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The first album she owned was by the Go-Go's and she recreated their album cover look at the Rock Hall of Fame induction |
Drew Barrymore
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Langston Hughes "heard the singing" of this big river, "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" |
the Mississippi
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"Notorious RBG" |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The Federal Reserve's target rate for this is 2%, but that was majorly exceeded in the late months of 2021 |
inflation
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This scientist told an early biographer that "the notion of gravitation came into his mind... occasion'd by the fall of an apple" |
Newton
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This numerical term means open every hour every day |
24/7
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Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death |
a hearse
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A Whitman poem is titled "By Blue" this Great Lake's "Shore"; he could've been in the province of the same name |
(Mattea: What is, I hope, [*]?) (Ken: It's your home province, yes.)
Ontario
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A monopsony, unlike a monopoly, is a market with only one of these; in a labor market, it can lead to lower wages |
only one purchaser (buyer)
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Astrophysicist Joan Feynman explained the science behind these northern & southern light displays, the borealis & the australis |
the auroras
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A 1931 newspaper article: "My Fingers Dialed" this number." 'Information, can you tell me where there is a breadline?"' |
411
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This Harvard grad & future talk show host's first L.A. apartment was at Cochran & 3rd, $380 a month, living on tuna & miracle whip |
Conan O'Brien
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Wordsworth wrote of an ascent of Helvellyn, a mountain in this "District" that he called home |
the Lake District
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"My Life with the Chimpanzees" |
Jane Goodall
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The expenses for a business of changing its prices are called these "costs", what Joe's Diner doesn't want to keep reprinting |
(Joe: What are fixed costs?)
menu costs
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Marie Tharp's discovery of mid-ocean ridges would support continental drift & this theory of continents moving on slabs of rock |
(Mattea: What's plate theory?) ... (Mattea: Halfway there.)
plate tectonics
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A book title gave us this shorthand for totalitarianism |
(Ken: Kristen?) ... (Kristen: Um.)
1984
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This rapper, pitchman & friend of Martha Stewart said that in 2020, age 49, he was finally going to go out & vote |
Snoop Dogg
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This state's official poem ends, "where the dreamy Wabash River wanders on... through paradise" |
(Mattea: What's Wisconsin?)
Indiana
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"Road to Tara: The Life of" this author |
(Ken: Gone with the Wind, right.)
Margaret Mitchell
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A common barrier to trade, it's a government payment to a domestic industry, like the U.S. government's to farmers |
a subsidy
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Daniel of this family gets the credit for the principle that says the pressure of a fluid decreases as its speed increases |
(Ken: That's [*]'s principle.)
Bernoulli
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This slang number for a certain crop is thought to date to a San Rafael, California high school in the early 1970s |
(Kristen: What is marijuana?) ... (Ken: We needed the slang term. [To Kristen] But, I'm glad you know what it is.) [Laughter]
420
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John C. Reilly took his first plane ride to Thailand for his first movie, this 1989 Brian de Palma film about soldiers in Vietnam |
(Mattea: What is Platoon?)
Casualties of War
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This 19th century British poet & literary critic wrote the poems "East London", "West London" & "Dover Beach" |
Matthew Arnold
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"Power, Privilege and the Post" |
(Ken: The Post is The Washington Post and this is [*].)
Katharine Graham
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Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors" |
(Ken: Yes, from the same root as "incendiary".)
incentives
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America's first professional female astronomer, in 1847, she discovered a new comet, & later became Vassar's first professor of astronomy |
Maria Mitchell
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The last entry in the online Oxford English Dictionary is this U.K. equivalent of 911 |
(Ken: Yes, you were over there.)
999
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