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In 1977 a major earthquake struck this Romanian capital, killing over 1,300 people |
Bucharest
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A piece of music that serves as an introduction to an opera, oratorio or play |
an overture
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Most of the properties in Monopoly are named for streets in this New Jersey resort |
Atlantic City
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It can refer to an arithmetic mean, or median, or just the typical guy |
average
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His daughter, Amy Dolenz, "Monkeed" around as Tony Danza's kid in the film "She's Out of Control" |
Micky Dolenz
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3 out of every 4 pencils made in America are painted this color |
yellow
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Zagreb, the second largest city in this country, is the capital & cultural center of Croatia |
Yugoslavia
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Prokofiev's piece about a little Homo sapiens & a Canis lupis |
Peter and the Wolf
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After cards are shuffled the player to the dealer's right does this to them |
cut them
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In his 1964 State of the Union Address Lyndon Johnson declared war on it |
poverty
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She said, "Me and John Goodman are the hottest couple on TV, the total sex machine" |
(Kyle: Who is [*], that great singer of the national anthem.) [Laughter] (Alex: No editorializing, please.)
Roseanne Barr
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He was making the best pencils in America before he wrote "Walden" |
Thoreau
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St. Bridget, who founded the Bridgettine Order, is this Scandinavian country's patron saint |
Sweden
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The Italian term for the middle category of the female voice, it means "half soprano" |
(Rob: What is alto?)
mezzo-(soprano)
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Made up word that's the name of the Milton Bradley game of drawing definitions |
Pictionary
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A siren who lured sailors to their death or a role played by Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" |
(Kyle: Calypso. What is Calypso?) (Mike: What is a mermaid?) ... (Alex: [*] Lee.)
Lorelai
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Every July he hosts Snoopy's Senior Hockey Tournament at his own ice arena in Santa Rosa California |
Charles Schulz
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The most common pencil carries this number, which is a measure of the hardness of its lead |
number 2
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This ore is Luxembourg's most valuable natural resource |
iron ore
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If a violinist is playing in the pizzicato style he's plucking the strings with these |
fingers
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This game whose name means "ethical consideration" has you deal with moral dilemmas |
Scruples
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1 of 2 months of the year that fit the category |
(Kyle: What is August?)
(1 of) October (or January)
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He was a pilot for Pan Am & an L.A. policeman before he created "Star Trek" |
Gene Roddenberry
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Pencil lead isn't lead but a mixture of clay, water & this form of carbon |
graphite
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In Belgium 100 centimes are equal to one of these |
a (Belgian) franc
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This famous flautist was born in Belfast in 1939 |
James Galway
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In this spooky spelling game players are penalized when they complete a word |
Ghost
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The name of the Greek letter psi is found within the name of these 2 Greek letters |
(Alex: Not fast enough, Mike, I'm sorry.)
epsilon & upsilon
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When she resigned her job as Columbia Pictures president, one headline said, "Dawn with the wind" |
Dawn Steel
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Nowadays most pencils have this many sides |
six
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