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    Ophelia
 
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    Mr. Peanut
 
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    | The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 3,000 miles away; that's like hearing something in L.A. when you're in this Rhode Island capital | 
    (Ken: You just ran that category.) [Applause]
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    catnip
 
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    my kingdom for a horse
 
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    a gnome
 
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    comforter
 
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    the catalog
 
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    | This knight's first line in "Henry IV, Part 1" is asking what time it is, which leads to 100 lines of banter & trash talk | 
    Falstaff
 
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    Gilbert Gottfried
 
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    (Stephen: Is that [*]? [*]?)
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    | This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up | 
    (Karen: What's "Cat's Cradle"?) (Ken: No.) (Karen: [*]?) ... (Ken: I'm sorry, Karen, I'd already ruled against you by the time you corrected your response.)
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    (Ken: [*] from Progressive, right.)
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    | Code-named Castle Bravo, the largest U.S. nuclear bomb test ever was conducted in 1954 on this atoll in the Marshall Islands | 
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    Friar Lawrence
 
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    a polar bear
 
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    | Hawaii's state flower, the yellow this has bell-shaped blossoms & is endangered | 
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    | In 1669 this Sicilian volcano spit out nearly a billion cubic yards of lava, the flow of which took out a dozen villages | 
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