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Ancient Cretan performers would run toward a charging one of these animals, grab its horns & flip over it |
(Alex: They're thinking of bringing it back for the next Olympics, by the way!)
Bull
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The World Eskimo Indian Olympics held in this state includes a rather competitive ear pull |
Alaska
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In addition to serving as Iraq's president, he's chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council |
Saddam Hussein
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The optic nerve transmits impulses between the eyes & this organ |
Brain
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His "Play It Again, Sam" tells the story of Allan Felix, a film journalist whose marriage has just broken up |
Woody Allen
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Voice range of Chaliapin, a Russian singer who popularized the "Song of the Volga Boatmen" |
Bass
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One part of this piece of women's event equipment is about 90" above the floor, the other about 60" |
Uneven parallel bars
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There's a grave in Boston that some people claim belongs to this story teller of nursery rhyme fame |
Mother Goose
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Before his 1979 election to Great Britain's parliament, he worked in banking for almost 20 years |
John Major
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These smallest blood vessels are about one-eighth the thickness of a strand of hair |
Capillaries
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In this musical members of the Class of '59 recall their days at Rydell High School |
"Grease"
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Clink was the name of a 16th century one of these in Southwark, London |
Prison/Jail
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In this event performed on a mat 40' square, men's routines must be 50-70 seconds long, women's 70-90 |
Floor exercise
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Evanston in this state was named for John Evans, a founder of Northwestern University |
Illinois
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In 1918 he was born the son of a Tembu chief in what's now Eastern Cape province |
Nelson Mandela
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Nearly all of the body's endocrine glands are stimulated by hormones released by this gland |
Pituitary Gland
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After Randle P. McMurphy attacks Nurse Ratched in this play, she has him lobotomized |
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
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The astronomical symbol for this planet is the same as the biological symbol for a female |
Venus
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This type of gymnastics became an Olympic event in 1984 |
(Sally: What is tennis?) (Gay: What is rhythm gymnastics?) (Alex: No, can't accept it.)
rhythmic gymnastics
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This Southwest reservoir is the largest artificial lake in the U.S. |
Lake Mead
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In 1992 this former Soviet prime minister was named chairman of the State Council of Georgia |
(Gay: Who is... Edward... [wrong name, then a second later gets right response]?) (Alex: We had to rule against you.) ... (Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Bow legs are often the result of this childhood disease caused by a lack of vitamin D |
rickets
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This play takes place at the summer home of Norman & Ethel Thayer |
"On Golden Pond"
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A chapter of this 1532 book discusses the Machiavellian career of Cesare Borgia |
"The Prince"
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Name for the wooden handles on a side horse |
Pommels
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Alabama marks the site of this Indian war's last battle |
(Glenn: What is the Seminole War?)
the Creek Indian War
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She took over Nicaragua's La Prensa newspaper after her husband's assassination |
Violeta Chamorro
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It's the anatomical name for the stirrup, the smallest bone in the body |
Stapes
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In his play "Lysistrata", the women of Athens refuse to sleep with their men until peace is declared |
Aristophanes
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Tia Maria, a liqueur made from Blue Mountain coffee beans, comes from this country |
Jamaica
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