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| Yiddish for good luck or congratulations |
(Alex: You are right, and [*] for getting the correct question.) (Robin: Thank you.)
mazel tov
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| Fay Wray’s hairy suitor |
(Alex: Yeah. But he was a nice guy and a good dancer.)
King Kong
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| He followed up the New Deal with his Fair Deal |
Harry Truman
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| The first 5 books of the Bible are attributed to him |
Moses
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| In Greek, pagoton; in Japanese, aisukurimu; & in American, Haagen-Dazs |
(Robin: [No response])
ice cream
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| His student campaign workers stayed clean for him in ’68 |
Eugene McCarthy
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| Restaurant garnish nobody ever eats |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
parsley
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| What Lot’s wife became when she looked back on Sodom |
a pillar of salt
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| “Mani in alto”: order from a spaghetti Western bandito |
(George: [No response])
hands up (or put your hands in the air)
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| Their fairytale wedding had an intimate audience of 750 million |
Prince Charles & Lady Di
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| Harvard-educated country lawyer who led the Senate Watergate Committee |
Sam Ervin
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| Even if you can’t cut it, it's good on hot dogs |
mustard
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| Frank Sinatra sponsors a youth center in this Galilean town where Jesus grew up |
Nazareth
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| In Swedish, “Hur mycket ar klockan”; in Spanish, “Que hora es” |
What time is it?
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| In 1864, Lincoln chose this Democrat to be his running mate |
Andrew Johnson
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| Other name for the Moluccas, derived from prominent exports |
the Spice Islands
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| Number of people saved in Noah’s ark |
(Alex: Noah, his wife, three sons, and their wives.)
8
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| Chemical combination of a non-metal with hydrogen, such as H2SO4 |
(George: Uh, what is an organic compound?) ... (Alex: H2SO4, sulfuric [*].)
an acid
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| In Danish, it’s “slippe katten ud af saekken”, but we shouldn’t have told you |
(George: [No response]) ... (Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)
let the cat out of the bag
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| In one of Shakespeare’s lesser tragedies, Troilus loved her |
Cressida
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| Former bartender & UN ambassador, now New York senator |
(John: Who was... [*]?) (Alex: Right. He still is.) (John: I hope so.)
Daniel Moynihan
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| Man’s name, or herb Pliny felt must be sown with curses & ugly words |
(George: What is dill?) ... (Alex: He liked it, but he thought it needed abuse to thrive.)
basil
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| She said, “whither thou goest, I will go... Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” |
(Alex: That gives you $1,000 more. You're back in the lead.)
Ruth
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