THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO SAID... |
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STARTS WITH "A" OR ENDS WITH "Z" |
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"I hope that by being a 'first', I inspire young people to pursue their dreams" |
(Kamala) Harris
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Heaviest of the parrots, the flightless kākāpō, of this Down Under island nation, can weigh up to nine pounds |
New Zealand
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This force that gets planes off the ground is created by the difference in velocity between a solid object & the fluid it moves in |
lift
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This Seattle company's first site in London was at King's Road, Chelsea in 1998; don't worry, chaps, they also serve tea |
Starbucks
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She followed up judging "America's Next Top Model" by hosting "Dancing with the Stars" |
Tyra Banks
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It's paired with "glamour" in an alliterative phrase |
glitz
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After being sworn in as veep: "I am a" this last name, "not a Lincoln" |
Gerald Ford
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The name of this Scottish city is from Gaelic & means "green hollow" |
Glasgow
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This property is measured in becquerels; one Bq equals one disintegration of an unstable nucleus per second |
(Bradford: What is half-life?) ... (Mayim: We have less than a minute.)
radioactivity
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British cavalry units helped popularize this game in Britain; by 1875 matches drew 10,000 watchers |
polo
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Knives up for Padma Lakshmi, who's hosted this Bravo cooking competition since 2006 |
Top Chef
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Get this Jewish crepe in my belly! |
a blintz
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"You win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category... take it from me. Every vote counts" |
(Julie Ann: Who is... Teddy Roosevelt?) (Mayim: No, that would [*], referring to the 2000 election.)
Al Gore
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Uganda, Tanzania & Kenya all border this chief reservoir of the Nile River |
Lake Victoria
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Obeying the second law of thermodynamics, heat that isn't used to do work goes to this, which sounds like it should have a faucet |
(a heat) sink
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The first regular season NFL game played in Europe was in 2007 in this stadium that also hosted Live Aid |
Wembley (Stadium)
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A judge on "The Great British Baking Show", this man who sounds right at home in L.A. provides recipes for the BBC |
(Julie Ann: Who is Christmas?)
Paul Hollywood
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A general pardon for political offenses |
(Ryan: What is a, mmm...)
amnesty
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Fellow Hoosier "Bobby Knight told me this. He says there is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense" |
Dan Quayle
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This notorious island prison off the coast of French Guiana also once housed a leper colony |
Devil's Island
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Also called a light quantum, this particle now has -ics after it as the field of fancy light tech such as lasers |
a photon
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These kangaroo relatives have become a British pest since escaping from Bedfordshire's Whipsnade Zoo |
(Mayim: Yes, they're adorable.)
wallabies
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Seen here, this former Saints quarterback was with Mike Tirico in the booth for the start of the 2022 NFL playoffs |
Drew Brees
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This 9-letter word describes anything with no definite form, such as a blob |
amorphous
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In a letter: "I am very apprehensive that a desperate anti-Federal Party, will provoke all Europe by their insolence" |
John Adams
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The tower seen here is 1,381 feet high, but reflecting the name of the Asian capital it's in, has just this 2-letter name |
(Mayim: It's [*], for Kuala Lumpur.)
the KL Tower
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The amplitude of a wave in physics is the distance from the center line to either of these two points also found on an ocean wave |
(Bradford: What is a crest?)
crest & trough
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The Normans brought England this title of nobility, later the general term for the lords who fought King John & got Magna Carta done |
(Bradford: [Exhales] What is viscount?)
a baron
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After "Bar Rescue", he tried his hand at "Marriage Rescue" |
Jon Taffer
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This unit of frequency named for a German is equal to one cycle per second |
hertz
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