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BLong wrote:

<quoted text>Tom Waits

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BLong wrote:

<quoted text>Willa Cather

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BLong wrote:

<quoted text>Edd Hall

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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Word meaning "immeasurably small"; its first 8 letters are a word meaning "immeasurably great"
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Is that infinitesimal?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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__________ BUSINESS & INDUSTRY __________
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This company was incorporated in 1946 as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation
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Is this SONY?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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__________ STATE CAPITALS __________
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This city was named for a first century Roman citizen & missionary
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Would that be Cincinati?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

__________ 1982 __________
He had the dynamite idea to launch a new television network known as TNT

Was that Ted Turner?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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Journey Into Imagination was an original attraction at this Disney World theme park that opened in 1982

Are we visiting Paris?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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At 65, Ashby Harper became the oldest to swim this body of water; Gertrude Ederle must have been impressed

Was she splashin' around in the English Channel?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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More than 80 human skeletons were discovered in the ruins of this city near Pompeii

Are we walkin' the streets of Herculanium?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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This Titan who held up the heavens was the father of the Pleiades

Was that Charles Atlas?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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As the god of this type of weather, Jupiter had the epithet Pluvius

Was he singin' in the rain?

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Alex Trebek wrote:

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The winged horse Pegasus arose from the blood of this Gorgon when Perseus cut off her head

Um ... is that Medusa?

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beachball wrote:

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What was London

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beachball wrote:

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Who was Eugene Corri

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beachball wrote:

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Who was Johnny Weissmuller

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beachball wrote:

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Who was Libya

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beachball wrote:

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What was Apollo XVII

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beachball wrote:

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What was Cyprus

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beachball wrote:

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What was Portugal

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