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What is The Suicide Squad?

  1. AOC, which stands for this, is a member of “The Squad” in Congress.
1185

Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

(Point of order: when the title of the category is in quote marks, that means the word should appear in the correct response, so this is not a valid clue for the category)

  1. The Supreme Court of South Carolina issued a ruling this week affirming the legality of execution by this method
1186

What is the firing squad?

  1. The protagonists of this 60s and 70s crime drama series were described by one critic as “the hippest and first young undercover cops on TV”.
1187

What is The Mod Squad?

New category: TV Shows of the '70s

  1. This murder mystery series which aired irregularly from 1971 to 2003 inverted the formula by showing the killer in the act during its cold open
1188

What is Columbo?

  1. This iconic sitcom had several successful spinoffs including Maude and The Jeffersons.
1189

What is All In The Family?

  1. This iconic sitcom also had several successful spinoffs including Laverne & Shirley and Mork and Mindy.
1190

What is Happy Days?

  1. This popular American sitcom was based on an earlier British show called Steptoe and Son.
1191

What is Sanford and Son?

  1. The lead character on this sitcom was changed from a divorcee to a single woman over worries that some viewers might confuse her with the actress’s earlier happily married character.
1192

What is The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

New category: The Olympics

  1. This sport was included in the 1900 and 1904 Olympics, but did not appear again until 2016.
1193

What is golf?

  1. This future WWE Hall of Famer brought home the gold medal for freestyle wrestling in 1996
1194

Who is Kurt Angle?

  1. The Miracle on Ice featuring a U.S. hockey win over this nation was actually in the semifinal round, not the gold medal match.
1195

What is the USSR?

  1. His two medals were taken away after he was found to have played semipro baseball; they were restored only after his death.
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Who is Jim Thorpe?

  1. This shooting sport appeared only once, as a demonstration at the 1908 Olympic Games in London.

-“BB”-

1197

What is dueling?

New category: The “Dog” Days

  1. This song, the title of which is not found in its lyrics, opens Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth studio album
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Since ‘fencing’ could also be considered ‘dueling’, we were looking for ‘pistol dueling’ specifically. But the judges are nodding their heads, indicating they will accept that answer.
Play on –

-“BB”-

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The clue specified a shooting sport, so unless there’s such a thing as gun fencing the judges should see no need for greater specificity. :slight_smile:

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming…

What is “Black Dog”?

  1. This Oscar-nominated Netflix feature starred Benedict Cumberbatch as a cowboy.
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What is The Power of the Dog?

  1. A fairway that bends to the right or left is called this.
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What is a dogleg?

  1. Marking one’s place in a book by folding down one corner of a page.

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1203

What is dog-earing?

  1. A 1987 song by Steve Cook popularized the story of this cryptid supposedly found in rural Michigan