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In 1984 Prince showered us with this album that spent 24 weeks at No. 1 |
Purple Rain
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The organ that weighs around 3 pounds in an adult or Pinky's cartoon pal voiced by Maurice Lamarche |
The Brain
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When talking freeways, the total number of leafs on a cloverleaf |
4
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Died Jan. 21, 1793: Paris, France |
Louis XVI
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Old-time miners made a bundle removing this left by bats in Carlsbad Caverns |
guano
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He based the character of Sid Sawyer on his own brother Henry, but said Henry was "a very much finer" boy |
Mark Twain
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This Joni Mitchell classic says, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" |
"Big Yellow Taxi"
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Last name of the singer of "What a Wonderful World" in '67 & the man who got a moon's eye view of it in '69 |
Armstrong
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Polyhedron long associated with Dick Clark & Khufu, 2 people we've never seen together; hmmmm... |
pyramid
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Died Jan. 28, 1547: London, England |
Henry VIII
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Typical of the foothills of the Western United States, it's the type of high growth seen here |
chaparral
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In 1889 his great grandfather was elected to the Miss. legislature & was promptly shot & killed by his opponent |
(LeeAnn: I don't know.)
Faulkner
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"Let's Stay Together" was his only No. 1 pop hit & that's the gospel truth |
(Reverend) Al Green
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Last name shared by the P.M. of Canada from 1980 to 1984, or the P.M. (prime mover) of "Doonesbury" since 1970 |
Trudeau
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Clavate is club-shaped, & if hit with a club, you might see shapes that are stellate, meaning like these |
stars
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Died March 25, 1975: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
(Tom: Who is King Faud?) (LeeAnn: Who is King Saud?)
King Faisal
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The son of a rogue known as "Mad Jack", this Lord grew up to be "mad, bad and dangerous to know" |
Byron
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"January Rain" by this "Babylon" singer is featured on the soundtrack to "Serendipity" |
David Gray
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A vice president under Thomas Jefferson, or the funky leader of Parliament/Funkadelic |
Clinton
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If someone needs change for an icosahedron, a polyhedron with this many faces, you can give him 2 decahedrons |
20
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Died Jan. 28, 814: Aachen, Germany |
Charlemagne
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A prisoner unable to contact the outside world is being held this way |
incommunicado
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Sir Gerald, the father of this "Rebecca" author, was the original Captain Hook in the 1904 play "Peter Pan" |
(Daphne) du Maurier
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They covered Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" in 1968, but it was no "Smoke on the Water" |
Deep Purple
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Last name of a Watergate burglar, or a nickname of Robert Dole's wife, who lives at the Watergate |
(Tom: What is Libby?)
Liddy
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It's the trajectory of a cannonball, or the shape of the reflector in a headlight |
parabolic
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Died Aug. 17, 1786: Potsdam, Prussia |
Frederick the Great
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