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    | This title character says, "My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it" | 
    Tarzan
 
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    | It's the first name of "Troy" co-star Burrows, so her parents were probably "mad about" a yellowish spice | 
    Saffron
 
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    | When it's closest to the Earth, this planet with a 687-day year is about 33 million miles away | 
    Mars
 
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    | He was the driving force in his country's reforms | 
    Gorbachev
 
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    | In 1909 Elwood Baker invented this game as a variation on what was often called "rum" | 
    (Bill: What is rummy?...) (Alex: No.) (Bill: What is gin rummy?)
  gin
 
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    | Between 1867 & 1871 about 1 1/2 million of these cattle made a one-way trip up the Chisholm Trail | 
    longhorns
 
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    | This 17th century work says, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" | 
    Don Quixote
 
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    | It was a "snap" for this "Swing Time" star to earn a 1992 Kennedy Center honor | 
    Ginger Rogers
 
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    | Eratosthenes calculated this c. 230 B.C. using the difference between the sun's angles at 2 places during June | 
    (Robert: Uh, what is the Earth's distance from the Sun?)
  the Earth's circumference
 
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    | He drove out the Colonialists | 
    Ho Chi Minh
 
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    | In draw poker, it's the hand whose value is between a nonstraight flush & 4 of a kind | 
    (Alex: And you have much more money than your opponents as is usually the case in your games.) (Bill: I'll bet $4,000.) ... (Alex: [*].  You're a gambling man, obviously.  Or at least you know about gambling.  Good.) (Bill: I was gambling then.)
  a full house
 
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    | Marine rank just above private first class | 
    (Robert: Uh, what is lieutenant?) ... (Alex: In the Marines, it's a [*].)
  lance corporal
 
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    | In this Hemingway story, Santiago promises to show a marlin "what a man can do and what a man endures" | 
    The Old Man and the Sea
 
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    | The "Today" Show got a little spicier when she became its news anchor in 1997 | 
    Ann Curry
 
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    | The Lambert one of these formations in the Antarctic is over 250 miles long | 
    a glacier
 
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    | He had plenty of drive to get ahead in the army | 
    Franco
 
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    | Transporting name of the world's bestselling playing card brand for over a century | 
    Bicycle
 
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    | This actress flowered on the 19th century stage & as the mistress of King Edward VII | 
    (Bill: Who is Lind?) (Alex: No.  Robert or Pat?  Who is [*]?  Judge Roy Bean loved her.)
  Lillie Langtry
 
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    | In Dickens, these famous words precede "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" | 
    "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
 
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    | Barbara Bain's "bark" may have been worse than her bite as this spicy character on "Mission: Impossible" | 
    Cinnamon (Carter)
 
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    | "Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26 | 
    (Alex: Oh boy!  Bill, you have $13,000 as a cushion right now.) (Bill: I'll bet $9,000.) ... (Bill: What is silicon?) (Alex: No, the "cast" was an important word.  Cast [*].  Cast [*].  So you're still in the lead but now you just have twice as much money as your opponents.)
  iron
 
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    | He drove his people to distraction | 
    Idi Amin
 
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    | Walt Whitman's famous elegy talks about these that "in the dooryard bloom'd" | 
    lilacs
 
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    | This Poe plague "had long devastated the country.  No pestilence had ever been so fatal" | 
    (Bill: What is The Masque of [*]?) (Alex: ...Well, all right.  We'll give it to you.  The Masque of [*] is the title, but we were going for the plague, and that is [*].)
  the Red Death
 
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    | Movie producer Neufeld, or a spice with a weapon name | 
    Mace
 
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    | A clue for alien astronomers looking for life on Earth is the large amount of this gas, CH4, in the atmosphere | 
    methane
 
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    | He drove his party off a cliff in 1997 | 
    (John) Major
 
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    | The name of this card may have evolved from a variant version of the card game name Euchre | 
    a joker
 
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    | A 1905 earthquake in this Punjab capital killed more than 10,000 | 
    Lahore
 
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