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"Swimming World" magazine named him Male World Swimmer of the Year eight times |
Michael Phelps
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The Great Salt Lake desert covers about 4,000 square miles in this state |
Utah
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Beastly word for someone with an optimistic view of the stock market |
a bull market
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Capote novella that contains the line "it was one of these mailboxes that had first made me aware of Holly Golightly" |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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With a lever, it's pivotal |
fulcrum
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On the AFI's list of top heroes, No. 4 is Rick Blaine, played by him in "Casablanca" |
Humphrey Bogart
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One of the most popular swimming pool games bears the name of this Venetian traveler |
Marco Polo
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This city that's home to the University of Colorado lies at the base of the Flatiron Range of the Rockies |
Boulder
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The Nikkei Index tracks the top 225 stocks on this city's stock exchange |
Tokyo
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His works include "Neverwhere" , "The Graveyard Book" & 2017's "Norse Mythology" |
Neil Gaiman
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This adjective for a not-celebrated "hero" is also a TV show chronicling the rise & fall of musical acts |
(Haley: What is hubris?) ... (Alex: What is [*]? Remember, two "U"s coming up in each correct response.)
Unsung
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Andrew Lincoln played Rick Grimes, formerly in law enforcement, on this cable series |
The Walking Dead
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He found relief from his polio swimming in the mineral pools of Warm Springs, Georgia, where he had a little "White House" |
FDR (Franklin Roosevelt)
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Edgartown & Oak Bluffs are 2 of only a handful of towns on this island in New England |
(Alex: That's it, and now you are on the plus side.)
Martha's Vineyard
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Market winners in early 2018 include CMG, this Mexican food chain that got a new CEO & saw its price rise 50% |
Chipotle
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"Peace Breaks Out" is John Knowles' sequel to this novel set at a New England boarding school |
(John: What is Dead Poets Society?)
A Separate Peace
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Brendan Fraser played Rick O'Connell, exploring Egypt in this 1999 film |
The Mummy
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Once known as water ballet, it became an Olympic sport in 1984 |
synchronized swimming
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It sounds like a daily paper but this port city is actually part of a metro area that includes Norfolk & Virginia Beach |
Newport News
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In 1971 this new U.S. stock exchange introduced the era of all-electronic trading |
(Haley: What is the New York Stock Exchange?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute, now, Haley.)
NASDAQ
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The title of this World War II-set novel refers to Liesel Meminger, who learns to read what she has stolen |
(Haley: What is "The Reader"?) (Alex: No, what is [*]? Made it into a movie, too, kind of nice one.)
The Book Thief
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Montreuil is one of Paris |
a suburb
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In this film set in 2019, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) falls in love with a replicant |
Blade Runner
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You can enjoy some spectacular backdrops from this type of pool, also called a vanishing or negative edge pool |
an infinity pool
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Niagara Falls is made up of 2 falls, the American falls & these Canadian falls |
(Alex: That's it, and you're on the plus side at $800.)
Horseshoe Falls
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Running its own market index as well as providing credit ratings, "S&P" stands for this company |
(John: What is Standard & Poor?) ... (Alex: [*]. You had to put an "S" on the end of it there, sorry.)
Standard & Poor's
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In a 2018 bestseller, Madeline Miller retells the story of this Greek sorceress, daughter of Helios |
(Julie: Who is Medea?)
Circe
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Type of plant seen here, familiar to an infant Moses |
(Julie: What are rushes?) ... (Alex: Remember it has to contain two "U"s, so it would be "What is [*]?")
a bulrush
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Back on '80s TV, Larry Manetti was Rick Wright, a sidekick of this P.I. played by Tom Selleck |
Magnum
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