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| The upper house of Congress |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Senate
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| Though not Communist, it's known as the red planet |
Mars
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| The number 1 syndicated game show, or Susan Howatch best-seller |
[Applause for George's run of the category]
Wheel of Fortune
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| Phone connection installed between the White House & Kremlin |
the Hot Line
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| Chinese food ingredient monosodium glutamate |
MSG
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| His Physics prize was for work on photoelectric effect, not theory of relativity |
Einstein
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| 1 of 2 seasons of the year we're in when the sun is "north of the Equator" |
summer (or spring)
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| William Styron chose to write about her "choice" |
Sophie
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| Filmed in Jamaica, this first James Bond film came out in '63 |
Dr. No
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| Slang for $100 bill, or played by "middle" key on a piano |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute in the round.)
C note
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| This literature winner wrote "The Good Earth" in 3 months |
Pearl Buck
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Star followed in this song of escape from slavery:
"Follow the drinkin' gourd / Follow the drinkin' gourd / For the old man is a-waiting..." |
the North Star (Polaris)
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| In this biographical novel, Gore Vidal tells us what Carl Sandburg didn't |
Lincoln
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| On June 16, '63, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to do this |
the first woman in space
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| Only consonant almost always followed by the same vowel |
a Q
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| Father & son physics winners Niels & Aage Bohr were from this Scandinavian country |
(George: [Without signalling] What is Norway?) (Kirk: What is Norway?) (Carol: What is Sweden?) (Alex: George, do you want to try it now?) (George: [Without signalling] Well, what's left is Iceland and [*].) [Laughter] (Alex: The first answer you gave me is Iceland, and that is wrong.)
Denmark
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| Galileo discovered 4 of this planet's 16 moons |
Jupiter
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| The 1st president Theodore White wrote about "the making of" |
John F. Kennedy
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| His comedy LP, "The First Family", was a big novelty hit in '63 |
(Kirk: Who was David Frye?)
Vaughn Meader
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| Don Rickles had a short stint in the Navy on this NBC-TV sitcom |
(Kirk: What was, a, um...)
C.P.O. Sharkey
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| "Twisted ladder" model of this substance brought medicine award to Watson & Crick |
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
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| This well-known So. Hemisphere constellation appears on flags of Australia & New Zealand |
the Southern Cross
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| Author of "Tough Guys Don't Dance", he fears his notoriety has diminished his book sales |
Norman Mailer
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| His 4½ year reign, which ended in '63, was turning point in Catholic church history |
Pope John XXIII
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| 2 of the 4 "H's" in the "4-H Club" |
(2 of) hands, heart, head, health
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