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Like her brother Eric, Beth Heiden is an Olympic medalist in this sport |
Speed Skating
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Before he was famous he drove around with a license plate that read "Garp" |
(Chuck: Who is Robin Williams?) (Heather: Who is Heinlein?)
John Irving
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In 1997 this troupe's John Cleese & Michael Palin revived their dead parrot sketch on "SNL" |
Monty Python
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This "colossal" Greek island is the largest of the Dodecanese Islands |
Rhodes
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Gordon serves this color wine with all meat, though it's been called "an absurd generalization" |
Red
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If the third base coach is a bit pretentious & yells "Glissade!" to a runner, he means this |
"Slide!"
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She & husband Bart Conner run a gymnastics academy in Norman, Oklahoma that rates a perfect 10 |
(Heather: Who is Mary Lou Retton?)
Nadia Comaneci
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During WWII this Tarzan creator worked as a correspondent for the L.A. Times |
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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In 1992 she won a Grammy for best traditional pop performance for "Unforgettable" |
Natalie Cole
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New Zealand's Bounty Islands were discovered by this tough British captain in 1788 |
Captain William Bligh
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It's what Gordon calls the cupboard where he stores wine, though it's not underground |
Cellar
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A terricolous creature lives on or in this |
land (or soil or earth)
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In Sept. 1996 she ran off with the South African cross-country title; we don't know if she was barefoot |
Zola Budd
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He wrote "A Time To Kill" while serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives |
John Grisham
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A professional tap dancer from age 5, he got his own CBS sitcom in 1997 |
Gregory Hines
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In 1888 Chile took possession of this "holiday" island 2,200 miles to the west & leased it to sheep raisers |
Easter Island
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When Gordon uses this word for flavor given by a wine barrel, he can't resist following it with "dokey" |
Oaky
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Things that are quinary come in bunches of this many |
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In 1965 she became the first woman to earn a professional license from the National Hot Rod Association |
Shirley Muldowney
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This author of "Terminal" & "Toxin" is a graduate of Columbia University's medical school |
Robin Cook
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This silent comic's downfall began with a wild party held on Labor Day, 1921 |
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
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This island about 25 miles south of Elba is now a nature reserve; you can "count" on it |
Montecristo Island
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Gordon calls the bartender at the local tavern this, the French term for a wine steward |
(Chuck: What is garcon?) ... (Alex: That'll make bartenders feel real good, "Hello, [*], I'll have a double!")
Sommelier
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To nictate is to do this, nudge, nudge, nictate, nictate, know what I mean? |
Wink
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(Hi, I'm Summer Sanders.) At the 1990 Goodwill Games, I ended this swimmer's 4-year undefeated string in the 400 m. individual medley |
(Linda: I have no idea!)
Janet Evans
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This "Kiss The Girls" author also wrote the jingle "I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid" |
James Patterson
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This singing satirist & pianist seen on PBS learned his craft in the early '60s from Tom Lehrer & Mort Sahl |
Mark Russell
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In 1991 more than 300 people were killed when Mount Pinatubo erupted on this Philippine island |
Luzon
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Easily impressed, Gordon buys any bottle with this synonym for "hold back" on the label |
Reserve
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A dupion is a double one of these created by 2 silkworms working together |
Cocoon
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