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potatoes
7. Give electric shocks to another “subject”
8. “Desiderata”
9. Dollar Rent A Car
10. Eddie Mathews
11. John F. Kennedy
12. Ambrose Bierce (
The Devil’s Dictionary
)
CORE SAMPLES
Easy
1. Pears
2. Cherries
3. Oranges
4. Tomatoes
Harder
1. Grapes
2. Limes
3. Avocadoes
4. Plums
Yeah, Good Luck
1. Lemons
2. Strawberries
3. Peaches
4. Watermelon
ANY MORE LIKE YOU AT HOME? WILL THEY STAY THERE?
1. Aliana
2. Nicky
3. Jamie Lynn
4. Ashlee
5. Dannii
JANUARY 25
COLD SHOULDERS
1. Betty Rubble (bumped in favor of
the car
!)
2.
Rebecca
3. Eris
4. Roger Maris
5.
The Age of Innocence
’s
CARAT CAKE
1. Oahu
2. Ski slopes
3. De Beers
4. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
5. “I’m a Believer”
6. Arkansas
7. The jack of diamonds
8. The Ritz (Hotel)
9. Blue
10. Fontanelles
RREPEATED LLETTERS
1. Eeyore
2. Llama
3. “MMMBop”
4. The Oort Cloud
5. Aaron Copland
JANUARY 26
PUTTING DOWN THE MAN
1. Ernesto
2. Parking meters
3. Gave a “Black Power” salute on the Olympic medal stand
4. The World Trade Organization
5. Nuclear disarmament
6. Steven Biko
7. Judy Garland’s
8. Czechoslovakia
9.
Do the Right Thing
’s
10. Tiananmen Square’s “Tank Man” or “Unknown Rebel”
GOING DOWN
1. Seven
2.
Your Girlfriend
3. Teapot Dome
4.
The Descent
5.
Paradise Lost
6. A minor (
Songs in A Minor
)
7. Victoria Falls
8. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
9. Terminal velocity
10. London Bridge
11. Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
12.
The Satanic Verses
13. Mary Decker (Slaney)
14. A window
15. A bicycle
JANUARY 27
SO GOOD YOU COULD PLOTS
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Alfred Hitchcock’s
3.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Charles Lindbergh
5. René Descartes (the Cartesian plane)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY
Easy
1. Spain
2. India
3. Egypt
4. Brazil
5. France
Harder
1. Thailand
2. Nicaragua
3. Austria
4. Peru
5. Algeria
Yeah, Good Luck
1. Cameroon
2. China
3. Croatia
4. Senegal
5. Turkmenistan
FOUR FLUSHERS
1. The St. Louis Blues
2.
The Oxford English Dictionary
3. (“On the whole, I’d rather be in”) Philadelphia
4.
M*A*S*H
JANUARY 28
PIONEER AT HAND
1. B
2. C
3. F
4. H
5. A
6. J
7. I
8. E
9. D
10. G
INNER TUBE
1.
The Dick Van Dyke Show
2.
Murphy Brown
3.
Home Improvement
4.
30 Rock
5.
Extras
COUNT IT OFF
1. Iron & Wine
2. Eurythmics
3. Green Day
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Dave Matthews Band
6. Toto
7. Madness
8. UB40
9. Slipknot
10. Broken Social Scene
JANUARY 29
SHUSH LIFE
1. Melville’s
2. Iran
3.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Hector Berlioz
5. Marian the Librarian (
The Music Man
)
DRIVING TEST
1. The Chevrolet Corvair
2. The Dodge/Plymouth Neon
3. “Honky Tonk Woman” (“Country Honk”)
4. KITT’s (
Knight Rider
)
5. Subaru
6.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
7. Edsel
8. A Ford Excursion
9. The Mini (Cooper)
10. Mexico
FIVE-TIMERS CLUB
1. Judy Garland
2. State quarters
3. Candyman
4. Carrie Underwood
5. Billy Martin
JANUARY 30
WALK THIS WAY
1. Shel Silverstein
2. Draw
3. Joanne Woodward
4. “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
5. Kitty Genovese
COMING AND GOING
1. Hannah
2. Radar
3. Nauruan
4.
Elle
5. a-ha
6. A kayak
7. Eve
8. (Honda’s) Civic
9. Otto
10. (A) racecar
A MATTER OF TRUST
1. Texaco
2. Real estate (investment)
3. Palau
4. Elvis Costello’s
5. It’s stamped on the
edge
of the coin
JANUARY 31
IT’S UP TO U
1. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
2. Marcel Marceau
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Maya Angelou
5. Martin Landau
PLAID TO THE BONE
1.
What’s Up, Doc?
2. Lamar Alexander
3. Wales
4. Edith Head
5. Burberry’s
OUT TO PASTURE
1. The Boston Celtics (21)
2.
William Tell
3. Emeritus
4. James Cagney
5. Barry Sanders
6. Britney Spears
7. E. M. Forster
8.
7. Give electric shocks to another “subject”
8. “Desiderata”
9. Dollar Rent A Car
10. Eddie Mathews
11. John F. Kennedy
12. Ambrose Bierce (
The Devil’s Dictionary
)
CORE SAMPLES
Easy
1. Pears
2. Cherries
3. Oranges
4. Tomatoes
Harder
1. Grapes
2. Limes
3. Avocadoes
4. Plums
Yeah, Good Luck
1. Lemons
2. Strawberries
3. Peaches
4. Watermelon
ANY MORE LIKE YOU AT HOME? WILL THEY STAY THERE?
1. Aliana
2. Nicky
3. Jamie Lynn
4. Ashlee
5. Dannii
JANUARY 25
COLD SHOULDERS
1. Betty Rubble (bumped in favor of
the car
!)
2.
Rebecca
3. Eris
4. Roger Maris
5.
The Age of Innocence
’s
CARAT CAKE
1. Oahu
2. Ski slopes
3. De Beers
4. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
5. “I’m a Believer”
6. Arkansas
7. The jack of diamonds
8. The Ritz (Hotel)
9. Blue
10. Fontanelles
RREPEATED LLETTERS
1. Eeyore
2. Llama
3. “MMMBop”
4. The Oort Cloud
5. Aaron Copland
JANUARY 26
PUTTING DOWN THE MAN
1. Ernesto
2. Parking meters
3. Gave a “Black Power” salute on the Olympic medal stand
4. The World Trade Organization
5. Nuclear disarmament
6. Steven Biko
7. Judy Garland’s
8. Czechoslovakia
9.
Do the Right Thing
’s
10. Tiananmen Square’s “Tank Man” or “Unknown Rebel”
GOING DOWN
1. Seven
2.
Your Girlfriend
3. Teapot Dome
4.
The Descent
5.
Paradise Lost
6. A minor (
Songs in A Minor
)
7. Victoria Falls
8. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
9. Terminal velocity
10. London Bridge
11. Mulholland Drive or Ventura Boulevard
12.
The Satanic Verses
13. Mary Decker (Slaney)
14. A window
15. A bicycle
JANUARY 27
SO GOOD YOU COULD PLOTS
1. Adolf Hitler
2. Alfred Hitchcock’s
3.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Charles Lindbergh
5. René Descartes (the Cartesian plane)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY
Easy
1. Spain
2. India
3. Egypt
4. Brazil
5. France
Harder
1. Thailand
2. Nicaragua
3. Austria
4. Peru
5. Algeria
Yeah, Good Luck
1. Cameroon
2. China
3. Croatia
4. Senegal
5. Turkmenistan
FOUR FLUSHERS
1. The St. Louis Blues
2.
The Oxford English Dictionary
3. (“On the whole, I’d rather be in”) Philadelphia
4.
M*A*S*H
JANUARY 28
PIONEER AT HAND
1. B
2. C
3. F
4. H
5. A
6. J
7. I
8. E
9. D
10. G
INNER TUBE
1.
The Dick Van Dyke Show
2.
Murphy Brown
3.
Home Improvement
4.
30 Rock
5.
Extras
COUNT IT OFF
1. Iron & Wine
2. Eurythmics
3. Green Day
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Dave Matthews Band
6. Toto
7. Madness
8. UB40
9. Slipknot
10. Broken Social Scene
JANUARY 29
SHUSH LIFE
1. Melville’s
2. Iran
3.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Hector Berlioz
5. Marian the Librarian (
The Music Man
)
DRIVING TEST
1. The Chevrolet Corvair
2. The Dodge/Plymouth Neon
3. “Honky Tonk Woman” (“Country Honk”)
4. KITT’s (
Knight Rider
)
5. Subaru
6.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
7. Edsel
8. A Ford Excursion
9. The Mini (Cooper)
10. Mexico
FIVE-TIMERS CLUB
1. Judy Garland
2. State quarters
3. Candyman
4. Carrie Underwood
5. Billy Martin
JANUARY 30
WALK THIS WAY
1. Shel Silverstein
2. Draw
3. Joanne Woodward
4. “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
5. Kitty Genovese
COMING AND GOING
1. Hannah
2. Radar
3. Nauruan
4.
Elle
5. a-ha
6. A kayak
7. Eve
8. (Honda’s) Civic
9. Otto
10. (A) racecar
A MATTER OF TRUST
1. Texaco
2. Real estate (investment)
3. Palau
4. Elvis Costello’s
5. It’s stamped on the
edge
of the coin
JANUARY 31
IT’S UP TO U
1. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
2. Marcel Marceau
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Maya Angelou
5. Martin Landau
PLAID TO THE BONE
1.
What’s Up, Doc?
2. Lamar Alexander
3. Wales
4. Edith Head
5. Burberry’s
OUT TO PASTURE
1. The Boston Celtics (21)
2.
William Tell
3. Emeritus
4. James Cagney
5. Barry Sanders
6. Britney Spears
7. E. M. Forster
8.
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