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Length of a Senate term |
6 years
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Originally one got a smack on the back of the neck, not a tap with a sword, when being dubbed this |
knight
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A professor at Cornell, he translated "Alice in Wonderland" into Russian & wrote "Lolita" |
Vladimir Nabokov
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Disturbance of the balancing mechanism in this organ's semicircular canal causes vertigo |
ear
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The denominator in the fraction 7⁄8 |
8
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Carson's "psychic" character who would be perfect on our show |
(Debbie: Um, what are the Carsini?)
Carnac the Magnificent
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This long-winded delaying tactic can be used in the Senate, but not in the House |
filibuster
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Since Marco Polo called this city home, he didn't need a swimming pool |
... (Alex: And here's Marco Polo again.)
Venice
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Her "Diary of a Young Girl" was published post-humously by her father & trans-lated into more than 30 lang. |
Anne Frank
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It's the most common cause of bunions |
tight shoes
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From Latin meaning "by the hundred", Hollywood agents traditionally get 10 |
percent
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In September of 1961, Jack Paar took a film crew to shoot this new German landmark |
Berlin Wall
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Longtime foe of gov't waste, his congressional directory biography reads it its entirety, "Wisconsin" |
[ERRATUM] The clue has "it" instead of the "in" that Alex read.
Proxmire
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The Pope offered forgiveness of sins & entrance to heaven if killed to those who took part in these |
The Crusades
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In her very 1st book, she introduced Hercule Poirot |
Agatha Christie
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The transfer of skin or bone from one part of the body to another |
graft
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Number whose square is 625 & whose square root is 5 |
25
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Exact title of current version of "Tonight" |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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3 of the 6 states whose senators outnumber their representatives two-to-one |
(Steven: What is [*]?) (Alex: Right.) (Steven: What is [*]?) (Alex: Right.) (Alex: One more.) (Steven: What is Rhode Island?) (Alex: Sorry.)
(3 of) Alaska, Wyoming, Delaware, North & South Dakota, and Vermont
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Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert & Ethelred were all kings of this country |
England
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While alive, he only allowed an abridged version of his "7 Pillars of Wisdom" to be sold to the public |
(Steven: Who is T.H. Lawrence?)
T.E. Lawrence
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Though now illegal, amphetamines like the brand Dexedrine were once prescribed to inhibit this |
appetite
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The value usually given Pi when Pi is expressed not as a decimal but as a mixed number |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
three and one-seventh (3 1/7)
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When Steve Allen cut back to 3 nights, this TV comic, cigar in hand, took the other 2 |
Ernie Kovacs
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This Mississippi Senator is #1 on seniority list, having served since Nov. 5, 1947 |
(John) Stennis
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On Christmas Day, 800 A.D., he became the first Holy Roman Emperor |
Charlemagne
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Once nearly blind from an infection as a teenager, this Englishman wrote "Eyeless in Gaza" in 1936 |
(Aldous) Huxley
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An antitussive drug is used to suppress this cold symptom |
cough
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When Jack Paar walked off in mid-show, February 11, 1960, he, the announcer, took over |
Hugh Downs
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