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It's the sum of the coefficients in 2x plus 3y equals 18 |
5 (2 + 3)
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In "Austin Powers in Goldmember", he was Number 3 & I seem to remember he sported a mole |
Fred Savage
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It's the one-word answer to the classic joke "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" |
practice
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He received 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus |
Judas
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From 1949 to his death in 1976, he was chairman of the Chinese Communist Party |
Mao Tse-tung
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As the first treasury secretary, he helped create the First Bank of the United States |
Alexander Hamilton
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Like 4, this number is also the square root of 16 |
(Peter: What is 1?) .... (Alex: When you hear it, it makes you angry that you didn't get it!)
-4
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Before "Friends" he was seen on "The Wonder Years" as Karen's boyfriend, then husband, Michael |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
David Schwimmer
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This 8-part marriage of music & animation was Walt Disney's second feature film with only a one-word title |
Fantasia
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After this mother of discoveries in Nevada, the U.S. became for a time the world's leading silver producer |
(Carmen: What is the mother lode?)
Comstock Lode
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On June 3 & 4, 1989 the People's Liberation Army killed hundreds at a democracy rally at this Beijing site |
Tiananmen Square
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Before succeeding Madison as president, he was Madison's secretary of state |
James Monroe
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It's the lowest denominator of a fraction expressing the probability of rolling a 2 with one die |
(Carmen: What is 1/6?) .... (Alex: Hmmm, yeah, our judges saying we'll accept that; the number is, lowest denominator is 6, so we're taking it -- it is 1 in 6.)
6
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In the Harry Potter books, it's the one-word term for a human being without magical powers |
muggle
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From its Latin name, argentum, this is the chemical symbol for silver |
Ag
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A 1931 flood of this river in the north completely covered an area about the size of Indiana & left 80 million homeless |
Yellow River
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Robert Todd Lincoln held this post under presidents Garfield & Arthur, as Edwin Stanton had under his father |
(Alex: With about a minute to go.)
Secretary of War
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew) In set theory, it's the 5-letter word that this symbol stands for (U) |
union
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On Jan. 9, 1959 Eisenhower told Congress, "America is best described by one word", this "ring"ing one |
Freedom
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Between 1761 & 1797, he fashioned over 5,000 silver pieces, including the one seen here |
Paul Revere
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Today, all schools teach this dialect which the Chinese call Putonghua, or "common language" |
Mandarin
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Charles Nagel was the last person to serve in the combined post of secretary of commerce & this |
(Alex: They were split in 1913.)
Labor
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It's been thought but not proved that there's an infinite supply of twin these, parts of them that differ by 2 |
prime numbers
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The daughter of Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo is this TV star of "The Wonder Years" & Disney's "Tarzan" |
(Carmen: Who is Maryam d'Abo?)
Olivia d'Abo
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This was the single word the Hairy Old Man used to say at or near the beginning of every "Monty Python" episode |
"It's"
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Popular with coin collectors is this silver dollar minted originally from 1878 to 1921 & named for its designer |
Morgan silver dollar
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In 1899 this secret society began a campaign of terror against Christian missionaries in the northeast |
(Carmen: What is the Tong Society?)
Boxers
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President Reagan's education secretary, he went on to edit the bestselling "Book of Virtues" |
William Bennett
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