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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICS |
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Stabbed the king & made him drink poison--something is rotten in the state of Denmark... & it's him |
Hamlet
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1970: "(They Long To Be) Close To You" |
The Carpenters
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Made of lace & ribbons over a framework, a commode was worn on top of this in the late 1600s |
(Alex: Yeah, hard to believe, it was worn right up there on your [*].) [Laughter]
head
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Each defender guards a section of the playing area in this system of sports defense |
zone
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It reigns as West Virginia's official state butterfly |
monarch
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The song ends by rhyming this word with "brave" |
(Ann: What is save?)
wave
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Witness says he "does murder sleep" & the guy okayed the hit on Banquo, but what we have here, Frank... is regicide |
Macbeth
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1975: "Have You Never Been Mellow" |
(Donal: Who is Donovan?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Olivia Newton-John
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A housedress was named for this nursery rhyme character, who was not the mom of Scientology's founder |
Old Mother Hubbard
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This Italian squash can be eaten raw, steamed or grilled, or baked in a sweet bread |
zucchini
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The syringa, also known as the mock orange, is Idaho's official state this |
(Ann: What is tree?) (Erica: What is bush?)
flower
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It's the color mentioned in the song that's also one of the colors in the U.S. flag |
(Donal: What is blue?)
red
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Blood spatter says the guy killed Paris, then himself. The girl stabbed herself... ain't love grand |
Romeo and Juliet
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Lord Spencer may have invented the Spencer style of this by burning off one of his tails, then cutting off the other |
(Erica: What's a dinner [*]?) (Alex: Mmmm, nope. Anyone else? What is a [*]? Not a dinner [*]. More along the lines of a coat or an overcoat.)
jacket
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2-word term for the weightlessness experienced by astronauts in orbit |
zero gravity
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When Virginia got a state one of these animals, the gov.'s office released a poem that mentioned Adam West |
bat
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They're the type of elevated fortifications o'er which "we watched" |
ramparts
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3 dead daughters, by poison, hanging & suicide; I wouldn't want to write the family Christmas card... this year |
King Lear
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A sack dress with box pleats in the back was named for Antoine Watteau, a famous 18th c. one of these |
painter
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The Lozi people move to higher ground during the annual flooding of this African river |
the Zambezi
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Appropriately, the official state cantata of Connecticut has this spicy 6-letter name |
nutmeg
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The punctuation mark that ends the first verse, the one that's usually sung |
(Erica: What's an exclamation point?) (Alex: No. Ann or Donal? What is a [*]? Exclamation park... mark is the second verse.)
question mark
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The Duke's been stabbed, then drowned in a barrel of wine; looks like the drinks... are on him |
[Alex dons glasses after "looks like".] (Alex: Nobody wants to ring in on this one for [*], Duke of Clarence?)
Richard III
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It's a French name for a Polish dance, as well as a fitted top & overskirt ensemble of the 1700s |
(Ann: What is a durndel?) (Alex: No... the French name for a Polish dance, a [*]? Sounds easy after you get it, right?)
polonaise
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Sounds scary, but Colorado's official state fish is the greenback cutthroat type of this |
trout
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The 2 times of day mentioned in the first 2 lines |
(Ann: What is dawn and early?) (Erica: What is dawn and night?)
dawn & twilight
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