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THE POLITICS OF BEFORE & AFTER |
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In 1968, while still in the army, this future hall of fame tennis player became the first black male to win the U.S. Open |
(Arthur) Ashe
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This famous water bearer fired cannon during the Battle of Monmouth |
Molly Pitcher
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It's a statement that can be proved; there are binomial & exponential ones |
(Ehren: What is a proof?) (Ryan: What is an equation?)
a theorem
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Johnny Cash song lyric that gives the power to nix individual items in tax bills |
walk the line item veto
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Soren Kierkegaard is buried in the Assistens Kirkegard, or cemetery, in this city |
Copenhagen
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Older than his classmates, Cornell football player & future coach Glenn Warner got this nickname |
Pop
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In 1429 she led Charles VII & his military escort through enemy territory so that he could be crowned at Reims |
Joan of Arc
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Pierre de Fermat invented the differential type of this branch of math |
calculus
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Any Western New York NFL player who's actually the first 10 amendments to the Constitution |
a Buffalo Bill of Rights
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Gloatingly jubilant joy |
glee
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If John Keats had sent a postcard from his last home, it would have been postmarked this city |
(Alex: Ryan, you are in a position to set a one-day record on Jeopardy! There's still Final to come.) ... (Ryan: What is Florence?) (Alex: Oh no, those are the famous Spanish Steps in [*].)
Rome
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In 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under 60 seconds |
Johnny Weissmuller
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In 1983 she returned to Manila to arrange her husband's funeral; 3 years later, she was president |
(Corazon) Aquino
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This trigonometric function is abbreviated sec |
secant
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Walt Whitman lobbied hard for this 1855 work that he hoped would inspire people to action at a local level |
(Ryan: What is [*] campaign?) (Alex: We'll accept the "campaign" part, too.)
Leaves of Grassroots
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The side of a ship away from the wind |
lee
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You can visit the Moscow house where this author & some of his 13--"count" 'em--kids spent time from 1882 to 1901 |
Count Leo Tolstoy
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Having overcome childhood polio that crippled a leg, she won 3 sprint gold medals in the 1960 Olympics |
(Wilma) Rudolph
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She was twice widowed prior to marrying Henry VIII & was then widowed again when Henry died in 1547 |
(Catherine) Parr
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In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor |
a numerical coefficient
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Spending for a congressman's local interests, like say a Hasbro simian container game |
a pork barrel of monkeys
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An archaic form of "you", as used in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" |
(Ehren: [*]?) (Alex: Say it again.) (Ehren: What is [*]?)
thee
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Stood up at the bar of Paris' Hotel de Crillon? Oh well, so was Jake Barnes in this Hemingway novel |
(Suzanne: What is An American in Paris?)
The Sun Also Rises
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In 1962 this shortstop broke the single-season record by stealing 104 bases; it's still the Dodger record |
(Maury) Wills
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On June 16, 1963 she became the first person to achieve Earth orbit who had never been a test pilot |
(Alex: You are running away with this game. You are in a position to set a one-day record, by the way. You have $22,000. There's still Final Jeopardy! to come.) (Ryan: [Admonishingly] Oh, Alex.) [Alex and audience laugh]
(Valentina) Tereshkova
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This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry |
hyperbolic
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Media consultant ensuring that speeches by Pasternak's physician get the best possible play in the press |
Spin Doctor Zhivago
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The largest Indian tribe of Canada |
Cree
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