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    | In 1993 bass tech Stuart Morgan played a gig for this Irish band when Adam Clayton couldn't make it | U2 
 
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    | It's the property of some unstable atoms that causes them to give off ionizing radiation | radioactivity 
 
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    | In the Dewey Decimal System, books filed under the 720s cover this subject, including buildings & public structures | architecture 
 
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    | Michgan & Ohio share this Great Lake | Lake Erie 
 
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    | It's a conversation between 2 people, or the talky part of movies | dialogue 
 
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    | 6'4'' from the University of Maine, this "Dead Zone" author | Stephen King 
 
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    | Shock G of Digital Underground said, "Of all the roadies we ever had", this rapper killed in Vegas in '96 "was the best" | Tupac (Shakur) 
 
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    | This branch of physics deals with the structure & nature of cosmic bodies | (Alex: Yes, with less than a minute to go.) 
 cosmology (or astrophysics)
 
 
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    | Take a Big Gulp before telling us that DCCXI is this year in Roman numerals | 711 
 
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    | Like the bigger Lake Titicaca, Lake Suches is on the border of Peru & this southern neighbor | (Christian: What is Chile?) 
 Bolivia
 
 
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    | To give a person official power to do something | to authorize 
 
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    | 6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German) | (Heather: [sighs] Sorry.) (Alex: Ooh, drawing a blank. That'll cost you.)
 
 Michael Crichton
 
 
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    | Condensed-matter physics deals with superfluidity, in which certain liquids flow without this | friction 
 
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    | Hank Aaron ended his career with this record number of regular-season home runs | (Catherine: What is 746?) 
 755
 
 
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    | Manitoba shares Reindeer Lake with this neighbor to the west | (Catherine: What is Alberta?) 
 Saskatchewan
 
 
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    | You'd do well to learn about this Cabinet department | Education 
 
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    | 6'6'' from the Repton School in Derbyshire, this children's author seen with wife Patricia Neal | Roald Dahl 
 
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    | The smallest discrete amount of radiant energy is called this, also a name for a branch of physics | (Christian: What is a particle?) 
 quantum physics
 
 
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    | Its cube root is 9 | (Alex: 9 times 9 is 81, 81 times 9 is [*].) 
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    | Germany, Switzerland & this neighbor share the Bodensee, aka Lake Constance | Austria 
 
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    | This veggie describes an ear deformed by repeated injury | a cauliflower 
 
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    | 6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential" | (Christian: Who is John Grisham?) (Heather: Who is Elmore Leonard?)
 (Catherine: Who is Janst?  Jantsen?)
 
 James Ellroy
 
 
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    | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in the lab.) You can see the arrows are pointing in the same way, right?  Well, watch what happens when water is added, & this direction-changing physics property takes place | (Catherine: What is reflection?) (Alex: No, you were close.  What is [*]?)
 [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
 
 refraction
 
 
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    | 702 & 775 are area codes in this state | (Alex: California's neighbor, [*]. Catherine, let's go somewhere else.) 
 Nevada
 
 
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    | Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia & Tanzania have this long lake in common | Lake Tanganyika 
 
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    | You qualify as this if your bank balance has a 2 followed by 6 zeroes | (Catherine: What is a double millionaire?) 
 a multi-millionaire
 
 
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    | 6'8'' from Ontario Agricultural College, this economist who wrote "The New Industrial State" | John Kenneth Galbraith 
 
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