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STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON |
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It's been flame grilling your patties since 1954 |
Burger King
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On Chile's flag, the red is for the blood of the patriots, the blue is sky & the white is the snow of these mountains |
the Andes
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Tom set up an account with wordpress.com so he could start doing this, writing about himself on the web |
blogging
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Sitcom is short for this |
a situation comedy
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By Amy Schumer: "The Girl with the Lower Back ____" |
Tattoo
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It brings people together with its "United Colors" |
Benetton
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Peru's flag was inspired by a flock of these wading birds, though it's red & white, not pink & white |
flamingoes
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Tom keeps getting fired from one job & landing a better one, a path called doing this upward |
falling (or failing)
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Mecha is a genre of anime typically featuring giant these resembling people |
robots
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About the Titanic: "A Night to ____" |
Remember
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Blue Shirt Nation was a social network for this retailer's employees |
(Mukund: What is Levi's?)
Best Buy
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The flag of this country, formerly known as British Honduras, is the only national flag depicting humans in its design |
Belize
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The umpire penalized Tom for faking a throw to first base without stepping off the rubber, called this |
balking
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Some people describe a sentimental film as a "three-" this accessory picture |
(Mukund: What is a three-piece suit?) (Alex: No. [Chuckles])
a tissue (or handkerchief)
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A 2012 bestseller: "The Light Between ____" |
Oceans
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The company named for him began by selling computer terminals to Wall Street |
(Michael) Bloomberg
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The stripes on the flags of Venezuela & Ecuador resembled those of this neighbor of which they were once a part |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Colombia
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In history class, Tom learned that a 1965 "Rights Act" outlawed discrimination in this process |
(Mukund: What is hiring?) (Katie: What is housing?)
voting
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This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre |
Gladiator
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Jane Smiley redoes "King Lear" in Iowa: "A Thousand ____" |
Acres
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The seeds of its success include 1877's Surehead cabbage |
Burpee
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Tom has a new product & he's doing this-- not whipping it but publicizing it |
flogging
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Video games with wide-open worlds & roles are named for this playground spot |
a sandbox
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About microbes & quoting Whitman: "I Contain ____" |
(Alex: And we have less than a minute now.)
Multitudes
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(Neil deGrasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) I once co-signed an open letter to congress about the danger of NEOs, short for these, & their potential for harming life on Earth |
(Alex: And I wanna thank Neil deGrasse Tyson for helping us out with that category. If you would like to watch his series, Star Talk, it airs on Mondays on the National Geographic Channel.)
near Earth objects
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