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A functioning democracy usually has at least 2 of these groups competing freely in elections |
Political parties
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He was 40 in 1974 when he broke the all-time career home run record |
Henry Aaron
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We liked Sally Field, we really liked her as this textile worker & union organizer |
Norma Rae
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2 Live Crew's alteration of this Roy Orbison lyric to "Big Hairy Woman" began a copyright battle |
"Pretty Woman"
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It's any tissue that contracts & relaxes, causing movement of the limbs & other body parts |
(less than a minute to go....)
Muscle
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This wife of George Burns was so surprised by her birth, she "couldn't talk for a year and a half" |
Gracie Allen
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Democracy is often confused with this term referring to any country with a nonhereditary head of state |
(Darlyne: What is a....sorry!)
Republic
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At age 40 in 1781 this American traitor moved to London but was denied military service |
Benedict Arnold
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Young backwoods woman played by Jodie Foster in a 1994 film |
(Dylan: Who is Emma?)
Nell
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This pair's 1881 comic opera "Patience" parodies aesthetes like Oscar Wilde |
Gilbert & Sullivan
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In 1970 David Baltimore proved that this nucleic acid could transmit information to DNA |
RNA (Ribonucleic acid)
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According to this poet, "The snark was a boojum, you see" |
Lewis Carroll
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In 1996 the Supreme Court struck down 4 of these areas created to allow black & hispanic representation |
Congressional districts
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In 1810 this 40-year-old married the teenager Marie Louise of Austria |
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Tippi Hedren stole the show as this title kleptomaniac in a Hitchcock film |
Marnie
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The late Michael O' Donoghue helped start "Saturday Night Live" & this "National" satire magazine |
National Lampoon
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In plants & invertebrates, this outermost layer of protection is usually just one cell thick |
(Darlyne: What is skin?) (Alex: You had to be very specific)
Epidermis
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"I ain't in no slump", asserted this former Yankee, "I just ain't hitting" |
(Darlyne: Who is Babe Ruth?)
Yogi Berra
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Democracies must balance liberty & this concept also found in the motto of the French Revolution |
Equality
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This 40-year-old former shipyard electrician won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize |
Lech Walesa
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Title heroine in the film seen here:
"I must own up that I'm not in love with Frank..." |
(Alex: Gwyneth Paltrow in that scene.)
Emma
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It's the process by which an organism or cell takes in oxygen & expels carbon dioxide |
Respiration
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"Tonstant weader fwowed up", she wrote after finding "The House At Pooh Corner" hard to swallow |
Dorothy Parker
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Rhyming term for the 1993 law making states offer voter registration to driver's license applicants |
"Motor-Voter" law
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In 1919 this 40-year-old Virginia woman was elected to the British parliament |
Lady Astor
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One of Cybill Shepherd's early roles was this Henry James heroine, abroad in Europe |
Daisy Miller
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Architectural term for the minimal stimulus that starts a nerve impulse, like pain |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
threshold
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According to the lyrics he said, "Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, Walla Walla bing-bang" |
The Witch Doctor
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