Lightning Fill In The Blank

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PETER SAGAL, Host:

Now onto our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer now worth two points. Carl, can you give us the scores?

CARL KASELL, Host:

Maz Jobrani has the lead, Peter. He has four points. Amy Dickinson has three. Roy Blount, Jr., has two.

AMY DICKINSON: Maz.

SAGAL: Maz.

MAZ JOBRANI: Yeah, I did not expect to be here right now.

SAGAL: All right.

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SAGAL: Well, Roy, you're in third place. You're up first. The clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. A gender bias suit against Wal-Mart and a lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law are among the cases on the blank's docket.

ROY BLOUNT JR: Supreme Court.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: India's foreign minister said he was going to complain to Washington after the Indian ambassador was forced to submit to a blank at a Mississippi airport.

BLOUNT JR: A pat-down.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: After a long battle with breast cancer, author and political wife blank died Tuesday at age 61.

BLOUNT JR: Elizabeth Edwards.

SAGAL: Yes.

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SAGAL: On Thursday, students in London protesting tuition hikes attacked a car containing blank.

BLOUNT JR: Containing the queen's underwear.

SAGAL: No.

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SAGAL: Prince Charles.

SAGAL: The most memorable moment of the annual Christmas parade in Richmond, Virginia, was when the giant inflatable Rudolph blanked.

BLOUNT JR: It sank didn't it?

SAGAL: It did. It got impaled on a traffic light.

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SAGAL: Sports analysts questioned the inclusion of Sylvester Stallone as one of this year's inductees into the blank hall of fame.

BLOUNT JR: Boxing.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: Forty years after he was convicted of indecent exposure at a Miami concert, Doors singer blank was pardoned.

BLOUNT JR: Jim Morrison.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: To get back at his cheating ex-girlfriend, a man told the website Reddit that he tweaked her Netflix list so it would blank.

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BLOUNT JR: He tweaked her Netflix. So it would just be all terrible, boring movies.

SAGAL: No. He tweaked it so that it would recommend movies that'd remind her she was unfaithful.

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SAGAL: His girlfriend cheated on him, so he spent hours rating movies in her Netflix account to get his message across. And soon the woman was receiving e- mails from Netflix saying, here are some movies we think you will enjoy: "Unfaithful," "The Scarlet Letter," "Indecent Proposal," "Whore," "Slutty Summer," and of course, "Bambi."

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BLOUNT JR: "Bambi"?

SAGAL: "Bambi."

DICKINSON: It sounds like a catch.

SAGAL: They asked him about "Bambi." He said, I'm a fan of non sequiturs, he said.

DICKINSON: No.

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SAGAL: Carl, how did Roy do on our quiz?

KASELL: Roy had six correct answers for 12 more points. He now has 14 points and Roy has the lead.

SAGAL: Well done.

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SAGAL: All right. Okay, Amy, you're up next. Fill in the blank. The return of the SpaceX Dragon capsule from low orbit marked the first successful flight by a private blank.

DICKINSON: Commercial like space launch.

SAGAL: Yeah, spacecraft.

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SAGAL: Hopes for a revived economy were bolstered this week as fewer people than expected applied for blank benefits.

DICKINSON: Unemployment.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: Amid escalating tensions, the top diplomat from China met with the leader of blank this week.

DICKINSON: North Korea.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: A senior policy adviser who described President Obama as, quote, "a hard-boiled guy" was talking about blank.

DICKINSON: Basketball.

SAGAL: No, about how the president likes his eggs.

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SAGAL: Charles Dickens books "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" were the latest picks in blank's book club.

DICKINSON: Oprah.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: To mark the 30th anniversary of his death, fans of blank gathered in Strawberry Fields in Central Park.

DICKINSON: John Lennon.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: Instead of installing traffic lights, Police in the Czech Republic installed blank at dangerous intersections.

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DICKINSON: Kittens.

SAGAL: No.

DICKINSON: No.

SAGAL: They installed cardboard cutouts of policewomen in mini skirts.

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DICKINSON: Of course they did.

SAGAL: They hoped it would reduce accidents. And sure enough, the number of accidents doubled.

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SAGAL: Drivers were incensed at the plan. One man saying, quote, "The cut-outs are distracting. I mean, mini-skirts, in this weather?" However, the thing that seemed to make men angry the most was that the cutouts refused to give them their phone numbers.

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SAGAL: Carl, how did Amy do on our quiz?

KASELL: Amy had five correct answers for ten more points. She now has 13 points, but Roy still has the lead with 14.

SAGAL: All right.

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SAGAL: How many then does Maz need to win?

KASELL: Five to tie, six to win outright.

SAGAL: Okay, Maz, this is for the game. Fill in the blank. The websites of MasterCard, Visa and Amazon were among those targeted by supporters of blank.

JOBRANI: WikiLeaks.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: The Senate tabled a vote on the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for blank.

JOBRANI: Immigrant kids.

SAGAL: Right, children of illegal immigrants.

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SAGAL: Appearing on "60 Minutes" last Sunday, Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to user profiles on blank.

JOBRANI: Facebook.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and "Monday Night Football" anchor Dandy blank died at age 72.

JOBRANI: Don Meredith.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: As a challenge to Amazon.com, Google launched a new e-blank store.

JOBRANI: Books.

SAGAL: Right.

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SAGAL: On Wednesday night, the "Myth Busters" episode featured an appearance by blank.

JOBRANI: Santa Claus.

SAGAL: No, President Obama. After an Idaho Sheriff was shot, the man who told police, quote, "I shot the sheriff" was not arrested because blank.

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JOBRANI: The man who said - because he shot the deputy?

SAGAL: No, because he was the sheriff.

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SAGAL: That's good, though. That's good. Sheriff Lorin Nielson of Idaho was admiring his new gun when he accidentally shot the fleshy part of his hand. I can say I shot the sheriff, he joked. Luckily, although he did shoot the sheriff, he did not shoot the deputy, and was not charged with any wrongdoing.

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SAGAL: Carl, did Maz do well enough to win?

KASELL: He needed at least five correct answers to tie and he had five correct answers. So Maz Jobrani and Roy Blount, Jr., are this week's co-champions.

SAGAL: Well done. Well done.

DICKINSON: Wow.

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