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Landscaping is part of this "appeal", named for the edge of the sidewalk |
curb appeal
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These crazy numbers can't be expressed as a quotient of 2 integers |
irrational numbers
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To be yoked (for people, not oxen) meant to be in this condition |
married
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Along with the Kremlin, it was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list in 1990 |
Red Square
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At 15 Alex moved to London to live with his grandfather, author of "Stammering, and Other Impediments of" this |
speech
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1956 film epic with Charlton Heston as Moses |
The Ten Commandments
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One of the most cost-effective rehabs is to add this to the attic, preferably to a level above R-30 |
insulation
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Newton's Third Law is often given as "for every action..." these 7 words |
there is an equal and opposite reaction
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Put a feather in your cap & name this club of fashionable gentlemen, whose name became slang for fops & dandies |
(Wes: What's the Lavender Club?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute now.)
the Macaroni Club
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This strait connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific |
the Golden Gate
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Bell's graphophone improved on this Edison invention as well as reversing its syllables |
the phonograph
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In the U.S. this Agatha Christie mystery was known as "And Then There Were None" |
Ten Little Indians
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This cable channel has had more than 30 shows with "Flip" in their titles |
HGTV
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This word before "star" refers to changes in shine; Algol's apparent magnitude goes from 2.1 to 3.4 every few days |
variable
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Now meaning the smallest member of a litter, it once was used to refer to a crabby old lady |
the runt
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The memorial seen here in West Bengal honors prisoners who suffered in this infamous site in 1756 |
the Black Hole of Calcutta
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The first long-distance call was within this Canadian province, to Paris from Bell's former home of Brantford |
Ontario
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Tito Merrelli is an incapacitated opera star in the musical "Lend Me a" this |
a tenor
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For granite these in the kitchen, some flippers go with a tile version, others with a solid slab |
countertops
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The equation y2=2px describes this conic section, the shape of the arch in some bridges |
a parabola
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Owing to the unknown substances they were stuffed with, bags of mystery were these breakfast items |
sausages
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This arm of the Pacific Ocean is between the Chinese mainland & the Korean peninsula |
the Yellow Sea
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Bell co-invented what's said to be the first of these devices, testing it on Civil War vets with bullets still in their bodies |
(Wes: What is a stethoscope?) (Johanna: What is... sorry.)
a metal detector
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This song by General Public is featured in the movies "Clueless" & "Weird Science" |
"Tenderness"
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Tell buyers all about the storage space in the scullery, AKA this person's pantry |
the butler
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The name of this long-vanished supercontinent is from Greek for "all" & "Earth" |
Pangaea
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A whooper-up was an inferior, hard-on-the-ears one of these |
a singer
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An HBO film & a Broadway musical both bear the name of this Long Island estate owned by Jackie Kennedy's aunt |
Grey Gardens
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In 1903 Bell sailed for Europe & brought back to Washington the body of this man for burial in his institution |
(Alex: And that man's name was [*]. The Smithsonian.)
James Smithson
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An ode to surgical enhancement in "A Chorus Line" is titled this, "Looks: Three" |
"Dance: Ten"
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