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He's the performer seen here |
[AKA Ehrich Weiss]
Harry Houdini
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Cal Ripken broke this man's consecutive-games record |
Lou Gehrig
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Jamaicans combine salt fish with ackee, a fruit introduced to the island as part of this captain's "bounty" |
William Bligh
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The cuttlefish hides 2 ways: it can camouflage itself like a chameleon, or hide behind a cloud of this |
ink
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In the 19th century enterprising Americans first added sleeping & dining cars to these |
trains
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The relatives come from all over the country to celebrate this ceremony of a Jewish boy becoming a man |
a bar mitzvah
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River seen here before the building of the Hoover Dam |
Colorado River
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"Knick Killer" seen here |
Reggie Miller
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Derby cheese, which originated in this country, is sometimes flavored with sage |
England (or Great Britain)
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Having 4 large pairs of these makes the fruit fly a favorite subject for geneticists |
chromosomes
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Coroebus of Elis was the first winner in the first of these games; he won the only event, a sprint, in 776 B.C. |
the Olympics
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It's the common name for a generational chart of ancestry |
a family tree
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Site of the historic attack seen here |
[December 7, 1941]
Pearl Harbor
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Ali's opponent in the "Rumble in the Jungle" |
(Mark: Who is Frazier?)
George Foreman
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European chefs cook the young foliage of this stinging plant, Urtica dioica, like spinach |
nettle
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A silvery food fish, or to heat ore in order to extract metal |
smelt
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Of 3 minutes, 3 hours or 3 days, it's about how long the first woman in space stayed there |
(Mark: What is 3 minutes?) (Chris: What is 3 hours?) ... (Alex: Amy, you sure do know your Russian space history!)
3 days (Valentina Tereshkova)
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In modern times a woman may keep using hers, or link it with a man's by a hyphen |
her maiden name
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Richard Byrd is seen here preparing to visit this geographic extreme |
South Pole
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Agassi won it in '99 for a career Grand Slam |
(Chris: What is the U.S. Open?)
French Open
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This German dish whose name means "hare pepper" is often served with sour cream |
Hassenpfeffer
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In rhyme, the bells of St. Clement's speak of these 2 fruits that'll help prevent scurvy |
(Mark: What are lemons and limes?)
oranges & lemons
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Tea & rice wine were first drunk in this country |
(Amy: What is Japan?)
China
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It's the term for the payments made after a divorce for the upkeep of the kids |
child support
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This president is seen here with his camera-shy wife Ida |
William McKinley
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Bobby's son, he scored 86 goals in a season |
Brett Hull
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Legend says this smoked haddock dish came from the Scottish fishing village of Findhorn |
(Mark: What are kippers?)
Finnan haddie
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Unlike most of its pine family relatives, the larch is classified as this, as it loses its needles each fall |
deciduous
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The first group to sell a million records were these "Glow Worm" brothers with "Tiger Rag" in 1930 |
The Mills Brothers
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A domicile in which parents raise kids not their own; Stephen's was an old Kentucky one |
(Amy: What is a home?) (Alex: Has to be two words.)
a foster home
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