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Gimme back my hour! In 2014 this began on March 9 at 2:00 am |
Daylight Saving Time
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Liturgical gloves sometimes worn by Catholic bishops resemble these, the handwear of knights |
gauntlets
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It's the title offering seen here |
Green Eggs and Ham
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1992: This rockin' group with "Under The Bridge" |
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics says that a robot may not allow one of these to come to harm |
humans
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A flat slab of wood gets its "D" karate-chopped off to become a male pig |
(Alex: Yes, we need both words and you gave them both.)
board & boar
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Astronomers use sidereal time, based on the Earth's rotation in relation to these |
stars
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Famous ones of these on TV included Bunny Rabbit on "Captain Kangaroo" & Shari Lewis' Lamb Chop & Hush Puppy |
(hand) puppets
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"Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" is a line from this Steinbeck classic |
The Grapes of Wrath
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1966: This quartet had us "California Dreamin"' |
The Mamas & the Papas
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Toyota built systems including VR, this "recognition", for Kirobo, the first talking robot in space |
voice recognition
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With a "D", a male duck flies off; without, a lawn tool stays on the ground |
drake & rake
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Claudius & Nero both had months named after them for a while, but only these 2 remain bearing the names of ancient Romans |
July & August
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In 1890 Dr. William Halsted got gloves made of this for his scrub nurse (later wife), whose skin reacted to cleaning solutions |
latex (or rubber)
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Dolphins have a title message for us, before disappearing--"So Long, and Thanks for All" this |
the Fish
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1972: They took it easy with "Take It Easy" |
The Eagles
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iRobot Corporation, founded by a group from MIT, introduced this vacuuming wonder device in 2002 |
Roomba
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A warning to Will Robinson becomes a strong feeling of rage |
danger & anger
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This book's name may be from the Arabic for "camel rest stop" & once it gave the positions of the stars & planets |
the almanac
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A Japanese variety of this sport called kyudo uses a glove called a yugake with which to draw the string |
archery
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The narrator casually discusses doing "the ultra-violent on some... grey-haired ptitsa" in this Anthony Burgess novel |
A Clockwork Orange
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1987: This female trio pushed onto the charts with "Push It" |
Salt-N-Pepa
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For decades, robots have been used by this type of police squad as humans watch from a distance |
the bomb squad
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A corpse shuffles off his mortal "D", leaving behind a male child |
body & boy
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There are 60 billion of these in a minute |
(Dilip: What are quarks?)
nanoseconds
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To keep from slipping, gymnasts use this substance, mainly magnesium carbonate, on their hands |
(Donna: What is rosin?)
chalk
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Roald Dahl's James says, "I know what this is! I've come to the stone in the middle of" this |
the Giant Peach
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2009: This single-named British gal was "Chasing Pavements" |
Adele
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This 5-letter prefix comes before "mechanism" to refer to the feedback device that lets robots self-correct |
(Alex: Less than a minute.)
servo
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A word denoting an inadequate supply loses a "D" & becomes a planet |
dearth & Earth
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