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In 1986, during the week before this, egg sales went up nearly 50% from weekly average |
Easter
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Elaine Joyce is matching up bachelors & bachelorettes as the new host of this C. Barris game |
The Dating Game
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Good pancakes will not only sell like these, they are these |
hotcakes
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Longfellow's Indian heroine whose name means "laughing water" |
(Gary: Who is Hiawatha?)
Minnehaha
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An entire Astrodome baseball crowd of 45,000 could be seated in this 4-story Roman arena |
Colosseum
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Late 19th century cigar stores typically had one of these standing outside |
wooden Indian
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It wasn't until about 1890 that this pest invaded the U.S. & ruined cotton crops |
boll weevil
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Host of Nova's annual "Natural Science Test" |
Art Fleming
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Polygamous potentates, place their pretty odalisques in these secluded hideaways |
harems
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Margaret Mitchell originally called this character "Pansy" |
Scarlett O'Hara
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Built by the Romans in the 2nd cent., one of these still brings water to Segovia, Spain |
aqueduct
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It's said white owls costing 7¢ each in 1918 led VP Thomas Marshall to tell the U.S. Senate this |
What this country needs is a good 5-cent cigar
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Asian country second only to U.S. in corn production |
China
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The point value of the bonus question on "The Newlywed Game" |
(Alex: This will be cruel of me, but I'm glad you didn't know that. It shows you're not watching that program. It's [*], by the way, which indicates that I watch it.)
25
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A covered 2-wheeled carriage, whether it's good-looking or not |
hansom
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The grandmother of this Hans Christian Andersen heroine wore a dozen oysters on her tail |
The Little Mermaid
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By the 4th century A.D., Rome had 28 public ones stacked with rolls of papyrus |
(Gary: What are public toilets?) ... (Alex: I kind of like Gary's line for humor, though. You might remember that, Harvey, when you're writing.)
libraries
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Hawking Muriel cigars in the '60s, she said, "Why don't you pick one up & smoke it sometime?" |
Edie Adams
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Season in which winter barley is harvested |
(Eric: What is spring?)
(following) summer
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Show which played its bonus round on a giant pinball game |
(Alex: I was a contestant on that one.)
Magnificent Marble Machine
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Only U.S. President whose first & last names fit this category |
Herbert Hoover
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Rebecca Randall is better known by the title of this Kate Douglas Wiggin children's book |
[There was audience laughter as once again no one rang in.] (Harvey: It was too obvious.) (Alex: Too obvious?)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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When visiting one, a citizen might pass thru the frigidarium, the tepidaria & the calidarium |
public bath
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Dry farming, growing without irrigation on semi-arid land, gained 1st wide use in this Beehive State |
Utah
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TV's "$64,000 Question" was based on this radio show whose name gave players this choice |
Take It or Leave It
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Weapon used to fire projectiles in a high arc to reach targets hidden from view |
howitzer
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In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", this was Tom Snout's occupation tho you may not give a "dam" |
[The audience applauded a correct response at last in the category.]
tinker
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A 1962 B'way hit featuring the following was based on the comedies of this Roman playwright:
"Something familiar / Something peculiar / Something for everyone / A comedy tonight! / Something appealing / Something appalling / Something for everyone / A comedy tonight!" |
(Harvey: Who is Sophocles?) ... (Alex: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was based on the works of [*].) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Plautus
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