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It's said the world's largest filling station is just outside this Wyoming capital |
Cheyenne
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It's the here in "From Here to Eternity" |
Hawaii
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This TV family's unusual pet was named Dino |
the Flintstones
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Mideast leader quoted in Newsweek as saying "I never even thought of assassinating Reagan" |
(Mike: Who is Khomeini?)
(Muammar) Gaddafi
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From the French "piquer", "to pick", it's an outdoor outing where one can pick at the pickles |
[Bruce selected the first clue.]
a picnic
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In the 1830s, many Germans came to this Ohio River town, & by 1900, it boasted 25 breweries |
Cincinnati
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During WWI he served in the RAF, then went on to create such works as "The Sound and the Fury" |
William Faulkner
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"Quincy" was an M.E., which stands for this |
a medical examiner
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He was going to run for Ariz. gov. as a write-in for the Wild Party but said his fans can't write:
"I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice / I wanna be elected / I'm your yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce / I wanna be elected..." |
(Bruce: Let's try about $1,000 of it.) (Alex: Whad'ya mean about $1,000?) (Bruce: I'm sorry, I'm speaking in the Arizona fashion. Let's try $1,000.) (Alex: I understood, I was just pulling your leg.) ... (Alex: Well, Bruce, you're from Arizona; this is all close to you.) (Bruce: I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed to say I don't know this.) ... (Bruce: Of course, he's from Arizona, too.)
Alice Cooper
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From an old Persian word for an enclosed garden, Milton used it to mean the Garden of Eden |
Paradise
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Of Seattle, L.A. or NYC, locale rated #1 in recreational opportunities by "Places Rated" |
Seattle
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"The Jungle" was a violent attack on the meat-packing industry of this metropolis |
Chicago
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Cable TV's "HBO" is a subsidiary of this magazine corporation |
Time-Life
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The name of this leader who died in 1982 was being removed from Soviet sites in 1988 |
Brezhnev
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During medieval times, it meant "meaningless chatter"; now it means the special vocabulary of a trade |
(Mike: What is lingo?) (Kirk: What is nomenclature?)
jargon
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In the Bluegrass Belt, it's world's largest Burley tobacco market & Kentucky's 2nd largest city |
(Mike: What is Louisville?)
Lexington
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In this novel, an idealistic American teacher, Robert Jordan, fights in the Spanish Civil War |
(Bruce: What is A Farewell to Arms?) ... (Alex: We've got a minute.)
For Whom the Bells Tolls
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In 1982, "Late Night with David Letterman" replaced a late night show hosted by this man |
(Alex: That's right, The Tomorrow Show.)
Tom Snyder
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In February 1988, an arrest warrant was issued for Sen. Bob Packwood to get him to do this |
to come to the Senate for a vote
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Not derogatory among athletes, this variation of "recruit" was a derisive term for army recruits |
a rookie
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This Arizona city of almost 35,000 residents is the largest city close to the Grand Canyon |
(Alex: All of our games are selected at random; they are never prepared in advance taking into account where the people are from or what their backgrounds might be. And we've had two questions on Arizona and it just so happens by coincidence that Bruce is from Phoenix, Arizona.)
Flagstaff
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His novel "It Can't Happen Here" is about a fascist dictatorship set up in the U.S. |
(Kirk: Who is George Orwell?)
Sinclair Lewis
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Once seen on the DuMont Network, this outer space officer was "guardian of the safety of the world" |
(Mike: Who was... Space Cadet?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds]
Captain Video
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He tried to oust Gen. Noriega as head of Panama's army, but the National Assembly fired him instead |
President Delvalle
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From Greek for "off the stage", it's said it 1st referred to offstage violence, not pornography |
(Mike: What is pornography?)
obscene
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