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This element known to the ancients is liquid at room temperature |
mercury
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"Mamma Mia" takes place on one of this country's islands; the plot concerns a big fat wedding |
Greece
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This type of peach is so named because its flesh does not cling to the pit |
(Keith: What is floating?)
a freestone peach
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Theodore Dreiser's classic about the actress who played Princess Leia |
(Keith: ...Uh, what is [*]?) (Alex: No. Too long.)
Sister Carrie Fisher
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The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery |
a hearse
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The 2 radioactive elements named for planets that follow uranium on the periodic table |
neptunium & plutonium
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If oats cost 40 cents a peck & you spend $1.20 on them every day, you have this type of habit |
(Keith: Sounds very addicting. Uh, what is, uh, [*].)
three pecks a day
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It's a corn tortilla rolled around a filling in a flute-like shape, so its name is Spanish for "flute" |
a flauta
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Jack London's masterpiece about a sled dog who delivers a famous brand of Kentucky bourbon |
(Alex: You're gonna love this one.) ... [Laughter] (Alex: I like that dog.)
The Call of the Wild Turkey
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A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge |
a sphere
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2 of the ores for this yellowish-green gas are rock salt & horn silver |
chlorine
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Shubert Alley is the setting for both the opening & closing scenes of this smash hit that debuted in 2001 |
(Keith: I'm not going to lie. I know absolutely nothing about musicals.) ... (Keith: What is Stomp?) ... (Alex: Bialystock and Bloom.) ... (Keith: I told you.)
The Producers
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If you make half of your 16 pigs run to get their slop, you'll hear the sound of this many feet on the ground |
32
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A Louisiana French word for "twisted" gave us the name of this gumbo powder |
filé
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Amy Tan's happy-go-lucky book about a luncheon item made with chicken, bacon & several slices of toast |
The Joy Luck Club Sandwich
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A Mexican poncho without the hole |
a serape
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This element, symbol Ti, was first called menachite after the cornish town of its discovery, Manaccan |
titanium
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(Hi, I'm Kate Monster.) And in "Avenue Q", atop this famous skyscraper, I sing "I Wish I Could Go Back To College"--don't forget to say "What is"! |
the Empire State Building
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If it takes 50 pounds of seed to grow an acre of wheat, a ton of seed will get you this many acres |
40
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It's often described as bow tie pasta, but its name comes from the Italian for "butterflies" |
farfalle
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Hemingway's book about an elderly guy trying to catch an echinoderm that looks like a giant pickle |
The Old Man and the Sea Cucumber
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To delete recorded data |
erase
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All elements except this one have neutrons in the nucleus |
hydrogen
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Act I, scene 1 of this Sondheim musical introduces us to "Nippon. The floating kingdom" |
(Keith: What is Miss Saigon?)
Pacific Overtures
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Ga. & N.C., each producing $3 million of grapes a year, combine to total this percentage of New York's $50 million |
(John: What is 6 percent?)
12 percent
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The name of this pleasantly bitter herb is derived from the Latin fenum Graecum, which means "Greek hay" |
(Grace: What is fennel?)
fenugreek
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Depressing Dickens tome about the legislative body that met in colonial Virginia in 1619 |
Bleak House of Burgesses
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Basking or bonnethead |
a shark
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