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Judge John Sirica's most famous case |
the Watergate case
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Named for its yelping & barking, this ground squirrel lives in burrows in the West |
a prairie dog
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Number of times John Glenn orbited the Earth |
three
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The country that makes the difference between Great Britain & the United Kingdom |
Northern Ireland
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He based Robinson Crusoe on real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk |
(Pam: Who is... oh gosh, I'm going blank. Sorry.)
(Daniel) Defoe
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Making an electrical connection, or stay-home punishment for teenagers |
(Rick: What is a switch?)
grounding
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Author of "Up From Slavery" & founder of Tuskegee Institute |
Booker T. Washington
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Slow-moving animal of the seven deadly sins |
sloth
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Number & color of horses she'll be driving while "comin' round the mountain" |
six white
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Its name to the natives is "Cymru" |
Wales
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He refused the 1940 Pulitzer for his play, "The Time of Your Life" |
William Saroyan
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Most schools have drawn "the bottom line" against this form of corporal punishment |
spanking
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Our first Secretary of the Treasury |
(Pam: Who is Aaron Burr?)
Alexander Hamilton
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Apes of Java, or a late Grape Nuts huckster |
a gibbon
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Numeric system using only 1 & 0 |
binary
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Capital city on the Firth of Forth |
(Rick: What is Glasgow?) ... (Alex: Rick had the right instincts. He was in the right country. We want [*]. [*]'s the capital.)
Edinburgh
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Nathaniel West went west to write this tale of Hollywood |
[ERRATUM: The author's name is spelled Nathanael West.]
The Day Of The Locust
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Emotional & mental reconditioning, such as used in "1984" |
brainwashing
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Secretary of State for 8 yrs. under Kennedy & Johnson |
Dean Rusk
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Due to their diet, moles & hedgehogs are in this class, Latin for "bug eaters" |
(Alex: Bill, do you want to give me a question, or--) (Bill: I sure do. Um, dirty animals.) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Insectivora
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Number of points on a backgammon board |
(Bill: What are 64?)
24
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Device for compressing the most preaxial digit of the human hand |
a thumbscrew
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"Holiday" FDR declared, March 6, 1933 |
the bank holiday
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Despite Polk's campaign slogan, we neither reached this line nor fought |
(Pam: What is 54? What is [*] or fight?)
54-40
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Greek god whose body was bound to a rock while an eagle made pate out of his liver |
(Alex: You talk about punishment. I mean, it's one thing to be sent to bed without eating or without watching the late-night TV, but to have this bird nibble on your liver, [*] was not happy about that. We have a minute left in the round.)
Prometheus
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