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| When this Arkansas city was chosen as capital, there were fewer than 50 people living there |
Little Rock
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| As Mark Twain could probably tell you, this berry, also called the tangleberry, has 10 hard seeds |
huckleberry
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| You bet your life he played Ko-ko in a 1960 TV version of "The Mikado" |
Groucho Marx
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| The Latin word "radix", meaning root, is the root word for this root vegetable |
radish
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| When chosen in 1978, he became the 1st Pope in a thousand years whose name was followed by "I" |
John Paul I
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| Ski resort in the Colorado mountains, or a valley anywhere |
Vail/vale
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| Home of the Cotton Bowl, this city was a major cotton market long before it became an oil center |
Dallas
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| Onions can be grown from seeds, & like tulips, from these |
bulbs
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| The 2 stars who won Oscars playing the title roles in "Kramer vs. Kramer" |
Meryl Streep & Dustin Hoffman
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| Cabinet member who outranks all other cabinet members |
Secretary of State
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| Carter traveled to this city to sign a bill giving the city $1.65 billion in federal loan guarantees |
(Charlie: What is Detroit?) ... (Alex: This was the famous bailout of [*]. And it worked out well, too.)
New York City
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| Brown meat in fat then cover & simmer, or what a donkey does to be heard |
braise/brays
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| The 1st night baseball game was in 1883 in this Indiana city named for a "mad" general |
Fort Wayne
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| Bark, cocoa hulls, coffee grounds, hay & straw can all be used as this type of plant protection |
mulch
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| This rock star played Pontius Pilate in "The Last Temptation of Christ" |
David Bowie
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| The job of a "nose" in France is to create these |
perfumes
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| The Senate voted to extend the deadline for ratification of this until June 1982 |
the Equal Rights Amendment
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| "Remember" this, it's a major feature of a male lion |
Maine/mane
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| French for "mound", this Montana city is described as "a mile high & a mile deep" |
Butte
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| A lath house is designed to keep your plants from getting too much of this |
sun
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| Offscreen, this Canadian is a son of a Mountie, on film, he was the deadpan doctor in "Airplane!" |
(Henry: Who is Leslie Howard?)
Leslie Nielsen
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| The surname Wallace originally denoted a man from this country |
Wales
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Comedian heard here in his only Top 40 single:
"Now when he was a young man / He never thought he'd see / People stand in line to see the boy king / (King Tut) How'd you get so funky?" |
Steve Martin
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| To inflict terrible vengeance on a person, or exude a terrible odor |
wreak/reek
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| The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for the Rev. War isn't in Arlington but in this nearby Virginia city |
Alexandria
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| Bamboo is a member of this plant family |
grass
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| This Austrian went to Vienna to play Hamlet after he got "Out of Africa" |
Klaus Maria Brandauer
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| This language spoken in the Pyrenees does not belong to the Indo-European group |
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)
Basque
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| Her book "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -- What Am I Doing in the Pits?" was a plum of a best seller |
Erma Bombeck
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| It's used to indicate either a negative vote or a married woman's maiden name |
nay/née
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