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It's what the first "C" in FCIC stands for; it was insurance for farmers |
(Alex: Benjamin says [*] and he's right: the Federal [*] Insurance Corporation.)
Crop
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Store some Nikes & Pumas in this company, FL |
Foot Locker
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The unit equal to 10 decibels is named for this inventor whose early career included teaching the deaf |
Alexander Graham Bell
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Add this letter to "action" to get a little bidding action going |
[Andrew provides the word, and Alex accepts it.]
U (for auction)
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The title of this director's movie "Rope" is also the murder weapon used in it |
Alfred Hitchcock
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On the road to Morocco from Tunis, I go by this capital city |
Algiers
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This 1935 act that provides unemployment insurance was born out of the New Deal |
the Social Security Act
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"X" marks the spot for this company spun off from USX in 2002 |
U.S. Steel
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On this Swedish astronomer's scale, zero represents the ice point & 100 is the steam point |
Celsius
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When you add this letter to "quart", instead of a unit of measure, you get a mineral |
[Tracy provides the word, and Alex accepts it.]
Z (for quartz)
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Alfred Drake was the first male lead in "Kismet" & "Kiss Me, Kate" as well as in this show, as Curly |
Oklahoma!
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On the way to Santa Fe, I go by this city where Bugs Bunny wished he'd taken a left |
Albuquerque
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3 letters in the New Deal's "alphabet soup", it oversaw the federal art, theatre & writers' projects |
the WPA
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You can't NOK this leading mobile phone & networks supplier |
Nokia
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The principle that sound seems higher in pitch as it apporaches & lower as it recedes is called this man's effect |
Doppler
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Add this letter to "Boer" to get the name of a rebellion in China that occurred the same time as the Boer War |
[Tracy provides the word, and Alex accepts it.]
X (for Boxer)
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As Dr. Octopus in "Spider-Man 2", this actor was armed & dangerous |
Alfred Molina
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Heading south from Washington, D.C., I go by this Virginia city where George Washington once drilled troops |
Alexandria
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Many of the original groups of programs were devised during this "numerical" period of FDR's first term |
the Hundred Days
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Cialis is a hit for this company, LLY |
(Eli) Lilly
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A triangle, a theorem, a law & a computer language are named for this Frenchman |
Pascal
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Sorry to tell you that adding this letter to "apology" turns it into the study of bees |
[Andrew provides the word, and Alex accepts it.]
I (for apiology)
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What, me worry about Alfred Newman, who won music Oscars for "With A Song In My Heart" & "The Song Of" her |
Bernadette
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If I take the 5:15 p.m. train from Adelaide, Australia on Sunday night, I go by this city Monday at noon |
Alice Springs
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In 1935 the Supreme Court declared this Administration, the NRA, unconstitutional |
(Alex: It was not the National Rifle Association, it was the [*].)
National Recovery Administration
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People seem to go bananas over this company, CQB |
Chiquita (Brands)
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When a fisherman adds this letter to "reel", he gets a wicker basket for holding his fish |
[Benjamin provides the word, and Alex accepts it.]
C (for creel)
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In 1915, with his wife Blanche W., he founded the firm that published Thomas Mann, John Updike, et al. |
Alfred Knopf
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En route to Grenoble, the 1968 Winter Olympics site, I go by this 1992 Winter Olympics site |
Albertville
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