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CHAMPS OF THE SQUARE CIRCLE |
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YOU'RE PLAYING GAMES WITH ME, ALEX |
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In March of 1966 in his native Toronto George Chuvalo lost a 15-round decision to this heavyweight boxing champ |
Muhammad Ali
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On August 12, 1861 this showman exhibited what may have been the first hippo in the U.S. at his American museum |
P.T. Barnum
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Whist, bridge & Euchre are in the family of card games in which you win by capturing rounds called these |
(Fred: What are trumps?)
tricks
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Jack Ryan believes a Soviet naval commander is about to defect in this 1984 novel |
The Hunt for Red October
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Lincolnesque term for 80 |
(Nathan: What is score?--[*]!)
fourscore
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In 1638 early Strawberry Banke settlers drew up a covenant & declared allegiance to this Stuart monarch |
Charles I
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In real life it was the nickname of welterweight champ Benny Paret; in the movies, of the "Galahad" played by Elvis |
"Kid"
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From the Greek for "thick-skinned", this term can refer to hippos as well as elephants |
pachyderm
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Your gingerbread man playing piece might get stuck in the Molasses Swamp when you play this board game |
Candy Land
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The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday |
(Nathan: [Selecting the clue] Uh, $800, CALENDAR LIT, CALENDAR LIT.) [The Daily Double sound effect plays] (Nathan: [Shouts excitedly] Yeah! A ha ha!) (Alex: Daily Double, Daily Double. You have $2,000 and you can risk $2,000.) (Nathan: Well, I've got $2,000, I mean, why not?--make it a True Daily Double.) (Alex: All right, here is the clue for you.) (Nathan: [Mutters] Famous last words.)
Born on the Fourth of July
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Meaning material or tangible, this adjective is from the Latin for "bodily" |
corporeal
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Born Walker Smith, Jr., this "honey" of a fighter won the middleweight title 5 times in the 1950s |
(Nathan: Who is Sugar Ray Leonard?)
Sugar Ray Robinson
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A bronze hippo is the unofficial mascot of George Washington Univ., as legend says hippos once swam in this river |
the Potomac
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The south of the border version of this American game show is called "100 Mexicanos Dijeron"--"100 Mexicans Said" |
Family Feud
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His "Light in August" tells the story of Joe Christmas, who deals with his demons in Mississippi |
Faulkner
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At the time of the 2000 census, this Eastern city was the 17th most populous in the U.S. |
Baltimore
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Some Strawberry Bankers did this, named for the personal ownership of vessels preying on enemy ships |
privateers
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This Italian-Amer. heavyweight champ's nickname "Brockton Blockbuster" came from his Mass. hometown |
(Alex: And that would be [*]. Undefeated.)
Rocky Marciano
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A group of hippos is sometimes called this, perhaps because their stomachs look like they're swollen from gas |
(Nathan: What is a pod?)
a bloat
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This Milton Bradley board game is a quick-draw version of charades |
Pictionary
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George Eliot penned this tale about the arrival of Dr. Lydgate in the title town |
Middlemarch
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Applied to first-degree murder, it's a 2-word term for a predetermination to commit an unlawful act |
malice aforethought
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This "Golden Boy" has an interest in architecture & told Interview magazine, "I really have a passion for designing" |
(Alex: And the "Golden Boy" of Southern California is [*].)
Oscar De La Hoya
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He followed "Prufrock and Other Observations" with a collection of poems containing "The Hippopotamus" |
(T.S.) Eliot
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If you fail to peg the correct value of a hand in this game, your opponent calls out, "Muggins!" |
(Alex: And that game is [*]--with the pegs.)
cribbage
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This author can make the category twice with "The Adventures of Augie March" & "The Dean's December" |
Saul Bellow
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At 288 square miles, Sao Miguel is the largest of this group of Atlantic islands |
the Azores
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