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    | Part of the Ionian Sea, the Gulf of Corinth separates the Peloponnese from the central part of this nation | Greece 
 
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    | To help in anticipating the flooding of this river, the Egyptians created a 12-month calendar | the Nile 
 
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    | We're not in Springfield c. the '90s, so this 4-word directive meaning "relax" feels udderly outdated, man | (Sondra: What is [*], man?) 
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    | That's Dr. African Giant Pouched Rat to you, as the critter is trained to detect this infectious lung disease that killed Doc Holliday | (Ken: That rat can detect [**], yes. 
 tuberculosis (TB)
 
 
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    | After her "Bridesmaids" character learned an extra in a scene was single, this actress ad-libbed she'd "climb that like a tree" | (Melissa) McCarthy 
 
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    | No: This expert British murder solver, here portrayed by Angela Lansbury
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 (Ken: She also played [*], right.)
 
 Miss Marple
 
 
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    | An inlet of the Pacific, this other Gulf of Mexico bears the name of a U.S. state | the Gulf of California 
 
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    | Marine chronometers use springs to tick away time since this swinging device is disrupted by the movements of a ship | (Ken: Yeah, you can't have [*] at sea.) [Dargan chuckles.]
 
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    | This 2-word demand isn't calming, so save it for the kitchen, like if you want the volume of a sauce reduced via gentle boiling | simmer down 
 
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    | On April 17, 1961 1,500 CIA-trained exiles landed on the southern coast of this country; 1,100 were captured by April 19 | (Ken: That's right, Bay of Pigs.) 
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    | A Variety headline: he "improvised so much on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' that 2 million feet of film was shot", with 972 boxes of outtakes | Williams 
 
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    | No: A.I. generated the TikTok image of this pig/human eventually killed by Tim Cheese | (Ken: I didn't understand any of that--who is [*]?) 
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    | The northern part of this sea, the Gulf of Bothnia is almost blocked off from the rest of it by the Aland Islands of Finland | the Baltic Sea 
 
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    | Beginning in the 6th c. or earlier, the Chinese kept time by using this slow-burning odorous material, like sandalwood | incense 
 
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    | As the title of a 1972 Eagles song, this phrase is pretty innocuous; as an imperative to calm down, it may raise some hackles | (Cindy: [Sighs] Oh...) (Ken: Cindy?)
 (Cindy: Mmm, what is "Hotel California"?)
 
 "Take It Easy"
 
 
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    | In "The Hunger Games", Katniss' training included "Some advice. stay alive" from this guy; coach of the year, obviously | Haymitch Abernathy 
 
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    | "Jaws" isn't exactly a laugh riot, but this Roy Scheider improv reaction to seeing the shark for the first time sure was funny | you're gonna need a bigger boat 
 
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    | No, as the representation of the sea; yes, as a singer for The Monkees | Davy Jones 
 
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    | West of Hainan, this gulf gave its name to a resolution presented by LBJ to Congress in 1964 | Tonkin 
 
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    | Lord Kelvin was an early proposer of this kind of clock, citing the independent "time of vibration of a sodium particle" | an atomic clock 
 
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    | Word to the wise: Using this "frigid" 7-letter portmanteau during an argument to mean calm down is unlikely to have the intended effect | chillax 
 
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    | Laurence Tisch (at 20!), & Laura Lang, former CEO of Time Inc., got their business chops at this Pennsylvania school | Wharton 
 
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    | "The Princess Bride" saw Billy Crystal improv-ing about an MLT, a this, lettuce & tomato sandwich "where (the 'M') is nice & lean" | mutton 
 
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    | Yes, though he passed into folklore by traipsing along in a tin hat planting fruit trees | Johnny Appleseed 
 
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    | This Middle Eastern country's only sea access is through its 16 miles of coastline on the Gulf of Aqaba | Jordan 
 
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    | The 24-hour Shepherd Clock is set to this, named for a borough of London & adopted as the astronomical standard in 1925 | (Cindy: DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN $600.) (Ken: I will not, but that is the Daily Double, Cindy.)
 
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    | Leave this phrase of 3 4-letter words in the '50s, when it may have originated in dialogue on TV's "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" | cool your jets 
 
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    | We spy future chefs joining a different CIA--this school that began as the New Haven Restaurant Institute in 1946 | the Culinary Institute of America 
 
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    | Gotta have a Christopher Guest movie line, like Fred Willard's in this film: "He went after her like she was made outta ham" | Best in Show 
 
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    | No: this man for whom a summery gin & lemon juice cocktail is named | Tom Collins 
 
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