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An April 1985 attempt to make the regular kind of this soda taste more like the diet kind led to marketing disaster |
Coke
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On this sitcom Mac is a big fan of Chase Utley of the Phillies & wrote a special letter to him |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Balance of trade is calculated by subtracting the value of imports from the value of these |
exports
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Sing like an Alpine mountaineer (5) |
yodel
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Remove the epi- from the outermost layer of skin to get this middle layer |
the dermis
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A shorter stay due to "exemplary compliance with institutional disciplinary regulations" is AKA time off for this |
good behavior
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In April 1906 an earthquake hit this U.S. city followed by a massive fire & the loss of 3,000 lives |
San Francisco
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Amy Schumer & Gabriel Iglesias are alumni of this NBC competition show |
(Reid: What is America's Next Top Comic?)
Last Comic Standing
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Via cap & trade, international companies can sell unused pollution rights in the trade system named for this element |
carbon
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It can precede fever, jacket & pages (6) |
yellow
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When you inhale, this dome-shaped muscle contracts & moves downward, allowing your lungs to expand |
the diaphragm
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The "sighs" heard on the Bridge of Sighs came from prisoners sent from the doge's palace to this city's prisons |
Venice
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Major League Baseball's first of these postponed the opening of the 1972 season to April 15 |
a strike
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Comedy Central's show titled this guy "For You" had an episode about a viral scheme that involved a pig saving a baby goat |
Nathan
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In an effort to diversity its portfolio, Canada sold most of this, becoming the only G7 member with less than 100 tons |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go in the round.)
gold
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A fungus for fermentation & leavening (5) |
yeast
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The heart is divided into these 4 chambers abbreviated RA, LA, RV & LV |
right atrium, left atrium, right ventricle and left ventricle
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This term for a cut of meat from the leg of an animal is also something helpful in settling disputes with a bunkmate |
a shank
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In April 1513 Ponce de Leon landed in what he named Florida, searching for this legendary spring |
the Fountain of Youth
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After leaving his Comedy Central show in 2005, he made news by hosting "SNL" in 2016 |
Dave Chappelle
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Described as the "grandfather of the world's secret tax havens", this country is said to have $6.5 trillion in assets |
Switzerland
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School for future rabbis (7) |
yeshiva
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Helping you to get off your butt or to climb the stairs is this large muscle whose name means "largest butt" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the gluteus maximus
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Varner Prison in Arkansas has a section called this 8-letter portmanteau word implying the ultimate in security |
supermax
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On April 15, 1974, as everyone else paid taxes, this radical "Army", the S.L.A., was robbing a bank of $11,000 |
(Steven: What is the Symbonese Liberation Army?)
the Symbionese Liberation Army
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"Dis" Matt Groening show on Netflix deals with a princess named Bean & her elf & demon pals |
(Steven: What is Disenchanted?)
Disenchantment
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Sony & Toyota are 2 of the companies traded on this Japanese stock index |
the Nikkei
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Brute in "Gulliver's Travels" (5) |
a Yahoo
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This infamous prison complex was built in Iraq by a British company in the 1960s |
Abu Ghraib
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