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One of the 400 richest people in America, Richard Wagstaff Clark is better known by this name |
Dick Clark
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In 1986, a Dallas exterminator ran a contest to find the largest one of these insects in the city |
(Alex: The winner was just under two inches.)
a cockroach
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Course of a meal during which a Spaniard would eat flan |
(Alex: It's baked caramel.)
dessert
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Proper number of horses needed to pull a Russian troika |
3
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Sport featured in "Popular Lures" |
fishing
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Of the 6 Day War, the 30 Years' War, & the 100 Years' War, one which lasted the longest |
the 100 Years' War
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A hot water bottle dressed as a doll was the favorite child-hood toy of this Cosmopolitan editor |
Helen Gurley Brown
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At the end of Linda Ronstadt's "When You Wish Upon A Star" video, he makes a cameo appearance |
Jiminy Cricket
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"Potage volaille a la Reine" is a fancy version of this sickroom standard at Aunt Esther's |
chicken soup
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It's how George Higgs escaped from Erewhon & the Wizard left Oz |
by balloon
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Even though it's now a monthly, "GQ" stands for this |
Gentlemen's Quarterly
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Air France is not the national airline of this country |
(Lori: What is France?) ... (Alex: Any other country, but France.) [Laughter]
Great Britain
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Nancy Sinatra's choice to play her father on film is this singer who once was Ziggy Stardust |
David Bowie
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1915 story in which Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to find he has changed into a giant insect |
(Jonathan: What is The Fly?) ... (Alex: He turned into a big cockroach; he could have been that Dallas winner, by the way.)
the Metamorphosis
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19th c. English nutritionist for whom the seasoned beef patty in TV dinners is named |
(J.H.) Salisbury
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In June 1966, Arthur Godfrey did it in 86 hours, 9 minutes, 1 second |
travel around the world
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This magazine's associate publisher is Rod's widow, Carol Serling |
The Twilight Zone Magazine
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Exact title of the following, it's not the same as the Gershwin tune: "It's summertime summertime sum sum summertime / Summertime summertime sum sum summertime..." |
(Jonatha: What is "It's Summertime"?) [The song was not reprised going into the break.]
"Summertime, Summertime"
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Richard Woodruff was the "little fat kid" on which restauranteur Bob Wian based this character |
[ERRATUM: Restaurateur in the clue's wording.]
Bob's Big Boy
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It's made from a substance given off by lac insects |
shellac
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Swedish for "bread & goosefat served on a table" |
smörgåsbord
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In trucking, "semi" is a short form of this word |
semi-trailer
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Magazine which shares its title with a classic William Makepeace Thackeray novel |
Vanity Fair
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Color of the lettering in the credits of the 1985 Spielberg film starring Whoopi Goldberg |
The Color Purple
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World Book says these are the 2 things most insects spend most of their time doing |
(Jonathan: What is eating and sleeping?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
eating & reproducing
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Cooked lobster meat mixed with a cream sauce, put in its shell, topped with cheese & browned |
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)
lobster Thermidor
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Its full name is the "Chemin de Fer Metropolitain" |
the Metro (the Paris subway system)
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Though they call Pleasantville, N.Y. home, their headquarters are really in the next town over, Chappaqua |
the Reader's Digest
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Recently, 1,000,000 Cheerios boxes each contained this premium which cost General Mills $1 each |
(Alex: One in every 20 boxes.)
a dollar bill
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