NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS |
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Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capital is a national park bearing its name |
(Ken: That's right, and you have tied the score at the third key moment of the game.) [Applause]
Nairobi
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An ectopic pregnancy, from the Greek for "displaced", is called a tubal pregnancy when it occurs here |
(Margaret: Outside the Fallopian tubes?) (Brian: What is outside the Fallopian tubes?) ... (Ken: There was only one place left; that's literally the only place left in the body.) [Laughter]
inside the Fallopian tubes
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Actor Simon Callow writes of this "Ring" composer, "Had he been... other than a musical genius, he would have been locked up" |
Wagner
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Dustin Diamond, who died in 2021 after a brief battle with cancer, is best remembered for playing Screech on this teen sitcom |
Saved by the Bell
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Several nurses figure in his novel "A Farewell to Arms", including Miss Van Campen |
(Ken: Yes, you know your nurses.) [Applause and cheers for Margaret's run of the category]
Hemingway
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Sound from a pig, & one's peers |
(Ken: That's a tough one--I think Brian just got it, [*].)
squeal & equals
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You get a good look at this city from a gondola as it climbs the former Ericsson Globe, now renamed Avicii Arena |
(Ken: Avicii was Swedish, you are correct.)
Stockholm
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Greek for "to breathe hard" gives us the name for this ailment common in children |
(Tyler: What is pertussis?)
asthma
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In a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, he says, "I'm your church now! You understand,--you've got to be as I say" |
(Simon) Legree
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Pre-"Taxi Driver", Scorsese cast her in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", where she asks another kid, "Wanna get high on ripple?" |
(Jodie) Foster
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In Richard Hooker's "MASH", she emerges "not out of a scallop shell like Botticelli's Venus, but out of a helicopter" |
"Hot Lips" Houlihan
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From the Sky Tower, you get a bird's-eye view of this New Zealand city that sounds like a nation for birds |
Auckland
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PVCs are premature ventricular contractions, a common type of this, the medical term for any irregular heartbeat |
an arrhythmia
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Simon Pegg, in this film: If we don't leave, zombies will "tear us to pieces, & that is really going to exacerbate things" |
Shaun of the Dead
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Before settling on his final stage surname, he was known as Mickey McGuire |
(Mickey) Rooney
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At Hogwarts, this madam, first name Poppy, is a nurse who is good with a healing potion |
Madam Pomfrey
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One cherry from a jar & several of the instruments called mouth organs |
maraschino & harmonicas
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Around 1400, this Belgian "B" city northwest of Brussels was among Europe's richest & built itself quite a city hall |
Bruges
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A colonoscopy can diagnose cancer as well as this condition where pockets develop in the sides of the colon |
diverticulitis
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In a Twain tale, Simon Wheeler tells the story of Jim Smiley & "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this title place |
Calaveras County
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Maybe Olivia Edward, child of psychic medium John Edward, foresaw playing Pamela Adlon's youngest daughter on this series |
(Margaret: What is Medium?)
Better Things
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In "The Rose of Sebastopol", Rosa Barr is part of Florence Nightingale's nursing retinue in this war |
the Crimean War
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Disavowed a previous statement & a fancy glass bottle for serving liquor |
recanted & decanter
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In London, it's an area of government offices, & by extension the civil service; in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the prime minister's office |
(Brian: What's Westminster?)
Whitehall
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Named for a French physician, this disorder of the inner ear can cause vertigo & hearing loss |
Ménière's disease
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This Holocaust survivor & Nazi hunter wrote, "Violence is like a weed--it does not die even in the greatest drought" |
Wiesenthal
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Elsie Fisher had actually finished middle school when she played vulnerable young Kayla in this 2018 Bo Burnham film |
Eighth Grade
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Hana reads to Almasy, the title character of this 1992 novel; Hana's lover Kip later wants to murder him |
The English Patient
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A quantity that has both magnitude & direction, & describing secret operations |
(Ken: Didn't even pause, that's correct; you're out of the hole.)
vector & covert
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