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List of candidates for an office or a handheld blackboard |
a slate
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Number of figures in Da Vinci's "Last Supper" |
13
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He actually never slept in the famous White House bedroom named for him |
(Alex: It was his Cabinet room.)
Abraham Lincoln
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Their last film & album was "Let It Be" |
the Beatles
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Sodom's twin city in infamy |
Gomorrah
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Frederick Law Olmsted was 1st to call himself a landscape architect when he designed this NYC park |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Central Park
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Founded in 1920 as outgrowth of the suffrage movement, it now sponsors political debates |
the League of Women Voters
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Though he preferred doing landscapes, Gainsborough is best known for this type of painting |
a portrait
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In 1909, his door bed company was 1st in U.S. to manufacture the concealed bed |
Murphy
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1966 Lemmon & Matthau film, or a Chinese dessert |
The Fortune Cookie
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From Greek meaning "beginning", it's the 1st book of the Bible |
Genesis
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The system of filling jobs with party members, or what goes to the victor |
(David: What is patronage?)
the spoils system
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From Italian for "pity", it's a painting or statue of Mary mourning over the body of Jesus |
a pieta
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The vibration of the uvula & the soft palate during sleep |
(Dan: What is, uh, [*]?) (Alex: I'm sorry, I'll have to disqualify it because I heard it come out of the audience. Uh, a kindly lady up there said it. We just heard it there coming out of the audience.)
snoring
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In "Hellfighters" John Wayne fought this kind of fire |
(David: What is wildfire?) (Dan: What is a forest fire?)
oil well fires
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Evil queen of Israel, or any wicked woman, like Bette Davis in '38 film |
(David: Who is Bathsheba?)
Jezebel
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In his best-seller, he confessed how "blind ambition" led him into the Watergate scandal |
John Dean
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His group portrait of "Syndics of the Cloth Guild" has been reproduced on thousands of cigar boxes |
Rembrandt
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This "grave" movie was Alfred Hitchcock's last |
Family Plot
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What the apostles' epistles were |
the letters
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The 2 Alfreds who have been major party presidential candidates in the 20th century |
(Alex: [Before David's wager] We've got about a minute to go in the game.)
Smith & Landon
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Prolonged use of sleeping pills can disturb slumber by reducing this, called "dreaming sleep" |
REM sleep
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1980's "Willy & Phil" was an updated American version of this '62 Truffaut film |
Jules and Jim
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Land to which the Lord sent Cain after he killed his brother |
(Alex: East of Eden, yes.)
the Land of Nod
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