NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS |
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I CAN'T STOP THIS FEELING |
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We wonder if it was a difficult decision to name this William Styron novel the 1980 hardcover fiction winner |
Sophie's Choice
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Its menu has both a Daily Double & a McDouble |
McDonald's
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A miser would claim this adjective with pride |
frugal
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Chuck a weapon called this, used by Aborigines; a good throw can send one 550 feet before it begins its return to sender |
a boomerang
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I have a craving for this unleavened bread traditionally eaten during Passover |
matza
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Oddly, the "small" one of these organs is 25 feet long, the "large" one only 5 |
the intestine
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(I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Katherine Boo's reportage in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" captures life's inequalities in the slums of this Indian city & commerical center |
[ERRATUM: "Commercial" was misspelled as "commerical" in the clue as shown.]
Mumbai
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It got flak when its footlong sandwiches measured only 11 inches |
Subway
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The Carnival cruise with this name, for older women & younger men, only sailed once |
[Marge laughs at the response.] (Alex: Yes And the way you're smi--you didn't--no--I don't want to know if you did.) [Laughter]
the Cougar Cruise
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Hurl a baseball well & you'll have a good WHIP, a newer stat short for these & hits per innings pitched |
walks
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I'm really in the mood to play this board game that features the Chocolate Swamp & Gumdrop Mountain |
Candy Land
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If these 2 external veins in your neck are bulging, it may not be anger but heart disease |
the jugular
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He had "The Right Stuff" to win for his book about Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard & others |
Tom Wolfe
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You can get a Crown Card from this chain |
Burger King
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This country had an Armada too, but an English fleet defeated it in 1615 |
Portugal
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Heave a 16-pound sphere called this 74 feet & you'll have an Olympic record |
(Molly: What is a discus?)
a shotput
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For a pet, I want this marsupial named for an island state, but its diet of roadkill & dead sheep ain't at Petco |
a Tasmanian devil
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Located at the back of the heel, it is the thickest & most powerful tendon in the body |
the Achilles tendon
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"Master of the Senate", volume 3 in Robert Caro's massive bio of this man, covers the 1950s |
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Its headquarters are on a street named for its founder, a 15-minute drive from Churchill Downs |
KFC
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9-letter word meaning to present a pill or bad news so it's easier to swallow |
sugarcoat
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Toss a heavy wooden pole called a caber at these "Games" held in Inverness, Scotland every summer |
(Marge: What are the Scottish Games?)
the Highland Games
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I have to visit this world capital, though its name is Malay for "muddy estuary" |
Kuala Lumpur
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About 80% of this organ can be removed without creating an insufficiency of the insulin it produces |
the pancreas
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He has won for "Sabbath's Theater" & "Goodbye, Columbus" |
Philip Roth
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"Under the Roof" is a trademark of this pizzeria |
Pizza Hut
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It's known as a fictitious force, meaning it's only apparent within a specific frame of reference, like a spinning carousel |
centrifugal
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Chuck a sporting item called this; a "leaner" against a stake counts for 1 point |
a horseshoe
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I gotta wear this brand of pants--the stripes are slimming, right? |
Zubaz
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Yawning or swallowing opens this tube that extends down from the middle ear |
the Eustachian tube
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