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His name is synonomous with thesaurus |
[ERRATUM: The word "synonymous" was misspelled in the clue as shown.]
Roget
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A judge's writ allowing police to make an arrest, search or seizure |
warrant
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All the words you know |
your vocabulary
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19th c. Tammany boss & head of corrupt New York political "ring" |
Boss Tweed
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A cardiologist specializes in diseases of this |
the heart
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The world's longest mountain range, the Dolphin Rise, is found under this ocean |
(Bruce: What is the Pacific Ocean?) (Harvey: What is the Indian Ocean?) ... (Alex: No, less than a minute to go...) ... (Alex: The highest points, by the way, are the Azores and the Canary Islands.)
the Atlantic Ocean
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Greek hero after whom James Joyce named his most famous work |
(Alex: That's the Roman version of [**].)
Ulysses (Odysseus)
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According to Roman law, rape & treason but not this, were punishable by death |
murder
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Annual practice begun in 1913 following passage of 16th Amendment |
income tax
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Teenagers usually need to get "braced" when they go to this kind of dentist |
an orthodontist
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Elvis Presley's middle name |
Aaron
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Though the United States doesn't have this literary post, about half the states do |
a poet laureate
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Smallest of the camel family, the Incas protected them |
(Debbie: [No response])
vicuna
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This battle mistakenly fought after the War of 1812 was over made Andrew Jackson a hero:
"Yeah, they ran through the briars / And they ran through the brambles / And they ran through the bushes / Where the rabbit couldn't go / They ran so fast / That the hounds couldn't catch 'em / On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico" |
the Battle of New Orleans
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A scurvy wretch would be suffering from this deficiency |
Vitamin C deficiency
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It's been calculated that in the last 3,500 yrs., there's only been 230 yrs. of this worldwide |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
peace
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Chico Marx's reply to this was "Vy not a chicken?" |
(Bruce: "Why a duck?") [Alex hesitates.] (Bruce: What is "Why a duck?") (Alex: Right. "Vy a duck?" You got it.)
"Viaduct?"
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Ex-President who, as 3rd party candidate, outpolled Pres. Taft in 1912 |
Theodore Roosevelt
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From Greek "to know before", a doctor's prediction as to the outcome of a disease or injury |
a prognosis
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A short subtitle, literary description or story |
a vignette
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It took the compromise of 1850 to bring it into the Union as a free state |
(Bruce: What is Missouri?)
California
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For those in show biz, "T & A" means one thing, but to a surgeon, it means this |
(Debbie: I'm also a nursing student.) (Alex: Oh, I wondered why you were sailing through the medicine category.)
tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy
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