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In 2005 the Kennedy Center awarded this "wild & crazy guy" the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor |
Steve Martin
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In 2003 he went directly from high school to the Cleveland Cavaliers & became the NBA's Rookie of the Year |
LeBron James
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The collection "Breakfast at Tiffany's" included the touching tale "Memory" of this holiday |
Christmas
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Ad man Cliff Freeman came up with this catchphrase delivered by Clara Peller in Wendy's commercials |
"Where's the beef?"
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The young kids go wild for this song that takes place "so early in the morning" |
(Bryan: What is "Ring Around The Mulberry Bush"?) (Mary: What is "All Around the Mulberry Bush"?)
"Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush"
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A 2005 concert at the Kennedy Center paid tribute to the 90th anniversary of the birth of this jazz "Lady" |
Billie Holiday
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Almost 40 years after his retirement, he dominates his team's record books |
Jim Brown
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3 days after the Clutter family was murdered in this state, Capote arrived there to research "In Cold Blood" |
(Bryan: What is Tennessee?) (Mary: What is Nebraska?) ... (Alex: The Clutter family were murdered in [*].)
Kansas
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Advertising copywriter Tom Rogers created this ad mascot seen here |
Charlie (the Tuna)
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In 1989 this famous East Coast symphony orchestra held its first ever summer residency in Jackson Hole |
(Kevin: Who are the Boston Pops?) (Bryan: Who is the Boston Philharmonic?)
the New York Philharmonic
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You might find this adventurous type of person at the controls of a Beech Staggerwing |
a bush pilot
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The Kennedy Center presented a series of one-act plays as "Five by Tenn", a reference to this playwright |
Tennessee Williams
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Nolan Schaefer of Yellow Grass, Sask. & Glenn Olson of Port McNeil, B.C. play this sport for the Cleveland Barons |
(Kevin: What is lacrosse?) ... (Alex: Those two Canadians play [*] for the Cleveland Barons.)
hockey
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Capote called this writer "Maestro of the Semicolon" & co-wrote a movie version of his "The Turn of the Screw" |
Henry James
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In ads for this microchip maker, the Blue Man Group made their own kind of music |
Intel
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Curt Schilling called A-Rod's ball-punching move in the 2004 A.L. playoffs this type of play |
bush league
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On Dec. 23, 2003 the inaugural event of the newly renovated Opera House was the Kirov dancing this ballet |
(Alex: Around Christmastime, right.)
The Nutcracker
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"Bullet Bob", this pitcher from Van Meter, Iowa, joined the Indians at age 17 in 1936 |
(Alex: That was the fireballer [*].)
Bob Feller
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A book left unfinished took its title from the line "More tears are shed over" these "than unanswered ones" |
(Bryan: What are letters?) ... (Alex: More tears shed over [*] than unanswered ones.)
answered prayers
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Celine Dion sang "I Drove All Night" in TV ads for the Pacifica & Crossfire models from this company |
Chrysler
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The USA's longest-running one of these events isn't a soccer tie-breaker but a re-creation of frontier justice |
a shootout
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A 2004 anti-Dubya book by Jim Hightower was titled "Let's Stop" this evasive behavior |
Beating Around the Bush
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This American pianist who took Moscow (& the world) by storm in 1958 received a Kennedy Center honor in 2001 |
Van Cliburn
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Now in the Hall of Fame, this tight end of the '80s was known as the "Wizard of Oz" |
(Mary: Who is Ozzie Smith?) ... (Alex: Who is [*]? Ozzie Smith was a different sport.)
Ozzie Newsome
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Completes the first sentence of a Capote novel, "When was it that first I heard of the grass..." |
(Alex: The grass [*]. All right, not big Capote fans, obviously.)
harp
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Jason Alexander starred in commercials for this pretzel line with a rhyming name |
(Alex: Remember those? [*].)
Rold Gold
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The galago, a small primate of southern Africa, is also called this because of its human-like cry |
a bush baby
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