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YOU STAY CLASSICAL, MUSIC |
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THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAMER |
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A heated dispute |
an altercation
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Cyprus is the legendary home of this Greek goddess of love |
(Carlos: Who is Eros?)
Aphrodite
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Open yer yap & identify M. salmoides & M. dolomieu, these 2 popular game fish with contrasting names |
largemouth and smallmouth bass
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His composing sons fanned out across Europe, from C.P.E. in Prussia to Johann Christian in London |
(Marty: Who is Bach? ...Uh, [*].) (Alex: Thank you.)
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Invented an "apparatus for transmitting sound by electricity" & "techniques for teaching speech to the deaf" |
(Alexander Graham) Bell
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Both from 1960: "Ocean's ____" times "The Magnificent ____" |
[Alex reads the blanks as "blank".] (Alex: 11 and 7.)
77
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How high am I? Let's look at this standard aviation device |
an altimeter
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7 miles east of Venezuela is this island, the larger of the 2 that make up a nation |
Trinidad
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The belted sandfish, a sea bass, is this Greek-derived word, meaning having both male & female sex organs |
(Marty: What is androgynous?)
hermaphrodite
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I have to admit, one tune in "The Valkyrie" by this composer always gets me singing, "Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit..." |
Wagner
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This partner of Steve Jobs "was awarded the National Medal of Technology... in 1985" |
Wozniak
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"The ____ Year-Old Virgin" minus "The Dirty ____" |
[Alex reads the first blank as "this" and the second blank as "these".]
28
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This type of painted screen seen here was made for a Ghent cathedral |
(Carlos: What is an altar? ...What is a triptych altar?) (Marty: What is an altar screen?) [Marty's response was originally ruled incorrect, then ruled correct before the second Daily Double.]
an altarpiece (or altar screen)
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This capital of an island nation is at the extreme south of North Island |
(Alison: What is Auckland?) ... (Alex: [*], New Zealand.)
Wellington
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You're in perfect spot to observe the bass species called the white this, a synonym for "roost" |
a perch
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The Weber work heard here is this alliterative kind of composition for woodwind & orchestra |
a clarinet concerto
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"Inventor of the Checkered Game of Life, (he) ushered in a new age of parlor games" |
Milton Bradley
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"____ Men and a Baby" times "____ Degrees of Separation" |
[Alex reads the blanks as "these".] (Alex: 3 times 6.)
18
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You are nude if you are "in the" this |
the altogether
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This U.N. member is 500 miles northwest of Scotland |
Iceland
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A sea bass called the "giant" this G-word can reach 900 pounds; despite the name, it's solitary |
a grouper
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Ravel's instructions for this 1928 work were to start softly & play the end as loudly as possible |
Boléro
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His "discovery, which came to be known as vulcanization, strengthened rubber" |
(Carlos: Who is Firestone?)
Goodyear
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"Gone in ____ Seconds" plus "Assault on Precinct ____" |
[Alex reads the first blank as "this many".] (Alex: What are 60 plus 13? [*].)
73
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It's the brightest star in the constellation Aquila |
Altair
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Haiti & the Dominican Republic share custody of this island |
Hispaniola
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The calico bass is AKA the black this, & we're not making a judgment |
the black crappie
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"Anitra's Dance" is from a suite by Grieg written for this Ibsen play |
Peer Gynt
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This American "pioneered modern rocketry and space flight... held 214 patents in rocketry" |
(Robert) Goddard
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"(____) Days of Summer" times "____ Heads in a Duffel Bag" |
[Alex reads the first blank as "these" and the second blank as "number of".] (Marty: What is 300?) ... (Alex: 500 times 8.)
4000
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