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ALSO A PRESIDENT'S SURNAME |
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It's the result of one or more multiplications |
a product
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In 8-ball the balls are racked in this shape, with the 8 ball in the center |
a triangle
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Joan of Arc became the maid of this city when she led French troops to victory there in May 1429 |
Orleans
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Used to transport small loads like lawn dirt, it's a cart with 1 tire & a shallow body, held & pushed by handles |
a wheelbarrow
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Seen here are 1960s designs by engineer James Drake, who made use of RAND's Santa Monica location to become the father of this sport |
windsurfing
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When he wasn't busy rubaiyating, this 11th century renaissance man wrote a pioneering work on algebra |
Omar Khayyam
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Carolla, Ant & Sandler |
Adams
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The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds |
slate
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On May 10, 1981 France elected as president this socialist who then nationalized most of the private banks |
Francois Mitterrand
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It can be a sled or toboggan, someone riding in one, or a mat you put under a drink |
a coaster
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RAND research culminated in a 1987 treaty on these 3-element compounds that break down the ozone layer |
CFCs
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The prefix "mega" denotes 10 to the 6th power; "giga", 10 to this power |
the ninth
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Shallow, crossable part of a river |
(Chuck: [*]. What is [*]?) (Alex: [Overlapping] Nope. Nope. Okay. You got it in before the time expired. Good.)
Ford
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This white object gave its name to a bald "Dick Tracy" villain |
cue ball
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In a July 6, 2003 referendum, this Mediterranean island narrowly defeated a plan for limited autonomy |
Corsica
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It's a 2-wheeled wagon used to carry artillery ammunition; in song, they "go rolling along" |
caissons
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In the first book on this, computers doing tasks associated with human intellect, 6 chapters had been RAND reports |
Artificial Intelligence
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Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the "projective" form of this branch of mathematics |
geometry
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Snooker is played with 15 balls of this color & 6 balls of other colors |
red
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A color & a woman's name combine in this term for a police wagon |
a Black Maria
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Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event |
nuclear war
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Mathematicians disagree as to whether zero belongs in this set of numbers denoted N |
the natural numbers
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In 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a Cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then |
(Alex: You might think of them more with regard to bowling.)
the Brunswick Corporation
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The October 1415 battle of this fortress, lost to the English, actually took place in a nearby muddy field |
(Ellen: What is Mont-Saint-Michel?)
Agincourt
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This Olympic sport gets its name from the metal sled introduced in the 1890s & what some people thought it resembled |
a skeleton
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The field called this "theory", which has influenced economics & other disciplines, was expanded at RAND in the '40s |
(Drew: What is string theory?)
game theory
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