PODCASTS
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This "Science Guy" "Is on a Mission to Change the World" & takes your questions on "Science Rules!"
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Bill Nye
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"Fiasco" examined the issues that played out during the election in 2000 between these 2 politicians
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Bush & Gore
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"WeCrashed" looks at this office-sharing company that had a rough month in 2019 when it lost $37 billion in valuation
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WeWork
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Start counting Scovilles as the podcast about this food heats up on "It Burns"
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(chili) peppers
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Turns out this TBS late night show host "Needs a Friend"; Malcolm Gladwell & Tina Fey were happy to oblige
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Conan O\'Brien
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THE BOOK CASE
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In "Tropic of Fear" Nancy Drew met up with these brothers for a Hawaiian-themed mystery
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the Hardy Boys
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This lady who lived in the British village of St. Mary Mead solved "The Murder at the Vicarage"
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(Jane) Marple
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"The Interpretation of Murder" finds this Austrian & Carl Jung caught up in a Manhattan murder mystery
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Freud
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This "colorful" boy detective solved many crimes, like "The Case of the Stolen Diamonds"
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Encyclopedia Brown
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This, Mary Shelley's middle name, is the name of a detective agency in which a young Mary solves cases
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Wollstonecraft
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WHAT THE BLANK?
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Literally, it's a bank draft that is signed but with the amount left empty
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a blank check
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Standard versions of this board game have 2 blank tiles that can be any letter but are worth zero points
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Scrabble
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This phrase meaning to be failed by your memory probably comes from a lottery where losing tickets had nothing written on them
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draw a blank
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A documentary about this game show hosted by Gene Rayburn & later Alec Baldwin is subtitled "Behind the Blank"
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Match Game
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John Milton used this unrhymed pentameter in "Paradise Lost"
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blank verse
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M-N-Ms
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It's a period of 1,000 years
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a millennium
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I'm fond of the one seen here; it was made for me
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a monogram
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Used in photography, it has atomic number 12
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magnesium
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Jesse Ventura said, "WikiLeaks exists because" this media "haven't done their job"
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mainstream
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As opposed to albinism, this hereditary condition allows for darker pigmentation
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melanism
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A DAY AT THE RACES
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On May 3, 2008 this Jamaican ran a 100 meters in 9.76; a few weeks later, he shaved .04 to set the world record
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(Usain) Bolt
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It took 3 days of looking at news pics, but Lee Petty was finally named the winner of the 1st 500 at this Fla. speedway in 1959
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Daytona
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In 2012 the Maryland Racing Commission shaved 1 2/5 seconds off Secretariat's 1973 win, setting a new record for this Triple Crown race
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the Preakness
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The tradition of the yellow jersey being awarded during this race began in 1919; yellow was the color of the newspaper that sponsored it
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the Tour de France
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As a rookie in 2007, Lewis Hamilton finished only one point behind. season champ Kimi Räikkönen in this alphanumeric auto racing class
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F1
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A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
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After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment"
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Pavarotti
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Opera hits a real low note (a "D") in an aria by Osmin, a role for this vocal range in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio"
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bass
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The name of this famed opera house in Milan built by Maria Theresa in the 1770s translates to "the staircase"
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La Scala
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In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs
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Cleopatra
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The king's aria to a tree is a highlight of Handel's "Serse", about the Persian king better known as this
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Xerxes
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HISTORIC NAMES
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She united Castile with Aragon when she married Ferdinand V in 1469
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Isabella
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During an historic visit to China in 1972, President Nixon met with this Communist Party leader
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Mao
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Leading the Spartan forces, Lysander defeated the Athenian navy, ending this war in 405 B.C.
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the Peloponnesian
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In 1781 this German philosopher published his "Critique of Pure Reason", because he could
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Kant
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Prior to David Cameron, the last British PM named David was this man who led his country during WWI
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David Lloyd George
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ACRONYMS
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The creator of this type of animated online file intended it to sound like the peanut butter brand
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a GIF
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Adman Arthur Meyerhoff got his initials in the name of this cooking spray
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PAM
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You might want to wear a wetsuit if you do this type of underwater diving
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SCUBA
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Drake's song "The Motto" helped popularize this acronym telling us to go for what we want
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YOLO (you only live once)
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This acronymic period takes up about 25% of our sleep time & is when we have our most vivid dreams
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REM
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AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS
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With an area of about 840,000 square miles, it's the world's largest island
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Greenland
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It's the only one of the 10 that's part of Africa
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Madagascar
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A silhouette of this second-largest island kind of looks like a bird in flight
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New Guinea
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At No. 10, Ellesmere Island covers about 75,000 square miles in this ocean
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the Arctic
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Brunei is located on its northern coast
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Borneo
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MOVIE BIOS
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2005: Joaquin Phoenix as this country music sensation
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(Johnny) Cash
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2000: Ed Harris as this drip painter
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Jackson Pollock
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In "The Motorcycle Diaries": Gael Garcia Bernal as this revolutionary
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Che Guevara
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1993: Liam Neeson as this German industrialist who saved Jews during World War II
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(Oskar) Schindler
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In "12 Years a Slave": Chiwetel Ejiofor as this free Black man sold into slavery
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Solomon Northup
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SYMBOLS
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The glyph that symbolizes this sign of the zodiac represents ripples of water
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Aquarius
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The diminutive of star gives this keyboard symbol its name
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an asterisk
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This baby animal represents Jesus, the sacrifice offered for man's sins
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lamb (the Lamb of God)
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An ancient symbol, the ouroboros is this animal with its tail in its mouth; it is continually devouring itself & reborn from itself
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a snake
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The first 3 letters of this eastern symbol are represented by the tiger; the last 4, by the dragon
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yin-yang
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KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST
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(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The giant larvacean which looks like a tadpole surrounded by a balloon of mucus helps battle climate change; disproportionate to its small size, the gelatinous animals, with their protein and cellulose snot palaces, have helped the ocean remove this planet-warming gas from the atmosphere
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carbon dioxide
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(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though its name is a byword for "crowding", this fish is vulnerable to steep reductions in numbers; overfishing closed the famed Cannery Row, and in 2014, its Pacific grounds were closed after its populations reduced by about 90%
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the sardine
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(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This cartilaginous fish with a barbed tail and its mouth on its underside lives on the ocean bottom; its relative, the manta ray, was found in open waters, so I wonder how the classic marine biology text, "Rock, Lobster" by the B-52s, can possibly have them swimming together
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a stingray
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(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Some species of shrimp dig burrows that provide shelter for goby fish which, in turn, act as lookout for the nearly blind shrimp; it's an example of mutualism, which of the main types of this relationship is the one where both parties benefit
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symbiosis
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(Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Marine biology with a touch of militarism. During World War II, Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists identified a crustacean whose noises were interfering with the detection of these enemy vessels
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submarines
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WORD ORIGINS
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N/A
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This word for a type of building or institution comes from Greek for a place sacred to a mythical group of 9
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museum
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