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THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM |
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In 1993 bass tech Stuart Morgan played a gig for this Irish band when Adam Clayton couldn't make it |
U2
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It's the property of some unstable atoms that causes them to give off ionizing radiation |
radioactivity
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In the Dewey Decimal System, books filed under the 720s cover this subject, including buildings & public structures |
architecture
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Michgan & Ohio share this Great Lake |
Lake Erie
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It's a conversation between 2 people, or the talky part of movies |
dialogue
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6'4'' from the University of Maine, this "Dead Zone" author |
Stephen King
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Shock G of Digital Underground said, "Of all the roadies we ever had", this rapper killed in Vegas in '96 "was the best" |
Tupac (Shakur)
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This branch of physics deals with the structure & nature of cosmic bodies |
(Alex: Yes, with less than a minute to go.)
cosmology (or astrophysics)
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Take a Big Gulp before telling us that DCCXI is this year in Roman numerals |
711
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Like the bigger Lake Titicaca, Lake Suches is on the border of Peru & this southern neighbor |
(Christian: What is Chile?)
Bolivia
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To give a person official power to do something |
to authorize
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6'9'' from Harvard, this man who wrote thrillers under the name John Lange (Lange is "tall" in German) |
(Heather: [sighs] Sorry.) (Alex: Ooh, drawing a blank. That'll cost you.)
Michael Crichton
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Condensed-matter physics deals with superfluidity, in which certain liquids flow without this |
friction
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Hank Aaron ended his career with this record number of regular-season home runs |
(Catherine: What is 746?)
755
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Manitoba shares Reindeer Lake with this neighbor to the west |
(Catherine: What is Alberta?)
Saskatchewan
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You'd do well to learn about this Cabinet department |
Education
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6'6'' from the Repton School in Derbyshire, this children's author seen with wife Patricia Neal |
Roald Dahl
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The smallest discrete amount of radiant energy is called this, also a name for a branch of physics |
(Christian: What is a particle?)
quantum physics
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Its cube root is 9 |
(Alex: 9 times 9 is 81, 81 times 9 is [*].)
729
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Germany, Switzerland & this neighbor share the Bodensee, aka Lake Constance |
Austria
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This veggie describes an ear deformed by repeated injury |
a cauliflower
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6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential" |
(Christian: Who is John Grisham?) (Heather: Who is Elmore Leonard?) (Catherine: Who is Janst? Jantsen?)
James Ellroy
Heather | Catherine | Christian |
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in the lab.) You can see the arrows are pointing in the same way, right? Well, watch what happens when water is added, & this direction-changing physics property takes place |
(Catherine: What is reflection?) (Alex: No, you were close. What is [*]?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
refraction
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702 & 775 are area codes in this state |
(Alex: California's neighbor, [*]. Catherine, let's go somewhere else.)
Nevada
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Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia & Tanzania have this long lake in common |
Lake Tanganyika
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You qualify as this if your bank balance has a 2 followed by 6 zeroes |
(Catherine: What is a double millionaire?)
a multi-millionaire
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6'8'' from Ontario Agricultural College, this economist who wrote "The New Industrial State" |
John Kenneth Galbraith
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