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MUSIC FOR THE DENTIST'S CHAIR |
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Named for Sir Henry Bessemer of England, the Bessemer process allowed for the mass production of this metal |
steel
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After moving to Chicago in 1891, he wisely decided to stop selling soap & baking powder to concentrate on chewing gum |
(William) Wrigley
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The Ssese Islands, an 84-island archipelago, lie in the Uganda portion of this huge lake |
Lake Victoria
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The "1,001" stories told by Scheherazade include 7 about this sailor |
Sinbad
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It can be derogatory slang for a chubby person or perhaps the brand name of your Thanksgiving turkey |
Butterball
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For starters, "I Wanna Be Sedated" by these punks |
The Ramones
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A city was named for Bessemer in this U.S. state near another industrial center, Birmingham |
Alabama
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His Virgin Atlantic airlines is one of the largest airlines in Britain |
(Richard) Branson
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These mountains of Morocco are home to an annual wedding festival at Tislit & Isli Lakes |
the Atlas Mountains
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It's the third & last major section of Dante's "Divine Comedy" |
Paradiso
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A reporter rushing to file a story to get it into a certain edition is "on" this |
deadline
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Good news: "I have become comfortably numb", just as this band's song from "The Wall" says |
Pink Floyd
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The Bessemer process tries to refine the iron that is named for this barnyard animal |
pig iron
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Ding dong--Sheri McCoy calling as CEO of this maker of beauty & home products |
Avon
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One of the world's largest manmade lakes, Lake Kariba lies on "Z" border of these 2 African countries |
Zambia & Zimbabwe
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The first Bombay-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907, he wasn't Hindi |
(Rudyard) Kipling
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To get rid of used household items, donate them to this organization founded in 1902 by Methodist minister Edgar Helms |
goodwill
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I just heard this 2014 song by Calvin Harris & Big Sean, also the 2-word command the dentist just gave me |
"Open Wide"
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In 1847 William Kelly, a native of this U.S. city, independently conceived the same idea as Bessemer |
Pittsburgh
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In 1977 she opened her first chocolate chippery in Palo Alto, California |
(Nate: Who is Fannie May?)
Mrs. Fields
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Lake Volta provides irrigation of dry farmland in this West African country's Accra plains |
(Alex: Yes for you, but no for me because that wasn't the last clue.)
Ghana
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The eventual author of 40 books, James Michener didn't publish his first, these "Tales", until he was 40 |
Tales of the South Pacific
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Two nouns form this verb that refers to what the truck is doing here |
fishtailing
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Gulp! I just heard the lyric "I thrill when I drill a bicuspid" from "Dentist!", a song in this movie musical |
Little Shop of Horrors
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In a Bessemer converter, air is blown through the liquid metal; impurities form this 4-letter byproduct that is skimmed off |
(Sarah: What is coke?)
slag
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The target of a Michael Moore documentary, he was head of General Motors from 1981 to 1990 |
(Bryn: Who is Iacocca?)
Roger Smith
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Crater lakes created by glaciers can be found on this second-highest African peak |
(Alex: Now the last clue...)
Mount Kenya
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The 2 title jobs of Natty Bumppo in works by James Fenimore Cooper are Pathfinder & this |
Deerslayer
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This worker builds or maintains high structures such as church towers or smokestacks |
steeplejack
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Should I worry about hearing this novelty holiday song that says, "Every time I try to speak all I do is whistle" |
"All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"
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