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| Jabez Stone sells his soul to the devil in the story about "The Devil and" this statesman |
Daniel Webster
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| Poisonous in large amounts, this element abbreviated "I" is needed by your body to prevent goiter |
iodine
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| The Roman Catholic church still considers this to be its official language |
Latin
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| His company has made Moline the "farm implement capital of the world" |
(Josh: Who is McCormick?)
John Deere
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| F.E. Smedley wrote in "Frank Fairleigh", "all's fair in" these 2 things |
love & war
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| The Romans trained Spartacus, a Thracian slave, to be one of these |
a gladiator
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| The heroine of 1 O. Henry story decides she'll die when "The Last" one of these drops off a vine |
Leaf
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| This deadly element, symbol As, is used in rat poison & in electrical equipment |
arsenic
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| The Papuan languages, which number more than 500, are spoken mainly on this island |
New Guinea
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| Illinois' state insect is the monarch type of this |
a butterfly
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| "In the long run", he wrote in "Walden", "men hit only what they aim at" |
(Henry David) Thoreau
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| Slaves in the South used these religious songs as codes to communicate plans for escape |
spirituals
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| Salem native who wrote about witchcraft in the Salem area in an 1835 story, "Young Goodman Brown" |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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| Used in emission control devices, it's more expensive than gold |
platinum
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| The main systems of pronunuation in this language are the Ashkenazic & the Sephardic |
Hebrew
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| In 1906 these 2 teams met in the World Series for the first & only time |
the Cubs and the White Sox
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| In a 1940 fireside chat, FDR said, "we must be the great arsenal of" this |
democracy
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| In a biblical epistle, this apostle asked Philemon not to punish Onesimus, a runaway slave |
Paul
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| The ghost of a pirate visits his sisters in "The Supper at Elsinore" by this Danish authoress |
(Karen) Blixen
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| This yellow element can be found in eggs, mustard & garlic |
(Alex: No. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. I was looking at the wrong clue.)
sulfur
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| It's sometimes referred to as "erse" |
Gaelic (Irish)
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| Democrat with a penchant for bow ties who has represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate since 1985 |
Paul Simon
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| In his novel "Slapstick" he called New York City "Skyscraper National Park" |
Kurt Vonnegut
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| Writer J. Nabuco led the fight in the late 1800s to abolish slavery in this S. American country |
Brazil
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| Mark Twain wrote about a town full of hypocrites in "The Man that Corrupted" this place |
(lee: What is Hadleyville?)
Hadleyburg
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| Just breaking into the top 100 is this element named after an Italian physicist |
Fermium
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| A minority speak Tamil while about three quarters of Sri Lanka's people speak this language |
[Applause for Josh's run of the category]
Sinhalese
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| In 1832 the U.S. Army defeated the Sauk Indians in this uprising, the last Indian war in Illinois |
the Black Hawk War
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| Wendell Phillips said, "one on" his "side is a majority" |
God
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| Term for the colonial commerce in African slaves, West Indian molasses & New England rum |
triangular trade
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