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No relation to the Lakers' center, she's the youngest ever to win a Supporting Actress Oscar |
Tatum O'Neal
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Most bar recipes for the stinger call for the white version of this potent potable, not the green |
(Ken: What is brandy?) (Sarah: What is vermouth?) (Kristine: What is midori?)
crème de menthe
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"SF Sorrow" by The Pretty Things was the first of these works; "Tommy" came soon after |
a rock opera
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This S.F. Giant, Barry Bonds' godfather, got his nickname from his unique greetings to fans |
"Say Hey" Willie Mays
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Shortly after the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega controlled the junta that ruled this country |
(Ken: I just got that Deer Hunter thing, let's do that.)
Panama
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From Old French, its [sic] what we call the person who runs the roulette table |
croupier
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Colorful actor seen here who won Best Supporting Actor in 1973 |
Joel Grey
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Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel |
Dune
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National Guard troops escorted black students to class in this southern state capital in August 1959 |
Little Rock
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After the death of his mother, this future poet was taken in by his godfather John Allan in 1811 |
(Edgar Allan) Poe
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The "Juntas Provinciales" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion |
(Alex: Deer Hunter.) (Ken: Yeah, Deer Hunter, that's funny.) (Alex: Well, that's the way the writers wrote it; they wanted it to be funny.)
Napoleon (Bonaparte)
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Campari & Pernod are good options for this pre-meal potent potable |
apéritif
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Of Jack Nicholson's 5 nominations in the 1970s, this was the only movie for which he won |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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The creature known as this "false" arachnid has venomous pincers & no tail |
a scorpion
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Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades |
the Dome of the Rock
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He was the royal godfather to the son of French playwright Moliere |
(Alex: Hey, guess what, I get to give a response.)
King Louis XIV
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This former priest was ousted in Feb. 2004, even after a U.S.-brokered deal in 1994 with the Haitian junta kept him in power |
Aristide
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For her portrayal of Greta Ohlsson in a 1974 mystery, this legendary actress scored her third Oscar |
(Ken: I'm gonna wager $10,000, Alex.) (Alex: What happened to the $3600 I am used to hearing?) (Ken: I really like the Oscars.) ... (Alex: Murder on the Orient Express was the film, and you're right.)
Ingrid Bergman
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The WNBA team belonging to this southern city is known as The Sting |
Charlotte
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Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater |
rock salt
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After a mock funeral for this counterculture icon, his goddaughter, Winona Ryder, moved in with him |
Timothy Leary
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After the junta released activist Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest, Japan restored aid to this country |
Burma (or Myanmar)
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A homophone for the French word for "wheel", you need a good one to make gumbo |
(Ken: What is roulade?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a roux
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This son of a famous French impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975 |
Jean Renoir
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This famous FBI sting derived its name from one its fictitious enterprises, Abdul Enterprises |
Abscam
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This peninsula in the borough of Queens is one of the principal resort areas for New Yorkers |
Rockaway Beach (or Peninsula)
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This British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize in 1950 was the godchild of John Stuart Mill |
Bertrand Russell
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In 1998 Nigerian-led forces captured Freetown, ousting the junta that controlled this African country |
Sierra Leone
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From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need |
triage
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