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2015 ROCK HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES |
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It's basically a cone, but tornado-producing clouds aren't called cone clouds but these |
(Dean: What are cyclones?)
funnels
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Seen here is the logo of this university, whose hoopsters won their fifth national title in 2015 |
(Alex: Yes. The Blue Devils.)
Duke
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This Danish capital's Christiansborg Palace lies on the ruins of a fort built on Slotsholmen Isle |
Copenhagen
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She was 14 when she married the future King Louis XVI |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Marie Antoinette
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With a verdict of not guilty, you've received this |
acquittal
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The first electric light was an arc lamp with two rods of this element |
(Josh: What is tungsten?) (Martin: What is magnesium?) (Dean: What is copper?) ... (Alex: No harm, no foul.)
carbon
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Robert Frost taught on & off for over 40 years at this Mass. college located in Emily Dickinson's home town |
(Josh: What is Emerson?)
Amherst
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Since 1991 this isle in the Gulf of Naples has hosted an international film festival |
(Alex: That isle a very popular tourist place--[*].)
the Isle of Capri
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In 1774 Joseph Priestley showed that candles burn brightly in this then newly discovered gas |
oxygen
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A big name in romance, or a comic character in Commedia dell'arte |
Harlequin
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(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) Two batteries connected in a simple series circuit combine their voltage to produce a bright light; when they're connected in this type of circuit with a geometric name, they have a longer life but produce a dimmer light |
parallel
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The southernmost University of California campus bears the name of this city |
San Diego
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2 terriers were developed on this isle off Scotland's NW coast: the cairn & this one named for the isle |
(Martin: What is the Shetland?)
the Isle of Skye
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This classic 1726 satire was originally titled "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" |
Gulliver's Travels
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Watery term for the ease with which assets can be converted into cash |
liquidity (liquid accepted)
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Scientists use triangulation to locate this, the point on the Earth's surface right above a seismic event |
the epicenter
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The Jesuit educational heritage is alive & well at this West Coast school, LMU for short |
(Alex: Yes. Just a couple of miles from here.)
Loyola Marymount
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This isle in Lake Superior, a national park since 1940, has been designated an international biosphere reserve |
Isle Royale
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Assurance of our salvation was a doctrine of John Wesley in founding this faith |
Methodist
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An estimated 200,000 of them live on the French side of the Pyrenees |
the Basques
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The ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun among constellations, is aka a "great" this |
a circle
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This historically African-American institution was originally founded as the Atlanta Baptist female seminary in 1881 |
Spelman College
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When this "Lean On Me" singer warned he was going off teleprompter, Stevie Wonder, who inducted him, said, "I didn't use it" |
Bill Withers
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Lord Mountbatten was governor, then lord lieutenant, of this isle off England's southern coast |
the Isle of Wight
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Many of West Point's original fortifications were designed in 1778 by this Polish general who helped the Colonial Army |
Kosciuszko
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