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    | Keyboardist Ray Manzarek's left hand was all the bass Jim Morrison needed backing him up in this band | 
    the Doors
 
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    Mercury
 
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    milk
 
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    Nancy Pelosi
 
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    a teardrop
 
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    | This group, Jack on guitar & Meg on drums, broke up in 2011 | 
    the White Stripes
 
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    | George Eliot wrote that gossip is this "that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it" | 
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    | A creepmeter doesn't measure how weird your date is but the movement of these cracks between quakes | 
    (Matt: What are fissures?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Matt: Tectonic fissures?) (Alex: No.)
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    | One of the mysteries featuring her is "The Halloween Hoax"` | 
    Nancy Drew
 
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    Neanderthal
 
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    eavesdrop
 
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    | Patrick Carney & Dan Auerbach make up this blues-rock duo whose name is even musical | 
    the Black Keys
 
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    | This Stephen Crane story says, "The army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors" | 
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    | The device seen here is used to take a reading of this | 
    tire pressure
 
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    | She's the voice of Nelson, Ralph Wiggum & Bart Simpson | 
    Nancy Cartwright
 
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    | The iguanadon was named because these body parts resembled those of an iguana | 
    (Alex: Talkin' about their [*].)
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    | Goody goody!  It's this kind of candy made from corn syrup & gelatin | 
    (Jennifer: What's a gummy--[*]?)
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    | The name of this guitarist precedes "Blues Explosion" in a bassless '90s trio | 
    Jon Spencer
 
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    | This mischievous Shakespeare character says, "I jest to Oberon... and sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl" | 
    Puck
 
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    | In 1450 Italian architect Leon Alberti invented the first mechanical one of these to measure wind speed | 
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    | She lived with Sid Vicious in the Chelsea Hotel & died there | 
    Nancy Spungen
 
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    | During the Chalcolithic period, 4,000-6,000 years ago, this metal became the first used for tools & weapons | 
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    | Let me set the stage for you; it's the rear curtain of a stage setting | 
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    | This triple-talk band makes do with drums, guitar & the vocals of Karen O | 
    (Matt: Oh, no, sorry.)
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    | "If you haven't got anything nice to say... come sit next to me" was a motto of this daughter of Teddy Roosevelt | 
    Alice
 
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    | The hair type of this instrument uses human hair to measure relative humidity | 
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    | In "Oliver Twist", Nancy is his girlfriend | 
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  Bill Sikes
 
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    | To describe a moment of utter silence, these four words follow "You could have..." | 
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