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Until the first battle of this in July 1861, the North estimated that the war would last about 90 days |
(the first Battle of) Bull Run
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This rapper had the aptly titled hit "Big Poppa" |
(Alli: Who is Biggie Small?)
Biggie Smalls
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A site near Walla Walla commemorates the role of Marcus & Narcissa Whitman in establishing part of this trail |
(Alli: What is the Appalachian Trail?)
the Oregon Trail
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In 1889 this Elizabethport, New Jersey company electrified the sewing machine |
Singer
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There's no getting around this company's Dakota & Ram pickups |
Dodge
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Thin soup made from a butterfly relative |
moth broth
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The fatefully named Stapleton Crutchfield lost one of these limbs at Chancellorsville |
a leg
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"Don't go chasing" these, TLC asked, "please stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used to" |
waterfalls
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The armory in this Mass. town was America's small arms manufacturer for nearly 200 years |
Springfield
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For astronomy, not hunting, William Gascoigne created the telescopic site with these strands |
crosshairs
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You could drive this automaker's Silverado through an avalanche |
Chevrolet
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The indistinct grumble of a yellow bread spread |
(Nick: What is margarine chagrin?)
butter mutter
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As chief of aeronautics, U.S. Army, Thaddeus Lowe organized a corps of 5 of these |
balloons
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In 1995 this brother & sister hit No. 5 with the song "Scream" |
Michael & Janet Jackson
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The ruins of Puukohola Heiau, a temple built by this king, lie on the Northwestern shore of Hawaii |
King Kamehameha
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In the '40s AT&T used a radio with no conventional vacuum tubes to demonstrate this device invented in its lab |
(Alex: All right, you're the only one with money. You have not made any of these Daily Doubles a True Daily Double, in risking everything.) (Kerry: And I'm not going to start now.) (Alex: Oh, okay.) (Kerry: $1000.) (Alex: You're consistent.)
a transistor
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This company gives its trucks an "F": 150, 250 & 350 |
Ford
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A Toll House treat that's just been recruited |
a rookie cookie
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McClellan, Burnside, Hooker & Meade successively headed this army |
the Army of the Potomac
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A successful songwriter & producer, she had "criminal" success with her debut album "Supa Dupa Fly" |
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
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The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site consists of the Monroe Elementary School in this city |
Topeka, Kansas
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This 18th century seed drill inventor shares his name with the band that gave us "Aqualung" |
Jethro Tull
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When you hit the tundra, take this truck maker's Tacoma |
(Nick: What is GMC?)
Toyota
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A citrus fruit that emulates Marcel Marceau |
a lime mime
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Troops under the command of this bottom-of-his-class grad from West Point made a disastrous charge at Gettysburg |
Pickett
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It's no mystery--this Canadian woman made her Top 40 debut in 1997 with "Building A Mystery" |
Sarah McLachlan
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This war relocation center in California is 1 of 10 camps where Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII |
Manzanar
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In the late 19th century, Ellen Eglui invented this washing machine attachment that saved a lot of drying time |
a wringer
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Take this company's Titan to a new frontier |
Nissan
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A Scottish cap made from Hormel's "spiced ham" |
a Spam tam
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