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    | This state's 100-mi. Emerald Coast is a stretch of white sand beaches along the emerald-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico | 
    Florida
 
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    | In 1988 he gave an iconic performance of "Man In The Mirror" backed by a gospel choir | 
    (Ken: You did very well in that category; you're back at zero, well done.) [Celeste laughs.]
  Michael Jackson
 
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    | In 2022 the deepest fish, a snailfish, was found at over 27,000 feet in the Izu-Ogasawara one of these deep ocean depressions | 
    a trench
 
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    | Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this? | 
    (Ken: Glad you got that right, yes.)
  a summer's day
 
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    | Pierpont is the middle name of this mogul who arranged the merger of 2 companies to form General Electric in 1892 | 
    Morgan
 
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    | You know, in good faith or the real deal, like a rock star; with an "S" at the end, it means your credentials | 
    bona fides
 
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    | The Bitterroot Mountains, part of the Rockies, straddle this state's panhandle & Montana to the east | 
    Idaho
 
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    | In 2008 Beyoncé joined her idol Tina Turner on this song, & they were "rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river" | 
    "Proud Mary"
 
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    | The Venus sea fan, a soft type of this, has numerous polyps that grow together in a fanlike pattern, with each polyp having 8 tentacles | 
    a coral
 
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    | In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", "I took the one" that was this | 
    less traveled by
 
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    | On June 9, 1981, he was drafted out of San Diego State by both the Padres & the then-San Diego Clippers; he'd hit Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame | 
    Tony Gwynn
 
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    | This cool Latin phrase means "intrinsically" or "by itself" | 
    (Celeste: What is sui generis?)
  per se
 
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    | When founded in 1887, this largest city in the Texas panhandle was known as Ragtown | 
    (Celeste: What is Lubbock?)
  Amarillo
 
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    | In 2024 Joni Mitchell performed at the Grammys for the very first time, singing this classic that begins, "Rows & floes of angel hair" | 
    "Both Sides, Now"
 
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    | The heaviest bony fish at a weight of more than 6,050 pounds, it has a celestial name & dines mainly on jellyfish | 
    (Amy: What is... an angelfish?)
  a sunfish
 
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    | Iam the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain", & what do you mean I'm obsessed with death? | 
    Dickinson
 
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    | In 2023 this entrepreneur called the public face of artificial intelligence was out & back in as the head of OpenAI | 
    (Ken: It's a been a little too long to remember the name, [*].)
  Sam Altman
 
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    | As a legal term, this 3-word phrase can be a status prohibiting a diplomat to enter a foreign country | 
    persona non grata
 
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    | West Virginia's northern panhandle is bordered on the north & west by this river | 
    the Ohio
 
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    | "Lady Marmalade" was originally a hit for this legend, who in 2002, joined P!nk, Christina Aguilera & others on a rendition of it | 
    LaBelle
 
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    | This member of the weasel family is the only marine mammal that catches fish with its forepaws, not its mouth | 
    (Amy: What's an otter?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
  a sea otter
 
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    | I, William Wordsworth, wrote this iambic line that precedes "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" | 
    I wandered lonely as a cloud
 
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    | In 1959, this Japanese crown prince broke a 1,400-year tradition by choosing his own wife | 
    (Celeste: Who is Hirohito?) ... (Ken: His son, yes.)
  Akihito
 
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    | Literally "without which not", this phrase means "a necessity" | 
    sine qua non
 
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    | Watching humpback whales is a must in this Alaska panhandle national park, the state's southeasternmost | 
    Glacier Bay
 
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    | In 1975 he brought down the house with the politically charged "You Haven't Done Nothin"' | 
    Stevie Wonder
 
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    | When buried in the sand, skates & rays rely on these holes near the eyes for breathing oxygen | 
    (Celeste: What are nostrils?)
  spiracles
 
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    | Aye, I did write "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" & many another bonny iambic work, & ye needn't call me sir! | 
    (Austin: Uh... oh, crap, oops.) [Laughter] (Ken: Sorry, we can't accept, "Oops".) (Celeste: Who is Burns?)
  (Walter) Scott
 
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    | This Spanish surrealist whose work is often exhibited with Dali's painted "Dog Barking at the Moon" in 1926 | 
    Joan Miró
 
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    | Q.E.D. is short for this, meaning "which was to be demonstrated" | 
    quod erat demonstrandum
 
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