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WORLD LEADER DRIVER'S LICENSES? |
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This title character says, "My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it" |
Tarzan
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It's the first name of "Troy" co-star Burrows, so her parents were probably "mad about" a yellowish spice |
Saffron
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When it's closest to the Earth, this planet with a 687-day year is about 33 million miles away |
Mars
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He was the driving force in his country's reforms |
Gorbachev
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In 1909 Elwood Baker invented this game as a variation on what was often called "rum" |
(Bill: What is rummy?...) (Alex: No.) (Bill: What is gin rummy?)
gin
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Between 1867 & 1871 about 1 1/2 million of these cattle made a one-way trip up the Chisholm Trail |
longhorns
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This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" |
Don Quixote
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It was a "snap" for this "Swing Time" star to earn a 1992 Kennedy Center honor |
Ginger Rogers
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Eratosthenes calculated this c. 230 B.C. using the difference between the sun's angles at 2 places during June |
(Robert: Uh, what is the Earth's distance from the Sun?)
the Earth's circumference
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He drove out the Colonialists |
Ho Chi Minh
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In draw poker, it's the hand whose value is between a nonstraight flush & 4 of a kind |
(Alex: And you have much more money than your opponents as is usually the case in your games.) (Bill: I'll bet $4,000.) ... (Alex: [*]. You're a gambling man, obviously. Or at least you know about gambling. Good.) (Bill: I was gambling then.)
a full house
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Marine rank just above private first class |
(Robert: Uh, what is lieutenant?) ... (Alex: In the Marines, it's a [*].)
lance corporal
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In this Hemingway story, Santiago promises to show a marlin "what a man can do and what a man endures" |
The Old Man and the Sea
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The "Today" Show got a little spicier when she became its news anchor in 1997 |
Ann Curry
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The Lambert one of these formations in the Antarctic is over 250 miles long |
a glacier
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He had plenty of drive to get ahead in the army |
Franco
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Transporting name of the world's bestselling playing card brand for over a century |
Bicycle
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This actress flowered on the 19th century stage & as the mistress of King Edward VII |
(Bill: Who is Lind?) (Alex: No. Robert or Pat? Who is [*]? Judge Roy Bean loved her.)
Lillie Langtry
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In Dickens, these famous words precede "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
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Barbara Bain's "bark" may have been worse than her bite as this spicy character on "Mission: Impossible" |
Cinnamon (Carter)
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"Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26 |
(Alex: Oh boy! Bill, you have $13,000 as a cushion right now.) (Bill: I'll bet $9,000.) ... (Bill: What is silicon?) (Alex: No, the "cast" was an important word. Cast [*]. Cast [*]. So you're still in the lead but now you just have twice as much money as your opponents.)
iron
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He drove his people to distraction |
Idi Amin
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Walt Whitman's famous elegy talks about these that "in the dooryard bloom'd" |
lilacs
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This Poe plague "had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal" |
(Bill: What is The Masque of [*]?) (Alex: ...Well, all right. We'll give it to you. The Masque of [*] is the title, but we were going for the plague, and that is [*].)
the Red Death
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Movie producer Neufeld, or a spice with a weapon name |
Mace
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A clue for alien astronomers looking for life on Earth is the large amount of this gas, CH4, in the atmosphere |
methane
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He drove his party off a cliff in 1997 |
(John) Major
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The name of this card may have evolved from a variant version of the card game name Euchre |
a joker
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A 1905 earthquake in this Punjab capital killed more than 10,000 |
Lahore
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