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(I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel |
Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
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It's the giantest gas giant planet |
Jupiter
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He got rich running a fertilizer co. before becoming a bowtie-wearing popcorn king (& it's not Samuel Jiffypop) |
Orville Redenbacher
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This, failure perhaps due to bleeding or a heart-attack to get blood to all the tissues; I feel cold |
(Jerry: What is hypothermia?)
shock
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Scattered detritus, litter, trash |
debris
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They're the Nile's 2 "colorful" main tributaries |
(Reggie: What is blue and red?)
the blue (Nile) and white (Nile)
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(Here with the clue are Mike & Mike of ESPN Radio.) My favorite sports movie is "Field of Dreams"--it's got everything: mystery, romance & baseball... ...I can beat that--my favorite is this laughter on the links that co-starred Bill Murray as a crazy gopher exterminator |
Caddyshack
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Nereid is the third largest of its 13 moons |
Neptune
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Last name of Dr. William, inventor of more than 1,000 foot-care products |
(Jerry: What is Scholls?) ... (Alex: Jerry, you added an "S".)
Scholl
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This type of "custody", to make sure the mob doesn't get me before I testify |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
protective
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The French phrase for "of good disposition" gives us this synonym for suave |
debonair
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A 1959 agreement divided the Nile's water between Egypt & this country |
the Sudan
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(I'm Dana Perino of Fox News.) Hugh Grant played a convincing prime minister in this film that depicts amorous hopefuls from all walks of London life |
Love Actually
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It's named for the Roman god of agriculture |
(Reggie: What is Uranus?)
Saturn
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Last name of Louis-Eugene, who sold his French thermal spring with naturally carbonated water in 1903 |
Perrier
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The IRS offers "Six facts about choosing the standard or itemized" these |
deductions
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Exodus says that Moses' mother put him in a basket made of these grasslike plants & put him in the Nile |
reeds (or bulrushes)
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(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in viewers' minds when Stanley Kubrick played the situation for laughs in this 1964 classic |
(Jerry: What is Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb?) ... (Alex: [To Jerry] Yeah, if you'd left it at Dr. Strangelove, I think [*] was the title.)
Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
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Its ring system was discovered in 1977, nearly 200 years after it was |
(Alex: Just because you said it a few moments ago is no reason not to say it again, Reggie, [*], yes.)
Uranus
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A 1975 law ending fixed stockbroker commissions helped boost the discount brokerage he founded in 1971 |
Charles Schwab
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The proofreaders mark seen here means this |
delete
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(Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) He directed, co-wrote & starred in "Lost in America", which eviscerated the materialistic culture of the 1980s |
Albert Brooks
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Its axis of rotation is almost parallel to its orbital plane, so it spins more or less on its side |
[everyone laughs]
Uranus
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The copper products co. founded by this man in 1801 is still around today, but in Rome, New York, not Boston |
(Reggie: I'd like to bet the farm, please, Alex.) ... (Reggie: [Long pause] Who is Carnegie?) (Alex: No, [*], copper and silver.)
Paul Revere
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Walnut & teak trees are classified as this, losing their leaves annually |
deciduous
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