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A study suggests these chimp parts are more evolved than ours, but let's see them play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" |
fingers (or hands)
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This location of Santa's Workshop has a ZIP code, 12997 |
(Kerry: What's the [*]?)
North Pole
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Friends including David Spade remember this late funnyman in a 2015 documentary called "I Am" him |
(Chris) Farley
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This word describing Greek culture is from the Greek, of course |
Hellenic
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The new museum named for this Athens hill was built in part to house the Elgin marbles, if they're ever returned |
the Acropolis
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Around the year 1115, he became Heloise's tutor--& more |
[Alex Jacob responded first with just the surname, and then, after not being ruled correct within two seconds, gave the first name.]
Peter Abélard
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Astronomers geared up for fireworks when the enormous gas cloud G2 passed Sagittarius A*, one of these |
a black hole
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This Florida playground for the rich & beautiful is aka "SoBe" |
South Beach
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One reviewer called her "Bossypants" memoir, "short, messy and impossibly funny" |
Tina Fey
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Adjective for a word that you say by passing air through your schnozz |
nasal
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The name of this Amsterdam landmark is Dutch for "state museum" |
the Rijksmuseum
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She had been an art tutor to Louis XVI's sister before escaping to London in 1802 & starting new waxworks there |
Madame Tussaud
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Scientists at the LHC, this, recently found proof of the pentaquark, a subatomic particle sought for decades |
the Large Hadron Collider
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You'll find the world's biggest railyard in this Nebraska city named for the river that runs through it |
North Platte
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SNL's first African-American cast member, he became a regular on "2 Broke Girls" |
(Garrett) Morris
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This word specifically means having 5 syllables |
pentasyllabic
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The Menshikov Palace, a part of this museum complex, is home to early 18th century Russian cultural artifacts |
the Hermitage
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At 14 he tutored Brooklyn schoolmates for 25 cents an hour; later he founded a test prep empire |
(Stanley) Kaplan
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This spacecraft did a flyby of Pluto within 8,000 miles of the surface, showing it as never before |
(Matt: What is Voyager?)
New Horizons
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Louie's Backyard is a party spot in this Texas spring break destination |
(Alex Jacob: Let's bet it all.) [Murmurs and gasps from the audience]
South Padre Island
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This former "Weekend Update" anchor now delivers the news that KFC is "Finger Lickin' Good" |
(Norm) Macdonald
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It's a divided word, but without that little line or dash used to connect |
unhyphenated
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South Kensington has a science museum, a natural history museum & a famed decorative arts museum named for this pair |
(Alex Jacob: Who is Diana and Charles?)
Victoria & Albert
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Around 343 B.C. he was summoned by Philip II to be tutor to his son |
(Alex Trebek: [*], and the son was Alexander the Great, of course.)
Aristotle
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Research suggests Joseph "The Elephant Man" Merrick's illness was this syndrome named for a shape-changing god |
(Alex Jacob: What is Marfan's?)
the Proteus syndrome
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This urban area, Barack Obama's old neighborhood, is "the baddest part of town" in song |
the South Side of Chicago
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A two-time Tony winner, she also got big laughs as boozy cougar Carol on TBS's "Sullivan & Son" |
Christine Ebersole
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Also a man's first name, it means brief, maybe to the point of rudeness |
(Alex Jacob: What's frank?)
curt
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Frank Gehry designed this Spanish museum, the counterpart of one in New York City |
the Guggenheim Bilbao
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This man whose name is from the Latin for "old" was tutor to the emperor Nero, who later had him commit suicide |
Seneca
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