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| Of a schizoid, rhizoid or trapezoid, the one you'll normally run across in geometry class |
trapezoid
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| Miss Manners has a simple way to remember which of these utensils to use: "The one farthest to the left" |
fork
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| In 1786, 10 years after writing the Declaration of Independence, his writing hand became crippled after an accident |
Thomas Jefferson
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| Ron & the title character return to school in a flying car in this 2002 film |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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| 2 steamboats race annually on the Mississippi between St. Louis & this city about 700 miles away |
New Orleans
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| A skinny little horsie |
(Anthony: What is a thinny ninny?)
bony pony
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| Analytic geometry uses a coordinate system in which the abscissa & the ordinate are represented by these 2 letters |
x & y
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| If a waitress refuses to give your group separate these, separate yourself from the restaurant |
checks
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| In the 1984 campaign he said he was not going to exploit Walter Mondale's "youth and inexperience" |
Ronald Reagan
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| He took over the role of Jack Ryan in 2002's "The Sum of All Fears" |
(Kendra: Who is Harrison Ford?)
Ben Affleck
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| On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on this Asian city on the Ota River in western Honshu |
Hiroshima
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| A foliage filcher |
leaf thief
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| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports standing in front of a chalkboard) Angles 1 & 2 are angles of this type, as they add up to 180 degrees |
supplementary
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| When 2 people are walking down the street sharing an umbrella, this person should have the sense to hold the umbrella |
the taller person
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| He died on January 22, 1973; after services in Washington, D.C., he was buried on his Texas ranch |
Lyndon B. Johnson
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| "Gilmore Girl" Alexis Bledel plays Winnie in the film version of this book about a family that will live forever |
Tuck Everlasting
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| Make a resolution to tell us the name of this Vietnamese capital that lies on the Red River in the Tonkin Delta |
Hanoi
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| Cetacean correspondence |
whale mail
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| Whether a convex polygon has 4, 9 or even 22 sides, the exterior angle sum will always total this |
360
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| To do this, "Arrange the lady on a sofa", "kneel in front of her" & then "pull out of your pocket a small velvet box..." |
propose
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| In 1885 this 22nd & 24th president said, "Office seeking is a disease...it is ever catching" |
Grover Cleveland
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| A Nicholas Sparks bestseller became this 2002 film starring Mandy Moore as a preacher's daughter |
A Walk to Remember
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| Cities on this 626-mile-long river include Toledo, Spain & Santarem, Portugal |
Tagus River
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| An agreeable ring-necked bird |
pleasant pheasant
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| (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports standing in front of a chalkboard) If the 3 sides of one triangle are equal to the same parts in another, the two triangles are called this |
congruent
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| Miss Manners says that if you wear white shoes after this holiday, "you will develop warts on your toes" |
Labor Day
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| In 1823 he warned European powers to stay out of the hemisphere in what became known as his doctrine |
James Monroe
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| A.E.W. Mason's novel "The Four Feathers" made it to the screen in 2002 with this Aussie hunk as Harry Feversham |
(Kendra: Who is Russell Crowe?)
Heath Ledger
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| 38 years before she lost her head, Marie Antoinette was born in this capital on the Danube River |
Vienna
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| The principal thunderstorm |
main rain
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