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Cha-ching! This resort lies on Absecon Island on the southeast coast of New Jersey |
Atlantic City
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This insurance company is on your side--& you're in its arena, if you go to Columbus Blue Jackets home games |
Nationwide
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In a 1996 film, the character Karl Childers wields a lawn mower blade as well as this title "Blade" |
a sling blade
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When Queen Victoria's grand-daughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her |
hemophilia
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"First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a pram" |
a baby carriage
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Wow, that's so weird--I was just thinking about this word for a striking occurrence of 2 events at 1 time |
a coincidence
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In the 1870s Father Damien arrived at the leper colony on this, which has been called the most Hawaiian isle |
Molokai
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O-ho, this wagon is a-comin' down the street, bringing the money to get its name on the Philadelphia Flyers' arena |
Wells Fargo
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1964 saw the first time a man threw this 300 feet & the first time a woman threw it 200 feet |
(David: What's a shot put?)
a javelin
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Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease |
yellow fever
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Shirley Manson of Rubbish sang songs like "Stupid Girl" & "Push It" |
Garbage
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This college degree is total B.S. |
bachelor of science
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Damaged in a 1906 earthquake, the first lighthouse on the West Coast was located on this island |
Alcatraz
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This company is based in Memphis, so giving the Grizzlies a forum for hoops is something it can deliver |
FedEx
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Owned by Bilbo & later Frodo, Sting was a magical one of these that glowed blue when servants of Sauron were near |
a sword
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In 1996, Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life |
Yeltsin
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No, I didn't just fall off the turnip lorry |
(Michalle: What is fall off the turnip [*].) (Ken: [*] is right.)
truck
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These household pests targeted by Raid have lived on Earth for 250 million years |
(Ollie: BRITISHISMs for $1600.) (Ken: You feel confident?)
cockroaches
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Gay Head, on this island off Cape Cod, has been renamed Aquinnah |
Martha's Vineyard
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If you drive its CR-V to see the Anaheim Ducks play in the "Center" bearing its name, this company will be doubly happy |
Honda
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A narrow, connecting part of some tools, it's also prison slang for a knifelike weapon |
a shank
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Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite |
(Ollie: What is a flea?)
lice
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A limerick generally consists of 5 anapestic queues |
(Ken: Not queues but [*].)
lines
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It's the last of the "5 stages of grief" |
acceptance
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The Chamorro are the indigenous ethnic group on this Pacific island that's home to U.S. naval & Air Force bases |
Guam
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The Chicago Blackhawks take wing at the center named for this airline |
United
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From an Asian word, this type of "stick" is concealed in high grass to injure enemy soldiers |
a punji stick
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This Flemish anatomist served as court physician to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & then to his son, Spain's Philip II |
Vesalius
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36 inches equals a garden |
a yard
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From the Latin for "to cook together", it means to devise or contrive |
to concoct
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