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This fellow may look funny, but just like my friend Sebastian, he's one of these |
a crab
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As Minister of National this, general Chang Wanquan is China's counterpart to Ashton Carter |
(Jerry: [Without ringing in] Who is Secretary of [*]?) (Alex: You have to ring in. Keely.) (Keely: What is Secretary of [*]?)
Defense
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The story of your life as written by you |
autobiography
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Linus in this comic strip called big sisters "the crab grass in the lawn of life" |
Peanuts
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I used rolls & rolls of film to capture this living 135,000 square mile expanse in the Pacific |
(Keely: What is a coral reef?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Keely: What is the great coral reef?)
the Great Barrier Reef
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2012: "A Natural Woman" |
Carole King
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Han Changfu is Minister of this; with 1.4 billion people to feed, he'd better have a green thumb |
Agriculture
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Many beauty pageants have a Miss this title, meaning the woman was quite friendly & sociable with the other women |
Congeniality
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Bartlett's cites the lines "O my prophetic soul! My uncle!" from this Shakespeare play |
Hamlet
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Have you met my best friend, named this? He's not tired, he just likes sitting that way |
Flounder
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2015: "Fortunate Son" |
(Keely: Who is Seger?)
John Fogerty
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The U.S. has HUD, Housing & Urban Development; China has HURD, in which the R stands for this opposite of urban |
rural
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Almost but not quite; this student ranks second in the class academically |
salutatorian
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In 1821 William Becknell opened this great commercial trail between Missouri & New Mexico |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Santa Fe Trail
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Bartlett's brackets this name before the quote "The daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod" |
Salome
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I like the look of sunken treasure, maybe from this type of ship, that added a syllable to the ancient galley |
a galleon
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2015: "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink" |
Elvis Costello
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Wang Yi is Minister of foreign these; his wife must worry when he's out of the country |
Affairs
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From the Greek for "human being", it's the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects |
(Jerry: Anthrop--what is anthropomorphy?)
anthropomorphism
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"Once I built a railroad, now it's done" precedes this 6-word question, the title of a Depression-era anthem |
Brother, can you spare a dime?
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Some creatures glow under the sea thanks to the marine type of this heatless light |
bioluminescence
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2011: "Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny" |
Nile Rodgers
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In 2013 China's head of this Protection said it was one of the world's "4 major embarrassing departments" |
Environmental
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In "The Bells" Poe used this long word meaning the ringing of bells |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
tintinnabulation
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This 3-named poet wrote "Thanatopsis", about the not-so-good feeling of ruminating upon death |
William Cullen Bryant
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This Russian's "An Actor Prepares" says, "In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play" |
Stanislavski
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