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Karl-Marx-stadt & Leipzig are 2 of this country's largest cities |
East Germany
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In 1804, Oliver Evans built a passenger vehicle in the U.S. powered by this |
steam
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Missouri. Princeton. or Bengal |
the Tigers
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1st couple to reach "The Act" wins in her new "Game of Good Sex" |
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
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What happened to baseball's Brock, Wilhelm, Slaughter & Vaughn on July 28, 1985 |
entering the Hall of Fame
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The Titanic was built in 1912 in this North Irish city |
Belfast
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"Business Week" predicted in '68, this country's auto industry wouldn't "carve out a big slice" of U.S. market |
(Alex: That's why I canceled my subscription to "Business Week" at that time.)
Japan
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Going by their nickname, Wyoming could play for Dallas in the NFL |
the Cowboys
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A friend of Beethoven, Johann Maelzel, patented a mechanism to make a doll say these 2 words |
(Alex: The two words are [*] and "dada". [**]. [*], [**].)
Mama & Papa
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Bakersfield, CA was abuzz as these "winged terrorists" arrived from Brazil |
killer bees
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Without one, a camera wouldn't have a leg to stand on |
a tripod
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Largest African city west of Egypt, this port has a Spanish name & French architecture |
Casablanca
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Nickname of team with this theme:
[Instrumental music plays] |
(Claudia: What is Notre Dame?) (Alex: Notre Dame is absolutely right. And on that particular musical number, we said ourselves--) (Judge: [From offstage] Nickname.) (Alex: Ah, nickname.) [Laughter] (Alex: Sorry about that. What is [*], of course.) (Claudia: Oh, of course.) (Alex: So we had a double challenge going there. A challenge for you to come up with a nickname, and a challenge for us to find the oldest piece of music we could with the Notre Dame theme. That was Guy Lombardo and his orchestra in a record made, I believe, in the 1930s. Claudia, we've got less than a minute to go.)
the Fighting Irish
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Game where you try to get rid of all your bones by matching spots |
dominoes
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The D.E.A. resurrected plans to spray marijuana fields with this controversial herbicide |
paraquat
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A cable laid from New York to London, not San Francisco to Tokyo |
trans-Atlantic
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Tourists traveling to India usually try to include a stop in Agra to see this |
the Taj Mahal
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Harvard's nickname & team color, it makes their opponents see red |
(Scott: What is the Crimson Tide?) ... (Alex: Crimson Tide is Alabama.)
the Crimson
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Nickname of the point 4 in craps, or Michael Landon on TV |
(Claudia: What is pa?) ... (Alex: You were thinking of his, uh, the series that followed Bonanza. We were thinking of the Bonanza western series, of course, Claudia.)
Little Joe
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Calling them "arrogant", this "Mother" used words of 7 senators in his record "Porn Wars" |
Frank Zappa
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A type of weight or a type of Donahue |
(Eric: I didn't mean to push, I'm sorry.) (Claudia: What is a Phil?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Troy
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60 canals divide this crescent-shaped European city, so that it consists of about 90 islands |
(Eric: What is Stockholm?)
Amsterdam
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Michigan State's "no-frills" nickname, it's Greek to me |
the Spartans
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Invented in 1953 by David Mullany for his son, it's a white plastic sphere with air holes |
a wiffle ball
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Texas city that earned nickname of "Foreclosure City, U.S.A." because of high number of home foreclosures |
Houston
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