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In July 1099, crusaders stormed this holy city, killing its Muslim & Jewish inhabitants |
Jerusalem
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Dreyer's ice cream insured this part of its official taster's body for a cool ¼ million bucks |
tongue (tastebuds)
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The black rhino's pointed lip lets it eat leaves, but the white rhino's square lip lets it graze on this |
grass
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Word usually paired with "jeebies" |
heebies
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Shake a mercury-filled glass tube, insert under tongue, wait 2-3 minutes, remove, & read |
take a temperature
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Legend says an Etruscan family, the Tarquins, ruled this "Eternal City" from 616 to 510 B.C. |
Rome
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Mead is made by fermenting a mixture of water & this insect product |
honey
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Hyraxes turn their feet into suction pads, allowing them to climb these objects among which they live |
(Jackson: What are, uh, cactus?)
rocks (and occasionally trees)
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A home for rabbits or a partner for Starsky |
hutch
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Call Western Union, tie it to a pigeon leg, or find an Indian with a fire & a blanket |
send a message
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Because of his Albanian descent, some said this king, deposed in 1952, was not a true Egyptian |
Farouk
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Though the formula is a secret, it's said yellow chartreuse gets its color from this yellow "rice" spice |
saffron
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"Sports is like war without the killing," remarked this creator of the Goodwill Games |
Ted Turner
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With males weighing up to a ton, some say the gaur is the largest wild variety of these farm animals |
oxen (cattle)
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Men's suit pattern with rows of short, slanted parallel lines, or what grandma Rose nearly choked on |
herringbone
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Turn it over to let H2SO4 mix with a sodium bicarb solution, making CO2 to force spray out of hose |
use a fire extinguisher
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In 1570, Pius V issued a papal bull which excommunicated & tried to depose this English queen |
Elizabeth I
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Though its name means "English soup", Italian zuppa inglese is eaten during this part of a meal |
(Alex: Yes, it's like a trifle.)
dessert
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Told his foot was fractured, this pitcher reportedly said, "Fractured, hell! The damn thing's broken" |
Dizzy Dean
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L.A. Zoo says this climbing great cat is, pound for pound, nature's most efficient killing machine |
(Jackson: What is a tiger?)
leopard
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Evidence given based on reports of others, rather than a witness' own knowledge |
hearsay
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Under the Recording Industry Association of America rules, sell 1 million singles |
get a gold record
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Circa 950, under Harald Bluetooth, this was 1st Scandinavian country unified under just 1 king |
(John: What is Norway?) (Sara: What is Sweden?)
Denmark
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To make genuine espresso, force this through powdered coffee in a special machine |
steam
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Mark Twain said this game "is a walk spoiled" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
golf
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Only 2 species of this family, "ursidae", are found south of the equator |
bear
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Trough carried over the shoulder in which bricks are hauled |
hod
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Strike a blank in a mint |
mint a coin
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