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LOCUTION, LOCUTION, LOCUTION |
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It wasn't "The Plague" that killed this French author but, sadly, a 1960 car accident |
Camus
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This musical based on a 1933 film is currently tapping away on the NYC thoroughfare of the same name |
42nd Street
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Ironically, President Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment but this state was the first former Confederate state to pass it |
Tennessee
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This type of multiple birth occurs about once every 7,700 births |
(Alan: What are twins?)
triplets
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The French national anthem was named for its popularity with volunteer army units from this seaport |
Marseille
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This term for a fake comes from someone who has only 4 cards of the same suit in poker |
four flusher
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His "Siddhartha" was inspired by a trip he made to Asia in 1911 |
Hesse
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Tony Curtis took the Joe E. Brown role, not the Tony Curtis part, in a new musical based on this Billy Wilder film |
Some Like It Hot
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Andrew Johnson's impeachment was a result of his attempt to fire this Secretary of War |
Stanton
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Jimmy Carter became one of these Aug. 7, 1975 & signed a bill creating a day for them in 1978 |
(Kyle: What is a father?)
a grandfather
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A plaid fabric is made from this Indian seaport |
Madras
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To be extremely nervous or agitated is to be like this title of a Tennessee Williams play |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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A tower at Sandycove, in County Dublin, houses a museum honoring this author |
James Joyce
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You could say John C. Reilly butchered the role in the 2002 musical based on this Ernest Borgnine film |
Marty
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Created in 1866 it's name evolved from the Greek word for "circle" |
the Ku Klux Klan
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In birth order these, like Bill Gates & Catherine Zeta-Jones, are noted for their independence |
middle children
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The 4 largest islands of Spain's Balearic Group are Ibiza, Minorca, Formentera & this one |
Majorca
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Meaning the whole of something, this phrase comes from the 3 main parts of a gun |
lock, stock & barrel
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Published in 1969, "Setting Free the Bears" was the first novel by this author |
John Irving
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It had to happen: this 1962 classic in which Bette Davis tormented Joan Crawford became a musical in 2002 |
(Kyle: What is "Hush, Hush, Baby Charlotte"?)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Reconstruction ended when this President removed the last of the Federal troops from Louisiana on April 24, 1877 |
Hayes
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"Of unknown origin" is Debra Levi Holtz' memoir of her search for Helen Dunne, this woman |
her birth mother
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(Hi. I'm Jeff Probst.) Off Thailand's southwest coast Tarutao National Park is in this strait, leading out to the Indian Ocean |
the Malacca Strait
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To do this is to make an irrevocable decision, like the action that touched off the Roman Civil War |
to cross the Rubicon
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Lula Carson Smith was the original name of this "Reflections in a Golden Eye" author |
Carson McCullers
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"Illya Darling" was based on this foreign film about a woman who worked only Monday through Saturday |
Never On Sunday
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This bureau, among others, built over 4,000 schools for African-Americans, including Howard University |
the Freedman's Bureau
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4-word phrase for your relationship to your father's brother's son's daughter |
first cousin once removed
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An old Scottish prayer ask for deliverance from ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties & these |
(Kyle: What are banshees?)
things that go bump in the night
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