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He was killed on Sept. 30, 1955 when his Porsche Spyder collided with another car |
James Dean
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Petrified Forest National Park lies within this brilliantly colored Arizona "desert" |
Painted Desert
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A National Geographic article called him the George Washington of the Mongols |
Genghis Khan
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"Jerry Maguire" (1996) |
[NOTE: This was the 86,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2007-02-19.]
Tom Cruise
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It's considered the basic kinship group of all societies |
Family
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This Asian therapist will have you on pins & needles (well, needles for sure) |
Acupuncturist
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The U.S. Treasury announced a budget surplus of $70 billion on Sept. 30, 1998, the end of this financial period |
Fiscal year
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Elevations in this park range from 282 feet below sea level to the 11,049-foot high Telescope Peak |
Death Valley
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After Hulagu overran Iran, his successors, the Il-Khans, accepted this faith |
Islam
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"Zelig" (1983) |
Woody Allen
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Among the main historical schools of this field are mercantilism & Keynesianism |
Economics
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Adjective applied to some plastics because they disintegrate in nature |
Biodegradable
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U.S. marshals escorted James Meredith onto the campus of this school in 1962, breaking the color barrier |
(Gerardo: What is the University of Arkansas at Little Rock?) (Laura: What is the University of Alabama?) (Steve: What is Tuskegee Institute?)
University of Mississippi
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Acadia National Park in this state has the highest point on the USA's Atlantic coast |
Maine
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Forget Xanadu -- in 1294 he died a grotesquely fat, often drunk, broken old man |
Kublai Khan
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"Thelma & Louise" (1991) |
Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon
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Now coexisting with the Roman Catholic Church there, it's the chief religion of many of the people in Haiti |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)
Voodoo
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Geographically speaking, the phone cable that stretches from Newfoundland to Ireland is this |
Transatlantic
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Opera lovers got plenty o' Gershwin when this work made its world premiere in Boston Sept. 30, 1935 |
Porgy and Bess
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This "dry" park consists of 7 low coral islands about 70 miles west of Key West, Florida |
Dry Tortugas
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Ogadai built the new capital of Karakorum about 200 miles SW of where this capital of Mongolia is today |
Ulan Bator
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"Dolores Claiborne" (1995) |
Kathy Bates
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In a now outdated term, a developed Communist country is considered a nation of this numerical "world" |
Second world
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Kafka's title "Die Verwandlung" was changed to this |
[Laura omitted the leading article.] (Alex: Also known as [*], but we're not penalizing you.)
The Metamorphosis
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This author of "The Grass Harp" was born in New Orleans on Sept. 30, 1924 |
(Gerardo: Who is Faulkner?)
Truman Capote
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Until 1980, it was known as Mount McKinley National Park |
(Alex: Steve, well done! Have you been to all these parks?)
Denali
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In 1240 Batu & his horde pillaged this "mother of Russian cities" now in the Ukraine |
Kiev
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"Klute" (1971) |
(Steve: Who is Jane Fonda?)
Donald Sutherland
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Once a variety of Provencal used by crusaders, this "lingua" is now any language used by people without a common tongue |
Lingua Franca
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1 of the 2 13-letter words for a plain figure with 4 sides & 4 angles |
(Laura: What is a trapezoid?)
quadrilateral (or parallelogram)
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