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In 1726 Jonathan Swift published this work as "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World" |
Gulliver's Travels
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In 1967 the Coliseum hosted the first Super Bowl between Kansas City & this other Midwestern team |
Green Bay Packers
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You can get your chi balanced by either of these 2 ancient Chinese methods whose name both begin "acu" |
acupuncture & acupressure
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Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth |
Santa Claus
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Its name says where it's at |
(Elizabeth: What is Greenland?) (Renzo: What is Ecuador?)
South Africa
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It's gray or brown & 2-5 inches long not counting the tail |
fieldmouse
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It's Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
Through the Looking-Glass
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) A new stadium was being built so this baseball team played in the Coliseum from 1958 to 1961 after moving to L.A. |
Los Angeles Dodgers
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This "therapy" uses concentrated plant oils like rosemary or bergamot to relieve stress |
aroma therapy
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$1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss |
C. Montgomery Burns
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"Zone" in on this country important to world commerce |
Panama
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Elizabeth Bennet eventually falls in love with Mr. Darcy in this classic by Jane Austen |
Pride and Prejudice
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In October 1989 280,000 in 4 nights saw this band with an appetite for destruction open for the Rolling Stones |
Guns N' Roses
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Meaning "the science of prolonging life", it's a dietary regime of whole grains, vegetables & beans |
macrobiotic
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This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl novel hoards a sweet $8 billion |
Willy Wonka
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A bit of serendipity will lead you to this country's name |
Sri Lanka
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Sport in which 2 teams use curved sticks to hit a ball into their opponents' goal |
field hockey
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Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this 1949 novel |
1984
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The L.A. Coliseum serves as the home field for this university's football team & they first played there in 1923 |
(Stan: What is UCLA?)
USC (Southern California)
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By this alternative medicine's methods a quartz-powered watch should aid in carpal-tunnel syndrome relief; well, maybe |
(Stan: What is crystal therapy?)
crystal healing
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This "Gilligan's Island" tycoon washes ashore with $8 billion |
(Stan: Who is Mr. Howell?)
Thurston Howell III
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Nation where Bolivar's buried |
Venezuela
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The highest rank in the British army |
field marshal
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Dickens novel that ends, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." |
A Tale of Two Cities
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) The all-time L.A. Coliseum attendance record of 134,254 occurred in 1963 when this reverend held a crusade here |
Billy Graham
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Autosuggestion ("I am great, great") is classified as a form of "self" this ("I am getting sleepy, sleepy") |
self-hypnosis
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A James Bond villain, he's worth an estimated $1.2 billion |
(Stan: Who is Blofeld?)
Auric Goldfinger
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Modern country that's Hannibal's historic home |
(Alex: Hey, well done! You know your geography; it could get you into the Geography Bee in Washington, but you're much too old, unfortunately!)
Tunisia
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England's Wars of the Roses ended there |
(Alex: With a minute to deal with the L.A. Coliseum.)
Bosworth Field
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