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This president told Harriet Beech Stowe, "I shall never live to see peace, this war is killing me." |
Lincoln
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This Thai capital is the home of Chulalongkorn University |
Bangkok
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"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" |
(Mark: What did Dorothy say?) (Alex: We want...) (Mark: In [*].) (Alex: [Overlapping with Mark] ...the movie.)
The Wizard of Oz
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There already was a machine to remove the seeds of coastal cotton; he invented one for inland cotton |
Eli Whitney
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This U.S. lexicographer was the first to delete the "U" from words like "colour" in his 1806 dictionary |
Noah Webster
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Bouillon is from "to boil", but the word for this fish soup means "to boil it & then lower the heat" |
bouillabaisse
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From 1780-83 James Monroe studied law under this man, then governor of Virginia |
Thomas Jefferson
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Sri Lanka's minority Tamil are mostly Hindu & the majority Sinhalese mostly this religion |
(Maggi: What is Muslim?)
Buddhist
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"Pinch me, Rosie, here we are going down the river like Antony and Cleopatra on that barge" |
The African Queen
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He came up with a gyroscopic stabilizer for ships before his company merged with Remington Rand |
Sperry
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Russian uses this 32-letter alphabet developed from the Greek alphabet |
the Cyrillic alphabet
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Instead of sipping this reptilian soup you can make a mock version flavored with veal |
turtle
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This president was the 1st inductee into the Conservation Hall of Fame |
Teddy Roosevelt
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The governor of Macau is appointed by the governor of this European country |
Portugal
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"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!" |
The King and I
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He may have understood gravity, but the steam-powered car he built in 1680 didn't work |
(Alex: We have a minute left.)
Newton
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It's the most widely spoken romance language |
(Alex: Mark, let me ask you a question--just before you said [*] I thought I detected a pause, you said, "What is..." as if something else came to your mind.) (Mark: Well, French, because it's spoken throughout Africa.) (Alex: So it was a choice for you between French and...) (Mark: South America won.)
Spanish
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A madrilène is a consommé flavored with this kind of juice |
tomato juice
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In 1935 he played on the college all star football team against the Chicago Bears |
Gerry Ford
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The island of Singapore is separated from this peninsula to the north by the Strait of Johor |
the Malay Peninsula
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"Now that we're through with "Humiliate the Host"... how about a little round of "Get the Guests?" |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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No one knows who invented the razor but we know this man invented the safety razor |
(King) Gillette
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While English does not, Cornish, Welsh & Gaelic do belong to this language group |
the Celtic language
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These stuffed noodles, the Jewish version of raviolis, are usually served in soup |
kreplach
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During his administration the U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam & the Hawaiian Islands |
McKinley
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It's Burma's new 7-letter name |
Myanmar
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"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" |
(Maggi: [Without ringing in] Uh, what is Casablanca?) (Alex: [After she rings in] Maggi?) (Maggi: What is Casablanca?) (Fred: What is On the Waterfront?) ... (Alex: Words spoken by Henry Fonda in [*].)
The Grapes of Wrath
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Ottmar Mergenthaler's machine for producing printing bars is better known as this |
the linotype
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According to the World Almanac this international language could shortly have 2 million speakers |
Esperanto
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From the Tamil for "pepper water" it's a spicy curry soup |
(Alex: For a lady who's an expert in Indian cooking this worked out very well for you.) (Maggi: Yeah, not bad.)
mulligatawny soup
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