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JOHNNY GILBERT RAPS & ROCKS ON |
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It's the process by which water goes from a liquid to a gas |
evaporation
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Artis Gilmore, John Garner, Horace Grant |
(Darren: Who is FDR?) (Erik: Who is... uh, TR?) (Alex: No. We gave you three names. All you had to do was name the veep in that group of three, and [*] was the correct response--) (All contestants: Oh.) (Alex: --in that first one. Darren, we come back to you. You guys were confused by the category, obviously.)
John Nance Garner
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While a student at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, he won championships in the mile run |
Roger Bannister
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In "The Devils of Loudon", Grandier the priest is killed this way, a la Joan of Arc |
burning at the stake
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Most Orkney Islanders overstep their bounds |
a stork (in most Orkney)
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13-letter collective name for any & all forms of water that fall from the sky |
(Erik: What is condensation?)
precipitation
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Eustace Collins, Erving Toney, Elbridge Gerry |
Elbridge Gerry
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This French guy's ex-wives included Brigitte Bardot & Jane Fonda (he never married Catherine Deneuve) |
Roger Vadim
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"Lulu" has a lulu of an ending: the heroine is killed by this notorious London murderer |
Jack the Ripper
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After the party, keg returns are easier |
an egret (in keg returns)
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Riley B.B. King, William Rufus DeVane King, Bernard King |
William Rufus DeVane King
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As the government photographer of this war, Roger Fenton portrayed the Charge of the Light Brigade as glorious |
the Crimean War
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Aargh! In "Zampa", Zampa the pirate is dragged into the sea & drowned by one of these marble artworks |
a statue
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She could never handle his wandering through caves all by himself |
a swan (in his wandering)
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The main source of thermal pollution is water that's been used industrially as this |
a coolant
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James Brown, George Clinton, Sylvester Stone |
George Clinton
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He founded the town of Providence, which became a haven for Quakers & Anabaptists |
Roger Williams
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In "Il Trovatore" Leonora escapes the clutches of a count by drinking poison from this piece of jewelry |
(Erik: What's a necklace?)
a ring
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Using a bib is helpful when feeding a baby |
an ibis (in bib is)
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Multiply chlorinity, the amount of chlorine in seawater, by 1.80655 to get this figure |
salinity
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Levi P. Morton, Samuel L. Miller, George F. McGinnis |
(Levi) Morton
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Sir Roger Penrose, with Stephen Hawking, proved that all matter within one of these collapses to a singularity |
a black hole
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In an opera based on a Pushkin poem, Lensky challenges this title character to a duel--big mistake |
Eugene Onegin
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Nothing is solved with rushing around like a crazy man |
a thrush (in with rushing)
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