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"MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" |
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An otoscope has a small funnel-shaped attachment that is used to peer into this organ |
ear
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It's a malt liquor, a gun or a former Houston Major League Baseball team |
Colt .45
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After he forgot a can opener for his beverages at a picnic, Ermal Fraze invented this |
(Seth: What is a pop top?)
pull tab opener
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The combined surface area of the 5 bodies of water in this group is 94,230 square miles |
Great Lakes
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Today you'll find Archie & Edith Bunker's easy chairs here |
Smithsonian Institution
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Bearded codger carrying a scythe & an hourglass |
Father Time
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In 1844 dentist Horace Wells used this anesthetic on himself to pull a tooth; he then began using it on patients |
nitrous oxide
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This lawyer went to high school with Dustin Hoffman, repped Michael Jackson &, from time to time, indulges in rhyme |
Johnnie Cochran
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This office supply invented by Johann Vaaler is a real gem today |
paper clip
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York City) I'm at this part of Manhattan named for the paper of record |
Times Square
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He may have been a meathead, but he's now a successful director & producer |
Rob Reiner
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Your native language |
mother tongue
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E. Donnall Thomas shared the Nobel Prize for the first transplant of this bone substance between 2 people who weren't twins |
marrow
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This movie cop said, "This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off" |
Dirty Harry
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard made his moolah inventing a new one of these |
loom
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In the late 20th century, much of the Rust Belt lost population, but this warm southwestern belt gained it |
(Seth: What is the Bible Belt?)
Sun Belt
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Premiering in 1972, it was the first spinoff of "All in the Family" |
Maude
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Dostoyevsky's last novel |
"The Brothers Karamazov"
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An EKG is an electrocardiogram; an EEG, this |
electroencephalogram
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This lawyer & author seen here clerked for Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg in 1963 |
Alan Dershowitz
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An early name for this fastener device invented by Whitcomb Judson was the clasp locker |
(Alex: I definitely prefer zipper over clasp locker!)
zipper
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"Artistic" name for a colorful area of sandstone formations in northeastern Arizona |
the Painted Desert
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He's the big band leader mentioned in the first line of the show's theme song |
(Alex: "Boy the way Glenn Miller played...guys like us, we had it made.")
Glenn Miller
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The inner iridescent layers of the shells of many bivalve mollusks |
mother of pearl
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One of the goals of this "Project" is to identify the sequence of the chemical base pairs that make up our DNA |
Human Genome Project
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Taking a bullet for the chief exec isn't enough; this Treasury Dept. division also goes after counterfeiters |
the Secret Service
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U.S. Patent 4,173,796 was issued in 1979 to this doctor from the Univ. of Utah for an artificial heart |
Robert Jarvik
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These rugged, uninhabitable areas are in northwest Nebraska & the western Dakotas |
the Badlands
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This member of the Rat Pack made a memorable guest appearance on the show in 1971 |
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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This Chekhov play concerns Olga, Masha & Irina Prozorov |
The Three Sisters
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