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INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO

200

'(James Lipton delivers the clue.) He told us, as a struggling actor, he used the pay phone at Pioneer Chicken as his office, before he got "Family Ties"'

Michael J. Fox

400

'(James Lipton delivers the clue.) For his pants-less slide in "Risky Business", he said he put wax on the floor to the center of the shot, then dust to help him stop'

Tom Cruise

600

'(James Lipton delivers the clue.) He said he loved his show's early scripts, because "Mulder is a complete failure... he's never solved a case. Ever"'

David Duchovny

800

'(James Lipton delivers the clue.) He recounted how he himself named his "Gladiator" character; "Narcissus" just wouldn't work'

Russell Crowe

1000

'(James Lipton delivers the clue.) He shared with us how the role of Tony Soprano may have driven him, ironically, to the psychiatrist's office'

James Gandolfini

THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE

200

'A physics prize was awarded for analytically determining why women in this condition don't tip over'

pregnancy

400

'A 2009 veterinary medicine prize was given for showing cows who have names give more of this than nameless ones'

milk

600

'A team from Mexico won in chem for creating diamonds from this Jalisco liquor distilled from fermented mash of an agave'

tequila

800

'A doctor won for cracking his left knuckles, but not his right, for 60 years to test a rumored cause of this disease'

arthritis

1000

'A math prize to this African country's reserve bank, for giving folks the chance to use big numbers like 100 trillion'

Zimbabwe

1990s BESTSELLERS

200

'In 1990 "Four Past Midnight" hit the bestseller lists for this horrormeister'

Stephen King

400

'This ex-president scored big in 1990 with his autobiography "An American Life"'

Ronald Reagan

600

'It's an open & shut case: his "Runaway Jury" was the bestselling hardback fiction work of 1996'

John Grisham

800

'In 1998 his novel "Rainbow Six" became another in his long line of military bestsellers'

Tom Clancy

1000

'This "metallic" woman had 3 bestsellers in the top 10 for 1997: "The Ghost", "The Ranch" & "Special Delivery"'

Danielle Steel

NUCLEAR WEAPONS 101

200

'The only wartime use of nuclear weapons occurred in this year'

1945

400

'The Manhattan project to develop nuclear weapons first tested them at Alamogordo in this state'

New Mexico

600

'You might seek "shelter" from this, radioactive particles that descend through the atmosphere'

fallout

800

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an atomic animation on the monitor.) A neutron is used to split the nucleus of an atom, releasing energy in this type of nuclear bomb process'

fission

1000

'Abbreviated B.R., it's the distance from the point of impact that will be affected when a nuclear explosion occurs'

blast radius

ALSO A CANDY BAR

200

'This 1844 novel is set during the time of Louis XIII'

The Three Musketeers

400

'The diameter of this is about 100,000 light-years, but it doesn't have a malt-flavored nougat center'

a Milky Way

600

'More than one elevated ground area for baseball pitchers'

Mounds

800

'Laughs in an indecorous or disrespectful manner'

Snickers

1000

'In 1977 Diane Keaton went "Looking for" him; he wasn't so delicious'

Mr. Goodbar