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HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY |
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In 1492 Columbus was actually trying to reach this continent--thus the name "West Indies" for the places where he landed |
Asia
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P.L. Travers is best remembered for her books about this magical nanny |
Mary Poppins
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The pericardium is the sac that contains this organ |
the heart
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Larry David remembered a tuba piece called "Frolic" he'd heard in a bank ad & that became a signature theme of this show |
Curb Your Enthusiasm
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The item in the center of this nation's flag is a wheel of law called the Ashoka Chakra |
India
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Coming about 40 days after Lent begins, it's one of the few days when it's relatively safe to put all your eggs in one basket |
Easter
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Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character |
Indiana Jones
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James Baldwin's semi-autobiographical first novel was called "Go Tell It on" this |
the Mountain
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Hey--your epidermis is showing! Relax, it's just the outer layer of this |
your skin
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This actress, as Selina Meyer on "Veep": "I'm used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men. i.e., men" |
[The "i.e." was shown in lowercase in the clue, despite starting a sentence.]
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
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The flag of this U.S. commonwealth looks like Cuba's flag, but with the red & blue reversed |
Puerto Rico
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This tool is used by artists to support their work; here's a painting by Rembrandt that shows one in the foreground |
an easel
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Ponce de Leon was looking for an island said to be the site of this rejuvenating spring but found Florida--how's that irony? |
the fountain of youth
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In the novel of the same name, Alice Walker wrote, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by" this "in a field... and don't notice it" |
the color purple
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Because it resembles an upside-down tree, the whole system inside this pair of organs is sometimes called the "bronchial tree" |
the lungs
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At Comic Con with the cast of this show, Matt Berry was asked, "Have people started yelling 'Bat!' at you?"; yes. Yes they have |
(Joel: What is Gotham?) ... (Joel: Gotham's never an answer.)
What We Do in the Shadows
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Seen here on Alaska's flag is this star grouping, part of Ursa Major |
the Big Dipper
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It's the type of exercise Jane Fonda & Richard Simmons popularized in the 1980s; feel the burn! |
aerobics
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"I presume" you know the name of this Doctor who went missing exploring in Africa; a search party found him in 1871 |
Dr. Livingstone
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Esther Greenwood, who has a mental breakdown in "The Bell Jar", was largely based on this author herself |
Sylvia Plath
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No butts about it--it's the 2-word name for the most massive muscle in the human body |
(Ray: The two-word name. The, uh...) ... (Ray: [After being given the correct response] And now I feel like one.)
gluteus maximus
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Daniel Stern began narrating this '60s-set show in 1988; Don Cheadle handled the task in the 2021 reboot |
(Joel: [Whispering] You know it.) (Melissa: Oh. Oh, oh, um... djyeah, uhh...)
The Wonder Years
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The cross & sword represent St. George & St. Paul on the flag of the City of this, the historic center of the same-named capital |
(Joel: What is Vatican City?)
London
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Fly high in style aboard a big, beefy A380 from this European company |
Airbus
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This Italian was looking for a sea route to the Pacific when he found some New York "narrows"; ah well, he got a bridge named for him |
Verrazzano
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This Swedish author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" & its sequels died before any of them were published |
Stieg Larsson
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This other name for the voice box also ends with the letter "X" |
[Ray pronounced his response like "LARE-ee-nix", causing Mayim to hesitate in accepting it and to supply the correct pronunciation.]
the larynx
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On "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", this actor seen here decided, "we'll go to my house. Or as Zeke calls it, Tiny Terry's Hobbit Hole" |
Terry Crews
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After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants |
(Mayim: Well, Joel started out on "fire" and right now he's on an "island" all his own.)
a hammer & sickle
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Astronomers use this 3-letter word to refer to a period of time equaling one billion years; to others, it means a really long time |
(Mayim: Well, Melissa, Joel, and Ray, you are three of the funniest people in the business, but tonight, you're kinda all business. Intense game. We'll be right back after this break with more Celebrity Jeopardy!)
an eon
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