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| This city in Lower Galilee was the hometown of Mary & Joseph |
Nazareth
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| Aaaaaaaaay!!!! It was the family favorite featuring the Fonz |
Happy Days
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| The difference between the freezing & boiling points of water is 100 on the Kelvin scale & this scale |
Celsius
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| Pain is the French word for this food staple |
bread
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| "The Exiles" & "The Long Rain" are 2 of 18 stories in this Ray Bradbury collection featuring a tattooed dude |
The Illustrated Man
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| Kennedy's cots |
Ted's beds
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| Lot fled to Zoar as destruction rained upon Admah, Zeboiim & these 2 cities in the Vale of Siddim |
Sodom & Gomorrah
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| Now Democratic National Committee chairman, this former pres. candidate appears regularly on "Meet the Press" |
Howard Dean
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| Geneticists know that human beings typically have 23 pairs of these; fruit flies have only 4 pairs |
chromosomes
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| In French, this citrus fruit is un pamplemousse |
a grapefruit
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| In this 1864 Jules Verne novel, explorers descend into an Icelandic volcano & later surface on Stromboli Island |
(Alex: Aw, you did it. You got it right.)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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| Biden's pedal digits |
Joe's toes
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| Samson was imprisoned & died in this Philistine city; today a "Strip" is named for it |
Gaza
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| Say, kids, he was the freckle-faced puppet persona of 1950s TV |
Howdy Doody
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| Champignon is the French word for an edible one of these |
a mushroom
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| "Under the Moons of" this planet, featuring adventurer John Carter, was Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1st published story |
(Michael: What are the Jovian moons?) (Gigi: What's Jupiter?)
Mars
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| Elizabeth's fishing rods |
Dole's poles
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| On the road to this city, Paul was struck blind for 3 days; he later preached there |
Damascus
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| On the Disney Channel, she turned heads as the multi-talented & often animated Lizzie McGuire |
Hilary Duff
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| A litmus test can help you set things on this scale devised by S.P.L. Sorensen |
(Michael: What is a scale of acidity?) (Alex: ...No...) (Michael: What is [*]?) (Alex: Oh, okay. You got it in just before I ruled you completely wrong on that one.)
a pH scale
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| Cotelette d'agneau means cutlets or chops of this meat |
lamb
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| "The Chronic Argonauts" was a precursor to this 1895 H.G. Wells novel |
The Time Machine
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| Lautenberg's practical jokes |
Frank's pranks
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| "And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given unto thine hand" this city, "and the king thereof" |
(Alex: Joshua fit the battle of [*], yes.)
Jericho
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| Seen here, he was Jack Paar's sidekick on "The Jack Paar Show" |
Hugh Downs
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| Un oeuf is an egg; this is an eggplant |
une aubergine
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| In his short story "The Sentinel", a mysterious pyramid is found on the Moon, left there by some passing alien civilization |
Arthur C. Clarke
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| Nebraskan Chuck's donut-shaped breakfast rolls |
Hagel's bagels
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