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2 of Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional castaway he inspired |
Robinson Crusoe
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Suggestions on what to call this device ranged from farscope to telebaird |
(Eric: What is a telescope?)
television
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It's one layer of toilet paper or wood |
Ply
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James Whitcomb Riley wrote of the time when this "is on the punkin", & he didn't mean a fellow poet |
Frost
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Continent Columbus thought he was going to when he set sail in August 1492 |
Asia
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Bull's-Eye was Bill Sikes' mean dog in this Dickens novel |
"Oliver Twist"
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This river in Washington & Oregon was explored by Robert Gray in a ship of the same name |
Columbia
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Hubert Booth, not Herbert Hoover, developed the first practical electric one of these in 1901 |
Vacuum cleaner
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A young fish, a way to cook it, or a "small" (unimportant) person |
Fry
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It must be hard to sleep late in Kipling's "Mandalay", where "The dawn comes up like" this |
(Eric: What is day?)
Thunder
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In 1932's legendary "Called Shot" his gesture indicated the ball would be going into the center field bleachers |
Babe Ruth
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Lobo sang about "Me and You and a Dog Named" this |
Boo
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In 1697 Jesuits founded Loreto, the 1st permanent European settlement on this "lower" peninsula |
(Alex: And we have a minute to go.)
Baja California
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In 1982 one of these vehicles deployed a satellite for the first time |
Space shuttle
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An eye irritation, or a pigpen |
Sty
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The Pacific Northwest is the setting for David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these |
Cedars
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Jesus went from Bethany to this city where he had his last meal |
Jerusalem
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He's Augie Doggie's father |
Doggie Daddy
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The island of Mindanao is a Muslim center in this mainly Roman Catholic country |
Philippines
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Until a 1967 table top model with a smaller electron tube was introduced, this kitchen device was big & pricey |
Microwave oven
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A large coffee container, or a large vase to stash one's ashes |
Urn
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(Here's Al Roker with the clue.) This type of low-pressure area provides the title for chapter 1 of "The Wizard of Oz" |
(Helen: What is a tornado?) (Eric: What is a thunderstorm?) ... (Alex: Last clue...) [The end-of-round signal sounds.] (Alex: ...hidden from view forever; it may never, never appear.)
Cyclone
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To try to prevent her son from going to this city to fight, Thetis disguised Achilles as a girl & sent him away |
Troy
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When an ancient Greek said, "Love me, love my dog", more often than not the dog was one of these |
Maltese
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To call the Rotorua Man, you'll have to ring up this antipodean island nation |
New Zealand
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On August 12, 1981 the world saw the first IBM personal computer using this Microsoft operating system |
MS-DOS
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It equals 1/1000th of an inch |
Mil
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Type of nightclub Mick Jagger was "going to" in a 1982 Rolling Stones song |
A Go Go
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This dog wants you to take a bite out of crime |
McGruff the Crime Dog
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