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WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE MOVIES? |
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In 1998 it became the seventh continent to get an ESPN feed |
(Joe: What is Australia?)
Antarctica
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Ingredient in common to a Tequila Sunrise & a Screwdriver |
orange juice
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This poet died in Dumfries, Scotland in 1796, just aged 37 |
Robert Burns
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Trigonometry is from Greek words for this shape & "measure" |
(Joe: What is a triangle & angles?) (Alex: It's just for triangle, not angle; triangle & "measure".)
triangle
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First brought to the big screen by D.W. Griffith in 1909, this hugely popular star was once known as "Little Mary" |
Mary Pickford
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Running down the coast of California is a big one of these -- the San Andreas |
(Alex: With a minute to go now.)
fault line
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Cry "Yoo-Hoo!" in Canada's Yoho National Park from a peak in this range |
(Joe: What is the Echo Range?) (Naomi: What are the Cascades?)
the Rockies
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If you don't have one of these small appliances, you can forget about making frozen Daiquiris |
blender
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Also known as Abu Mazen or "Father of Mazen", he became Palestinian prime minister in 2003 but later resigned |
Mahmoud Abbas
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Using trig with the periodic movements of the sun & moon, the times of high & low these can be determined |
tides
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Born in South Africa, this female star of "The Italian Job" was discovered in line at a Hollywood bank |
Charlize Theron
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Until the early '70s, this Moscow-Washington link had no speech facilities -- it was a teletype |
the Hot Line
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For our final fling, let's head off to Loch Sunart in this famous northern region of Scotland |
the Highlands
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2 oz. of white wine & 6 oz. of this & you've got the standard white wine spritzer |
club soda
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In 1984, with a thousand bucks & a dream, he founded the computer company named for himself |
Michael Dell
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Trig comes out of the geometry rules spelled out by this Greek around 300 B.C. |
Euclid
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Sophia Loren was a struggling teenage model when she met this future husband & beauty contest judge |
Carlo Ponti
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"Scabs" cross them |
picket lines
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Benbulbin is a peak in this country; you can take a peek at Yeats' grave nearby |
Ireland
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Traditionally, before you dip the rim of your Margarita glass in the salt, rub it with this |
lime'lemon juice
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Born in France in 1596, he was a law student & soldier before becoming the father of modern philosophy |
Rene Descartes
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Trig comes into play in figuring out distances between points on one of these math shapes, like the Earth |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
sphere
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Jack Nicholson discovered this Arkansas native & 2 years later she won an Oscar for "Melvin and Howard" |
Mary Steenburgen
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It's 60 feet from the head pin on an alley |
the foul line (in bowling)
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Hoste is an island in this fiery-sounding archipelago off Chile |
Tierra del Fuego
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To make this type of Martini, add a splash of olive juice |
Dirty Martini
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A socialite whose name is still on magazines, he published Mademoisellle & Glamour starting in the 1930s |
Conde Nast
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She was discovered while performing at the 1940 Aquacade in San Francisco |
(Joe: I know the name...) (Alex: Beautiful, great shape, bathing suit.)
Esther Williams
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In 1957 this chain of about 60 radar sites along the 70th Parallel went into operation |
Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line
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