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If a recipe told you to bring carbon to this point, you'd need to raise its temperature to 8,720 degrees |
the boiling point
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Once NYC's chief engineer, Marc Brunel later spent 19 years digging the first tunnel under this British river |
Thames
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Tish, one of these won by a British couple at a fair in 1956, swam happily in its bowl for a record 43 years |
goldfish
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Zagazig, Memphis, Aswan |
(Alex: Minute to go.)
Egypt
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This actor who owns his own ski resort did much of his own skiing in the 1969 film "Downhill Racer" |
Robert Redford
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The African species of this mammal are either hook-lipped or square-lipped |
rhinoceros
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A 1992 experiment using surface tension on polished silicon got water to defy physics by doing this |
to go up
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In the 1820s American publishers ignored his bird drawings, so he took them to England |
John James Audubon
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Though its name is only 3 letters long, it's the biggest retail fashion chain |
Gap
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Kimberley, Humansdorp, Soweto |
South Africa
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Peter Sellers "Clouseaus" in on jewel thief David Niven at a ski resort in this 1964 film |
The Pink Panther
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This island 12 miles off the coast of Turkey was the site of one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World |
Rhodes (the Colossus)
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This field is measured in nanoteslas -- it's about 60,000 nanoteslas at the poles & 30,000 at the equator |
Earth's magnetic field
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In this 1996 film Madonna went through a record 85 costume changes |
Evita
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Tangier, Meknes, Casablanca |
Morocco
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An Oscar-winning documentary profiled Yuichiro Miura, "The Man Who Skied Down" this mountain |
(Mary: What is Mount Fuji?)
Mount Everest
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From the Greek for "orator", it's the art of using language effectively & persuasively |
rhetoric
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In 1925 Wolfgang Pauli stated his exclusion principle -- no 2 of these particles in an atom can be in the same state |
electrons
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Guinness lists this product line as the most successful portable music system |
Sony Walkman
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Malindi, Machakos, Mombasa |
Kenya
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In a 1969 film, Dean Martin's daughter Claudia & this star of "Adam-12" got "Ski Fever" |
Martin Milner
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In 1910 this future South Korean president became the first Korean to earn a Ph.D. from an American university |
Syngman Rhee
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Its formula is H2S & it smells like rotten eggs |
(Mary: What is sulfur hydroxide?)
hydrogen sulfide
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This last name of British lord Jeffrey, who captured Montreal, is on a Massachusetts college |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Amherst
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Alan Whitworth figures when he's done in 2007, his sketch of this fortification in England will be 73 miles long |
Hadrian's Wall
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Tobruk, Benghazi, As-Sidrah |
Libya
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew at a ski resort in Colorado) I've wanted to go skiing ever since I saw Audrey Hepburn meet Cary Grant at a ski resort in this classic 1963 caper |
Charade
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Irises have this horizontal, underground stem which produces shoots & roots of a new plant |
rhizome
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