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    | He co-wrote "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" | (David: Who is George Washington?) 
 George W. Bush
 
 
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    | It sounds a bit redundant, but Delaware's state bird is the blue hen this | chicken 
 
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    | On February 6 this Likud Party leader won election as Prime Minister of Israel | (Karthik: Who is Shimon Peres?) (Shelly: Who is Ehud Barak?)
 (David: Who is Netanyahu?)
 
 Ariel Sharon
 
 
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    | This 6-letter breathing affliction begins & ends with a vowel & has no vowels in between | (Karthik: What is dyspnea?) 
 asthma
 
 
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    | "Physician ____ thyself" | heal: helium & aluminum 
 
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    | His 1891 essay "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" promoted the realistic dramas of a fellow playwright | George Bernard Shaw 
 
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    | Its official state drink is milk, but (woo-hoo!) it also has an official bourbon festival, in Bardstown | Kentucky 
 
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    | This film starring Russell Crowe won the Best Picture Oscar on March 25 | Gladiator 
 
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    | Look in the OED & you'll find "brrrr", with a rare 4 Rs: it's this one of the traditional 8 parts of speech | (David: What is an exclamation?) 
 interjection
 
 
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    | "I only regret that I have but ____ life to lose for my country" | one: oxygen & neon 
 
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    | In 1832 Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin used this masculine pen name for "Indiana" | George Sand 
 
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    | That's right: the right one of these became Georgia's state marine mammal in 1985 | a whale 
 
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    | This Pennsylvania governor resigned in October to become head of the new office of Homeland Security | Tom Ridge 
 
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    | This Asian city is the only world capital whose name in English has 3 dotted letters in succession | (Alex: And, David, before I ask you to make your wager, I have some bad news for Karthik.  Our judges have listened to, uh, the tape of your response a few moments ago, and you forgot to put the "D" on the end of Jim Jeffords' name.  So we are deducting $3,200 from you, leaving you with $4,400, and, David, the scores are correct.  Make your wager based on those numbers.) (David: $6,000.)
 (Alex: Even?)
 (David: Even.)
 (Alex: Could have done $6,400, you know, and then if you were right,
 you'd have $30,000.)
 (David: But then we couldn't have this. [Motions back and forth between the two of them])
 (Alex: Oh. [Laughter] Here--okay.)
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 (David: What is Laos?)
 
 Beijing
 
 
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    | "And God said unto Noah... make thee an ____ of gopher wood" | (Alex: I feel you are about to make it more difficult for your opponents.  Do I sense a $4,000 or perhaps a $5,000 wager?) (David: $5,600.)
 (Alex: Oh, you threw me a curve.)
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 (Alex: You are a research scientist, but is it in chemistry?)
 (David: Uh, genetics.)
 (Alex: Genetics.  Okay, well, that would help also.  Select again.)
 
 ark: argon & potassium
 
 
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    | In 1876 Mary Ann Evans used this masculine pen name for "Daniel Deronda" | (Karthik: Who is Georges Sand?) 
 George Eliot
 
 
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    | The scuppernong grape is its state fruit; one vine in the Outer Banks is more than 400 years old | North Carolina 
 
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    | This Vermont senator left the Republican Party, giving control of the Senate to the Democrats | (Karthik: Who is Jeffors?) [Initially ruled correct; the ruling was reversed before the next Daily Double because Karthik did not enunciate the "D" in [*]'s name.]
 
 Jim Jeffords
 
 
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    | The 2-syllable "rugged" is made into one syllable when you add these 2 letters to the front; try using an "atlas" | (Alex: If you add [*], you get shrugged.  Atlas Shrugged.)
 
 S-H
 
 
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    | "A long time ____ in a galaxy far, far away" | ago: silver & oxygen 
 
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    | In 1938 Eric Blair used this masculine pen name for "Homage to Catalonia" | George Orwell 
 
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    | Its state astronomical symbol is the Beehive cluster in the constellation Cancer | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
 Utah
 
 
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    | Crown Prince Dipendra of this Asian country slew his father & several other royals | Nepal 
 
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    | With a hyphen added, this 6-letter word meaning "to quit" can mean "to join again", as in pro sports | resign 
 
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    | "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so ____" | few: iron & tungsten 
 
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