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What is a house mouse
Mus musculus, this grayish-brown rodent lives in or near domiciles
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What is "Paint It, Black"
Rolling Stones song that contains the line "I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes"
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What is Netscape
Hunky Marc Andreessen turned heads with this early web browser & company, later brought out by AOL
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What is the philosopher's stone
Bologna Stone, found in 1603, was thought to be this alchemical "stone" to change cheaper metals into gold
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What is his hip
After a 1997 golf injury, Evel Knievel got this body part replaced
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What is sci-fi
Abbreviated term for the genre that includes Isaac Asimov & Ursula K. Le Guin
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What is Yellow Submarine
The soundtrack to this animated feature included such songs as "Pepperland" & "March of the Meanies"
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What is Apple
The Woz, Steve Wozniak, built the first computer for this company
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What is Amelia Earhart (or Fred Noonan)
Either of the 2 people the Coast Guard cutter Itasca was unable to locate after they left from New Guinea in 1937
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What is sip
Take a small drink
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What is a mai tai
Restaurateur Trader Vic created this rum & curacao cocktail
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What is the Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Fleamail" is the e-mailed updates to this group's website by one of its members
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What is Microsoft
Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company
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What is Atlantis
Many scholars believe this was actually the Aegean Sea island of Thira, largely destroyed around 1500 B.C.
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What is a lip
It's the "stiff upper" projecting rim of a pitcher
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What is hanky panky
The title of hits by Madonna & Tommy James & The Shondells, it's slang for naughty behavior
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What is Pink Floyd
(Sofia of the Clue Crew) In 1990 at the site of the Berlin Wall an all-star version of "The Wall" was presented by Roger Waters of this band
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What is George Lucas
This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division & it later became Pixar
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What is Geraldo Rivera
This Brooklyn reporter's opening of Al Capone's vault in 1986 left him with a few scars of his own
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What is zip
Nada, nothing, or perhaps, to fasten your pants
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What is willy-nilly
This hyphenated term means haphazard or disorganized
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What is little green apples
In 1968 O.C. Smith sang, "God didn't make" these "and it don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes"
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What is Linux
Sexy Linus Torvalds made us melt when he created this freely distributed UNIX clone in 1991
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What is Loch Ness
In 1987 a sonar exploration of this body of water found something big, but it may have been a school of salmon
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What is rip
It can precede cord, tide & -roaring
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