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She worked hard choreographing the dancers for the 1990 Oscars; today she's a bit "Idol" |
Paula Abdul
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According to the Beatles hit, it's when "love was such an easy game to play" |
Yesterday
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The temperature on this scale is 273.15 degrees lower than the temperature on the Kelvin scale |
(Martha: What is Fahrenheit?)
Celsius
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This 1921 Nobel Prize winner once remarked that "God is subtle but he is not malicious" |
Einstein
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To rough it in comfort, supplement your sleeping bag with an inflatable one of these |
a mattress
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Bacardi-flavored Chiclets |
rum gum
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He represented the U.S. at the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations |
George H.W. Bush
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The jester borrows James Dean's coat in this Don McLean classic |
"American Pie"
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A bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is appropriately called this |
a finger
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The works "Far East Suite" & "Liberian Suite" were created by this jazz composer seen here |
(Duke) Ellington
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Boy Scouts know it's easy to build one of these using structures called pyramid, tepee or cross-ditch |
a campfire
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Communist rye or pumpernickel |
Red bread
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In gardening news, a pink climber was named for this mystery author to celebrate her centenary |
Agatha Christie
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In the Janis Joplin hit "Me And Bobby McGee", this is "just another word for nothin' left to lose" |
freedom
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In 1593 this English queen changed the length of a mile from 5,000 feet to the current 5,280 feet |
Elizabeth I
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This Super Bowl MVP quarterback who retired in 1999 played his college football at Stanford |
John Elway
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Hanging food between trees to keep it from a certain animal is called this alliterative "bagging" |
bear bagging
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A dijon-flavored, puddinglike dessert |
mustard custard
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Colorado voters legalized a limited form of this in Black Hawk, Central City & Cripple Creek |
gambling
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Little Jackie Paper is friends with this magical beastie |
Puff the Magic Dragon
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A "long" one of these is 2,240 pounds |
a ton
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In the Bible he traded away his birthright for a bowl of soup |
Esau
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Mary, let John attach this from the side of the tent to a stake--"it's a" this "thing" |
guy
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"The Star Wars Cookbook" includes recipes for Wookiee Cookies & this pop drink named for a Jedi master |
(Larry: Uhh... what is that word, yes? I can't think of it.)
Yoda Soda
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This son of Japanese immigrants beat novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to become president of Peru |
(Martha: Who is Fujiyama?) (Larry: Who is Fujimoto?)
Alberto Fujimori
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John Brown is the title lawman who gets gunned down in this Bob Marley song |
"I Shot The Sheriff"
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In common practice electrical power is billed in terms of this hyphenated term, equal to 3.6 million joules |
(Anne: What's a kilowatt?)
a kilowatt-hour
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This prince of Wales was also known as the Black Prince |
Edward
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Like some antiseptics, water purification products like Potable Aqua are based on this element |
(Martha: What is sulfa?)
iodine
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Exotic dance for the exotic fruit seen here |
mango tango
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