THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING |
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The sun nearly went out when this child king of France was left unsupervised & almost drowned |
(Lincoln: Uh, [as Arnold Schwarzenegger] IT'S NOT A TUMOR for $800.)
Louis XIV
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Bob Odenkirk, in this spinoff: "Lawyers... we're like health insurance. You hope you never need it" |
Better Call Saul
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Insincere criers shed these |
crocodile tears
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To scan a poem is to analyze its meter; tetrameter lines like "How still the bells in steeples stand" have this many feet |
four
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It's not a tumor, but these, aka renal calculi; often very painful until they pass |
kidney stones
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James II was converted to this faith before he became king; as a result, he was converted into an ex-king |
Catholicism
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Instead of "instead of", you can say "in" this "of" |
lieu
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Once a "Desperate Housewife" , today she stars in "Telenovela", a sitcom poking fun at Latin American soap operas |
(Eva) Longoria
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She's the model & TV host seen here |
(Lincoln: Uh, who is Chrissy Tiegs?)
Chrissy Teigen
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There once was this verse form of 5 lines written in anapests, short-short-long |
Limerick
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Relax, it's just a bone one of these, a spike-shaped outgrowth of bone tissue, on your heel |
a spur
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When his father was out of the country, teenage Philip II of Spain served as this, from Latin for "rule" |
the regent
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These 2 words that fit the category precede "amber waves of grain" in song |
(Jeremy: What are s... spacious skies?) ... (Alex: You needed two words with three vowels in a row.)
beautiful & spacious
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Craig Ferguson handed off his late-night hosting job to this more jovial Brit |
James Corden
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Blood vessels & tendons pass through this narrow opening in the wrist |
the carpal tunnel
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2 songs in common meter can easily swap tunes, like "Amazing Grace" & this one about "a house in New Orleans" |
"House Of The Rising Sun"
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An inflammation of the labyrinth in the inner ear is causing this sensation of dizziness |
vertigo
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As a young man the II king of this name was already calling for Belgium to be a colonial power--bad news for the Congo |
(Kelly: Who is Albert?)
(King) Leopold (of Belgium)
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We're "in line"; Londoners are in one of these, which actually has 4 vowels in a row |
a queue
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Maurice Benard, Carolyn Hennesy & Kelly Monaco have all checked into this ABC daytime drama |
General Hospital
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Peter Rabbit's mom put him to bed & gave him this beverage |
(Jeremy: What is carrot... beer?) [Laughter] (Alex: Car--there's the kind of mom you want. "Have some carrot beer, son." Kelly.) ... (Alex: By the way, it tastes a lot like carrot beer. Kelly, back to you.)
chamomile tea
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It's a 2-syllable foot in which the second syllable is stressed, as in the word "mistake" |
an iamb
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Floaters in your field of vision can indicate this 2-word condition where a membrane is separated from underlying tissue |
(Kelly: [Sighs] What is... macular degeneration?)
detached retina
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Queen Victoria's grandson, he was born with a withered left arm that was often hidden in photographs |
(Alex: All right, we'll accept that.)
Kaiser Wilhelm (II)
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"Bang" & "crash" are examples of this long word, which also has 4 vowels in a row |
onomatopoeia
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The 101st Airborne's Easy Company didn't have it so easy in this 2001 miniseries set during World War II |
Band of Brothers
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IRS code 4947(a)(1) covers these entities; the Pew ones try to solve today's most challenging problems |
charitable trusts
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Accentual meter, based on the number of stresses, is used in this most famous poem in Old English |
Beowulf
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But it is a type of inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative this |
colitis
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