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James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S. |
Gold
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If this pooch who hunts by scent alone identifies a criminal, it's accepted in U.S. courts |
Bloodhound
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Kansas became a U.S. territory as a part of this 1803 purchase |
Louisiana Purchase
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"Returning Fire", a painting by Bill McGrath, depicts these 2 Civil War ironclads in battle |
Monitor & Merrimac
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When you want someone to hurry up with a lengthy explanation, have them "cut to" this |
The chase
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The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disastrous attempt to free this island, was an early version of the Bay of Pigs |
Cuba
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"Laverne & Shirley" |
Happy Days
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This islander in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" sings "Happy Talk" & "Bali Ha'i" |
Bloody Mary
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It's the Kansas "city" known as the "Cowboy Capital of the World" |
Dodge City
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It's the 1836 battle captured here by Kirk Stirnweis |
The Alamo
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One of these can toss a stone or hold steady a broken arm |
(D: What is a splint?)
Sling
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In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries look down upon you" |
Egypt
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"Melrose Place" |
Beverly Hills, 90210
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In this 1935 film Errol Flynn plays an Irish physician who's forced to become a pirate |
Captain Blood
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Near this president's library & museum in Abilene you'll also find his grave & boyhood home |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Seen here, "Leave No One Behind", by Joe Klein, depicts a scene from this war |
Vietnam War
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It's a danger to a chess player's king, or something you request from a waiter |
Check
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Name shared by an American film made in 1903 & a British crime committed in 1963 |
The Great Train Robbery
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In 1975 UPI named this Rams defensive end the National Football Conference's Defensive Player of the Year |
Jack Youngblood
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With music by Daniel Kelley & words by Brewster Higley, it's Kansas "Home"y style song |
Home on the Range
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The bombing of this Spanish city in 1937 inspired a famous painting by Picasso |
Guernica
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As a noun it's a steep-walled canyon; as a verb, to stuff yourself with food |
Gorge
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This man died April 5, 1975, after a quarter of a century leading Nationalist China on Taiwan |
Chiang Kai-shek
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"Promised Land" |
Touched By An Angel
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Truman Capote called this book about the murder of a farmer & his family a "nonfiction novel" |
"In Cold Blood"
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Today the site of a federal penitentiary, this city was the first incorporated community in the Kansas territory |
(R: What is Fort Leavenworth?)
Leavenworth
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He's the Scottish king depicted here who defeated Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314 |
Robert the Bruce/1st
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An organism's ecological role in the community, or a recess in the wall for a statue |
Niche
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