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THE OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL |
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Used by both sides in the war, a Napoleon was one of these booming pieces of artillery |
a cannon
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If you tinker with your car, you're getting under this part the British call a bonnet |
the hood
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After each new Surgeon General is appointed by the President, this government body has to approve him or her |
the Senate
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She kept house for Mike Brady & his boys, long before Mike married Carol |
Alice
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1962: "Group of Five Campbell's Soup Cans" |
(Andy) Warhol
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Melville's great white whale who's the current Vice President of the United States |
Moby Dick Cheney
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When the war began, N.Y. was the most populous Union state & this was the most populous Confederate one |
(Alex: You agonize so much over these!) (Ben: I do, I do! I can't help it.)
Virginia
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To "take" one of these means to walk a long distance for pleasure; in slang, it means to go away |
a hike
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The first Surgeon General, known as Supervising Surgeon then, was named in 1871 during this president's term |
Grant
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Florida Evans was Maude Findlay's maid before spinning off to this sitcom |
Good Times
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1891: "Street in Tahiti" |
(Paul) Gauguin
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Bill Cosby cartoon character who published a theory of relativity |
Fat Albert Einstein
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On July 4, 1863 Confederate troops formally surrendered this Mississippi River port |
Vicksburg
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In origami, folding paper down, away from you, is a mountain fold; folding it up toward you is this opposite |
a valley (fold)
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The Surgeon General's office is part of this Cabinet department |
(Alex: Yeah, Liz is shaking her head as you are also, Ben. Go for it!) (Ben: No!) (Alex: OK!)
Health & Human Services
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Rosario is Karen Walker's feisty housekeeper (who was married briefly to, yes, Jack McFarland!) on this sitcom |
Will & Grace
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1948: "Christina's World" |
Andrew Wyeth
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Mark McGrath's rock group that's a TV sitcom actor whom "Everybody Loves" |
Sugar Ray Romano
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In 1864 & 1865 more than 13,000 Union prisoners died at this infamous prison |
Andersonville
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Before he became Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher was head of the Centers for this |
Disease Control
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Played by Marla Gibbs, she was the Jeffersons' wisecracking maid |
Florence
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1931: "The Persistence of Memory" |
Dali
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"Royal" CNN talk show host who's a large edible crustacean |
Larry King crab
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Cole Younger & Frank James accompanied this Colonel when he raided Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 |
(Alex: And that was the infamous [*].)
William Quantrill
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6-letter sewing term for a small hole made for a lace, a cord or the prong of a buckle |
(Alex: Liz, if you had managed to come up with that, you'd have had more than half of Ben's total.)
an eyelet
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The emblem of the Surgeon General bears a white anchor & this traditional symbol of Hermes |
(Ben: What are wings?) ... (Alex: More to it than that.)
a caduceus
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Benson's nemesis was this German maid played by Inga Swenson |
(Gretchen) Kraus
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1911: "I and the Village" |
Marc Chagall
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Moonwalking king of pop music who dripped his way to artistic fame in the 1940s |
Michael Jackson Pollock
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