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    | In a book by this man, the hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo | Tolkien 
 
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    | A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives! OK, until the girl kills it using stones
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    | Charles Richter developed the first widely used earthquake scale at this Pasadena school of science & engineering | Caltech 
 
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    | Prancer & Cupid were famous ones | reindeer 
 
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    | The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these | [Applause for Andy's run of the category] 
 cowboy
 
 
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    | Talent runs in the family; here's Dionne with this 1st cousin whom Dionne said had "a voice like none other" | (Andy: Let's start with DIONNE WARWICK for $100.) (Ego: Trying to be nice to me.)
 (Andy: No, I'm not.)
 (Ego: Better get this right.)
 (Andy: You'll see!)
 
 Whitney Houston
 
 
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    | "Five golden rings" is a line from this holiday song | "The Twelve Days of Christmas" 
 
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    | Let's thumb through this tale... Title girl swims well, gets human legs... Wait, she kinda dies at the end?! | "The Little Mermaid" 
 
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    | The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country's Shaanxi province in 1556 | (Simu: Damn it!) (Ego: I know, dunnit feel bad when you don't get one everyone thinks you're gonna get?  It feels real bad. ...Real bad.)
 
 China
 
 
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    | In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters | (Mayim: Yes, very important for our industry.) (Simu: Yep.)
 
 a tweet
 
 
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    | The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West | trails 
 
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    | In 1982 Dionne joined forces with Barry Gibb of this trio who produced her "Heartbreaker" album & backed her on the title track | the Bee Gees 
 
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    | In the late 1990s Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles | Jupiter 
 
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    | A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish!  Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo! | (Simu: Uh... what is--what is Horton?) 
 the Cat in the Hat
 
 
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    | A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves on this big river run backwards | the Mississippi 
 
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    | A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book | a blurb 
 
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    | Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie | a stagecoach 
 
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    | In 1985 "That's What Friends Are For", recorded by Dionne & friends, raised money for amfAR, for research to battle this disease | AIDS 
 
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    | As Ernestine the telephone operator on "Laugh-In", she would say, "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies" | Lily Tomlin 
 
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    | ...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm!  G'night! | Hansel & Gretel 
 
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    | A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints' Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone | Lisbon 
 
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    | Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum | a Celtic 
 
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    | Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona | Tombstone 
 
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    | Dionne had a hit with this classic song that begins, "The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup" | (Andy: What is [*] for you?) [Accepted without comment]
 
 "I Say A Little Prayer"
 
 
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    | When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world's foremost" magazine about this sport | boxing 
 
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    | Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King | (Andy: Who is the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe?) (Mayim: No.)
 (Andy: Ohh!)
 (Simu: He got one wrong!)
 (Ego: Whaaa?)
 (Simu: Inconceivable!)
 (Andy: Oh.  I know it now.)
 (Mayim: You don't get another chance!)
 (Andy: I know.)
 
 Old Mother Hubbard
 
 
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    | In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities | the San Andreas 
 
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    | A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing | (Mayim: Andy spent years as Conan O'Brien's No. 2, but so far tonight, he's No. 1!) 
 a monogram
 
 
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    | Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannery must have brought trouble along with her | Calamity Jane 
 
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    | Dionne had a longtime working relationship with this composer who co-wrote many of her hits with Hal David | Burt Bacharach 
 
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