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William Laurence won a Prize in 1946 for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of this city, after Hiroshima |
Nagasaki
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Out of retirement to play for this hometown team, Roger Clemens led them to their first World Series in 2005 |
the (Houston) Astros
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The death of 11-year-old son Willie in 1862 pushed her over the brink; she was inconsolable for months |
Mrs. Lincoln
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Either of the 2 people the Coast Guard cutter Itasca was unable to locate after they left from New Guinea in 1937 |
Amelia Earhart (or Fred Noonan)
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Horse-headed chess piece |
a knight
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There have been reports of the basilar type of this brutal headache, which includes vertigo |
a migraine
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The Times won its first Pulitzer in 1918 for its coverage of this |
World War I
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Her 2 children from a previous marriage, John & Patsy Custis, were "adopted" by the president |
Martha Washington
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Many scholars believe this was actually the Aegean Sea island of Thira, largely destroyed around 1500 B.C. |
Atlantis
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One set of stairs between floors |
a flight
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In a few cases Jepolax may destroy alveoli, leading to this lung disease that includes short wind |
(Eric: What is asthma?) (Bruce: What is pneumonia?) (Lisa: What is tuberculosis?) ... (Alex: Look at that, we have three contestants in the red. A rarity.)
emphysema
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Max Frankel won a 1973 Prize for his reporting on President Nixon's trip to this country |
China
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Known as "Junior", this Cincinnati high school superstar joined the Reds in 2000 |
Ken Griffey, Jr.
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She met the future president in 1915 at Fort Sam Houston when introduced to him by the wife of a fellow officer |
Mamie Eisenhower
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This Brooklyn reporter's opening of Al Capone's vault in 1986 left him with a few scars of his own |
Geraldo Rivera
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A perceived snub or act of contempt |
a slight
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Combining Jepolax with liquor can lead to this scarring final stage of alcoholic liver disease |
cirrhosis
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In 1972 The Times won for meritorious public service for publishing these documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg |
the Pentagon Papers
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Stephon Marbury, a Brooklyn native & childhood fan of this team, joined them in 2004--with mixed results |
the Knicks
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In 1915, 16 months after the death of his first wife, Ellen, Woodrow Wilson married this descendant of Pocahontas |
Edith
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In 1987 a sonar exploration of this body of water found something big, but it may have been a school of salmon |
Loch Ness
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It's a bend in a coastline that forms a bay |
(Eric: What is a... bright?)
a bight
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There are slight risks of acidosis, carcinoma & this sensation, from the Latin for "choking chest pain" |
angina
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Wonder if he mentioned his 1979 win for his "Observer" column in his memoir "Growing Up"? |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, now, Bruce.)
Russell Baker
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Born in 1942, he went to Chicago Vocation High & made crushing ballcarriers his vocation as a Bears linebacker |
(Eric: Who is Ditka?) ... (Alex: Mike Ditka was a tight end; [*] was the linebacker.)
Dick Butkus
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John Philip Sousa provided the music for Grover Cleveland's White House wedding to this 21-year-old |
(Eric: Who is Frances Farmer?) ... (Alex: You realize now, Eric, that you should have said, "Who is [*]?")
Frances Folsom
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Bologna Stone, found in 1603, was thought to be this alchemical "stone" to change cheaper metals into gold |
(Eric: What is lead?) (Lisa: What is the touchstone?)
the philosopher's stone
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Isle where Victoria shuffled off her mortal throne |
the Isle of Wight
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Discontinue use at the first sign of seborrheic inflammation of this |
(Bruce: What are the eyes?)
the skin
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