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When Jason Kidd was drafted by this Texas NBA team he said, "We're gonna turn this team around 360 degrees" |
(Chris: Who are the San Antonio Spurs?)
the Dallas Mavericks
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Born in Arlington, Oregon, 1927; "Tonight Show" bandleader 1967-1992 |
Doc Severinsen
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This poem famously begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" |
"The Raven"
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American Staffordshire Terrier terror |
a pit bull
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This device uses an adjustable pendulum to indicate a given musical tempo either visually or aurally |
a metronome
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He's the former vice president who wisely said, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure" |
Dan Quayle
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Enunciation is key in singing the words this man wrote, like "I am the very model of a modern major-general" |
(Sandi: Who is Sullivan?)
Gilbert
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Born in Portland, 1954; created "The Simpsons" |
Matt Groening
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This man starred in several films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Tomb of Ligeia" |
Vincent Price
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A small oval gland at the base of the brain |
the pituitary
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Pendulums in these instruments remain still as the Earth moves, allowing those movements to be charted |
seismographs
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French president from 1958 to 1969, he observed, "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" |
Charles de Gaulle
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(Cheryl of the Clue Crew sings.)
Swing low, sweet chariot...
Also meaning non-material, this type of song was used for a secret communication among slaves |
a spiritual
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Born in Madras, Oregon, 1970; starred in "Stand by Me" & "Running on Empty" |
River Phoenix
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These Poe "Murders" are often cited as the world's first detective story |
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
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An inscription on a tombstone commemorating the person buried there |
an epitaph
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More famous today for his pendulum, this Frenchman invented the gyroscope in 1852 |
Foucault
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This 30th president noted, "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results" |
(Alex: [*] is right; minute to go now.)
(Calvin) Coolidge
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Normal range is about 1 of these plus another third; Minnie Riperton could handle about 5 |
an octave
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Born in Lebanon, Oregon, 1940; starred in "WKRP in Cincinnati" & "Head of the Class" |
Howard Hesseman
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The narrator of Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a victim of this infamous Iberian institution |
the Spanish Inquisition
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Rain or snow or hail |
precipitation
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Born in 1564, this Italian often used a pendulum in his studies of motion |
(Alex: Well, young man, $16,200 is a lot of money.) (Chris: Yes it is. Uh... I'll go $4,000.) ... (Alex: Chris?) (Chris: Who is da Vinci?) (Alex: Ohhh, I thought you might pick da Vinci. You had to think of somebody Italian, somebody associated with science--[*].)
Galileo
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"They only name things after you when you're dead or really old", quipped this first lady when the CIA HQ was renamed |
[Alex reads "HQ" as "headquarters".] (David: Who is...) (Alex: Quick.) (David: Lady Bird Johnson?) ... (Alex: Remember, her husband, President Bush, was once head of the CIA.)
Barbara Bush
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Born in Portland, 1947; "Flopped" at the 1968 Olympics & won a gold medal |
(Alex: [*] and the famous "Fosbury Flop", that's correct.)
(Dick) Fosbury
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In this "colorful" Poe story, Prince Prospero tries to avoid a deadly plague |
[No applause for Chris's run of the category] (Alex: Well done.)
"The Masque of the Red Death"
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Mutineers first inhabited this South Pacific island in 1790 |
[Applause for Chris's run of the category] (Alex: Hey, you know your "PIT"s; $14,600. You've built up a big lead.)
Pitcairn
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The weighted mass suspended at the bottom of a pendulum is called this, also a man's name |
(Alex: [*], yes; plumb [*].)
a bob
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