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The name of this fruit goes back to the Sanskrit word "naranga" |
an orange
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This 3-letter prefix that precedes -bar, -metric & -tope means "equal" |
iso
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In the election of 1860, 10 slave states didn't even put his name on the ballot & he still won |
Abraham Lincoln
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This 1982 low-budget movie set in Florida in 1954 is known for its locker-room humor |
Porky's
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Kind of animal that was "mom" to Mowgli in "The Jungle Book"s |
a wolf
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Number of "men on the dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" |
(Eric: What is 13?)
15
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Meaning "to bounce a basketball lightly", this word is a variant of drip |
dribble
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Bort, an impure type of this form of carbon, is used for cutting, not for jewelry |
diamond
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When news broke that it was offered statehood in 1845, Mexico recalled its minister from Washington |
Texas
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Director who made his feature debut in 1978 with "Eraserhead"; he went on to "Blue Velvet" |
David Lynch
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Chios, Smyrna, Colophon, Argos, Rhodes, Athens & Salamis have all claimed to be this ancient poet's birthplace |
Homer
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This popular name for a pop music single referred to the record's playing speed |
(Alex: [*] for you; in my day it was 78.)
45
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Basin for holding baptismal water named from Latin meaning "fountain" |
a font
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This type of water that contains dissolved compounds doesn't readily lather with soap |
hard water
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The attack on Ft. McHenry was the last battle fought before the treaty ending this war was signed |
the War of 1812
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1990 saw George Romero remaking this 1968 zombie classic of his |
(Eric: What is Dawn of the Dead?)
Night of the Living Dead
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"The Grapes of Wrath" opens in this state |
Oklahoma
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It's the only even prime number |
2
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This compound extracted from opium is named for the Greek god of dreams |
(David: What is heroin?) (Eric: What is morphium?) (Alex: No.) (Eric: [*]. What is [*]?) (Alex: Sorry, I can't give it to you.) [Jean rings in] (Alex: And I can't let you respond on it, Jean.)
morphine
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This apparatus for increasing ions to high energies is called a linac for short |
a linear accelerator
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"Commodore" who lost the "Erie War", an 1860s fight for control of the Erie Railroad |
(Jean: Who is Perry?)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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From her ability to yell out in terror in horror films, Brinke Stevens has this nearly rhyming title |
scream queen
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His math books include "Symbolic Logic", his fantasy works "The Hunting of the Snark" |
(Eric: Who is Lewis? Carroll. [*]?)
Lewis Carroll
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Triskaideka-phobia is the fear of this number |
13
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Latin for "cloud", it's a diffuse mass of interstellar dust |
(Eric: What is galaxy?)
a nebulla
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It's a sudden involuntary contraction of the diaphragm |
a hiccup
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In 1923 his father administered the presidential oath of office to him in a farmhouse |
Coolidge
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The weapon wielded by Leatherface |
a chainsaw
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He went on for 55 verses weeping for the dead "Adonais" |
(Jean: Who is Keats?)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Number of theses Martin Luther posted on the door of a church in Wittenberg |
(Jean: What is 97?) (David: What is 96?)
95
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