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Appropriately, this president's first official New York City address was #1 Cherry Street |
George Washington
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College whose football teams have often won one for the Gipper |
Notre Dame
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Minor planets smaller than our moon, those with names include Ceres, Juno & Eros |
asteroids
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Both Jesus & Peter walked not only on its shores, but on its surface |
the Sea of Galilee
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A marsupial tribunal |
a kangaroo court
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In Italy, with pronto, in the Netherlands, with your name, & in the U.S., with hello |
how do you answer the telephone
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Considerably ahead of the U.S. military, this fast food chain is now the world's biggest daily food supplier |
McDonald's
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Because of a shortage of horsehide, they're now mostly covered with cowhide |
baseballs
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Lowest possible theoretical temperature, it's the bottom of the Kelvin scale |
absolute zero
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The Universal Studios Tour does it up to 136 times a day, while Moses did it only once |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
parting the Red Sea
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A flip in the crypt |
to spin in one's grave (turn over in your grave)
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Mix together 15% cement, 25% sand, 10% water, & 50% gravel |
how do you make concrete
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Heavyweight champ Joe Louis, William Jennings Bryan, & Admiral Richard Byrd are all buried there |
Arlington Cemetery
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3 of the 10 events in an Olympic decathlon |
(Carl: What are the [********], the [****], and the [**]?)
(3 of) 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110 meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw & 1500 meters
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Reversing directions at regular intervals, in the U.S., it's 60 hertz, batteries not included |
alternating current
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Twixt Beelzebub & the indigo marine abyss |
between the devil and the deep blue sea
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Apply a grease paint mustache & eyebrows, hold a cigar, talk in a New York accent, and walk stooped over |
how do I act like Groucho Marx
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Comic Eddie Cantor came up with this name for the charity originally aimed at fighting polio |
the March of Dimes
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Reason the sport is called basketball |
(Carl: Because the ball is thrown through the basket.) (Alex: Phrasing.) (Carl: What is because the ball is thrown through the basket?) (Alex: We're going to give him that? Be more specific.) (Carl: What is because you score by throwing the ball through the basket?) (Alex: No, I don't think I can give it to you.)
because the first basketball was thrown in a peach basket
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Occupation common to Harlow Shapley, Sir John Herschel, & Edwin Hubble |
astronomers
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No fins, no feathers |
neither fish nor fowl
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All the cardinals go into a room, take a vote, & send up a puff of white smoke to signify the results |
how do you elect a Pope
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American beauty said to have made the first long-distance call NYC-Wash. singing to Pres. Cleveland |
Lillian Russell
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What the defeated Jack Dempsey told Luella Parsons when she asked, "How did it happen?" |
(Elaine: What is, "And then I was on the floor"?)
"I guess I forgot to duck"
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Retrograde & traumatic are two types; David Webb had it in "The Bourne Identity" |
[Applause for Carl's run of the category]
amnesia
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Cogitable comestibles |
(Elaine: Nope, I don't know.) ... (Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)
food for thought
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Pull a shuttle attached to the weft, alternately above & below the warp halves |
how to weave
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