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Mendeleyev didn't know about this set of gases, which includes helium & argon, so they weren't on his table |
noble/inert gases
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This country's 2-Euro coin features pacifist Bertha von Suttner; its 1-Euro coin has good old Wolfgang |
(Bruce: What is Germany?)
Austria
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This Tennessee Williams cotton plantation patriarch is unaware that he is dying of cancer |
Big Daddy
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"Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly a girl with kaleidoscope eyes" |
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
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This liberator is often called the "George Washington of South America" |
Simon Bolivar
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In 1934 Goodpasture & Johnson isolated the virus that causes this disease of the parotid glands |
mumps
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) When I put lemon juice on litmus paper, the resulting color tells me where on this scale it belongs |
the pH scale
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This country has a very busy coin; Europa is being abducted by Zeus who is in the form of a bull |
Greece
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In a 1960 musical, this Elvis-like rock star gets his draft notice from Uncle Sam -- bye, bye |
Conrad Birdie
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"I am the Eggman" |
"I am the Walrus"
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After he was banished from Iceland for murder, he discovered Greenland around 982 |
(Alison: Who is Leif Ericson?)
Erik the Red
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Species of this ornamental flower include Feverfew & Pyrethrum, both of which are used in insecticides |
chrysanthemum
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Most types of E. coli work safely in your intestines; some even help make this blood-clotting vitamin |
Vitamin K
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Put the coins of Luxembourg & The Netherlands together & it looks like Grand Duke Henri is kissing this queen |
Queen Beatrix
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Seymour, a clerk at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists, names his carnivorous plant after this lover |
Audrey
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"It always leads me here, lead me to your door" |
"The Long and Winding Road"
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It's the name shared by an Irish revolutionary & the pilot of the command module during the first moon landing |
(Alex: You're a trapeze artist, you're used to taking risks: would you like to bet all $12,400?) .... (Bruce: But I always have a net!)
Michael Collins
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This phrase for meaningless talk or nonsense is a corruption of an African spirit's name, Mama Dyumbo |
mumbo-jumbo
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Heat a soda can with 1 tsp. of water in it, then invert it in a pot of water & it'll collapse by atmospheric this |
pressure
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A French coin features a tree (oooohhh) & this motto of the republic |
"Liberte, egalite, fraternite"
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In this play Veta Simmons tries to get her brother Elwood P. Dowd committed to a sanitorium |
Harvey
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"Grandchildren on your knee -- Vera, Chuck and Dave" |
(Sarah: What is "Lady Madonna"?)
"When I'm Sixty-Four"
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In 1839 Joseph Cinque led a famous slave revolt aboard this Spanish ship |
Amistad
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From the Old French for "to wear a mask", it's a masked or costumed merrymaker |
mummer
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Since the 18th C., brewers have used this device to measure the alcoholic, not water, content of their booze |
(Sarah: What is proof?)
hydrometer
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This country whose name on its coins begins with an "E" has a king on them |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
Spain (Espana)
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Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" focuses on the romance & marriage of Emily & him |
(Alex: Hey, well done; you have been to theatre & it has paid off handsomely!)
George Gibbs
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"I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me" |
"Norwegian Wood"
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Russian prince & military hero who was the subject of an Eisenstein movie, with music by Prokofiev |
(Alison: Who was Potemkin?)
Alexander Nevsky
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In 1995 the city of Bombay officially changed its name to this, its name in the Marathi language |
Mumbai
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