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No. 162: "Check It Twice"

The list includes Louis Vuitton handbags, Mont Blanc pens, pecorino cheese, and cashmere sweaters, pullovers, sweat shirts, and waistcoats. List of what?

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Monday's question (No. 161)--"Rapoportable":

Jacques Rapoport led the search for something "that was sweet rather than violent, that lingered for two weeks, and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered up." What was Rapoport looking for?

"An unshowered Diane Sawyer on a lazy Sunday morning."--Danny Spiegel

"An alternative to the Senate impeachment trial."--Fred Graver (Paul Tullis, Adam Bonin, Greg Barbero, and Greg Diamond had similar answers.)

"An undiscovered type of drunken sex."--Steve Lyle (similarly, but sober, Katha Pollitt; but Pine Sol clean, Paul Tullis)

"Whatever it was, if he was looking in France, he probably had to look for a long time."--David Ballard

"A scent to improve the smell of the Paris Metro. He's chosen Meg Ryan."--Beth Sherman

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