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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR |
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If you're a pistol-packin' pardner, this leather holder open at the top is probably what you pack the pistol in |
a holster
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He heard "America Singing": WW |
Walt Whitman
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Next time you get a FedEx package, notice a right-pointing one of these between the second "E" & the "X" |
an arrow
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2010: N'awlins quarterback |
Drew Brees
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2-word term for a police cruiser |
a squad car
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Within weeks of arriving in Africa in 1957, I met this paleontologist who soon hired me as an assisstant |
(Louis) Leakey
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A small, enclosed shell that can hold medicine or objects for a future "time" |
a capsule
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A romantic poet who ode a lot: JK |
John Keats
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Parts of the "B" & the "R" in this sweet treat shop's logo form the number "31" |
Baskin-Robbins
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2011: Coaches Pat Summitt & this Duke legend (nickname accepted) |
Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski)
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I spent most of my money on booze, fast cars & women; the rest was this, meaning "wasted" |
squandered
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The male chimpanzee who can intimidate all others & win their submissive pant-grunts is known by this Greek-letter term |
the alpha (male)
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This synonym for "coffin" can also mean a small ornamental chest or box |
a casket
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A key figure of the Harlem renaissance: LH |
Langston Hughes
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1999: Kristine Lilly & her teammates in this sport |
women's soccer
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An election won by a few votes, or a ball game won by a few points |
a squeaker
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The first chimpanzee to venture into my camp was David Greybeard, attracted by palm nuts & then lured by this fruit. You may have seen the photo of another chimpanzee looking for them under my shirt |
banana
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As in song, "pack up your troubles" in one of these leather traveling sacks & smile, smile, smile |
a kit bag
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Wrote a sonnet "On His Blindness": JM |
John Milton
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BMW calls it a "coincidence" that the blue & white on its logo are the colors of this German region's flag |
Bavaria
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1954: British track man |
(Hannah: Who is Sebastian... I don't know.) (Alex Trebek: You're thinking of Sebastian Coe--) (Hannah: Yes.) (Alex Trebek: --and you should be thinking of [*].)
Roger Bannister
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Foreclosed, abandoned homes have brought an influx of these people who live in a place without a title or lease |
squatters
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I made an exciting discovery: chimpanzees fashioning probes to fish termites from their nests; chimpanzees were making & using these, which anthropologists had seen earlier as behavior that separates man from all other animals |
tools
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It's a stationary crib or cradle with a hood |
a bassinette
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Irish-born 1995 Nobel laureate: SH |
Seamus Heaney
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This corporation that owns Lipton & Hellmann's uses many of its products in its letter-U logo |
Unilever
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1968: Player-coach of the Boston Celtics |
(Bill) Russell
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Easily made to feel sick |
(Alex Wright: What is [**]?) [Originally ruled incorrect but was reversed during the interviews.]
squeamish (or squeasy)
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Flo's offspring were successful as adults because she was an affectionate & supportive mother & coped wisely even during this time of mother-child conflict in the fourth year of life |
(Alex Wright: What is adolescence?) (Kyle: What are the teen years?)
weaning
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