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NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 |
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Time to make a pilgrimage & tee it up at this revered golf club's Old Course in Scotland |
St. Andrews
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The OED calls this palindrome "an expression of interrogation"; it's often used to mean "what?" |
huh
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One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions |
(Jeff: [*]. What is [*]?)
a line
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Profession of Pat Cipollone ("Patsy Baloney" to some), who testified on July 8 to the January 6 Committee |
lawyer (White House Counsel)
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It was originally a curved goat horn overflowing with fruits & vegetables; you can buy ones on Etsy woven from grapevines |
a cornucopia
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2008: "I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, Roman cavalry choirs are singing" |
(Ken: Yes, "Viva La Vida".)
Coldplay
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Park Güell, with unique architectural features by Antoni Gaudí, is a must see in this Spanish city |
Barcelona
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Imitation okay--NHL star Alex Ovechkin often uses this "I can't hear you" gesture when he gets booed |
a cupped ear (hand behind the ear)
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Abbreviated log, it's the exponent to which a base must be raised to produce a certain number |
logarithm
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Queen Elizabeth II's last appearance was to appoint this woman as the 15th prime minister of her majesty's reign |
(Sarah: Who is Theresa May?) ... (Ken: The British PM is now [*].) [NOTE: [*] was in office on September 15 when the game was taped.]
Liz Truss
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The Latin for "earth" gives us the name of this plant-friendly container seen here |
terrarium
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1996: "He's going the distance, he's going for speed" |
Cake
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As reflected in its name, five medieval fishing villages make up this destination, perched on the cliffs of the Italian Riviera |
Cinque Terre
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Testifying before Congress in 2019, Robert Mueller asked several lawmakers to do this, including Devin Nunes with a near 100-worder |
(Jeff: What is filibuster?)
to repeat the question
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For 12 & 16, 4 is the GCF, or greatest this |
greatest common factor
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Turkish President Erdogan got enough concessions to drop his opposition to letting Sweden & Finland do this |
(Ken: Now, Sadie, usually our contestants look happy when they find a Daily Double; you just gave a look like your goldfish just died.) [Laughter]
join NATO
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Practitioners of this 7-letter bushy art have been called tree masons & leafage sculptors |
(Sadie: What is horticulture?) ... (Ken: That's what it's called when you clip the hedges to look like dragons or whatever.)
topiary
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1992: "Thursday doesn't even start, it's Friday I'm in love" |
The Cure
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In the reliquary of this king & saint's basilica in Budapest, you can see what is reportedly his right hand |
(Sarah: Who is Wenceslas?) (Sadie: Who is Vlad?)
St. Stephen
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It's the word of incomprehension invariably used by the character Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" |
qué
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Add up the lengths of all the sides of a polygon to get this measurement |
(Jeff: What is circumference?)
perimeter
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Josh Gerstein of this news organization-o got the big leaked Supreme Court draft opinion story of the year |
Politico
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This art of joining 2 plants to grow as one enabled Axel Erlandson to create the "Circus Trees" at Gilroy Gardens in California |
grafting
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1977: "That's why I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning" |
the Commodores
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Here's a view of Oia, with some of its blue-domed churches on this Greek island |
Santorini
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This word meaning "can't understand what was said" appears often in the Nixon library transcripts of Watergate tapes |
(Sadie: What is inaudible?) (Sarah: What is incomprehensible?)
unintelligible
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This symbol with a "way out" name tells you to take the square root of the number inside it |
radical
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California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to this man guilty of a 1968 assassination |
Sirhan Sirhan
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This art, the dwarfing of trees, finds its smallest entries called keishi & shito |
bonsai
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1994: "With their tanks & their bombs... & their guns, in your head, in your head they are dying" |
(Ken: "Zombie", you got it.)
The Cranberries
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