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This Afghan capital is a mile-plus-high city at 5,900 feet with mountains to the east & west |
Kabul
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This title golfer uses his unusual technique to defeat Shooter McGavin |
Happy Gilmore
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In the 1950s a Procter & Gamble employee gave his lavish attention to coming up with this disposable diaper & it launched in 1961 |
Pampers
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Amendments to bills not relevant to the legislation are deemed these, like passengers in cars or people on horseback |
riders
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A deep-dish fruit pie with no bottom crust, or a shoemaker |
cobbler
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Jazz Age icon Josephine Baker came to stardom during the exuberant decade known by this nickname |
(Ken: Star of [*], and that puts you in a tie with Troy for the lead. Great game so far.)
the Roaring Twenties
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The West Bank, where you'll find Ramallah, is the west bank of this river |
the Jordan
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"I'll make it", says H.S. basketballer Jimmy Chitwood about a shot to win the title in this film & spoiler (not really)--he does |
[Ken reads "H.S." as "high school".] (Troy: What's... Hoop Dreams?) ... (Ken: It's the end of [*] I just spoiled.)
Hoosiers
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The bilingual book "Besos for Baby" teaches tots Spanish words like besos, meaning these |
kisses
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Nonprofits that spend to influence elections don't need to disclose donors & are thereby using this "money" |
dark money
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To go on complaining about something, or a big freshwater fish that can live for nearly 50 years |
carp
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The late 1600s & early 1700s in this country are known as its Petrine era |
(Ken: Yeah, Peter the Great.)
Russia
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Al Dafna & Al Bidda are parks lying on this bay that shares its name with the Qatari capital |
Doha (Bay)
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In a 1979 sequel this "Master of Disaster" & "Count of Monte Fisto" goes down, & Rocky Balboa wins the crown |
(Troy: Who's... Carl Weathers?) ... (Ken: We needed the player who beat him and that would be [*], Carl's character.) (Troy: Uh, Buzzy's gonna kill me.)
Apollo Creed
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This subsidiary of Mattel made up of 2 last names sells every kind of toy, including the kitchen sink |
Fisher-Price
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This agricultural term for a political movement involving the common person also just means basic or foundational |
grassroots
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An unbranded range animal, or a politician who doesn't toe the party line |
maverick
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The transition between the Stone Age & this other prehistoric era is sometimes called the Chalcolithic, or "copper-stone" |
the Bronze Age
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The "Ab Fab" star visits Krasnoyarsk on "Joanna Lumley's" this "Adventure", a phrase also preceding "Railroad" |
Trans-Siberian
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In this film Kurt Russell's Herb Brooks leads the U.S. hockey team to an Olympic gold medal |
(Jackie: What is Miracle on Ice?)
Miracle
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Give your baby a good night's sleep with this type of machine, or just read the same-named Don DeLillo novel |
white noise
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Hellenic & Long Island Sound are 2 of these smaller groups of legislators that meet to promote a common agenda |
a caucus
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A bent posture, or where Hannah & her besties sometimes hung out on "Girls" |
(Ken: Like many New Yorkers, they hung out on [*].)
stoop
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Historians use "the long 19th century" to refer to the 125-year period between the starts of these 2 European cataclysms |
the French Revolution & World War I
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India's Andhra people wanted their own state & have it, this one now about the size of Georgia |
Andhra Pradesh
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Daniel LaRusso, played by him, won the 1985 All Valley Under-18 Karate Championship, but he was really mid-20s, so... "The Karate Man"? |
(Ralph) Macchio
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Buy the tot a plush baby JJ, a character from this YouTube show with a fruit in its name |
(Ken: Troy, new dad.) (Troy: What's [*]?) (Ken: You're probably watching a lot of [*], right?) [Laughter] (Troy: Can't escape it.)
Cocomelon
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It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's this specified level of support needed to pass a vote, usually 3/5 in the Senate |
a supermajority
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It means eagerly hopeful or related to blood |
sanguine
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In 1644 China's Ming dynasty was succeeded by this one that rhymes with Ming also called the Manchu |
(the) Qing (dynasty)
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