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CELEBRITY NAMES IN COMMON |
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In some ways the British Secret Service dates all the way back to Francis Walsingham, spymaster to this 16th century queen |
Queen Elizabeth I
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The oldest state bar association for these professionals is New Hampshire's, established in 1873 |
lawyers
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Though this towering lumberjack is not what you'd call historical, he has a historical marker in Bemidji, Minnesota |
Paul Bunyan
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So far we haven't been able to take a picture of the entirety of this galaxy of ours; NASA uses images of Messier 74 instead |
the Milky Way
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Jessica Parker & Michelle Gellar |
Sarah
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Beastly cross-country transport in Arctic regions |
(Helen: What's a... Druid?)
a dog sled
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The formal British name for MI6 is SIS, short for the Secret this Service |
Intelligence
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The bars are set about 6 feet apart & 8 & 5 1/2 feet above the floor in this female gymnastics event |
(Donesh: What are the, um... parallel bars?)
the uneven parallel bars
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A marker says, "For nearly 100 years boats entered" this waterway "at nearby Lock 1, bringing work, tradition & fame" to Albany |
the Erie Canal
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Spot Aldebaran in the sky & you've hit the bull's-eye--it's known as the eye of this constellation |
(Ken: [*] the bull, right.)
Taurus
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Adjective meaning you are so surprised by something that you do not know what to do or say |
dumbfounded
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A pass from this traitorous general was not enough to keep Major Andre from being hanged as a spy in 1780 |
Benedict Arnold
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This very breakable wafer candy bar began as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp |
Kit Kat
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A Niles, California marker says it's the site where this was truly completed, some months after a ceremony in Promontory, Utah |
the Transcontinental Railroad
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Traveling at up to 500 miles per second, solar wind mainly contains ions of these 2 lightest elements |
(Ken: Those are they.)
hydrogen & helium
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Garner & Hudson |
(Ken: You had a leg up there.) [Laughter] (Jennifer: Little bit.)
Jennifer
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The name of these muscles comes from their triangular shape |
deltoids
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The 1944 "Sussex" scheme dropped teams of agents into France in advance of this major offensive |
D-Day
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In 1951 Paul Bigsby put out the first successful vibrato mechanism, better known as this "bar" that makes for wild guitar sounds |
the whammy bar
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A marker near Youngstown says it's where James & Daniel Heaton fired up Ohio's first blast this for smelting iron |
a furnace
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Neptune was once called a gas giant, but is now termed this less gassy 3-letter type of giant |
(Jennifer: Oh, sorry; don't know.)
an ice giant
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A car battery brand, or someone loyal to particular ideas & unwilling to change |
Diehard
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This alliterative author served in MI6 & used his real code number for a character in "Our Man in Havana" |
Graham Greene
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In the U.S. Army, Marines & Air Force, promotion from first lieutenant to this rank means getting a second bar |
(Helen: What is second lieutenant?) Jennifer: What is colonel?)
captain
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A marker near Port Royal, Virginia identifies the site of the Garrett farm & barn, where this man met his end April 26, 1865 |
(Ken: Need an answer.) [Donesh says nothing.] ... (Ken: Less than a minute to go.)
John Wilkes Booth
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One of the closest to Earth, the Helix is a ring-shaped one of these clouds of dust & gas |
a nebula
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The plastic skin stretched tight over a snare or bass frame |
a drumhead
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