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HU, WATT, WARE, NGUYEN & WYE |
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In this film, Bogie told Conrad Veidt, "Your business is politics. Mine is running a saloon" |
Casablanca
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In the late 1960s the president & vice president of South Vietnam shared this name |
(Alex: [*] Van Thieu and [*] Cao Ky.)
Nguyen
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This southwestern U.S. tree of genus Prosopis, often used for smoked BBQ, is invading Saudi Arabia, India, Africa & Australia |
mesquite
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Superconductivity occurs at temperatures near the point known as this |
absolute zero
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This company has dropped the "BF", sold its tire business & become a leading maker of landing gear |
Goodrich
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After the death of this Egyptian queen in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire |
Cleopatra
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Bacall's first film line was said to Bogie in "To Have and Have Not": "Anybody got" one of these |
(Steve: What is a light?) (Sherman: What's a cigarette?)
a match
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On March 15, 2003 he was elected president of the People's Republic of China |
Hu (Jintao)
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This porcupine lookalike seen here is pigging out in New Zealand because it has no natural predators |
the hedgehog
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This type of rock that develops from magma can be divided into 2 groups: extrusive & intrusive |
igneous rock
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Foie gras source |
goose liver
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Upon meeting this actor in "The Shootist", Bacall observes, "You seem like a man accustomed to giving orders" |
John Wayne
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As a junior at the University of Houston, this Heisman Trophy winner threw 46 TDs; his NFL career total was only 5 |
Andre Ware
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An Asian fungus has killed virtually every one of the American variety of this popular holiday nut tree |
the chestnut
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Perennial plants live for many years; just change the first syllable to get this term for plants that live only 2 years |
biennial
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1971 Wimbledon-winning woman |
(Evonne) Goolagong
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In the 1400s B.C. it was the "lofty" 2-word religious title of Hapuseneb |
high priest
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When Bogie as Philip Marlowe kisses Bacall in this film, she says, "I like that. I'd like more" |
(Steve: What is The Maltese Falcon?)
The Big Sleep
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This Coloradoan served as President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983 |
James Watt
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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a cute story, but this animal's introduction to Hawaii to control the rat population has turned ugly |
the mongoose
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Iridium, osmium, rhodium, palladium & ruthenium are members of this precious metal's "group" |
platinum
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Don't throw out that shirt you can't fit into; donate it to this organization founded in 1902 |
Goodwill
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(Jimmy is in Giza, Egypt.) The pyramid of this son of Khufu is smaller than his dad's Great one, but he got his face on the Great Sphinx |
(Sherman: Who is Ramses?) (Maria: Who is Cheops?) ... (Alex: Cheops is another word for Khufu; [*] is the son.)
Khafre
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In "Key Largo", Bogie tells this actor that he wishes for "a world in which there's no place for Johnny Rocco" |
(Edward G.) Robinson
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The ruins of Tintern Abbey lie in a meadow on the right bank of this Welsh river |
the Wye
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Introduced from Asia in 1876 as a hay & to control soil erosion, this vine is now a menace in the southern U.S. |
kudzu
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Einstein's Nobel Prize was for work on this effect in which light absorption leads to electron emission |
photoelectric effect
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A one followed by 100 zeros |
a googol
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