NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ |
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WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS |
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Not quite--this pianist's name isn't Felonious Funk |
Thelonious Monk
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A resistor called a rheostat was used in the first of these switches that adjust illumination gradually |
a dimmer switch
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Mix 5 pounds of malt extract with 5 gallons of water, add hops & yeast, let ferment, bottle & in about 3 weeks you've got this |
beer
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Vigor's proverbial partner |
vim
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The Inquisition was formed in Spain to combat this 6-letter type of thought at odds with orthodox doctrine |
heresy
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This company says its 7th generation Core i7 processors speed up your computer with turbo boost technology 2.0 |
Intel
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Brother of Branford, this trumpet legend doesn't go by Clinton, but by this name |
(Brandon: Who is Winston Marsalis?) (Alex: Say it again.) (Brandon: Winston Marsalis?) ... (Alex: [*]--no "S" in there.)
Wynton Marsalis
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Far out, man! It's the groovy name for the special ultraviolet lamp in use here |
a blacklight
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In 1914 Popular Mechanics suggested affixing a V-shaped guide to the door to find this when coming home at night |
(Brandon: What is the garage?)
the keyhole
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In 1478 Sixtus IV named inquisitors to deal with Marranos, people who were formerly of this faith |
Jewish
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In 2016, its new president, Gianni Infantino unveiled a plan called this troubled sporting organization 2.0 |
FIFA
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It's not Stan Lee or Stan Musial, it's this cool school sax man |
Stan Getz
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The phenyl oxalate ester helps provide the gleam in this item you wave at a rave |
a glowstick
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Use a torque wrench & tighten in an alternating pattern when reinstalling these after changing a tire |
lug nuts
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To imitate playfully |
mimic
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When people fled the Inquisition, sometimes they were found guilty in absentia & burned this way |
(Jamie: What is... at the stake?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
burned in effigy
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This 1987 rollout was the first bundled with Word & Excel, making it tough on competing apps |
(Jamie: What is Microsoft Office?) (Dave: What is Microsoft XP?) ... (Alex: You had to go for the obvious one, I guess--[*].)
Microsoft Windows 2.0
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Close, but despite the sweetness of his guitar, this Belgian-born Gypsy wasn't known as Mango Seinfeld |
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)
Django Reinhardt
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The first electric street lights were Yablochkov candles, a type of this 3-letter lamp |
(Jamie: What is gas lamp?)
an arc lamp
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Paraffin wax on the hinges |
how do you fix a squeaky door
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Doing this type of "duty" includes basic stuff like paying taxes & voting |
your civic duty
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In 2016 the Healthy this city 2.0 initiative was launched--in the home of stuffed pizza & chicken Vesuvio |
Chicago
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So close--Benny Goodman's percussive prince wasn't Dean Cooper but rather this |
Gene Krupa
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Neon, glowing red, isn't the only noble gas used in discharge tubes: xenon glows blue & this grade "A" gas, violet |
argon
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This device that zaps away paint or rust can be filled with a non-silica type of the main material to avert silicosis |
a sand blaster
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Absolutely furious! |
(Brandon: Oh, goodness. What is mad?)
livid
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In 2017 this Uber CEO took a leave of absence so he could work on "Travis 2.0" |
Travis Kalanick
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