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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 | 5 
 
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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!")
 
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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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