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In 1979 technicians at this company's Shibaura plant in Tokyo developed the Walkman |
Sony
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It's a curved, springy stick about 29 inches long with a flat ribbon of hair attached to it |
the bow
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In French, sentences placing "ne" before the verb & "pas" after it make it this |
negative
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He overestimated the size of Asia & underestimated the Earth, so he thought he'd reached the Orient |
Christopher Columbus
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Common name for monochromatism, which makes the world seem black, white & gray |
colorblindness
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An atoll in the south seas, or the 2-piece bathing suit named for it |
Bikini
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He experimented with submarines before building the first commercially successful steamboat |
Robert Fulton
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The finest violins ever made, they bear the Latinized form of their maker's name |
Stradivarius
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An official language of Kenya, its name means "coast people" |
Swahili
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He was hoping the river named for him would lead him to the Pacific, but he only got to Albany |
Henry Hudson
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Of measles, mumps or chicken pox, the one for which no vaccine is generally available |
Chicken pox
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The current president of baseball's American League, or the singer heard here: |
(Alex: I have a feeling you knew that, even without the music, right?)
Bobby Brown
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A noise reduction system for audio tapes is named for this man, its inventor |
(Wen: Who is Thomas Dolby?) (Alex: No.) (Jamie: Who is Dolby?) ... (Alex: Wen, you gave me the wrong first name.)
Ray Dolby
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The rest for this part of the body was invented about 1820, probably by violinist Ludwig Spohr |
Chin
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Among languages spoken by more than 1 million people, it's the only one whose name begins with "V" |
Vietnamese
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He was standing on Darien Peak on the isthmus of Panama when he became the first European to see the Pacific |
Balboa
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An exact copy of a cell, a gene or an organism is called this |
a clone
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The actor who played Jock Ewing on "Dallas", or the cartoonist who created "Garfield" |
Jim Davis
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This invention was also called "The Pennsylvania Fireplace" |
the Franklin Stove (or Oven or Furnace)
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This Tel Aviv-born violinist overcame polio & first performed in public at age 9 |
Yithzak Perlman
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You don't have to be crazy to know "meshugga" is from this language |
(Alex: Avi, you'll live it down, believe me!) (Avi: I'll never live it down--sorry, Mom!)
Yiddish
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This founder of Quebec also discovered the large lake named for him |
Samuel de Champlain
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Nightmares occur during REM sleep, which is defined as this |
rapid eye movement
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A D.C. daily newspaper, or the march John Philip Sousa wrote for it |
The Washington Post
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Edwin Herbert Land first demonstrated this invention in 1947 |
the Polaroid camera
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Baroque composer whose most famous works are the violin concertos known as "The Four Seasons" |
Antonio Vivaldi
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This saint should be praised for coming up with the script for the Russian alphabet |
(Wen: Who is Cyrillus?) (Alex: No.) (Wen: Or Cyrillic--) (Alex: No. Jamie?) (Jamie: Who is Cyrillic?) ... (Alex: Both of you are giving me the adjective, instead of the saint's name.) [Wen’s response was originally ruled incorrect, but was reversed before Final Jeopardy!, nullifying Jamie's response.]
St. Cyril (or his brother Methodius)
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9 years before Da Gama, he led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope |
Bartolomeo Diaz
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Leukemia is marked by an uncontrolled proliferation of these cells |
white blood cells
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Roman goddess associated with the Greek Nike, or the capital of British Columbia |
Victoria
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