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Legendary game show host memoir priceless memories but the actual retail prize is 24.99 in hardback
Bob barker
Sum of its parts
A Drink like McDonald’s shamrock a baby’s handheld toy and what you proverbially do with the punches
Shake rattle and roll
Familiar Sum of its parts
Ridgway
Rothko
Skywalker and Steinbeck
Matthew mark luke and john
Familiar Sum of its parts
Spartacus actor Douglas, pediatrician Benjamin and name following the real to mean the genuine article
Kirk
Spock
McCoy
Familiar Sum of its parts
Last name of Sherlock’s Holmes partner in solving crimes and a real spasmodic muscle pain in the neck
Watson and crick
Familiar Sum of its parts
A foam you work yourself into to wash dishes using water and do a task over and over
Lather rinse and repeat
In 95 the premier of British Colombia quit amid scandal over funds embezzled from
A charity version of this game O
Bingo
On May 29 04 archibald cox and Sam dash 2 key figures who probed this 70s affair both passed away
Watergate
1662 the school for wives was just one of the works of this comic playwright to scandalize French society
Mole E air
One lump or a lot more ? Also called the oil reserves scandal this 1920s imbroglio led to prison time for the secretary of the interior
Im browl e o
Teapot dome
Reagan dismissed this marine after his role in iran contra ; he was later convicted of obstructing Congress
Oliver north
Before Napoleon could cross the alps he had to bring his army through this other European mountain range
Pyrenees
Peer in knees
Came up through Iberia
This favorite song sung by bing crosby from
The film holiday in took the song Oscar in 42
White Christmas
86 film featured song take my breath away which took away the Oscar
Top
Gun
08 song winner from best picture winner has a title that means may victory be yours in Hindi
From Slumdog millionaire
Jai Ho
Named for Greek goddess of the rainbow this perennial can come in bearded varieties
Iris
Impotent for botwntists it can be an arrangement of dried plants for study or a building housing those plants
Herbarium
Her bare e um
Antagonist of Rocky and Bullwinkle :
BORIS
Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale are all characters in the cartoon show “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. Fearless Leader is the dictatorial ruler of Pottsylvania, and Boris and Natasha are two of his minions, two inept government agents.
43,560 square feet :
ACRE
At one time, an acre was defined as the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day. Then, an acre was more precisely defined as a strip of land “one furrow long” (i.e. one furlong) and one chain wide. The length of one furlong was equal to 10 chains, or 40 rods. An area of one furlong times 10 rods was one rood.
is a Cuban-American singer/songwriter, who was born in Havana and raised in Florida. Secada was hired as a background singer by Gloria Estefan in the late eighties, and soon after he started composing for her. It was Gloria Estefan who gave him his performing break, offering him solo spots on stage during her performances.
Song angel
Jon Secada
is a government agency with the mission of assisting small businesses. The SBA doesn’t give loans itself, but it does act as a guarantor under the right circumstances. The SBA was set up in 1953, and isn’t a favorite with fiscal conservatives.
The Small Business Administration (SBA)
Letters with a green check mark at the airport :
TSA PRE
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates its precheck program known as “TSA Pre✓” (or “TSA PreCheck”). Members of the program receive expedited screening at most airports. In order to become a member, a traveler must apply online, appear in person at a designated office for a background check and fingerprinting, and pay a fee for a 5-year membership.
In the “Star Trek” universe, this is a military service maintained by the United Federation of Planets. Famously, it is also tasked with deep-space exploration, “to boldly go where no man has gone before …”
Starfleet
” is a 2012 sci-fi novel by John Scalzi. It is a satire of the “Star Trek” franchise of TV series and movies, and indeed the audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton who portrayed Wesley Crusher on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.
Redshirts
The title is a reference to the red shirts worn by security officers and engineers on the original “Star Trek” TV show. Almost inevitably, anyone with a red shirt was doomed to die as part of an episode’s storyline.
White clam chowder
New England
Thicker
Milk or cream
1000 Roman numeral
M
Best selling album of 2015 and 16
25 Adele
3 days in 2015 to become no 1 best selling
Hit hello
Largest penguin species
Emperor
Of the 18
77 lbs 3.5 ft tall
Olympic sport evolved from a Russian military Ali manual called skis in that of war
Biathlon
Even though Norwegians dominate
First video game character at Macy’s thanksgiving day parade
93
Sonic the hedgehog
18 and 23 computer-animated spider man films that were very well received by audiences and critics alike. There is a third movie in the series planned for release in 2024:
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is a 2023 sequel to 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”. Both are computer-animated films that were very well received by audiences and critics alike. There is a third movie in the series planned for release in 2024: “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse”, as well as a “Spider-Woman” spinoff.
Eclectic online digest :
UTNE
The “Utne Reader” is known for aggregation and republishing of articles on politics, culture and the environment from other sources in the media. It was founded in 1984 by Eric Utne, with management taken over by Eric’s wife Nina Rothschild Utne in 1990.
Casper, for one :
FRIENDLY GHOST (giving “FR-OST”)
Casper the Friendly Ghost features in a whole series of cartoon shorts made by Famous Studios. Casper made the big time in 1995 when he appeared in his own “Casper” movie, alongside Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman and Eric Idle.
This is an area surrounding a place. The term “” ultimately comes from the Latin “” meaning “group of houses, village”
vicinity
vicus
puzzling contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life existing and the lack of any observable evidence for it. Given the vastness of the universe and the sheer number of stars and planets, it seems statistically likely that other intelligent civilizations should have arisen. Yet, we haven’t detected any signals, encountered any alien artifacts, or been visited by any extraterrestrial beings.
The Fermi paradox, named for physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights the puzzling contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life existing and the lack of any observable evidence for it.
Author bylines
The shows not over until the mockingjay sings
Suzanne Collins
This type of rattlesnake of the southwest accounts for hundreds of bites every year
Diamondback
This Flemish city is a leading center of thr diamond industry and where legend says the first diamond was cut in 1476
Antwerp
Geographic almost the same
Legend says in 1876 a dragon built for the first ring cycle had its neck sent to this Midwest capital not the right German city
Beirut
Big Wagner festival is in by roit messed up and sent it to Beirut
