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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS |
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9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS |
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The Churn & the Leach are among its headstreams in the Cotswolds |
(Meagan: What is the Severn?) (Ryan: What is the English Channel?) ... (Mayim: Vanessa? No pressure.)
the Thames
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The confessions of this funkmeister is subtitled: "Memoirs of a Super Freak" |
Rick James
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1989: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th holder of this religious title |
(Mayim: Less than a minute.)
Dalai Lama
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The mathematical operation of deducting a number |
(Ryan: What is... uh, calculation?)
subtraction
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Often joined with "ball", it means the end of a hammer opposite the face |
peen
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A Faustian bargain hit the pop charts in 1979 when "The Devil Went Down To" this place, "he was lookin' for a soul to steal" |
(Mayim: You ran that category, congratulations.) [Applause]
Georgia
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When not hampered by monsoons, the dhow was the traditional trading vessel of this ocean |
the Indian Ocean
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Don't get me wrong, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" was her tale to tell |
Chrissie Hynde
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1999: This medical organization founded in France |
Doctors Without Borders
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If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type |
a mainframe
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It's a pronged tool used for gathering, & no one would use a hoe for that |
a rake
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Part II of Goethe's "Faust" gets into his salvation & the courtship of this Greek woman of Trojan War myth |
[Ryan selected the first clue as having given the last correct response.]
Helen of Troy
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At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan |
(Ryan: What is Lake Superior?)
Lake Huron
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"Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness" is by this late, great Ronette |
Ronnie Spector
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1997: Jody Williams & the group she helped found, the International Campaign to Ban these weapons |
landmines
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From Latin for "war", as a noun it can mean a nation involved in a war |
belligerent
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Locksmith Bill Deforrest invented innovative these, like a hybrid of the diamond & hook types |
lockpicks
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Traditionally, in Gounod's opera, Faust is a tenor while Méphistophélès is this, like Nicolai Ghiaurov in a classic recording |
a bass
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The Conchos River, the longest in the state of Chihuahua, is a tributary of this one |
the Rio Grande
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This Englishman looked at fame in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me" |
Davy Jones
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2015: The National Dialogue Quartet, of this North African Arab Spring nation |
Tunisia
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A Fellini film gave us this word for a type of photographer |
a paparazzi
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The "cold" type of this chipping instrument is so called because it's tough enough to cut cold metal |
a chisel
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Roll up, roll up for the history tour... "The Tragical History of doctor Faustus" is a play by this Shakespeare-era man |
(Christopher) Marlowe
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Tanzania & Mozambique are on the eastern shore of this lake |
(Vanessa: What is Lake Victoria?) (Ryan: What is Tanganyika?)
Lake Malawi
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"So Let It Be Written", a bio of this lead singer, gets its title from a lyric in Metallica's "Creeping Death" |
James Hetfield
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1961: This Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously |
Dag Hammarskjöld
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From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game |
kibbitzing
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Used for shaping wood, it can end in "z" or "ze" |
an adze
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This composer conducted the first performance of his "Faust" overture at a Dresden concert in 1844 |
Wagner
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