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  | WINNING CLAMS AT THE CASINO |  |
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    | Christina Aguilera talks about tackling this very difficult song | "The Star-Spangled Banner" 
 
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    | From the Spanish for "stray animal", it's a wild horse, or a sports car | a mustang 
 
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    | The 8th: This alloy, so maybe use one of your old Olympic medals
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    | Reddening of the face in the presence of someone you're crazy about | a crush blush 
 
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    | Wheel! Of! Mis-fortune! PBS noted if you bet $100 an hour on this game, you'd lose an average of $5.26 an hour over time | roulette 
 
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    | Shonda Rhimes discusses the importance of doing research, as she did when creating & writing this show | Grey's Anatomy 
 
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    | The roar of this type of monkey can be heard 2 miles away, & also right here | a howler monkey 
 
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    | The 35th: This marine organism, so be creative & take a trip to the Great Barrier Reef
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 coral
 
 
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    | An oxford that's a piece of evidence at a crime scene | a clue shoe 
 
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    | Many prefer the safety of the Panama Canal to dealing with this S. American cape rounded by a Dutch navigator in 1616 | Cape Horn 
 
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    | Life was a bowl of cherries when a  Vegas man won $4.6 million & years later, $21.1 million on a Megabucks one of these | (Mary: What's a lottery?) 
 a slot machine
 
 
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    | Here's this celebrity chef teaching about knife skills | Gordon Ramsay 
 
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    | The Chinese call this native animal da xiong mao, meaning "great bear cat" | a panda 
 
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    | The 11th: This metal, so anything Superman-related
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 (Alex: Yes, the Man of [*].)
 
 steel
 
 
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    | A sense of excitement in Sao Paulo | a Brazil thrill 
 
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    | First sighted in 1488, this dangerous South African cape will never quite be rounded by the Flying Dutchman | the Cape of Good Hope 
 
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    | Somehow this game even makes the concept of insurance exciting; splitting may also play a key role | blackjack 
 
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    | Serena Williams talks about how to master the fundamentals of these, forehands &  backhands from the baseline | (Kate: What is a swing?) 
 ground strokes
 
 
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    | Descriptive moniker for this South Asian export | (Mary: What's a wild boar?) 
 a pot-belly pig
 
 
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    | The 2nd: This fiber, so how about a set of sheets with a high thread count
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    | An irritating inconvenience at Balmoral | (Kate: What is a Scottish itch?) 
 a castle hassle
 
 
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    | Swift water rescue teams frequently visit the Great Falls area of this river between Reston & Bethesda | the Potomac 
 
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    | The race & sports book has special cards to let you do this to your winnings, plow them right into the next wager | (Alan: What is let it ride?) [Originally ruled incorrect; ruled correct during the contestant interviews.]
 
 parlay (or let it ride)
 
 
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    | Steve Martin explains how he found the voice of Ruprecht in this film with Michael Caine | (Alex: And for those of you who are watching, ladies and gentlemen, and were wondering why we credited Alan with a correct response a little while ago, it had to do with the WINNING CLAMS AT THE CASINO, when he came up with "Let it ride".) 
 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
 
 
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    | A porpoise with a purpose would know that along with whale & dolphins, they make up this mammalian order | cetaceans 
 
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    | The 30th: These gems, perhaps a string of the seed type
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    | The most essential chorus | the main refrain 
 
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    | In 2016 the waves at Mavericks in this "lunar" California bay were gnarly, dude, like totally hitting 50 feet | Half Moon Bay 
 
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    | One joker is added to a 52-card deck & may be used to complete any flush or a straight in this Asian type of poker | pai gow 
 
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