IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN |
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I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! |
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THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE |
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This ex-general at No. 18 with "Union Yes" is back with "Renom"; "they tried to make me go to a 3rd nomination, I said no no no" |
Grant
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The island of Roda in the Nile is connected to this suburb with a population of about 3 million & Great Pyramids nearby |
Giza
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Take me down to the Emerald City where the streets are green & the girls are pretty |
Baum
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The Philippines, with a Spanish heritage, uses this as its basic unit of currency |
a peso
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Meryl Streep played President Orlean, ignoring the approach of a world-destroying comet in this 2021 comedy |
Don't Look Up
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Dictionaries tell us that as a noun, it's a simpleton; as a hip-hop adjective, it's great or impressive |
(Mattea: What is dumb?) (Ken: No.) (Mattea: Dummy, I don't know.)
dope
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He's at No. 30 with John Cage's "4'33"", a piece that is 4 minutes & 33 seconds of silence |
Silent Cal (Calvin Coolidge)
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Though it's nearly 17,000 feet high, Mawenzi, one of the summits of this mountain, is often snow-free |
Kilimanjaro
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The Shire, Mount Doom, then back again |
Tolkien
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Cyprus & Estonia are 2 in a group of countries that use this currency |
(Kelly: What is a ruble?) ... (Ken: They use [*].) (Mattea: Oh, of course.) [Laughter]
the euro
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This 1964 Stanley Kubrick film yuks it up about nuclear war |
Dr. Strangelove
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We're talking soil, so this word means a lump of earth, not someone who doesn't get it |
a clod
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He had a big debut with "Back To Normalcy" but now he's singing the blues with "Teapot Dome Got Me Down"; at No. 29, here's... |
(Mattea: Helps that 30 was right before.) [Ken laughs]
Harding
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Go due south from Lisbon & this is the first African country you'll reach |
Morocco
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Llareggub, which is "bugger all", backwards, in his native country |
(Kelly: Who is Swift?) ... (Ken: It looks Welsh, that made-up name, it's [*].)
Dylan Thomas
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The name of this Japanese currency actually comes from a Chinese word |
yen
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"All About My Mother" & "Parallel Mothers" were directed by this Spaniard seen here |
Almodóvar
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This 8-letter word is made up of a prefix from Greek meaning "sharp" & another word that means someone of low intelligence |
(Kelly: [Sighs]) (Ken: Kelly?) (Kelly: Yeah.)
an oxymoron
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At No. 17, this Tennessee man has really got those "Reconstruction Blues" |
Andrew Johnson
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What's gnu? Over 1 million in this 5,700-square-mile national park, a huge tourist attraction that "shall not die" |
(Kelly: What is Khmer?)
Serengeti National Park
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Brobdingnag, in a 1726 satire |
(Ken: Now it's [*].)
Swift
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Like their shared neighbor, Sri Lanka & Pakistan use currencies called this |
the rupee
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Will Smith played dad to Venus & Serena Williams in this recent film with a royal title |
King Richard
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This word for a small elevator used to move food may cause ire if your food server hears it out of context |
a dumbwaiter
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"Are You Better Off?" is a hit across the country for this prez who rounds out the Top 40 |
Reagan
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Livingstone, I do more than presume, is an island between this nation & Zimbabwe |
Zambia
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Erewhon, in an 1872 satire |
(Kelly: Ah. Moore?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry.) (Kelly: Who is Moore?) ... (Ken: [*], the author of Erewhon.)
Samuel Butler
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This monetary unit of Israel is divided into 100 agorot |
a shekel
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He directed the films "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" & "Mulholland Drive" |
David Lynch
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The name of this sleeveless jacket, popular in 16th century fashion, starts off offensively, but worry not |
a jerkin
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