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    | A measure of distance, not brightness, one is equal to about 6 trillion miles | 
    a light year
 
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    | Quite the voice before judging "The Voice", he had a No. 1 country hit in 2001 with "Austin" | 
    Blake Shelton
 
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    | It precedes -packed, pump & cleaner | 
    vacuum
 
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    | In 2015 this line of lingerie held its 20th annual fashion show, televised from New York City | 
    Victoria's Secret
 
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    | This language is the second most-spoken in the U.S. with about 35 million speakers | 
    Spanish
 
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    A great playwright, but:  I AM A WEAKISH SPELLER | 
    William Shakespeare
 
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    | A long pole helps a tightrope walker by increasing this tendency of a body to stay at rest | 
    (Ellen: What is balance?)
  inertia
 
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    | Quite the voice before judging "The Voice", she had a No. 1 pop hit in 2000 with "What A Girl Wants" | 
    Christina Aguilera
 
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    | This wingless larva of a European beetle emits a sustained greenish light; shine, little this!  Glimmer, glimmer | 
    glowworm
 
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    | Known for her wedding gowns, this former figure skater has clothed such celebs as Chelsea Clinton & Mariah Carey | 
    Vera Wang
 
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    | The region of Flanders is known as Vlaanderen in Flemish, which is a form of this language | 
    Dutch
 
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    A physicist:  ELITE BRAIN NEST | 
    Albert Einstein
 
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    | Humans have 2 of these long bones, the longest in the body | 
    a femur
 
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    | Providing both hip & hop in 2005, this group that included Fergie had a request--"Don't Lie" | 
    The Black Eyed Peas
 
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    | Strip down to your this, underwear consisting of a cotton T-shirt & shorts...  Stop!  No!  We were kidding! | 
    skivvies
 
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    | This 1980s TV cop show started a men's fashion trend for pastel colors & suit jackets over T-shirts | 
    Miami Vice
 
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    | On the dance floor I'm a klutz, from a word meaning "wooden block" in this Germanic language | 
    Yiddish
 
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    A Hungarian composer:  SNAZZ FLIRT | 
    (Emily: Who is Liszt? Hans Liszt?)
  Franz Liszt
 
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    | Kids on a seesaw instinctively calculate this, the tendency of a force to produce rotation around an axis | 
    (Emily: What is centrifugal force?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute now.)
  torque
 
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    | "Wake Me Up When September Ends", requested this "colorful" trio in 2005 | 
    Green Day
 
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    | In September 2014 there was a United Tribes International one of these held in Bismarck, North Dakota | 
    a powwow
 
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    | From 1962 to 1971 Diana Vreeland was this magazine's influential editor-in-chief | 
    Vogue
 
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    | Dialects of English include this London one with distinctive rhyming slang | 
    Cockney
 
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    A 19th century president:  RUN VIBRANT AMEN | 
    (Hans: Who is... um, oh, William Van Buren?)
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    | Self-healing like the T-1000, the "terminator" type of this macromolecule compound was discovered in 2013 | 
    a polymer
 
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    | "Stand Up" in 2005 was the 4th No. 1 studio album in a row by the band named for this S. Afr.-born man; they're big live too | 
    (Alex: You are right, and you ran the category.  Well done, young lady.) [Applause] (Alex: Now, do you want to give Hans and Emily a chance with the remaining categories?)
  The Dave Matthews Band
 
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    | Often followed by "up", it means to distribute (especially among thieves) | 
    divvy
 
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    | A 1980s trend was the backpack-style handbag that this designer made in a type of nylon she called Pocone | 
    Prada
 
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    | The name of this language of the Philippines comes from words meaning "of the river" | 
    Tagalog
 
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    He was full of ego: FEUDING DRUMS | 
    Sigmund Freud
 
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