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Oddly, the legislature of this "Lone Star State" only meets biennially in odd-numbered years |
Texas
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In this Dickens classic, Miss Havisham, jilted on her wedding day, rears her ward Estella to hate men |
Great Expectations
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Now a cyber-billionaire, one of his first commercial enterprises was Traf-O-Data in the early 1970s |
Bill Gates
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Jack Webb played this TV sergeant with a badge (No. 714) on & off from 1952 to 1979 |
(Joe) Friday
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In 1994 Singapore's punishment for vandalism by U.S. citizen Michael Fay was flogging with a rattan one of these |
(Deborah: What is a whip?)
cane
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Any crazy dame with murder on her mind knows it's Sam Spade & Mike Hammer's profession |
private eye (private detective)
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Pitcher Larry Andersen asked, "Why does everybody..sing" this 7th inn. song "when they're already there?" |
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
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Kahlil Gibran became famous in the U.S. after publishing this mystical book in 1923 |
The Prophet
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A millionaire by age 24, this oil tycoon was considered the world's richest man at his death in 1976 |
Getty
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Sergeant played by Phil Silvers |
Sgt. Bilko
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This instrument of torture, a wooden frame with moveable bars, stretches the body until the bones separate |
a rack
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More legitimate than a pirate ship, it was a merchant ship authorized to carry on naval warfare |
privateer
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Turned out this big fella had an Achilles head in 1 Samuel 17:49 |
Goliath
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In this Franz Kafka story Gregor Samsa awakens one day as a giant insect |
"The Metamorphosis"
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After selling his networks to Time Warner for $7.5 billion, this mogul became vice chairman of the new company |
Ted Turner
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As Sgt. Foley, this actor won an Oscar for turning Richard Gere into "An Officer and a Gentleman" |
Louis Gossett Jr.
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One superstition says that a trinity of trinities would be more efficient, hence the number of lashes on this whip |
a cat-o-nine-tails
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This Howard Stern autobiography became a No. 1 bestseller just 1 week after its 1993 release |
Private Parts
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I'll give you the top 10 reasons why a late night TV host must have glazomania, a fascination with making these |
(Deborah: What is letters?)
lists
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In "Vanity Fair" he portrayed the lives of 2 young women over many years |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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This U.S. family of chemical industrialists is descended from an economist who supported King Louis XVI |
DuPont
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This title sergeant "of the Yukon" fought crime with the help of his dog King & his horse Rex |
Preston
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This device doesn't sound as ominous when it's called a thumbkin |
a thumbscrew
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UNC has a Kenan Institute of this, defined as a market-based economic system or one business within the system |
private enterprise
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Computerized "circuit breakers" to stop trading were installed after the NYSE's crash on Oct. 19 of this year |
(Joel: What is 1989?)
1987
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William Kennedy won a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for this novel from his Albany Cycle |
Ironweed
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5 brothers of this influential banking family were all made barons in 1822 |
Rothschild
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The name of this medieval instrument of torture is a translation of Eiserne Jungfrau |
(Alex: And that would be the infamous [*].) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
iron maiden
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This Noel Coward comedy was first performed in 1930 with Coward & Laurence Olivier in the cast |
Private Lives
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