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One who determines odds & receives & pays off bets, legally or illegally |
a bookmaker
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In 1859 Charles Blondin became famous by crossing these falls on a tightrope |
Niagara Falls
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Appropriately, they have a daughter named Tandy Cronyn |
Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy
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The parrot variety of this Dutch bulb flower has twisted, cut or feathered petals |
the tulip
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The Clarence Campbell Conf. & the Prince of Wales Conf. make up this professional league |
the National Hockey League
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"Behold the duck, It does not cluck, a cluck it lacks, it" does this |
quacks
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It's a "colorful" registry of socially prominent persons |
the Blue Book
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Pres. Buchanan tried to take control of this territory away from the Mormons, & a war broke out |
Utah
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This musician owned a candelabra ring with platinum candle sticks & diamond flames |
Liberace
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In the names of plants this word precedes -breath & -tears |
baby's
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This Olympian & his sister Carol have the best combined brother-sister long jump marks in history |
(Carol &) Carl Lewis
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These pachyderms "are useful friends, They have handles on both ends" |
elephants
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What Detective Steve McGarrett would say to Detective Danny Williams when he brought in the suspects |
Book 'em, Danno
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This man wrote that he was "worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose" |
(Barbara: Who is Mark Twain?) ... (Alex: And he was, in fact, hanged at about this time.)
John Brown
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These twin columnists are also known as "Eppie" & "Popo" |
Ann Landers & Dear Abby
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This citrus fruit was so named because it grows in bunches |
the grapefruit
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When it was first formed in 1920, this NFL team was called the Decatur Staleys |
the Chicago Bears
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Nash lamented, "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as" one of these |
a tree
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In 1958 the Monotones asked, "I wonder, wonder who, who, who wrote" this |
the "Book Of Love"
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In a territorial election there in 1855, 2,000 registered but 6,000 voted, as proslavery men came in from Mo. |
Kansas
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"If This Was Happiness" is Barbara Leaming's biography of this "Love Goddess" of the 1940s |
Rita Hayworth
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When used as the French royal symbol, Iris germanica was called this |
the fleur-de-lis
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In August 1990 they became the first father & son to play on the same Major League ballclub |
(Alex: Yes, Ken Sr. & Jr.)
the Griffeys
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Nash rhymed, "The panther is like" one of these cats, "Except is hasn't been peppered" |
a leopard
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A judge who gives you the maximum sentence permissible is said to do this |
throw the book at you
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This Swede married her accompanist, O. Goldschmidt, in 1852, during her American tour |
[NOTE: Alex reads "O." as "Otto".]
Jenny Lind
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He was the Ford Motor Company's first nonfamily president before JFK made him defense sec'y |
(Molly: Who is Schlesinger?) ... (Alex: Yes. We have less than a minute to go.)
(Robert) McNamara
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A superstition says this plant of the nightshade family shrieks when pulled from the soil |
(Barbara: What is the potato?) ... (Alex: The correct response, What is the [*], although I do like Barbara's response of, "What is the potato?" There's be a lot of shrieking on some farms here in America.)
mandrake
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The most NBA titles, 16, have been won by this team |
the Celtics
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Nash's poem "The Eel" consists of 1 sentence: "I don't mind eels except as" these |
[NOTE: Some versions of the poem include an additional sentence, "And the way they feels."]
meals
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