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-A [[clue]] is '''uniquely identifying''' if and only if the text of the clue refers to exactly one potential answer.
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-Ideally, every sentence in a [[good quizbowl|good]] [[tossup]] will contain at least one uniquely identifying clause, and all such clauses will be about the actual answer to the tossup; a clue for which this is not the case is known as a [[hose]]. There is more flexibility to use non-unique sentences in [[bonus]] parts, but each bonus part should contain at least one uniquely identifying clue.
-Other [[trivia]] events sometimes refer to this property as '''"pinned"''', or refer to adding information that makes an otherwise non-unique clue unique as adding "the '''pin'''"; that may be because those were the terms of art among writers for [[game show]]s such as ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'' as recently as the mid-2000s [https://books.google.com/books?id=tXi_rfgUWCcC&pg=PT113].