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category | Answer | Question | Air Date |
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| 13151 | 2 | 600 | 0 | WORD ORIGINS |
Our word for this blubbery mammal, is from the Danish, who thought it looked like a "whale horse\"
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1985-02-26 |
| 13152 | 2 | 800 | 0 | WORD ORIGINS |
From Old Spanish for "one who shares a room", which many of these do in the Soviet Union
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1985-02-26 |
| 13153 | 2 | 1000 | 0 | WORD ORIGINS |
Latin for "to heap up", it's what you do when you "really pile it on\"
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1985-02-26 |
| 13154 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20th CENTURY |
In 1927, he was named "Time" magazine's first "Man of the Year\"
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1985-02-26 |
| 13155 | 1 | 100 | 0 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
Headquarters of Boise Cascade Corporation is in this state
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1985-02-27 |
| 13156 | 1 | 200 | 0 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
Hoffman-La Roche makes this tranquilizer the biggest selling prescription drug in U.S. for 5 years
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1985-02-27 |
| 13157 | 1 | 300 | 0 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
Number 1 maker of pinball & slot machines, they operate their own Atlantic City casino
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1985-02-27 |
| 13158 | 1 | 400 | 0 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
Company that's been sponsoring Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for some 40 years
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1985-02-27 |
| 13159 | 1 | 100 | 0 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY |
Baltimore, MD & Norfolk, VA, are the 2 largest ports on this bay
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1985-02-27 |
| 13160 | 1 | 200 | 0 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY |
This real Georgia-Florida swamp is home to the comics' Pogo
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1985-02-27 |
| 13161 | 1 | 300 | 0 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY |
Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years in these southern N.Y. state mountains
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1985-02-27 |
| 13162 | 1 | 400 | 0 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY |
Martinsburg & Wheeling are in this state's 2 panhandles
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1985-02-27 |
| 13163 | 1 | 500 | 0 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY |
Mammoth Cave, world's longest known cave system, is in this state
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1985-02-27 |
| 13164 | 1 | 100 | 0 | SPORTS |
Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan bought this baseball team in '83 for $53 million
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1985-02-27 |
| 13165 | 1 | 200 | 0 | SPORTS |
The winner in this sport is the last car on the field still able to move
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1985-02-27 |
| 13166 | 1 | 300 | 0 | SPORTS |
Of a football, a basketball & a soccer ball, the heaviest
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1985-02-27 |
| 13167 | 1 | 400 | 0 | SPORTS |
Value of a field goal made from over 23' away from the basket in the NBA
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1985-02-27 |
| 13168 | 1 | 500 | 0 | SPORTS |
Mark you get in bowling after a successful conversion
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1985-02-27 |
| 13169 | 1 | 100 | 0 | SMOKING |
His duck smoked cigars, too
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1985-02-27 |
| 13170 | 1 | 200 | 0 | SMOKING |
In the '60s, some students got high by smoking these fruit peelings
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1985-02-27 |
| 13171 | 1 | 300 | 0 | SMOKING |
\"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar" is this
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1985-02-27 |
| 13172 | 1 | 400 | 1000 | SMOKING |
Tex Williams satirized smoking in this song: "I'm a fellow with heart of gold / With the ways of a gentleman I've been told / A kind of a guy that would never harm a flea / But if me and a certain character met / That guy that invented the cigarette...\"
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1985-02-27 |
| 13173 | 1 | 100 | 0 | PLANTS |
A dried plum, or to cut back plant parts
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1985-02-27 |
| 13174 | 1 | 200 | 0 | PLANTS |
The flat, red parts of a poinsettia are these, not petals
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1985-02-27 |
| 13175 | 1 | 300 | 0 | PLANTS |
Term for respiration process occurring in most animals but no plants
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1985-02-27 |