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NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY |
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This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea |
Athens
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In 1986 this company was forced out of the instant camera market, having violated 7 Polaroid patents |
Kodak
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High-quality marbled beef, or an NBA MVP |
Kobe
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Chemically, it's the makeup of a pure snowflake |
H2O
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If you've lost this credit card, call 1-800-847-2911 (really the card's name followed by 911) |
Visa
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He was to have starred in the film, but his death at the Chateau Marmont in 1982 forced a change |
John Belushi
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In 1957 the Leo Burnett advertising agency created Cornelius the Rooster to appear on the box of this cereal |
(Dave: What is Kellogg's?) (Alex: Kellogg's what?) (Dave: Kellogg's cereal company?)
Corn Flakes
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This casual term for a beer comes from North American college slang, not Polish |
brewski
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In 1824 Jons Jakob Berzelius found this nonmetallic element that later lent its name to a California valley |
silicon
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Sending flowers? Call 1-800-SEND-this 3-letter company founded in 1910 |
FTD
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As ghostbusting Dr. Peter Venkman, he says the immortal line "He slimed me" |
Bill Murray
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The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city |
Geneva
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It precedes "XM" in the name of an entertainment company--ooh, I love this song! Turn it up! |
Sirius
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This painful verb--don't do it to me, bro! |
tase
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He won 2 Nobel Prizes: one for Chemistry in 1954 & one for Peace in 1962 |
(Linus) Pauling
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A "colorful" low-cost airline has the phone number 1-800-JET-this |
BLUE
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She played cellist Dana Barrett, who becomes possessed by a Sumerian god named Zuul |
Sigourney Weaver
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This city is on the south bank of the Ij River, an arm of the Ijsselmeer (the lake formerly known as the Zuiderzee) |
Amsterdam
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In 1926 a "beater bar" was added to this company's product; it tapped the carpet to loosen ground-in dirt |
Hoover
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A Billy Ray Cyrus hit gave us this hyphenated adjective |
achy-breaky
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If your dentist likes you, he may give you this gas discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1772 |
nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
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To reach this government service, call 1-800-829-1040 |
the IRS
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The film was co-written by these 2 men who played Drs. Raymond Stantz & Egon Spengler |
Dan Aykroyd & Harold Ramis
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Signed in 1975, the accord named for this city was an effort to ease tensions between the Soviet Bloc & the West |
Helsinki
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In 1907 9-year-old Michael Brady posed for this company's symbol wearing overalls, a cap & wooden shoes |
(Sidarth: What is Levi's?)
Dutch Boy Paints
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From the name of an Apple device, this verb means to digitally transmit a broadcast over the Internet |
podcast
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A U.S. nuclear weapon using this element, Co, has been termed a doomsday device, as it would wipe out life on Earth |
cobalt
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A "Fifth Avenue" store is also available at 1-877-551-this |
SAKS
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Manhattan is menaced by this marshmallow man, come to life 100 feet tall |
[Applause for Dave's run of the category] (Alex: You've spent a lot of time watching this movie, I take it. And as a result, you have a $4,000 lead over Denise.)
the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
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