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SO YOU WANT TO BE A TALK SHOW HOST |
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To bend down on the small porch of the same name |
stoop
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Not surprisingly this largest animal on Earth also gives birth to the largest baby, up to 26 feet long |
(Saadia: What is an elephant?)
a blue whale
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Whether they laugh or not, throw "You're a great audience" into this, from the Greek for "alone" & "speech" |
a monologue
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This former haberdasher was Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1945 & 1948 |
(Alex: Onetime U.S. president [*].)
Harry Truman
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South Carolina's governor said, "150 years after the end of the Civil War, the time has come" to take this down |
the Confederate flag
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Have you & your teenagers Mao & Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents & kids? |
the generation gap
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Originally this 2-word bird term meant a decoy; it came to mean an informer, ya lousy mug |
stool pigeon
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The wandering albatross holds the record for this, up to 11 1/2 feet |
wingspan
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With the help of today's headlines, make your jokes this word, like ointment |
topical
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In 73 B.C. this former gladiator led a slave revolt that threatened Rome |
(Alex: My name is [*]. Julie, a minute to go.)
Spartacus
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Pharrell said "There was no infringement" of this late singer: "You can't own feelings... can't own emotions" |
Marvin Gaye
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I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway? |
the VW Bus
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A noisy type of pet parrot of the Australasian region |
cockatoo
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With a face only its humans could love, the competitor seen here won the 2015 title of the World's this |
Ugliest Dog
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Get a good niche, not so goofy, not so serious, say a combination of Jimmy Fallon & this PBS/"CBS This Morning" man |
Charlie Rose
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3 words completing George W. Bush's commencement speech line "C students, you too..." |
can be president
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Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s? |
Cheech & Chong
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This wild ox of Asia is the highest-living large mammal in the world; talk among yourselves |
a yak
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Have handy notes that say things like "angry cat" & "airport mixup", each to elicit this 8-letter personal story |
anecdote
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"An affront to the Mexican state", said Mexico's president of a prison escape by Joaquin Guzman, aka this |
El Chapo
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Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this? |
marijuana
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It's a boat used as a support for a temporary bridge over a river |
pontoon
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Less than 2 inches in length, the bumblebee species of this is the world's smallest mammal |
a bat
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Get loyal sidekicks like this man, Johnny Carson's main bandleader for 25 years |
Doc Severinsen
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California's natural resources secretary said, "Everybody is a soldier in" this fight |
(Alex: [*] here in California.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the fight against the big drought
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Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965? |
flower power
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