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T3: RISE OF THE CONSONANTS |
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The Jubilee Diamond was named in honor of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 |
Queen Victoria
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Ray's album "Genius Loves Company" features the smooth tenor of this singer
"Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high..." |
(Alex: Oh, that voice brings back a lot of memories for me because I remember the '50s and the '60s. Yes, that's [*].)
Johnny Mathis
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In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these |
cans
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A Hemingway short story: "The Snows of" this mountain |
Kilimanjaro
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"Aren't you glad" Alan Shepard took this deodorant soap into space? Now it's in the Smithsonian |
Dial
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Uncle Joe is movin' kind of slow at the junction, as he's wearing this full, ruffled underskirt |
a petticoat
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A plump, bearded Dutchman who took him by sleigh on December 24, 1822 inspired him to write a famous poem |
(Alex: The poet was [*], and it was "A Visit from St. Nicholas".)
Clement Clark Moore
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Natalie Cole teamed up with Ray Charles for this classic long associated with Peggy Lee |
(Dave: What is "Unforgettable"?)
"Fever"
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Whether AA jumbo ones of these remain AA jumbo may depend on the strength of their polystyrene cartons |
eggs
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Isak Dinesen's life on a coffee plantation: "Out of" here |
Africa
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'60s kids bought kits to send Mr. Potato Head to this heavenly body, with a cucumber as his spaceship |
the Moon
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Conventional requirements as to social behavior, from the French for "ticket" |
etiquette
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In 1835 Richard Lawrence tried to kill this seventh U.S. president, the first time such an attempt was made |
Andrew Jackson
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(Hi, I'm Larry King.) In 2005 I talked to this pop legend about his duet of "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" with Ray Charles |
Elton John
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At the end of TV's "Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", kids were told how to send in these from Shredded Wheat to get prizes |
box tops
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About a nation recovering from war: "The Bookseller of" this Afghan city |
(Alex: How many Afghan cities do you know? [*] would be the best guess.)
Kabul
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This candy got ahead by placing heads on its dispensers, & in 1955 "Space Trooper" was one of the first |
Pez
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Reconsideration upon an act's completion, or something added that wasn't in the original plan |
an afterthought
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In 1812, the Turks retook these 2 holy cities of Islam; the Wahhabis had taken them in the previous decade |
Mecca & Medina
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Ray Charles sang "Crazy Love" with this Belfast-born man who wrote the song |
(Bonnie: Who is Bono?)
Van Morrison
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Type of product whose package says, "Flatten as you go up" |
(Dave: What is a tube…or [*]?)
toothpaste
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E.M. Forster examined racism & colonialism: "A Passage to" this place |
India
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In 2005 this SW city's annual UFO Festival featured a parade with aircraft flying over it looking for alien invaders |
Roswell (New Mexico)
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9-letter adjective describing one with no means of subsistence |
(Alex: And in that case you would be [*].)
destitute
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Edouard Manet displayed this scandalous picnic painting in 1863 |
(Le) déjeuner sur l'herbe (or Breakfast or Luncheon on the Grass)
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This legendary blues guitarist joined brother Ray for a "Sinner's Prayer" |
B.B. King
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Very sensibly, in 2004 Tylenol introduced an EZ-Open Cap on medication for those who suffer from this |
(Alex: Yes indeed. Tough to open some of those cans and bottles and jars.)
arthritis
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A 2003 memoir: "Reading Lolita in" this capital |
Tehran
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Don't miss the Cosmic Pathway, a stroll through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, when visiting this NYC planetarium |
(Bonnie: What is the Rose?)
the Hayden Planetarium
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A powerful empire in Asia Minor & Syria around 1500 B.C. |
(Trevor: What are the Hutterites? Oh!)
the Hittites
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