Show:
ASK THE AUDIENCE
50-50
FAMILIAR PHRASES
WHO WANTS TO BE A LEGIONNAIRE?
ON ITS EASTERN BORDER
200
'Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet'
Oprah Winfrey
200
'It's the only letter of the alphabet not used in the names of the 50 states'
Q
200
'"Born with" one of these "in one's mouth" is a reference to a high-end christening gift'
a silver spoon
200
'Technically, it's the only country in the world that you can't be from to enlist in the French Foreign Legion'
France
200
'Haiti'
the Dominican Republic
400
'Practice, practice, practice & you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th & 7th'
Carnegie Hall
400
'In Genesis 6, it's described as being 50 cubits wide'
Noah\'s Ark
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a one-room schoolhouse in Old World Wisconsin.) If you want to make a fresh start of things, you need this 2-word expression, like students not too long ago'
a clean slate
400
'Louis Philippe formed the Foreign Legion in 1831 in support of the conquest of this North African nation'
Algeria
400
'Cambodia'
Vietnam
600
'On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial'
Marian Anderson
600
'Up to 50 yards of cloth may be used in one of these headdresses worn by Sikhs & Muslim men'
a turban
600
'The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s'
Boston
600
'During this 1870s war, the Legion attempted to lift the siege of Paris by breaking through the German lines'
the Franco-Prussian War
600
'Brunei'
Malaysia
800
'When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts & began a riot'
The Rite of Spring
800
'In exchange for more than 1,000 POWs, this country received about $50 million from the U.S. in December 1962'
Cuba
800
'The area to the side of a stage gives us this 2-word phrase for performing without preparation'
wing it
800
'Life in the Legion was portrayed most notably by this 1924 Percival Wren novel that's been made into a film many times'
Beau Geste
800
'Lesotho'
South Africa
1000
'The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J.'
(George) Gallup
1000
'In some versions, this Hellenic hellhound has as many as 50 heads'
Cerberus
1000
'Shakespeare's Cleopatra used this expression for her youth, "When I was green in judgment"'
salad days
1000
'While most Legion units are based in mainland France, 1 unit is based in Calvi on this Mediterranean Island'
Corsica
1000
'Honduras'
Nicaragua