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In the early 1830s Michael Faraday found that a moving one of these can produce an electric current |
magnet
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In this language spoken by over 160 million people French really is "Frantsooski" |
(Armando: What is Polish?)
Russian
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5 generations of one family have kept this company's "Pledge" to shine up American homes |
(Mikki: Who are Johnson and Johnson?)
S.C. Johnson
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Alanis Morissette, 1974 |
Ottawa
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Tommy Lee Jones guest-starred on the pilot for this TV series, but I was looking at Farrah |
Charlie's Angels
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In 1953 Watson & Crick built a model of the molecular structure of this, the gene-carrying substance |
DNA
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In German, Schweizer doesn't mean "humanitarian"; it refers to people from this country |
(Alex: A minute to go.)
Switzerland
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A Robert Frost poem begins, "The witch that came (the withered hag) to wash the steps with pail and" this |
rag
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She romanced Ian Ziering on "Beverly Hills 90210" before she found out that "Boys Don't Cry" |
Hilary Swank
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In 2002 an 800-mile-diameter planetoid called Quaoar was found 1 billion miles past this 1430-mile-diameter planet |
Pluto
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To the Japanese Chile is Chiri & this South American country, Burajiru |
Brazil
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At the entrance to this, a device called a correlator aligns your wheels with the conveyor |
car wash
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Leni Riefenstahl, 1902 |
Berlin
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He slayed us as the villainous Dario in the 007 film "Licence to Kill" before he got to play in "Traffic" |
Benicio del Toro
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Ill-tempered & quarrelsome |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
cantankerous
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In the 1920s scientists discovered fossilized dinosaur eggs in this huge Mongolian desert |
Gobi
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Sassenach is a disparaging Scots & Irish term for people of this land |
(Armando: What is English?)
England
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Type of product inspired by the Biblical passage "Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes... out of the ivory palaces" |
soap
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Soren Kierkegaard, 1813 |
(Andy: What is Stockholm?)
Copenhagen
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He played a man called Meatball in "The Caine Mutiny" 11 years before he horsed around in "Cat Ballou" |
Lee Marvin
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This city in northeastern Ohio is home to the William McKinley memorial & burial site |
Canton
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Among the compounds called alkanes, the hexanes are C6H14--& these hydrocarbons are C8H18 |
(Alex: I should like to point out, ladies and gentlemen, that Andy is a graduate student in chemistry, and that sure helped in this category!)
octanes
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In this language Danish is called Tanskalainen, Norwegian is Norjalainen & Swedish is Ruotsalainen |
Finnish
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The Eureka Hot Shot 350 gets things clean using this method |
steam
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Jorge Luis Borges, 1899 |
Buenos Aires
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We've lionized him ever since he played the young Richard the Lionhearted on film in "The Lion in Winter" |
(Armando: Who is Richard Burton?) (Andy: Who is Timothy Dalton?)
Anthony Hopkins
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This Christian festival celebrates the day the infant Jesus was taken to the temple by Mary |
(Armando: What is the circumcision of Jesus?)
Candlemas
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