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As the Planters icon knows, everybody loves these; in 1996 Americans ate 2 billion pounds of them |
peanuts
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He hammered a career total of 755 major league home runs |
Henry "Hank" Aaron
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A "long" one is 2,240 pounds, a "short" one is 2,000 |
ton
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With a funnel more than a mile wide, one of the largest of these occured March 18, 1925 & killed 695 people |
tornado
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Yogi Berra observed that in this sport, "You don't know nothing" |
baseball
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Whether you like it hot or cold, borscht is a Russian soup made from these root vegetables |
beets
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This witty screenwriter penned "The Graduate" & "Protocol" |
Buck Henry
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Whether you hide your light under it or not, it's equal to 35.24 liters |
bushel
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It's a snowstorm with winds past 30 knots, below normal temperatures & visibility reduced to 1/8 of a mile |
(Alex: You get a lot of them here (in Boston))
blizzard
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Spanish for "nothing", it's found in the expression meaning "you're welcome" |
nada
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If you like it kosher, He'Brew is "The Chosen" type of this beverage & "Exile Never Tasted So Good" |
beer
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This scandalous author married June Mansfield on June 1, 1924 |
Henry Miller
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This international standard is equal to approximately 3,281 feet |
(Chip: What is a nautical mile?)
kilometer
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Body part associated with the center of the image seen here (hurricane) |
eye
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In a 1975 musical, Diana sings "Nothing" at an audition for this title group |
(Chip: What are The Fantasticks?) (Harry: What is Fame?)
A Chorus Line
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If you like it hot, use this brand of sauce made with red peppers, vinegar & salt mined on Avery Island |
Tabasco
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Ask Timon how this tomb in Athens differs from America's & he'll tell you the guards don't wear pants |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Give me this man who was governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779 & again from 1784 to 1786 |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
Patrick Henry
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Hold your breath! If you traveled 20,000 leagues under the sea, you'd go 60,000 of these |
(Chip: What are feet?) (Harry: What are nautical miles?)
miles
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Produced by thunderstorm clouds, these lumps of ice bigger than 5mm are classified as hydrometeors |
hailstones
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U.S. president whose middle initial "S" stood for nothing |
Harry S. Truman
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Our writers like this cereal grain whether it's in succotash or bourbon |
(Chip: What is barley?)
corn
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Timon avoids this ancient market because he's afraid of the crowds |
(Chip: What is the market of Alexandria?) (Alex: He has agoraphobia, hence he avoids the agora)
agora
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With works like "Elements", he flowered as the resident poet on "Laugh-In" |
Henry Gibson
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What we Yanks would call a trillion, the Brits would call this |
billion
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This "great" area on Jupiter is a violent storm first discovered in 1664 |
the Great Red Spot
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"Nothing" is the answer to "Does a dog have Buddha nature?", one of these paradoxes |
(Harry: What is a zen paradox?) (Tracy: What is a mantra?)
a koan
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