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Crockett represented this state for 3 terms in the U.S. Congress |
Tennessee
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In 2001 she denied reports of a $20 million offer to reprise her role as Ripley for "Alien 5" |
Sigourney Weaver
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Robert Yerkes developed 2 intelligence tests: the Alpha exam for the literate & this one for the not |
the Beta
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Robert Louis Stevenson drew a map with his 12-year-old stepson that inspired him to write this story |
Treasure Island
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Nebraska Wesleyan: in this state capital |
Lincoln
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Raisins & currants are traditional ingredients in this sometimes re-gifted Christmas treat |
fruit cake
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In 1818 Crockett was elected to this rank in the Fifty-seventh Militia Regiment in Lawrence County |
a colonel
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Born in NYC in 1955, this Oscar winner has played a thief, a nun, a psychic & an intergalactic bartender |
Whoopi Goldberg
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Since 1992 Alpha Oumar Konare has been president of this African country whose name is an anagram of "mail" |
Mali
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This title character releases 2 jinns: The Slave of the Ring & The Slave of the Lamp |
Aladdin
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Where the peachtrees grow: Georgia State |
Atlanta
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It's another name for a hydrant; a stocky person is said to be built like one |
fireplug
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Some believe that Crockett & a few others survived the battle of the Alamo but were executed by this Mexican general |
Santa Anna
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Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe & Raquel Welch (in poster form) help Tim Robbins escape prison in this 1994 film |
The Shawshank Redemption
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In the 1830s Thomas Henderson established the parallax of this triple star about 4.3 light years away |
Alpha Centauri
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A huntsman cuts open this creature's stomach to rescue Little Red-Cap & her grandmother |
the Big Bad Wolf
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In northeastern Illinois: Northeastern Illinois |
Chicago
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If you really don't know, you don't even have this damp type of "notion" |
(Jon: What is faintest?) (Alex: Ooh, no. "Damp type" for [*]. I don't have the [*] notion.)
foggiest
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It completes Crockett's personal motto "Be always sure you're right and then" do this |
(Jon: What is check again?)
"go ahead"
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"Don't Look Now", "Darling", but this beauty gave one of her finest performances in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" |
(Jon: Who is Zsa Zsa Gabor?) (Dileep: Who is Eva Gabor?) ... (Alex: There's a big difference between the Gabor sisters and [*]. I don't know the connection that the fellows saw there.)
Julie Christie
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Henry Callis & others founded Alpha Phi Alpha, the first black college fraternity, at this Ithaca, N.Y. school |
Cornell
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Dodie Smith wrote this 1956 classic doggy tale |
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
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360 years old: Yale |
New Haven
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Jetsam means goods jettisoned to lighten a ship; this word refers to part of a wrecked ship found floating |
flotsam
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Until his re-election defeat in 1835, this party was grooming Crockett to run against Andrew Jackson in 1836 |
(Jon: What is [*]?) (Alex: Is that a guess?) (Jon: Yes.) (Alex: It's a good one.) [Applause]
the Whig Party
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This innovative French director ventured into science fiction with 1965's "Alphaville" |
(Dileep: Who is Truffaut?)
Jean-Luc Godard
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She wrote the children's classics "Little Lord Fauntleroy" & "The Secret Garden" |
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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At the mouth of Chesapeake Bay: Old Dominion |
(Dileep: What is Richmond?) ... (Alex: Right state, wrong place. [*], Virginia.)
Norfolk
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You can visit this region's "fields" in Belgium; France's Nord province; & the Netherlands' Zeeland province |
Flanders
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