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LET'S LEARN SCOTTISH GAELIC |
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Paul Gallico owned 23 of these animals at a time & wrote a fantasy about a boy who's changed into a white one |
(Bob: What is a unicorn?) ... (Alex: He owned a whole bunch of [*].)
cats
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In an Oscar acceptance speech, he thanked Joey LaMotta, "even though he's suing us" |
Robert De Niro
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Cayman Brac |
(Tad: What are the Cayman Islands?)
Great Britain (or United Kingdom)
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When Steve Ballmer became CEO, this man's new role was "Chief Software Architect" |
Bill Gates
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Penillion, a traditional form of Welsh singing, is almost always accompanied by this musical instrument |
the harp
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In Gaelic, this body, set up in 1999 for the first time since 1707, is Pàrlamaid na h-Alba |
(Bob: What is Parliament?) (Alex: The Scottish...) (Bob: Scottish Parliament?) (Alex: Scottish Parliament, yes.)
(Scottish) Parliament
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Mom threw out all my Pern--Anne McCaffrey's books about Pern, where people ride these mythical beasts |
dragons
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Hoo ah! He turned down the role of Han Solo in "Star Wars"; maybe he should've turned down "Gigli", too |
(Al) Pacino
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Hopen, part of Svalbard |
(Bob: What is Denmark?)
Norway
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In 1995, this product "95" sold more than 1 million copies in 4 days |
Windows
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This notation used to indicate that the music should get softer is often abbreviated dim. |
diminuendo
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Nic, "daughter of", is the female equivalent of this 3-letter form seen in many surnames |
Mac
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of" here gives the women's view of the Arthurian legend |
Avalon
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He got an Oscar nomination for his role as Sal the pizza parlor owner in "Do the Right Thing" |
(Bob: Who is John Turturro?) (John: Who is Mineo?)
Danny Aiello
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Grand Canary Island |
Spain
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In March 2004 this body hit Microsoft with a 497 million-euro fine for its bus. practices (take it out of petty cash) |
the European Union
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One movement of this famous set of symphonic sketches is called "Jeux de vagues" ("The Play of the Waves") |
(Alex: You'll have $9200 if you make it a True Daily Double and respond correctly.) (John: Yeah. I'm not quite that brave. Let's go for $3600.) ... (Alex: [*] by Claude Achille-Debussy. You are right.)
La Mer
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Terry Pratchett created this round "world" that rests on elephants resting on a turtle |
Discworld
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Mira's dad, he played Henry Kissinger in 1995's "Nixon" |
Paul Sorvino
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New Caledonia |
(Tad: ...What is... the Netherlands?) (John: What's New Zealand?) (Bob: What is Australia?)
France
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Now both an NFL & NBA team owner, he co-wrote a "BASIC" computer language for the Altair 8800 in 1975 |
Paul Allen
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Tales of Tapio, a Finnish forest god, inspired "Tapiola", this composer's last major symphonic work |
Sibelius
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If you know cardhu ("black rock") & laphroaig ("beautiful hollow by the broad bay") you either love Gaelic or this |
(Alex: They are both eminently drinkable [*].)
scotches
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Xanth is a land created by this writer, & if you say his first & last name you'll hear "Xanth" in the middle |
Piers Anthony
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She went from playing doctor in "Medicine Man" to playing one again on "The Sopranos" |
(Lorraine) Bracco
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Bonaire |
(Alex: The last clue up there--it is yours, John. It is the other Daily Double. And you have to make a big decision. You lead Tad by $1,000.) (John: I'll go for $900.) (Alex: $900 it is.) ... (John: What is Canada?) (Alex: No. It's part of [*] Antilles. Hence it belongs to [*]. So you have a $100 lead over Tad.)
the Netherlands
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MS-DOS for short, this was introduced on IBM personal computers in 1981 |
Microsoft Disk Operating System
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He wrote 4 "Mephisto Waltzes", but the last was unfinished when he died in 1886 |
Liszt
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Linne Chluaidh is Gaelic for the body of water known by this distinctively Scots name |
(Bob: What is the Clyde? Clydes--River Clyde?) ... (Alex: The [*] of Clyde. That's it, yes. [*] was the important word.)
Firth
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