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In 1989 both the hardcover & paperback editions of his “Cardinal of the Kremlin” were bestsellers |
Tom Clancy
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The 1968 film in which Mia Farrow discovers she has a bun in the coven |
Rosemary's Baby
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Nearly 40% of the people in Washington state live in the metropolitan area of this city |
Seattle
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If you want to talk Frisian grab your clogs & head to this low country's Friesland province |
The Netherlands
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The IBF, the International Federation for this sport, knows the correct size for shuttlecocks |
badminton
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Astonished, as if suddenly smacked by lightning's partner |
thunderstruck
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This author seen here was born Howard Allen O'Brien; her name was soon changed
[Woman with fairly short black hair shown] |
Anne Rice
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Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke & Ben Stiller form a romantic triangle in this 1994 Stiller directed |
Reality Bites
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Large hydroelectric facilities were built at this city in New York state in the 1890s |
(Bob: What is Buffalo?) (John: What is Albany?)
Niagara Falls
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This Scandinavian language spoken in Reykjavik is derived from Old Norse |
Icelandic
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The Liberty Federation was founded in 1986 by Jerry Falwell as a successor to this group |
Moral Majority
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It's the adjective for someone who irrationally fears black cats or a category like 13-letter words |
(John: What is triskaidekaphobia?)
superstitious
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He subtitled his 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions”, “Or Goodbye Blue Monday!” |
Kurt Vonnegut
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Detroit is the city protected by this title character; some might have called the performance robotic |
RoboCop
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This Tennessee port named for an Egyptian city was founded by Andrew Jackson & 2 partners in 1819 |
Memphis
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The Yoruba language of this country is centered in the southwest, including the city of Lagos |
Nigeria
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It was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 by workers wanting an 8-hour day |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
AFL
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Fowl is foul but pears are fair & peas should please a follower of this dietary practice |
vegetarianism
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She said, “I didn't realize I had an imagination until I wrote ‘Scruples’” |
Judith Krantz
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1991 movie in which Harrison Ford as lawyer Henry Turner becomes a better person after he's shot in the head |
Regarding Henry
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The name of this western Wisconsin city on the Mississippi River honors a Native American sport |
Lacrosse
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The Divehi language of Maldives is related to this language of Sri Lanka |
(Bob: What is Tamil?)
Sinhalese
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It's a more general term for an algebraist; that just about sums it up |
mathematician
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This author wrote 11 novels featuring Lanny Budd, including “A World To Win” & “Dragon's Teeth” |
(Patty: Who is Seton?)
Upton Sinclair
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The final film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy that began with “Blue” & “White” |
Red
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Alaska's largest city, it's also the state's commerce & transportation center |
(Alex: Patty, how come you didn't get in ahead of him on that one?) (Patty: His reflexes are faster.) (Alex: Yes, they are. All right go again, Bob.) (Bob: It's just nerves.)
Anchorage
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English & Siswati are the official languages of this small landlocked African nation |
Swaziland
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From Lower Latin for “killing”, it's the kind of shame that's so humiliating you could just die |
(Bob: Oh, that's not 13-LETTER WORDS. What is mortif...?) (John: What is mortifying?)
mortification
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