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| In the deal of the century, the U.S. made this $15 million purchase & doubled the size of the U.S. |
(Brian: What is Alaska?)
Louisiana Purchase
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| As a rule, rose stems should be cut above a group of 5 of these |
(Shala: What are thorns?)
leaves
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| They thrived in the scorching heat of the California desert that bears their name |
Mojave
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Utah lake seasoning (4) |
salt
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| This 1972 Woody Allen film included clips & music from "Casablanca", sweetheart |
(Brian: What is Annie Hall?)
Play It Again, Sam
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| This leader rebounded from his Gallipoli disaster in WWI to have his "finest hour" in WWII |
(Shala: Who is MacArthur?)
Winston Churchill
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| In 1891 this sport got off to a bouncing start in Springfield, Massachusetts |
basketball
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| A verb meaning to remove withered roses, or a noun meaning a fan of a Jerry Garcia band |
Deadhead
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| Add 1 letter to "Iowa" to get the name of this tribe who lived south of the Iowa |
Kiowa
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Dear Sir, for example (10) |
salutation
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| Suzanne Somers cruised around in a white T-Bird in this 1973 film |
American Graffiti
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| He turned the experience of being booed at Madison Square Garden into the hit "Garden Party" |
Ricky Nelson
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| The Ferris wheel made its first rounds in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in this city |
(Shala: What is New York City?)
Chicago
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| On a rose, it's not the side of the pelvis but the berrylike fruit |
hips
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| The French gave an Idaho tribe this name meaning "heart like an awl" |
Coeur d'Alene
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A birdie, in badminton (11) |
shuttlecock
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| (Hi, I'm Stephen Collins of "7th Heaven") I began my film career playing Hugh Sloan, Richard Nixon's campaign treasurer, in this 1976 classic |
All The President's Men
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| He & his men were driven from the Aztec capital one night in 1520, but returned to capture it a year later |
Hernando Cortes
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| During the 1850s, these 2 inventors were on opposite sides of the "Sewing Machine War" |
Elias Howe & Isaac Singer
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| One rose is named for this Louisiana "port", the headquarters of the American Rose Society |
(Brian: What is Port Royal?)
Shreveport
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| These peaceable mesa dwellers became the westernmost of the Pueblo peoples |
Hopi
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It precedes straps, squash or Western (9) |
spaghetti
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| Jane Fonda played playwright Lillian Hellman in this 1977 drama |
(Shala: What is Reds?)
Julia
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| Out of football & cutting kitchen marble, he returned to glory as the Vikings' quarterback in 1998 |
Randall Cunningham
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| William Rufus King, elected to this post in 1852, died before he could fulfill his duties |
vice president
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| From a word meaning "perfumed", it's a liquid obtained by distilling rose petals |
attar
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| The Stinkards were the common class of these Mississippi Indians of whom hardly a "trace" remains |
Natchez
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Sullen, like a one-horse carriage (5) |
sulky
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| In 1975 John Huston co-starred with Sean Connery in "The Wind and the Lion" & directed him in this film |
The Man Who Would Be King
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| He published perhaps his most famous volume, "Tales of a Wayside Inn", 2 years after his wife's death |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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