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AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. |
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You'll find the Isle of Skye in the Inner these |
the Hebrides
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Twist & counterbore are types of these spinny, pointy drill parts that make the holes |
bits
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"The Boss", & before that, "the Doctor" |
Springsteen
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At Washington National Cathedral: this president & his wife Edith |
Wilson
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This "super" stellar phenomenon--a big bang, so to speak--comes in 2 main types: thermonuclear & core-collapse |
a supernova
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The Sami of northern Scandinavia have trained these animals to pull sleighs, just in time for Christmas |
reindeer
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Foulness Island off the Essex coast was almost completely flooded by a giant 1953 storm surge in this sea |
the North Sea
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Archaeologists in Pakistan found neolithic bodies showing that drills were used to fix these more than 7,000 years ago |
teeth
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At St. Paul's Rock Creek Cemetery, writer Gore Vidal and this longtime host of "Meet the Press" |
(Alex: Very popular guy, [*].)
Tim Russert
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This "super" phenomenon, a lack of electrical resistance, occurs in certain materials below about -425 degrees F. |
superconductivity
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Do this to "yourself" & you make up for a bad performance; do it to Grandma's ring & you get it back from a pawnshop |
redeem
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The island of Anglesey, AKA Ynys Mon, is the largest that's part of this U.K. country |
Wales
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This word follows "drill" in the name of the workshop device seen here |
a press
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At the Glenwood Cemetery: Emanuel Leutze, who famously painted "(George) Washington" doing this |
crossing the Delaware
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In 1816 one of these natural phenomena in Asia affected the weather & made it the "year without a summer" globally |
a volcanic eruption
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Ah, my little black-capped one of these is the state bird of Massachusetts |
chickadee
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The Scottish isle of Bute lies in the inlet called this "of Clyde" |
the Firth
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Use a hammer drill to cut through this hard building material named for the bricklayer or stoneworker who constructed it |
masonry
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"The Prince of Darkness" |
Ozzy Osbourne
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At Oak Hill Cemetery: journalist & Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee & this woman who owned the Post |
(Katharine) Graham
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Sure the northern lights are awesome, but check out the southern lights, also known as the Aurora this, seen over places like Tasmania |
australis
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This type of singer regales us with simple folk or story songs |
balladeer
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The monastery on Holy Island produced the illuminated biblical manuscript called the Lindisfarne these |
Gospels
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This word for a type of simple hand drill is a homonym of a word meaning to foretell |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go now, Gary.)
auger
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"The Prime Minister of Funk" or "Doctor Funkenstein" |
George Clinton
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At Prospect Hill Cemetery: William with this last name who owned the house where Abraham Lincoln died |
Petersen
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These creatures started mysteriously falling from the sky in Dubuque, Iowa on June 16, 1882 |
(Gary: What are bats?) ... (Alex: Where did they come from?)
frogs
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A 2011 measurement says this part of the Pacific Ocean reaches 36,070 feet down |
(Sharon: What is the deepest part?) (Alex: Nope. [Alex & audience laugh] Interesting, though.) ... (Alex: It's the deepest part.) (Sharon: I'm sorta right.) (Alex: Sorta don't count.) [Laughter]
the Challenger Deep
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