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Much of this largest Louisiana city is below sea level |
New Orleans
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To celebrate winning the '83 World Series, the Baltimore Orioles popped 240 bottles of it |
champagne
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Gift giver named from the Dutch "Sinter Klaas" |
Santa Claus
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Nickname of Harry Lillis Crosby |
Bing
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A dance dance from France France |
the can-can
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The leading dairy products state |
Wisconsin
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Johnny Vander Meer is the only man to have ever pitched 2 of them consecutively |
no-hitters
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John Chapman was the real name of this wandering fruit tree planter |
Johnny Appleseed
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Term 1st coined to describe combination of smoke & fog |
smog
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Edgar's daughter who isn't a dummy |
Candice Bergen
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Brand of bats made in Kentucky; also describes Muhammad Ali |
Louisville Slugger
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The man whom Miles Standish asked to have a chat with Priscilla |
John Alden
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It was claimed of this product "a little dab'll do ya" |
Brylcreem
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They'll eat your heart out |
(Peggy: [No response]) ... (Alex: What are [*]?) [Audience groans] (Alex: I don't write them, I read them.)
cannibals
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In '51 playoff he hit "the Shot Heard 'Round the World" |
Bobby Thomson
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On July 4, 1776, he wrote his signature large so King George could read it without glasses |
John Hancock
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"Old Blood & Guts", he was tank commander in both World Wars |
Patton
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Originally term to describe shed built onto a building, it now means expensive unit on the roof |
a penthouse
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Terry Southern's little gumdrop |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
Candy
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This state's coastline is 2nd in length to Alaska's |
(Elise: What is California?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.] (Alex: Peggy or Perry, even though we've had the time's up signal, either of you will be allowed to answer if you want.) (Perry: What is Texas?) (Alex: That is wrong, it will cost you. What is [*]?)
Florida
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For years this Southerner was "the voice of the Yankees" |
(Elise: Who is Red Allen? Red Adams?)
Mel Allen
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English explorer who made smoking fashionable, he smoked before his own execution in 1618 |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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This Civil War general wrote "Ben-Hur" |
Lew Wallace
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Where Longfellow's arrow fell to earth |
(Peggy: What is Lake Gitche Gumee?
I know not where
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Poem part |
(Peggy: What is a canta?)
canto
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