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A TRIP AROUND THE LIBRARY |
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This girl group's "Someday We'll Be Together" was recorded without Mary Wilson or Cindy Birdsong, but Diana Ross was there |
The Supremes
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Over in the kids' section, we'll read this 1930 book where the title transport says, "I'm not very big" but tries to help anyway |
The Little Engine That Could
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It's the GI in GI tract |
gastrointestinal
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Its arms include the Aegean & the Ionian (13, 3) |
the Mediterranean Sea
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In 1986 an aircraft called Voyager became the first in history to fly non-stop around the world without having to do this |
refuel
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Time to see if this breed can live up to its name & drive standard |
a poodle
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A South African song became "Wimoweh" before it was turned into this hit song by The Tokens in 1961 |
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
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In periodicals, we'll enjoy this literary magazine Harold Ross founded in 1925 & try our best to understand half its cartoons |
The New Yorker
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This fear of open or crowded spaces comes from the Greek for a place where crowds gathered |
agoraphobia
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It is sandwiched between Queensland & Victoria (3,5,5) |
New South Wales
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Also a type of flying marsupial, this nonpowered craft was pioneered by Otto Lilienthal & Octave Chanute |
(Cliff: What is a flying squirrel?) ... (Alex: Darn. Okay, go again.)
a glider
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We know Vizslas are used to hunt water fowl & are in this American Kennel Club group, but the doggo here is really upping his fetch game |
(Jim: What are retrievers?)
Sporting
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I heard it through the grapevine that he had a No. 1 hit with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" |
(Marvin) Gaye
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An almanac in the reference section will tell us he served as British P.M. from 1937 to 1940; we'll tell you that did not go well |
Chamberlain
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This quality is the "A" in GAO, an agency making sure Congress doesn't waste taxpayer dollars |
accountability
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It's on the western cote d'Afrique (4, 1'6) |
Côte d'Ivoire
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While flying over Rogers Dry Lake in California in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break this |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
the speed of sound
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Known as the "Gray Ghost", & known for its obedience, this breed is ready to set sail |
(Yoshie: What is a Warmareiner?) (Alex: Ohh! Sorry. You did...) [The end-of-round signal sounds.] (Alex: And we're out of time, but you did the same thing that Cliff did a moment ago with mispronouncing "Borzoi". It's not a "Warmaraner"; it's a [*].) ... (Alex: And unfortunately for Cliff, he ends up in the red. That means he goes home with $1,000 and our happy holidays greetings.)
a Weimaraner
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3 months after his death, he had the first posthumous No. 1 single in history with "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" |
Otis Redding
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Let's hit a dictionary for a word of the day: this adjective derived from a Muse's name means relating to dancing |
terpsichorean
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Come up with this synonym of legerdemain & we'll be impressed |
prestidigitation
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Hawaiian island associated with the sainted Father Damien (7) |
Molokai
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As the wind in Ohio was unsuitable for their experiments, the Wright Bros. chose the banks near this village in N.C. to make history |
Kitty Hawk
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Obviously it's off to the ballet for this breed here, a favorite of Russian nobility for hundreds of years |
(Cliff: What are boljoys?) (Alex: I'm sorry.) (Cliff: What is a boljoy?) ... (Alex: Misspoke there, too bad.)
Borzoi
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This 1969 song that mentions "joo joo eyeball" & "toe jam football" started out as a campaign song for Timothy Leary |
(Cliff: What is "I Am The Walrus"?)
"Come Together"
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In nonfiction: "The Gulag Archipelago", a harrowing account of Soviet history by this man who lived it |
Solzhenitsyn
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A break or gap, like the boundary between the earth's crust & mantle called the Mohorovicic this |
discontinuity
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It's Spain's longest river (4) |
Ebro
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