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Lavoisier was one of the men on the committee that came up with this measurement system in 1790s France |
metric system
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As of 2001 all new passenger cars must have a release latch here |
(inside) the trunk
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"Quiet Man" Marion Michael Morrison |
John Wayne
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In a restaurant the fromager does for cheese what the sommelier does for this |
(Phillip: What is to open?)
wine
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The priests blew their trumpets, Joshua's people shouted, & this city's "wall fell down flat" |
Jericho
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This adjective describes the Six Million Dollar Man's legs & right arm |
bionic
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In 1891 Brucia, the 323rd asteroid discovered, was unique as it was the first one found by using these |
(Sarah: What is a telescope?)
photographs
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Restlessness after a period of confinement is called this dwelling's "fever" |
cabin fever
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Dancer Frederick Austerlitz |
Fred Astaire
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle.) Aboard a Boeing 80A-1, Iowan Ellen Church became the first of these workers in 1930 |
(Sarah: Uh, what is an airline steward?) (Alex: Steward, [*], [**]--any of the above. Go again.) ... (Alex: [Before the Daily Double at clue 24] A little while ago, I accepted "What is steward?" on that clue in OCCUPATIONS. I accepted that erroneously because I figured it's a synonym for [**] or [*], but it turns out that there were stewards on planes in Europe in the 1920s, so this lady, uh, from Iowa was not the first steward.)
stewardess (flight attendant)
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Joseph & Mary traveled to this city of Joseph's ancestors "to be taxed" |
Bethlehem
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A premolar, from the Latin for "2 points" |
bicuspid
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In the 1780s William Herschel determined its axial inclination & found it had ice caps |
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go.)
Mars
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A "Giant" hunk: Roy Scherer, Jr. |
Rock Hudson
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Playwright Noel's ancestors presumably worked closely with these animals |
cows
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Lot's house was located in this wicked city |
Sodom
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Baking soda is also called sodium this |
bicarbonate
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The discovery of this element in 1669 has led to a lot of friction--in matches |
(Kim: What is sulphur?)
phosphorus
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You stood a good chance of drowning if you worked on the Tanna, a Japanese one of these dug in the 1920s |
a railroad tunnel (subject to flooding)
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Go "Out on a Limb": Shirley Beaty |
Shirley MacLaine
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A perfusionist operates the medical machine named for these 2 organs |
(Sarah: What are the lungs?)
the heart & lungs
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Its name is derived from the fact that "The Lord did there confound the language of all the Earth" |
Babel
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In a classic late '40s Vittorio De Sica film, this is stolen from a man & he & his son begin a quest to get it back |
a bicycle
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In 1879 after 1000s of failures Edison found a simple scorched cotton thread worked best as one of these |
lightbulb filament
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Per California's code, the number of people in these shall not exceed the rated load in pounds, divided by 150 |
elevator
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Film legend Issur Danielovitch |
Kirk Douglas
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In July 2000, 69 chicken catchers became the first employees of this Maryland-based company to vote for a union |
(Phillip: What is Tyson?)
Perdue
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The apostle Paul escaped his enemies in this Syrian city by being lowered over a wall in a basket |
Damascus
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A 2000th anniversary |
(Phillip: What is [**]?) (Alex: No. [Looks towards the judges] All right, we're gonna give it to him for the adjective instead of [*].)
bimillennium (or a bimillennial)
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