" |
Abbott & Costello
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This 19th century U.S. president was known as "Old Three Stars" |
Ulysses S. Grant
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A child following in parental footsteps often hears that this "never falls far from the tree" |
Apple
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In a 1901 story, Sherlock Holmes solves the death of this gentleman who's been killed by a large dog |
(S: No response.)
Mr. Baskerville
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Great Britain controls the strategic island of Diego Garcia, found in this third-largest ocean |
Indian Ocean
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In 2000 Penn State's faculty senate denounced football fans' "negative cheering", or this activity |
Booing
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In this film Johnny Depp, as journalist Raoul Duke, goes to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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A politician: "Tail Gunner Joe" |
Joseph McCarthy
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If someone has sold you this list of products, you've been taken |
Bill of goods
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In this book Miss Havisham dies when her wedding dress catches on fire |
Great Expectations
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This river runs through Kazan on its way to the Caspian Sea |
Volga River
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Aberican Heritage defides it as a viral infection idflabing bucous bebrades liding upper respiratory passages |
(B: What is a stuffy nose?) (Note: This is the way the clue appeared on the board, with Alex phrasing it as is.)
Common cold
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Duchess, voiced by Eva Gabor, was the mother of Berlioz, Marie & Toulouse in this Disney film |
(B: What is "Gay Purr-ee?")
The Aristocats
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He was the "Boy Producer" of the movies who married Norma Shearer |
Irving Thalberg
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In toasty terms, to be keenly aware of one's own interests is to "know" this |
Which side your bread is buttered on
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Hit by a stray bullet, Paul Baumer dies at the end of this Erich Maria Remarque novel |
All Quiet on the Western Front
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This Western Hemisphere nation is home to 100 million souls, one-fifth of them in its capital city |
Mexico
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Aristotle called this type of drama "The imitation of an action that is serious and...complete in itself" |
(Alex: Doesn't it help a great deal when you're able to figure it out?!)
Tragedy
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[Hi, I'm Vince Neil] My debut single "You're Invited But Your Friend Can't Come", appeared in this 1992 Brendan Fraser-Pauly Shore comedy |
Encino Man
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Henry VIII's fourth wife, known as the "Flanders Mare" |
Anne of Cleves
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This regretful 5-word sentence is a Thomas Wolfe book title |
You Can't Go Home Again
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This captain & his ship disappear into a maelstrom at the end of a Jules Verne tale |
(Bob: What is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?) ... (Alex: We were going for the character, not the title of the story.)
Captain Nemo
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1 of the 2 non-European countries closest to Cannes, France |
Algeria or Tunisia
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The name of this Wisconsin city is French for "root" |
Racine
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