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    a product
 
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    | In 8-ball the balls are racked in this shape, with the 8 ball in the center | 
    a triangle
 
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    | Joan of Arc became the maid of this city when she led French troops to victory there in May 1429 | 
    Orleans
 
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    | Seen here are 1960s designs by engineer James Drake, who made use of RAND's Santa Monica location to become the father of this sport | 
    windsurfing
 
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    | When he wasn't busy rubaiyating, this 11th century renaissance man wrote a pioneering work on algebra | 
    Omar Khayyam
 
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    | Carolla, Ant & Sandler | 
    Adams
 
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    | The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds | 
    slate
 
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    | On May 10, 1981 France elected as president this socialist who then nationalized most of the private banks | 
    Francois Mitterrand
 
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    a coaster
 
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    | RAND research culminated in a 1987 treaty on these 3-element compounds that break down the ozone layer | 
    CFCs
 
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    | The prefix "mega" denotes 10 to the 6th power; "giga", 10 to this power | 
    the ninth
 
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    | Shallow, crossable part of a river | 
    (Chuck: [*].  What is [*]?) (Alex: [Overlapping] Nope.  Nope.  Okay.  You got it in before the time expired.  Good.)
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    | This white object gave its name to a bald "Dick Tracy" villain | 
    cue ball
 
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    | In a July 6, 2003 referendum, this Mediterranean island narrowly defeated a plan for limited autonomy | 
    Corsica
 
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    | It's a 2-wheeled wagon used to carry artillery ammunition; in song, they "go rolling along" | 
    caissons
 
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    | In the first book on this, computers doing tasks associated with human intellect, 6 chapters had been RAND reports | 
    Artificial Intelligence
 
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    | Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the "projective" form of this branch of mathematics | 
    geometry
 
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    | Snooker is played with 15 balls of this color & 6 balls of other colors | 
    red
 
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    | A color & a woman's name combine in this term for a police wagon | 
    a Black Maria
 
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    | Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event | 
    nuclear war
 
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    | Mathematicians disagree as to whether zero belongs in this set of numbers denoted N | 
    the natural numbers
 
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    | In 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a Cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then | 
    (Alex: You might think of them more with regard to bowling.)
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    | The October 1415 battle of this fortress, lost to the English, actually took place in a nearby muddy field | 
    (Ellen: What is Mont-Saint-Michel?)
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    | This Olympic sport gets its name from the metal sled introduced in the 1890s & what some people thought it resembled | 
    a skeleton
 
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    | The field called this "theory", which has influenced economics & other disciplines, was expanded at RAND in the '40s | 
    (Drew: What is string theory?)
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