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POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE |
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Big volumes of steam between the shortening & the dough put the puff in "puff" this |
pastry
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In Mexico, the name of this currency also means "weight," as in a weight of precious metal |
peso
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From 1941 to 1944 residents of this city named for a former Soviet leader endured a tragic 872-day siege |
(John: What is Stalingrad?)
Leningrad
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This 2016 all-female reboot updated a supernatural franchise begun 32 years before |
Ghostbusters
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"I fear thee, ancient mariner! / I fear thy skinny hand!" |
Coleridge
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A coffee cup embrace |
a mug hug
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A steam iron smoothes wrinkles because heat breaks these between molecules of cellulose in fiber like cotton |
bonds
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This currency of El Salvador gets its name from Christopher Columbus |
the colon
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In 1941 the U.S. government began selling the Series E type of these to support the armed forces |
bonds
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Terry Jones of this comedy troupe was not kidding when he directed the economic documentary "Boom Bust Boom" |
Monty Python
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"The song of canaries / Never varies, / And when they're moulting / They're pretty revolting" |
(Alex: Fun poet named [*].)
Ogden Nash
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Earthquakes have lengthened the average interval between its famed eruptions of water & steam by about 30 minutes |
(Alex: You've been pretty good at finding Daily Doubles and cashing in on them when you do find them.) (John: Let's make it a True Daily Double.) (Alex: Oh, boy. For $21,600, here's the clue...) ... (Alex: You got it, and you just doubled your score.)
Old Faithful
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This South American nation's dollar has the currency code GYD |
Guyana
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If you were a U.S. male with a birthday of September 14, you might get unlucky No. 001 in the Dec. 1, 1969 lottery for this |
(Humzah: What are Social Security numbers?)
the draft
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This Genesis singer/drummer was a train robber in the 1988 comedy "Buster" |
Phil Collins
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"A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou" |
(Humzah: Who is Shakespeare?)
Omar Khayyam
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A solar Beretta |
a sun gun
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Boiling water that turns into steam is undergoing this phase change from liquid to gas |
(Humzah: What is evaporation?)
vaporization
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Wildlife including rhinos & elephants appear on different denominations of this monetary unit of South Africa |
(Humzah: What is the real?)
the rand
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During this war, inflation made paper currency worthless, inspiring the saying "not worth a continental" |
American Revolution
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Dean Martin & this longtime comedy partner starred in the 1956 romp "Hollywood or Bust" |
(Jerry) Lewis
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"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" |
(Alex: Now you may or may not be aware of the highest score ever... [Laughter] ...recorded for one Jeopardy! program, but if you made this a True Daily Double and responded correctly, you'd be in pretty good shape to top that.) (John: My husband would kill me. $400.) ... (Alex: Don't you wish you had bet it all? You're at an even $28,000. Go again.)
(John) Donne
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A partial chortle |
a half laugh
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AKA steam coal, this most abundant type of coal gets its name from a Latin word for "pitch" |
(Humzah: What is anthracite?) ... (Alex: [*]. Anthracite is much harder.)
bituminous
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Just like American kids save pennies, a father in Gogol's "Dead Souls" tells his son, "Keep and save your every" this |
(John: What is a ruble?) (Humzah: What is a shekel?)
kopeck
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If you lived in Westphalia in 1633, you lived smack in the middle of this war |
Thirty Years' War
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In "Bustin' Loose" this late African-American comedian played an ex-con helping kids |
Richard Pryor
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"Me, who am only Pippa,--old-year's sorrow, / Cast off last night, will come again to-morrow" |
(Alex: We have four clues and less than a minute now, Humzah.)
Robert Browning
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Sorrow for another's troubles is the subject of this cute little song |
(Alex: And that would be a [*]. It rhymes. Not particularly good, but it rhymes.)
pity ditty
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